Do you own any repros or fantranslated carts? Which ones?

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Re: Do you own any repros or fantranslated carts? Which ones

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Ziggy587 wrote:I think I only have a few left. I have Little Magic (SNES) and Bare Knuckle III. I think that's it. I do have a few FC and SFC carts that I've been meaning to patch to English versions, but haven't gotten around to it yet. Like what others have said, I've gravitating to using flash carts over repro carts.
BoneSnapDeez wrote:Personally speaking, I'm also not crazy about the cart cannibalization that's used to create many of these repros.
I agree. I use to make them, as many of you will remember, but this was the main reason I stopped.
Actually this is part of the reason why I only have one, and it happens to be one of Ziggy's works. I bought the cart but later became more concerned over cart cannibalization and stopped taking an interest in repro work. A flash cart may work for imports later, or a Retron 5 with the proper translation patches. I need to get around to playing through FFV someday...
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Re: Do you own any repros or fantranslated carts? Which ones

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Not much. So far, I just have Panorama Cotton, Zero Wing and Grind Stormer. Would like to eventually get some translated Famicom/Super Famicom titles, but I'm in no particular hurry.
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Re: Do you own any repros or fantranslated carts? Which ones

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Ack wrote:A flash cart may work for imports later, or a Retron 5 with the proper translation patches.
Indeed. I picked up Seiken Densetsu 3 and Front Mission Gun Hazard for whenever I get an R5.
the7k wrote:Not much. So far, I just have Panorama Cotton, Zero Wing and Grind Stormer. Would like to eventually get some translated Famicom/Super Famicom titles, but I'm in no particular hurry.
I'd consider those bootlegs like multi carts if they came out of a factory as opposed to being hand assembled or modified after the fact. Though now I think about it, the RR I have might be a boot, not a repro.
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Re: Do you own any repros or fantranslated carts? Which ones

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Eh, semantics.

If it's all about swapping boards out, then I have one of those. I have a Kid Icarus that has Top Gun in it. I didn't know that before buying it, of course.
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Re: Do you own any repros or fantranslated carts? Which ones

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I have a Famicom repro cart for Recca that someone made for me a few years ago. I'm also hoping to find someone to repro Lagrange Point for me (I bought the Famicom cart years ago for just that purpose). I'll probably also get repros for games that never came out or got translated, but need special chips to play (StarFox 2, etc.)

I've also moved toward flash carts for playing fan translations, but mostly due to expense - it was cheaper to invest in EverDrive carts for NES/SNES/etc than to pay people to make repros of every translated rom I wanted to play. ^^;
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