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The sunny days are coming close. Would you rather go outside and have a great time or play some classic timeless games? Here's some content to not influence on how you may spend the next weeks.
The first dump today was provided by famiac and it's quite something.
Parthenaの鏡 (Parthena no Kagami, or "PALUTENA" in Nintendo's romanization)
This bootleg cartridge of the Japanese version of Kid Icarus would be nice were it not for the missing ending --- after you defeat Medusa, you are just thrown back to the title screen.
The Super Shinobi (S-Y2)
Super Game's "The Super Shinobi" in ROM image form up to now only existed (1) as mapper hacks from Kasheng, and (2) as part of other Realtec multicarts. No regular single-game cartridge ROM image has been available --- until now. It turns out that the single-game cartridge of this game (cartridge ID "S-Y2") is similar to Earthworm Jim 2: The cartridge actually contains a 2-in-1 multicart that merely has its menu disabled (in S-Y2's case, the king005 multicart, which also includes Mortal Kombat 3 Extra 60), and which has already been dumped by Sanchez. Since that multicart's menu resides in the MK3 part, dumping just the Super Shinobi part will still result in a clean single-game ROM image, which is included here.
Rockman 6-in-1 (rev1, rev2)
This 6-in-1 multicart with all six Mega Man games in their Japanese versions was released several times. The only ROM image of it so far has been the first revision (rev0, not included), with a plain white-on-black menu and broken IRQ-based split screens in Rockman 3. rev1 adds some color to the menu and corrects Rockman 3. rev2 switches to a different mapper --- from the previous FK23C to a variant of GA23C --- and colors the menu bright yellow.
2004 超級大集合 13-in-1 (2004 Chaoji Dajihe 13-in-1, 2004 Super Collection 13-in-1)
Taking these six Rockman games and adding seven Kunio-kun sports and fighting games creates this nice multi.
PEC-586 Pyramid Education Computer (Spanish)
This is the (educational) cartridge that came with the world-famous Dongda Pyramid Computer, in Spain. Every language variant of the PEC-586 famiclone-based educational computer seems to come with its own unique cartridge (and mapper). The Spanish variant has the same word processor, BASIC language interpreter and typing exercises as the Russian and Chinese variants, lacks the LOGO language interpreter of the Chinese version, but adds a whopping 512 KiB of NROM games.
The cartridge itself is kind of special. There's a parallel port atop, likely used to connect a printer. Three jack ports are also present. Tape in, Tape out and a third whose function has not yet been identified.
리틀컴 160 (Littlecom 160)
Korean multicart containing NROM games. Some have their title screens completely removed instead of just removing the copyright notices, so do not assume a bad dump or emulation glitch when you only see a black screen; just press START to move on. Oh, and it includes Block Puzzle.
1997 Super HiK 8-in-1 (JY-050)
A late reprint of a J.Y. multicart originally released in 1994. It is an honest selection of eight 128KB games. This specific release features a new menu and operates on the J.Y. ASIC.
1997 Power Rangers HiK 4-in-1 (JY-066)
The 1997 instance of this cartridge replaces Power Rangers III with the its successor, Power Rangers IV.
Super Mortal Kombat 2-in-1 (JY-075)
Just like the Mortal Kombat 2-in-1 (JY-027?) featuring Hummer's first Mortal Kombat II Midway port released in 1998, except this cartridge is from 1996 and has the better Mortal Kombat II Special port.
1998 Super HiK 5-in-1 (JY-113)
Late J.Y. company multicart containing exclusively Hummer titles.
It uses the same mapper as both JY-016 and JY-117, which were released previously here. Since the mapper description and emulation had to be revised, new dumps with corrected bank order of JY-016 and JY-117 are included as well.
➡Download the ROMs⬅
The latest version of NintendulatorNRS and the associated source can be downloaded on its dedicated page in the blog link list.
Credits to famiac and NewRisingSun.
The first dump today was provided by famiac and it's quite something.
