Another entry to this series!
Today, me and my colleague, SuperBrain1997, get a few more cartridges to take a look at. They might be not quite as interesting and as exciting as in the previous post, but they are still worth covering.
31) Tiny Toon 2 [T-T2] & Tiny Toon 3 [K1169] (& a bit of "Super Mario 6" (S-M6))
We could find the original source of two Bugs Bunny characters here, but no luck with finding the background.
So, the first Bugs Bunny on the left is taken from "Happy Birthday Bugs" cartoon poster.
And the one on the right is actually taken from Looney Tunes Curtain Calls.

And by the way, the same picture of Bugs Bunny from the Looney Tunes Curtain Calls was also used for two other pirate carts - Tiny Toon 3 copy from late 90 - early 2000s, and also for this particular Super Mario 6 pirate cart.
My comrade actually has Tiny Toon 3 that has a slightly different label on the cart, but it uses the same picture. You can watch it here: https://superbrain1997-retro-museum.herokuapp.com/cartridges/193
32-34) Aladdin (HummerTeam) [A-N7], Super Aladdin [S-L3]*, Aladdin (HummerTeam) recent copy (& extras)
A pretty standard looking pirate cart at first sight.
It's got the original Aladdin logo, and the picture that actually has relations with Aladdin movie from 1992.
But the most interesting thing about it is that it's a mixture of different Aladdin posters, labels and stuff, so let's go ahead and take a closer look at this cart, and see what's up with that.
The left part is clearly taken from one of the movie posters, which you can see here below:
And by the way, the same exact poster was also used for original Aladdin cart, that holds JY-025 ID, non-ID version and also Aladdin 2 (A-N6). Here are a few examples of such carts to be listed below. :)
But anyway, let's see the other things, related to Aladdin, that were used for the production of the A-N7 label.
EDIT (10.08.2019): As it turned out, it was much easier than I thought.
Aladdin, Abu riding the Magic Carpet, as well as Genie, and part of Jafar, were actually taken from this poster:
But before I actually stumbled across this picture, I found a few of the characters separately on other Aladdin related things, so I'll show em off below as well.
For example, Jafar, who you can see the bare part of at the bottom right, was also presented on Aladdin (1992) cartoon poster, used for VHS tapes & DVD, like the one you can see here.
Worth noting that this picture was used also for SuperGame's version of Aladdin, which is another game, and another backport, which was available to play on Famicom. Even though it started out well, it's ruined badly by ending on Rug Ride stage. If it had more stages, it would be a far better MegaDrive port than what it is. Oh well...
That was a bit of off-topic to the cartridge, since we are discussing A-N7 cart that holds HummerTeam's Aladdin, and not SuperGame's one, so let's continue with A-N7. :)
The same picture of Jafar, as we just saw earlier, can also be found on Aladdin: Special Edition from 2000s, which is this one:
And, in fact, I think it's worth noting that on newer bootlegs that have HummerTeam's Aladdin, which are again, MMC3 mapper hacks, and don't have background animation, they feature the full soundtrack, thankfully - they use this movie poster. An example below:
This cartridge says "Russian version", however, you can also find the cartridges without that string, but with this label.
So, as for A-N7, the only thing left to find out, is where Aladdin and Jasmine were taken out.
Unfortunately, I couldn't find the exact spot, where Aladdin, being Ali Ababua, is riding a Magic Carpet with Jasmine. I found two sources, where they could be taken from, and here they are:

33) Aladdin 3 [A-N8] & [A-N2]
Originally I planned to add this as an extra to the above topic, but I decided to separate it, since it's already a different game. Here's the cartridge of Aladdin 3, A-N8, which I accidentally came by, when I was looking for some picture sources.
I suppose that this cart would have "Magic Carpet 1001" hack, that says "Aladdin III" on the title screen, and this would be bad, because comparing to HummerTeam's Aladdin or SuperGame's Aladdin, this one is just not really that fun and exciting to play. It's a boring and slow horizontal shooter with only one soundtrack, played throughout the entire gameplay.
So, the cartridge itself:
34) Aladdin [NT-622]
Oh, yeah. This cartridge...
There is a 50 by 50 chance to find either a proper version of HummerTeam's Aladdin on it with all the background animation stuff and full soundtrack (in order words: original, just like on JY-025), or get the mapper hacked versions, which won't have any of that.
My cartridge was a lucky find, as it had an original version of Aladdin on the board, with a proper title screen and 1995 copyright year. (however, there may also be versions, that say Aladdin II, and they would either have a proper version or cut-down, but we'll discuss that in later posts, possibly).
