Is this a pirate?

[Tupin]

I think the game is in Japanese, though.

I wouldn't know, I can't read I either.

[manuel]

The title is 超人小叮噹, which reads chāorén xiǎodīngdāng and is maybe translated like Superman Little Dingdong. 
A little google told me that Doraemon ic called (xiǎo)dīngdāng in Chinese, or so it seems.

[Tupin]

Wow, that's funny stuff. 

Wait, did they try to pass off a game with Pa-Man on the cover as Doraemon? 

[FamicomFreak]

hahahah that's an interesting translation.

[nintendodork]

Wow, that's funny stuff. 

Wait, did they try to pass off a game with Pa-Man on the cover as Doraemon? 

I think they tried mixing Doraemon and Superman together

And I think that the name of Doraemon is something like Sigari DingDong...

[Tupin]

I actually thought he was some sort of mix of Astro Boy and Mighty Bomb Jack at first. 

[manuel]

Well, that pose looks very much like Astroboy. 

[shoggoth80]

Hey guys,
I have a copy of Labyrinth... have had it for a while. The game plays fine, but I've always wondered about its legitimacy. The cart has no back label, it has two holes in the back for screws, but no place where they could logically go to. There are no keeper tabs in the cart shell itself.
The PCB board has no Nintendo markings, has Toshiba made chips, and has many of them.

Pics below:

[UglyJoe]

I vote bootleg.  Original cart is white and has a back label:

http://page6.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/f72286222
http://www.superpotato.com/detail/144003908001/
http://www.japangamestock.com/buy_video_games.php?products_id=5216

[shoggoth80]

Interesting. I was leaning towards a bootleg too... I wondered about legitimacy because it came with a famiclone that I bought a long time ago. I was kinda hoping that if it were a bootleg cart, that it would have multiple games build into it managed by resetting or power cycling the machine. So far, no luck in that regard. I haven't played this game a whole lot, but if it is not a multicart masquerading as a individual, it must be a rather large game to warrant all those chips.

[Medisinyl]

/\  I read on this forum somewhere that some people have discovered extra games on a cart after some fiddling of sorts.

[Tupin]

Yeah, with like that Super Simpsons game. The pirate looks well made, so it probably has something else on it.

What are the methods for testing whether it has more than one game on it? Just resetting and powering on/off?

[Tupin]

Speaking of weird looking pirate insides, look what I found in my Pa Man pirate:



Three no-name chips, but no glob top and two wires connecting the chips. I would say this is an early pirate.

[133MHz]

The wires are probably board design errors that were discovered after the boards were mass produced.
Soldering those wires save the boards from going into a landfill because their layouts are incorrect.

[Tupin]

Yeah, but how much more money could be saved by opening up the carts and hand-soldering the wires instead of just throwing them away?