We recently took a look at Retro-Bit's classic game collections sold in the US, classic NES and SNES games lovingly put onto reproduction carts with fancy packaging - a must-have for retro game collectors.
It just came to our attention that Retro-Bit is selling a bunch of new retro classic game collections on Play-Asia which are for the Japanese region. These will work on a Famicom or Super Famicom, or NES/SNES with the correct bridging adaptor. You could even play them on a Retro-Bit console if you so wished, or on a Retron-5 or Retro Freak.
The game collections are licensed from classic Japanese companies such as Data East, Athena, Jaleco and Culture Brain, so all of the classics are represented, such as Magical Drop, Joe & Mac, Super Chinese World and Rushing Beat.
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Let us know if you plan to pick up any of these classic game collection carts!
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Huh, this is pretty neat, get my super NT today, may have to pick some of these up. Thanks for the heads up!
A reminder that you don't really need an adaptor to play Super Famicom games in your US SNES. Just take out the prongs (about 5 minute process) and you're all set!
Pretty cool but these cartridges are cheaply made and some doesn't even work on clone devices such as the Supa Retron HD, Gamerz Tek 16-Bit HD, and the Analog Super Nt even though their original version does. Some of those multicart had game breaking bugs or often crash from time to time (even when play on an original SNES), something that never happen in the original games. For those interested in these be warned and hope for the best.
@retro_player_22 That Athena collection has Dezaemon, which has not only a save function but even the biggest one on the SNES (which would even fail on less-accurate emulators). Hope that would work as pretty much the entire point of the game is dependent on it (a vertical shmup-maker). Dark Lord on the Data East Collection 1 is the only other game I can immediately identify as another save game (it's a Japanese-exclusive RPG). I think Super Chinese World 3 might have a RAM save but I'm not certain, it could be a password save like its predecessors.
@frogopus An action RPG with turn based combat is not an action RPG.
@SmaMan Yeah just a pair of pliers and grip and wiggle the two tabs inside your SNES cartridge slot until they break off and bam it'll work.
@4stringsteve Gah, I want that system so bad. Let us know what you think of it!
Btw, those games were originally from NES / SNES , right ?
Cool an' all, but this seems like something of a missed opportunity. What they could have done, instead of churning out compilations of old console games, was hire some devs to do conversions of some old arcade titles that the vast majority of us never got to play at home.
Act-Fancer, B-Wings, Cluster Buster, Dark Seal 2, Diet Go Go, Night Slashers, Psycho-Nics Oscar and Rohga Armour Force from Data East, and Chameleon, Cybattler, E.D.F., Exerizer, Plus Alpha, Lord of King and Psychic 5 from Jaleco would all be possible on SNES hardware.
OK, here we go...
8bit-Collection Culture Brain Vol.1 - Hiryu no Ken III, Super Chinese & Super Chinese 2
8bit-Collection Data East Vol.1 - BurgerTime, Side Pocket, Bad Dudes (Dragon Ninja Overseas Version), Buggy Popper (Bump 'n' Jump), Daikaiju Deburas & Dark Lord
8bit-Collection JALECO Vol.1 - Exerion, Formation Z, Field Combat & City Connection
8bit-Collection JALECO Vol.2 - Ninja JaJaMaru-kun, Esper Boukentai & Pinball Quest (Overseas Version)
16bit-Collection Athena Vol.1 - Pro Mahjong Kiwame, Pro Mahjong Kiwame 2, Pro Mahjong Kiwame 3, Dezaemon SFC & Biometal
16bit-Collection Culture Brain Vol.1 - Super Chinese World, Super Ultra Baseball & Hiryu no Ken S: Golden Fighter
16bit-Collection Culture Brain Vol.2 - Super Chinese World 2, Super Ultra Baseball 2 & Hiryu no Ken S: Hyper Version
16bit-Collection Culture Brain Vol.3 - Super Chinese World 3, Super Chinese Fighter & SD Hiryu no Ken
16bit-Collection JALECO Vol.1 - Rushing Beat Ran, Rushing Beat Shura, Fire Fighting, Ikari no Yousai (Operation Logic Bomb) & Super E.D.F.
16bit-Collection Data East Vol.1 - Magical Drop, Fighters History, Tatakae Genshijin (Joe & Mac) & Motteke Oh! Dorobou
16bit-Collection Data East Vol.2 - Fighters History: Mizoguchi Kiki Ippatsu!!, Tatakae Genshijin 2: Rookie no Bouken (Congo's Caper) & Super Birdie Rush
16bit-Collection Data East Vol.3 - Magical Drop 2, Tatakae Genshijin 3: Shuyaku wa Yappari Joe & Mac & Side Pocket
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