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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.
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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⬅
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Over the course we've dumped quite a variety of Chinese, Taiwanese and Korean games but there were some countries that were lacking to the list. Especially Thailand. And since we know you all love educational games that require the Subor keyboard, we've got not one but a whopping three different dumps of that. Got your Subor-compatible emulator up and running?
Fanfare plays.
English Blaster - Make for Boys and Girls
Sunsonic Educational Computer Learning Card
The two first cartridges are nearly identical, if it were not for the introduction screen. The first seems to originate from around 1998 and apparently features voice samples. However, since the voice generation chip is fairly obscure and undocumented (Model: CSM04048N), this functionality is not emulated at this point.
The second ROM seems to be from much later, probably the early or mid 2000s. It also retains the voice functionality.
Sunsonic PC-98
Asder PC-95 except that it's from 1998 and credits Sunsonic. The word processor features Thai, which is quite something.
리틀-킴 PC-95-KO01
Thought I was done with famiclone educational games requiring a keyboard? Certainly not. Here's the Korean version of the Asder PC-95. This also relies on some chip to generate voice samples on the fly but it's completly undocumented so the ROM dump is presented as-is for the time being.
The Asder PC-95 Polish version is also included in the archive. This dump originates from GoodNES but it's finally properly headered and playable.
1995 Super 2-in-1 (2B20)
A 2-in-1 cartridge with a *selection* of the same Super Fighter III game. That's nearly as bad as JY-118. What makes it just so slightly better? First, the stages are all different compared to the known versions. Secondly, Fighter V is a hack loosely inspired on the hack of Street Fighter II Pro of the same name. Even the character list match with a Goku portrait while the character is nowhere to be seen in the game.
The character on the menu seems to have two left hands. Can't unsee it now.
1993 Super HiK 8-in-1 (G-002)
An old 1993 multicart with both Cony and Gouder's finest Street Fighters ports. Tired of the violence of those fighters? Rodland lets you take a break and enjoy a good platformer with its soundtrack.
1997 Super 6-in-1 (Top002)
Okay, we're reaching some peaks here. This is part of the very few cartridges released by Realtec which features an Ei-How Yang title in its selection. Mickey Mania 7 is presented here along with 5 other generic games in a custom menu using a fairly classic E.H.Y. font. So what's special about this? The PCB has a huge "HSK007" id and actually works on a modified version of the J.Y. ASIC! It's all up to speculation on how this happened (the same with Contra Spirits but on this one it was seemingly unmodified) but it's definitely some food for thought-thing.
Super Contra 6 is not playable past the first level, because the multicart maker foolishly replaced the data for level 2 with the multicart menu.
21-in-1 (GA-003)
50-in-1
64-in-1 (CF-015)
150-in-1
1100000-in-1
Super 98 - 43-in-1 (VT321)
A set of old and newer multicarts, some elaborate and some very simplistic ones. (ed: I swear most of these are by Realtec).
➡Download the ROMs⬅
The latest version of NintendulatorNRS and the associated source can be downloaded on its dedicated page in the blog sidebar.
Special thanks to Consolethinks for dumping the set of six multicarts and NewRisingSun.
Fanfare plays.
English Blaster - Make for Boys and Girls
Sunsonic Educational Computer Learning Card
The two first cartridges are nearly identical, if it were not for the introduction screen. The first seems to originate from around 1998 and apparently features voice samples. However, since the voice generation chip is fairly obscure and undocumented (Model: CSM04048N), this functionality is not emulated at this point.
The second ROM seems to be from much later, probably the early or mid 2000s. It also retains the voice functionality.
Sunsonic PC-98
Asder PC-95 except that it's from 1998 and credits Sunsonic. The word processor features Thai, which is quite something.
리틀-킴 PC-95-KO01
Thought I was done with famiclone educational games requiring a keyboard? Certainly not. Here's the Korean version of the Asder PC-95. This also relies on some chip to generate voice samples on the fly but it's completly undocumented so the ROM dump is presented as-is for the time being.
The Asder PC-95 Polish version is also included in the archive. This dump originates from GoodNES but it's finally properly headered and playable.
1995 Super 2-in-1 (2B20)
;)
A 2-in-1 cartridge with a *selection* of the same Super Fighter III game. That's nearly as bad as JY-118. What makes it just so slightly better? First, the stages are all different compared to the known versions. Secondly, Fighter V is a hack loosely inspired on the hack of Street Fighter II Pro of the same name. Even the character list match with a Goku portrait while the character is nowhere to be seen in the game.
