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Obscure SNES pirates; some hardly known
Topic Started: Aug 15 2010, 08:13:23 PM (19,266 Views)
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Throughout the past few months I've been finding some new SNES pirates that nobody really knows about. It probably goes without saying that besides the occasional hacks(i.e Sonic 4) that the whole library of SNES pirates is nothing but ports from Genesis, or apparently on the rare occasion possibly other systems? In this topic I'll just bring a little run through of what I know about, some introduced on RX a bit ago and others you probably haven't heard of much, or ever? :O

Hercules
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I got this one a few months ago, hoping that I may have found something really unique. It turned out to just be a port of the Genesis Hercules pirate. It uses completely different music however, some of it not half bad. As some probably are aware, this game is a loose port of the Playstation Hercules game, so maybe the music comes from that, I still need to play it someday to find out. Animation in general is also very jerky, plus the palette is kind of screwed up for a couple of things. Besides that, it's the same thing as on Genesis, with the exact same ending.

Taz in Escape from Mars
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I've sadly no idea what this is, and the seller failed to take any shots of it. He told me he'll give me screenshots soon, so I'll definitely post about it here if he follows through on that. It would be pretty interesting if pirates actually ported the Genesis game to SNES, since instances of an official game ported to SNES aren't common.

Mortal Kombat 2000

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Just more proof SNES pirates can't get terribly interesting, this appears to just be a port of the Mortal Kombat 5 Sub Zero pirate on Genesis.

Digimon
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I'm sure people on the RX forums saw this(same seller as the Taz above). Some people think it's a port of a GBA Digimon game that was somewhat recently shown on the Sky League website. I recently found out that Vast Fame made a Digimon Sidescroller on GBA with a different name from that one though, perhaps they made both of them? So it's up in the air which it's a port of, but as anyone can tell it definitely came from the GBA. Here's shots of one of the GBA games to compare: Posted Image

Aladdin 2

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I know, horrible pic quality, but trust me, that Aladdin cart in the middle has a 2 on it, and the guy that was selling it listed it as Aladdin 2 also. Could it be, a port of the Aladdin 2 pirate on Genesis? But that game was a port of the SNES Aladdin. Which means they'd be porting a port of a game that's already on the SNES. We'll probably never know for sure, but I wouldn't be surprised if pirates were so stupid as to not realize how redundant porting this of all things back onto SNES would have been :lol:

101 Dalmations

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Unknown. But what is known is that this is merely a hack of some other game. It was made by Twin Eagles Group, the same people responsible for Sonic 4 and lots of other sprite hacks.


I take it most are already familiar with the rest, like Bug's Life, Titanic(S.O.S hack), Street Fighter EX Alpha etc. Maybe I'll post those pics of people aren't already familiar with them thanks to the RX topic made awhile ago. Hope some of this was interesting.

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ooh. seems like new SNES pirates are popping up all the time now. wasnt that long ago when people thought there was only Tekken 2 and Pocket Monster and nothing else :D

its looking like nearly every Mega Drive pirate was ported to the SNES at some point, but there are a few genuine SNES originals too.. like that Pokemon GS that WhiteLionness has (unless theres an undiscovered MD version) and Street Fighter Alpha, so there may well be more out there. but if Aladdin 2 really is the MD port of the SNES game ported back to the SNES that'd be like.. the best stupid pirate thing ever.

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I recently found out that Vast Fame made a Digimon Sidescroller on GBA with a different name from that one though, perhaps they made both of them?

have you seen any screenshots of that one? the title screen of the one on Sky League looks a bit hacky to me, especially with the Pokemon stuff. maybe the Sky League one's just a hack of the other?
Edited by taizou, Aug 15 2010, 08:59:42 PM.
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I don't know about what Sky League has, but I found out that they actually sell games on Taobao, and supposedly it's brand new boxed, so I went for it :P See for yourself.

http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=1457752511

The name isn't the same, that's all I can go off of. You do have a point though, the title screen calls it Pokemon and has a Charmander on the title, yet the actual game is Digimon. Maybe what they got really is just a hack of the V.Fame game. When(if, I ordered three days ago and still my order isn't being done) I get it in the mail I'll be sure to post what it actually is.

