Lock 'n roll: a tale of three cartridges

Re:Lock 'n roll: a tale of three cartridges by sfev on Friday March 08, 2019 @02:14AM (#19335754)

I remember having another type of cartridge - one that let you plug a UK and a US “shape” cart into so you could play the US cart on your UK machine. Like the “Noah’s Ark” cart it’d use the region code from the UK cart to boot up the US cart on your UK (PAL) machine. IIRC the UK cart had to be the SuperFX type for some reason

I used one to play SFII: Turbo months before it came out over here. Unfortunately it wasn’t very well made and knocking the machine while in use would cause the game to cut out & restart, which happened quite a lot during intensive 2p matches!

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Re:Lock 'n roll: a tale of three cartridges by benj111 on Friday March 08, 2019 @02:59AM (#19335909)

There were a few variations.

For the nes you could get an adaptor that took a nes game (for the lockout chip) and a famicom game, allowing you to play famicom games, that didn't have lock out chips. A few pirate/ unlicensed games went this route also.

I've seen a similar thing for the snes. I believe the super famicom had a lock out, so cant remember if this was required for those.

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