A few years ago, I read an article on Chinese RPGs in PiQ magazine, which lasted a whopping three issues, that mentioned the Famicom FFVII, and I thought that was interesting. I didn't find out much about them as a whole until later, though, when my dad bought a Famiclone at a used record store and I was having some trouble getting it to work. The instructions didn't mention that you needed to put the games on top of an adapter backwards and *then* put them in the machine, but since the instructions pretty much said that the machine needed to be plugged into the wall, that lack of information shouldn't have been a surprise. One of the information sources that I found on the system came from this wiki, though, which got me reading more about Famiclones in general and the games that you guys were posting about. I thought that the sprite art for the demakes in particular was really cool, so that's how I became interested in the games.

Hello! I apologize if this is an unfair bump, and if so, please feel free to delete my post. I have an AtGames Genesis with 40 of these original games on it hooked up to my TV right now, though- the ones that are listed here stand out to their relatively slick interfaces and non-horrific-nightmare-music, but some of them do seem a bit more disturbing, with strange, off key music and blurry graphics. The Freeway knockoff (I think it's called Cross the Road, creatively enough) even has a typo, which is a bad sign when the entire game only contains one line of text and it ends up being "All Rights Reserve." Would it be in any way helpful if I posted a list of these with the ones credited to Tectoy (which seems to be the only company willing to cop to these) marked off in some way, or are the contents of these machines pretty much common knowledge?

Hello again, and thank you for all of the kind comments! On its own, this one is not so interesting, but as part of the eventual best/most deranged dorm room Christmas tree ever, it is going to be awesome. This is a stitching (and recoloring, just for a few details) of Athena and Chizuru's non-battle sprites from KOF R-1 and R-2! I'm probably going to make a few more of them from these games, but I have the map sprites from a few other pirated RPGs waiting to be stitched as well, so I am really not sure.

This looks like it will be really cool! I realize that it's not an SNK port, but have you played Takara's Game Boy version of Battle Arena Toshinden? I'd say gameplay-wise that it's about as good as their Game Boy World Heroes, but I always thought that the sprites from it were very charming (and preferable to the graphics in the Playstation game). Regardless of that, I look forward to seeing more about this game!

Hello! I find pirated games to be fascinating, so I've lurked on this forum for a long time, but, until now, haven't posted anything due to a lack of technical know-how and a lack of anything insightful to say aside from that I think these games are cool. I am, however, capable of screenshot taking, image editing, and embroidery, so I've been able to use a lot of the graphics from these games for craft projects. The scaled down simplicity of the fighting game sprites in particular is really fun to work with, and though several of these projects feature recolors and, in one case, a few custom sprites, it's often just looking at the games or playing for a few minutes that makes me want to do something artsy and fun. I'm currently working on some stitching from the just posted Shenzhen Nanjing King of Fighters RPGs, but here are some of the pirated game craft projects that I've done so far.


I started learning about these games from an article about the Famicom version of Final Fantasy 7, so this recolored version of Aeris's portrait was my first project based on any of these games. She glows in the dark, so I guess that's something.


After that, I wanted to try something more ambitious, so I took the battle sprites for Aeris and Tifa, edited some of the blurry screenshots from the now reported to be fake Famicom FFX to get Yuna and Rikku's battle sprites into a stitchable form, and then made myself some custom sprites for Meena from Dragon Quest IV and Jessica from Dragon Quest VIII. This project still involved a lot of recoloring and custom stuff, but it was fun.

Soon after that, I found out that there were Famicom versions of King of Fighters, and that's when things got out of hand. This is a stitched (and still recolored) version of Leona's sprite from the King of Fighters '96 pirate-

-and a matching, but still recolored Mai, with her Game Boy counterpart. (Both of these are in alternate color schemes for the character because I'd done enough stitching of Mai to be sick of the standard red outfit.)

I did a lot of color editing on this one, but, as such, it's one of my favorite stitches from one of these games so far. The sprite is from the Fatal Fury Special pirate, which I think was much more flattering for her than the above game's depiction, and though I did add color to this like crazy, I was impressed by the shading and detail in the original graphic.

For Tracy here, I had some trouble getting Street Fighter IV screens due to flicker and such, so I have to thank King Pepe for ripping these sprites and putting them on Spriter's Resource. Then again, it was nice to stitch a character without having to huddle over the print screen button and image editors, so I have absolutely nothing to complain about in this case. I liked the color scheme that she had in Street Fighter IV, so she ended up avoiding a recolor.

I've done some perler bead stuff from pirated games, too, but I feel like this is out of hand, so I am done for now. Thank you very much for looking at my work!