And it probably goes without saying, but I bet Digimon, and Taz if it really is a port from Genesis, are both based off the same engine Picachu and Pokemon Gold Silver are. WIth the Bonkers music too no doubt.
Edited by Barver, Aug 15 2010, 09:34:07 PM.
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That looks like a GBC strategy game to me.. probably this one:
http://web.archive.org/web/20040110195022/http://www.st168.net/eng/mainroot/prodshow.asp?ProdId=st032
which sounds exactly like the intro of that Pokemon Sapphire I have, only with Digimon instead of Pokemon, and retranslated from Chinese into better English, so I guess its based on that engine (if not just a straight character swap)
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Edit: Oops, my mistake, I linked to the wrong game. I meant to post this one:
http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=4334812549
Edited by Barver, Aug 15 2010, 09:58:21 PM.
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ah yeah, I've seen that cart before. Hopefully its something awesome. O:
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You might add Tekken 2 to the obscures :)
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btw, where did you find these? SNES originals seem to be the rarest of any console, at least based on my casual browsing of auction sites... but maybe i'm just not looking in the right places.
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In case there's misunderstanding I don't own all of them, just the Hercules. All the pics came from that guy at Digital Press, which I think you posted the topic about on the RX Forum?

I got the Hercules from someone on another forum that lives in Brazil. Pretty much Brazil seems to be THE place for SNES pirates. In fact, I don't think you find them anywhere else. It leads me to believe that all SNES pirates likely were developed in Brazil and not Taiwan, since I've yet to ever come across a single SNES pirate on a Taiwan auction site or for sale from someone over there. Not to mention they always come in SNES shells, not SFC.
Edited by Barver, Aug 25 2010, 06:46:01 PM.
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ah, I only recognised Digimon from that guy's threads. I dunno if he posted some later on that I missed. but yeah, the few I've seen seem to come from Brazil (or occasionally Mexico).

I think they were still probably developed in Taiwan though, but only sold in Brazil etc for some reason.. maybe that was just the only big market for pirate SNES games? I guess unlike the NES and Megadrive there were never that many cheap SNES clones, so the market for pirate carts wouldn't have been that big in most of the "traditional" pirate areas like Taiwan/China/Russia etc. but maybe Latin American countries had a cheapish supply of official SNESs from the US or something?

edit: though what is strange is that I definitely have seen pirate SFC carts of Japanese games, and a few multis, on Taiwanese auction sites... there must have been at least some market for SNES stuff there. so surely if the originals were developed in Taiwan they'd want to sell them locally too. hmm.
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Isn't it usually harder to make SNES unlicensed games due to the copy protection they put on it?
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Dunno if it matters but I recently found out the Digimon pirate only has five levels. I think I may have scored a copy of it, not 100% yet. More to come =p
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Just got confirmation today, Taz in Escape from Mars 2 in nothing but the regular Taz-mania. Another case of misleading art :(
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^ =(
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Well, since you bumped this I may as well also point out 101 Dalmations is just a hack of Beethoven. There's also apparently a port of the Samurai Shodown 2 on Genesis to SNES, though I've yet to see that one myself.
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The only SNES pirate games I know are: Tekken 2 (Tekken 3 Special on the Mega Drive), Pocket Monster (the same as the Mega Drive one except for a different HUD and music stolen from Bonkers) and a Rock 'N' Roll Racing beta pirated cart in Brazil I've heard of (but I don't have a picture of it). Hope that the last one may seem interesting for you guys.
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Tekken and Pocket Monsters already have entries on the wiki =p Haven't heard of the Rock 'N' Roll Racing beta though. I know there's a Rock 'N' Roll Racing hack on Genesis that replaces all the character pictures with characters from some anime or something though.
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Interested in pirate roms.

Oh yes, Super Noah's Ark 3D! I once heard that ID Software gave the Wolfenstein 3D (SNES) source code to Wisdom Tree (an unlicensed bible game company) and they made a parody which was Super Noah's Ark 3D.
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I came across a picture of the box of a SNES hack called Titanic, it's apparently a hack of S.O.S. with references to the Titanic movie.

