Three years after the last release, enough new material has accumulated to warrant a new version of Project Plug-and-Play.

Last time, we introduced half of the games of the Intellivision X2 console, containing NES ports of Intellivision games that were not made by Nice Code Software. Thanks to a redump of the console's ROM, the other half of the games can now be played as well. So enjoy, if you will, two-player editions of Beach Volleyball, Baseball, Football, Frog Bog and Maze Shoot.



The GameZone II plug-and-play console has since been dumped as well, featuring (among other things) entirely original (meaning, different from Jungletac's) ports of the arcade games Asteroids, Frogger, Missile Command, Moon Cresta and Scramble. These ports are not very good; but if you wanted good games, you would not be here.



TimeTop's VT03-based consoles have been dumped for a long time; but so far, nobody has been able to extract their individual games. The reason is that they do not use the regular OneBus method of selecting individual games via the VTxx' outer bank registers; instead, they use a highly customized means of asset management. Our extracts are not true extracts, either, because they include the entire multicart that has only been modified to boot directly into the individual games. But these will have to do until TimeTop's asset management has been fully understood and a true extractor, which will have to be a fully-fledged re-packager, can be written. As usual, TimeTop's games are extremely derivative, replicating game ideas, music and graphics from many other games. Stone Age is effectively a port of a Flintstones game on the Mega Drive/Genesis and uses the music from Waixing's Zelda III NES port at its title screen.



Apart from a few more Cube Tech VT369 games and the usual assortment of replacements of copyright-less ROMs, two original game versions of note deserve mention. First is Pikachu 5, the original Pokémon-themed version of dreamGEAR favorite Wonder Rabbit/Gardman/Diveman, which happened to be included on the NX-85 game console. Second, the complete version of Nice Code's Olympic, extracts of which have graced many a plug-and-play console in various hacks, and which previously was thought to be a series of elaborate hacks from Inventor of Konami's Track & Field.




Credits go to krzysiobal for dumping the Intellivision X2, forgotusername for identifying and extracting unused Cube Tech games and copyright-bearing game versions, and MAME's dumpers for assorted PnP console ROM images.

Download the new archive here, and be sure to grab a recent build of NintendulatorNRS from the left-hand panel of this blog while you're at it. Refer to the WHATSNEW.TXT file for a complete list of changes since the last release, and LIST.TXT to search for any particular title in the archive. Merry Christmas!