Zelda Famicom, screaming in the microphone!

[johneymute]

the microphone was an awesome great innovative idea from nintendo cuzz screaming is somthing you automatically doing when you,re getting in panic.

and the fact that the famicom has a powerfull 7bit pcm is enough to reltime generate your voice to tv but also percieves it as a commando signal to change some situations in the game itself.

it would be really cool if those supported famicom and fds games will be ported to the wii,3ds shop channel and use the microphone the blast enemy's away!!!

[weegeelollmfao]

its called pols voice not bunny

[POKEMASTERDAI]

does this work in the version for 3ds?

[Simboiss]

I think I'll go on a quest to find an original Famicom just to scream like crazy in the damn microphone!

[swallowedwholeup]

@Simboiss You can actually buy a Famicom controller that works with the original NES. It's an official product too. Used to have a black and gold one that went with the game. And it worked too.

Probably damn near impossible to find now days.

[Hmmfomtgal]

@championrevilo yeah... but i still might buy one! itll be a great toy when i learn japanese! (which i plan to)

[ChampionRevilo]

In PH it only paralyzes them lol. The only thing I don't like about the Famicom is that the controllers are directly wired into the console :/

[TheJunkSynchron]

ahh Poles Voice y didnt u come to america correctly =(

[catlinmassier]

awesome

[sailorenlil]

Man I wish my cousin (who had the original Famicom) had that particular game back then. It would have been amusing to watch him scream to kill those "bunnies". Otherwise the only use of that microphone was just to be silly (we and our brothers would just take the mike and speak gibberish and other stupid stuff while playing, sometimes making up our own sound effects, like death sounds, which made for a lot of laughs).

[earwax12321]

lol. cool.

[ratchets1000]

co za asy

[Chalmsthegamer]

and those guys were annoying to kill in the nes us version.

[coolgamer1677]

Are there any emulators that support the mic function?

[Linkigi1972]

WHAT THE FUCK!?!?

[fazares]

yep,i bought an av modded 1983 famicom and run fine on my multistandard lcd:)

[gdogg1979]

I feel sorry for the Japanese parents who had to hear there kids scream at tv to kill bad guys. innovative idea though

[TheCreator4]

so can you do this in the wii vc version?

[MetallicMushroom]

Damnit you have to yell something cool, not just "ÄÄGH!"

:D

[Syndication]

I have an FDS that works, Zelda, and I can't wait until I get my working famicom so I can do just this. :D

[matthewdoucette]

love it!

[BenHutchinson1]

@RedSalamander

Though there isn't a FC microphone on NES controlers there still someting like a solder point or header pin connectors on the NES motherboard where a hacker/modder could add a microphone?

[soldaten66]

vad kostar en Famicom om du ska köpa en i dag med zelda spelet

[BenHutchinson1]

Why is the screen black&white? Where's the color? Broken console?

[Watcher3223]

@BenHutchinson1

If it's an NTSC system being played on a PAL video monitor, then you may still get video but there will be no color.

[BenHutchinson1]

@Watcher3223

So are you playing an NTSC to PAL type situation here? Or is the console just broken?

[Watcher3223]

The console is most likely perfectly functional, but a Japanese Famicom outputs an NTSC signal.

This YouTube video originates from Sweden, which used the PAL video standard. Chances are the TV shown here was made for the PAL standard.

A Japanese Famicom being used with a PAL TV may have video, despite differences in video signal refresh, but there may be no color because color information is handled very differently between PAL and NTSC standards.

[fazares]

@Watcher3223

just buy an av famicom or a modded one and the problem is solved...

[Watcher3223]

@fazares

"just buy an av famicom or a modded one and the problem is solved"

Incorrect. The video in CVBS from a Japanese Famicom, regardless of version, will still be NTSC.

In CVBS (composite), the chroma is muxed onto the luma baseband in specific ranges unique for NTSC and PAL.

A PAL only monitor may be driven by the baseband of an NTSC CVBS signal, but it can't decode the color as a PAL monitor will look for color in a range where the chroma signal isn't present, so it'll still be B&W.

[Watcher3223]

The only solutions here:

Get a multistandard video monitor capable of decoding NTSC.

OR

Modify a Famicom to where it will output a valid PAL signal; merely getting an AV Famicom or modifying a regular Famicom to add auxiliary AV outputs is not enough unless you have an NTSC monitor or the aforementioned multistandard monitor.

Besides, Nintendo removed microphone functionality from the AV Famicom. That leaves getting the original Famicom to make use of all features in "The Legend of Zelda."

[xboxgamerJ16]

why can't the NES do THAT?

[wilkes85]

@xboxgamerJ16 because that would make the game way too easy.

I don't know about you, but i like a challenge.

[cremeens100]

thats how you kill them in phantom hourglass also thats just how you kill them other then the arrows

[SvenskNostalgi]

Måste man också ha den japanska versionen för att det skall funka eller behövs bara den kontrollen med mic?