Has it been dumped, or is any other information about it available?
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No, never heard of that.
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I don't impressional~

I'd read about the same game on DigitPress, and it is indeed a hack of SOS; however, it hasn't been dumped. But it's nothing more than a title hack anyway, from what I can gather.
Edited by codeman38, Apr 29 2011, 11:26:02 AM.
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I've seen that game too, and like has been said, it appears to be nothing but a title hack. Possibly another one of Twin Eagle Groups hacks that only were pirated on cart and never released by them on their website. Still wonder what the deal is with that, I tried contacting Mr Byte but he never responds back.
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Multicarts weren't that big on the snes, but a few were made. Here is a multicart that contains 5 games.

Games:

Power Rangers: The Movie
Super Mario 4 (Super Mario World)
Aladdin
Galaxy Wars
Top Racer (Perhaps Top Racer 2, from the image)
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Oh! I found another one!
Games:
Super Mario World
Contra III (98?)
Sonic and Knuckles
Mr.Do (possibly Dr. Mario)
Aladdin
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This is an unnamed multicart that appears to have 8 games, if the label is correct. The games are:

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Hat Trick Hero
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SD Gundam (?)
Super Mario World
Gradius III
Super Smash TV
Super Tennis
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Here is a Ranma 1/2 Nibunnoichi game. Can you spot the error?
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Here's One!
The games are:

International Super Star Soccer
Top Gear 2
Final Fight (Named Final Fighter in the cart)
Turtles IV
Aladdin
Puzzle Bobble
Galaxy Wars
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This pirate features some common games, but is notable for containing Universal Soldier, which was never officially released.

Bomber Man
Home Alone 2
Lamborghini American (Challenge)
Magic Boy
Super Mario World
Pit Fighter
Tom & Jerry
Universal Soldier
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Jun 29 2011, 01:23:20 PM
Mr.Do (possibly Dr. Mario)
Seems a bit weird that they'd associate Dr. Mario with this game, given that it bears much more of a resemblance to Dig Dug than anything. :P

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This is an unnamed multicart that appears to have 8 games, if the label is correct. The games are:

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Hat Trick Hero
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SD Gundam (?)
Super Mario World
Gradius III
Super Smash TV
Super Tennis
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I might be wrong, but the game on the top left looks like Ultraman to me. Wouldn't be surprised, as it was one of the earliest Super Famicom games. (and one of the worst, quite frankly)
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Here's one!
This pirate feature 8 games. From the picture it looks like:

Choplifter
Top Gear
World Soccer 94
F-zero
Tom and Jerry
Congo's Caper
Goof Troop
Super Mario World
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Hey! I found a new one!
The games on it are:

Super Mario Land IV (Super Mario World)
To Gear (Top Gear)
Joe & Mack
Super Cup Soccer (Super Soccer?)
Tom & Jerry
F1-Zero (F-Zero)
October Hunter (Hunt for Red October)
Hit The Ice
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Here's "Picachu" For the SNES!
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And King Of Fighters 2000!
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Here is MK III! Can you find the word PlayStation on the back?
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I love it when pirates end up putting a snippit from a magazine on the back of the box :D

That Picachu and King of Fighters 2000 are both my pics btw =p I was selling them on this forum even some time ago haha.
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Jun 29 2011, 07:08:57 PM
I love it when pirates end up putting a snippit from a magazine on the back of the box :D

That Picachu and King of Fighters 2000 are both my pics btw =p I was selling them on this forum even some time ago haha.
Really? sorryy man. am I allowed to use them?
Here's Goldeneye 007!
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This one's cool, seeing as how Mario and Wario was never released in america.
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This Mega man 7 is just sad.
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This "Supreme Edition Detonado" of Donkey kong country 2 is kinda real looking.
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PlayerSecelt
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I'm curious on what's GoldenEye like. Maybe a hack of Wild Guns (I think it's called like that)?
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GoldenEye is just James Bond Jr. Not sure if it hacks the titlescreen, but I do know it's the regular game otherwise.
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klax
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Oh! I found another one!
Games:
Super Mario World
Contra III (98?)
Sonic and Knuckles
Mr.Do (possibly Dr. Mario)
Aladdin
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Sonic and knuckles was never on the SNES though. so in this case it might be Sonic SNES or possibly Sonic 2 SNES or might be somthing unrelated which some multicarts tend to do.
Edited by ThunderBlastMan, Jul 4 2011, 05:36:52 AM.
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It could be a sprite hack of some other game.
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Any multicarts with Sonic and Knuckles art is just Sonic 4. Most typical way you find it on multis,
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So you have found multicarts with Sonic 4 before?
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Got another pic of Aladdin II

