Peace is paved
With kingdom saved
Hurrah to Rambo
Our only hero
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If you know your classics, you'll recognise Super Mario Bros. 2 (Japan) ending with the Kaiser touch. That one has been dumped for a -long- time and you'd think that, by now, all the different SMB2j port would have been properly dumped and documented?

*Nervous laugh*


Super Mario Bros. 2
We've got a whopping three Super Mario Bros. 2 ports.

• The first was found on a LF36 cartridge bearing no other text beside the Whirlwind Manu ID. It seems to be the original Mapper 40 port. It was later hacked to feature an advanced level select cheat. NTDEC seems to be responsible for it, there's a chip bearing their name on the PCB.

• The second and third originate from these huge Famicom cartridges that used to be circulating in the late 80s solely in Taiwan. These huge cases were made to shelter oversized PCBs.
Why am I listing them together? Both were found with a PCB bearing YUNG-08 and like us, you would have thought the data was identical? One had a protection check patched out for obscure reasons while still having the necessary hardware to comply with.

Super Mario Party

Some months ago, the Super Mario Family cartridge was dumped, but its parent version wasn't! Before you give up and smash all the buttons on the selection screen, you can move the cursor with select. Oh, and don't press start for too long if you want to play the original Mario Bros..

Golden Mario Party II 6-in-1

Another Mario compilation with 6 games made by an unknown company. From Super Mario Bros. 2 (USA) to Super Bros. 7 with MC Mario as the closing title.
Rumor says something will happen if you press B,B,A,A in order on the 6-in-1 menu.

1991 賭馬 Racing (TXC) (MGC-009)

Micro Genius release of that one Super Mega title. Copyright untouched but they did fix an audio bug. They knew their priorities!

Ultimate Stuntman

Now we've got something very obscure. It's a single release of Ultimate Stuntman which is byte-to-byte identical on the version found on the Pegasus 5-in-1 released by BIC. Yet that one cartridge bears no mention of BIC nor Realtec and the PCB is generic.
Who made this? How did they get ahold of that version?

➡Download the ROM⬅

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…but wait, wasn't he named Romeo at a point?

Credits to krzsyiobal and NewRisingSun.