[RobbyRubbish]

@SvenskNostalgi: Man måste ha en Famicom (den vit/röda versionen) för att det ska funka. Den ena kontrollen har en mic, det finns inga mickar på några andra kontroller...

[SvenskNostalgi]

@RobbyRubbish Jag kom på det precis. Plus att på den japanska så satt ju även kontrollerna fast i enheten.

[RedSalamander]

A microphone in the Famicom controller. Awesome idea.  Why didn't it make it here? We could've had voice controlled games long ago.

The only other game I can think of that uses this feature is that game made by Takeshi of Takeshi's Castle. Were there any others?

[Loneman1]

WTF? I never knew that.

[CaptainButtrose]

Was it the case that he spooke skånska that they died that fast? Because skånska isn't à nice sound to the ears, and deffinately not Swedish. Good video tough.

[RobbyRubbish]

If you scream in Östgötska it works on every enemy. ;) Dööööööö med ett långt östgötsk Ö. :)

[bozhood]

hahaha svenskar också.. najs

[wonamik]

svenskar rules

[TheDevilbuster]

It doesn't really matter what kind of noise you make, as long as you blow hard enough. :P

[SwedeWithAnAccent]

Swedish.... and somewhere in Skåne! I want to play on your Famicom.........

[zzpsddi]

0:18 screaming lol

i have no idea..

[latuman]

Controller has a built in microphone. In zelda, those enemies die when you yell in the microphone.

Only in Famicom, the Japanese Nintendo Entertainment System.

[onikinhas]

Brilliant!

[IAMMIKE456]

And people say screaming at the game doesn't help!

[ElricSowrd]

They turned into Rupees. XD

5 stars.

[DXSnakeEater]

This is real you know. I did this emulated with a PC Microphone. It took me alot longer to do it then they did.

[DXSnakeEater]

I wish they brought that to the usa. That's extremely advanced at it's time and really funny. I wonder if I can do this in emulation?

[AcidFight]

mic =P

[DXSnakeEater]

Do you think I give a crap how Microphone is spelled?

[KlonoaKawaiiDesu]

why didn't the NES have a mic like the Famicom? i'm confused. but this is pretty interesting anyways, since they're showing the japanese version of zelda.

[theotherther1]

I wish screaming into microphones could kill Ventrilo Harassment trolls too.

Anyway I never knew you could kill these guys this way, I just used bombs.

[apodino]

The manual for this game said Pol's voice hates loud noise and this is what it was refering too. This caused confusion since the NES system doesn't have a mic built in. That's what the clue from the old man in Level 5 was refering too when he said "Secret Power is said to be in the Arrow". This implies that there was some sort of ultrasonic sound generated by the arrow that was lethal to Pol's Voice. At least thats what I got out of it.

[vampov]

Yeah and I kept using the bloody whistle to no avail. those things were so hard to kill

[guspolly]

What language are they speaking?

[RobbyRubbish]

Swedish

[BLuFAlc0n]

Hey, can you use the Mic at any game?

Like in Super Mario Bros. for example?

[RobbyRubbish]

There are some Japanese Karaoke games, but I don't know if there are any other games you can use it in.

[Hmmfomtgal]

@BLuFAlc0n u can use it in doraemon for the famicom

[g1Chase357]

That's awesome. I wish the NES had a mic. Famicoms are cool, so I guess I should track one down. I do have Famicom games.

[johneymute]

they have removed the microphone from the a/v famicom.

it waas a inique feature since it pushes the hardware soundchip to it,s limmit??!!

[Doppelgangergang]

I think you should blow into the mic?

[MECHAPIXEL]

I guess Phantom Hourglass wasn't the first

[Mralways]

Love this game

[bl0rkatr0n]

The bunnies are called Pol's Voice. Later games even reference this by including lines like "Sound beats Pol's Voice." which also doubles as a hint to use bombs to get rid of them. (Although arrows, if available, work too.)

[DragonKazooie89]

Yeah. I remember using the ocarina in Link's Awakening and my animal buddy's flute on Seasons/Ages to defeat those enemies.

[XxRelmxX]

I thought it was a hint that tell use "use the wistle to kill them" but it's not use. I get it now. Famicom has a microphone like the DS, what a good idea. Too bad it's wasn't used in a lot of game and wasn't put on the NES.

[Montork]

im a womanfolk and i think this is cool!

[133MHzz]

Why is it in black & white? PAL TV?

[RobbyRubbish]

Yes, B&W beacuse it's a PAL TV... :(

[DerekHansGreser]

Wow... I heard about this but didn't know it was real thanks for posting it.

Also, how do you have women present when you are playing a 1986 video game?

[FurryPurryKee]

Hey, we womenfolk can enjoy retro gaming, too!

[MikeAngel06]

You must have the cutest nick in Youtube lol