Nintendo Famicom Family Basic

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Usagi Electric

Usagi Electric

Күн бұрын

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@DonnyHooterHoot
@DonnyHooterHoot 3 жыл бұрын
I love a guy who calls Famicom "Modern" tech! Great vid!
@DonnyHooterHoot
@DonnyHooterHoot 3 жыл бұрын
Remember I started on a TRS-80 model One ;
@UsagiElectric
@UsagiElectric 3 жыл бұрын
If the transistors are integrated, it's modern in my book, haha!
@paulstubbs7678
@paulstubbs7678 Жыл бұрын
A welcome reprieve from those who call something 1 year old 'ancient', if that is ancient then what do you call the pyramids?
@paulstubbs7678
@paulstubbs7678 Жыл бұрын
@@DonnyHooterHoot Same here, still have it
@frankowalker4662
@frankowalker4662 3 жыл бұрын
Cool system. The game was programed to use the joypad. I paused the listing and saw T=STRIG(0):S=STICK(0). So I think STRIG is the fire button (stick trigger) and STICK is movement left and right.
@UsagiElectric
@UsagiElectric 3 жыл бұрын
Thanks! And yeah, I totally forgot that the Famicom actually had joypads, that makes way more sense, haha.
@RinoaL
@RinoaL 2 жыл бұрын
I love nintendo games in japanese since they tend to use simple and straightforward enough japanese that I can understand things. When I was learning Japanese, I found japanese Pokemon was a good practice.
@obsidian9998
@obsidian9998 2 жыл бұрын
3:29 That iconic look 😍
@inkwolf77
@inkwolf77 9 ай бұрын
The Sharp X1 is gorgeous! I wish modern tech looked that cool.
@nakfan
@nakfan 9 ай бұрын
Hear, hear 😊
@killerpokemon
@killerpokemon Жыл бұрын
4:57 when this guy started speaking fluent japanese this video just blew my mind
@TrackDayMaker
@TrackDayMaker 11 күн бұрын
Shouldn't be that surprising, the name of the channel is literally Japanese
@misterkite
@misterkite 2 жыл бұрын
Helpful note: the Sharp Twin Famicom has a compatible expansion port that works with the keyboard. The great thing about it (besides the fact that it includes the famicom disk system), is that it has RCA video built-in, so you don't need a TV with channel 99 or whatever (or need to mod your famicom like you did)
@marsilies
@marsilies 2 жыл бұрын
This was the first homebrew option for a console. I've read that it had a bit of a following in Japan, with users trading programs/games they wrote. The Internet Archive has audio recordings of a number of tapes of games released for this accessory.
@paulhart7739
@paulhart7739 2 жыл бұрын
Link to this internet archive?
@marsilies
@marsilies 2 жыл бұрын
@@paulhart7739 KZbin gets mad at me when I provide links in post, but just Google "Internet Archive" then use their "Wayback Machine" by pasting in a link to the various sites, and choose between various snapshots over the years.
@buffalo7163
@buffalo7163 25 күн бұрын
When I was around 10, about 40 years ago, I told my dad that I wanted Family Basic. Later, he bought it for me. I was so excited!! I played it everyday since then. I bought some Family Basic’s program books and typed in the program. Since I was novice to use keyboard, it took couple hours to type the program. Despite two hours of typing, some of the programs did not work due to typos in the books. It was a good memory though. By the way, from a Japanese point of view, your Japanese pronunciation is honestly fantastic!!
@derekchristenson5711
@derekchristenson5711 2 жыл бұрын
If I had had this as a kid, I would've played with it for hours. Too bad it didn't come to North America!
@qwertykeyboard5901
@qwertykeyboard5901 Жыл бұрын
Well, there where those toy laptops from VTECH. Quite a few of them ran basic.
