View Full Version : NES Mah Jong Honk Kong. Pirate?
Wookie
11-28-2008, 08:27 PM
Is this a pirate? I'm thinking yes since there's no copyright date/info, no publisher listed, and no part number. On the other hand, it's in a nice case with screws and has a well printed label.
skaar
11-28-2008, 10:21 PM
There's a "Hong Kong Edition" NES that reminds me of it on that Chuck Wagon site atm.
DreamTR
12-10-2008, 01:33 PM
It's definitely not a pirate. It's worth a bit to collectors.
Wookie
12-10-2008, 02:09 PM
It's definitely not a pirate. It's worth a bit to collectors.
So I gathered from the responses. Should it be in the rarity guide? There are some famicom mahjongs listed but not this one, and none with this exact spelling.
Tempest
12-10-2008, 02:41 PM
The Hong Kong editions of Famicom games are odd beasts. They've got the Japanese style labels on US style cartridges. Personally I think they're really cool. They're PAL though right?
Interesting little side note. If you can find the Honk Kong version of Gumshoe you can see the rare Japanese style artwork for it. Gumshoe was never released in Japan for some strange reason so there isn't a common Famicom version of it.
Tempest
DreamTR
12-10-2008, 04:12 PM
If it's in the rarity guide it's only as an overseas release, and they aren't putting Famicom games in the big book AFAIK...so not sure why this would qualify for it, but it is agenuine Hong Kong release.
vintagegamecrazy
12-11-2008, 04:50 AM
That game's not in the database, it should be listed as a non us game release. Afaik it's one of only a few known to exist.
Wookie
12-11-2008, 09:51 AM
The Hong Kong editions of Famicom games are odd beasts. They've got the Japanese style labels on US style cartridges. Personally I think they're really cool. They're PAL though right?
Tempest
It plays just fine on my NTSC toploader, so I don't think it's PAL. The picture is the same as on the common famicom Mahjong (HVC-MJ), but all the text on this HK version is in English. The title was changed from Mah-Jong to Mah Jong. It is a US-style case, but several shades lighter in color, almost white.
DreamTR
12-11-2008, 01:23 PM
It plays just fine on my NTSC toploader, so I don't think it's PAL. The picture is the same as on the common famicom Mahjong (HVC-MJ), but all the text on this HK version is in English. The title was changed from Mah-Jong to Mah Jong. It is a US-style case, but several shades lighter in color, almost white.
PAL games work in Top Loading NESes. Hong Kong AFAIK uses the NTSC TV standard, but that game will not work on a front loader unless it is the proper region.
Wookie
12-12-2008, 02:28 PM
Sorry, folks, it's not for sale.
steven78
12-12-2008, 02:44 PM
the game dasnt work in a standard pal console..
Tempest
12-12-2008, 03:27 PM
Ahh so HK is NTSC then. I thought SE Asia was PAL for some reason.
Tempest
steven78
12-12-2008, 04:18 PM
Ahh so HK is NTSC then. I thought SE Asia was PAL for some reason.
Tempest
i dont know if it ntsc ,i dont have a ntsc console.. did you already tryied it in a ntsc front loader?
slapdash
12-13-2008, 02:01 AM
Ahh so HK is NTSC then. I thought SE Asia was PAL for some reason.
It IS, according to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAL): Hong Kong (PAL-I, DMB-T/H introduced since Dec 31, 2007, PAL-I broadcast planned to be abandoned in 2012).
I thought what's going on is that the carts are essentially TV format independent, and it was the region lockouts that kept it from playing on one system or another. Is that incorrect? I would guess just that the HK carts had the same lockout as US carts due to the system design (i.e. the cart shape alone would keep them from playing in Famicoms); dunno.