And the PCB is just like the original deal, which you can check out, by clicking here: http://somerussianmariodude.blogspot.com/2017/07/pickups-53-famicom-cartridges-53-super.html
So, let's take a look at the label.
It's made all by NT standards with the weird background, and direct copy of the pictures from original source, without too much editing.
In this case, the left part of the label with Genie and Aladdin with Jasmine taking a ride on Magic Carpet, was taken from this movie poster with the pretty awesome and memorable phrase: "An Adventure Beyond Your Imagination".
So, as for the little round part of the picture with Aladdin and Jasmine, we found their picture, but it's not an exact 100% source, and the background has the moon and darken sky, but in any way, here they are.
The label, as it turned out, is actually taken from "Gamera - Daikai Jukuchuu Kessen" / "Gamera: Defender of the Universe" game for Nintendo Game Boy, released in 1995, with the removal of unnecessary text and adapting the art to Famicom label standards, sloppily.
The interesting thing is that not many people knew about Gamera outside of Japan in 90s, and the character is darkened, so it's not an easy talk to identify Gamera here.
And overall, pirates sold us Godzilla game by Toho, but under the label of Gamera. You can rate it as a rip to some extend.
The label, by the opinion of SuperBrain1997, is pretty dumb and somewhat interesting.
As he points out, it's a gamble in a way of if the picture is one single thing, or it's a collage of different sources put altogether.
By attempting to find separately the main character with the finger pointing at us with funny smile and the background, he managed to find out who was actually that man.
Turned out that this is actually a guy from "Cadillac Man" (1990) movie poster. And with that the question with the game title could be solved.

Robin Williams is the actor, who took part in this movie, and with that, pirates decided to use "Robin" for the title.
The background is still yet to be searched and figured out where it's actually from, but this background and Robin Williams could have some relation, and with that we would figure out what pirates meant under "Arthur Robin" title.
We shall start discussing this cartridge, by saying that on NES, there was only one Lethal Weapon game, developed by Eurocom Entertainment Software and published by Ocean Software. And it was a pretty decent beat-em-up. We had this game on pirate carts as well, and it would usually be released with the label, taken from original NES boxart.
So, where does this title come from? It says Lethal Weapon 2 on the picture.
In fact, this is actually a backport of Mega Drive game, called "Lethal Enforces", but the game title was changed to "Lethal Weapon", and this thing would possibly lead to a lot of confusion, as both the official NES game and the pirate backport share the same game title.
It's a pretty decent shooting target game, where in original game, you'd need to use a light gun for gameplay. And thankfully, the same feature was saved in this backport too, which is really awesome.
It's worth taking a look at, yet finding the ROM of this game can be a bit tricky.
Look out for "Lethal Weapon (Ch).nes" title, and under it you would possibly be lucky to find this pirate port to try out.
So, what about the actual game title used here? Even though the lable is damaged on the right side, we can actually see the full picture and what pirates were up to.
The picture was found by complete accident.
As it turned out, this is the artwork by Argentinian artist Gustavo Cabral, who signed his works as Siruello. This artwork is on the topic of Mayami Police of 1980-s, and this is a pretty good choice for the label, as the game takes place in North America and has its criminal feature, which is a perfect fit for this pirate backport.
This artwork was also later used for the book release, which was written by James Hadly, titled as Chase. It turned out pretty funny, so for our topic, this wouldn't be redundant to show off.
38) Thundercade
This game was re-released later on for North American market as Bionic Commando, but with the removal of everything Hitler-related in it.
So, let's solve the puzzle further!
This is just the background, but we also have two bikes and helicopter put altogether on one label, which actually looks fitting for the game that we have on this cartridge.
The bikes are taken from the following two games that you already know: Mach Rider & Zippy Race.
And finally, we have the helicopter left to solve, where it is from.
It turned to be a pretty simple thing to guess - it's "Choplifter" for Famicom.
With that, we finally solved the puzzle, and we got this interesting looking label for Thundercade, which although is not taken from original label, and turned out to be an interesting mixture of many different Famicom game labels, it fits the game very well.
This will be the last iteration to this issue of "Famicom Pirate Label Origins". We didn't get to number 40, and ended on 38, but this is not the end.
In the next post of this topic, we'll be glad to show you off more interesting Famicom bootleg labels, used for different games.
Thank you for reading and your attention. See you later!
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Today, me and my colleague, SuperBrain1997, get a few more cartridges to take a look at. They might be not quite as interesting and as exciting as in the previous post, but they are still worth covering.
31) Tiny Toon 2 [T-T2] & Tiny Toon 3 [K1169] (& a bit of "Super Mario 6" (S-M6))
We could find the original source of two Bugs Bunny characters here, but no luck with finding the background.
