SNES Reproductions

[Daria]

i still cant see the point of destroying a perfectly good game just to be able to use it as a donor cart to play a rom on the hardware

I gutted a copy of Bandit Kings of Ancient China to make "Just Breed." Never regret a moment of it.

It's not like people are using NWC carts to make these repros. There's enough copies to go around.

[homerjs]

Hey there
does someone still have that secret of mana 2 label for us carts?

[homerjs]

damn :( nobody?

[HappehLemons]

http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/5981/ffvlabel.png
http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/3189/72711543.jpg

I've made a few labels for some repos

Here's a PSD I made if anyone wants to work off of it. Everything is on a different layer so it should be easy to edit.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=K0N2N62D

[MachineGex]

Is this what you want?

[homerjs]

sry machinegex, i am looking for the real pic with higher resolution, urs is the compressed one for the board preview.
@ Happehlemons i will have a look.
thx for your answers :)

[MachineGex]

Did you click on the picture? It opens up much bigger and should print out just fine. I am sure you did, but just making sure.

[homerjs]

yes i did :) its the same one like on the first page. 72 kb, i think it would look kind of crappy :(
with a ink jet i guess it wouldnt make any difference, but printed out professionary in the store it makes a big difference.

[vrikkgwj]

So what happened? Chomping at the bit to play Star Ocean, Secret of Mana 2, Terranigma, et cetera but I don't want to pay the exorbitant amount that the SNES site previously mentioned is trying to pawn off. $250? No thank you.

[mobiusclimber]

Would anyone be interested in trading me some repro games for my retro games? :)

[Jorpho]

So what happened? Chomping at the bit to play Star Ocean, Secret of Mana 2, Terranigma, et cetera but I don't want to pay the exorbitant amount that the SNES site previously mentioned is trying to pawn off. $250? No thank you.If you're champing at the bit, you can just emulate them like everyone else does, you know.

[Daria]

If you're champing at the bit, you can just emulate them like everyone else does, you know.

Technically both spellings are correct.

[trollrx]

Hey homerjs,

If you find where to get the Mana label or some other SNES high quality label graphics let me know. Thanks

[mavrick]

I dunno if you would want such a common game's label but this is one of about 2 dozen games i have to remake labels for due to previous owners not taking care of them. When I opened this games case there was a cockroach inside it, long dead. Eww.

http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/4938/supermarioworldlabel.th.jpg (http://img200.imageshack.us/i/supermarioworldlabel.jpg/)

I can provide a 300dpi image of it for those with higher end printers, and you'll have to round your own corners.

[Coldguy]

Is there a list of games you could do and what are the prices for them?

[greedostick]

Is there a list of games you could do and what are the prices for them?

Ditto!

If they all look as nice as that Final Fantasy V cart a few posts up, I would buy a ton of games from you. Can you do Hamlin No Violin? Also, is it possible to buy japanese famicom version of the game I want and you turn it into a english one? That would be sweet if I could buy a japanese copy with original label, manual, and box, and just have the roms replaced to play in english. Since Japanese and English SNES/Super Famicom consoles use the same lockout chip, I could just cut the tabs on my console and play them.

[CharGP02A]

I was wondering if someone could make a NTSC version label for the game Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Endless Duel for the Super Nintendo. The game never came out to the US but I would like a US formatted cover for the game. I want the cover to be like any normal US SNES label with the fat black borders and the SNES red logo font on the bottom right, the game label in the middle, etc..

I want the picture of the game to be like the Japanese version but with English font and by using the official English Mobile Suit Gundam Wing logo and the subtitle Endless Duel in the same font shown on the cover of the Super Famicom version. I'm not sure If I'm allowed to post what the JP label and the logo looks like but they are easily found on google. The game itself in Japan is called New Mobile Report Gundam W: Endless Duel. In the US though, Bandai changed it to Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Endless Duel.

