Post pics of your fds ports here. Here is pics of my collection. I use to have a copy of pro wrestling but traded it.
Very nice collection! Good post, I think it will get quite interesting. I need to take some pictures of mine and post here as well. :)
I'd love carts of Nazo No Murasamejou and Falsion! Has anyone ever seen those?
Right now, I have these:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v315/tracker465/IMG_2786_zpsf84b553d.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/tracker465/media/IMG_2786_zpsf84b553d.jpg.html)
I also have that same Bubble Bobble and Green Beret, as well as Doki Doki Panic, but I forgot to take pictures of all three of them :o
Falsion I used to own, but sold it back when I was young and stupid (actually back before I decided to collect the FDS port games). I have another copy coming my way, though it looks to be of a lesser quality than the one I used to have, and either way, it still hasn't arrived yet.
wishing for a ANN SMB cart
Very nice collection Fcgamer I'd like to pick up a copy of Ai Senshi Nicol and Nazo no Murasame someday.
All Night Nippon: Super Mario Bros.
I used to have a second copy (sold) as well as SMB 2J (stopped working).
My Arumana no Kiseki on cassette never worked well.
The scrolling was ever bugged.
Your Arumana cassettes are playable?
Quote from: The Uninvited Gremlin on April 26, 2014, 12:31:52 pm
All Night Nippon: Super Mario Bros.
I used to have a second copy (sold) as well as SMB 2J (stopped working).
Wow! I think they are great finds!
Quote from: Profeta Yoshitake on May 08, 2014, 07:24:49 am
My Arumana no Kiseki on cassette never worked well.
The scrolling was ever bugged.
Your Arumana cassettes are playable?
Mine seems playable, but I seem to be stupid enough to be unable to figure out how to use the whip or whatever it is well enough to make it through the second room :( But iirc I had this problem on both the pirate port and the official disk.
Update and current collection. I'm curious to find out if any active members have as big as a collection as me. if so please post pics some we can compare carts.
Here's what I have at the moment:
(http://i1273.photobucket.com/albums/y419/fcgamer26/th_DSC_0114_zpspcwtqv68.jpg) (http://s1273.photobucket.com/user/fcgamer26/media/DSC_0114_zpspcwtqv68.jpg.html)
A note on the games separated to the right:
One is Mario Party, I just keep this with my other Mario games and don't really consider it a part of this collection; however I decided to dig it out for the photo shoot and include it with the others for this pic, since Jay-ray did that in the pics in his initial post. Likewise, the other Mario cart seen there contains both Super Mario Bros. and Super Mario Bros. 2. The neat thing about that cart is that the original game has 2's graphics, and 2's game has the original graphics. Once again, I don't really count it as part of the set, but just threw it in the pic anyways.
Section Z: A few weeks back I asked the difference between the US and FDS version of this game, because I was trying to see if this cart is the US version or a port of the FDS version. Since I haven't really played the game much, and there are not large differences between the two versions, I am not sure which version I have. If I were to hazard a guess, I would say it is just the USA version, but I will try to investigate further tonight, by checking out the STS text that UglyJoe mentioned.
Likewise, I wonder if there is a true FDS port version of Karate Champ on Famicom cart. It has been said to exist for years and years, but the version I personally own (and all versions I have seen) are just actually ports of the USA version of the game. Like Section Z mentioned above, the differences between the two versions are so small, it doesn't really matter much anyway, but I am just throwing this out there for the nitpicky collectors like myself.
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Also, I am sorry for the crappy pic. Somehow I lost my camera battery charger a few weeks back, and haven't been able to find it thus far. It is probably time to get a new camera anyway I guess.
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And another note: Gun.smoke, I think it falls into the same category as Karate Champ, or perhaps Section Z. The FDS and USA versions of the game seem to be the same, from what I can tell, with just some very very minor differences. From what I have seen, it seems that the Gun.smoke carts I have seen contain the USA version of the game, though I am not 100% certain of it. Likewise, a FDS port of this game has been suggested to exist for years and years now, but I personally suspect it is just the USA version that exists, and due to such minor changes, no one really noticed otherwise. Or maybe both versions exist, as they do with many of the games (WW Manu making both Green Beret and Rush n Attack, Gradius and Salamander, etc)
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And yet another comment: Section Z seems to be the USA version, the game lists "Continue" and "Retry" when you get game over, no save choice. I originally thought that maybe this was just done since the FDS port would likely be hacked to remove the save feature, but my Castlevania 2 FDS port includes the save option intact (it may just be a dummy, not sure if it works or not, but it is there) so therefore I suspect Section Z is just NES port. But as mentioned earlier, with this particular game it seems like it's just splitting hairs.
Great notes. Thanks for the reply good friend. So here is my personal opinion. I'm a firm believer that these games as listed; gum.smoke, karate champ, section z, and legendary wings have never been ported to pirate carts. There are just the Nes versions on a pirate famicom cart. Now I'd like to 100% confirm that both the American and FDS ports of certain carts have went through my hands. I've seen green berat and rush n attack, double dribble and exciting basket ball, jackel and akai yousai. These carts can look identical but you have to pop them in to find out if it's the American version or an fds port.