The character on the menu seems to have two left hands. Can't unsee it now.
1993 Super HiK 8-in-1 (G-002)
An old 1993 multicart with both Cony and Gouder's finest Street Fighters ports. Tired of the violence of those fighters? Rodland lets you take a break and enjoy a good platformer with its soundtrack.
1997 Super 6-in-1 (Top002)
Okay, we're reaching some peaks here. This is part of the very few cartridges released by Realtec which features an Ei-How Yang title in its selection. Mickey Mania 7 is presented here along with 5 other generic games in a custom menu using a fairly classic E.H.Y. font. So what's special about this? The PCB has a huge "HSK007" id and actually works on a modified version of the J.Y. ASIC! It's all up to speculation on how this happened (the same with Contra Spirits but on this one it was seemingly unmodified) but it's definitely some food for thought-thing.
Super Contra 6 is not playable past the first level, because the multicart maker foolishly replaced the data for level 2 with the multicart menu.
21-in-1 (GA-003)
50-in-1
64-in-1 (CF-015)
150-in-1
1100000-in-1
Super 98 - 43-in-1 (VT321)
;)
A set of old and newer multicarts, some elaborate and some very simplistic ones. (ed: I swear most of these are by Realtec).
➡Download the ROMs⬅
The latest version of NintendulatorNRS and the associated source can be downloaded on its dedicated page in the blog sidebar.
Special thanks to Consolethinks for dumping the set of six multicarts and NewRisingSun.
UPDATED 2019/11/09: New mapper assignements
The world is vast, and so is the variety of Famiclone cartridges… right? Here's some new dumps from all around the world, at least.
날아라 슈퍼보이 (Flying Superboy)
This is the Korean release of Color Dreams' Menace Beach. Apart from the title screen, the game seems to be identical.
Also, this should have been the last Color Dream release that was undumped. What an achievement.
甲A - China Soccer League for Division A
Here are two new dumps of this soccer team simulation game from 1997. The "original release" file is a redump; the currently-available ROM file of the same version had been hacked to work around a limitation of the old SMYNES emulator. The "re-release" ROM file is from 2005 or 2006 and was part of a larger effort by Waixing to update their games, which ran on a variety of different mappers, on the same unified FS00x line of circuit boards that are represented by iNES mapper 176. (We obtained that particular file however from a digital download from Subor's website in .WXN format.) Currently, only recent builds of Mesen and NintendulatorNRS support it fully.
Othello (rev0)
This is the original Bit Corp. release of Othello, which is more commonly known in its release from Australia's Home Entertainment Suppliers (HES), which we consider to be "rev1". Why? Because the original Bit Corp. version (rev0) does not run on standard NES/Famicom consoles as well as most Famiclones! Othello (rev0) uses the 6502 CPU's "decimal" mode to display the number of pieces you have on the playfield. Nintendo's 6502 clone, the Ricoh RP2A03, however has the decimal mode functionality removed for cost reasons, and almost all Famiclones replicate that removal. Bit Corp.'s famiclone, the "Creator", keeps the decimal mode, and Othello (along with the rev0 version of Duck Maze, commonly referred as Duck) relies on it. Currently, only NintendulatorNRS honors the respective NES 2.0 header bit to enable decimal mode.
Super Bros. 10: Kung Fu Mari
Super Mario 14
Two beloved Mario hacks of "Jackie Chan's Action Kung Fu" and "Kaiketsu Yanchamaru 3", now redumped in their original versions for mapper 196. The previously-available ROM files had been hacked for mapper 4.
Super Bros. 8 (JY211)
Another Mario hack, this time of Taito's Don Doko Don 2. You have seen this hack before, but not in its original version, which turns out to be from our friends at J.Y. Company! J.Y.'s original version still has you starting with three lives left. The later version found in GoodNES has been further modified to have you start with more lives than that.
115 超強合卡 (JY-122)
Did we not tell you that almost all J.Y. Company ASIC-bearing multicarts have been dumped? Yes, and we are getting one stop closer to removing the "almost"! This multi unfortunately does not have any unusual games on it, so we present it for completeness' sake.
72-in-1 (XB805)
A confused multicart full of Inventor hacks of common NROM games, half of which listed under the wrong name in the menu. Gardman, more widely known as Wonder Rabbit, is included as well, but without the additional text screens that are featured in Nanjing's release of the game.
