Or All Kinds Of Huang Xinwei for Christmas because that's fairly close to All kinds of Everything one wants at that time of the year, right?!
Fine… let's just say that our presents for this year are rather blocky: rectangular parallelepipeds, bare rectangles in the cosmos… and this very thing:        (Eeeeek!)

3D Block (1989) & Block Force

You have seen these games before, but if you have only seen them that way, then you haven't seen them at all! The original versions of these games have an unusual protection mechanism: part of the game logic resides in a PIC16C54 microcontroller that is protected against dumping. Normally, this type of protection is only seen on arcade games, such as Bubble Bobble. Thanks to the valiant efforts of CAPS0ff, we got the microcontroller ROMs, so the games can now be played properly in their original versions. Notice the cheesy raster effect at 3D Block's title screen!
What about all those ROMs in GoodNES 3.23b of these two games?
• "3D Block (Hwang Shinwei) [!].nes" and "Square Force (Unl) [!].nes" are good dumps of the original versions, but without the microcontroller ROMs included, without which these games cannot function. Use ours instead!
• "3D Block (RCM Group) [p1].nes" is a hack for the Bung Game Master that originally came on floppy disk that also included a fusemap for the Game Master's FPGA, and so does not work on emulators, either.
• "3D Block (RCM Group) [!].nes" is the re-release of 3D Block by RCM Group that no longer requires a microcontroller (and lacks the raster effect at the title screen).
• "3D Block (RCM Group) [f1].nes" modifies the previous ROM file to be playable on licensed PAL consoles.
• "Block Force (Hwang Shinwei).nes" is a multicart extract of RCM's Tetris Series Super 9-in-1 multicart that no longer requires the PIC, but also drops a part of the credits and the contact information on the options screen.

영어, 피라미드 (English, Pyramid)

You'd think we would have covered every companies that licensed games from Sachen? Of course not! There is one, very obscure business named Kuk Je Academy (국제 아카데미) from South Korea that licensed three educational games from them. Two of which were adapted for the local audience. Today we have their first title; a translated South Korean re-release of Sachen's Middle School English (動動腦 II). If you perform well at learning some basic english, you get to play some Pyramid!
This version additonally has a credits screen that the original did not have, if you wait at the title screen long enough. As for some trivia: the original Sachen version of this game was the first sighting of Pyramid --- that game's single-cartridge release (SA-009) came later!

方塊外傳 5合1 - Tetris Family 5-in-1

You have seen this menu before as well, because this is another variation of "Tetris Family 6-in-1" with just five games. Since this is very confusing, some explanation is called for:
RCM must originally have designed a 6-in-1 multicart with just 256 KiB of PRG data. The fifth game was to be Sachen's "Pyramid", with the Sachen logo replaced by an awkward-looking RCM logo. Apparently, RCM either became afraid of, or actually was subject to, a lawsuit from Sachen, so they hastily replaced the menu code to make "Pyramid" inaccessible. Instead of replacing the menu part of the 256 KiB of PRG data, they added a second 8 KiB PRG chip to the cartridge that sort-of replaced, or patched, the menu data at run-time. As a result, RCM's Tetris Family 6-in-1 exists in three versions:
* 6 games, fifth game is "Pyramid", sixth game is "Block Force". This is what you would get when just using the 256 KiB of PRG data without any replacement menu. No such cartridge has been seen in the wild so far.
* 5 games, fifth game is "Block Force", sixth game is inaccessible: This is what our fresh "Tetris Family 5-in-1" dump represents.
* 6 games, fifth game replaced with "Magic Jewelry": This is what the previous "Tetris Family 6-in-1 (GS-2004)" dump represented.

Tetris Family - 玩家 19-in-1 智瑟實典 (No 1683)

A multicart from the early 2000s that seems to want to relive the "glory" of the old RCM multicarts, but falls short due to missing copyrights and the addition of unrelated games.

1995 Super HiK 5-in-1 - 新系列米奇老鼠組合卡 (JY-048)

Another J.Y. multicart that we missed the last time. Its mapper is crazy, but the game selection is unremarkable.

BMX Simulator (B-S2)

Realtec 60-pin stand-alone release of Codemasters' NES port of one of their more well-known Commodore 64 games. Camerica only released it as part of their Quattro Sports 4-in-1 multicart and so did BIC. Realtec did save the day however.

美女拳 - Honey Peach

Yes, that game again. After studying the circuit board more closely, we found that all dumps of the game got the CHR bank order wrong. Here is the correctly-ordered ROM! Both NintendulatorNRS and recent (Dec 22, 2019) dev builds of Mesen emulate mapper 243 with the correct bank order. All other games that sometimes are set to mapper 243, such as Poker III: 5-in-1, really should use mapper 150 (SA-015 PCB)!
The game has a bug that occurs on real hardware as well, which causes one of the girls to display with glitched graphics. An improvement hack on Romhacking.net corrected that bug for the previous misordered ROM file, so we also included the bug-fixed version for the correctly-ordered ROM file as "[correct girl #4 CHR bank]".

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Special thanks to Aprk-Zero, CAPS0ff and NewRisingSun.