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The II is much clearer, and it uses the same artwork that the original copy of Aladdin II for MD uses(don't have a pic of that but saw it for auction a year ago somewhere), so it seems more likley pirates ported that back to SNES. Pretty dumb =p
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Here's dragon ball z 2 final bout
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And here's Final fantasy Tactics 4
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I never knew the animaniacs were so popular with pirates!
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And lastly Cool spot
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I wonder if that DBZ cart is actually a port of the Mega Drive pirate. :huh:
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yeah, i'm pretty sure it is.

i wonder what that Final Fantasy Tactics 4 is? just regular FF4?
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I think cool spot was ported on the Super Nintendo and it has the seal of quality and i have seen fake ones like some Sonic SNES cartridges and Super Mario 4 on gameboy so that cart may be real or fake.
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klax, why is it you gotta fill the topic up with more pics of PIRATES OF OFFICIAL GAMES :x This thread is for obscure pirates, as in originals, not a pirate of a common game like Animaniacs. I don't care about multicarts with lots of common games anyway, or a pirate of Cool Spot. It's kind of taking away from my post too, which was to show Aladdin II, not some more games everyone knows about :/

And if you bothered to even note you got the pics you got came from the Pirate Game Museum, you should have at least said that the Final Fantasy Tactics 4 came from a page for Final Fantasy 4, meaning it's a pirate of that.


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well as for Aladdin II... i mean surely they wouldn't have ported a Mega Drive port of a SNES game back to the SNES. would they? Thats pretty impressively stupid. Maybe its a port of the official Mega Drive Aladdin game?
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Could be possible it's like Taz and it's just the first game with a deceiving label. That pic came from an auction which unfortunately, they seller already sold the cart :/ So the search goes on...
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well i just checked up on the artwork, it seems to be from the Mega Drive Aladdin 1 - this is the only cart I could find of MD Aladdin 2: http://goldenagegaming.com/megadrive/images/carts/aladdin_2.jpg
seems to use different art entirely, but i don't know where that came from (and of course theres always the possibility that cart isnt from the original run).

so i guess it could be a port of the MD original... or, yeah, maybe its just a deceptive label (i guess pirates might consider the MD game to be "Aladdin 1" and the SNES game to be "Aladdin 2")
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I saw an Aladdin 2 cart that was the same as the official art for the first game on Genesis, only it had a "II" just like this SNES cart and had a gold rimming around the label. I assume it was likely the original version of it, could be wrong. Saved a pic of it but lost that in a hard drive reformat :/

My bet is it's just the first Aladdin still, who knows though :x
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Jul 8 2011, 07:45:31 PM
klax, why is it you gotta fill the topic up with more pics of PIRATES OF OFFICIAL GAMES :x This thread is for obscure pirates, as in originals, not a pirate of a common game like Animaniacs. I don't care about multicarts with lots of common games anyway, or a pirate of Cool Spot. It's kind of taking away from my post too, which was to show Aladdin II, not some more games everyone knows about :/

And if you bothered to even note you got the pics you got came from the Pirate Game Museum, you should have at least said that the Final Fantasy Tactics 4 came from a page for Final Fantasy 4, meaning it's a pirate of that.


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I've seen pictures of the Dragon Ball Z: Final Bout for SNES, and it is definitely a port of the Mega Drive version.

About Aladdin II, could that be the same as Aladdin 2000? I've seen it pop up a couple times but nobody offered screenshots.
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Can you provide those pictures of DBZ? I don't recall seeing that version before.
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ooh. i found this forum thread in Portuguese about Aladdin 2000:
http://www.nesarchive.net/forum/index.php?topic=20297.0
to quote a google translation: "was NOT the original Aladdin (Capcom), but a kind of remake of the mega drive called Aladdin "Aladdin 2000." "
& here's a video! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uS1jiU2fnFo
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So it's a port of a game made for the console that the original game was made for? O_o
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Nope, it looks like a port of the Genesis version :o Just like taizou suggested. Guess since the Genesis got a port of the SNES version, the SNES needed a port of the Genesis version :D

That's pretty awesome, yet another new pirate. Now the impossible task of tracking it down.
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Nope, it looks like a port of the Genesis version :o Just like taizou suggested.
That's what I meant.
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