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This year, no one was able to dress as Santa and deliver your yearly ROM gifts. But we did not want to dismiss the year 2021 without another dose of previously-undumped Chinese educational computer cartridges and multicarts. We know you definitely can't retain yourself from extensively playing those.
超級五筆漢字卡 8-in-1 (鸿达)
This early Hongda educational computer cartridge is unique in many ways.
First, it requires a keyboard whose protocol matches the original Family BASIC keyboard; most educational computer cartridges require Subor-type keyboards instead.
Does this mean that it predates the Subor keyboard famiclones? We don't know.
If so, that would make the rather run-of-the-mill selection of editor, typing mini-games and Family-BASIC-ripped programs the first of its kind.
小学语文数学智力游戏 趣味教学卡 - 小状元
Last year, we released the ROM image file of a 7-in-1 educational computer cartridge from Hongtu that was labelled "B version", speculating that there might be an A version with a different
set of games. We have not found the original "A version" yet, but this 16-in-1 here has all seven games from last year's "B version" plus what we deem to be the nine games from that "A version".
家庭电脑教学键盘 - Family Competer Keyboard
A bootleg version of the original Family BASIC, complete with what must be considered either an embarassing spelling error or a subtle joke (Family Competer).
This cartridge was commonly bundled with a New Star branded console bundled with the DB15-rewired Intellivison keyboard. Yes, you read that right: a company converted and sold leftover Intellivison keyboards to be compatible with the Famicom. This oddity in the already bizarre Famicom life in China appears to be one of the first attempt to sell an educational game with a keyboard in the country.
Sachen Superpack (versions A-C)
Around 1999-2000, Sachen released some famiclone consoles of their own that included their old games as built-in multicarts, namely the Super Mega Joy (version A) and Super Magic Joy (version C).
The ROM data of version C turned out to just be the ROM data of version A and version B tacked after each other, allowing us to provide version B despite not having (or knowing) the particular
console that had version B inside. Suspiciously, the multicart circuit board matches that of Tetris Family 19-in-1. In terms of games, these are all titles you have seen before, with the exception of
Pyramid, which has been changed into Mr. Stone, and which we have provided in extracted form. The copyright year also reads 1999, which hints the release date of these consoles.
帝释天 (Dì shì tiān)
无名传说 (Wúmíng chuánshuō)
Name-changed versions of an original Waixing game (魔神法师 - Demogorgon Monk) and of Waixing's translation of Hanjuku Hero.
The SMD133 writes in the games' initialization code to set up the ASIC for MMC3 compatibility mode strongly suggest that these were made by the notorious Hengge Dianzi.
Sonic REC-9388
This must be Dongda's first attempt at entering the Russian educational computer market, though they did release the more well-known PEC-586 in that country later.
This ROM file consists of the built-in ROM of that computer plus both of the small expansion cartridges, with "Logo" in the no. 2 slot, and the "PB" card in the no. 3 slot.
Once selecting the no. 3 slot, you must soft-reset to advance from the title screen to the actual sub-menu, then use the numeric keypad to move the selection before pressing "C" to select.
"Music and Drawing" is not functional at this point, as the ROM data for that part is encrypted and the encryption pattern not understood at this time. "Education with tape" seems to load
data from additional cassette tapes that we do not have.
超级学习卡 - Golden Key - 金钥匙
Another mysterious educational computer cartridge from another mysterious manufacturer named Shenzhen Guangda (光达). This one assumes yet another keyboard protocol that is somewhat similar to the Dongda PEC-586 keyboard, but with a different assignment of the keys that we have not quite figured out yet, so don't be disappointed that your key presses do not accomplish anything. We have no idea what kind of computer this was made for.
18-in-1 (DEX DX-011D)
This is the built-in ROM of the DEX DX-011D VT02 famiclone available in Thailand.
A rather unremarkable collection of Inventor hacks.