@ClassicTVMan1981X
@ClassicTVMan1981X 10 ай бұрын
If it did, then there'd be another way to do the 256W glitch in Super Mario Bros., which involves first setting up Family BASIC and then typing in these four lines of code: 10 FOR I = &H7D3 TO &H7DC : POKE I,0 : NEXT 20 POKE &H7FF;&A5 30 INPUT "WORLD=";A 40 POKE &H7FD,A+255AND255 Afterwards, it will prompt you to input the desired world number, pressing Return, and after it says "OK" then remove the Family BASIC cartridge while leaving the console on, insert the Super Mario Bros. cartridge and reset the console. Use A+Start on the title screen, and you will be at the world you earlier inputted in Family BASIC!
@lindoran
@lindoran 3 жыл бұрын
I read about that basic cartridge when I was a kid and 8 year old brain thought this would be all I would need to start my video game empire lol great video was wondering when you were going to talk about that thing as I kept getting a glimpse of it in each video. 🙂
@UsagiElectric
@UsagiElectric 3 жыл бұрын
I was the same way with QBasic growing up! I had QBasic on an old 386 machine and I was certain that I would be making the best video games on the planet! And while I never made anything of consequence, I do still have quite a fondness for Qbasic.
@lindoran
@lindoran 3 жыл бұрын
@@UsagiElectric in the early 2000s I wrote an open source chapter file generator that took one proprietary chapter format and converted it to another. I'm 99% certain nobody ever used it written entirely in dark basic (basically ...heh... qbasic but for 32bit) I was always writing stuff in basic even when I was a kid back in the late 80s
@lonecom685
@lonecom685 Жыл бұрын
Great video man. I loved your hands on approach. It made me feel like I was in the 80s, exploring this interesting program. Also, I really, really love the Famicom. I think the aesthetic on it is supreme, better than even the Super Famicom and Mega Drive. The colors, different cartridges, commercials, simplicity... I makes it look like a very fun and avanced toy. A continuation to those old Nintendo toys from the 60s and 70s in spirit. The recorder made me laugh
@MrEszet
@MrEszet 3 жыл бұрын
Massive kudos for featuring the Fujitsu FM-7!
@UsagiElectric
@UsagiElectric 3 жыл бұрын
Japan had a lot of really cool systems emerging in the mid-80s that we never got over here in the US, which is kind of a shame! The FM-7 is a really cool machine, and I love that it uses two 6809s, one for the CPU and one for the graphics. Although, if I'm being honest, from a pure aesthetics point of view, I'm quite partial to the red Sharp X-1!
@jarrettdoesstuff2318
@jarrettdoesstuff2318 3 жыл бұрын
If the battery-backed RAM circuitry is working alright, it might be that you have to hold RESET on the Famicom before powering down. Lots of older Famicom/NES games tell you to do that to avoid corrupting the save RAM. (Later mapper chips had protection against that, so you stopped seeing that message when saving or in the instruction book.) Dunno! Just throwing it out there!
@UsagiElectric
@UsagiElectric 3 жыл бұрын
That is an excellent idea! Unfortunately, I just gave it a shot and it didn't seem to work. I think the issue lies in the opening screen. In V.2 I believe you turn the backup switch on, power off the console, then press and hold T, power the console back on, and it skips the start up screen, goes straight to basic and the RAM is preserved. But, with V1, if I hold T with the back up switch off, it does a simple RAM check and freezes on that screen, and if I hold T with the back up switch on, it hangs on a white screen. I think there's a little more than expected going on behind the scenes!
@tommythorn
@tommythorn 3 жыл бұрын
Using vocal instructions on the tape is brilliant and yet so obvious, but I don't think I have ever seen that done before. That said, I have no envy for that system. Some of the contemporaries you listed looks a lot more interesting but I was born too early and missed out on some of the best ones (like the earliest Arm boxen). What's the story with you and Japanese?
@douro20
@douro20 3 жыл бұрын
He's a certified translator working in the automotive industry.
