r/Famicom

I'm trying to identify a game I played around 1998–2000 on a Famicom/NES clone in India. It came on a black 3-in-1 or 4-in-1 cartridge.

Here's everything I remember:

It was entirely in Japanese.

Graphics were very good compared to most NES/Famicom games.

It was a 2D side-scrolling action shooter.

The playable characters hovered/glided instead of walking.

There were more than two playable characters, each with different abilities and weapons.

One character was pink.

Another character was green with very long hair.

The characters weren't completely human-looking and wore what I remember as futuristic armor or space suits.

If my current character died (for example, by falling into a pit), I had to manually choose another character to continue. The characters became available again after restarting.

One common enemy looked like a bubble that required repeated shots to destroy.

The first stage was outdoors, but not a forest—more like rocky or alien terrain.

The opening/introduction reminded me a lot of Saint Seiya with an anime-style presentation.

Bosses were large humanoids wearing gold armor.

Boss fights switched to a completely different screen:

My character was shown from behind at the bottom-left.

The command menu (Attack, etc., in Japanese) was at the bottom-right.

The boss appeared as a large animated sprite in the upper-right.

The game had music during both the stages and the boss fights.

I also remember at least one boss seeming impossible to beat, although that could have been because I didn't understand Japanese.

Games that it is NOT:

Bucky O'Hare

Layla

Xexyz

Moon Crystal

Metal Storm

Cocoron

Ginga no Sannin

Captain Commando

Cosmo Police Galivan

Saint Seiya games

Getsu Fūma Den

At this point I suspect it may have been a Japan-only game, a pirate multicart exclusive, or a port from another Japanese computer system (MSX/PC-88/PC-98).

Does this sound familiar to anyone?

I hate for my first post in this community to come off as a plug, but I made a video about the Family BASIC and the Data Recorder that I feel like this sub would find interesting. Loading games from cassette tapes is peak 80s tech in my opinion.

I see many great solutions to the cord length issue, but I'm curious if anyone here has tried using a male to female molex cable assembly to extend the length?

You'd disconnect the current controllers, attach and run a new cable from through the chassis out of the case, then connect the controllers original plugs into those.

Could probably just replace the cable wholesale but this would prevent the need to solder anything (or have mismatched cable lengths due to measurement variances).

I just bought a super famicom and am just starting my retro game setup. I don’t want to collect a bunch of games of this console “as I don’t know Japanese” but I do wanna play quite a few. I see these cartridges that have SD cards in it so you can grab Roms. Is there any alternative? Or are their even any legit ones out there? I super new to the retro world.

Hello to everyone. I've decided to take a leap of fate into the bottomless rabbit hole of retrogaming, bought my first CRT TV (Sony Trinitron KV-14T1U) and currently waiting for Super Famicom, Twin Famicom (which I'm planning to mod for RGB out) and Sega Mega Drive 1 (which I'm planning to do 60hz mod).

However I still have a few questions, which I hope you guys will be able to help me with.

1. I've got a Lava 2.0 RGB mod kit for the Twin Famicom and it used a 10 pin out for the RGB. My fellow friend Gemini told me that this is a typical Sega Saturn video out and in order to output the RGB signal from modded Twin Famicom to my Trinitron, I need to buy a stock SCART Sega Saturn cable. I found locally a cheap pair of what appears to be genuine Sega Saturn SCART cables and receiving it , I realized that they have the connectors with different amounts of pins in: one comes with 7 pins connector and another with 10. Doing a quick search in Google, I found that the one with 7 pins could be a PAL SCART cable and the one with 10 pins - NTSC (also I might be wrong here, as the search was really brief). Can you please tell me if I'll be able to use both of these cables to connect my modded Twin Famicom to the SCART of my Trinitron with 60hz RGB signal?

2. Do I need to modify my NTSC Super Famicon, to be able to have 60hz RGB signal with my Trinitron or all I need is just a SCART cable for it?s