1993 Super HiK 6-in-1 - 街霸系列出撃! (B-010)
1500-in-1 (ET-187)
1995年超値系列 HiK 4-in-1 (EW-014)
1993 Super HIK 4-in-1 新卡 256K 組合系列 (F-034)
Super 4-in-1 (GameStar No. 41)
1996 Super HiK Gold Card 2-in-1 (GS-01)
500-in-1 (HH-xxx)
王牌系列 Super HiK 42-in-1 (K-42001)
12-in-1 (Liko)
Super Game 143-in-1 (HKMK-143)
117-in-1 (M3H12 PCB)
Super 3-in-1 (NT-933)
100000-in-1 (NTDEC)
Golden 8-in-1 (NTDEC)
Super 4-in-1 (ST-401)
4-in-1 (T-4010)
Super 4-in-1 (Techline A0010100)
9-in-1 (Techline A010207)
Super 4-in-1 (Techline)
2000 Super Aladdin (VT-104)
Super Game 3-in-1 (YH-3125)
Exciting Sport Turbo 4-in-1 (YH-4131)
Exciting Sport Turbo 4-in-1 (YH-4135)
Exciting Sport Turbo 4-in-1 (YH-4136)
Super 1998 3-in-1 (卡聖 VT-835)
1994 超值金卡 画面选关 8-in-1 (小霸王 0801)
1992 突破 劃面選關 190-in-1
1992 蓋世 190-in-1 劃面選關
1992 超値高K金卡 110-in-1
1992 超级天王卡新 150-in-1 棋王版
1993 New 860-in-1 Over-Valued Golden Version Games
1994 Super 9999-in-1 超級強卡 超越羣倫
9000000-in-1
92年超高K 黄金卡 35-in-1 刺激大驚險旅風侠
'93 世界冠軍卡超値享受
Game 500-in-1
Home Video Game 3500 Built-in Games
PAL Home Computer 3600
YH 78-in-1 Super Game
The rest of today's releases are the usual merry band of multicarts, most of which with boring text-only menus; we only show screenshots of those that offer at least something for the eye.
Game 500-in-1's #110 Bar Games is reported to be glitchy even on original hardware. 9000000-in-1 requires you to awkwardly select a game by entering its number.
Download the ROM archive here.
Credits to Dušan, ggdjr and krzysiobal for dumping some of the ROM files.
超級五筆漢字卡 8-in-1 (鸿达)
This early Hongda educational computer cartridge is unique in many ways.
First, it requires a keyboard whose protocol matches the original Family BASIC keyboard; most educational computer cartridges require Subor-type keyboards instead.
Does this mean that it predates the Subor keyboard famiclones? We don't know.
If so, that would make the rather run-of-the-mill selection of editor, typing mini-games and Family-BASIC-ripped programs the first of its kind.
小学语文数学智力游戏 趣味教学卡 - 小状元
Last year, we released the ROM image file of a 7-in-1 educational computer cartridge from Hongtu that was labelled "B version", speculating that there might be an A version with a different
set of games. We have not found the original "A version" yet, but this 16-in-1 here has all seven games from last year's "B version" plus what we deem to be the nine games from that "A version".
家庭电脑教学键盘 - Family Competer Keyboard
A bootleg version of the original Family BASIC, complete with what must be considered either an embarassing spelling error or a subtle joke (Family Competer).
This cartridge was commonly bundled with a New Star branded console bundled with the DB15-rewired Intellivison keyboard. Yes, you read that right: a company converted and sold leftover Intellivison keyboards to be compatible with the Famicom. This oddity in the already bizarre Famicom life in China appears to be one of the first attempt to sell an educational game with a keyboard in the country.
Sachen Superpack (versions A-C)
;)
Around 1999-2000, Sachen released some famiclone consoles of their own that included their old games as built-in multicarts, namely the Super Mega Joy (version A) and Super Magic Joy (version C).
