Japanese SA-1 SFC games on US SNES?

[Coreykun667]

I was wanting to pick up some SFC titles that are usually cheaper than their US versions, namely Kirby's Dreamland 3. Will Japanese SA-1 games still work on my US SNES even with the SA-1 chip, or does it just lock it out of PAL systems? Just a gamer wanting to save a chunk on these old games, but the whole SA-1 region-locking thing has me concerned...

[Parodius Duh!]

I was wanting to pick up some SFC titles that are usually cheaper than their US versions, namely Kirby's Dreamland 3. Will Japanese SA-1 games still work on my US SNES even with the SA-1 chip, or does it just lock it out of PAL systems? Just a gamer wanting to save a chunk on these old games, but the whole SA-1 region-locking thing has me concerned...

All Japanese games will work in a US system. Just remove the tabs from the SNES cart slot.

PAL is a big mess and you need converters and stuff for specific games. Japan and the US are NTSC region anyway so I dont know why youre concerned with European region PAL.

Getting Euro PAL games to work on a US or Japan NTSC console and vice versa is a big pain in the ass

[Coreykun667]

All Japanese games will work in a US system. Just remove the tabs from the SNES cart slot.

PAL is a big mess and you need converters and stuff for specific games. Japan and the US are NTSC region anyway so I dont know why youre concerned with European region PAL.

Getting Euro PAL games to work on a US or Japan NTSC console and vice versa is a big pain in the ass

Ohh ok. I was under the impression that SA-1 locked out US and PAL systems from playing the Japanese SA-1 games. So long story short, the Japanese version of Kirby's Dreamland 3 will play, even being that it's an SA-1 game I assume?

[Parodius Duh!]

Ohh ok. I was under the impression that SA-1 locked out US and PAL systems from playing the Japanese SA-1 games. So long story short, the Japanese version of Kirby's Dreamland 3 will play, even being that it's an SA-1 game I assume?

Yes any and all SFC games will work in a US SNES.

[Coreykun667]

Yes any and all SFC games will work in a US SNES.

Woot! Thanks man!

[Ed Oscuro]

A couple alternatives to hacking up a SNES:

Some games will work (not all) using a bare Game Genie PCB (out of its shell to accommodate the larger Super Famicom game case).

If I was really serious about it, I'd just get a converter PCB (basically just an extension of the cartridge connector with no electronics).