novadeamon has sent me some pictures of a pirated version of Terranigma that he found in Korea. It is a pretty interesting pirate, with a large amount of chips on the PCB.

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Also, I just got back from vacation, so if I haven't responded to messages sent my way, I should be getting to them soon!

January 7th is the 11th anniversary of SNES Central. My lament at the lack of SNES sites still holds true today as it did back when I first started this site. I thank everyone for visiting, and I guarantee my archivist tendencies will continue in the future.

I've been busy updating my SNES pcb list, and am now up to 112 entries. I am certain that this is not comprehensive (for example I expect there are at least four other PCBs for StarFox/Starwing). If anyone has scans of PCBs not on this list, feel free to contact me! Anyways, I have uploaded PCB and cart label scans for the following games. Thanks to JohnDie, Y~K and ReadOnly for the contributions. Titles with Japanese indicates that I added the Japanese scans.

• Exhaust Heat (エキゾースト・ヒート)
• GD Leen (ガデュリン)
• Hayazashi Nidan Morita Shougi (早指し二段森田将棋)
• Hayazashi Nidan Morita Shougi (早指し二段森田将棋２)
• JRA PAT
• JRA PAT - Wide Taiyouban (JRA PAT ワイド対応版)
• NBA Live '98
• Populous (ポピュラス)
• Sim City (シムシティー)
• Star Ocean (スターオーシャン)
• Street Fighter II Turbo
• Super Adventure Island II
• Super F1 Circus 2 (スーパー エフワン サーカス２)
• Super Mario RPG (スーパーマリオRPG)
• Winning Post 2 - Program '96 (ウイニングポスト2プログラム'96)
• Zaitaku Touhyou System - SPAT4-Wide (在宅投票システム SPAT 4 - ワイド)

I got a request to work on adding some SNES PCBs that were not on my list. I added PCBs for the following games, plus cart label scans where applicable.

• Momotarou Dentetsu Happy
• Pilotwings
• Super Bomberman - Panic Bomber W
• Super StarFox Weekend
• Tales of Phantasia

Lost Levels sent me a picture of a prototype of Wild Guns, which unfortunately turned out to be the same as the final US version.

However, through my searches, I was able to find a non-final prototype of the game. This prototype appears to have been leaked years ago on a BBS, so we may never know its true origin. It is fairly close to final, but I detail some of the differences.

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Markfrizb3 emailed me a manual showing a custom made PCB that allows one to connect a SNES to a Jamma arcade board. Looks like an interesting project.

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Bruno Tondin sent me some detailed pictures of his Super NES that was produced in Brazil by Playtronic. They system itself is pretty close to the same as a US SNES, though there are Playtronic serial number stickers on it.

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In addition, he sent me some pictures of the Playtronic version of Mortal Kombat 3. I have added these to the Brazilian SNES page.

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Thanks again to Lost Levels, I have another page of prototypes, this time of Mega Man VII. Unfortunately, all three prototypes had the final binaries on them.

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In addition, I updated the much more interesting Rockman 7 prototype page with pictures of the actual prototype.


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Today's update features no less than three prototypes of Captain Commando. Unfortunately, when dumped they were all the final version of the game.

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I received pictures of many prototypes that were give to me by Lost Levels, and I thought I would use the opportunity to revisit some of the prototypes with techniques that I learned since releasing them. First up is the prototype of Super Buster Bros. As it turns out, this prototype is a transitional version between the released 1.0 and 1.1 revisions.

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Today, I have an update on the prototype for Cybernator. The ROM image actually was leaked years ago on a BBS board, but now we can confirm that it is a prototype of the game. The main things I noticed that were different from the final version is that they have character portraits during text scenes, which were removed from the final version, and that the prototype has a sound test. Thanks to Retrology for dumping this.

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