Hey Guys,

I was looking through a few of my Super Famicom Carts, when I noticed that I have a Street Fighter 2 with "Notches" in the back of it (so it would fit into a SNES...?  
I also noticed that it does not have screws, but snaps together like a early Famicom cart

I know what you are thinking.... "dude, it's a pirate Super Famicom cart" but I don't think so, take a look at the pictures and tell me what you think,

Thanks!

Pirate.

Yeah still doesn't look right, I'd say a pirate too. Even the stuff that could be in english from the UK, those PAL carts use the same shell and I'm almost positive they don't have notches either.

There was another thread on these games with the slots (That were factory made and weren't hand-drilled), but I forgot what thread it was... but I think it was found out that it was a pirate.

Yarrr...it be a pirate, matey (sorry...couldn't resist ). Very sad that it's one of the most common SFC games, though.

Looks to be a pirate. I have a Street Fighter 2 cart for the Super Famicom. I will take a look tonight and take a picture.

Hey Addicted, yeah, if you could show a picture of the front label that would help, because I've never seen a pirate cart that puts "Nintendo" "Capcom" "Svch-codes" or "all rights reserved to Capcom 1992" on the cover of their artwork??
(and the back of the cart is identical to other 1992 Super Famicom carts, with "Nindento Super Famicom" molded in)

Normally I would think that someone just swapped covers, but this one snaps together, no screws?

Thanks for everyone's input, this one has me baffled?

After opening up my SF2 for the Super Famicom I can definitvely say you have a pirate. Most likely it was made for someone who wanted to import SF2 before it came stateside.






Sorry the pictures are blurry. I need to buy a new camera. I forgot to add that the PCB itself has Copyright 1990 Nintendo on the left hand side.

Wow, thanks for cracking yours open and taking the pics... I guess I'd have to agree, She be a Pirate... arrg

In a way, I still think it's odd that they would copy the Label Exactly???, and Remold the back of the cart to say the exact same thing as the standard Nintendo carts??

I guess Pirates were a bit more edgy back then... Or maybe they thought they'd be safer if they put "Copyright Capcom" and "Product of Nintendo Corporation" on all of their Pirate Booty?

anywho, thanks again for taking the pics

These pirates were selling in a market often not AWARE of pirate carts. (See russian dendy carts) Source: some video of a russian reviewing games. I'm sure the adults knew but no kid was gonna know better. So if you clone the game somewhat real looking you get a pretty good market. Now add some notches so you can also spread them in America and bingo you got yourself a bunch of copies sold.