Anyone knows how I could play SNES games on my Super Famicom

Because most of the games I wanted were Japanese (or I preferred Japanese like for Rockman games), I bought a Super Famicom instead of an SNES.

I have no problems playing with Mario games in Japanese and Super Metroid is the same game for both Japan and Na (dual language in the options), there's one game that I can't play, Tetris & Dr Mario (mainly for Tetris).

This Tetris is basically the same as the GameBoy version but with the addition of 2 players on the same screen. Now is there a way to play this game on my Super Famicom, like an SNES to SFC converter? If so, where do I buy it?


Thanks

Tear apart a game genie so the bottom will fit in the SFC? I couldn't find any adaptors myself. I found this link
http://www.gamersgraveyard.com/repos...ladaptors.html

If you could dug one of these up it looks like you would be fine.

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Originally Posted by Iron Lizard

Tear apart a game genie so the bottom will fit in the SFC? I couldn't find any adaptors myself. I found this link
http://www.gamersgraveyard.com/repos...ladaptors.html

If you could dug one of these up it looks like you would be fine.

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Ya I already found this website before, nothing for sale there. The GameGenie is a great idea however.

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Originally Posted by Iron Lizard

Tear apart a game genie so the bottom will fit in the SFC?

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That's what MN12BIRD did on youtube. ;) (after hacking up a spare copy of SMW...)

What about taking the board out and putting it in an empty SFC cart case, would that work?

There are adapters out there, I've had a few before. I think that some Super Famiclones have included them too.

The funny thing is, it's REALLY easy to mod a SNES to play SFC games. Maybe trade in your SFC for a SNES? As far as I know, the "region lockout" is just two little peices of plastic in the cartridge slot. If you look at a US cart, notice the little grooves on the back of the bottom. SFC carts don't have these grooves, so you can't fit the cart in. All I did was take some pliers and broke the pieces off. It was a bit messy, but it got the job done, and quickly.

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Originally Posted by InternalPrimate

The funny thing is, it's REALLY easy to mod a SNES to play SFC games. Maybe trade in your SFC for a SNES? As far as I know, the "region lockout" is just two little peices of plastic in the cartridge slot. If you look at a US cart, notice the little grooves on the back of the bottom. SFC carts don't have these grooves, so you can't fit the cart in. All I did was take some pliers and broke the pieces off. It was a bit messy, but it got the job done, and quickly.

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I know all about this, but if I wanted an SNES, I would have bought one. I spent over $4000 in the last 2 months buying old school consoles and games. Most 16bits Nintendo games I wanted were Japanese, I never had a SFC before and I over all prefer the look of the SFC over the SNES.

Some SNES/Famicom games have the lockout chip in them so they won't work in one or the other machine. The consoles can be modded (checkout MMMMonkey.com) easily enough. I have put together a few (about 6 or so now) that will play SNES(pal) and SNES(ntsc, I also have 1 famicom game (lol). I modify the top part of the case so that a NTSC game will fit, it is a bit of work but you can do it so the flap stays in place. I am at work now so have no pics here. I got my hands on a busted NTSC SNES, the case was good but filthy. So a good clean and splash of paint and she came up all good. I transfered my PAL board into the NTSC case and it works just fine!

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Originally Posted by omp

Some SNES/Famicom games have the lockout chip in them so they won't work in one or the other machine. The consoles can be modded (checkout MMMMonkey.com) easily enough. I have put together a few (about 6 or so now) that will play SNES(pal) and SNES(ntsc, I also have 1 famicom game (lol). I modify the top part of the case so that a NTSC game will fit, it is a bit of work but you can do it so the flap stays in place. I am at work now so have no pics here. I got my hands on a busted NTSC SNES, the case was good but filthy. So a good clean and splash of paint and she came up all good. I transfered my PAL board into the NTSC case and it works just fine!

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Somehow, I doubt that Tetris & Dr Mario has a lockout chip on it. Also, it's only for one game, I'm not going to modify a console for that, it's ridiculous.

Just kill a game genie.

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Originally Posted by Iron Lizard

Just kill a game genie.

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That will be plan B

I was gonna say game genie as well.

p.s. the Super Fami has a more jawusum button color scheme than the SNES.

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Originally Posted by Rusty Venture

I was gonna say game genie as well.

p.s. the Super Fami has a more jawusum button color scheme than the SNES.

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Indeed, I don't know what they hell NOA was thinking with the purple buttons on the system and controllers :?

+1 purple and grey? Yucky. We aussies and europeans got the SFC color scheme for our controller.

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+1 purple and grey? Yucky. We aussies and europeans got the SFC color scheme for our controller.

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Ya, PAL got the better deal of the 16bits consoles.

You got to keep the real name of SEGA's 16bits wonder, the Mega Drive and you got the SFC look instead of the console that looks the a Skyscraper from a bird's eye view.

We always get the shaft in America.

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Ya, PAL got the better deal of the 16bits consoles.