The ROM data of version C turned out to just be the ROM data of version A and version B tacked after each other, allowing us to provide version B despite not having (or knowing) the particular
console that had version B inside. Suspiciously, the multicart circuit board matches that of Tetris Family 19-in-1. In terms of games, these are all titles you have seen before, with the exception of
Pyramid, which has been changed into Mr. Stone, and which we have provided in extracted form. The copyright year also reads 1999, which hints the release date of these consoles.
帝释天 (Dì shì tiān)
无名传说 (Wúmíng chuánshuō)
Name-changed versions of an original Waixing game (魔神法师 - Demogorgon Monk) and of Waixing's translation of Hanjuku Hero.
The SMD133 writes in the games' initialization code to set up the ASIC for MMC3 compatibility mode strongly suggest that these were made by the notorious Hengge Dianzi.
Sonic REC-9388
This must be Dongda's first attempt at entering the Russian educational computer market, though they did release the more well-known PEC-586 in that country later.
This ROM file consists of the built-in ROM of that computer plus both of the small expansion cartridges, with "Logo" in the no. 2 slot, and the "PB" card in the no. 3 slot.
Once selecting the no. 3 slot, you must soft-reset to advance from the title screen to the actual sub-menu, then use the numeric keypad to move the selection before pressing "C" to select.
"Music and Drawing" is not functional at this point, as the ROM data for that part is encrypted and the encryption pattern not understood at this time. "Education with tape" seems to load
data from additional cassette tapes that we do not have.
超级学习卡 - Golden Key - 金钥匙
Another mysterious educational computer cartridge from another mysterious manufacturer named Shenzhen Guangda (光达). This one assumes yet another keyboard protocol that is somewhat similar to the Dongda PEC-586 keyboard, but with a different assignment of the keys that we have not quite figured out yet, so don't be disappointed that your key presses do not accomplish anything. We have no idea what kind of computer this was made for.
18-in-1 (DEX DX-011D)
This is the built-in ROM of the DEX DX-011D VT02 famiclone available in Thailand.
A rather unremarkable collection of Inventor hacks.
1993 Super HiK 6-in-1 - 街霸系列出撃! (B-010)
1500-in-1 (ET-187)
1995年超値系列 HiK 4-in-1 (EW-014)
1993 Super HIK 4-in-1 新卡 256K 組合系列 (F-034)
Super 4-in-1 (GameStar No. 41)
1996 Super HiK Gold Card 2-in-1 (GS-01)
500-in-1 (HH-xxx)
王牌系列 Super HiK 42-in-1 (K-42001)
12-in-1 (Liko)
Super Game 143-in-1 (HKMK-143)
117-in-1 (M3H12 PCB)
Super 3-in-1 (NT-933)
100000-in-1 (NTDEC)
Golden 8-in-1 (NTDEC)
Super 4-in-1 (ST-401)
4-in-1 (T-4010)
Super 4-in-1 (Techline A0010100)
9-in-1 (Techline A010207)
Super 4-in-1 (Techline)
2000 Super Aladdin (VT-104)
Super Game 3-in-1 (YH-3125)
Exciting Sport Turbo 4-in-1 (YH-4131)
Exciting Sport Turbo 4-in-1 (YH-4135)
Exciting Sport Turbo 4-in-1 (YH-4136)
Super 1998 3-in-1 (卡聖 VT-835)
1994 超值金卡 画面选关 8-in-1 (小霸王 0801)
1992 突破 劃面選關 190-in-1
1992 蓋世 190-in-1 劃面選關
1992 超値高K金卡 110-in-1
1992 超级天王卡新 150-in-1 棋王版
1993 New 860-in-1 Over-Valued Golden Version Games
1994 Super 9999-in-1 超級強卡 超越羣倫
9000000-in-1
92年超高K 黄金卡 35-in-1 刺激大驚險旅風侠
'93 世界冠軍卡超値享受
Game 500-in-1
Home Video Game 3500 Built-in Games
PAL Home Computer 3600
YH 78-in-1 Super Game
;)
The rest of today's releases are the usual merry band of multicarts, most of which with boring text-only menus; we only show screenshots of those that offer at least something for the eye.
