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Famidrive-16
04-05-2004, 02:47 AM
When I was younger, I was gullible with my big sister on nearly anything she said. But this one still kind of sticks with me (this is somewhat close to what she said):

'we were at a garage sale, and a guy was selling an NES game that said something about SMB 2 on it, and he said that he used to work at nintendo and they were going to release this in the US but of course got cancelled'

now i am 99% sure this is poop, but hey, doesn't hurt to ask questions? :o
Damon Plus
04-05-2004, 05:26 AM
Probably a Lost Levels pirate cart. I have one of these
rbudrick
04-05-2004, 02:07 PM
I have been looking for a cart of SMB 2 (aka lost levels) for some time now. I know they only made a pirate version, but if anyone has one available, please let me know!

So why do you remember this as proto?

-Rob
Arqueologia_Digital
04-06-2004, 01:30 AM
Probably a Lost Levels pirate cart. I have one of these
Me too...very common here...
mb7241
08-14-2004, 01:24 AM
rbudrick wrote: I have been looking for a cart of SMB 2 (aka lost levels) for some time now. I know they only made a pirate version, but if anyone has one available, please let me know!

I find myself in agreement...but how much is it to ship something like that from South America?!
leonk
08-15-2004, 08:53 PM
Is the pirate version an exect copy of the FDS version that Nintendo was selling, or is a hack of SMB1?
SegaAges
08-16-2004, 03:47 AM
thats what i was wondering, because if it is the game they were trying to sell (finished or not, even if pirated), i think would be something that would be very cool to own.
TheRedEye
08-16-2004, 01:41 PM
Some of them are a bit lacking with the wind effects, from what I remember. Someone released a ROM hack a while ago that was FDS-perfect but in cartridge format, even down to the title screen.
leonk
08-16-2004, 11:22 PM
Hey Frank,

do you know where I might get my hands on this "modified" ROM? I can't seem to find it anywhere! :angry:
rbudrick
08-18-2004, 03:03 PM
On a related note, has anyone ever seen a Doki Doki Panic on a cart before?

-ROb
TheRedEye
08-18-2004, 07:45 PM
On a related note, has anyone ever seen a Doki Doki Panic on a cart before?

-ROb

Yeah, there's a bootleg Famicom cart.

leon: I don't know anymore, nor do I have it. Sorry!
soniko_karuto
08-20-2004, 05:18 PM
well, i can get you the ips patch that loopy did for a pirate room.

i'm not sure if it is just a fix for pocketnes though.
TheRedEye
08-23-2004, 07:15 PM
well, i can get you the ips patch that loopy did for a pirate room.

i'm not sure if it is just a fix for pocketnes though.

That's the one! It works fine on everything, including a real cart.
leonk
08-24-2004, 09:11 PM
... bump
leonk
08-29-2004, 09:08 PM
Finally got a ROM copy of SMB2J (the great loopy sent it to me!)

I managed to dump it down to a cart.. and it works great!
Hovoc
09-01-2004, 08:43 PM
just curious


why are you guys calling smb2, the lost levels and vice versa?

is mario 2 the bastard child or something?

i mean, i liked it
max 330 mega
09-01-2004, 08:57 PM
mario 2 is not the true super mario brothers 2, nintendo bought the rights from fuji tv of a little known game called doki doki, that was released on the famicom disk system, changed the main 4 character images to resemble mario and friends, left almost everything else intact and released it under the name smb2. thus its not the real smb2, the creator of smb was working on smb2 and then nintendo decided to release the doki doki version instead for no apparent reason...
briguy578
09-01-2004, 10:31 PM
It really wasn't for "no apparent reason". They felt that the Japanese SMB2 was too hard for US gamers. To be honest, they were probably right. That game is HARD. It basically picks up where mario 1- world 8 left off in terms of difficulty and ramps it up from there.

On a side note, Doki Doki Panic, or the US Super Mario 2, was eventually released in Japan as "Super Mario USA"
Charlesaway
09-12-2004, 09:41 PM
So what does anyone figure on the value of the cart?

I understand many peoples opinions are that pirate carts are inherently worthless; but what would somebody ELSE be willing to pay for the famicom cart?

Cheers
leonk
09-13-2004, 08:34 AM
???

The game never came out as a famicom cart game. Officially, it only came out as an FDS game.

As far as pirate value.. it's a wierd subject.

Pirate carts that are famicom games are close to worthless. Pirate carts that were made for the north american market (100 in 1, 190 in 1, etc..) are actually saught after by some collectors and sell for 50$+ per cart!

I always believed that a game is worth as much as the next person is willing to pay for it.