Quote from: Jay-ray on June 25, 2015, 04:53:53 am
Great notes. Thanks for the reply good friend. So here is my personal opinion. I'm a firm believer that these games as listed; gum.smoke, karate champ, section z, and legendary wings have never been ported to pirate carts. There are just the Nes versions on a pirate famicom cart. Now I'd like to 100% confirm that both the American and FDS ports of certain carts have went through my hands. I've seen green berat and rush n attack, double dribble and exciting basket ball, jackel and akai yousai. These carts can look identical but you have to pop them in to find out if it's the American version or an fds port.
Yes, good additions with Jackal and Akai Yousai. I remember those existing in both American and FDS port versions.
Kid Icarus might be another one in the both category. I saw the FDS port version, but here it seems that an American version is floating around too. In this day and age it becomes a bit tricky too, since we have to always be careful as to whether it was really made back then or just some AliExpress "repro", but I think the American Kid Icarus was legit.
I also own Double Dribble and Exciting Basketball, both versions. Like you said, cases are the same, but the insides are different. A common thing with WW Manu carts.
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WIth Legendary Wings, it is the USA version. The title screen is hacked though, and gives credit to Taiwan and the guy that worked with Hwang Shinwei on some games.
Honestly I'm beating my head against the wall looking for an fds port of kid Icarus, right now Ive only one lead and it's been like pulling teeth to get an answer out of this guy. But to note on this I feel like for the most part we as collectors can tell the difference between a legitimate pirate cart and some trash New Age aliexpress repro.
Quote from: Jay-ray on June 25, 2015, 05:33:26 am
Honestly I'm beating my head against the wall looking for an fds port of kid Icarus, right now Ive only one lead and it's been like pulling teeth to get an answer out of this guy. But to note on this I feel like for the most part we as collectors can tell the difference between a legitimate pirate cart and some trash New Age aliexpress repro.
Yeah I think we as collectors can tell the difference as well, but I think some of the telling factors are much easier to see in person than just from a few online pics, sadly.
Regarding Section Z, I just confirmed that my version is the USA version. Secret room text is in English. Really makes me wonder if there is a true FDS port version out there, but I suspect maybe not
How about some hardware pr0n? SHOW THE GUTS!
Smash Ping Pong. I have heard time and again that this exists on cartridge format. My question though, is has anyone seen an actual cart of this FDS game ported to Famicom cartridge format?
Tonight I was doing some cleaning / sorting in the game room, and was going through some games and preparing to sell a few extras. I found that I actually had this game on an 11 in 1 cartridge (circa late 90s, I would guess) and wonder if anyone can confirm it made it to single cart format.
Just an update on this: My father came to visit me this evening and so I managed to drag him to visit my buddy, since I had received a message from him that he had some carts to sell me.
So I bought the carts and also a Japanese Famicom machine (no controllers though), and one of the carts was Gun.Smoke.
Took it home tonight and cleaned it, just tested it out, it's the FDS port, the story text is in Japanese and not English. So we can confirm that a FDS port of this game exists, 100%. Now I just want to know if a port of the NES version of the game also exists or not.
Quote from: Jay-ray on June 25, 2015, 04:53:53 am
Great notes. Thanks for the reply good friend. So here is my personal opinion. I'm a firm believer that these games as listed; gum.smoke, karate champ, section z, and legendary wings have never been ported to pirate carts. There are just the Nes versions on a pirate famicom cart. Now I'd like to 100% confirm that both the American and FDS ports of certain carts have went through my hands. I've seen green berat and rush n attack, double dribble and exciting basket ball, jackel and akai yousai. These carts can look identical but you have to pop them in to find out if it's the American version or an fds port.
That's really great news, congrats and thanks for sharing - can we see a snap? Are you planning on keeping it or open to a juicy trade?
I actually have a port of the NES version on a multicart from the era - so I would like to safely assume it exists stand alone even if I don't have one myself.
I sold some other multis but saved this one especially as I'm quite a fan of Gunsmoke.
Quote from: fcgamer on August 19, 2015, 09:41:11 am
Just an update on this: My father came to visit me this evening and so I managed to drag him to visit my buddy, since I had received a message from him that he had some carts to sell me.
So I bought the carts and also a Japanese Famicom machine (no controllers though), and one of the carts was Gun.Smoke.
Took it home tonight and cleaned it, just tested it out, it's the FDS port, the story text is in Japanese and not English. So we can confirm that a FDS port of this game exists, 100%. Now I just want to know if a port of the NES version of the game also exists or not.
Quote from: Jay-ray on June 25, 2015, 04:53:53 am
Great notes. Thanks for the reply good friend. So here is my personal opinion. I'm a firm believer that these games as listed; gum.smoke, karate champ, section z, and legendary wings have never been ported to pirate carts. There are just the Nes versions on a pirate famicom cart. Now I'd like to 100% confirm that both the American and FDS ports of certain carts have went through my hands. I've seen green berat and rush n attack, double dribble and exciting basket ball, jackel and akai yousai. These carts can look identical but you have to pop them in to find out if it's the American version or an fds port.
