Fixed some mistakes on the PAL exclusives page for jajaja. Nintendoage.com sucks, that is all.

Robert Budrick (rbudrick) known by some of you from various forums has kindly spend a lot of time translating a Japanese Famicom Disk System (FDS) Copy Tool manual to English. In this manual it explains to you how to modify your disk drive to remove protection allowing you to use software such as FDSLoadr to backup and rewrite your disks.

If you have two Famicom Disk Systems it also shows you how to connect them together. Allowing you take the software from the first system and copy it to a disk in the second system.

The guide can be downloaded from this page. Please note that they are all the same guide just in different formats and sizes (the bigger the better the quality).

Good news for NES enthusiasts Kevin Horton (kevtris) the genius behind the CopyNES has finally started to take orders. You can buy a CopyNES in kit form for $45 plus shipping (instructions here) or get kev to install it for you which is $125 plus shipping (you need to supply your own NES).

Personally I have bought two kits and plan to order more if Kev does not sell out. This may be your only chance to get a CopyNES so I suggest you do the same. :)

For those of you that do not know the CopyNES is basically a toaster NES with the ability to hook it up to your computer (using DOS only currently).
It allows you to read and write saves, backup games (great if you are a collector and own undumped raritys), repair Game Action Replays (GAR) with dead batteries and lots more which is way over my head.

Note the CopyNES does not allow you to play roms from your PC on your NES.

If you wish to order Kev's contact details are on this page.

I was hoping to update alot more this year but unfortunetly that hasn't happened. This isn't much of an update either unless you're crazy about prototypes like me.

I should have a review up for the Portable Famicom known as the PoketFami pretty soon though so stay tuned.

I have added pages for the following prototypes Fighting Simulator. Flintstones Surprise at Dino Peak, Bart vs The Space Mutants, Snow Bros, Dragon's Lair and Mr. Gimmick.

It has finally happened after well over two years without a single update Simplynes is back from the dead. Now I could make up excuses why there hasn't been any updates like I was too busy or that I have lost interest. But those would be lies the truth is I am just very lazy. :)

Quite a lot has happened over the last couple of years and although I haven't updated the online site I have been working on the offline site on and off for quite a while.

My collection has grown quite a bit the two most exciting are probable a Zelda II prototype which I got last week and Over Horizon prototype (NTSC so technically unreleased YAY) which I have had for quite a while now. Also I bought the Mr. Gimmick prototype some of you may have seen on eBay. But I haven't got around to doing a page for that yet.

I have updated and rewritten almost every page on the site so too many updates to list here. Just have a browse around. :)

I have written a Game Theory Admiral (GTA) review today although most people have probable already got one by now.

Added a small page covering Time Diver Avenger (Eon Man). A Famicom bootleg of an unreleased Taito NES game announced in 1993.

Got a new prototype for the collection a few months ago. Formula 1 Sensation the European exclusive, it is slightly different to the released version. It seems that the game was originally going to be called Formula 1 Sensation Race with the Devil. This was later changed, no doubt thanks to censors at Nintendo not liking the word"devil".