| Super Mario 14 Aka. Kid Nikki, Famicom |
 Super Mario 14 is a "Hack" of a Japanese exclusive Famicom game called Kaiketsu Yanchamaru 3: Taiketsu! Zouringen - aka, Kid Niki 2, the sequel to Kid Nikki Radical Ninja.
Super Mario 14, aka. Mario 14 basically finds Kid Nikki's sprites replaced inconsistantly with Super Mario Bros. sprites, likely from Super Mario Bros. 3. The Copyright has been altered to suggest a 1993 publishing date by "Wario" - which is kind of a basic-b**** hilarious way of covering up the fact this is a hacked version of a FAmicom Japanese exclusive game. Per the Bootleg Games Wiki there's no identified publisher or maker or hacker associated with this game. However, this was a common practice in China apparently back in the day. What they would do is take a pre-existing less-as-popular or even region-exclusive game, and then add some popular character to it (Sonic, MArio, Link, Donkey Kong, whatever), and pretend it was some kind of wacko sequel. Sometimes they'd just change the title screen, sometimes they'd change the whole thing. But what's really freakin' funny....is not all of these were from china, and not all of these were intended for release either. Actually, I'll tell the story one day of a possible mistake on my part that lead to a lot of retrogamers getting a weird copy of Dragon Warrior 1's ROM that had DQ2 graphics in it (and looked ridiculous as a result).What the Heck Is This Crap? - My Experiences So me and Mario 14 were not exactly strangers as I got the Sup 400-in-1- Retro Portable Console Thingy. I was already aware it existed and found it utterly hilarious to begin with. See, I liked buggy mess copycat/hacked/Nice Code crap games since I started bittering about with Emulation back in the early 2000's. I think my first encounter was on some kind of Contra 999999-in-1 Multicart ROM Dump I had on creeping Net 2 back in the day and played via NESticle. Basically, I got it just to see how ridiculous these games could be, and see if China had anything interesting or weird. Here's this game with Mario on it, claiming ot be made by Wario, so I already KNEW this was not legit, even back then, and then started kooky non-mario related music and here's Mario armed with some kind of Samuri pole thingy. Honestly, I don't like it very much. I've gotten really far into it, but I'd much rather be playing a Kid Nikki with the proper enemy sets, than as Mario with a banboo pole, and Koopa Troopas running around everywhere all willy nilly. I could have made a better hack in 15 minutes using TileLayer in DOS.Videos Other Stuff |
