when I almost became a thieve!!!

VanTammen · November 2007

yesterday I was at a nephew birthday party, and one of the kids had a game boy advance with a brilliant game:

one of those pirate games you buy in Japan with 200 games or so (most of them where NEW games turned in to GameBoy versions!). sure there where some repeated games, but it was a brilliant cartrige!

so...in a party filled with 8 year old's you can imagine the chaos that was installed and how easy it would have been to just make that cartridge "disapear" hehehehe!

eventually I realised a 27 year old man can't steal from a kid (chiiiickkkeeeenn) but now here is my question: does any one know where I can find a gem like that? it had nearly all interesting NES games I can think of!

VincentAC · November 2007

:lol:

You meanie :-P

Why not ask him where he got it?

Pilsener · November 2007

Maybe it can be copied ?

wilsonsamm · November 2007

Yeah, one of these could be quite simple to knock together mcgyver-style out of a paper clip, a shoe-lace, bit of solder, and a chip out of a microwave oven or something. If you know how.

The chap across the hall from me has one. He can put the chip into a card reader and put his games onto it from the pc.

neoncherry · November 2007

Believe it or not, they sell these kinds of memory card-compatible cartridges quite openly on Amazon UK.

They stock a Nintendo DS one which is full of customer reviews that try to imply you can fill it with pirated games without actually saying so directly. For example they talk about "homebrew and OTHER software", stuff like that.

psj3809 · November 2007

In the old days i remember being excited as anything when i was in Spain and there was this '128 games in 1' cartridge. Years later i saw a '512 games in 1' and thought if i was a kid right now i would be in heaven if i could buy that !

ewgf · November 2007

There are some great N64 games that were only available in NTSC (American) or JAP (Japanese, of course) format, not PAL (Great Britain), and it's rumoured that pirate cartridges of these games were available from Hong Kong or wherever that had PAL versions of these games on them. I don't know if it's true, and even if it is, I don't know how good these versions were (were there problems with timing or display cut off, for example?).

One (very) slight reason for thinking that amatuer NTSC to PAL conversions might be possible is that I have read that NTSC images of N64 games can be patched to become PAL compatible, plus on various forums I've read that patches do exist to convert NTSC .ISO images of Playstation 2 games to PAL format. If so, then presumably it is at least possible, but wouldn't this would present timing problems (60Hz reduced to 50Hz) and introduce borders to the game (to compensate for the lower resolution of the NTSC format), as in early (official PAL conversions of) N64 games (Mario 64, Pilot Wings, Mario Kart 64 and Wave Race 64, to name the ones I can think of off-hand)?

Still, since these games aren't otherwise available in PAL, and some of the games are apparently very good (Sin and Punishment, Indiana Jones, Harvest Moon, and others) it'd be worth getting hold of the "pirate" PAL conversions anyway, but I take it no-one here has any idea where to purchase them from?

chop983 · November 2007

just get a US N64,

the 64 doesn't require a power step-down convertor
all you have to do to use it is plug you PAL power pack into the back of the console

I'm more interested in where your going to get a N64 flash cartridge, and while your at it an original Gameboy one.

when I almost became a thieve!!!

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