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The Caltron 6-in-1 multicart is well-known; its larger brother, Caltron's 9-in-1 multicart, is not. Up until recently, the 9-in-1's only trace of existence was a Caltron sales brochure. A reddit post from 2013 that included a photo of a blank non-standard cartridge shell with a small office sticker on it first hinted at the existence of a prototype. Said prototype was then sold at auction several times, most notably in November of 2015. Now, the current owner has kindly lended the cartridge for preservation.
Eight of the nine games on the multicart already had been dumped in their stand-alone cartridge versions, published by NTDEC in 60-pin format, and mostly by Gluk Video in 72-pin format. Most of the multicart versions differ only in the copyright tag on their title screens from these existing dumps. "Magic Block" uses the same updated music heard in the Gluk Video version (whose copyright tag says "NTDEC"), which differs from the music heard in the original version that was credited to "Mega Soft".
The last game, Super Gun, was previously unavailable. The stand-alone cartridge version, credited to NTDEC, was dumped two years ago, but was not released to the public due to objections from the collector who provided the cartridge for preservation, and is not released here either. But you can now enjoy (if that's what you want to call it) the game as included in this multicart. As was the case with the other games, the copyright tag was changed from "NTDEC" to "Caltron Ind. Inc." for multicart inclusion. Frank Cifaldi has recorded a full playthrough video already.
The multicart's ROM file uses a custom mapper that currently is only emulated by NintendulatorNRS, available in binary and source code form on the left panel of this blog. The same applies for the extracted ROM file of Super Gun; we have also included a ROM file modified to use the common iNES mapper 4 (MMC3).
Credits to Sean Fontenot for providing the cartridge, NewRisingSun for mapper analysis and CopyNES plugin coding, and Frank Cifaldi for dumping.
➡Download the ROMs⬅
Eight of the nine games on the multicart already had been dumped in their stand-alone cartridge versions, published by NTDEC in 60-pin format, and mostly by Gluk Video in 72-pin format. Most of the multicart versions differ only in the copyright tag on their title screens from these existing dumps. "Magic Block" uses the same updated music heard in the Gluk Video version (whose copyright tag says "NTDEC"), which differs from the music heard in the original version that was credited to "Mega Soft".
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The last game, Super Gun, was previously unavailable. The stand-alone cartridge version, credited to NTDEC, was dumped two years ago, but was not released to the public due to objections from the collector who provided the cartridge for preservation, and is not released here either. But you can now enjoy (if that's what you want to call it) the game as included in this multicart. As was the case with the other games, the copyright tag was changed from "NTDEC" to "Caltron Ind. Inc." for multicart inclusion. Frank Cifaldi has recorded a full playthrough video already.
The multicart's ROM file uses a custom mapper that currently is only emulated by NintendulatorNRS, available in binary and source code form on the left panel of this blog. The same applies for the extracted ROM file of Super Gun; we have also included a ROM file modified to use the common iNES mapper 4 (MMC3).
Credits to Sean Fontenot for providing the cartridge, NewRisingSun for mapper analysis and CopyNES plugin coding, and Frank Cifaldi for dumping.
➡Download the ROMs⬅
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