Game 500-in-1's #110 Bar Games is reported to be glitchy even on original hardware. 9000000-in-1 requires you to awkwardly select a game by entering its number.
Download the ROM archive here.
Credits to Dušan, ggdjr and krzysiobal for dumping some of the ROM files.
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We heard you like multicarts, so here's a 74 multicart-in-1 post. Two more and we would have had the same number as the world-famous 76-in-1.
Liming Electronic 18-in-1 Educational Computer
WOW Study Computer
Two educational computer cartridges for use with the Subor keyboard. All of its programs have been seen many times before.
Liming Electronics cartridge
Next, we have a large number of multicart dumps. We shall group them by common features.
(NTDEC) 14-in-1
This plain-looking menu from our esteemed friends at NTDEC may well be the first unlicensed multicart with a selection screen ever made, going by the 1988 date, and so is deserving of being presented on its own.
Cartridge cover
(外星 kk3312) 8-in-1
(外星 kk3313) 8-in-1
(外星 kk3315) 8-in-1
More from Waixing's "kk" series that bundle one of their larger original games with seven mini-games from Nice Code Software. In this case, we have versions of Happy Biqi, Shock and Tianwang Jiangmo Zhuan a.k.a. Gods & Devils. This version of Happy Biqi is slightly different from all the previously-dumped ones, having the English title as the main title, but retaining a Chinese subtitle. Gods & Devils is the Chinese version, while an English one was seen on Waixing's 120-in-1 multicart. We had high hopes for this version of Shock -- all previous dumps crashed upon reaching the third stage, but some poster on Famicom World had claimed to have finished the version found on this multicart. To our great disappointment, this version crashes just as all the other (dumped) ones.
Cartridge covers:
kk3012
kk3013
kk3015
(BS-6028) 180-in-1
(FK-014) 128-in-1
(FK-033) 52-in-1
Three more members of the "bouncing ball" series of 256+128 KiB multicarts, all of whom select different game counts using a solder pad setting. FK-014's menu song is from the homebrew NSF "Vampire Hunter - Scotland" by "Alf Layla", although the DPCM samples are broken here.
(YH-4132) Exciting Sport Turbo 4-in-1
(GK-L03A) 4-in-1
(GK-L06A) 4-in-1
(SV105) 52-in-1 (WQ1506 E)
(NT-2054) Super GK 54-in-1
(VT-321) Super GK 53-in-1
(VT-331) Super GK 47-in-1
Super GK 48-in-1
Going by mapper hardware rather than by cartridge ID code, these all seem to have been made by GameStar. YH-4132 is the most interesting of the bunch, giving us a unique hack of Konami's Track & Field with some nice menus.
GK-L03A, GK-L06A and SV105 at least have nice pictures in their menus, while NT-2054, VT-321 and VT-331 are just boring.
(HH-001) Super 500-in-1
(HH-022) Super 63-in-1
(HH-038) Super 116-in-1
(HH-054) 81 in 1 Super
(HH-xxx) Super 31-in-1
(WS-0181) 18-in-1
(WS-1162) 天天樂 Super 116-in-1
(WS-1351) 135-in-1
The HH-xxx multicarts all share the same "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" menu music. The WS-xxxx multicarts have boring black-background menus, but run on the same or compatible mapper hardware.
(0301) 4-in-1
(0404) 118-in-1
(0405) 138-in-1
130-in-1
(0408) 126-in-1
700000-in-1 (BS-400 PCB)
(GD-106) 18-in-1
Double Dragon 530-in-1
More assorted multicarts from various manufacturers, having pretty pictures and some even music in their menus. Some of them have broken music in "Magic Jewelry" even on real hardware.
