FS R-TYPE for Famicom Pirate

[L___E___T]

The original thread is 18 months old so I necroposted - no need to split

Let's continue discussion and treat this like an R-Type Famicom thread

[80sFREAK]

Ah, ok. So what is the chances this "repro" was fake?

[L___E___T]

Screenshots are from some emulation, but I think Iknow someone else who has one, I'll ask them, but I've no reason to believe it's fake.  I trust Ryo.

[PZT]

http://rdev.g-pw.org/makimura/modification/magicdragon-exp
My Google-fu is stronger than yours.
(I signed up just to link this because I'm just as desperate to get it on a cart as you guys, I need it in my life)
Mapper 107 will surely complicate things though.

[80sFREAK]

Ah, Family Basic guy 

I can guess, how mapper 107 working, but without digging code it might be not correct. If original Magic Dragon made on discrete chips, there should be 4 or 5 chips to control PRG and CHR.

[MaxXimus]

I can try to open my magic dragon cartridge and take a picture of the PCB if that helps any? I know nothing about this so sorry if that sounds weird haha.

[80sFREAK]

That would be good, because description of the mapper doesn't give much, just guess.

[PZT]

I can try to open my magic dragon cartridge and take a picture of the PCB if that helps any? I know nothing about this so sorry if that sounds weird haha.

Sounds great! It'd come in handy to know whether it's chips or glop tops.
If Magic Dragon suddenly becomes a 300 dollar game because I post that hack here I'm going to flip a table
BTW, if you look at the attract demo it becomes apparent only the first two levels are converted to look like R-Type, the other two still seem to be Magic Dragon, unless gameplay differs from the demo
still a pretty cool rom hack though, japanese rom hacks are like a whole undiscovered world sometimes

[MaxXimus]

I popped it open and it's a glob top. One blob of epoxy only. Is it still worth taking the picture?

[80sFREAK]

Nah, it will not help. The dump avaliable online is playable and it's only 192K(128K PRG and 64K CHR)

[fcgamer]

I would be pissed if Magic Dragon suddenly because worth $300 as well; however, it is already a $50 game basically, and it uses globs, as mentioned above, so there is not really much converting of anything due to that.