Analog Industries Gets a MidiNES Nintendo Music Cart

Audio developer and blog personality Chris Randall at Analog Industries has acquired a Wayfar MidiNES cartridge. This gem is a genuine 8-bit NES cartridge that converts your Nintendo game system into a MIDI device so you can sequence it, control it with other devices (with some work), etc. Chris is blogging the results: he’s got initial impressions and a more detailed review with MP3 demo and even a Cubase/Nuendo device map you can download.





Best of all, Chris is taking my suggestion of rack-mounting an NES for music purposes. That’s the good news. The bad news is, he thinks he’s going to get my Nintendo DS when he’s done. I don’t want to shake his motivation, so, erm, sure, Chris, you *might* wind up with my DS when it’s done.


Let’s see, I did technically say: “I’ll find some kind of prize. You can have my Nintendo DS or something.” So now I just have to figure out what “or something” could be . . . Stay tuned. Chris, sure you don’t want to trade an imported DS Lite for my ‘classic’ DS? -PK

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Tim

Wayfar midines is a scam.

Dont trust wayfar. They take your money and leave you with nothing.

I paid for midines 2 months ago, sent numerous emails to wayfars so called support, with no reply and opened a paypal dispute which will probably go no where.

Beware of these scamming pieces of crap!!!

August 13, 2008 @ 7:50 pm
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Benjamin Bear

wayfar is probably backed up on account of being one person…give him a little bit and you’ll get your cartridge.

September 8, 2008 @ 9:25 am
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mark

hey fuck i pai for a midines in june and am still waiting!!! i cant believe i’m still waiting, and there others too?!!!? what the fuck?

September 12, 2008 @ 12:51 pm
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Tim

i understand some1 being backed up and im not normally like this. The demand is high and its a lot for one person. But c’mon, how hard is it to reply to at least 1 of my many many emails. even if it was to say “haha, i screwed you” or whatever. A courtesy email after payment would be nice. I dont understand how this can even be a business. i purchased it around the start of june, its now october.

October 9, 2008 @ 5:47 pm
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mark

this is absolute scum. paid 120AUS for this thing, and stil no reply or package. this guy is the biggest cunt that exists in swampland-arsehole-map. reeking shit made into trees, this guy lives in the swamp shit infested cunt lands. When am i going to get my package or refund!??? please someone open a blog or website for the discussion of those who have been cheated by this fuck. why isnt anyone doing anything about it???? lets take action for fucks sake, if there are alot of us, then we could get paypal to nail his cunt ass and we get the paid for package or the money back.!!! hurry

October 18, 2008 @ 12:49 am
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Tim

haha.

Your 100% right tho. Everyone talks but no one does anything.

Paypal doesnt work. I filled a complaint. and won. What did i win. Nothing. Paypal said they ruled in my favour, but he had no money in his paypal account so no refund and they couldnt get in contact with him. If he puts money in his account they say ill get a refund, but im not holding my breath. that was mayb 4 or 5 months ago.

Whats next?

October 26, 2008 @ 7:14 pm
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Tim

http://www.em411.com/forum/6720/0//Midines_never_came_but_the_moneys_gone.html#

apparently its on the way.

Ive heard it before so who knows???

October 26, 2008 @ 7:15 pm
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mark

well that was in September. I paid for a midines in june! stil waiting….

any more info on this whole issue? i want the fucking thing already!

November 16, 2008 @ 8:14 am
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cris

hey i feel ya. i bought mine on 5/21/08 and ive yet to recieve it or any emails. all i find are small tidbits of info on various forums saying “im backed up on orders.” i know this post isnt of any help but i feel your pain.

November 16, 2008 @ 10:09 pm
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Phillip

I completely agree that Wayfar are scammers. I also paid over 5 months ago (in June) and still to this day I have no response, no product, nothing. I also agree that Paypal’s customer service effort is so bad as to be comical. So basically, we have all been scammed and I doubt the product in question even exists.

I am fine with him being backed up on orders (heck, I am happy for the guy, having business coming out the ears) but really…to go AWOL after taking the money is fraud, plain and simple.

What’s kind of fun, I was able to look up the address of the guy, Chris Kann using WHOIS records. Not that I advocate harassment, but it would be easy enough to send a strongly worded letter…

December 3, 2008 @ 10:34 am
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vectrex

ATTENTION: If you Paid with credit card via paypal phone your credit card company and get them to reverse the charges, they will poke paypal with a large stick and then you should get your money back.
worked for me and a few others, definitely a SCAM

December 3, 2008 @ 8:27 pm
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fred

so when did you pay for the midines? i think i will try this as well in the coming weeks/months. but i’d rather get the cunting midines instead of my money. I guess that is no longer possible. i dont think this not-real, the midines that is, i’ve seen and heard things about it in the past. i think those of us simply got fucked in the arse at the wrong time, simultaneusly. i think someone should open a forum or something so we can finally get this wack cunt charged with fraud. why are we just standing on the cliff here with our dicks in the wind? i desire justice, not pity.when i come back from travelling I hope to see a larger discussion of the mr.anonymous’s taking action against this still-born cunt. back next year.

December 21, 2008 @ 3:25 am
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samus

i paid for one in january of last year and was starting to get a bit worried when feb had passed and it hadn’t arrived. but alas, it finally showed up on my doorstep in mid march. best of luck to all of you! i think wayfar maybe needs to hire some help. btw midines is fucking awesome

December 24, 2008 @ 12:03 am
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December 27, 2008 @ 5:22 pm
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chaz

Did you guys ever get your MidiNES? I ordered one in August 2008, it’s now mid-January and the thing hasn’t arrived. After reading these comments, I’m starting to get pissed.

January 19, 2009 @ 10:18 am
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Tim

Ive been waiting 9 months still no word.

Everywhere i post, people keep defending him. Blah blah blah his one man, just loads of bullshit.

Theres no excuse. He scammed everyone. I hope he enjoys my money.

January 29, 2009 @ 5:10 pm
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Tim

Theres seems to be more and more people getting fucked over by this douche…

http://www.8bitcollective.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=9028

February 1, 2009 @ 11:50 pm
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chris

I purchesed my Midines from Wayfar via Paypal in October 2008 and it is now almost May 2009,that’s 8 months. No response….no emails back…notta. He has time to go to the bank and take money out of his paypal and check if payment was recieved, but not enough time to give an estimate….

…wayfar you are a piece of thieving crap. I bought one off ebay recently version 1.1.0 but whatever, at least I got it within 2 days of payment.

April 22, 2009 @ 6:56 pm
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Joel

I got mine in the mail yesterday and I ordered it just 6 days ago. Guess I’m just lucky or XIK got his shit together. In any event, it’s a great little piece of hardware.

May 7, 2009 @ 11:09 am
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Michael Seifert

To anyone who has been ripped off by Wayfar/Chris Kann. I waited 8 months, tried to be a nice guy, etc. This guy is bad news. My wife is an attorney and I want to help everyone who’s been wronged by this guy. If you want to join our class action lawsuit, email me at michael@anteupaudio.com

I will pay ALL legal costs in bringing this guy to justice. He crossed the wrong guy this time and I want to make sure justice is served and people get their equipment or their money back immediately.

August 11, 2009 @ 7:45 pm
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Michael Seifert

Wow! A half dozen responses from people who have been wronged by this guy in just 3 hours! Maybe this guy is screwing more people over than I thought!

August 11, 2009 @ 10:46 pm
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