Parthenaの鏡 (Parthena no Kagami, or "PALUTENA" in Nintendo's romanization)
This bootleg cartridge of the Japanese version of Kid Icarus would be nice were it not for the missing ending --- after you defeat Medusa, you are just thrown back to the title screen.
The Super Shinobi (S-Y2)
Super Game's "The Super Shinobi" in ROM image form up to now only existed (1) as mapper hacks from Kasheng, and (2) as part of other Realtec multicarts. No regular single-game cartridge ROM image has been available --- until now. It turns out that the single-game cartridge of this game (cartridge ID "S-Y2") is similar to Earthworm Jim 2: The cartridge actually contains a 2-in-1 multicart that merely has its menu disabled (in S-Y2's case, the king005 multicart, which also includes Mortal Kombat 3 Extra 60), and which has already been dumped by Sanchez. Since that multicart's menu resides in the MK3 part, dumping just the Super Shinobi part will still result in a clean single-game ROM image, which is included here.
Rockman 6-in-1 (rev1, rev2)
This 6-in-1 multicart with all six Mega Man games in their Japanese versions was released several times. The only ROM image of it so far has been the first revision (rev0, not included), with a plain white-on-black menu and broken IRQ-based split screens in Rockman 3. rev1 adds some color to the menu and corrects Rockman 3. rev2 switches to a different mapper --- from the previous FK23C to a variant of GA23C --- and colors the menu bright yellow.
2004 超級大集合 13-in-1 (2004 Chaoji Dajihe 13-in-1, 2004 Super Collection 13-in-1)
Taking these six Rockman games and adding seven Kunio-kun sports and fighting games creates this nice multi.
PEC-586 Pyramid Education Computer (Spanish)
This is the (educational) cartridge that came with the world-famous Dongda Pyramid Computer, in Spain. Every language variant of the PEC-586 famiclone-based educational computer seems to come with its own unique cartridge (and mapper). The Spanish variant has the same word processor, BASIC language interpreter and typing exercises as the Russian and Chinese variants, lacks the LOGO language interpreter of the Chinese version, but adds a whopping 512 KiB of NROM games.
The cartridge itself is kind of special. There's a parallel port atop, likely used to connect a printer. Three jack ports are also present. Tape in, Tape out and a third whose function has not yet been identified.
리틀컴 160 (Littlecom 160)
Korean multicart containing NROM games. Some have their title screens completely removed instead of just removing the copyright notices, so do not assume a bad dump or emulation glitch when you only see a black screen; just press START to move on. Oh, and it includes Block Puzzle.
1997 Super HiK 8-in-1 (JY-050)
A late reprint of a J.Y. multicart originally released in 1994. It is an honest selection of eight 128KB games. This specific release features a new menu and operates on the J.Y. ASIC.
1997 Power Rangers HiK 4-in-1 (JY-066)
The 1997 instance of this cartridge replaces Power Rangers III with the its successor, Power Rangers IV.
Super Mortal Kombat 2-in-1 (JY-075)
Just like the Mortal Kombat 2-in-1 (JY-027?) featuring Hummer's first Mortal Kombat II Midway port released in 1998, except this cartridge is from 1996 and has the better Mortal Kombat II Special port.
1998 Super HiK 5-in-1 (JY-113)
Late J.Y. company multicart containing exclusively Hummer titles.
It uses the same mapper as both JY-016 and JY-117, which were released previously here. Since the mapper description and emulation had to be revised, new dumps with corrected bank order of JY-016 and JY-117 are included as well.
➡Download the ROMs⬅
The latest version of NintendulatorNRS and the associated source can be downloaded on its dedicated page in the blog link list.
Credits to famiac and NewRisingSun.
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Peace is paved
With kingdom saved
Hurrah to Rambo
Our only hero
…
If you know your classics, you'll recognise Super Mario Bros. 2 (Japan) ending with the Kaiser touch. That one has been dumped for a -long- time and you'd think that, by now, all the different SMB2j port would have been properly dumped and documented?
*Nervous laugh*
Super Mario Bros. 2
We've got a whopping three Super Mario Bros. 2 ports.