I have the NES version of Gun Smoke on a Famicom pirate cart. :D
It's credited to NTDEC in the copyrights screen, but other than that, it plays just like the original NES version.
Here's the photo of the cart, and the title screen:
(http://i.imgur.com/kCAcjMyl.jpg)
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WQCdPdwxuiY/VOj9iZlcdtI/AAAAAAAAGUo/qJERXJpPlrA/s1600/bandicam%2B2015-02-21%2B19-39-00-436.png)
There also exists a version, where enemies pop out at random on the screen, which is usually met on old 1994 Super HIK multicarts. ;)
And I think under this label, there could also be the regular Gun Smoke. At least, from what I've seen on some auctions. :)
(http://s016.radikal.ru/i337/1410/da/a5e2e6f9a613.jpg)
On topic: here's what I have from FDS conversions.
(http://i.imgur.com/oyenKrzl.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/Vtoz5yTl.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/MnuOxcrl.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/eSUFYWal.jpg)
*Arumana no Kiseki (Whirlwind Manu conversion)
*Bubble Bobble (Kaiser hacked version)
*Super Mario Bros. 2 included on 4-in-1 Pascar multicart with physical switches
*Smash Table Tennis included on 11-in-1 Ball Series
Quote*Bubble Bobble (Kaiser hacked version)
CHR ROM or CHR RAM version?
Any chance for pcb photos?
Quote from: 80sFREAK on August 19, 2015, 11:49:58 am
Quote*Bubble Bobble (Kaiser hacked version)
CHR ROM or CHR RAM version?
Any chance for pcb photos?
CHR-RAM.
I took photos of PCB before, so here they are. ;)
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-l5zw0OSQoiU/Vb-UuPz7A8I/AAAAAAAALIo/7Db0CPk0_UQ/s1600/IMG_20150723_174248.jpg)
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-IL7dbrSVDnc/Vb-UuPZM7CI/AAAAAAAALIs/w_yakhvMNhc/s1600/IMG_20150723_174314.jpg)
Very nice! Thanks for some real pr0n ;D
Just confirmed (by me), I now own both English and FDS versions of Gun.Smoke on cart. Like many of the games, this one received both versions on cart.
Congrats!! Other than language, are there many differences between the two?
Newest additions! Also a new group shot. fcgamer I'm calling you out please post a group pic of your current collection I know you've scored some rare ones recently.
Okay! When I get back from Japan, will do :)
Okay, here are mine:
(http://i1273.photobucket.com/albums/y419/fcgamer26/IMG_5720_zpse5qktlct.jpg) (http://s1273.photobucket.com/user/fcgamer26/media/IMG_5720_zpse5qktlct.jpg.html)
The multicart has Smash Ping Pong on it. It is rumored to exist as a cart only, well from my understanding, but I have never seen it thus far.
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Also a game like Section Z, it wouldn't surprise me if a Japanese version exists, same with Japanese Jackal. So far, I've only found English versions of these two though, but then again, I eventually did find a FDS version of Gun.Smoke, as well as an English version, so I think it is a possibility.
Very nice! Out of all those I like the Dracula 2 best.
I think I only had Bubble Bobble - I sold that one to Chowder for cheap, perhaps it was the NES version? Who knows!
Quote from: L___E___T on October 20, 2015, 05:03:22 am
I think I only had Bubble Bobble - I sold that one to Chowder for cheap, perhaps it was the NES version? Who knows!
Me, me, I do! Well, maybe :)
The title screen is hacked to remove all copyright info, that would have been an easy way of telling because the title screens are different:
https://tcrf.net/Bubble_Bobble_%28NES%29
I would say it's the FDS version though - the red emphasis bits seem to be on, giving everything a pinkish hue. Didn't show very well in pics, so here are the rest.
(http://s21.postimg.org/v253zr3eb/IMG_20151020_133331005.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/v253zr3eb/)
(http://s21.postimg.org/wq8us56nn/IMG_20151020_133526628.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/wq8us56nn/)
(http://s21.postimg.org/4kwekg6ib/IMG_20151020_133534647.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/4kwekg6ib/)
(http://s21.postimg.org/xpz5nultf/IMG_20151020_133552096.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/xpz5nultf/)
Great game, I love Bubble Bobble.
I reckon that's FDS too judging by the position of the logo on the start screen. Not bad for a few quid! ;)
New one discovered (at least I've never heard of it until now): Konami Exciting Soccer (KDS-ESC) or whatever the name of the game is. I've never seen this on cart format until now.
Wow! Great find!!
New additions and a new group shot
New additions and New group pic
Nice pickups! Particularly those JP Castlevanias!
Can I ask - does the Akumajou Dracula differ from the official cart release?
I know there are some FDS/FC differences but interested in how they tackled that conversion.