Is there any kind of adaptor to play Japanese Famicom games on the NES, or Japanese Super Famicom games on the SNES?
How much would such a thing generally cost, and what games would be most worth getting?
Thanks =)
Play Japanese games on US NES/SNES
Is there any kind of adaptor to play Japanese Famicom games on the NES, or Japanese Super Famicom games on the SNES?
How much would such a thing generally cost, and what games would be most worth getting?
Thanks =)
There are adapters to play Famicom carts on an NES and you can get them for around $10 most of the time. I believe there are a few for sale here on the forums. As for Super Famicom, just pop out the tabs inside your SNES with a pair of small needle nose pliers. Those tabs are the only thing keeping you from play SFC carts in your SNES.
The Famicom-to-NES adapter that's the most widely known is the Honeybee. Also, the first generation of NES games were frequently Famicom carts with a pin converter attached to them, stuffed inside a US cart shell. Usually Gyromite carts are the most likely candidates for having converters inside them.
There ARE converter carts for the SNES, as well as various other ways to play Sufami games on the SNES besides breaking the tabs off (Nanitek Gamesaver comes to mind). There's even a converter that lets you play Fami and Sufami games on the SNES! (Forgot who but someone was selling one on the boards... AB Positive, maybe?)
As for what games are worth it, I'd do a search of the forums if I were you. I'm pretty sure that's been asked and answered a million times.
A Game Genie can also work as a converter for the snes (presuming you don't care about stuff like Super FX and SA-1 games). As with the SNES mod, you also have to remove the plastic tabs.
<Evan_G> i keep my games in an inaccessable crate where i can't play them
I have an innovation super 8 converter - it fits onto a snes and will play all 4 - snes, nes, famicom and super famicom. While it does play them, it takes some jiggling around to do it. The physical tolerances that it has are kind of squirrely - the cartridges are extremely hard to get out when you want to change them out and you usually have to jiggle the unit around so the connections
work and you get a signal out of it. Once you get past those problems it does indeed work.
Here is a video on it that someone made:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPAu48MCnHg
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Originally Posted by todesengel
There's no other form of region-lock on SFC carts?
Google is your friend
Nope, those tabs are the only thing stopping you from playing SFC carts in your US SNES.
Same thing with N64, just tabs.
I also recommend going with the adapter for NES and the simple mod for SNES.
Whenever I try Google, I always end up with contradictions on everything.
But I know that people here always seem to know what they're talking about.
So to everyone who gave me any suggestions, I thank you greatly! =)
Alright, well, I have been trying this all morning, with no luck.
I've used three different pairs of pliers on my SNES, and the two tabs just refuse to break. The one is ridiculously mangled at the top, but they aren't budging. I've also tried a hammer-and-screwdriver method I heard about, and a knife, but these things just aren't coming out. Any tips?
Is there any way to take these carts apart without the gamebit?
A regular screwdriver is all that is required for those carts. They didn't start using those weird screws until later.
Don't expect the tabs in the SNES to break. The plastic isn't like that. If you've gotten them mangled, then you're already on the right track. Just bend back and forth and the plastic will slowly whittle away.
Oooh, okay!
And then, if I were to get the converter out of them, would I be able to use it without a plastic case on it?
Yes, I did eventually get them off.
Now I just need to find a SFC game to play, haha.
I've also heard that you need to "shave away" the corner of one of the wider pieces of plastic in the slot, is this true?
Nope, removing the tabs is all you need to do.
If you have a toploader NES then yeah. Otherwise you'll want to find a good way of getting it in and out of the NES. A Game Genie *might* work (I've never tried it), or just gluing a piece of ribbon to the back of it might also work (which is basically what Honeybee and all the knockoff ones do). If you have to line up your NES carts just right to get them to work, tho, the converter is NOT going to work right for you. You could do some surgery on the Gyromite cartridge to make it easier to use, or you could bust open whatever Famicom game you want to play and just put the PCB into the Gyromite cart. That should be a way last resort tho.
[edit: This is what I meant by "doing surgery" on the Gyromite cart. Keep in mind you don't need to open up the Famicom cart for this to work:]
Last edited by mobiusclimber; 03-10-2011 at 03:41 PM.
I think it's worth pointing out that the Retro Duo works well in this situation, since it's comparable to an NES top loader and a tab-modded SNES in one unit, thus great for imports. I play my copy of Rockman X on my RD all the time.
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