СЮБОР ОБУЧАЮЩИЙ КОМПЬЮТЕР
Thanks to Consolethinks, this redump of the Russian version of Subor's educational computer now runs unmodified under the correct mapper number. Also known as Subor V1.0 (R), which is misleading because the Russian series is different than the original Chinese series. In particular, Russian Subor V1.0 is much closer to Chinese Subor V3.0.
180-in-1, 4-in-1 (0207), 4-in-1 (0210), 4-in-1 (KG-443),
500-in-1, 50-in-1 (WQ1806 B), 72-in-1 (XB805), 75-in-1 (WQ1905 E),
81-in-1, 9999999-in-1 (KD-6037-B), 9999999-in-1 (NC-08A), No. 5 Super 4-in-1,
Olympic 2000 1000000-in-1, S08 4-in-1, Super 4-in-1 (KS-0026)
An assortment of simple multicarts owned by MrNorbert1994 and dumped by Consolethinks. You can't go wrong with Unchained Melody, Bach's Minuet and Ode to Joy!
➡Download the ROMs⬅
Credits to MrNorbert1994 and Consolethinks (Subor and assorted multicart) as well as NewRisingSun (rest).
The world is vast, and so is the variety of Famiclone cartridges… right? Here's some new dumps from all around the world, at least.
날아라 슈퍼보이 (Flying Superboy)
This is the Korean release of Color Dreams' Menace Beach. Apart from the title screen, the game seems to be identical.
Also, this should have been the last Color Dream release that was undumped. What an achievement.
甲A - China Soccer League for Division A
Here are two new dumps of this soccer team simulation game from 1997. The "original release" file is a redump; the currently-available ROM file of the same version had been hacked to work around a limitation of the old SMYNES emulator. The "re-release" ROM file is from 2005 or 2006 and was part of a larger effort by Waixing to update their games, which ran on a variety of different mappers, on the same unified FS00x line of circuit boards that are represented by iNES mapper 176. (We obtained that particular file however from a digital download from Subor's website in .WXN format.) Currently, only recent builds of Mesen and NintendulatorNRS support it fully.
Othello (rev0)
This is the original Bit Corp. release of Othello, which is more commonly known in its release from Australia's Home Entertainment Suppliers (HES), which we consider to be "rev1". Why? Because the original Bit Corp. version (rev0) does not run on standard NES/Famicom consoles as well as most Famiclones! Othello (rev0) uses the 6502 CPU's "decimal" mode to display the number of pieces you have on the playfield. Nintendo's 6502 clone, the Ricoh RP2A03, however has the decimal mode functionality removed for cost reasons, and almost all Famiclones replicate that removal. Bit Corp.'s famiclone, the "Creator", keeps the decimal mode, and Othello (along with the rev0 version of Duck Maze, commonly referred as Duck) relies on it. Currently, only NintendulatorNRS honors the respective NES 2.0 header bit to enable decimal mode.
Super Bros. 10: Kung Fu Mari
Super Mario 14
Two beloved Mario hacks of "Jackie Chan's Action Kung Fu" and "Kaiketsu Yanchamaru 3", now redumped in their original versions for mapper 196. The previously-available ROM files had been hacked for mapper 4.
Super Bros. 8 (JY211)
Another Mario hack, this time of Taito's Don Doko Don 2. You have seen this hack before, but not in its original version, which turns out to be from our friends at J.Y. Company! J.Y.'s original version still has you starting with three lives left. The later version found in GoodNES has been further modified to have you start with more lives than that.
115 超強合卡 (JY-122)
Did we not tell you that almost all J.Y. Company ASIC-bearing multicarts have been dumped? Yes, and we are getting one stop closer to removing the "almost"! This multi unfortunately does not have any unusual games on it, so we present it for completeness' sake.
72-in-1 (XB805)
A confused multicart full of Inventor hacks of common NROM games, half of which listed under the wrong name in the menu. Gardman, more widely known as Wonder Rabbit, is included as well, but without the additional text screens that are featured in Nanjing's release of the game.
СЮБОР ОБУЧАЮЩИЙ КОМПЬЮТЕР
Thanks to Consolethinks, this redump of the Russian version of Subor's educational computer now runs unmodified under the correct mapper number. Also known as Subor V1.0 (R), which is misleading because the Russian series is different than the original Chinese series. In particular, Russian Subor V1.0 is much closer to Chinese Subor V3.0.
