Thanks to featherplukinfilms fantastic descriptions in his auctions, I learned that Nintendo would take some games (namely cassette lines, such as "GOLF") and publish them in a bigger, silver box, and remove the pulse line from the cart art, replacing it with a picture usually from the box art. In doing so, they also jacked up the price a bit. Maybe this is a direct question to Kris, but besides the box art, box size, and cart picture, was there anything else different between the two releases? Were the manuals exactly the same or were they changed a bit? Funny, I've never heard of a company raising their prices in order to attract more buyers! :D
Hmmm, I know of this. :P My Golf cart totally fits that description.
(http://www.famicomworld.com/Personal/FamicomJL/golf%20cart.jpg)
Did Duck Hunt and Hogan's Alley have pulse line cartridge originally, too?
The game contents and the manuals between the two are the same; they just changed the cartridge and box design by adding the silver and making it bigger, also then adding a plastic tray to the insides to hold the cartridge. Yeah, it is strange to raie a price adn make it look nicer to get more sales...only in japan...and it works even today. Japanese love to wait in lines and pay more for things since they think it's better if more people want it and show interest in it, and if it's more expensive.
Although Duck Hunt and Hogan's Alley were early famicom games, they weren't pulse line versions of them. This might be because they were part of the "wild gunman" or "light gun" series.
Quote from: vealchop on January 14, 2007, 07:22:11 am
Although Duck Hunt and Hogan's Alley were early famicom games, they weren't pulse line versions of them. This might be because they were part of the "wild gunman" or "light gun" series.
Yeah, that's pretty much what I thought...was wondering, though. Thanks!
yeha, no pulse lines but small boxes for the light gun series. And they were also re-released with the silver box(expect Wild Gunman I believe), which are pretty expensive usually.
Did the pulse line carts released by nintendo have a pulse line box also?
If so how hard would it be to complete a CIB collection of pulse line carts?
I would to see a Complete Pulseline Donkey Kong
So, can anyone tell me which is considered rarer?
A pulse line Devil World, or a picture label Devil World?
Pulse Line...
I really don't think a pulse line dw is rarer, I think it's just older. I've gotten a number of pulse line dw's, but only one picture one.
I haven't seen a pulse line DW yet, but saw several copies with picture labels in shops.
Michael's just lucky. :P Pulse Lines are rarer.
We know there were several pulse line label carts with Chinese language titles released in Taiwan. Here's the first picture label cart I've seen with a Chinese language label.
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The only pulse line cart I own is Mario Bros, but I know that they released a picture version also.
I'm having trouble deciding if this is pirated or legit:
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g2/jerahcordova/Famicom%20Oddities/devilworldwhite.jpg)
Here's a link to the auction: http://tw.f2.page.bid.yahoo.com/tw/auction/b43904592
EDIT: Further investigation proved this to be a fake. :(
Yeah, as far as I know the real cart is of a blue-ish color and not white.
Yes, but there are some differences between Asian releases, generally, and Japanese releases. For instance, I've seen a pretty convincing Excite Bike green pulseline Asian release, where there was no green or pulse line Japanese release.
someone painted the cart white
Wow, I didn't know that. I thought the Asian releases would be the same as the Japanese.
Quote from: MarioMania on December 02, 2008, 10:38:12 pm
someone painted the cart white
No one painted the cart white. It's a white plastic cart. But it was made by a pirate company. A few telling signs: 1) the label image is a bit enlarged and off-centered. 2) The label itself doesn't touch the inner edges and looks to have been glued on poorly so the edges have run down, and 3) the plastic border of the cart is slightly different (more defined) from what you'd expect from Nintendo.
For the most part the Asian versions are the same, but they don't have "Made in Japan" on the label, the words are in Chinese and Nintendo seemed to release at least one extra pulseline, which is the Excite Bike. I don't know why, but maybe because they were only releasing pulse lines, they decided to make Excite Bike into a pulse line for consistency. It seems Nintendo didn't release anything beyond the pulse lines, probably because pirate companies took over in Hong Kong and Taiwan very quickly.