I noticed these Super Wild Card devices you attach to the Super Nintendo and you can copy games on to floppy disc also have an option called “Transfer Program from Disk To Cassette” - i read that this option was to transfer games on floppy discs to blank carts. i assume these “blank Carts” had an empty printed circuit board inside and using the Wild Card you could create your own game carts- These blank carts were suposidly sold by the same manufactures of the Wild Card and came in 12,24, and 32 meg capacity carts.
I know these blank carts were actually available at one time because several years ago somebody on ebay had homemade carts of Lufia he was selling for a short period- i guess he bought blank carts and loaded the game on them using the transfer the program from disk to cassette option.
i won one of these carts- It has the nintendo logo on the back.The front has no label- only Lufia written by a black marker. The cart is also heavier and the screws are small phillips head- not that strange screw that is in regular carts- I would like ot know if any other board member has any of these “homemade” carts of any other SNES games?
I wonder if anyone made up carts of Final Fantasy 5 or Dragon Quest 5 & 6 from the English translation patch versions? i would think they would elicit more interest than Lufia 1 because DQ 5&6 and Final Fantasy 5 never were never released for Super Nintendo like Lufia 1 was.The only homemade or bootleg carts i know of are of Lufia 1- anybody know of any others??
Are those like the Flash Carts you can get for the GBA, blank carts you can stick a ROM onto? That’s what it sounds like.
Yes, they’re just like flash carts. Though the one you have there (the Lufia one) may not be a flash cart. It’s just as likely either way, but it could be a review copy sent to a magazine. Those didn’t always have real labels.
Another interesting factoid about SNES games, not all import copies are going to be on finalized carts. In Japan, you could buy a blank SFC cart in a game shop, and then go to a jukebox looking machine where you could copy game data to your empty cart. It was completely legal, and Nintendo themselves set up the jukebox like machines. This was the only way to get certain games after the Bandai Satelliview flopped.
I didn’t know what a flash cart was so thanks for the information. And yes, it does sound like the same thing.So now that i know of these flash carts i would like to know if any Super Wild Card owner actually was able to use that “transfer program from disc to cassette” option. Were something like these flash carts ever sold for the Super Wild Card?
I want to know because then you could download a ROM to disc then transfer it to a blank cart. Nice idea for Dragon Warrior 5 & 6 with the English translation patch because then you wouldn’t have to play the game on a computer emulator.
Remember that Scott Morgan guy i mentioned in one of my posts. The Guru guy. The last thing i heard from him was he was working on his own video game he was going to make carts of and sell -He had a Super Wild Card and he said he bought some blank carts he was going to upload his own game on and sell.And he had the programing skills to make his own game.He was a genius.i would like to know where he is now and if he ever completed that “Scott’s Saga” game he was working on.And here’s my ego again-Scott told me he was naming one of the characters in Scott’s Saga after me.“Scottie, Help me out” , make me famous by naming a character in your video game after me like you promised!
Flash carts are still available, but they’re very hard to find due to their lack of legality. GBA flash carts are the easiest to find, though it typically runs you about $150 for a 256 MB flash cart (unless prices have dropped). Sure, that costs more than a standard cart, but when you’re done with the game, you wipe it and put a new game on.
Since this is the SNES we’re talkking about…wouldn’t they be EEPROM carts, not flash carts? ololololol 
An empty BS cart should work, too (in this case, BS stands for Bandai Satelliview, not the more common acronym).