@UsagiElectric
@UsagiElectric 3 жыл бұрын
I thought that seemed really ingenious too! The Famicom was indeed a gaming console through and through. It's super interesting that there was at least an effort to bring a sense of computing to the "Family Computer", but as you noted, the contemporaries are far more interesting (and capable). I personally, would love to get my hands on one of those red Sharp X1s someday, they're such a cool looking system. Though, first I think I need to get my NEC PC-8001 up and going, which, despite being released in 1979, still outclasses the Famicom in terms of performance! I actually lived in Japan for a little over 7 years, working in the automotive industry. I'm not actually a certified translator, but I have been doing primarily Japanese to English translations for the past 10 years-ish. Even here in the US, I still continue to do the same work I did when I was living in Japan, so fortunately, I get plenty of opportunities to try to keep my Japanese ability fresh. It's quite interesting to learn new Japanese in regards to old technology, because like English, there's a lot of really specialized vocabulary that doesn't normally come up. I've been thinking about doing a short series in Japanese (with English subtitles) on vacuum tubes and tube logic, so I can share it with some of my friends and family in Japan.
@douro20
@douro20 3 жыл бұрын
@@UsagiElectric It's not hard to become certified if you're good enough, though.
@tommythorn
@tommythorn 3 жыл бұрын
@@UsagiElectric Indeed it looks amazing and en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharp_X1 suggests that it’s pushing the 8-bit architecture to its limit.
@justanotheryoutubechannel
@justanotheryoutubechannel Жыл бұрын
It’s very interesting and it is pretty genius, but I suspect it would get very annoying. After you’ve heard them once you know what to do, and you don’t need them anymore, but yet they’d be at the start of all the sample tapes, making loading slower and more awkward. It made more sense to include instructions on the tape or the box, and start the program at the start of the tape.
@greenerell484
@greenerell484 2 ай бұрын
10:10 I like how it tells the user when the program is loaded using the same tape as the data
@KetwunsGamingPad
@KetwunsGamingPad 2 жыл бұрын
What I love is that Nintendo clearly had a micro computer mindset in mind for the home initially. You can tell by the classic micro computer hardware components utilised to sell the Famicom including the machine itself, the keyboard, the tape deck, family BASIC included, a joystick and eventually the disk system. These were fairly standard for most micro computers for the time and BASIC was common to program and play games. So Nintendo was ticking the boxes on what was popular across several regions, and I am surprised this didn't hit the European or Australian market especially because they were popular with micro computers as well. In fact the Famicom was the easiest, fastest and one of the most powerful systems compared to all of those others to even run software! If they played their cards right, Nintendo would have sold this in a much more interesting light than what we ended up with in the 80s-90s and the Nintendo AVS System could have worked instead of the NES. Alternatively, they could have sold it as a fairly powerful gaming micro computer or something, it might have done quite an impact! With the Sharp X1, I would have assumed the Famicom was cheaper and more accessible, and any CRT TV with RF component compatibility would have worked just fine. I think computers needed proprietary monitors.
@justanotheryoutubechannel
@justanotheryoutubechannel Жыл бұрын
I don’t think it would’ve done that well in Europe, the nes was expensive and bulky in a country full of cheap microcomputers. It may have been superior in some ways but it was behind in others, and it would’ve been more expensive than a ZX Spectrum, BBC Micro, or Commodore 64 with all of the addons required to get full microcomputer support. But it’s true, microcomputers we’re huge here, it was just far too cramped of a market even just for dedicated computers.
@boris3320
@boris3320 2 жыл бұрын
カタカナしかありませんでした。 I love the message on the tape, it's a pretty good use of the medium.
@misterretrowolf1464
@misterretrowolf1464 2 жыл бұрын
Anybody know what software the Japanese folks use for schematics. I love the look of them- 13:25 in the video
@timothymccully795
@timothymccully795 2 жыл бұрын
Genuine question. Do you think it's possible to make a keyboard for the NES and run Family Basic on a flash cart? I often day dream about this.
