Comments on: Yobo Fc3 Plus: NES, SNES and Genesis Games in One Console

By: UltimaWraith

UltimaWraith — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 20:11:34 +0000

This is a great system, and it plays a lot of my SNES games that refuse to play on my old school SNES. ALTHOUGH, there is one glaring problem for me. This game will not play any Mega Man game after the second one, you can play 1 and 2 just fine, but from 3 onwards they refuse to play. I had the guy in-store test them all for me and the cartridges themselves are fine. It’s sad that I can’t play my favorite games but it reliably loads my Super Mario and the Seven Stars so I can only complain so far.

By: Somebody

Somebody — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 21:21:11 +0000

If the game doesn’t work clean your cartridge the game you know they are really old get a tool for opening them and find a safe cleaning solution and scrub the connectors with a old tooth brush for 90 percent of games they will work like new after wards. Also if you payed less than 50 dollars and got the fc3 used instead of new you got ripped off always buy it new. never get a used system you don’t know how it has been abused and always clean your carts before trying to play them.

By: Sam

Sam — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 18:19:18 +0000

I got one of these a few weeks ago. It’s a pretty good system for what it’s worth. It certainly helps make some extra space by cramming 3 systems into one. If anyone was thinking of getting one, this is where I got mine:
http://peterm.gknu.com/shop/store/shop.php?c=2&n=294931&i=B001LVH80M&x=NESSNESGenesis_FC3_Plus_Gaming_System

By: tplayer

tplayer — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:23:00 +0000

The NES slot is for 62-pin cart (Famicon) =/

By: Amber

Amber — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 04:10:53 +0000

I ended up contacting the seller on ebay that I bought the system from (bgsonline). Since they order from the manufacturer they were able to get an extra remote for me.
You could contact them and see if they can order a new power adapter for you.

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 02:23:49 +0000

sure, sell me the power adapter lol

By: Mandi

Mandi — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 00:51:03 +0000

I bought this system and at first I thought it was broken because i didn’t know you had to push the games in so hard for them to work. I can’t figure out how to save progress in games on here. Any ideas?

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Sat, 29 May 2010 23:47:05 +0000

The idea of having one console play games from 3 different game systems seems nice, but it’s obviously full of more flaws than successes. I don’t own one, but based on what people have said, as well as my own thoughts and observations about it, these are some of the things that seem the most troublesome:

The differences in controllers and accessories is an issue. They should think about making controllers for each system but with the same plugin for each so you could just swap it out with whatever controller you’re about to need.

Plus, making the thing more durable is a must.

And they should try getting a near flawless emulation before they sell it. Having the majority of the consoles not even play the games is a big waste of their time and money, as well as yours.

It does seem kind of absurd to me to try to make 3 different consoles in one. NES/SNES isn’t as bad since the consoles are similar and from the same company and such, but throw in a completely different system and that just brings more problems to the table. It sounds like you’d be better off just buying an FCTwin for the NES/SNES and an original Sega Genesis for Genesis games.

I’m lucky enough to still have an SNES with a few games, and my mom found the old NES the other day which excited me greatly. I’ve never gotten to play the NES since I’m 16 and that was before my time, but as soon as I saw it, it was like heaven was raining chocolate chip cookies down on me. But of course those cookies soon turned into ravenous evil unicorns as the power adapter doesn’t work… But hopefully my dad can figure something out, he was working on wiring it yesterday or we might just have to buy one.

But anyways, I’d say just stick with the original systems if you possibly can. At least only spend your money on the FCTwin since it seems to work quite well.

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 20 May 2010 03:38:17 +0000

We can only hope, and as I already own an FC3 Plus, getting another three in one system isn’t much of a financially available option, I just need the stupid AC adapter lol. Gote a broken FC3 and want to sell me the AC adapter? I don’t really care at this point, I just want to play some Earthbound.

By: technabob

technabob — Wed, 19 May 2010 14:48:23 +0000

Maybe the new Hyperkin system will be easier to deal with….

http://technabob.com/blog/2010/05/18/hyperkin-retro-n-3-system/

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 19 May 2010 05:53:32 +0000

Downside is that SA-1 games such as Super Mario RPG is not an option with this system, not only can you not use other controllers, but spare controllers are REALLY hard to come by, and as I had the misfortune of finding out first-hand, the AC adapter is 10volt DC with a reverse polarity. IN EXAMPLE: HAVE FUN FINDING A NEW POWER BRICK. Ebay doesn’t carry any, Yobo doesn’t get back to you, nor do they sell them, and after five hours of searching relentlessly, my FC3 Plus is still without a power source, and the specs on them exactly are lost to me as I, like an idiot, threw the thing out. If anybody can give me the specs, a detailed picture of the AC adapter specs, has a spare one I can buy, or knows where I can buy one, that would be absolutely awesome. Thanks! AND DO NOT BREAK ANY PART OF THIS SYSTEM OR YOU WILL SUFFER THE SAME ANNOYING FATE.

By: Alec

Alec — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 03:41:56 +0000

I agree with you because that happened to me when I got this system , I also saw the reviews . I should have got a NES instead .

By: jon doe

jon doe — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 20:31:05 +0000

warning this is the biggiest pile of crap. I got this from my wife for my b day played it about 2 times and the controllers stoped working. Games sometime played i really wanted the original nes game system and this one looked way fun cause it played 3 diffrent games but the price you pay for this peice of crap i could have bought a used nes that still would work for years to come. Dont waste you money on this you cant get replacement parts and its so cheaply made.

By: Seppl Schlonz

Seppl Schlonz — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:59:17 +0000

so, when i read all these comments, the result is the following: good idea, but only with much luck you get a working console. so quality is bad. i stay on emulators

By: Seppl Schlonz

Seppl Schlonz — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:56:28 +0000

*LOL* yeah g-factor console is well known all over the world

By: luv tha retro

luv tha retro — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:51:13 +0000

Pepelluepe, can you get me on the the yobo cartridges, can pay on paypal. thx

By: Amber

Amber — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 20:13:53 +0000

I bought my system from ebay too (seller bgsonline) the first one wouldn’t even turn on, I paid to ship it back and the new one works, but the system is so fragile, my nephew dropped one of the remotes and it stopped working and I can’t find anyone that sells the remotes separately.
Does anyone know where to get extra remotes??

By: Joe

Joe — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 19:45:40 +0000

Thanks for the info, Los. I appreciate you answering. It’s been a long time since I had the original sega genesis system, and the version I had allowed that move, since you need it to win. At any rate, I greatly appreciate you bringing me up to speed. Thanks again.

By: Los

Los — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:51:34 +0000

@Joe

Regarding Sonic, the first game did not have the option to make Sonic spin from a stationary position by pressing down and pressing the A/B/C button. You could only make him spin while he was running. The ability to “rev up” Sonic wasn’t added until Sonic 2. That might be your problem.

By: John

John — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:00:50 +0000

I bought one of these online from a place called Omega Collectibles, I was so excited when I saw it that I didn’t bother to do any research, could’ve gotten a better price if I had looked around. I got it and I’ve tried all my NES games on it, and none of them worked, some came close, Mario Bros/Duck Hunt displayed something, but I couldn’t get it any better than random shapes. I don’t own any SNES or Genesis games, I was planning on using this to start my collection, but after reading other peoples problems I’m not sure if it’s worth my time.

I’ll try cleaning my old games, run them in my original NES, see how they do there, try them again in this thing. The place I bought it from is in Canada, and I’m certainly not paying to send it back, so if that doesn’t work I think I’ll put my electrical skills to work and tear the thing apart looking for the problem.

Wish me luck.