FS: Nes repro SMB2J

[famiac]

I really want to dump that.

[Duke.Togo]

It's just a repro like this one, isn't it? I've got this one. http://www.retrousb.com/product_info.php?cPath=29&products_id=93

[jpx72]

The retrousb one is different, I got both this and the one gorgyrip sells, but the difference is very small.
Good luck selling it gorgyrip!
If the repro is your work, I wouldn't think twice to buy it!

[Yelir]

I've never seen those SMB II Asian Version anywhere, it would be sweet to find one for sale.

[gorgyrip]

The retrousb one is different, I got both this and the one gorgyrip sells, but the difference is very small.
Good luck selling it gorgyrip!
If the repro is your work, I wouldn't think twice to buy it!

Thank you for your kind words.

[Jabra]

To be frank with you I don't understand what is the meaning of " repro " ? Is it produced officially by Nintendo ?  The game is not mentioned in the list of NES games of the Nintendo site !

[Parodius Duh]

Jabra - Repro = Reproduction, NO its not made by Nintendo, its made in some skilled craftsman's cellar.

Dante Vale - Thats awesome. RARE as FUGGGG cart. Congratulations. Id take that Asian SMB 2J cart over a punch out gold any day of the week.


AND....

GOD I hate those frickin' retrozone carts! I like my repros to look like they are actually from the era of when the system was popular. Not like its fresh from the year 2000! although it does work well for Battle Kid I must say. I do not like the other carts, especially the NWC carts.

[MasterDisk]

I have seen the board of that SMBII on NA. It was completly piratish. Without Nintendo text while all other Nintendo games on NES had it with board info.

Also Nintendo wouldn't reuse pics of SMB1 for SMB2j... As well as the II instead of 2.

[L___E___T]

It's not a pirate...  
Nintendo's HK office wouldn't have been much more than a tiny sales & distribution outfit.  They didn't have the approvals processes we do now and strict style guides etc.

As for reusing - they reused an entire other game for SMB2 in the US don't forget...

[MasterDisk]

It's not a pirate...  
Nintendo's HK office wouldn't have been much more than a tiny sales & distribution outfit.  They didn't have the approvals processes we do now and strict style guides etc.

lol.
Whatever if they had tiny sales, it is still Nintendo.
It was Nintendo in that part of the world. It was easy for them to get approval, really. While in Switzerland we didn't even have Nintendo back then and we weren't a big market at all. Still we had official games with "Schweiz" written on top and the boards were official.

http://www.nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?StartRow=121&catid=5&threadid=3047
Photos were deleted on that thread but bunnyboy, the guy running Retrozone put this:


No CIC (all other ASI games had one). And as there's no CIC, it can't be played on the ASIAN Version of the NES.

Use of EPROMs
FDS BIOS (why in hell they would do that if they have the source code of this game?)
No Nintendo copyright on the board
Very complicated logic board for a NES game.
No way to save stars (like all other SMB2j pirates)
SMB1 box with II text added.

As for reusing - they reused an entire other game for SMB2 in the US don't forget...

Yeah, but they didn't put picture of Doki Doki Panic on the box  

[jpx72]

There was a time when a SMB2j cartridge, pirate or repro, was highly wanted... I don't understand why there's no demand these days.

[Parodius Duh]

There was a time when a SMB2j cartridge, pirate or repro, was highly wanted... I don't understand why there's no demand these days.

Because so many people wanted them, now theres a ton of them floating around out there, thus driving down the value of the pirate version, and theres enough repros out there now that Im sure a few copies have cycled through multiple peoples hands by this point in time...

[Jedi Master Baiter]

I sold mine because I have a PowerPak now. Plus, my cart version didn't have stage select, so I had to beat it 8 (?) times straight, and then play the extra stages.

[gorgyrip]

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