Paper Mario

[JC]

Paper Mario looks very much like the Hanshin SMB hack.

[Marlon]

OMG THIS IS ALLL TEMPTING GAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[ericj]

They do look similar, but the Paper Mario screen shots have a 3D appearance.

JC, do you have the carts or are these pics from auctions?

[JC]

These are auction pics from Taiwan.

[petik1]

How I would love to have this! Do you know what the title screen says?

[MS-DOS4]

Where did you get this?

This doesn't look like a pirate, but rather made by some nintendo fan by writing their own hack to custom EPROMS and putting a new label on an official FC game case. Have you taken a peak inside?

EDIT: Damnit! I thought you had it until I read your lower posts.

[Marlon]

Can I have a link to the auction.

[Bramsworth]

Same guy has the Hanshin hack:

http://tw.page.bid.yahoo.com/tw/auction/e41185132?u=jeux168

The games he has look exactly the same as stuff sold by this guy on Yahoo Japan who is apparently making his own fakes. That's what I believe these Paper Mario and Hanshin Mario carts are, just the stuff made by a guy that's trying to trick people into spending high prices on stuff. If anyone remembers in the ridiculous auctions thread a post of a boxed All Night Nippon Mario Bros, it's that same guy. Would you believe the luck he had in securing another copy of that game, boxed?

http://page4.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/d107969675

All his fakes share the same quality, they use the exact same label style and have Japanese that looks like it came from MS Paint, the font just appears so pasted in there. Plus he never fails to keep using art from more recent Mario games, yet the copyright on the cart is for years before that art existed. Another examples of crap he's managed to rip people off by selling:

http://page16.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/u31915652

He also appears to sell some stuff that is the real deal though. It's a mixed bag and in the end you'd suppose he might not be the one making them, though taking into consideration he's Japanese and the carts have legible Japanese on it(if they were made in Taiwan you'd be it's look a it more messed up), it's just most likley that a Japanese person made them, and you don't need to go far to guess who.

[MS-DOS4]

Seems cool to me. You're getting some fun mario hacks cartridge style!

[jackhandy566]

what were any of these going for? i dont know what i am looking at what the sold price was in yen. i see a bunch of words i cant read and yen prices i do not know the usd of.

[ericj]

i see a bunch of words i cant read and yen prices i do not know the usd of.

It's not the 1980s anymore. 

Currency Converter: http://www.xe.com/ucc/
Google Translate: http://translate.google.com/

[MS-DOS4]

I usually just use online converts to get exact amounts, but if I want just a -rough- glance of how much something costs without running it though a converter, I just knock the two rightmost digits off. 1234 yen turns to 12 dollars, which is pretty close. (Real conversion is around 13.8 dollars.)

Warning: Higher the yen, the more the guestimate will be off.

[JC]

Heh, dumb. I got my All Night Nippon on cart in a $15 trade. It's not all that hard to make it but mine came from Thailand.

[Marlon]

No offense but I H8 you JC and all your pirate 

[mobiusclimber]

You only hate his pirates because you want to be his pirates. His sexy sexy pirates.