Super Mario Bros. 2 (Japan)

[JC]

Weird. I don't think I've seen one with the whole title removed. I've seen plenty with the SMB words removed and sprites of Mario or other characters hacked in. I should see if what my multicart version looks like.

EDIT: Checked out my multi...it's got the same title screen with no title and no characters hacked in. I tried the A + Start and it gives me a black screen and nothing more.

[nintendodork]

That may be a ROM dump Pat.  That is, if it was recently made....I have an SMB ROM on my computer that doesn't have a title screen.

[133MHz]

Checked out my multi...it's got the same title screen with no title and no characters hacked in. I tried the A + Start and it gives me a black screen and nothing more.

Maybe the worlds A-D were deleted to fit it on a multicart?
Either that or the warp code has been messed up (again, to fit in a multicart memory space).

I have an SMB ROM on my computer that doesn't have a title screen.

As far as I remember, the SMB ROM without a title screen was one of the first NES ROMs ever dumped. Supposedly it was missing the title screen because it was dumped from a pirate multicart (probably some Russian guy without access to the real software), and if my memory is still good, if you look at the CHR ROM's contents with a tile editor you'll find some sprites from Galaxian on it! probably leftovers from the multicart's contents. Urban legend? Haha I love them .

[PatMan33]

When I do A and Start I get taken to world A-1.

[133MHz]

I've just beat my LF36 SMB2j pirate on my original Famicom. This is what you get for an ending:

• When you get to the door, you don't get to see the Princess, just the door the whole time.


• Instead of the beautiful FDS ending music, you get the Game Over theme looping over and over again.


• After giving you 100.000 points for every life left, the screen goes black and the game locks up.

I used warps, maybe later I'll try to beat it without them and see if I can get to world 9, and if something interesting happens, I'll post my findings here.

[vgthing]

My cart looks very similar to PatMan33's, but the game itself is a little different I think.
First off, Mario's name is Romeo, and Luigi's is Lambo (How the hell do you get lambo from luigi?). Luigi has the same physics as mario, and all of the super jumpy springs are red instead of green. weird...

[133MHz]

Well, I really felt like playing some more SMB2j so I've beat my LF36 pirate again, this time without warps.
The exact same thing happens than in my previous attempt at beating it with warps. The moment that the screen changes color and the dancing Toads are going to appear, the screen goes black and the game locks up (and the audio hardware gets stuck playing the last note hit). A soft reset brings things back to normal, with the high score saved and stuff.

I guess there's no World 9, or at least, no way to get it to appear

I'd like to beat the A-D worlds to see if something's different, but they're still too much for me. Does anybody know where I can perform the infinite lives trick on those worlds?

[nintendodork]

It always struck me as weird...that the Famicom never had anything like the Game Genie...

Well, in as good quality/quantity of cheats

[ericj]

Actually, the Famicom does have a Game Genie. I think JC has one.

[nintendodork]

Oh, really?  Well show us some pictures JC!

[ericj]

Check out this thread for the Game Genie info:

http://www.famicomworld.com/forum/index.php?topic=994.0

[nintendodork]

Thanks ericj!  I want one now

[JC]

They're very hard to find. I've got one, but no code book, so it's been kinda useless for me.

I've never beated any SMB2j. I ought to try mine to see if I get something different from 133MHz. I doubt it, but my cart does have a really big board like that they tried to more closely clone the disk.

[nintendodork]

I wonder why they made it so hard to cheat in games in Japan....


....Wait...never mind

[JC]

Here's my SMB2j board, reminds me of protos:



Here's the company's name and phone number, hidden inside the cart. I've been calling them Lee Yin, for convenience, since that's what some of the ID numbers say, but I'd really, really, really love to get a translation of the name. Who knows, maybe it'll turn out to be just the name of the company that made the casing: