Importing Some Games, Need Advice

jlacroix · Post by **jlacroix** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 12:26 am

I've been playing Dragon Quest V and VI on ZSNES for a while, but it's not the same to me as owning the original cartridges, so I ebayed them and won them. So now, I have DQV, DQVI, as well as FFIV, FFV, FFVI and Chrono Trigger shipping to my house right now. These are Super Famicom cartridges.

I already know how to make a Super Nintendo play Japanese games, so I don't need help with that. My question is about translation.

Obviously these games will all be in Japanese. I know that with ZSNES, there are patches you can download to put with the ROM to translate the games. Does anything exist like that for actual Super Famicom cartridges? Maybe like a utility to translate them or something like a Game Genie that stores the translation patches so I can understand them?

No big deal if not, this is probably a silly question. I've imported Japanese games before, but only fighting games so far. I've never imported RPG's so this is the first time for me so I was wondering how I may play through the games if I can't read them.

Even if there is no way, these games are still going to make excellent additions to my collection.

creaothceann · Post by **creaothceann** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 12:40 am

You could use a copier to play the patched ROM.

jlacroix · Post by **jlacroix** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 12:55 am

Copier?

PHoNyMiKe · Post by **PHoNyMiKe** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 2:06 am

http://www.tototek.com/pio/main1/SUBMEN ... KUP%20UNIT

a 32M (32Mbit) game doctor will play all of the games you listed, it plays rawms on a real snes. it will also play the patched versions. an SF3 has only a floppy drive, the SF6 and SF7 have a parallel port, so you can upload games from your pc instead of using like 4 floppies. more ram means you can keep several games in the unit without reloading them. a 128Mb GD SF7 would be the bomb.

jlacroix · Post by **jlacroix** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 2:40 am

Is there a USB one?

Snark · Post by **Snark** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 4:56 pm

jlacroix wrote:Is there a USB one?

There are no USB flash cart or copier for the Snes AFAIK. Closest is the "SUPER FLASH 64MB with case for SNES" at Tototek (hardware section)

It's basically a cart that you plug in the Snes like any commercial snes cart. If you order with the case I assume it looks just like a regular cart too

edit: http://www.tototek.com/pio/main1/SUBMEN ... lash18.jpg

(Normally the cart would be closed of course)

. It uses Parallel for transfer (USB is only used for power supply)

The only problem with Parallel is that your PC/program can have trouble detecting that the cart is connected. I got the same type of flash cart as above (except for Megadrive) and the flasher program only detects the cart on one of my three PCs (two of which I bought used for less than 30$ so don't think I'm rich or anything...) even though I tried all the Parallel settings in the Bios.

neo_bahamut1985 · Post by **neo_bahamut1985** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 1:09 am

If one did use one of these copiers, wouldn't that screw something up in the SNES?

megamanzer0 · Post by **megamanzer0** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 1:44 am

I don't really see how it would be possible seeing is it acts as a regular cartridge would

edit:retarded grammatical error

snkcube · Post by **snkcube** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 5:12 am

Using a copier won't screw up a SNES. At least, it hasn't for me yet.