(108-03) 9999-in-1
(110-05) 40-in-1
(AB-5027) 158-in-1
(C-32) Golden Best Selling Card 39-in-1
(CA-006) 20-in-1
(DP-33) 3-in-1 High Standerd
(FL-14A) 14-in-1
(GN-91B) 2-in-1
(KB46) 1000000-in-1
(KD-6126) Super 76-in-1
(KD-6129) Super 78-in-1
(KD-6130) Super 66-in-1
(Mekosonic) 晝面選關 300-in-1 超值享受 情報員
(MK-150) Super Golden Cart 4-in-1
(NJ-01b) Super 63-in-1
(NT-220) Super 57-in-1
(NT-514) Super 4-in-1
(NT-8011) Super 4-in-1
(PS-5033) 卡聖 Hi Game 2000 800-in-1
(PS-5046) 51-in-1 New Game 2000
(Realtec AN-555) 6-in-1
(VT-4251) 1999 Super 3-in-1
(VT-5320) 200-in-1
(WQ5209) 1998 Super 64-in-1
(YH-313) Super 3-in-1
1998 4000000-in-1 (BS-400 PCB)
2200000-in-1
27-in-1
3000000-in-1 (BS-300 PCB)
67-in-1 (VT1512A PCB)
7500-in-1
9700-in-1
98+1800000-in-1
Super 165-in-1
Super 7-in-1
Even more assorted multicarts, most of them from Realtec, with menus too boring to depict as screenshots here. One point of interest: KB46 has a hitherto unknown hack of Nintendo's Soccer named "Futbol Columbiano", which we present in extracted form as a separate ROM file.
(VT-2037) 2-in-1 (Terminator 2: Judgement Day/Batman: The Video Game)
(VT-2038) 2-in-1 (Monster in my Pocket hack "Flash Batman"/Alien 3)
Super 2-in-1 (WQ 2047, 1998) (TMNT Tournament Fighters, Karnov)
Reset-based multicarts, switching between two games each. It's quite rare to see Karnov on a multicart, even more so on a reset-based one.
(FK-8380) Spider-Man꞉ Return of the Sinister Six
(VT-3121) Captain Planet and the Planeteers
Single-game bootleg cartridges, mostly of interest to be able to associate a cartridge ID to them.
➡Download the ROMs⬅
Credits to Consolethinks and Nikolka for dumping most of these.
Liming Electronic 18-in-1 Educational Computer
WOW Study Computer
Two educational computer cartridges for use with the Subor keyboard. All of its programs have been seen many times before.
;)
;)
Liming Electronics cartridge
Next, we have a large number of multicart dumps. We shall group them by common features.
(NTDEC) 14-in-1
This plain-looking menu from our esteemed friends at NTDEC may well be the first unlicensed multicart with a selection screen ever made, going by the 1988 date, and so is deserving of being presented on its own.
Cartridge cover(外星 kk3312) 8-in-1
(外星 kk3313) 8-in-1
(外星 kk3315) 8-in-1
More from Waixing's "kk" series that bundle one of their larger original games with seven mini-games from Nice Code Software. In this case, we have versions of Happy Biqi, Shock and Tianwang Jiangmo Zhuan a.k.a. Gods & Devils. This version of Happy Biqi is slightly different from all the previously-dumped ones, having the English title as the main title, but retaining a Chinese subtitle. Gods & Devils is the Chinese version, while an English one was seen on Waixing's 120-in-1 multicart. We had high hopes for this version of Shock -- all previous dumps crashed upon reaching the third stage, but some poster on Famicom World had claimed to have finished the version found on this multicart. To our great disappointment, this version crashes just as all the other (dumped) ones.
;)
Cartridge covers:
kk3012
kk3013
kk3015
(BS-6028) 180-in-1
(FK-014) 128-in-1
(FK-033) 52-in-1
Three more members of the "bouncing ball" series of 256+128 KiB multicarts, all of whom select different game counts using a solder pad setting. FK-014's menu song is from the homebrew NSF "Vampire Hunter - Scotland" by "Alf Layla", although the DPCM samples are broken here.
