Back in the days of the SNES, my Dad packed up our system, games, and accessories and mailed them off to Nintendo to have them cleaned and checked out. I believe my Dad looked into this after we had to send my Genesis back to Sega to get fixed as the second controller port wasn't working, it hadn't worked since I bought the system. So when we got our SNES back from Nintendo, we noticed that they gave us a brand new case for the system, we had cllipped off the tabs to play Japanese games, and they noticed it. They also sent along a note explaining that they didn't check out or clean our third party wireless controller as it wasn't and official Nintendo product. Well, everything was great with the system and stuff, and my brother and I were excited to have our SNES back. The odd thing though was that my Uniracers game contained a bunch of new high scores (I had beaten all of the stock high scores with the characters/unicycles that I had created) were in place of my high scores. There was an odd colored unicycle, one that was not anywhere in the game, that had beaten almost all of my high scores. Someone at Nintendo played my game and beat my scores! Well, I was more than a little annoyed. Anyway, I thought I would share that with you all and ask you guys a question. Does anyone here know of the device or code or whatever that the Nintendo employee used to input a new character and beat my scores? I think some of them are still on the cart, but as I do not have an SNES with me, I cannot get a screenshot of the "phantom" unicycle to show you guys. I hope someone here knows what this person did to input the character, because I've been wondering for years.
Well, I did do my best to beat the new high scores, but I was little, so my first reaction was disapointment and annoyance.
LOL, that's exactly what I was thinking! Oh man that would be funny if that same person still worked there, in some basement at Nintendo, beating everyones high score... Damn that could be a funny short animation.
that person is a race of mole people, named steve......they thrive off of a moniters glow, and eat spam....honestly though, thats pretty weird, im surprised that when you said you clipped off the tabs on the cart slot to play jap games, that nintendo just didnt send it back, and call it void
I don't think so... they included a letter stating what they had done as far as cleaning and what not, which is where they stated that they wouldn't clean the wireless controller, and they said nothing about replacing the system. Plus, it's not like it was gone for a couple of days, they had it for a while.
Well, of course the sent him a refurBished unit. A refurbished system is just an officially cleaned and inspected unit, which is what he sent his SNES in to Nintendo for in the first place. Whether it was HIS system refurbished or someone else's that Nintendo sent him is another question. It wouldn't surprise me if Nintendo did/does just send out any refurbished system that they have on hand rather than keeping track of who sent which system and making sure they get their exact unit back. That wouldn't make the letter they sent him a lie because all the cleaning and inspecting they described would be true of any refurbished system they sent out. That seems a lot more likely to me than the idea that they changed the case because they saw that the tabs had been removed. I dunno about the Uniracers thing, though. You sure those weren't just the stock high scores back? Part of the cleaning process might have involved wiping the SRAM. The stock high scores in Uniracers spell out some kind of phrase if you read them out, don't they? I can't remember what they say, though. ...word is bondage...
Could the cart just be a different one, from someone else who was further on than you? i.e. basically a refurb cart?
I agree with your theory. At the time they probably didn't care too much about save games. Just replaced everything with refurbished hardware and software.
More than likely they were new units the sent out. I know sega sent out new units for repairs. I got a lot of new but no accessory CDX units when they closed out their 16 bit repairs.
Well, I think it's pretty obvious that the stuff you got back wasn't what you sent out...as it would seem like an awful lot of extra work to replace your case AND go to the trouble of beating you Uniracers times...unless Nintendo had some sort of butthole working for them who enjoyed setting impossible to beat times. Anyhoo, I think what we've learned hear is that Uniracers if freaking awesome and we should all go play it...
Well, it was my uniracers cart as it had all of my created characters, and we did get our third party controller back, so they had to keep track of something. I honestly don't remember everything about what happened. Maybe I should have described it this way: When I got Uniracers back a bunch of the #1 high scores (as three scores are displayed for most if not all tracks I believe) and some of the #2 and #3 high scores were now held by a "new" racer, and my older scores were still there, just ranked lower. The "new" racer is no where to be found on in the game as a playable character.
I loved UniRacers and I used to play it all the time. I loaned it to my friend in school once - he gave it back to me the next day and admitted that he had forgotten it in his backpack and it had sat there all night. I popped it into my SNES and there were all new high scores, scores that had trounced my own. Some of my custom characters were still there, some had been restored to the original character. I think this is a weird bug in UniRacers and nobody played either of our games. I also sent my SNES back to Nintendo once, after it gave me an electric shock and fried itself. They definitely sent me a new one, although Donkey Kong Country 2 until this day claims that the SNES sent to me is trying to copy it and won't play.
That's weird, take some pics. The SNES tends to act crazy at times. My NTSC-U one stopped working, and the PALSECAM one fried my PAL TV, so I'm stuck with no SNES.
