Can any SA1 games be converted to run on regular carts?

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Can any SA1 games be converted to run on regular carts?
by Markfrizb on 2013-04-01 (#110422)
Star Ocean has a "conversion" to run on a standard cartridge (non SA1 cart), can any of the other SA1 games like Kirby or Mario : legend of 7 stars.... be converted also?


Thanks
Mark
Re: Can any SA1 games be converted to run on regular carts?
by tepples on 2013-04-01 (#110425)
Star Ocean doesn't use SA-1; it uses a decompression chip. The conversion of Star Ocean just stores all the data that the decompression chip would normally produce during the course of gameplay. As I understand it, Kirby games and Super Mario RPG actually use the SA-1 for game calculation; a conversion would run far slower because it'd all have to run on the Super NES's built-in CPU.
Re: Can any SA1 games be converted to run on regular carts?
by Markfrizb on 2013-04-01 (#110426)
Damn! My mistake! You are right, it uses a DD-1 not SA1. Sorry for the ill-imformed post.

Maybe the Moderator should delete this post?