I appreciate this so, so much. I hope to hear from someone soon. =D

[Jorpho]

I was wondering if someone could make a NTSC version label for the game Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Endless Duel for the Super Nintendo. The game never came out to the US but I would like a US formatted cover for the game. I want the cover to be like any normal US SNES label with the fat black borders and the SNES red logo font on the bottom right, the game label in the middle, etc..

I want the picture of the game to be like the Japanese version but with English font and by using the official English Mobile Suit Gundam Wing logo and the subtitle Endless Duel in the same font shown on the cover of the Super Famicom version. I'm not sure If I'm allowed to post what the JP label and the logo looks like but they are easily found on google. The game itself in Japan is called New Mobile Report Gundam W: Endless Duel. In the US though, Bandai changed it to Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Endless Duel.Your specifications are so exacting that it sounds like you won't be happy with anything someone comes up with.

You could figure out how to do it yourself, y'know. It's not that difficult - just a little time consuming, as it would be even for someone experienced.

[Darko]

I would buy a translated repro of Endless Duel in a heartbeat. That game is awesome.

[Edmond Dantes]

I gutted a copy of Bandit Kings of Ancient China to make "Just Breed." Never regret a moment of it.

It's not like people are using NWC carts to make these repros. There's enough copies to go around.

In all honesty I kinda have reservations about the whole "donor cart" thing too.

Especially when you're talking about Bandit Kings of Ancient China. You might as well say you ate a box of Nintendo Cereal today!

[Daria]

In all honesty I kinda have reservations about the whole "donor cart" thing too.

Especially when you're talking about Bandit Kings of Ancient China. You might as well say you ate a box of Nintendo Cereal today!

That's kind of my point, most donor carts are dirt commons. I actually converted something uncommon and am still very pleased with the game I got in return. I have a reproduction of a game I love in return for sacrificing a game that would sit on my shelf unplayed. Regardless of how I use the cart it was already out of circulation for everyone else.

[General_Murdock]

Thanks HappehLemons for the FF template.

I'm using it to create a Daze Before Christmas label. It's hard because of the lack of the images of this game on the web.

Anybody has any image of the supposed to be original box with a better resolution ? The only one available is from snescentral.

Any image would be great.

[Edmond Dantes]

Yeah I know, but dammit, there was a time where I would've killed to own a copy of Bandit Kings of Ancient China.

But in general I just don't like the whole destroying one game for another thing. I'd be more into the repro scene if there was a way to do it without having to lose an existing game in the process.

[Sabz5150]

Yeah I know, but dammit, there was a time where I would've killed to own a copy of Bandit Kings of Ancient China.

But in general I just don't like the whole destroying one game for another thing. I'd be more into the repro scene if there was a way to do it without having to lose an existing game in the process.

That's easy... Buy the original and repro that. You've got the original cartridge (a Just Breed cart will still be a Just Breed cart, just in English), there's much less work to be done in order to enable all the features and the original label still works.

That, and some games simply can't be repro'd any other way.

[GarrettCRW]

If I'm to choose between sacrificing an American MMC5 cart (Gemfire or Bandit Kings, basically) or a Japanese Just Breed cart (which isn't exactly cheap, either-it was a late-release Famicom game, after all), I'm going to kill the US cart. Just Breed is that much better, IMO.

[Sabz5150]

If I'm to choose between sacrificing an American MMC5 cart (Gemfire or Bandit Kings, basically) or a Japanese Just Breed cart (which isn't exactly cheap, either-it was a late-release Famicom game, after all), I'm going to kill the US cart. Just Breed is that much better, IMO.

The most expensive JB cart on the Bay is only 20 bucks, and that's complete. My copy (waiting on another bubblepak of EPROMs) only set me back $7. Japanese RPGs generally (and I say generally) don't bring in big bucks over here in the States probably because most of us can't play them.

IMHO its a whole lot less work to simply swap the ROMs in an original cart instead of having to pull off some voodoo to make a different cart work. Final Fantasy III is probably the biggest example of this. Doing it with US carts requires parts from two games and a Ratshack run. Using a JP cart, you swap one chip... that's it.

