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intvsama
04-09-2008, 10:59 PM
Heya, folks. I picked up a copy of Mario RPG tonight while out game shopping. Front of the case is pretty nice, the back is trashed tho'. I popped open a couple spare carts I had lying around and none of the back halves would fit with the SM RPG board.

I'm thinking maybe another game which used SA-1 chips might have a back half I can use with Mario RPG (the board takes up almost the entire case whereas many other SNES games can use as little as 25% of the case). Wikipedia has a list of what other SNES titles used SA-1 chips - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_SA-1#List_of_games_that_use_the_SA-1_chip If anyone has both a Mario RPG and another SA-1 game could you please pop them open to see if the back halves match up so I can snag another game with the same back half?

Big thanks!
dlopez9069
04-09-2008, 11:00 PM
Work here.
intvsama
04-09-2008, 11:07 PM
What?
badinsults
04-10-2008, 06:41 AM
As far as I know, the back shell of all snes carts are identical (except for Majesco re-releases). The only thing to note is that there is a stamp to tell you what revision the game is on the back label. If you are really anal, you can try and match up that stamp.
intvsama
04-10-2008, 08:44 AM
Unfortunately that's not the case (puns are awesome). Different boards have different heights and widths and need different shells to hold the board in place.
cyberfluxor
04-10-2008, 08:46 AM
As far as I know, the back shell of all snes carts are identical (except for Majesco re-releases). The only thing to note is that there is a stamp to tell you what revision the game is on the back label. If you are really anal, you can try and match up that stamp.

A friend of mine buys high priced games with bad backs and replaces them with sports backs. He is generally anal about his collection so I wonder if I should bring this topic up with him as I wasn't aware of what those stamps ment. Figured they were some serial number or refence number to where it was manufactured.
intvsama
04-10-2008, 09:03 AM
This SM RPG has a 19 stamped on the back label. I found a Wrestlemania Arcade Game with a 19 stamped on the back too, shells are different. Mario RPG has a the normal connector plus the additional wings on the side (four pins each wing).

I snapped a couple pics if that helps anyone find a similar cart.

http://www.toomanygames.com/misc/pics/smrpg.jpg
http://www.toomanygames.com/misc/pics/smrpg2.jpg