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Super NES/Famicom Pirate Single Carts |
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Super NES/Famicom Pirate Single Carts |
Super NES/Famicom pirate stuff is quite rare, in the two and a half years this site has been around, I just found some pirate material to put up. This stuff is much rarer than NES/FC and Game Boy pirate on my site. Also, I do not believe any pirate SNES/SFC consoles exist. Anyways, here is what I have so far, if you have more, by all means, please send it in.
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Donkey Kong Country |
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Manufacturer: | Unknown |
| Origin: | Unknown | |
| Additional Info/Scans: | Back of Cart | |
| Licensed:Yes Year:Unknown Features:Unknown |
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| This is one of the first SNES/SFC pirate carts I have
seen on eBay. The guy selling it was selling it as a legal Super
Famicom cart, however, any true Nintendophile would easily identify
this cart as a pirate. First, the label art is disproportional and
cheezy looking, and second, and most obvious, Donkey Kong Country was
called "Super Donkey Kong" in Japan. Doh! If you look at the back of
the cart, you will see the label there is, in fact, a verbatum copy of
what is on the back of a legal Super Famicom cart.
Info and pic ripped from eBay |
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Picachu |
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Manufacturer: | Unknown |
| Origin: | Unknown | |
| Additional Info/Scans: | Box, Screenshot | |
| Licensed:Yes Year:Unknown Features:Unknown |
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| First thing one
notices about this one, is that they misspelled "Pikachu", heh. A
Pokemon game, surprising since there were no Pokemon games for the
SNES. It is a side scroller, and probably a hack of another game. The
screenshot above looks familiar, with that little monkey character, but
I can't put a finger on it. Info and pics courtesy Steve Sheppard |
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Rock 'n Roll Racing |
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Manufacturer: | Unknown |
| Origin: | Asia | |
| Additional Info/Scans: | Back of Box | |
| Licensed:Yes Year:Unknown Features:Unknown |
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| LOL, I really like this one, it is probably my
favorite SNES pirate item to date. Just read the back of the box and
get ready to laugh yourself silly. The little snippet on the back of
the box, which gives you a brief synopsis of the game, at leats it does
on legit cartridge boxes), was ripped directly from a review of the
Sega Genesis version of the game! Not only that, but this game isn't
very good, it says so right on the back of the box! Apparently no one
at this pirate outfit spoke English, else they would have caught that,
or maybe they just didn't care and figured no one would read it anyway.
Less amusing but no less a dead giveaway this is a pirate cart (as if
that text on the back didn't make it obvious enough!), is the Sega
video game rating on the front of the box, this is the precursor to the
modern ESRB rating, but this rating indicia was only used by Sega
before the ESRB rating system (you can find about more about this on this page if you are
interested). After viewing such a shoddy pirate product as this, I
really wonder how some of these pirates ever manage to stay in business.
Info and pic courtesy |
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Sonic the Hedgehog 4 (1) |
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Manufacturer: | Unknown |
| Origin: | Unknown | |
| Additional Info/Scans: | Screenshot | |
| Licensed:Yes Year:Unknown Features:Unknown |
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| This is a hack of Speedy Gonzales - Los Gatos Banditos
from Sunsoft, with Sonic (and Mario!) sprites added in (you can see
screenshot above). Now, let's look at the label... well, as pirate
carts have taught us all, that pic of Sonic was probably ripped from
somewhere else (note the disproportionate drawing of Sonic, though it
may be a scanning artifact). Also note that the "Sonic The Hedgehog"
logo, as well as the "Super Nintendo Entertainment System" one, are
cheezily done, and, if you look carefully, are not the same as the
authentic ones. Actually, the "Super Nintendo" logo looks kinda like
the logo on an unlicensed convertor box, which is designed to make it
look like a licensed accessory. Anyways, since this cart is labeled
"Super Nintendo", and it has the shape and design it does, it was
probably intended for the European/PAL market.
