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<p>In the late 90s, Nintendo created an innovative way 
                          to buy Super Famicom games. They started a service called 
                          Nintendo Power, which ran in popular convenience stores 
                          in Japan. For a certain amount of money, you could buy 
                          a blank cartridge, and you could put several games available 
                          to the service on the cart. There were many popular 
                          games on the service, and even some games that were 
                          exclusive to it. This service was continued until 2000.</p>
                        <p>Added Info by John Weidman:</p>
                        <p>Well, it's not really rare in Japan but it is rare 
                          in the States. It's a Super Famicom Nintendo Power cart, 
                          a programmable (re-writeable) flash cart made by Nintendo. 
                          In Japan you used to be able to go into a Lawson store 
                          with a programming station and download games onto it 
                          for a fee. Not all games were available on the NP cart 
                          but there was a wide selection. Almost any non-special 
                          chip game could have been put on it if Nintendo wanted 
                          to make it available on NP. Sadly, the Nintendo Power 
                          service was shut down last year so you can no longer 
                          get the carts programmed but the carts themselves live 
                          on. I heard that Nintendo offerred to buy back the carts 
                          after they shut down the service (not for full price 
                          of course) but I can't confirm that.<br>
                          <br>
                          These are awesome carts they are almost everything I 
                          want in a programmable cart. They were able to be programmed 
                          in any configuration, HiRom, LoRom, mixed HiRom and 
                          LoRom, you could load multiple games on the cart and 
                          select which one you wanted to play from a menu. The 
                          ROM and SRAM sharing was transparent to the game being 
                          played. The only drawback to it was that it was not 
                          user programmable, you had to take it to the store, 
                          otherwise this is the perfect programmable cart, the 
                          one everybody dreams of.<br>
                          <br>
                          Check these links for more info:<br>
                          <br>
                          Nintendo removed the links from their homepage the NP 
                          stuff but you can still access it with a direct link.<br>
                          <br>
                          <a href="http://www.nintendo.co.jp/n03/sf/top.html">http://www.nintendo.co.jp/n03/sf/top.html</a><br>
                          <a href="http://www.nintendo.co.jp/n03/sf/index.html">http://www.nintendo.co.jp/n03/sf/index.html</a><br>
                          <br>
                          <a href="http://www.gamersgraveyard.com/repository/snes/history/nintendopower.html">http://www.gamersgraveyard.com/repository/snes/history/nintendopower.html</a><br>
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                        <p>Scans provided by John Weidman:</p>
                        <p><img src="<?=$folder?>npbox_f.jpg" width="570" height="326"></p>