@UsagiElectric
@UsagiElectric 2 жыл бұрын
Hmm, the NES controller ports and the Famicom expansion port are a bit different, and the Family Basic keyboard uses some of the data pins that aren't available on the NES controller port. So, I think you would have to access the 48-pin card edge located on the underside of the NES to get to the necessary data lines. Here's some info on the expansion ports: wiki.nesdev.org/w/index.php/Expansion_port That's only half the battle though because the Family Basic keyboard doesn't use standard keyboard protocols. It's been a while since I've done any in-depth reading on the Keyboard, but it essentially it splits the key matrix into two columns and eight rows and then cycles through them in software to detect which key is pressed. Granted, the Family Basic software takes care of all of that, so you really only need to copy the keyboard matrix. Here's some info on the Keyboard: wiki.nesdev.org/w/index.php?title=Family_BASIC_Keyboard And some more in-depth info in Japanese on it: www43.tok2.com/home/cmpslv/Famic/Fambas.htm It's certainly not impossible, but it will definitely take a bit of work to get it going!
@KenjiUmino
@KenjiUmino 2 жыл бұрын
@@UsagiElectric dunno how to get the keyboard connected to a stock NES, but somebody developed a mainboard replacement PCB for US/EU front-loader consoles called the "NESessity" - and this PCB has a spot to solder a DB15 connector onto it - it is accessible from the bottom of the console where that useless expansion port cutout used to be
@LetsPlayKeldeo
@LetsPlayKeldeo 2 жыл бұрын
Hell yeah ! I saw it in the back of your videos and was hopping you did a video on it ! Came from your "Mini" Computer
@AlexTheSuperNintendoGamer
@AlexTheSuperNintendoGamer 3 ай бұрын
Amazing Video! The Famicom is so cool 😎🥰
@BollingHolt
@BollingHolt Жыл бұрын
Very cool setup. I've never seen a Famicom with the keyboard!
@MasIndie
@MasIndie 29 күн бұрын
Nobody told me the NES had BASIC? Where has this been all my life!?
@winstonsmith478
@winstonsmith478 3 жыл бұрын
Dogs love sticking their heads out the window. I suspect that's due to the parade of scents going by and the sensation of being able to run REALLY fast.
@UsagiElectric
@UsagiElectric 3 жыл бұрын
Our old boy doesn't do it much anymore, but he still loves to get all the smells!
@ClassicTVMan1981X
@ClassicTVMan1981X 9 ай бұрын
Family BASIC can also be used to corrupt the memory locations of other games, including Super Mario Bros. Some people did this to access invalid worlds 9 to 255. Here are the lines to enter to get the invalid world select (256W) feature: 10 FOR I=2003 TO 2012;POKE I,0:NEXT 20 POKE 2047,165 30 POKE 2045,W (replace the W with the desired world number from 1 to 254 for worlds 2 to 255)
@costelinha1867
@costelinha1867 5 ай бұрын
9:33 Oh look, nintendo has invented dial up modem noises before dial up modems were a thing.
@costelinha1867
@costelinha1867 5 ай бұрын
And to think Sakurai also made a video about this thing showcasing HIS setup of Family Basic.
@YG-sb1gt
@YG-sb1gt 10 ай бұрын
That rocks!!!! I just missed all these items and I am going to collect them in JP. Thank you so much for sharing.
@costelinha1867
@costelinha1867 5 ай бұрын
Usagi: "I don't know what keys to use to move the ship" Me: "Have you considered using one of those 2 famicon controllers right next to your keyboard? you know, the kind of thing you're intended to use to actually play famicon games?"
@primus711
@primus711 3 жыл бұрын
I too have it all but no tape drive
@UsagiElectric
@UsagiElectric 3 жыл бұрын
It's a cool system! The tape recorder is really just a generic tape deck rebranded. All it takes is just any tape deck and two mono audio cables to hook up, and you're in business!
@FreeSpeechWarrior
@FreeSpeechWarrior Жыл бұрын
When you started the game, you were supposed to pick a game pad that's included with the system. I can see that you have two of them attached to the main unit.
@VandalIO
@VandalIO 3 жыл бұрын
You should make a video on how noob like us can learn Japanese, like share tips, tricks and insights? video might attract lots of new viewers too
@UsagiElectric
@UsagiElectric 3 жыл бұрын
I think a video on learning Japanese might be a bit out of the scope of this channel, but I am planning on doing a video on vacuum tubes and tube logic in Japanese to share with some of my friends and family in Japan. I will add subtitles in of course, so non-Japanese speakers can also watch the video, but it should be a fun way of keeping up to date with my Japanese!
