That does look fantastic!
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Speaking of the dogbone, just got something I’ve been putting off getting
I didn’t want to use any my main NES dogbone or two never used Japanese ones, so I purchased a cheap Japanese Dogbone to use with it (nobody wants them due to the short cord) more than a year ago (pre-covid so Japan was posting small airmail packages) in preparation, but have been saving money so didn’t get the kit.
It did have the diagonals issue. It has never been much of a problem for me on 8bitdo before, as say on the SuFami pad it was only on awkward angles I could trigger it, but it was worse on this.
Did the tape trick and now while still technically possible is not an issue for regular play for me.
After the fix, I beat Contra (no code) with it so the lag can’t be that bad!
Got almost all of these now, all the good ones anyway 
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Nice, I did that to one my my 4 dogbones last year. I liked it a lot more than I expected and ended up putting a kit in a SuFami controller, buying the Switch Famicom joycon + the Switch SNES controller, getting a Retrobit Saturn controller, and then modding my Astro City stick for wireless.
And maybe I’m getting carried away because a couple weeks ago I pulled the trigger and put a Brook Wireless board in my ASCII Stick:
Did it all no-cut, fully reversible. Even managed to stick a tiny pushbutton in place of an original screwmount for the board + famicom expander port
(hope nobody has an aversion to hot glue)
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Super sharp. The future is awesome.
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This is such a great stick! Love the mod.
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Yeah, this rules.
Such a classy stick.
The instrument panel on my 1984 Honda has that grid design. So 80s. Love it.
Jealous of that stick, love the precise design it has. Looked at prices and gulp.
I’m warning to the AV Famicom considering it was released in 1993. Very consistent with the Nintendo design language of the era. I’m not all that keen on the use of NES typefaces across the unit and controller, though, but it is indicative of how important the NES was to Nintendo by that point, whereas the original Famicom design was pre-NES.
Damn I love the look of that stick. Are those seimitsu buttons?
24mm seimitsu buttons. While I was in there I replaced them with new ones – the B button was feeling a bit off but the A button feels exactly the same.
Looked at the prices for this stick, too … wow. Another one I got lucky on several years ago. I can’t even remember how I found it. Just seeing stuff on eBay I think, and buying one almost on first sight.
You’re missing a step there… The Game Boy. It used those typefaces and twin grey colours too, including the diagonal button layout.
And then the Super Famicom was in the same dual grey tone too, Nintendo was standardising the brand identity worldwide. Which makes the purple themed US SNES redesign even more baffling honestly… Japan got a 16 bit machine that took after the NES/GB colours, the US did not…
That said, much like the Super Famicom Junior, the redesigns were almost certainly made for the west first, as budget systems, and they added a Japanese version after. On the 8-bit machine, the design language was made around the rounded top of the Top Loader NES, which was flattened for the FDS for the Famicom. And the Super Fami Jr lacks an embossed logo like the western one, and just has a sticker.
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Good shout on Game Boy, can’t believe it didn’t cross my mind. Yeah, it’s definitely a more contemporary expression of Nintendo design language given its release date, very symbolic of the time.
Probably why I didn’t warm to it at first, whenever I think Famicom early 80s Nintendo design language but it’s easy to forget how long this system remained relevant, much like the Game Boy after it.
Away from home at the moment and you could have knocked me over with a feather when I saw a copy of Door Door in a game shop in Bristol, UK. Pretty good condition and price.
I had to import my copy at significant expense!
Couple of extra photos of some random stuff they had including a mega expensive GBA SP.
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Was going through some old photo albums at my parents house, I found the picture of me when I got my NES for Christmas 1987.
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The combo of that sweater and those curtains is just magical.
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There is so much to take in there. The Grand Ole Opry plaque, the red tie under the sweater, the rabbit ears! Man, I don’t even want to dig out my old pix. Lol!
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I’ve wanted a Door Door for ages! Since I read about it on some blog years ago.
Might have been this? But I think it was earlier than 2016.
I’ve discovered many games thanks to that blog. It’s great. They have many posts about Door Door.
I bought my copy of Door Door in Jam
N 2018 from Japan via eBay. Only $27 which is surprising. I was on a puzzle kick because I had bought Popils the month before.