News: Russian Famicom pirates

April 17, 2007, 10:11 PM

by brandon, via CaH4e3 -
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If your Need for Russia hasn't been completely filled, here's something quite fun. A fellow who goes by CaH4e3 has taken it upon himself to investigate the Famicom piracy scene in russia, specifically moscow (since he's from around there!). He has all sorts of stuff, like dumps of the actual pirate roms (navigate by date on the upper right - hooray Ball Story!), most of which were made in china originally. In fact, check out The Super Shinobi on this page. It looks really nice for a pirate game! For any Famicom game for that matter.

He also has Game Genie cheats for pirate games, and a very awesome photo gallery of pirate markets in moscow. Lots of odd stuff - and I particularly like this picture. Frank pointed this out to me - check out the game in the lower left - Secret Agent Royal Jew. I...want to make jokes, but it feels too wrong. Anyway, this CaH4e3 fellow does good work, and should be commended. I even love his charming russian language.

OK, just one - Royal Jew goes to the item shop but won't buy anything. $20 for this? I can get it cheaper!