Mr Gimmick! Glitch

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I have what I believe is an original PAL B Mr Gimmick cart with very clean contacts.

However, when playing, the bottom diaplay/hud does not appear and there seems to be an error on the title screen.

I have played on avs and top loader unit.

Is there anything that I should be looking for here? Just live with it?

 

 

Edited March 14, 2020 by toothbrushes
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[guitarzombie 754]

That game wont fully work on an NSTC system because it was coded for PAL TVS/NES consoles.  Its a misconception that all you have to do is bypass the lockout chip for PAL games to work.  Some work fine just sped up (as they all will do unless it was coded into the game to recognize PAL/NTSC), or itll glitch but be playable, or be unplayable due to graphics or otherwise.

The only way for that game to properly work is to use some sort of AVS or system that can switch between PAL and NTSC.  The US Prototype Mr. Gimmick repro works perfectly well, just isnt genuine, of course. 

TL;DR:

Set your system to "PAL" on your AVS (I somehow skipped that).

Edited March 14, 2020 by guitarzombie

[toothbrushes 10]

9 hours ago, guitarzombie said:

That game wont fully work on an NSTC system because it was coded for PAL TVS/NES consoles.  Its a misconception that all you have to do is bypass the lockout chip for PAL games to work.  Some work fine just sped up (as they all will do unless it was coded into the game to recognize PAL/NTSC), or itll glitch but be playable, or be unplayable due to graphics or otherwise.

The only way for that game to properly work is to use some sort of AVS or system that can switch between PAL and NTSC.  The US Prototype Mr. Gimmick repro works perfectly well, just isnt genuine, of course. 

TL;DR:

Set your system to "PAL" on your AVS (I somehow skipped that).

Thanks. I was dumb and assumed the avs was set to PAL. Works perfectly now

[guitarzombie 754]

2 hours ago, toothbrushes said:

Thanks. I was dumb and assumed the avs was set to PAL. Works perfectly now

Great.  One of my favorite games.  I had a US repro of it, and someone gifted me an AVS.  After I thanked him, I cursed him because he just made me have to spend $600 cuz now I had no excuse not to have a real Gimmick haha.

[BreaKBeatZ 128]

Yeah, even with the lockout chip disabled, it doesn't work properly on a NTSC console.

[Sumez 2,294]

On 3/14/2020 at 6:03 AM, guitarzombie said:

The only way for that game to properly work is to use some sort of AVS or system that can switch between PAL and NTSC.  The US Prototype Mr. Gimmick repro works perfectly well, just isnt genuine, of course. 

Well, you could also just use a PAL NES.

The Japanese Gimmick! works perfectly on an NTSC NES also, as it's of course designed for an NTSC system. The PAL Mr. Gimmick! was completely readjusted for PAL timing, including the music and movement of characters etc. so it definitely should be played with 50hz timing.

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1 hour ago, Sumez said:

The Japanese Gimmick! works perfectly on an NTSC NES also, as it's of course designed for an NTSC system.

The audio doesn't, unless you mod it.

[Sumez 2,294]

True! Didn't think of that. It's a lot easier to make a US NES play expansion audio than making it run 50hz though

[guitarzombie 754]

On 3/16/2020 at 6:42 AM, Sumez said:

Well, you could also just use a PAL NES.

The Japanese Gimmick! works perfectly on an NTSC NES also, as it's of course designed for an NTSC system. The PAL Mr. Gimmick! was completely readjusted for PAL timing, including the music and movement of characters etc. so it definitely should be played with 50hz timing.

I think it would be silly to buy a PAL NES for only a handful of games.  Also you would also need a wall adapter too.  Oh and possibly a CRT TV with the proper refresh rate.

Edited March 17, 2020 by guitarzombie

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34 minutes ago, guitarzombie said:

I think it would be silly to buy a PAL NES for only a handful of games.  Also you would also need a wall adapter too.  Oh and possibly a CRT TV with the proper refresh rate.

No you can use the same wall adaptor from a US set. The rest of it holds true though.

[guitarzombie 754]

Oh didn't know that!  I thought because of the voltage difference you'd need an adapter.

[Sumez 2,294]

19 hours ago, guitarzombie said:

I think it would be silly to buy a PAL NES for only a handful of games.  Also you would also need a wall adapter too.  Oh and possibly a CRT TV with the proper refresh rate.

It would also be silly to buy an AVS for only a handful of games. If you already have a PAL NES, these are all non-issues.

I was just responding to the misleading claim "the only way for that game to properly work"

Edited March 18, 2020 by Sumez

[guitarzombie 754]

Its not silly to have an AVS cuz the AVS does everything.  PAL, NES and Famicom.  PAL NES can only do PAL NES, it'll have the same issues with NTSC US carts.  They just run slower.  The person who mentioned this already HAD an AVS.  Im sure there is only a small percent of people in the US have a PAL NES to play PAL games, and an NTSC one for US.

[Sumez 2,294]

On the contrary, lots of people in Europe have a PAL NES. It's what this cartridge was produced for.  Might not be the ideal solution for someone living in the US, but it's still the most basic one.

Edited March 18, 2020 by Sumez

[guitarzombie 754]

True!  But chances are if it isn't working, its probably because you're in the US haha.  Anyway its a great FN game.  Maybe ill pop it in today

[Sumez 2,294]

This is really abstract, but it might be worth knowing for someone out there, but I've also discovered that the SunSoft cycle counter also doesn't work on M82 display units for some reason. Even if it's a PAL version, it'll display the same glitch as on the above image.  

And yeah, it's an amazing game. If anyone has a nice looking Famicom copy, and would like to own a boxed PAL one instead, definitely get ahold of me