• The first was found on a LF36 cartridge bearing no other text beside the Whirlwind Manu ID. It seems to be the original Mapper 40 port. It was later hacked to feature an advanced level select cheat. NTDEC seems to be responsible for it, there's a chip bearing their name on the PCB.
• The second and third originate from these huge Famicom cartridges that used to be circulating in the late 80s solely in Taiwan. These huge cases were made to shelter oversized PCBs.
Why am I listing them together? Both were found with a PCB bearing YUNG-08 and like us, you would have thought the data was identical? One had a protection check patched out for obscure reasons while still having the necessary hardware to comply with.
Super Mario Party
Some months ago, the Super Mario Family cartridge was dumped, but its parent version wasn't! Before you give up and smash all the buttons on the selection screen, you can move the cursor with select. Oh, and don't press start for too long if you want to play the original Mario Bros..
Golden Mario Party II 6-in-1
Another Mario compilation with 6 games made by an unknown company. From Super Mario Bros. 2 (USA) to Super Bros. 7 with MC Mario as the closing title.
Rumor says something will happen if you press B,B,A,A in order on the 6-in-1 menu.
1991 賭馬 Racing (TXC) (MGC-009)
Micro Genius release of that one Super Mega title. Copyright untouched but they did fix an audio bug. They knew their priorities!
Ultimate Stuntman
Now we've got something very obscure. It's a single release of Ultimate Stuntman which is byte-to-byte identical on the version found on the Pegasus 5-in-1 released by BIC. Yet that one cartridge bears no mention of BIC nor Realtec and the PCB is generic.
Who made this? How did they get ahold of that version?
➡Download the ROM⬅
…
…but wait, wasn't he named Romeo at a point?
Credits to krzsyiobal and NewRisingSun.
With kingdom saved
Hurrah to Rambo
Our only hero
…
If you know your classics, you'll recognise Super Mario Bros. 2 (Japan) ending with the Kaiser touch. That one has been dumped for a -long- time and you'd think that, by now, all the different SMB2j port would have been properly dumped and documented?
*Nervous laugh*
Super Mario Bros. 2
We've got a whopping three Super Mario Bros. 2 ports.
• The first was found on a LF36 cartridge bearing no other text beside the Whirlwind Manu ID. It seems to be the original Mapper 40 port. It was later hacked to feature an advanced level select cheat. NTDEC seems to be responsible for it, there's a chip bearing their name on the PCB.
• The second and third originate from these huge Famicom cartridges that used to be circulating in the late 80s solely in Taiwan. These huge cases were made to shelter oversized PCBs.
Why am I listing them together? Both were found with a PCB bearing YUNG-08 and like us, you would have thought the data was identical? One had a protection check patched out for obscure reasons while still having the necessary hardware to comply with.
Super Mario Party
Some months ago, the Super Mario Family cartridge was dumped, but its parent version wasn't! Before you give up and smash all the buttons on the selection screen, you can move the cursor with select. Oh, and don't press start for too long if you want to play the original Mario Bros..
Golden Mario Party II 6-in-1
Another Mario compilation with 6 games made by an unknown company. From Super Mario Bros. 2 (USA) to Super Bros. 7 with MC Mario as the closing title.
Rumor says something will happen if you press B,B,A,A in order on the 6-in-1 menu.
1991 賭馬 Racing (TXC) (MGC-009)
Micro Genius release of that one Super Mega title. Copyright untouched but they did fix an audio bug. They knew their priorities!
Ultimate Stuntman
Now we've got something very obscure. It's a single release of Ultimate Stuntman which is byte-to-byte identical on the version found on the Pegasus 5-in-1 released by BIC. Yet that one cartridge bears no mention of BIC nor Realtec and the PCB is generic.
Who made this? How did they get ahold of that version?
➡Download the ROM⬅
…
…but wait, wasn't he named Romeo at a point?
Credits to krzsyiobal and NewRisingSun.
Here's another varied sample which showcase what the publishers had to offer between 10 to 27 years ago. Some are new dumps, some are proper redumps.
