Tue 18 Sep 2007
3:51 pm
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Yes, you read that right.
If you raised an eyebrow at the headline it's because you know that there never was an SNES version of Secret of Mana 2, and furthermore, that no such game by that name was ever released anywhere. Ever.
Tell that to ebay seller kurt.roussel, who decided that such minor philosophical issues as "existence" weren't about to stop him from auctioning one off. What is real anyway? Sure the game isn't "real" in the sense that it is about as unofficial as it gets, but what IS real is the desire to acquire that images of it instill in me. I'd love to have that on my shelf just to blow people's minds.
I didn't even really like Seiken Densetsu 3 despite one of the main characters being named Kevin, who, like myself, is the only son of a beastman king. It just didn't live up to Secret of Mana. But even so, it's a shame it never made it to the US, perhaps I would've liked it better playing it on an actual SNES. I guess I'll never know, because $300 is a little out of my price range. Maybe Square will see fit to release a translated version for Virtual Console someday.
With all the effort put into making this, I'm curious why the original Japanese logo was used on the cart itself. It kind of breaks the illusion of it really being "Secret of Mana 2".
[via GameSniped]
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September 18th, 2007 at 7:58 pm
I loved the hell out of SD3. Much more than the uber-repetitive SoM and it’s 800 palette swapped levels.
But people that run these auctions are such scumbags. I rat them out to the bidders every time.
September 18th, 2007 at 10:43 pm
I didn’t like the way SD3’s battle system worked. I never felt like I had the same control over my character as I did in SD2. The fast action and freedom of movement was what made that game for me.
Every subsequent Mana game played the same way as SD3 and locked you in on a single screen until you cleared it of enemies.
September 20th, 2007 at 1:08 am
I wish they made SNES titles for 360’s XBLA.
September 29th, 2007 at 1:22 am
http://snesdev.romhack.de/som2.htm
this is not my site, I am spreading this around the net where the ebay auction left an impact on Secret of Mana culture, I do not have an eprom writer these are very difficult to find cheap, I have found them anywhere from 200-1000 US dollars. The guy selling it had a translated box that looked like it was taken from a PAL cart box and translated from Japanese, the box didn’t look like a retail box but could be wrong, and the guide was translated from japanese as well. He obviously spent a lot of time perfecting this. The auction however doesn’t seem to be on ebays site any longer, so maybe someone tipped off square for copyright violation. I bet he sold it to the highest bidder anyway..
March 13th, 2008 at 11:22 am
I make people’s dream real…