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    Ok, so if my CMVS project goes well, I'll have about 800$ to spend on my collection. As I have a Famicom, and planning on getting a converter so I can play Fami games on my NES, I would like to buy some cool Japan-only Fami games. I'm already going to get Mother and Devil World, that goes without saying, but I'd like to hear some other suggestions as well. Thanks!

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    Adventure Island 4
    Samurai Pizza Cats
    Meta Fight (Blaster Master) different opening and ending
    Transformers (Only if you LOVE Transformers and need a challenge)

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    Samurai Pizza Cats? Those Japanese and their strange game titles!

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    Quote Originally Posted by JimmyDean View Post
    Samurai Pizza Cats? Those Japanese and their strange game titles!
    It was a anime cartoon tv show from 90-91

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    Hebereke, Gimmick!, Bio Senshi Dan, Over Horizon, Ai Senshi Nicol, Getsufuu Maden, Wai Wai World, Robocco Wars, Crisis Force, Cocoron, Tetrastar.

    That should get you started.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ccovell View Post
    Hebereke, Gimmick!, Bio Senshi Dan, Over Horizon, Ai Senshi Nicol, Getsufuu Maden, Wai Wai World, Robocco Wars, Crisis Force, Cocoron, Tetrastar.

    That should get you started.
    IIRC Ai Senshi Niiol is a Disk System title, so that got me to thinking of more FDS-specific stuff. Obviously you might wanna go the Japanese SMB2j/Lost Levels or Doki Doki Panic, and if you can find a cheap copy All Night Nippon Super Mario Bros.

    Checking out stuff like Zelda 2 and Dracula 2 is also fun to note differences on. I got an FDS with a cheap lot of games, but I have not got around to checking out some of the other stuff. The Twinbee game should be fun though... I unfortunately do not have a copy of Nazo no Murasamejo yet.

    As for cart games, I believe Splatterhouse: Wanpaku Grafitti and Akumajou Special: Boku Dracula-kun tend to get recommended a lot too. Can't remember much else at the moment though..

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    Quote Originally Posted by JimmyDean View Post
    Samurai Pizza Cats? Those Japanese and their strange game titles!
    Quote Originally Posted by buzz_n64 View Post
    It was a anime cartoon tv show from 90-91
    Although, you might want to look for it under it's real name - Kyatto Ninden Teyandee (Cat Ninja Legend Teyandee).

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    I couldn't find it under Samurai Pizza Cats, so I will use the Japanese name while searching for it from now on. Thanks!

    Edit: Nevermind. I couldn't find it anywhere.
    Last edited by JimmyDean; 05-04-2010 at 01:07 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JimmyDean View Post
    Samurai Pizza Cats? Those Japanese and their strange game titles!
    Gotta love the anime
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXiJYcK4-GU

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ruudos View Post
    Also, Samurai Pizza Cats is not the Japanese title (close, but there's no "pizza" in the JPN title, apparently they still run a pizzeria in the original though.)

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    It takes the standard Nintendo (SNES-GC) AV cables, so there are definitely stereo plugs physically coming out of it, but the sound is still in mono.
    Sorry, cables that were included with the system on eBay misled me...
    Final Fantasy 3 sucks balls
    Along with FFIIj, it is my favourite Final Fantasy 8-bit part of series. And one of the best jRPGs for Famicom, IMO.

    I'm still waiting for AGTP's Langrange Point translation...


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    Quote Originally Posted by Ruudos View Post
    I vaguely remember this show, I did watch it a couple of times back when it was on TV. I had to chuckle at the dig at TMNT. The Famicom game is tops. Tops!

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    Ah the good old Samurai Pizza Cats, loved the anime back in the day. As for FF3J, I played it through it via-emulator translated rom years ago(back in 1999 I think) and loved the game. I guess it was more of exciting because it's like "oh wow this game came out only in japan and I am playing it!" factor. I remember a couple of years ago seeing a video on youtube of a lot of Famicom games and there was one that plays like Zelda, not sure which one it is but I remember when they won the battle they would raise their swords in the air as a celebration thing. That's about it...if anyone can tell me the name of it!
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    Yeah there are some similar threads in the past. I don't see anything wrong with talking about it again though.

    http://www.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?t=16511
    http://www.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?t=66439

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    Ok, so here's what I decided to get so far. I might just take my favorite fami games and put them inside a gyromite cart with the converter and design a custom label. I think Splatterhouse and Gradius 2 would be a good candidate for a custom cart. I could always sell them to the dumbasses at bigfun and say it was a "proto" lol.

    Mother
    Splatterhouse
    Holy Diver
    Gradius 2
    Dare I say it.... Samurai Pizza Cats
    Contra (for the cutscenes. If it doesn't have the "code" I'm not getting it though)
    Parodius da (if I can find it)

    There we go. That's probably all I'm getting, though so any other suggestions would be irrelevant. I think I'm also going to get a Wonderswan, so are they any good?

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    The Goonies



    the Famicom Goonies I is the best goonies game ever released commercially.

    Fuck that Datasoft crap one.
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    I played it on playchoice 10 once. It was a pretty good platformer.

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    Moai Kun, great little platform/puzzle game.

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