Oy, my bad!  I was looking at another page when I posted that.  My bad!

Wait, what has FM PAC or MUSIc MODULE built in? The FS-A1F doesn't. Even less the FS-A1. So don't buy thinking they do.

nah, fm pac built in. not the music module. That's only a separate cart.
bear in mind that the fm pac only has 1 custom voice.
The 7mhz upgrade imo is unnecessary. I always did all music with
the standard ones, works fine realy.

Sounds great!  I plan on uprgrading the RAM anyways and the 7mhz upgrade.  Love the look and form factor of this!  Plus it has the music module built in!  Going to try and pick this up soon!  Thanks man!

The FS-A1F has 128KB of VRAM but 64KB of RAM. The Phillips has 128KB of RAM and VRAM.
I don't know why it was built like that, the standard is more or less 128KB of RAM. Some shit might not work with only 64KB. I never found a problem though but then again I haven't used mine that much.

ADVANTAGE OF THE FS-A1F: RGB output, it seems! You could connect it to any RGB monitor and get a crisp image.

Does that first one have the same specs as the one I mentioned?  With shipping its still a little pricey, but hey nothings free!

What do you think is the cheapest/easiest to obtain MSX out there?

What do you expect to pay for fine computer material from the 80s and from japan? xD
This is only fair. An F-1AF for 200 is a fair price. I paid 90 for mine but that was like 9 years ago.
The Turbo Rs have stayed in the same price range though, they always costed about this much.

@_@ so expensive!

What Boomlinde said is correct. Get a japanese MSX.
BRazilian MSXs are NTSC (Brazil uses both PAL-M and NTSC, also both 110V and 220V)

Look, this is almost the one I have, it's a cool machine (one of my favourite-looking MSXes):
http://cgi.ebay.com/Import-JP-Panasonic … 1241wt_941

There's also a F1A (no disk drive):
http://cgi.ebay.com/MSX-console-PANASON … 45f0a1a083

An MSX1 (I had this one too, it's cool):
http://cgi.ebay.com/MSX-Console-SONY-HB … 45f0a1a096

And if you are rich:
http://cgi.ebay.com/JP-Panasonic-FSA1-G … _877wt_941

USB disk drive
SCC flash cart

I think there'll be a whole lot of trouble getting it set up in NTSC-land, too. The monitor connector is either PAL RCA (comparably bad quality) or RGB through a SCART connector (good quality, but as far as I understand SCART is pretty much unheard of over where you are). Then of course you'll have to step the voltage up to 230 V or so.

My idea is that you should check with Japanese or maybe Brazilian sellers (Japanese MSX computers use NTSC and 110 V AFAIK, and maybe Brazilian, too unless they are PAL-M. Check with the amigos on this forum about that!).

About the case, I personally love it!

Ouch!  Yeah it was Bas' site.  I'm not the biggest fan of its form factor but I'm a case modder so I could work around it.  I'll check shipping...
Where did you get some of your other hardware as well?  (i.e. USB disk drive and SCC flashcart)

I have an 8250 here, and it's great. I'm guessing you found it on Bas' MSX site. As for Franky, you'll probably need a 512kb memory expansion to make the most of it (i.e. load most converted Master System games).

The shipping to Sweden was another €45, so I'm guessing that it'll be hefty to get it outside Europe. I think it was definitely worth the €90 total I paid, though, and I've made a couple of tracks with it already. Along with I bought a $20 USB disk drive for file exchange, €20 FM-PAC and an SCC flash cartridge mainly for games (€60 or so)

Shipping to the US might be pretty painful, quite likely more than the value of the MSX (assuming it's in Europe from the € price), so watch out for that!

I will let the C-Men chip in with advice, but that sounds like a good machine.