@LarsvanderSchans
@LarsvanderSchans 2 жыл бұрын
I was just wondering the same. Where do you start, being from Europe I speak Dutch, English, German, French and a little bit Spanish. We all learn them at school as a kid. But Asian languages, dude that's a whole different cookie to crumble! Respect!
@KenjiUmino
@KenjiUmino 2 жыл бұрын
​@@LarsvanderSchans wow, that's 3,5 languages more than i have learned so far ... did you take lessons or learn all of them in regular school ? we had english in school ... only english ... and german as native language of course
@LarsvanderSchans
@LarsvanderSchans 2 жыл бұрын
@@KenjiUmino are you from Europe? (Netherlands) they feed you languages in high school till you puke 😂😂
@KenjiUmino
@KenjiUmino 2 жыл бұрын
@@LarsvanderSchans i'm from germany - the school system here is kind of cluttered, branching off multiple times and whatnot - and the path i went through only offered english. other branches might offer a an additional language or two, but AFAIK that includes only other european languages (and maybe latin) while languages that would also require learning a different set of letters/script like greek, japanese or russian are not on the list
@TVperson1
@TVperson1 Жыл бұрын
Why didn't you try the controller to use the sprite?
@DAVIDGREGORYKERR
@DAVIDGREGORYKERR 2 жыл бұрын
You going to create a memory module for the NINTENDO FAMICOM.
@WowplayerMe
@WowplayerMe 7 ай бұрын
Wow, you've got V1.0, I've heard that's the equivalent of having a Unicorn Feather. My startup screen shows: NS-HUBASIC V2.1A (c) Nintendo/Sharp/Hudson 1982 Bytes Free OK So it looks like V2.1A users have been shorted 1 byte by Nintendo! Also, I have a 3rd party cassette unit & although I can save to tape, I can't get the adjustment correct so that I can read back in a program once it's saved to tape. Any hints? Thanks!
@MotownBatman
@MotownBatman 9 ай бұрын
Ooooohhhh. Found an Old Vid I haven't Seen Before!! TIME TRAVEL!
@10p6
@10p6 Жыл бұрын
Nice video 🙂
@therealdjap
@therealdjap 2 жыл бұрын
You have major skills
@karim2k
@karim2k 2 жыл бұрын
When he said the modern are it feels like something between 1979 and 1981
@inkwolf77
@inkwolf77 9 ай бұрын
6:30 It had 1983 bytes free and it released in 1984? Soooooo close.
@retror.d.1630
@retror.d.1630 Жыл бұрын
I’m pretty sure that you can play the game with the console controllers. I don’t understand how you overlooked that? 😂
@herokyl3173
@herokyl3173 9 ай бұрын
I've just realised that the data recorder is EXACTLY the same model as my tape reader
@piratestation69
@piratestation69 Жыл бұрын
Are there any clone keyboards out there? I have an ENIO board for my NES so it should work with it. Ive heard if you have the keyboard you can use the load and save functions in excitebike or wrecking crew to save data to a cassette recorder. I also own an analogue nt, it has a 15 pin port built in. The Japanese always has the coolest stuff.
@p-196
@p-196 6 ай бұрын
maybe, you can controll the UFO Game with the Game controllers of the Famicom. Like when you plug in a Joystick into a C64
@Skybolter
@Skybolter Жыл бұрын
If there could have been a Famicom Dysk System version of Family Basic, it could have been turned into an 80's PC
@DollysplitBand
@DollysplitBand 2 жыл бұрын
My dude! Incredible channel! Really enjoying the artful presentation and professionalism. Awesome stuff. Please filter above your 15khz, though! so v e r y screech.
@Crankthatsnes
@Crankthatsnes Жыл бұрын
Same thought exactly. Awesome video but not very pleasant to listen to.