Info and pic courtesy Marten Nielsen/Classicon |
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Sonic the Hedgehog 4 (2) |
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Manufacturer: | Unknown |
| Origin: | Unknown | |
| Additional Info/Scans: | Box Front Back,Screenshot 1, 2 | |
| Licensed:Yes Year:Unknown Features:Unknown |
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| This is a hack of an unknown game. In addition to
Sonic, there is a Mario character as well. The box art, front and back,
is a direct rip of the real Sonic The Hedgehog 3 box for the Sega
Genesis, with "3" being changed to "4". Note that Sonic is holding up 3
fingers, indicating the third sequel. Guess the pirates were too lazy
to add another finger, heh. Info and pic courtesy courtesy Steven Sheppard |
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Super Punch-Out!! |
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Manufacturer: | Unknown |
| Origin: | Unknown | |
| Additional Info/Scans: | None | |
| Licensed:Yes Year:Unknown Features:Unknown |
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| Hahaha! Did you know Super Punch Out!!! is "Only for
Super Game"? Yep, says so right on the cart label. Pirates, gotta love
their dumbass attempts to cover up what they do! (For the record, is
there a "Super Game" SNES/SFC pirate clone?) There are other obvious
flaws in the label art as well, namely that they cut and pasted the art
off of somewhere (the manual or box?) and pasted it over a black
background with the "Super Punch Out!!! logo crudley drawn (The "torn"
Only For logo should also be all the way over to the right, and
smaller). This cart was probably intended for the Asian SFC market,
based in the shape and lockout chip inside, as it requires an adaptor
to play on a PAL console)
Info and pic courtesy Marten Nielsen/Classicon |
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Ronaldinho Soccer |
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Manufacturer: | Unknown |
| Origin: | Unknown | |
| Additional Info/Scans: | Box, Screenshot | |
| Licensed:Yes Year:Unknown Features:Unknown |
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| I believe this is a
hack of an actual game called Ronaldinho Soccer, with "1998" hacked in,
but I can't be sure. Info and pics courtesy Steve Sheppard |
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Street Fighter III |
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Manufacturer: | Unknown |
| Origin: | Unknown | |
| Additional Info/Scans: | None | |
| Licensed:Yes Year:Unknown Features:Unknown |
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| Wow, Street Fighter III! Well, not exactly, this is
not a port of the arcade game SFIII, but simply SFII, with some
modifications. It loads up with Street Fighter III as the title and
when the CAPCOM logo makes that sound you can hear it but the actual
CAPCOM logo has been removed! Heh. It all runs like the original Street
Fighter II, the copyright logo at the bottom has been labeled as: (C) Fighter III 1993 (C) Street Fighter III 1993 Therefore, it is obviously a pirate. Also note, in the Famicom piracy tradition, the label is a close-up section of the real SF2 label art, with some meaningless verbiage ("Super Version") on it. I also have a single pirate Famicom cart with a similar label,, but I believe they are unrelated in any way. Info and pic courtesy Marten Nielsen/Classicon |
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Tekken 2 |
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Manufacturer: | Unknown |
| Origin: | Unknown | |
| Additional Info/Scans: | Screenshots 1, 2, 3 | |
| Licensed:Yes Year:Unknown Features:Unknown |
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| This is the first "Hong Kong original" I have seen for
the SNES, though there is a chance this is just a hack of another game.
If it is, I don't recognize it. I think it is an original, unauthorized
port of Tekken 2 for the SNES. Check out the screenshots above. The game itself has only 6 characters and the game has no ending, bosses or secret characters. The fighters are: Lee, Jun, Kazuya, Yoshimitsu, Heihachi and Paul. The character graphics are good but in 2-D. For 1 or 2 players. Two game options: arcade and versus mode.In the option screen, you can choose the difficulty level, number of rounds and round time. Info and pics courtesy Steven Sheppard |
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