Mali Lugi Fighting 2
Ah yes, another tragic hack by the same publisher that brought The Ancient & Modern Heroes to this world. The current dump was put together by combining the CHR data with the untouched PRG of Chip and Dale 2. As we do care, here's the original untouched ROM from the original cartridge.
1000-in-1
An NTDEC multicart from 1992, before NTDEC "went legit" by changing their name to Asder. The monkey at the title screen is probably Sun Wukong from Journey to the West novel.
Being the first mapper 221 game to use 2 MiB, most emulators do not implement the necessary additional bank bit.
Super Soccer Champion (Exciting Soccer: Konami Cup)
Another undumped FDS ports finally available as a ROM. For this one, they took the time (and liberty) to modify the title screen and rename the game. The cartridge was given an extremly generic cover as well, literally using Nintendo's Soccer art. It likely went unnoticed all those years because of those various changes and choices. There's another port of Exciting Soccer, likely by Whirlwind Manu or Kaiser which is undumped. Soccer Champion was also featured on a few J.Y. multicarts from 1997 and later.
1997 Super HiK 4-in-1 (JY-054)
The 1997 instance of JY-054 replaces Aladdin III and Popeye 2 with Donkey Kong Country 4 and The Jungle Book 2. The two other titles, Master Fighter II and Mighty Final Fight were kept… oh, and the menu design was replaced as it used some graphics from Aladdin.
1996 Super HiK 3-in-1 (JY-080)
This is the only J.Y. multicart that contains a title developed by Ei-How Yang and his team. It's not even the original version of that said game but rather the graphic hack, in a Tiny Toon themed multicart. The 1997 instance JY-080 lacks China Rabbit Baby and replace it with some other Tiny Toon game. One can only wonder what happened between Jing Tay and them.
Nuevo Tipo de Computadora
Yet another educational computer cartridge from GameStar, this time in Spanish. You need to connect the Subor keyboard to use this multicart
at all. This cartridge has been dumped before, but the only publicly-available ROM image was mapper-hacked for Mapper 241. Here is now the original unmodified ROM image, for mapper 178.
➡Download the ROM⬅
The latest version of NintendulatorNRS and the associated source can be downloaded on its dedicated page in the blog link list.
Credits to NewRisingSun.
Mali Lugi Fighting 2
Ah yes, another tragic hack by the same publisher that brought The Ancient & Modern Heroes to this world. The current dump was put together by combining the CHR data with the untouched PRG of Chip and Dale 2. As we do care, here's the original untouched ROM from the original cartridge.
1000-in-1
An NTDEC multicart from 1992, before NTDEC "went legit" by changing their name to Asder. The monkey at the title screen is probably Sun Wukong from Journey to the West novel.
Being the first mapper 221 game to use 2 MiB, most emulators do not implement the necessary additional bank bit.
Super Soccer Champion (Exciting Soccer: Konami Cup)
Another undumped FDS ports finally available as a ROM. For this one, they took the time (and liberty) to modify the title screen and rename the game. The cartridge was given an extremly generic cover as well, literally using Nintendo's Soccer art. It likely went unnoticed all those years because of those various changes and choices. There's another port of Exciting Soccer, likely by Whirlwind Manu or Kaiser which is undumped. Soccer Champion was also featured on a few J.Y. multicarts from 1997 and later.
1997 Super HiK 4-in-1 (JY-054)
The 1997 instance of JY-054 replaces Aladdin III and Popeye 2 with Donkey Kong Country 4 and The Jungle Book 2. The two other titles, Master Fighter II and Mighty Final Fight were kept… oh, and the menu design was replaced as it used some graphics from Aladdin.
1996 Super HiK 3-in-1 (JY-080)
This is the only J.Y. multicart that contains a title developed by Ei-How Yang and his team. It's not even the original version of that said game but rather the graphic hack, in a Tiny Toon themed multicart. The 1997 instance JY-080 lacks China Rabbit Baby and replace it with some other Tiny Toon game. One can only wonder what happened between Jing Tay and them.
