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Monday, October 21, 2019, 14:18 - Dumps, 2019
Over the course we've dumped quite a variety of Chinese, Taiwanese and Korean games but there were some countries that were lacking to the list. Especially Thailand. And since we know you all love educational games that require the Subor keyboard, we've got not one but a whopping three different dumps of that. Got your Subor-compatible emulator up and running?

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English Blaster - Make for Boys and Girls

Sunsonic Educational Computer Learning Card

The two first cartridges are nearly identical, if it were not for the introduction screen. The first seems to originate from around 1998 and apparently features voice samples. However, since the voice generation chip is fairly obscure and undocumented (Model: CSM04048N), this functionality is not emulated at this point.
The second ROM seems to be from much later, probably the early or mid 2000s. It also retains the voice functionality.

Sunsonic PC-98

Asder PC-95 except that it's from 1998 and credits Sunsonic. The word processor features Thai, which is quite something.

리틀-킴 PC-95-KO01

Thought I was done with famiclone educational games requiring a keyboard? Certainly not. Here's the Korean version of the Asder PC-95. This also relies on some chip to generate voice samples on the fly but it's completly undocumented so the ROM dump is presented as-is for the time being.
The Asder PC-95 Polish version is also included in the archive. This dump originates from GoodNES but it's finally properly headered and playable.

1995 Super 2-in-1 (2B20)

A 2-in-1 cartridge with a *selection* of the same Super Fighter III game. That's nearly as bad as JY-118. What makes it just so slightly better? First, the stages are all different compared to the known versions. Secondly, Fighter V is a hack loosely inspired on the hack of Street Fighter II Pro of the same name. Even the character list match with a Goku portrait while the character is nowhere to be seen in the game.
The character on the menu seems to have two left hands. Can't unsee it now.

1993 Super HiK 8-in-1 (G-002)

An old 1993 multicart with both Cony and Gouder's finest Street Fighters ports. Tired of the violence of those fighters? Rodland lets you take a break and enjoy a good platformer with its soundtrack.

1997 Super 6-in-1 (Top002)

Okay, we're reaching some peaks here. This is part of the very few cartridges released by Realtec which features an Ei-How Yang title in its selection. Mickey Mania 7 is presented here along with 5 other generic games in a custom menu using a fairly classic E.H.Y. font. So what's special about this? The PCB has a huge "HSK007" id and actually works on a modified version of the J.Y. ASIC! It's all up to speculation on how this happened (the same with Contra Spirits but on this one it was seemingly unmodified) but it's definitely some food for thought-thing.
Super Contra 6 is not playable past the first level, because the multicart maker foolishly replaced the data for level 2 with the multicart menu.

21-in-1 (GA-003)
50-in-1
64-in-1 (CF-015)
150-in-1
1100000-in-1
Super 98 - 43-in-1 (VT321)

A set of old and newer multicarts, some elaborate and some very simplistic ones. (ed: I swear most of these are by Realtec).

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Special thanks to Consolethinks for dumping the set of six multicarts and NewRisingSun.

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