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Action 52 (Bootleg)


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@MadeKillaSam Sadly it's not even 52. Challenge just shoves levels from various games and the mode is unfinished as it crashes just after the 2nd game gets loaded. Even 1st Video Game "Pong" technically doesn't have any sprites as it's part of the font (is rippable though).

15 minutes later... Now up to Action 21.
Yawackhary Jul 3, 2025, 2:05 PM *
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It's Action 20 right now until all 52 games get uploaded
MadeKillaSam Jul 3, 2025, 10:45 AM
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@Royvpizza That's if it started development at all. Unlike the NES and Genesis, it was a bit harder to develop and there was some copy protection that was a bit harder to crack (NES10 chip was documented while the MD was rather basic). As an example, Tiertex who were known for using their homebrew dev kits to make Master System/Game Gear/MD/Game Boy games had problems doing the SNES and it was more unreliable. It is unknown whether it got used (it wasn't during Winter Olympics).

Plus we don't know the developer. FarSight and Active had a falling out over their next game that just got started and they weren't working on SNES Action 52 (as they stuck to Genesis games, usually sports). The only connection was that Sculptured Software helped the Active developers for the NES and they have worked on the SNES.

While there are bootlegs and unlicensed SNES games, a majority of them were at the later stage onwards and not as easy to find (especially since some markets known for bootlegs/unlicensed games weren't into the SNES, staying with just Famiclones and Mega Drive clones). I think South America was one of the markets that did get SNES bootlegs.
Yawackhary May 22, 2025, 6:26 PM
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@Yoshi50Windows Official
Yes it is. Because its unlicensed
Aisamyeah May 22, 2025, 2:52 PM
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I believe the cancelled SNES Action 52 is most probably lost media.
Royvpizza Jul 17, 2024, 11:23 PM
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THIS IS NOT A BOOTLEG
Yoshi50Windows Official Feb 17, 2024, 3:40 AM
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Can we just bring up the fact that the title screen music sounds like it belongs in a fighting game?
EmRuHire Apr 7, 2023, 3:31 PM
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I wonder if the cancelled SNES A52 ever got started in development
shadowman44 Oct 21, 2019, 3:44 AM
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oh my god... it's spreading to other consoles!
Gracegarthok Oct 20, 2019, 10:17 PM
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I've heard of this one, never played any of the versions, but I'm gonna take your guys's words on it.
Void-the-Bat Sep 17, 2017, 5:26 PM
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It's most functional that the NES version, but the game still sucks.
Deep Weeb Dec 20, 2016, 12:07 PM
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no i think both are bad in the same way
SonicHex Nov 25, 2016, 8:43 AM
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I'm the only one who thinks this is actually worst than the NES version?
RaposaCadela Nov 20, 2016, 8:39 PM
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