So, the first Bugs Bunny on the left is taken from "Happy Birthday Bugs" cartoon poster.
And the one on the right is actually taken from Looney Tunes Curtain Calls.

My comrade actually has Tiny Toon 3 that has a slightly different label on the cart, but it uses the same picture. You can watch it here: https://superbrain1997-retro-museum.herokuapp.com/cartridges/193
32-34) Aladdin (HummerTeam) [A-N7], Super Aladdin [S-L3]*, Aladdin (HummerTeam) recent copy (& extras)
A pretty standard looking pirate cart at first sight.
It's got the original Aladdin logo, and the picture that actually has relations with Aladdin movie from 1992.
But the most interesting thing about it is that it's a mixture of different Aladdin posters, labels and stuff, so let's go ahead and take a closer look at this cart, and see what's up with that.
The left part is clearly taken from one of the movie posters, which you can see here below:
And by the way, the same exact poster was also used for original Aladdin cart, that holds JY-025 ID, non-ID version and also Aladdin 2 (A-N6). Here are a few examples of such carts to be listed below. :)
But anyway, let's see the other things, related to Aladdin, that were used for the production of the A-N7 label.
EDIT (10.08.2019): As it turned out, it was much easier than I thought.
Aladdin, Abu riding the Magic Carpet, as well as Genie, and part of Jafar, were actually taken from this poster:
But before I actually stumbled across this picture, I found a few of the characters separately on other Aladdin related things, so I'll show em off below as well.
For example, Jafar, who you can see the bare part of at the bottom right, was also presented on Aladdin (1992) cartoon poster, used for VHS tapes & DVD, like the one you can see here.
Worth noting that this picture was used also for SuperGame's version of Aladdin, which is another game, and another backport, which was available to play on Famicom. Even though it started out well, it's ruined badly by ending on Rug Ride stage. If it had more stages, it would be a far better MegaDrive port than what it is. Oh well...
That was a bit of off-topic to the cartridge, since we are discussing A-N7 cart that holds HummerTeam's Aladdin, and not SuperGame's one, so let's continue with A-N7. :)
The same picture of Jafar, as we just saw earlier, can also be found on Aladdin: Special Edition from 2000s, which is this one:
And, in fact, I think it's worth noting that on newer bootlegs that have HummerTeam's Aladdin, which are again, MMC3 mapper hacks, and don't have background animation, they feature the full soundtrack, thankfully - they use this movie poster. An example below:
This cartridge says "Russian version", however, you can also find the cartridges without that string, but with this label.
So, as for A-N7, the only thing left to find out, is where Aladdin and Jasmine were taken out.
Unfortunately, I couldn't find the exact spot, where Aladdin, being Ali Ababua, is riding a Magic Carpet with Jasmine. I found two sources, where they could be taken from, and here they are:

One of those being a board game, titled "Aladdin: The Magic Carpet Game". If someone can seek out for the exact spot, where Aladdin and Jasmine were taken from for this label, let us know in the comment section below - that would be really appreciated.
Other than that, I covered this A-N7 Aladdin cartridge. We found almost all the sources used for the label.
And, bad thing about this cart is that it's an MMC3 hack, which has no background animation and it's missing most of the game soundtrack. So, it's essentially like a silent Aladdin throughout the entire game. Yet, you get the music on the title screen, bonus level and boss fight.
You can check my video on that cartridge here:
33) Aladdin 3 [A-N8] & [A-N2]
Originally I planned to add this as an extra to the above topic, but I decided to separate it, since it's already a different game. Here's the cartridge of Aladdin 3, A-N8, which I accidentally came by, when I was looking for some picture sources.
I suppose that this cart would have "Magic Carpet 1001" hack, that says "Aladdin III" on the title screen, and this would be bad, because comparing to HummerTeam's Aladdin or SuperGame's Aladdin, this one is just not really that fun and exciting to play. It's a boring and slow horizontal shooter with only one soundtrack, played throughout the entire gameplay.
So, the cartridge itself:
This is just one of the versions of the cart, released on pirate carts. There exists another A-N8 ID cart, but we'll look at this one first.
EDIT (10.08.2019): As it turned out, the picture that you can see is basically a mirrored version of this poster.
You can see the same Genie, Aladdin and Abu on Magic Carpet, Sultan, Jasmine and Jafar with Iago. But, the picture actually feels a bit strunk, which you can see by looking at Sultan.
But anyway, this looks to be somewhat rare copy of Aladdin 3 under A-N8 ID. I haven't really been able to track it down for sale, but I am 99% certain that it will be nothing more than Magic Carpet 1001, with a title screen hacked to say Aladdin III.