You got to keep the real name of SEGA's 16bits wonder, the Mega Drive and you got the SFC look instead of the console that looks the a Skyscraper from a bird's eye view.

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Yeah the US SNES is one fugly bastard. I'd contemplated geting a broken PAL SNES just to switch out the cases.

But I'd still have to deal with that lame-ass purple/lavender button theme.


Does the Euro SNES has a cart slot like the US system, or the Japanese system?

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Originally Posted by Rusty Venture

Yeah the US SNES is one fugly bastard. I'd contemplated geting a broken PAL SNES just to switch out the cases.

But I'd still have to deal with that lame-ass purple/lavender button theme.


Does the Euro SNES has a cart slot like the US system, or the Japanese system?

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PAL SNES games look like Japanese SFC games.

AMERICA GOT THE SHAFT!


And I don't mean this one:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...haftposter.jpg

Well, our games run 20% too slow, so...

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Originally Posted by Rusty Venture

I was gonna say game genie as well.

p.s. the Super Fami has a more jawusum button color scheme than the SNES.

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I always liked the lavender+gray color scheme more than the rainboy one personally. The NA SNES and Carts are a bit unattractive though, SNES Jr is kind of nice (of course it lacks S-Video or power LED -though the composite is even better). At least the US carts have end labels though. :p

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Originally Posted by Christuserloeser

Well, our games run 20% too slow, so...

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Yeah, and dont the games tend to be even more censored than US versions? (that and a lack of certain releases alltogether, especially RPGs -though I think there were a few that got a EU but not US release)

Getting back on topic, I went to my local flee market today and the guy had SFII (the original) for SFC. I told him that he would never be able to sale this thing because I was probably the only guy in town with a SFC system, so he sold it to me for $10 CAD :)

I also bought the cheapest game he had for SNES (Madden) for $5 CAD. I'll see if I can get those open if not, I'll order some gamebits on ebay.

I'll let you guys know if swapping the boards work and if it doesn't, then I got a working copy of SFII for $10 :p

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Originally Posted by Christuserloeser

Well, our games run 20% too slow, so...

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And we got 20% less releases.

We never got some magical things.

Like Earthbound.:daze:

Fairly sure a Datel Pro Action Replay 2 would work, but they're usually much too expensive. :/

NTSC Snes is an ugly thing. It does bear some resemblance to the head of a dead robot. But I don't really want the head of a dead thing in my house.

Smii speaks the truth, except the US SNES looks like a poorly designed late 70's spaceship.

Someone really should perfect time travel, then we can go back in time and bitch slap the designers for creating something so fugly.

I just re-read your initial post and realized your mistake. If you wanted to play a lot of JP SFC games and some SNES games as well, you should have just gotten a North American SNES and modded it. (removed the tabs in the cart slot; simple, non invasive, and indistingusable externally) I don't think there's any region coding whatsoever. (but iirc there is for PAL games)

Oh well...

You could still sell the SFC and pick up an SNES. (probably for a lot less than you can get for a SFC over here)

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Originally Posted by kool kitty89

I just re-read your initial post and realized your mistake. If you wanted to play a lot of JP SFC games and some SNES games as well, you should have just gotten a North American SNES and modded it. (removed the tabs in the cart slot; simple, non invasive, and indistingusable externally) I don't think there's any region coding whatsoever. (but iirc there is for PAL games)

Oh well...

You could still sell the SFC and pick up an SNES. (probably for a lot less than you can get for a SFC over here)

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Never!!!!!!! Specially not for 1 game. Also, read my previous post.

Oh, yeah... I read through the thread again.... (already addressed in the first couple posts)


Still, I think a Game Genie would be the most practical route, and also not it won't be destroying the GG, just defacing it. ;) (still fully functional, just ugly)

Unless you could get a Japanese Game Genie (did those exist?), or maybe a EU game genie would work. (same cart size) Then there should be no modding necessary.

Swapping cart cases seems rather cumbersome, particularly if you find other US games you want to play down the road.

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Originally Posted by kool kitty89

Oh, yeah... I read through the thread again.... (already addressed in the first couple posts)


Still, I think a Game Genie would be the most practical route, and also not it won't be destroying the GG, just defacing it. ;) (still fully functional, just ugly)

Unless you could get a Japanese Game Genie (did those exist?), or maybe a EU game genie would work. (same cart size) Then there should be no modding necessary.

Swapping cart cases seems rather cumbersome, particularly if you find other US games you want to play down the road.

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Nah, my collection will be pretty much complete with Tetris. My SFC collection is mainly for Rockman games and Anime games such as Sailor Moon and Gundam titles as well as the classic Nintendo IPs (Mario, Yoshi, Metroid).

Double Posting to bring this back to life.

I got my Gamebits yesterday as well as some old SFC Golf game that I bought for $1. I swapped the boards of the US SNES Madden game (POS that I got for $5) and the SFC Golf game and I can now play an SNES game on my SFC without modding my system or game GameGenie.

This thread is a bit old but, I found a Snes to Super Famicom converter at a local shop here. It was $25. I could get it for you if you would like.