@xspager
@xspager 9 ай бұрын
Years obsessed with how the hell you save the programs in the battery backed RAM. At leas on v3.0 on the Fceux emulator you just use the command BACKUP then stop the emulator/power down the nintendo. It should save the background if you draw one if you use the command BGGET before the BACKUP command. Bonus info from the manual: "A." or "AUTO" or "AUTO 200", will automatically increment the lines in units of ten staring at line 10 or the line right next the command. The STOP key will get you back to the regular prompt.
@ropersonline
@ropersonline 2 жыл бұрын
It's pretty respectable you've got all the original equipment for a full setup, but what really tickles my hacker bones is the possibility to get Family BASIC running on the NES. There have been one of two success stories, so it is possible, but not without effort, and AFAIK no KZbinr has ever fully documented the process. From what I understand, the lockout chip and differences in Famicon/NES cartridge pinout are obstacles that need to overcome through the use of a 72-to-60 pin conversion adapter and possibly also a Game Genie to deal with Nintendo's region-specific lockout shenanigans. However, the biggest hurdle might be the keyboard hookup itself: On the Famicon, it connects to the 15-pin expansion port, but that's not present on the NES, and the controller ports don't have all the same pins, so what to do? According to neswiki, there's an 48-pin connector at the bottom of the NES PCB, but to get to it, the user needs to turn the NES on its back and remove (literally break out) a little plastic cover, revealing the connector. (There might also be an additional, removable and replaceable plastic protection cover - not sure. Or maybe that would have come with any accessory requiring users to break out the former cover, though none was ever officially released.) At one point, someone had built and even offered an NES-to-Famicon expansion port adapter called the ENIO EXP Board, but this seems no longer available; only some serious digging through the page history of the Familiy BASIC Wikipedia article and the Wayback Machine history of the ENIO board maker's site reveals that information. (If you have an email, gimme and I could send you some links.) I don't know why that's no longer available; maybe it was a small run and its maker has moved on, or maybe Nintendo stomped them - I dunno. The bottom line is, with the right skill set, which you have, this should be possible, and no-one's ever made a good video on it AFAICT. Of course, I don't actually know if you have an NES. I also don't know if it matters whether an NTSC or PAL NES is used and if Family BASIC would run the same on both.
@DonnyHooterHoot
@DonnyHooterHoot 3 жыл бұрын
Puppy!
@UsagiElectric
@UsagiElectric 3 жыл бұрын
That's our fluffy boy Beau!
@nrdesign1991
@nrdesign1991 3 жыл бұрын
Maybe the UFO game is played using the controllers
@UsagiElectric
@UsagiElectric 3 жыл бұрын
It totally is! I just completely forgot that the Famicom actually had controllers, haha.
@Mr.1.i
@Mr.1.i 9 ай бұрын
There 1 thing that hardware geeks wanted to know is ...can it raster intrupt to double the amount of vertical pixels
@enjoyer____9685
@enjoyer____9685 2 жыл бұрын
My question is: Can You play Doom ?
@UsagiElectric
@UsagiElectric 2 жыл бұрын
Well, the Ricoh 2A03 CPU in this machine is essentially a 6502 at its heart, and some crazy programmers have built a very simplified version of Doom that runs on the Commodore VIC-20, which is a 6502 based machine, so it's totally not out of the realm that that Doom port could be ported over to the Famicom!
@enjoyer____9685
@enjoyer____9685 2 жыл бұрын
@@UsagiElectric can You make a vídeo playing doom, please ?
@RWL2012
@RWL2012 2 жыл бұрын
@@enjoyer____9685 can you understand that that would require porting the VIC-20 port of Doom to the Famicom, please?
@JustWasted3HoursHere
@JustWasted3HoursHere 3 жыл бұрын
Weird that it has 2 x 128K Program ROM and 1 x 64K character ROM....and only *TWO* kilobytes of actual usable RAM included (luckily upgradable via a RAM cartridge).
