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finally got around to dremeling the famicom converter inside of my Gyromite cartridge and playing my Famicom games.

Warpman was kind of eh, but I really enjoyed Majou Densetsu II. The gameplay felt like a really rough / early version of Zelda 2, and I'm a huge Zelda 2 fan.
http://www.rfgeneration.com/cgi-bin/getinfo.pl?ID=J-027-S-01060-A

It's all in crazy Japanese, but I did manage to get far enough to get a sword upgrade for breaking certain types of bricks.

Anyone else ever give this game a spin?

I haven't, guess not many will have played it since only 2 collectors have it in their collection.

I google'd it and it looks nice :)

Question: What is special about the Gyromite cartridge that you can use it with the Famicom converter?

Gyromite is a Famicom converter. :) It might only be the early prints of Gyromite but they were just a Japanese famicom PCB plugged into a converter, all inside an NES game case. Pictures on Google, I expect.



I'm not interested in Japanese games, mainly because I can't read the language.

I didn't expect much out of this game because I found it at a flea market for a buck or two, and the box art made me expect a romance of the 3 kingdoms style strategy game for some reason.

I see, thanks for clearing that up :)

Not all imports have extensive Japanese, it's mainly the RPGs and strategy games you need to worry about. In fact, some older imports don't have any Japanese at all.