StarFox 2 - The story

Re: Hmmmm...

I'm not sure if this is legal or not, so for now I must decline. I also won't have time for this for about 2 months. Other fees you'd have to factor in are the EPROMs and another dollar worth of other materials

SuperFunkNinjaYoshiiKun: 5 euros a 27c801/080 is pretty steep (although eBay is steeper), might be the best bet for you guys though.

cahaz: I have plans for those Famicom games too haha. You'll have a lot of trouble getting Final Fantasy 3 though. You actually will have to buy the original cartridge as the mapper it uses was only used on 2-3 Famicom cartridges, very obscure. Its a MMC3 (4M PRG, 0M CHR, SRAM.) I'm not too sure about Earthbound, I forgot the spec. but I remember that Final Fantasy IIJ is a MMC1 (256K/0K + SRAM) which is the same as Final Fantasy 1. The biggest project though will be Mario Bros 2J, because that was never released on a cartridge, only pirate games exist which contain hacked MMC, these will not be able to be put back onto cartridges unless you can hack them to a compatible mapper.

 

Speaking of...

I have a Super Mario 2 JPN bootleg cart.
Damn thing is about as heavy as a floppy disk drive!
If I can provide somekind of assistance with it lemme know!
~Krelian

P.S.: I also have the hack of Super Mario World 8-bit for Famicom.

 

I'm sure it utilizes a HK pirate (tm) memory controller. You might want to check out the currently dumped SMB2J carts, the ones in GoodNES. I'm looking for a MMC3 hack which supposedly exists If I can find it, it will be very possible to make a nice SMB2J cart.

 

Sorry to get OT, but didn't Nintendo later release Super Mario Bros. 2 on a Famicom cart? What about Legend Of Zelda, Kid icarus, Metroid, or Castlevania?

 

Nope, never. They did however release "Zelda no Densetsu 1" for Famicom in 1993 for simultaneous release with the AV Famicom. Oh, also in 1993 they released Castlevania / Akumajou Dracula... but in Japan, the only way to get the others (including Dracula II) is to buy a FDS. As I said, all of the cartridge versions of SMB2J are pirates, many of them are nearly one of a kind.

 

Meaning that they use a custom memory mapper that won't be found in other official carts... right?

 

Yup.

 

Whats funny is the U.S. version of super mario brothers 2 was released over there as mario usa.

 

Well, since it REALLY wasn't Mario 2 (the real Mario 2 was a lot like Mario 1 only goddamned hard and with poison mushrooms), they had to call it something, and "Mario 2 from those crazy Americans" was too long.

It was also released in Japan as its original form, Doki Doki Panic, which was basically cannibalized and made into Mario 2/USA after some sprite changes were implemented, i.e. cutting out all the original characters to make way for Mario et al.

 

There are many Japanese games dubbed "USA" version lol. e.g. ... Final Fantasy U.S.A. (Mystic Quest)

 

Well the reason i found it funny is because you'd think over there they would easily catch wind that its just a hacked version of doki doki panic with sprites swaped and slight graphic changes.

 

Who knows what they thought In USA, SMB2 was released in 1988, in Japan, it was released in 1989-1991 (can't remember) Probably the game was released and forgotten in about a day. Also, Doki Doki wasn't that popular due to the FDS not selling.