While I have no problem with it being on The Wayback Machine, the forum gets backed up about every day regardless.

Did you get a PM on the old Tapatalk forums? That should give you the new password for this forum. (Which you should be able to reset after you log in)

No.

Officially, the SNES did officially get released in Russia (by Steepler Ltd.), South Korea (by Hyundai) and Brazil (by Playtonic).

Taiwan and the rest of South America must've gotten the SNES/SFC albeit unofficially, as SNES bootleg games and hacks were developed and even released in those areas. Taiwanese clones of the SNES did exist pre-2001 but they seem to be really rare. (I'm aware there was a Micro Genius SNES clone.) The biggest issue might've been the CIC was in both the SFC and the SNES and it took until around I believe 1996 or 1997 to even clone it. (As SNES bootlegs seem to have emerged during this time. However, I could be very wrong on this.) On top of this, the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis was much easier to clone earlier on so it was the go-to 16-bit console of choice. Even by the time the SNES could be cloned, the market for SMD/Genesis games in those areas was already falling out.

That Mahjong game as far as I'm aware is undumped. It also uses music from the Squirrel King hack "Super Mario Bros."

I'm pretty sure Waixing and SNT just saw some Taiwanese RPGs they thought would be worth porting over. (Especially considering some of these games are based off other properties: San Guo Zhi being Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Barver Battle Saga uses Final Fantasy's Taiwanese name, Digimon 3 is well, obvious.) Vast Fame wasn't even the only Taiwanese company whose games were ported by SNT; SoftStar also got several of their games ported by SNT as well.

I highly doubt there was any Vast Fame staff or Tian Cai Xiao Zi staff that went to work for Waixing or SNT; it just seems like Waixing and SNT themselves just wanted to port their games over because it was another RPG they could port and saw some value in it.

I should probably clarify especially since I've just made this mistake; necroposting simply does not refer to bumping old topics but bumping them with irrelevant or spammy posts. Bumping an old topic with actual knowledge or something worth discussing is fine.

The problem with necroposting lies in the fact that not only do the posts not add anything to the discussion, it tends to shift an irrelevant (and sometimes finished) topic back to the first page. This in turn can make people read said topic only to find someone posted something completely useless. Just a simple annoyance? Sure, but an annoyance and a mess on the first page of a board nonetheless.