Nuevo Tipo de Computadora
Yet another educational computer cartridge from GameStar, this time in Spanish. You need to connect the Subor keyboard to use this multicart
at all. This cartridge has been dumped before, but the only publicly-available ROM image was mapper-hacked for Mapper 241. Here is now the original unmodified ROM image, for mapper 178.
➡Download the ROM⬅
The latest version of NintendulatorNRS and the associated source can be downloaded on its dedicated page in the blog link list.
Credits to NewRisingSun.
If you think, rightly, that World Heroes 2 by Cony Soft was the most ambitious crossover in history, you might want to add 古今英雄伝 - The Ancient & Modern Heros (sic) as a contender for the second place. Not only it features a diversified character selection, they're mixed with the good old Street Fighter II characters.
It appears to have been released in the last third of 1993. It seems to be based of Fighter V which already has obscure origins as it bears no copyrights. That game already had one of the portrait replaced (Ryu portrait was replaced with Goku), yet the replaced portrait in that one does not match Goku portrait in The Ancient and Modern Heroes. Some of the portraits were ripped from ファミコンジャンプ 英雄列伝 (Famicom Jump: Hero Retsuden).
As for the fighters… whoever were in charge of this mess definitely played an exciting game of exquisite corpses.
Head - Body
Mario - Balrog (M. Bison)
Goku - Ryu
Sangokushi character #1 - E. Honda
Bart Simpson - Blanka
Ryo Saeba (City Hunter) - Guile
Sangokushi character #2 - Vega (Balrog)
Kenshiro (Fist of the North Star) - Ken
Cammy - Chun-Li
Wario - Zangief
Isamu (Kōya no Shōnen Isamu) - Dhalsim
Ryo Saeba and Isamu are the only two characters whose portrait do not appear on the front cover. It features rather Terminator (for Isamu) and seemingly another Sangokushi characters rather. See for yourself.
➡Download the ROM⬅
The latest version of NintendulatorNRS and the associated source can be downloaded on its dedicated page in the blog link list.
Credits to NewRisingSun.
It appears to have been released in the last third of 1993. It seems to be based of Fighter V which already has obscure origins as it bears no copyrights. That game already had one of the portrait replaced (Ryu portrait was replaced with Goku), yet the replaced portrait in that one does not match Goku portrait in The Ancient and Modern Heroes. Some of the portraits were ripped from ファミコンジャンプ 英雄列伝 (Famicom Jump: Hero Retsuden).
As for the fighters… whoever were in charge of this mess definitely played an exciting game of exquisite corpses.
Head - Body
Mario - Balrog (M. Bison)
Goku - Ryu
Sangokushi character #1 - E. Honda
Bart Simpson - Blanka
Ryo Saeba (City Hunter) - Guile
Sangokushi character #2 - Vega (Balrog)
Kenshiro (Fist of the North Star) - Ken
Cammy - Chun-Li
Wario - Zangief
Isamu (Kōya no Shōnen Isamu) - Dhalsim
Ryo Saeba and Isamu are the only two characters whose portrait do not appear on the front cover. It features rather Terminator (for Isamu) and seemingly another Sangokushi characters rather. See for yourself.
➡Download the ROM⬅
The latest version of NintendulatorNRS and the associated source can be downloaded on its dedicated page in the blog link list.
Credits to NewRisingSun.
This is one of those multicart that a lot of people remember but lost the original cartridge over time. It was made in 1991 by NTDEC and feature our friend Arnold with a nice rendition of the main theme of the 1987 Hong Kong movie Chinese Ghost Story. This cartridge is also known as Golden 250 as the cover calls it.
There are some other compilations, such as a 255-in-1 with the same menu but lacking the NTDEC copyright, those were made at a later time by an unknown company.
Powerful 250 in 1
➡Download the ROM⬅
Credits to NewRisingSun.
There are some other compilations, such as a 255-in-1 with the same menu but lacking the NTDEC copyright, those were made at a later time by an unknown company.
Powerful 250 in 1
➡Download the ROM⬅
Credits to NewRisingSun.
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