If someone has this cartridge, confirm me that in comments below. ;)
Thanks in advance.
And this is the another version of Aladdin 3, A-N8, that was released on bootlegs. I was wrong, when I originally posted this cartridge on my blog, as I showed that it had HummerTeam game on here. But in fact, it should be Magic Carpet 1001 hack instead!!! (click here)
No problems here, as I found the cartridge, which actually had that game instead, so I changed the PCB, and now everything is correct.
Anyway, the right part of the picture with Genie, his lamp, Aladdin, Abu and Jasmine are taken from the picture that was used for VHS&DVD release.
EDIT (10.08.2019): As for Jafar, Jasmine and Sultan on the left, they were taken from the poster than I showed earlier, to the other A-N8 Aladdin 3 cartridge.
And another copy of Aladdin 3, but it's holding A-N2 ID this time. I stumbled across this cartridge about two times, and all those times it had Magic Carpet 1001 inside. A few people showed me that they had HummerTeam version of Aladdin instead, but I think that this could be a mistake, and there should be Magic Carpet 1001 instead. We already saw under which carts you could definitely find HummerTeam's Aladdin.
As for this label, surprisingly, it's not Aladdin (1992) movie label. The picture here is actually taken from its sequel: Return of Jafar (1994).
Off-topic: While I like the original Aladdin (1992) movie, I kind of like the sequel "The Return of Jafar" (1994) much more, due to a pretty obvious reason: a parrot Iago decides to get rid of Jafar and gain the trust from Aladdin and his friends to get back to Agrabah. And while he is in all that, he manages to save his new friends from Jafar, and destroys his lamp in the lava, which effectively kills Jafar. I personally started watching Aladdin not from the movie, but from the TV series (1994-1995), where Iago was kinda in the crew already, and not on the side with Jafar. But in any way, he remained my favourite character in Aladdin series, no matter what.
So, yeah, that was a bit of off-topic, and let's get back to our business!
Oh, yeah. This cartridge...
There is a 50 by 50 chance to find either a proper version of HummerTeam's Aladdin on it with all the background animation stuff and full soundtrack (in order words: original, just like on JY-025), or get the mapper hacked versions, which won't have any of that.
My cartridge was a lucky find, as it had an original version of Aladdin on the board, with a proper title screen and 1995 copyright year. (however, there may also be versions, that say Aladdin II, and they would either have a proper version or cut-down, but we'll discuss that in later posts, possibly).
And the PCB is just like the original deal, which you can check out, by clicking here: http://somerussianmariodude.blogspot.com/2017/07/pickups-53-famicom-cartridges-53-super.html
So, let's take a look at the label.
It's made all by NT standards with the weird background, and direct copy of the pictures from original source, without too much editing.
In this case, the left part of the label with Genie and Aladdin with Jasmine taking a ride on Magic Carpet, was taken from this movie poster with the pretty awesome and memorable phrase: "An Adventure Beyond Your Imagination".
So, as for the little round part of the picture with Aladdin and Jasmine, we found their picture, but it's not an exact 100% source, and the background has the moon and darken sky, but in any way, here they are.
The playthrough, made on my version of NT-622 cartridge, can be watched here:
And a little note: as I mentioned earlier, some cartridge with NT-622 might contain the original version of Aladdin by HummerTeam and others may contain the cut-down version of it. For example, my friend, SuperBrain1997, has the copy which unfortunately is without most of the music and with no background animation. Here's his cartridge, which you can take a look at: https://superbrain1997-retro-museum.herokuapp.com/cartridges/569 (Russian text) .
35) Godzilla / Godzilla: Monsters of Monsters
This is actually a find by SuperBrain1997, which he wrote about in his recent post at VK group of ours. You can check it here, in case you can read Russian: https://vk.com/wall-87396586_2730
So, upon buying this cartridge, it was tested, and then put away.
The game that was on this cartridge is actually "Godzilla: Monsters of Monsters". We already covered the other bootleg copy, which you can see here: http://somerussianmariodude.blogspot.com/2019/08/famicom-pirate-label-origins-3.html
Nothing seemed wrong with it, even though there were certain problems with the picture adaptation to Famicom format.
But, when he took a closer look at it and decided to analyze the label, it turned out that this is not Godzilla at all on the label. One of the clear hints for that would be the Japanese title at the bottom of the picture, which reads as ガメラ (Gamera), and it's actually the second popular Japanese character after Godzilla, and its being actually a huge turtle.
Godzilla in Japanese reads differently, and it's ゴジラ, so this label doesn't match the game, that's actually inside. So, this raises the question: where this label was actually taken from?