180-in-1, 4-in-1 (0207), 4-in-1 (0210), 4-in-1 (KG-443),
500-in-1, 50-in-1 (WQ1806 B), 72-in-1 (XB805), 75-in-1 (WQ1905 E),
81-in-1, 9999999-in-1 (KD-6037-B), 9999999-in-1 (NC-08A), No. 5 Super 4-in-1,
Olympic 2000 1000000-in-1, S08 4-in-1, Super 4-in-1 (KS-0026)
;)
An assortment of simple multicarts owned by MrNorbert1994 and dumped by Consolethinks. You can't go wrong with Unchained Melody, Bach's Minuet and Ode to Joy!
➡Download the ROMs⬅
Credits to MrNorbert1994 and Consolethinks (Subor and assorted multicart) as well as NewRisingSun (rest).
Can you believe nearly all J.Y. multicarts of the original line featuring menus have been dumped by now?
1996 Super HiK 4-in-1 (JY-053) (rev0)
An earlier version of the same cartridge that was released last year on this blog. This time, the menu clearly states that it indeed is a 4-in-1 (why remove it?). The colors are also slightly different.
1996 Super HiK 4-in-1 (JY-056)
1996 Super HiK 5-in-1 (JY-056)
A nice multicart featuring a selection of Hummer games released by the end of 1995. JY-056 was released twice. An earlier version featured only 4 games (actually 3 due to Popeye 2 being a disguised Aladdin). The later version (5-in-1) added a Mortal Kombat Special repeat, because J.Y. felt it was necessary, somehow.
1996 Super HiK 4-in-1 (JY-087)
The first multicart to contains Samurai Spirits 2. Beside it has another curiosity; Namco's Star Wars.
1996 Super HiK 5-in-1 (JY-088)
A fairly generic J.Y. multicart. Aladdin and some other nice games. This time the Star Wars we're getting is The Empire Strikes Back.
1996 Super HiK 4-in-1 (JY-089)
Aladdin, not satisfied with their Jafar order, returned it. Consumerism before its time.
1996 Super HiK 5-in-1 (JY-090)
Small trivia about all those version of Samurai Spirits 2 found on these multicarts: they all lack the J.Y. logo.
1996 Super HiK 4-in-1 (JY-093)
1996 Super HiK 4-in-1 (JY-094)
JY-093 and JY-094 are complementary to each other, released at the same period as to when Hummer's Tekken 2 port came out. The JY-093 has the Toshinden variant and JY-094 the original backport. Beside, as you must have noticed, Aladdin has returned.
1997 Super HiK 5-in-1 (JY-100)
A nearly solely Banana themed multicart if it were not for Bubble Bobble(at least it starts with B) and Tecmo's World Cup Soccer. Donkey Kong 2 is the Ex-Sachen port released by Ka Sheng.
➡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 NewRisingSun.
1996 Super HiK 4-in-1 (JY-053) (rev0)
An earlier version of the same cartridge that was released last year on this blog. This time, the menu clearly states that it indeed is a 4-in-1 (why remove it?). The colors are also slightly different.
1996 Super HiK 4-in-1 (JY-056)
1996 Super HiK 5-in-1 (JY-056)
A nice multicart featuring a selection of Hummer games released by the end of 1995. JY-056 was released twice. An earlier version featured only 4 games (actually 3 due to Popeye 2 being a disguised Aladdin). The later version (5-in-1) added a Mortal Kombat Special repeat, because J.Y. felt it was necessary, somehow.
1996 Super HiK 4-in-1 (JY-087)
The first multicart to contains Samurai Spirits 2. Beside it has another curiosity; Namco's Star Wars.
1996 Super HiK 5-in-1 (JY-088)
A fairly generic J.Y. multicart. Aladdin and some other nice games. This time the Star Wars we're getting is The Empire Strikes Back.
1996 Super HiK 4-in-1 (JY-089)
Aladdin, not satisfied with their Jafar order, returned it. Consumerism before its time.
1996 Super HiK 5-in-1 (JY-090)
Small trivia about all those version of Samurai Spirits 2 found on these multicarts: they all lack the J.Y. logo.
1996 Super HiK 4-in-1 (JY-093)
1996 Super HiK 4-in-1 (JY-094)
JY-093 and JY-094 are complementary to each other, released at the same period as to when Hummer's Tekken 2 port came out. The JY-093 has the Toshinden variant and JY-094 the original backport. Beside, as you must have noticed, Aladdin has returned.
