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MAJICOM CHECKED OUT
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by J/\Y / .:+:!EcLiPsE!:+:.
Its an on going subject about these copying
machines for the SUPER NINTENDO/SUPER FAMICON,that ,well basicly, do they
do the same job as the actual cartridge, and of course do they exist at all!!
About 1 year ago i saw FINAL FIGHT on the
FAMICON, i was absolutly blown away by the speed,graffix and playability
of the machine, i think at that stage i would have gladly giving up my
AMIGA for the FAMICON. So why didn't i, well at that time you could only get
the FAMICON,which was a jap import and a little expensive, but the main reason
for not going for it was the price of the games.At this stage there was very
little known of the MAJICOM(which is the copier for the FAMICON/SNES) so i
left it at that and thought to my self that one day when i was rich enough
i would buy a cool console like that and be able to buy the games.
So a few months later i started to hear about this
MAJICOM,what i heard about it was that you could load a FAMICON game using
a special piece of hardware from a floppy HD disk!Also at this stage i was
starting to modem trade and all the U.S. and U.K. BBS'S were carrying all
the console warez on them,yet you still don't believe that these copiers are
as cool as they are made out to be,now the reasons that i had my doubts about
them was this....
1: The files on the BBS'S averaged from 400k to 800k
the biggest files i had seen were for STREET FIGFHTER II
and some STAR TREK game those files were over 1000k.So i
look at the size of these files and i compere them to some
AMIGA game on two disks which is over 1000k, now the AMIGA
game is shit and yet the FAMICON game of a smaller size is
bigger, faster,graficaly ten times better, faster sprites
and overall amazing.So i say to myself, how could a file of
that size be ten times better than an AMIGA game of a bigger
size!So this was doubt one.
2: Everyone says that carts CANNOT be copied! (except those who
know better)
3: If these games are loading by a floppy there would be a lot of
loading,disk accesing,disk swapping and a lot of disks
considering the seemingly size of the games.
4: Ok excepting that the copiers work, surely the actual running
of the game on the copier would be a bit slow.
Ok to understand how these copiers work is to forget
about the AMIGA and how the AMIGA works.The FAMICON runs nothing like an AMIGA.
Those are some of the things that were going through my mind a few months back,
when a friend of mine got a MAJICOM in from the UK. he too had his doubts about
these copiers,but being a console freak was willing to lash the money for one,
which was in the region of 330 sterling.i will not tell you the name of this
person cause he says that he would like to keep himself to himself (hi bren) he
was the fist guy to get one of these copiers in to IRELAND.So he finally got his
copier and after a while i went down to actuly see this machine in operation
( at last the myth unfolds)
HOW IT WORKS
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To start with you have to have the FAMICON/SNES
console (ye!) so then you have to get your MAJICOM, now the MAJICOM is a small
unit that sits on top of the FAMICON/SNES its about a quarter the size of the
FAMICON and even looks like part of the console while it is on top of it,
coming from the MAJICOM unit is a 3 1/2 HD drive,its quite a neat looking
unit nothing of what you might think it to look like.
So to a trial,i ask for a big game to be tried
on it,we look through his disk box and he has 100 FAMICON games,and they are
all on 1 disk each, with the exception of STREET FIGHTER II which is on
2 disks, oh and on some disks there are 2 to 3 games on them, so he picks out
SUPER CONTRA, now from the moment the game is inserted it starts to load,and
what it does is load the whole disk into the FAMICON via the MAJICOM, the
loading is about 30 secs (no shit) the game starts,its fucking amazing,
its the real thing!! no slow downs ,no nothing ,this guy is kinda an
expert at this game and goes through 3 levels of this game .. with no
more loading i might add!!We go through quite a number of games checking
them out, all have the same results, and all of amazing quality, to go back to
the size of the files,the files that are on the BBS'S are all packed in
LHA form,so you have to download them, and then unpack them on a PC,when
they unpack they nearly double in size then you drop them onto your floppy,
they are then ready for inserting into the drive of the MAJICOM,then
seemingly when they are loaded into the FAMICON/SNES they unpack even
further,STREET FIGHTER seemingly unpacks to nearly 16 megabits.
These copiers are 99% as good as the actual
carts, i say 99% cause the 1% i would take away for the loading of the game
from disk, but thats fuck all compered to the quality and range of the
games that you are getting for free,also with these copiers you can also copy
original carts, now aint that amazing!! Also these copiers are not illegal
and they aint legal either.I will be the owner of one of these very soon.
SNES/FAMICON PRICES IN DUBLIN as of 19-01-93
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POWER CITY: SNES with SUPER MARIO = 159.99 IR
POWER CITY: SNES with FINAL FIGHT II = 169.99 IR
H.M.V. : SNES with no game = 149.99 IR
DUNNES ; SNES with SUPER MARIO = 179.99 IR
MAJICOM (copiers) go find them!!!!!!!!!!!= 300.ish IR
Now before you rush out to buy one of these
copiers,just ask yourself "where am i gonna get the amount of games to
justify me spending about 330 quid to feed this copier" and where are ye
gonna get one cause they aint for sale anywhere in IRELAND.
ps:I have also seen the copier for the MEGADRIVE and works on the exact same
principle,and is as cool, but the FAMICON/SNES is a much more advanced
console and will eventualy take over the MEGADRIVE!!!
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Article by : J/\Y .:+:!EcLiPsE Irl!:+:.