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***Cosmonautical*** · 01-11-2009, 09:00 PM

I also in the past year or two bought a copy of Chiller, the unlicensed 2-player game for the NES Zapper. It came complete with case and manual in very good condition, as well as a pamplet advertising other games released by H.E.S. - the only thing missing from the set was the dongle you're supposed to use to hookup the game, to piggyback the 10NES lockout chip from another cart.

At first, I just used a Game Genie (which I also bought locally - woot for gametraders) to get around the lack of a dongle - the game genie itself overrides the need for a lockout chip with its own. Later on, after buying more local PAL games, I decided to take a risk and disconnect the pin on the 10NES chip in my NES, to stop it preventing my NTSC NES from running PAL games.

The top-loading NES 2 was never sold with a region control mechanism, and I briefly considered buying one online, but decided Ebay prices were too high for something I essentially already owned.

A bit later on I scored a multi-cart, also made by HES, which actually has Chiller on it again. I haven't gotten the 2-player to work on it, but all of the games are functional to my knowledge.

01-11-2009, 09:00 PM	#23
*Cosmonautical* Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: I rub my tilde all over your asterisk Gender: Posts: 28,095 Thanks: 2,137 Thanked 5,335 Times in 2,430 Posts	I also in the past year or two bought a copy of Chiller, the unlicensed 2-player game for the NES Zapper. It came complete with case and manual in very good condition, as well as a pamplet advertising other games released by H.E.S. - the only thing missing from the set was the dongle you're supposed to use to hookup the game, to piggyback the 10NES lockout chip from another cart. At first, I just used a Game Genie (which I also bought locally - woot for gametraders) to get around the lack of a dongle - the game genie itself overrides the need for a lockout chip with its own. Later on, after buying more local PAL games, I decided to take a risk and disconnect the pin on the 10NES chip in my NES, to stop it preventing my NTSC NES from running PAL games. The top-loading NES 2 was never sold with a region control mechanism, and I briefly considered buying one online, but decided Ebay prices were too high for something I essentially already owned. A bit later on I scored a multi-cart, also made by HES, which actually has Chiller on it again. I haven't gotten the 2-player to work on it, but all of the games are functional to my knowledge. Last edited by Cosmonautical; 01-11-2009 at 09:12 PM.