To me it just makes more sense. I can understand the lack of a desire to tear into such a great game, but the results will be worth it.

[GarrettCRW]

There's also the issue of the lockout chip-not everyone has bothered to disable it.

[Sabz5150]

There's also the issue of the lockout chip-not everyone has bothered to disable it.

Eh, most converters have a chip to handle that. I can understand the desire to repro using other carts... they are cheap and plentiful. Not to mention they look sharp sitting alongside their brethren on the shelves :)

To each their own, whatever cranks yer cheese wheel. As long as classic gaming stays alive, all is good :cheers:

[General_Murdock]

http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/5981/ffvlabel.png
http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/3189/72711543.jpg

I've made a few labels for some repos

Here's a PSD I made if anyone wants to work off of it. Everything is on a different layer so it should be easy to edit.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=K0N2N62D

This is so great, with this template it will be a lot easier to create labels for our cartridges!

Can somebody provide a template for a famicom cartridge ?


EDIT: Do you guys remember as some members, you know who, don't share his work ?
Well, I'm not an asshole that's why I share. I have created the star fox 2 usa box.
Download, print, do it :)

STAR FOX 2 available @ npes

I've used thecoverproject (thanks to them)
I've used a chrono trigger and a super mario all stars + super mario world cover from NPES a huge, big, gigant thanks to them.

PS: I have no idea how to resize a picture in the forum, so sorry for the huge size, if any moderator can fix it, I'll be grateful.

[General_Murdock]

Hey,

Just created the label and the box for the unreleased game Daze Before Christmas.

It gave me much more work to do because there is no images with good resolution of this game.

I'm uploading the jpgs in npes, so you can download it from there.

http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/5465/dazeupload.jpg

EDIT: I've found all the images kogami used for his Final Fantasy 3 nes cover. I'll create his cover and share with everybody.

EDIT 2: here is the front of the box, label and back for tomorrow:

http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/6096/finalfantasy3nesfront.jpg

[Einzelherz]

If you find a Chaos World NES label I'd be forever thankful :)

[Tupin]

Anyone know where I could find a Wily Wars logo?

[General_Murdock]

If you find a Chaos World NES label I'd be forever thankful :)

is this game an official one ?

if you are not after the original thing you could create one with this image here:

http://shrines.rpgclassics.com/nes/chaosworld/Pics/titlescreen.png

I was looking all over the internet and it seems there's not much information about this game.
Is it that rare ? I could not find a single copy of it in ebay, for example.

@ Tupin.

I could edit one of those images for you and take the text off:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e0/Mega_Man_-_The_Wily_Wars_Coverart.png

http://static.gamesradar.com/images/mb/GamesRadar/us/Games/M/Mega%20Man%209/Everything%20Else/Mega%20Man%20Week/Retrospective/img978--article_image.jpg

http://www.coolrom.com/screenshots/genesis/Mega%20Man%20-%20The%20Wily%20Wars.gif

Just let me know :)

[Einzelherz]

There is official art and a gentleman on here who posted in the Repro thread, Coinheaven (http://www.thenesdump.com/) who showed a repro of the very same game. I tried contacting him but to no avail.

[Tupin]

is this game an official one ?

if you are not after the original thing you could create one with this image here:

http://shrines.rpgclassics.com/nes/chaosworld/Pics/titlescreen.png

I was looking all over the internet and it seems there's not much information about this game.
Is it that rare ? I could not find a single copy of it in ebay, for example.

@ Tupin.

I could edit one of those images for you and take the text off:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e0/Mega_Man_-_The_Wily_Wars_Coverart.png

http://static.gamesradar.com/images/mb/GamesRadar/us/Games/M/Mega%20Man%209/Everything%20Else/Mega%20Man%20Week/Retrospective/img978--article_image.jpg

http://www.coolrom.com/screenshots/genesis/Mega%20Man%20-%20The%20Wily%20Wars.gif

Just let me know :)
I'd like the first one, but with red Genesis labels.

