Throughout the past few months I've been finding some new SNES pirates that nobody really knows about. It probably goes without saying that besides the occasional hacks(i.e Sonic 4) that the whole library of SNES pirates is nothing but ports from Genesis, or apparently on the rare occasion possibly other systems? In this topic I'll just bring a little run through of what I know about, some introduced on RX a bit ago and others you probably haven't heard of much, or ever? :O
HerculesI got this one a few months ago, hoping that I may have found something really unique. It turned out to just be a port of the Genesis Hercules pirate. It uses completely different music however, some of it not half bad. As some probably are aware, this game is a loose port of the Playstation Hercules game, so maybe the music comes from that, I still need to play it someday to find out. Animation in general is also very jerky, plus the palette is kind of screwed up for a couple of things. Besides that, it's the same thing as on Genesis, with the exact same ending.
Taz in Escape from MarsI've sadly no idea what this is, and the seller failed to take any shots of it. He told me he'll give me screenshots soon, so I'll definitely post about it here if he follows through on that. It would be pretty interesting if pirates actually ported the Genesis game to SNES, since instances of an official game ported to SNES aren't common.
Mortal Kombat 2000Just more proof SNES pirates can't get terribly interesting, this appears to just be a port of the Mortal Kombat 5 Sub Zero pirate on Genesis.
Digimon I'm sure people on the RX forums saw this(same seller as the Taz above). Some people think it's a port of a GBA Digimon game that was somewhat recently shown on the Sky League website. I recently found out that Vast Fame made a Digimon Sidescroller on GBA with a different name from that one though, perhaps they made both of them? So it's up in the air which it's a port of, but as anyone can tell it definitely came from the GBA. Here's shots of one of the GBA games to compare:
Aladdin 2I know, horrible pic quality, but trust me, that Aladdin cart in the middle has a 2 on it, and the guy that was selling it listed it as Aladdin 2 also. Could it be, a port of the Aladdin 2 pirate on Genesis? But that game was a port of the SNES Aladdin. Which means they'd be porting a port of a game that's already on the SNES. We'll probably never know for sure, but I wouldn't be surprised if pirates were so stupid as to not realize how redundant porting this of all things back onto SNES would have been :lol:
101 DalmationsUnknown. But what is known is that this is merely a hack of some other game. It was made by Twin Eagles Group, the same people responsible for Sonic 4 and lots of other sprite hacks.
I take it most are already familiar with the rest, like Bug's Life, Titanic(S.O.S hack), Street Fighter EX Alpha etc. Maybe I'll post those pics of people aren't already familiar with them thanks to the RX topic made awhile ago. Hope some of this was interesting.