Strange Noac i got at goodwill....

josh · Post by **josh** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 4:42 pm

i got the thingy it looks like a n64 controler but it says POWER-JOY on it.
also all it came with is the
AV wires this is what it looks like

what can i do with it?

daguuy · Post by **daguuy** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 4:46 pm

looks kinda like a gun, maybe if it has duck hunt you could make a sniper rifle with it

ValiantVenality · Post by **ValiantVenality** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 4:49 pm

What can you do with it?!?!?!?!!? Make a portable out of it! Its not that hard. If you dont have a case idea or a screen get the special nintendo screwdriver and open up an old game boy. (you cant use the screen on the game boy. sorry I got your hopes up) For the screen get the hip gear and break open that for the screen. Thats one way you can use it. Or you can just play it. Whatever works for you. Lol.

josh · Post by **josh** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 4:54 pm

thanks for explaining that this is my first portable besides the flashback 1 fiasco

cowsgoquack101 · Post by **cowsgoquack101** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 7:04 pm

God I can't find Hip Gears anywhere...Damn Hip Gear we need a cheap screen to use for portables again.

MaDnEsS · Post by **MaDnEsS** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 7:07 pm

daguuy wrote:looks kinda like a gun, maybe if it has duck hunt you could make a sniper rifle with it

i saw that on atack of the show

bioniclebert · Post by **bioniclebert** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 8:23 pm

Seing the cart in the picture, leads me to believe there is a cart port. (duh) If that is so, then yeah go ahead and try something.

Post by **gannon** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 9:32 pm

The 3 main NOAC (in a controller) types are the Power Joy, Super Joy, and Mega Joy (I've owned all of them

)
The Mega Joy has a fairly rectangular PCB with the controller on a different PCB, the Super Joy has a weird shapped PCB with the controller on a different PCB (the smallest of the 3), and the Power Joy has a rectangular PCB with the controller and NOAC built onto it.
Oh yeah, and this is from my experience with those systems and might not be the same for all models

G-force · Post by **G-force** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 9:39 pm

Heh, I love the design of the thing it reminds me of every controller for every system.... But yeah, I got that exact same thing in a different box at Big-Lots. It looks like it has much clearer video and sound than a Super Joy 3. The whole thing is just much better built than any other NOAC I've seen.

One thing I noticed, it seems that the spacing of the pins on the cartridge connector is different than that of a famicom cartridge. So when I tried pluggin in a Family Converter to play a Duck Hunt/mario cart, some graphics were distorted. The game played fine, but mario HAD NO HEAD! (or much of a body left for that matter.) It was very odd... So I'm going to try wiring a cartridge connector up to it and see if I still have that trouble.

EDIT: Wow gannon, that's a lot of NOACs!

josh · Post by **josh** » Fri Jan 06, 2006 7:45 pm

since i have the power joy is the board any bigger than the the "power player 3"
i just want to know because i want to follow ladyada's instructions (sorry if thats spelled wrong) anyway is there differences that i would need to know between the power joy and the power player 3?

(also i want to keep the famicon port on my nesp how do i keep the FAMICOM cartrdge port and still keep it really close to ladyada's insructions?)

Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » Fri Jan 06, 2006 8:21 pm

cowsgoquack101 wrote:God I can't find Hip Gears anywhere...Damn Hip Gear we need a cheap screen to use for portables again.

It would kinda be hard seeing as they're going bankrupt.

akadewboy · Post by **akadewboy** » Sun Jan 08, 2006 9:40 am

josh wrote:since i have the power joy is the board any bigger than the the "power player 3"
i just want to know because i want to follow ladyada's instructions (sorry if thats spelled wrong) anyway is there differences that i would need to know between the power joy and the power player 3?

(also i want to keep the famicon port on my nesp how do i keep the FAMICOM cartrdge port and still keep it really close to ladyada's insructions?)

You'll probably have to figure a lot of stuff out on your own by following the traces, cause even ladyada's Power Joy uses a diffrent pinout than mine.