[rpepper9]

I have a suggestion for the printing of the lables, but first adding up your cost for the consumables on your games comes to about 48 bucks (for secret of mana 2). That figure doesn't count all the equipment or your time to put this together! So 48 bucks for just the physical pieces that go into the cart, so if you sold them for 60 that is only 12.00 in profit. It would take many, many sales at 60.00 to make up for the EPROM Reader and Eraser. Not to mention your time, how long does it take to make each cart? How much is your time worth? I would suggest selling your items to the highest bidder on either eBay or GameGavel. Make sure to let people know that the game is a repro, not a official release, but that way you have the potential to actually get something for your time and skill, not just the physical pieces that went into production.

As far as the label printing is concerned, here is my suggestion. Print out on gloss label stock on the laser printer you suggested, however don't get it laminated. Lamination will make it thicker and not want to stay down over the top of the cart. Also the laminate might separate from the label. My suggestion would be to print on your laser, then get them UV coated. This is a spray coating that many print shops have available and it adds a gloss coating to the paper, without adding weight to the stock. The print shop where I work has one of these machines and we frequently do small orders of a couple hundred sheets or throw a single sheet in with a larger batch.

[General_Murdock]

I'd like the first one, but with red Genesis labels.

I don't understand it totally. You've meant like a "fusion" between the first cover and the second one ?

You want the full picture on it or just the logo ?

[Melf]

http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/5465/dazeupload.jpg


Daze Before Christmas came out for the Mega Drive in Europe. Too bad they never released it for the Genesis (although repros are now available).

How did you make the box? It looks great!

[General_Murdock]

Daze Before Christmas came out for the Mega Drive in Europe. Too bad they never released it for the Genesis (although repros are now available).

How did you make the box? It looks great!

http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/9707/chaosworldtest.jpg

As far as the internet is not helping with good scans of this game, this would be the best it would look like, remember this is just a test, and it's low resolution would be less noticed after printing because of the size of the image.

About the daze before christmas, I've used the pal genesis artwork + the snes central half.com box image.

I've forgot to upload it to npes, I'll do it today.

http://img831.imageshack.us/img831/1467/dazebeforefrontfinal.jpg

http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/9206/dazebeforechristmasback.jpg

The problem is that the images have super low resolutions, so I had to treat them a little bit. This is a 640x480 resized preview of the box.

I'll upload them, because you know, internet is for people that share =)

EDIT: uploaded them there:

http://npes.free.fr/index.php/depot-de-fichiers

SNES-GeneralMurdock-STARFOX2.rar

SNES-GeneralMurdock-DAZEBEFORECHRISTMAS.rar

Feel free to download ^^

[Tupin]

No, like the one in this thread:

http://www.segaage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=43&threadid=44526

[kirbykirb]

Ugh, nevermind didn't check date on post -_-

[General_Murdock]

No, like the one in this thread:

http://www.segaage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=43&threadid=44526

That's really easy.

You want just the front cover, right ?

[wingzrow]

I have around two snes games that I need replacement labels for. Specifically earthbound, super mario RPG. If anyone would be willing to sell me new labels please let me know.

If nobody here does that then could I at least get a guide on doing this myself?

[Tupin]

That's really easy.

You want just the front cover, right ?

Yeah, the label.

[General_Murdock]

Yeah, the label.

Label means cartridge label to me:

it took 20-30 minutes used a golden axe cartridge label

http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/2372/megamanwillywars.jpg

[Tupin]

Can you flip the title on the label? It's upside-down. Genesis games don't have wrap over titles like SNES or NES games, they face the front.

[General_Murdock]

Can you flip the title on the label? It's upside-down. Genesis games don't have wrap over titles like SNES or NES games, they face the front.

http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/2372/megamanwillywars.jpg

[General_Murdock]

@ Tupin

you are welcome, don't need to thank me

[Gameguy]

Daze Before Christmas came out for the Mega Drive in Europe. Too bad they never released it for the Genesis (although repros are now available).
I think you're a bit confused. Daze Before Christmas came out on the Mega Drive in Australia, it also came out on the SNES in Europe(specifically Germany).