@UsagiElectric
@UsagiElectric 3 жыл бұрын
Yeah, the 2k of RAM is hilariously small! But, from the system perspective, the RAM was supposed to be in the game cartridges, and some cartridges came with up to 1MB of RAM, which is massive. Now, why the Family Basic system used such tiny RAM chips for storing programs is a weird choice. I think if they had put a 16k RAM chip in there and streamlined the Basic experience, it could have been a decent "family" computer contender.
@JustWasted3HoursHere
@JustWasted3HoursHere 3 жыл бұрын
@@UsagiElectric Putting the extra RAM in the cartridges seems very wasteful, but I agree the system would have probably benefitted more by having 16k or whatever on the main system. Funny side note: There was a BASIC cartridge for the old Atari 2600, but it only had 128 *BYTES* of RAM and a lot of that was used as overhead. It was, as you can imagine, super duper limited but impressive that it could allow any BASIC programming at all on such a system!
@espfusion
@espfusion 2 жыл бұрын
Those ROM numbers are Kbits. So 32KB PRG + 8KB CHR which was the max you could address without bank switching. Although in this case I think the 2/4KB RAM is bank switched over the PRG ROM. Using a lot more ROM than RAM for a BASIC implementation was pretty par for the course for early home computers. Robust-ish BASIC interpreter takes space and mask ROM in volume is a lot cheaper per bit than SRAM (or PSRAM)
@JustWasted3HoursHere
@JustWasted3HoursHere 2 жыл бұрын
@@espfusion It seems that starting with the Japanese cartridge consoles like the Famicom/NES game size was measured in kiloBITS instead of kiloBYTES to make them seem more impressive I guess.
@andygozzo72
@andygozzo72 2 жыл бұрын
@@JustWasted3HoursHere most ram, eeprom , eprom chips had the type number specify bits or kilobits, such as a 62256 is a 32k byte ram chip (256k bits)
@qwertykeyboard5901
@qwertykeyboard5901 Жыл бұрын
4:08 Ugh! 1.66Mhz? Fuck! I figured the famicom wouldn't be clocked very high, but I didn't think it would be THAT slow! The VTECH Precomputer 1000 Might be faster then that at 3.12Mhz, even if it uses a z80.
@a2pha
@a2pha 2 жыл бұрын
BTW guys this Family Basic v3.0 is 40k decompressed.
@inasvids4747
@inasvids4747 5 ай бұрын
So sharp used to be good back in the day
@Lilithe
@Lilithe Жыл бұрын
I'm guessing the game actually used one of the controllers instead of the keyboard.
@le1er133
@le1er133 9 ай бұрын
I’m so used to commodore basic that I would suck on a famicom basic
@webjoeking
@webjoeking 2 жыл бұрын
Shall we play a game?
@UltimatePerfection
@UltimatePerfection 10 ай бұрын
I wish Family BASIC could be emulated. There's a ROM of it, but it doesn't work because no emulator I know emulates the family basic keyboard and data recorder.
@JaneDoe-ve5kx
@JaneDoe-ve5kx 7 ай бұрын
Actually several Nintendo emulators, e.g. nestopia and Nintaco, are fully capable of that. I use nestopia on Linux and it works perfectly with different versions of Family BASIC roms.
@costelinha1867
@costelinha1867 5 ай бұрын
I'm pretty sure it probably can be emulated. There may even be an english translated rom of it.
@UltimatePerfection
@UltimatePerfection 5 ай бұрын
@@costelinha1867 It can't due to the keyboard thing it requires. No modern emulator can emulate it.
@VandalIO
@VandalIO 3 жыл бұрын
How did you learn Japanese? is it easy to learn ?
