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How to browse Famicase and pick a cart (2020 Edition) Sticky

A topic by Kai created Aug 25, 2020 Views: 6,572 Replies: 4
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(just stealing most of Ludonaut's thread from last year here)

One of the goals of this jam is to give the incredible annual My Famicase Exhibition the attention it deserves. Unfortunately, their website is a little slow, and can be hard to navigate. Here are a couple of ways to help you choose a cart to base your game on:

#1: Browse famicase.com

This is the obvious one. Of course, their site is a little slow and I'm a little worried we might eat up their entire bandwidth quota and their webhost might take it down or something (hence #1 above). It isn't immediately obvious, and they don't seem to link them anywhere, but you can browse prior years all the way back to 2008 by changing the year in the URL. For example, to check out the 2010 collection, change the 19 in http://famicase.com/19/index.html to a 10, like so: http://famicase.com/10/index.html.

Years prior to 2008 and later can be found here. Warning it takes some time to load and can be a bit heavy depending on your machine with its animation

#2: Let RANDOM FAMICASE decide for you

Pyrofoux made this neat little tool (Updated to 2020) to randomly browse through the Famicase collection. This one is helpful if you have trouble picking a cart out of the hundreds and hundreds of great designs. Warning: Right now this tool hotlinks images from famicase.com, which makes it just as slow as browsing the site directly. If you want to help with the development of this tool here is the repo

#3 Famicase Finder

Baku made a little project with a high-res view of 2020 carts. You can find it on his personal website here: https://bakufreak.gitlab.io/famicase_finder/

I went and downloaded all the images and put it in a zip file for your convenience (and their server's):

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Z0M1abOxAj49BQ81vDR6x-4XRG2orRbG/view?usp=sharing (17mb .zip, includes html pages with the text)

I had to resize and optimize a bit, for some reason this year the images are much heavier at a 150mb total! The images were reduced to 75% size and saved as mid quality JPEG

Hey, the  RAND↻M FAMICASE has been updated to the year 2020 AD!

NEW FEATURES :

  • Participations from 2005 to 2007 are now available. However images are smaller and there's no official source link.
  • Added "ANY BIG" filter, to only get bigger cover art.
  • T͢emp̸ora͢r̴i̛ly͡ escape ̀the̸ mas̢siv̧e̶ c̀r̡isès̛ ̕happe͡ni͟n̵g҉  ar͜ou҉n͘d͏ ̛u̵s b͘y ̷ręp̧ea̴t͡e͡dly̡ ma̴śhi҉ng ͝t̨he butt̛on͏ ̛t̶o ge̶t͠ ҉a̶ c̕on͝stàńt f͟lu͝x of́ ̶c͜o̶oļ n҉ew̨ p͘ec͞ţu͝ŗes̢ ́t̕o l̡o̢ok͡ a͞t͞.


    Woohoo!

MASH IT

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I made a little cart browser too, to hopefully spare their bandwidth lol. Can be downloaded for offline use. Likely adding the previous year's carts soon (including 2005-2007)

https://bakufreak.gitlab.io/famicase_finder/

Edit: 2005-2019 have been added - Famicase Finder now has all the carts! Everything can be downloaded at once (100 MB) or each year individually.

@Baku good effort, thank you!

I've updated my offline mirror too but I just realized I never posted the link to it anywhere oops:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1y8YJ3dWrZdugFT1GXNOwKY_5nacA88io?usp=sha...

Everything completely uncompressed as-is. The "2020 only" (at ~180MB) mirror only contains this year's carts. Just open START_HERE.html with your Browser. I've modified the html a little here and there but only to remove the unnecessary JS (the lightbox, facebook and twitter buttons, google analytics).