It is too bad it wasn't released in North America, I haven't played it but it looks like a nice game.

[Tupin]

@ Tupin

you are welcome, don't need to thank me

Oh, sorry I forgot to thank you.

[General_Murdock]

Oh, sorry I forgot to thank you.

LOL

That's ok :)))

I'm glad the label fits your needs.

And about Daze Before Christmas: sometimes I think USA believe they are the world, that causes a lot of misunderstanding for me, that lives outside.

Like Universal Game Case: it's only sold in USA for USA kind of cartridges, so it's not "universal".

A lot of sites states that Daze Before xmas was never released! Well, in US! I was looking in ebay today and saw an official snes copy of this game to sell!
This sucks so much. Unreleased means unreleased, never saw the light of the day! Not it saw the light of the day but somewhere else, goddamit!

[bartre]

Murdock, could i get the .psd, or some kind of source for the front of that Daze box? I'm having serious trouble finding anything to work with.

[Gameguy]

A lot of sites states that Daze Before xmas was never released! Well, in US! I was looking in ebay today and saw an official snes copy of this game to sell!
This sucks so much. Unreleased means unreleased, never saw the light of the day! Not it saw the light of the day but somewhere else, goddamit!
Maybe the unreleased US version is or would have been different from the released European/German version in some way. Lots of games are slightly different in different regions.

I'm assuming that the available SNES ROM is of the European/German version though.

[General_Murdock]

Murdock, could i get the .psd, or some kind of source for the front of that Daze box? I'm having serious trouble finding anything to work with.

Are you trying to create the daze before christmas box ?

I uploaded it, so you would not have any work to do, just print and fold.

I used the genesis covers, that was all I could find.

here is the link for my thread about the DBC box creation:

http://npes.free.fr/forum/viewtopic.php?t=191&#p=1033

Hope this is what you are looking for.

[bartre]

I'm actually trying to do a label, SNES boxes aren't important to me.
I would just use the title screen, but that just doesn't do it for me, y'know?

[General_Murdock]

Got it,

Well the official cartridge label is the same as the image I used in the box. Santa coming out of the box.

[Einzelherz]

I figure this is as good a place as any. I haven't made a SNES repro yet and ordered FF5(J) and plan to replace the eeproms with an english translation. Can anyone point me to a decent guide for this? I've done some NES/Famicom conversions and there are tons of guides for those, but haven't found much on SNES/SFC.

[bartre]

really?
i had the exact opposite problem...
anyway, It's somewhere in the other big thread about Repros, there's a diagram.

EDIT:
found it:
http://img692.imageshack.us/img692/8176/som2diagramv2.png

[Einzelherz]

So FF5 is the same eeprom layout as Seiken Densetsu 3?

[bartre]

yup.
all of them are the same, unless you're going to put a chip on a board with no SRAM, like nightmare busters or gundam wing endless duel.
the same holds true for multirom boards, ie turning street fighter 2 into the much better gundam wing endless duel, or putting new chips onto a Shin Megami Tensei cart.

in any of these type of situations, you can simply swap pins 24 and 31

[shateredsoul]

looking for 2 repros, can someone contact me if they have a way of getting them?

[Darko]

Bartre did some excellent snes repro action for me once upon a time but I haven't heard from him in quite a while.

What titles are you looking for specifically?

[gamescanner.org]

Murdock, could i get the .psd, or some kind of source for the front of that Daze box? I'm having serious trouble finding anything to work with.

Hi there,

I can help you with recreating entire SNES box (including die cut template). Here's the logo for DBC I've recreated for you. Lemme know if I can be of any help.

http://photos.imageevent.com/gamescans/videogamelogos/small/daze%20before%20christmas%20logo%20by%20gamescanne r.png (http://imageevent.com/gamescans/videogamelogos)

I would need a 300dpi scan of actual game box. I was able to find a scan online, but is only 72dpi which is NOT satisfactory. Help, anyone?
I'm into preserving box art. Link will take you DBC and some of the logos I've done.