1997 Super HiK 5-in-1 (JY-100)
A nearly solely Banana themed multicart if it were not for Bubble Bobble
➡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 NewRisingSun.
Some people say that everything is better when it's French, such as a French Toast.
I say that anything is even better when it's with Samba.
Super Mario Bros. 2 (TONY-I)
Here is yet another cartridge conversion of the Japanese FDS game Super Mario Bros. 2, also known as The Lost Levels. This one came on a large printed circuit board that has the ID "TONY-I" written on it in silkscreen. It runs as mapper #43, which FCEUX' source code calls "YS-612", a hack of "TONY-I" that is part of the GoodNES 3.23b set under the incorrect "Super Mario Bros. 2 (J) (LF36) [p1]". As for the quality of this conversion, it is similar to YUNG-08, which we released earlier this year, and its descendants "Mr. Mary 2" and "N-32" ("Romeo game"): No unique jumping physics when selecting Luigi, green slow-moving plants instead of the correct red fast-moving plants in worlds 4 and above, and a somewhat broken ending with incorrect music and Princess Peach being displayed as a chest. The cartridge is recognisable from all the other ports for having a larger than usual cover.
Hot Dance with Samba
This Dance Pad cartridge includes the usual songs you know from similar cartridges, but has two additional features: first, a collection of 23 NROM games hacked by Inventor, and second, a "Samba Mode" in which the A and B buttons must be used as well, increasing the difficulty. This cartridge was released by a Taiwanese company that stole the Tiger Electronics old logo. They were active way back and distributed BIC cartridge, they're apparently still a thing since their logo appeared on some recent portable plug and play boxes.
160-in-1
(FK-021) 180-in-1
(FK-022) 178-in-1
More members of the three-digit FK-xxx series, each containing a small selection of CNROM or NROM games. The 160-in-1 had an incorrect cartridge label attached to it --- 80-in-1, a game count that was not reachable with any DIP switch setting, and showing games that were not on that cartridge at all, so its actual ID is not known. Some DIP switch settings provide a "Sonic" game that has its mirroring bit set incorrectly.
➡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 4tmelDriver for dumping FK-021/FK-022/160-in-1, krzysiobal for Hot Dance with Samba and NewRisingSun.
I say that anything is even better when it's with Samba.
Super Mario Bros. 2 (TONY-I)
Here is yet another cartridge conversion of the Japanese FDS game Super Mario Bros. 2, also known as The Lost Levels. This one came on a large printed circuit board that has the ID "TONY-I" written on it in silkscreen. It runs as mapper #43, which FCEUX' source code calls "YS-612", a hack of "TONY-I" that is part of the GoodNES 3.23b set under the incorrect "Super Mario Bros. 2 (J) (LF36) [p1]". As for the quality of this conversion, it is similar to YUNG-08, which we released earlier this year, and its descendants "Mr. Mary 2" and "N-32" ("Romeo game"): No unique jumping physics when selecting Luigi, green slow-moving plants instead of the correct red fast-moving plants in worlds 4 and above, and a somewhat broken ending with incorrect music and Princess Peach being displayed as a chest. The cartridge is recognisable from all the other ports for having a larger than usual cover.
Hot Dance with Samba
This Dance Pad cartridge includes the usual songs you know from similar cartridges, but has two additional features: first, a collection of 23 NROM games hacked by Inventor, and second, a "Samba Mode" in which the A and B buttons must be used as well, increasing the difficulty. This cartridge was released by a Taiwanese company that stole the Tiger Electronics old logo. They were active way back and distributed BIC cartridge, they're apparently still a thing since their logo appeared on some recent portable plug and play boxes.
160-in-1
(FK-021) 180-in-1
(FK-022) 178-in-1
More members of the three-digit FK-xxx series, each containing a small selection of CNROM or NROM games. The 160-in-1 had an incorrect cartridge label attached to it --- 80-in-1, a game count that was not reachable with any DIP switch setting, and showing games that were not on that cartridge at all, so its actual ID is not known. Some DIP switch settings provide a "Sonic" game that has its mirroring bit set incorrectly.
➡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 4tmelDriver for dumping FK-021/FK-022/160-in-1, krzysiobal for Hot Dance with Samba and NewRisingSun.
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