;)
(YH-4132) Exciting Sport Turbo 4-in-1
(GK-L03A) 4-in-1
(GK-L06A) 4-in-1
(SV105) 52-in-1 (WQ1506 E)
(NT-2054) Super GK 54-in-1
(VT-321) Super GK 53-in-1
(VT-331) Super GK 47-in-1
Super GK 48-in-1
Going by mapper hardware rather than by cartridge ID code, these all seem to have been made by GameStar. YH-4132 is the most interesting of the bunch, giving us a unique hack of Konami's Track & Field with some nice menus.
GK-L03A, GK-L06A and SV105 at least have nice pictures in their menus, while NT-2054, VT-321 and VT-331 are just boring.
;)
;)
;)
(HH-001) Super 500-in-1
(HH-022) Super 63-in-1
(HH-038) Super 116-in-1
(HH-054) 81 in 1 Super
(HH-xxx) Super 31-in-1
(WS-0181) 18-in-1
(WS-1162) 天天樂 Super 116-in-1
(WS-1351) 135-in-1
The HH-xxx multicarts all share the same "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" menu music. The WS-xxxx multicarts have boring black-background menus, but run on the same or compatible mapper hardware.
;)
(0301) 4-in-1
(0404) 118-in-1
(0405) 138-in-1
130-in-1
(0408) 126-in-1
700000-in-1 (BS-400 PCB)
(GD-106) 18-in-1
Double Dragon 530-in-1
More assorted multicarts from various manufacturers, having pretty pictures and some even music in their menus. Some of them have broken music in "Magic Jewelry" even on real hardware.
;)
(108-03) 9999-in-1
(110-05) 40-in-1
(AB-5027) 158-in-1
(C-32) Golden Best Selling Card 39-in-1
(CA-006) 20-in-1
(DP-33) 3-in-1 High Standerd
(FL-14A) 14-in-1
(GN-91B) 2-in-1
(KB46) 1000000-in-1
(KD-6126) Super 76-in-1
(KD-6129) Super 78-in-1
(KD-6130) Super 66-in-1
(Mekosonic) 晝面選關 300-in-1 超值享受 情報員
(MK-150) Super Golden Cart 4-in-1
(NJ-01b) Super 63-in-1
(NT-220) Super 57-in-1
(NT-514) Super 4-in-1
(NT-8011) Super 4-in-1
(PS-5033) 卡聖 Hi Game 2000 800-in-1
(PS-5046) 51-in-1 New Game 2000
(Realtec AN-555) 6-in-1
(VT-4251) 1999 Super 3-in-1
(VT-5320) 200-in-1
(WQ5209) 1998 Super 64-in-1
(YH-313) Super 3-in-1
1998 4000000-in-1 (BS-400 PCB)
2200000-in-1
27-in-1
3000000-in-1 (BS-300 PCB)
67-in-1 (VT1512A PCB)
7500-in-1
9700-in-1
98+1800000-in-1
Super 165-in-1
Super 7-in-1
Even more assorted multicarts, most of them from Realtec, with menus too boring to depict as screenshots here. One point of interest: KB46 has a hitherto unknown hack of Nintendo's Soccer named "Futbol Columbiano", which we present in extracted form as a separate ROM file.
;)
(VT-2037) 2-in-1 (Terminator 2: Judgement Day/Batman: The Video Game)
(VT-2038) 2-in-1 (Monster in my Pocket hack "Flash Batman"/Alien 3)
Super 2-in-1 (WQ 2047, 1998) (TMNT Tournament Fighters, Karnov)
Reset-based multicarts, switching between two games each. It's quite rare to see Karnov on a multicart, even more so on a reset-based one.
(FK-8380) Spider-Man꞉ Return of the Sinister Six
(VT-3121) Captain Planet and the Planeteers
Single-game bootleg cartridges, mostly of interest to be able to associate a cartridge ID to them.
➡Download the ROMs⬅
Credits to Consolethinks and Nikolka for dumping most of these.
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