Was wondering if anybody has a list of common Famicom games that can be used as donor carts for Famicom repro's. I'm wanting to get the Japanese Super Mario 2 put on cart but can't find any info on what Famicom game could be used as a donor.
Was wondering if anybody has a list of common Famicom games that can be used as donor carts for Famicom repro's. I'm wanting to get the Japanese Super Mario 2 put on cart but can't find any info on what Famicom game could be used as a donor.
Wait a minute, let me make sure I know what you're asking.
You mean to ask what original Famicom games can be opened up, have the CHR and PNG chips removed and replaced with new ones and walk away with a copy of Super Mario Bros. 2 (the REAL SMB2) on that Famicom cart?
Well, a couple things. Right away, SMB2J was only ever released on the Famicom Disk System, never on cartridge. There are pirates that are on cartridge, but they run off their own mappers and can't be reproduced.
That said, there are plenty of NES reproductions of SMB2J. How? A really really smart programmer by the name of Loopy essentially reprogrammed the entire game to run on the standard MMC3 format.
Therefore, any MMC3 Famicom game should be a good candidate for a reproduction of SMB2J.
For a full list of MMC3 games, do a command+f or ctrl+f search for MMC3 here:
http://tuxnes.sourceforge.net/nesmapper.txt
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I believe many Famicom carts are no good, because when you go to open them, they break apart.
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You have to do it carefully. They're held together with clamps, not screws. If the clamps break, then it's impossible to work with.
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Thanks for the info Satoshi_Matrix. I know that SMB2 was a FDS game, I've been looking into getting a repro of it on cart but since I only have a Famicom it's quite difficult to find people who can do repros on Famicom carts. Knowing that I need an MMC3 game helps out a lot though since the guy who I asked about making the cart just needed that info.
Well damn seems that I can't use just any MMC3 Famicom cart for this. Here's the response I got back about the copy of Famicom Robocop I was going to use as a donor - "It's not going to work. ROBOCOP is MMC3, but it's missing the WRAM chip. It's a TLROM board, but this game needs TKROM." So does anybody have an idea of what cheap Famicom game would meet the requirement of being an MMC3 with a WRAM chip and a TKROM board?