The label, as it turned out, is actually taken from "Gamera - Daikai Jukuchuu Kessen" / "Gamera: Defender of the Universe" game for Nintendo Game Boy, released in 1995, with the removal of unnecessary text and adapting the art to Famicom label standards, sloppily.
The interesting thing is that not many people knew about Gamera outside of Japan in 90s, and the character is darkened, so it's not an easy talk to identify Gamera here.
And overall, pirates sold us Godzilla game by Toho, but under the label of Gamera. You can rate it as a rip to some extend.
36) Arthur Robin / Lupin Sansei: Pandora no Isan [R-B8]
Under this title, you'd always find "Lupin the Third" or "Lupin Sansei: Pandora no Isan". You won't find the game officially released under the "Arthur Robin" title on NES or Famicom.The label, by the opinion of SuperBrain1997, is pretty dumb and somewhat interesting.
As he points out, it's a gamble in a way of if the picture is one single thing, or it's a collage of different sources put altogether.
By attempting to find separately the main character with the finger pointing at us with funny smile and the background, he managed to find out who was actually that man.
Turned out that this is actually a guy from "Cadillac Man" (1990) movie poster. And with that the question with the game title could be solved.

Robin Williams is the actor, who took part in this movie, and with that, pirates decided to use "Robin" for the title.
The background is still yet to be searched and figured out where it's actually from, but this background and Robin Williams could have some relation, and with that we would figure out what pirates meant under "Arthur Robin" title.
37) Lethal Weapon 2 [L-W5]
We shall start discussing this cartridge, by saying that on NES, there was only one Lethal Weapon game, developed by Eurocom Entertainment Software and published by Ocean Software. And it was a pretty decent beat-em-up. We had this game on pirate carts as well, and it would usually be released with the label, taken from original NES boxart.
So, where does this title come from? It says Lethal Weapon 2 on the picture.
In fact, this is actually a backport of Mega Drive game, called "Lethal Enforces", but the game title was changed to "Lethal Weapon", and this thing would possibly lead to a lot of confusion, as both the official NES game and the pirate backport share the same game title.
It's a pretty decent shooting target game, where in original game, you'd need to use a light gun for gameplay. And thankfully, the same feature was saved in this backport too, which is really awesome.
It's worth taking a look at, yet finding the ROM of this game can be a bit tricky.
Look out for "Lethal Weapon (Ch).nes" title, and under it you would possibly be lucky to find this pirate port to try out.
So, what about the actual game title used here? Even though the lable is damaged on the right side, we can actually see the full picture and what pirates were up to.
The picture was found by complete accident.
As it turned out, this is the artwork by Argentinian artist Gustavo Cabral, who signed his works as Siruello. This artwork is on the topic of Mayami Police of 1980-s, and this is a pretty good choice for the label, as the game takes place in North America and has its criminal feature, which is a perfect fit for this pirate backport.
This artwork was also later used for the book release, which was written by James Hadly, titled as Chase. It turned out pretty funny, so for our topic, this wouldn't be redundant to show off.
38) Thundercade
I actually picked up this cartridge back in March 2017, and you can check the original pickups post here: http://somerussianmariodude.blogspot.com/2017/07/pickups-52-famicom-cartridges-52-march_26.html
This label is actually pretty interesting.
To start things off, this game was never released on Famicom officially, and it's NES-exclusive in that regard.
The picture used on the original NES boxart is completely different, and looks nothing like what you see on your bootleg cart.
With that, the question arises: what sources were used for this label and where were they taken from??
We'll start our talk with that the background is actually a picture of Hitler's Resurrection: Top Secret (ヒットラーの復活 TOP SECRET(トップシークレット) for Famicom.
So, let's solve the puzzle further!
This is just the background, but we also have two bikes and helicopter put altogether on one label, which actually looks fitting for the game that we have on this cartridge.
The bikes are taken from the following two games that you already know: Mach Rider & Zippy Race.
And finally, we have the helicopter left to solve, where it is from.
It turned to be a pretty simple thing to guess - it's "Choplifter" for Famicom.
With that, we finally solved the puzzle, and we got this interesting looking label for Thundercade, which although is not taken from original label, and turned out to be an interesting mixture of many different Famicom game labels, it fits the game very well.
This will be the last iteration to this issue of "Famicom Pirate Label Origins". We didn't get to number 40, and ended on 38, but this is not the end.
In the next post of this topic, we'll be glad to show you off more interesting Famicom bootleg labels, used for different games.
Thank you for reading and your attention. See you later!
(C) AlexSRMD Productions (2019)
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