Hey everyone, I am new here but I do have a intrest in Bootlegs so I have came to ask you guys about this issue I am having with a modern generic Somari cartridge I brought sometime in 2015/early 2016. (The reason why I am posting this in 2000 - Present and not 1993 - 1999 is because this is a new modern print of the game)
I remember getting this cartridge (Picture will be attached in post) on Ebay for around £6 (I'm british) and it comming from Poland. I remember thinking I was scammed (like I once later was with a Showbiz Pizza Token) because it took around 2 or 3 months to come. But when it arrived I was so happy, because I genuinely like Somari from the times I had played it on a Emulator.
As scumbaggish as this may sound I could not play the game on a real NES or Famicom due to my NES breaking (My dog ran across the wire and it fell and just won't work anymore) so I had to do it using a retrobit NES to SNES adapter and a Famicom to NES circuit board by Honey Bee. This set up worked for all my famicom games so I don't know why it didn't work for my Somari cartridge, most of the time it either displayed a black screen, green screen or white screen.
I do however know that the game is on there. By playing one of my famicom games and taking out the cart while its running and putting in the Somari cart I can load some of the sprite data, while doing this with Magical Taruruto-kun Fantastic World!! I was able to see some of "Somari" himself on the games title screen.
I have also heard to get these modern bootlegs to work you need to own a Famiclone and they will not run on a orginal NES or Famicom.
So since I am too lazy to take a picture of the back I will write what it says on there:
"Avoid exposing cartr dge to extreme temperature"
"Be careful not to immerse cartridge in water."
"For protection, when cartridge is noe in use, place cartridge inside protective plastic case."
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I never got the "protective plastic case"
I have also seen this cart on a page where the guy did get it to work:
https://famicloneblog.wordpress.com/2015/11/05/somari-the-adventurer/I will probably eventually post a video of my set up and my attempts at trying to get the game to work here eventually, but for now I will just include a picture of the front of my cart. (If anyone knows who made it I would be greatful.)
(Also sidenote: Sorry if this was alot to read, I do have an issue with typing really long posts however I wanted to get as much detail into this post as I could see reasonable.)
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