Welcome to |tsr's NES archive, a font of information and support for the best video game console ever made - the Nintendo Entertainment System. If it's over eight bits, don't touch it!

		April 29th - 4 new manuals added. Thanks to shadowman024, akeera and Jeff Davidson. A couple of new Disk System reviews added, too. I'll work my way to Z eventually... A few bits of news: One, the new version of the Windows NES emulator Famtasia handles regular .FDS images. This makes it better than FWNes for Disk System games as it emulates the FM sound (not perfectly, but you get the general idea), and it doesn't put icons in screenshots, so I've switched to that emu for FDS reviews. It runs some games FWNes can't, either. I've gotten quite a lot of mail recently asking about quick tech projects, like how to run a RF Famicom in the US, or how to make a new-style NES output composite video. FamiTek is one of several sites that handles a lot of this info in depth, so check it out! A guy I know found a Ninja Gaiden III demo cart at Funcoland. What kind of stupid weirdo sells a cart like that to Funcoland for fifty cents? Am I going to have to pay more attention to this place, or what? (heh) April 23rd - The Famicom Disk System now has its own official section. It's still pretty raw, but will be worked on soon. This site in general needs some updating. I've been too busy recently to do a lot of work on it (I'm also busy doing some translation work as a favor for a friend of mine) but I'll see what I can do. Zophar's Domain is sponsoring a contest to see who can finish Metroid from start to end in the quickest time (via Nesticle .nsm movies). I hereby proclaim that the prize (a shell account) will be taken authoritatively and effortlessly by me. Look out! April 14th - New Japanese thingie in the books section. Even more music from Kev! This set is from a few Konami games. April 8th - Kev Horton gave me the ripped music from Somari. Shift-click to download! On Chris Covell's page are some new tools for editing Bionic Commando, as well as a patch to make the game more like the original FC version. Get it now! And finally, Bung has some Realvideo ads for the Dr. PC Jr NES/FC copier. Good for a laff; and we might just see them released here someday... April 3rd - A new article about the foreign NES scene in Special Features. Chris Covell sent some more NES music for play in emulators. Speaking of which, a format for NES music has been agreed upon, so with all this music ripping going on, it shouldn't be too long before a standalone music player program is available. Stay tuned... NES World is back, too. If you have NES/FC-related news announcements you'd like to have featured in this space, mail away.

A quick note: My message board is down for a bit until I reupload it. It got erased somehow when I wasn't paying attention.

I went to the Tokyo Game Show on the business day a few days ago. Here's the real inside view of the show:

• You'll probably read in game mags and sites about how cool Sega and Square's booths were, but the real action was elsewhere. Sony had the Parappa sequel and Spyro shows going up. Konami had all their crap dancing games, of course - their current cash source.
• SNK was marketing its Neo Geo Pocket Color amusingly enough with a skateboard ramp slash stage, with hourly shows. Although there were no skateboard games for NGCP, there was Metal Slug, which rocked the house.
• Taito was mostly pushing Puzzle Bobble 64 and Densha de GO! 2. Their hourly show kicked ass all over the place - the MC was this portly dude with orange spiky buzz hair who sang along with the chicks "Taiii TOOOOoooo... taiii TOOOOoooo..."
• Other booths that rocked included Tecmo's (another great tune for Gallop Racer 3: "Gallop Racer! Gallop Racer! THREE! THREE THREE THREE!!"), Banpresto's (I played janken with Kamen Rider for a light-up keychain and won), Bandai's (Wonder Swan Beatmania is crap), and Tecmo again for their awe-inspiring Monster Farm show.
• The booth chick (sorry, I mean lady) roundup: Sony's were lame. Konami's were lame. Taito's were ok. Square had one lady in a chocobo-inspired dress, probably to spite her. Tecmo's were hot! And in the #1 position - SNK. Their ladies were foxy! Foxy foxy foxy! My pants come aflame!
• The only thing I actually wanted to buy out of the lot: The combination Last Bible I and II from Atlus. I dig compilations. I also dig their mascot, who unfortunately did not provide me with any info materials (I have about 5 tons of catalogs, videos, demo CDs, and so on).
• What did I learn? One, the Japan games industry is pretty coo. Two, I'm still primarily gonna be an FC/NES man. Three, if you're foreign and can speak Japanese, women will throw themselves onto you. See you later.

-tsr