megadrive /genesis pirate games

I see a lot of nes pirates but not much genesis pirates.
Why ? And are there pirate collectors out there ?

There's a few Genesis pirates out there, like Samurai Shodown 2, Mario World, Donkey Kong Country, Aladdin II, Bug's Life, Hercules,
King of Fighters 98/99/2000. Lion King II, Mortal Kombat Subzero, Mulan, Mario 2, Soul Blade, Soul Edge Vs Samurai Spirits,
Super Bubble Bobble, Mario 1/Rescue Rangers mashup, Rockman X3, Tekken 3, Top Fighter 2000, Virtua Fighter 2 Vs Tekken 2.


And then there's like a shitload of Russian hacks where they translate the game to Russian and slap a different title screen on it.
(you'd be surprised how quickly puffy puff puffracers can become Fast and the Furious 8 with just a different title screen)

And no I don't collect them, they go for too much money on eBay and I'm just not the kinda person to travel to Russia.

I did try to buy a pirate of that Mortal Kombat II Unlimited hack though, but I was overbid by too much so I let it slide.

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Originally Posted by Fleaman

I see a lot of nes pirates but not much genesis pirates.
Why ? And are there pirate collectors out there ?

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Yeah, you've got one right here:

http://pics.mobygames.com/images/cov...6695039-00.jpg
http://pics.mobygames.com/images/cov...2516206-00.jpg
http://gamesdbase.com/Media/SYSTEM/S...Soft,_Ltd..jpg

I collect pirates whenever I can find them for cheap enough. I get them mostly for the weirdness. It is great to whip out Sonic Jam 6 and see the looks on my friend's faces. One thing I have learned is that eBay is the absolute worst place to look for pirates. Sellers ask for so much money just because people don't know where else to look. I'd never pay more than 5 dollars for a cart only pirate.

I agree. So many Russian 'remakes' where the game is the same. New title screen. New box and cart label then charge $30

i have a few bootlegs but i dont really go out of my way looking for them

I am rather a player than a collector so I don't have any particular interest in pirates games because most of them are awful in term of quality or pityful remakes. I bought only Shui Hu Feng Yun Zhuan but it is a surprising very good unofficial Korean brawler.

You know, there are articles at this site(though most of what's in them has already been brought up).

MKII Unlimited would have been a repro, not a pirate. Though I'm not sure what to call the practice of selling repro's in the first place...

One such pirate game for the Genesis, which had a Russian translation as a Final Fantasy, if memory serves, got a fan rom translation: http://www.romhacking.net/translations/1467/
I'm not an RPG fan, and even I think it came out pretty well.

The general issue for me though, is that there are far too many good commercial releases, before you even get into fan translations(which are mostly also commercial releases), hacks, homebrew, pirate games, etc...

I would only play the roms of the pirated games :) just for Irony

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Originally Posted by midnightrider

MKII Unlimited would have been a repro, not a pirate.

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But they pirated it when they translated it to Russian without the romhackers consent. :p

Thanks for the information.
But i meant pirate copies of offical released games like this 1 i found in a lot.

http://i62.tinypic.com/34e25wi.jpg

Those are called Bootlegs.

There are a lot for Genesis too, not as many as NES but I'd say it's in second place for the number.

Check out this forum for more info: http://s4.zetaboards.com/PGC_Forums/index/

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Originally Posted by Fleaman

Thanks for the information.
But i meant pirate copies of offical released games

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I once purchased a box of 30 pirate Mega Drive carts from South Korea.
I had no idea what most of the games were so it was a fun random purchase at roughly US$1.50 per cart.
The lot of carts included game like Earthworm Jim, Golden Axe 3, Ex Mutants, Castle Of Illusion, Atomic Robo Kid, Insector X, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, and a bunch more less interesting games which I forget.
Some of these pirates had some slight tweaks to the default settings. Castle of Illusion is set to 30 lives and Hard difficulty.

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Originally Posted by NeoVamp

Those are called Bootlegs.

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Bootleg is probably a better term. Though myself and most people I know have always used the terms "pirate" and "bootleg" as being synonymous.

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Originally Posted by Royce

I collect pirates whenever I can find them for cheap enough. I get them mostly for the weirdness. It is great to whip out Sonic Jam 6 and see the looks on my friend's faces. One thing I have learned is that eBay is the absolute worst place to look for pirates. Sellers ask for so much money just because people don't know where else to look. I'd never pay more than 5 dollars for a cart only pirate.

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I'm intrigued by these strange cartridges too. Tekken and Gran Turismo on the Mega Drive? lol

Id never pay the ebay prices either. Do you know a cheap site that ships to the UK by any chance?