7 October 2014

Pickups 14: Famicom Cartridges 14 (06.10.2014)

Got a few of these carts recently!

  • Galaga [LA25]
  • Sheng Hen Pao (AKA Twin Loud Cannon) - Thank you, Oreanor!
  • 4-in-1 [YH4160] (Monster Inc. Top Gun 2, Guevara, Nekketsu Kakutou Densetsu
  • Mickey's Adventures in Numberland [Made in Singapore]
I didn't get much Famicom carts recently, but I think that these carts are quite interesting.

Here I provide you some photos of actual carts, and title screens of each games.
Quite disappointingly, this cartridge didn't have "Cassette Remarks" label or anything similar to that on the back, but, this game is not exactly too common on singlecarts. Most of the times you see this game on multicarts, so it's still quite cool to own it. ;)
Also, the cartridge case really looks similar to official "Namco" cart of this game, except it's light-blue, and Namco logo was taken out from the plastic case.

I don't know what this game is, but I got it for my friend, because he asked me to pick it up. If you know the real name of this game, and who developed it, let me know it somehow! ;)
UPDATE: It turned out that this game is Sheng Hen Pao (AKA Twin Loud Cannon). Made by Bit Corp in 1988, and it's some random poker game, that's one of the first unlicensed Famicom games ever released! Thank you, Oreanor, for letting me know the name of this game! :D

It's a pretty interesting multicart. It contains a hack of Wacky Races, re-branded to Monster Inc., and three original games, Top Gun: Dual Fighters, Guevara and Nekketsu Kakutou Densetsu.
From what I found out about this multicart, all the included games are Japanese versions. Even that Monster Inc. game is hack of Japanese version of Wacky Races! Pretty funny... Maybe I will make a video about this multicart in the future, I dunno. :P

Here's Mickey's Adventures in Numberland. I picked it up just for collection. ;)
It looks kind of simple from what I've played once I got this cart, and it's a bit similar gameplay-wise to Mickey's Safari in Letterland. Both games are developed by Beam Software, which could be either a good or bad thing. They developed Back to the Future game for NES, which was mediocre game, but not terrible. Also, they developed Punisher for NES, and that game is kind of decent. ;)

That's it for my current pickups!
Thanks for reading.

(C) SomeRussianMarioDude Productions (2014)

Pickups 13: Famicom Cartridges 13 (29.09.2014)

Hello, everyone!
Here's yet another post of new Famicom cartridges pickups. I am sorry that I haven't made this post on time, I was kind of busy with university stuff, and only got a little bit of free time to actually make this post.


I got these two carts from trade from my YouTube friend, kevinhwsohn.
I sent him two of my carts, Mighty Final Fight bootleg cart, and Mario 4-in-1 (Mario's Missing, Mario 10, Mario 14, Mario 16).

These two bootleg carts were made back in 1980s-1990s. At least one of these cartridges says that it was made back in 1992.
So, here's what I got from him:

  • 1992 16-in-1 (Mario IV, Daiku no Gen San, Snow Bros.)
  • Almana no Kiseki (FDS conversion)

The first cartridge is a multicart, and like many other multicarts you'd come across, this one has lots of repeats on it. But those repeats are actually level select hacks, so if you pick one of the games in the menu, that is a repeat, you'll be sent to another stage. It may be pretty handy at times.
Mario 4 is a rare hack of Armadillo, the Famicom-exclusive game. This hack was pretty much the reason why I decided to get this multicart, because, as you probably know, I like these weird Mario pirated hacks. ;)
Daiku no Gen San is a Japanese version of Hammerin' Harry, but without copyrights.
Snow Bros. is a hacked Japanese version, which gives you 7 lives at the beginning of the game.

As for Almana no Kiseki, this game was only released on Famicom Disk System. But this cartridge is a rare FDS conversion, apparently, made by Whirlwind Manu, the company whih distributed many early Famicom games on their bootleg carts under different ID labels, like "LA19", "LB35", "LF01", etc.. Besides that, they also ported a few FDS games to Famicom cartridges, like Super Mario Bros. 2, Zanac, Almana no Kiseki, etc..
This version doesn't have expansion soundchip that was presented in original FDS version! So the music sounds inferior to original version. But I am glad that I have at least one FDS conversion now! :D
I wish I could have Super Mario Bros. 2 FDS conversion, but I think that I will be able to get it some time later.
This cartridge also got "Cassette Remarks" sticker on the back, which, for some odd reason, I love a lot. These types of bootleg carts with "Remarks" or "Cassette Remarks" are the most valuable pirate carts to me. ;)

And...
Here there are videos of our unboxing stuff!
Kevinhwsohn's

Mine


Enjoy!
(C) SomeRussianMarioDude Productions (2014)