@zaraak323i
@zaraak323i 3 жыл бұрын
No. 😅
@UsagiElectric
@UsagiElectric 3 жыл бұрын
The story of how I learned Japanese is quite a long one, haha. I did a homestay in Japan for a few months when I was 19, taking some crash courses in learning the language. That taught me the basics, so when I came back to the US, I ended up going to University and majoring in Japanese studies, with a minor in Korean studies. Then, when I was 23, I moved to Japan and lived there for about seven and a half years. My wife and I moved back to the States about, jeez, 7 years ago now, but I still do freelance work for the company I worked for in Japan doing translation and event support, so I get plenty of chances to keep my Japanese fresh. I wouldn't call Japanese easy to learn, but it's certainly not impossible. It requires a lot of dedication and repetition though. A lot of people find the pronunciation and diction to be the most difficult aspects, and I can certainly pick out "foreign" accents with ease, especially on TV and in movies. A good trick that I found for that was watching kids TV shows. Notably, I watched a whole lot of Pokemon (un-subtitled). That of course requires enough an already decent understanding of the language. If you're interested in learning Japanese, there's a lot of excellent resources out there, but I always had a hard time with text books. I found it easier to try to immerse myself in something I was interested in (for me it was old cars). I would buy magazines, watch videos without subtitles, etc. Just surround myself with my interests that just so happened to be in another language.
@VandalIO
@VandalIO 3 жыл бұрын
@@UsagiElectric that’s an interesting story :)
@MUHAMMADYAWARIFRAHEEM
@MUHAMMADYAWARIFRAHEEM 3 жыл бұрын
Niceeeeeee
@UsagiElectric
@UsagiElectric 3 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@ecernosoft3096
@ecernosoft3096 2 жыл бұрын
WRONG! The famicom had a 1.79 mhz 6502 (Ricoh) cpu. Only those in Pal territories got the slower one.
@hb120877
@hb120877 Жыл бұрын
😊interesting... good stuff
@YaroslavSeredyak
@YaroslavSeredyak 2 жыл бұрын
to hide sprites, you need to write SPRITE OFF
@riggles
@riggles Жыл бұрын
That AV side placement is absolutely hideous, what were you thinking?
@some_shiptoster
@some_shiptoster 17 күн бұрын
1:11 Jesus I wish I was not hearing any sound.
@VandalIO
@VandalIO 3 жыл бұрын
i miss the usagis at the end of the video :P .....
@UsagiElectric
@UsagiElectric 3 жыл бұрын
Don't worry, our little bun will be back soon!
@johneygd
@johneygd Жыл бұрын
It’s cool stuff but i hardly could imagine that anybody would seriously do programming stuff on it,considering the limited ram you could use,the fact that you needed freah batteries to keep your beloved program preserved our you could store everything on tape and hope for the best,thing is there was no way nintendo could compeat against other computers and i don’t really think it was ever ment to compeat against other computer brands,that would,ve been laving.
@MrStevetmq
@MrStevetmq 2 жыл бұрын
did you know "$" is known as "String" so CHR$(I) is said as "CHR'string'(I)"
@yosi1989
@yosi1989 2 жыл бұрын
try "famibe no yosshin"
@anticat900
@anticat900 2 жыл бұрын
How did you learn Japanese, it's not a common language to learn in the uk, but maybe more so in the us, being closer?
@RetroPlus
@RetroPlus Жыл бұрын
Very impressive Japanese!
@Dasan1111
@Dasan1111 2 жыл бұрын
This basic was made by Hudson Soft.
@deeiks12
@deeiks12 Жыл бұрын
If you don't mind me asking - how and why do you speak Japanese?
@retropalooza
@retropalooza Жыл бұрын
Use the controller
@bronka42
@bronka42 3 жыл бұрын
please please, oh please do every video in japanese!!! (with subs..please)
@UsagiElectric
@UsagiElectric 3 жыл бұрын
There will be some more Japanese content coming up soon!
@archivis
@archivis Жыл бұрын
:)
@paulawillaminachandler-ren3725
@paulawillaminachandler-ren3725 3 жыл бұрын
I asked my husband what he thought about your Channel, he said "If I robbing the cradle he's not going down with me." Da f, I will be 47 on December fourth. He said "You still have your mom's milk on you face." F In Men!
@UsagiElectric
@UsagiElectric 3 жыл бұрын
I'm not sure I understand, but thanks for checking the videos out!
@ravec9245
@ravec9245 8 ай бұрын
Kinda cringe listening to him speak japanese
@UsagiElectric
@UsagiElectric 8 ай бұрын
Kinda cringe reading your comment.
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