#EXCITEBIKE CARTRIDGE HOW TO#

#EXCITEBIKE CARTRIDGE HOW TO#

'back', to make it easier for the buyer to know how to use it. On the one I sold, I actually used sticky labels on the adapter to indicate what was pin 1 and which was 'front' vs. Capturing the basic concepts of the sport riding atop a motorized bicycle, leaping high into the air off earthen ramps, and waiting in anticipation for the tremendous wipe-out crash that will certainly come eventually, the game has you testing your skill by maneuvering down an obstacle course and. You CAN insert these cartridges into the adapters backwards (or the adapter into the NES backwards!) which will will cause damage (IIRC, permanently). If you do have one that contains a Famicom 60-to-72-pin adapter in it: DO NOT disconnect the Famicom cartridge from the adapter without writing down which way/direction the cartridge was facing. of games such as Gyromite, Hogan's Alley, Excitebike, and others. There's no difference between the cartridges otherwise they're the same game. with different cartridge shapes and fewer pins on the ends of the Famicom. Some (the very early originals) contained the Famicom 60-to-72-pin adapters I mentioned. Nintendo also used different shells/cartridges for Excitebike and several other first-gen titles some are 5-screw, some are 3-screw. It's almost certainly not a bootleg (bootleg NES carts are much more uncommon than Famicom carts). Excitebike: Bun Bun Mario Battle ( Ekisaitobaiku Bun Bun Mario Batoru: noting that 'bun bun' is a Japanese onomatopoeia for buzzing sounds - in this case, produced by the motorcycles - this title can be understood as 'Excitebike: Vroom-Vroom Mario Battle') is a remake/adaptation of the NES title Excitebike. There are ways to tell this, but the easiest way is to simply open the cart up and look. These tend to sell for quite a lot of money (US$75 is common and what mine went for it was of Stack-Up but that has no bearing). You have what is most likely a first-generation Excitebike cartridge that contains a Famicom-to-NES adapter inside of it (rephrased: the PCB/cart itself is a 60-pin Famicom cartridge, attached to a 60-to-72-pin adapter to make it work on the NES).