Before you dedicate your life to creating unlicensed carts on a 25 year old system, it’s important to know the basics.
Get in at the bottom
The quickest way into the lucrative unlicensed cart industry is an exciting career as “English Translator.” You may wonder “Will they still hire me if I am not a native English speaker, and, in fact, have no ability to read or write in any language?” The answer is a resounding TERRIFIC SUPREME!
You’ll be given a box full of English terms cut from magazines. It’s your job to randomly sort them into groups of 2 or 3. Exciting Mascara King? I like your style, new guy!
Get promoted
When your amazing work as translator is recognized (or everyone else in the company is arrested and imprisoned) it’s time to move on to the next level.
You’ll be working with some of the best selling titles released for the NES. Get to work randomly modifying them, so as to make Super Mario Bros. start at World 5, Battle City’s tanks flash randomly, and every game you work on crash at some point. If your skill at deleting and editing code randomly pays off then you’ll be promoted again in no time.
Get promoted… again.
You’ve shown yourself able to randomly sort English terms and randomly edit code, but now you’re being called upon for the mission of a lifetime – putting Sonic The Hedgehog’s sprite in Super Mario Bros. and calling it Super Sonic Bros. 15.
Given a smoke-filled and sweaty basement at an undisclosed location in southeast Asia, a king’s ransom of 3 dollars per week salary, and a 486DX2 computer, can you accomplish the impossible?
This is about more than just taking intellectual property and modifying it for financial gain. It’s about the joy of 23 hour long programming sessions. It’s about the smiling faces of 30 year old Taiwanese men as they start your game for the first time.
I don’t want to live in a world where providing a paid service to make Taiwanese men smile is illegal.
