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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]".
➡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 Aprk-Zero, CAPS0ff and NewRisingSun.
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]".
➡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 Aprk-Zero, CAPS0ff and NewRisingSun.
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Here's the last large delivery for a while. We need some rest. You'll get bored if we keep going with this volume of releases!
1996 英語 CAI 3合1
This is the earliest Waixing game to be dumped, featuring an unseen logo variant. Apart from that, it is a rather unexciting collection of learning games. Cartridge provided by taizou.
西天取经 - Journey to the West
This game has been included in GoodNES 3.23b for years, but only as a hacked version, likely from being some kind of multicart extract, that would fail to run on an actual BNROM circuit board due to bus conflicts. Our fresh redump comes from an original cartridge provided by taizou.
Super 19-in-1 (VIP19)
A very late J.Y. multicart with an odd Donkey Kong titled Joe & Mac hack. The separate ROM of that piece of art is of course included in the archive.
FIFA International Soccer '96 (JY-060)
J-League Winning Goal hack by J.Y. Company. It's not the first FIFA game by J.Y. in fact, there's a 1995 print as well that lacks any ID.
FIFA International Soccer '97 (EL-001)
The same except that it happens in 1997 and this time, in the separate "EL" line of J.Y. that saw got about four different cartridges in it. Was "EL" chosen after this odd "Electonnic Suki" alias?
推倒胡麻將 (JY043) - Tuidaohu Mahjong
This is a J.Y. release of Kaiser's hack of the original Nintendo Mahjong game. The Kaiser version has been in GoodNES for some time as "Tui Do Woo Ma Jeung (Ch) [!].nes". It is not part of the original J.Y. line but rather the "late" one. It shows up in a line of cartridges with JY id that features many of the original J.Y. games as well as other unrelated & licensed games. So it may come from somebody claiming to be J.Y. instead of J.Y. themselves. The mapper differs from how most emulators emulate mapper 171 used for the Kaiser version; depending on which address bits are queried, both versions could run under the same mapper however. Therefore, until the original Kaiser board is analysed, we tentatively shall assign JY043 to mapper 171 as well.
西天取经 9-in-1
An updated reprint of the EW-010 multicart. "Updated" to change the menu colors and game order, correct a spelling error, remove the TXC logo from "Journey to the West", and correct the sound problems in 1943 that AlexSRMD described. Cartridge provided by taizou.
All of the following cartridges are soft or hard reset based. We figured a way to dump them with the proper hardware so why not add them to the menu?
瑪莉家族大集合 5-in-1
This multicart, by Ge De, features Somari as well as the most popular Mario hacks from this period. Games are switched on every power cycle, so press Shift-F4 to cycle through them.
1993 Heroes Series 4-in-1 (JY-001 rev0)
1994 Super HiK 4-in-1 - 新系列激龜快打組合卡 (JY-001 rev1)
1994 Super HiK 4-in-1 - 新系列兔寶寶組合卡 (JY-002)
1994 Super HiK 4-in-1 - 新系列侏羅記公園組合卡 (JY-003)
1996 Super HiK 4-in-1 - 新系列熱血專輯組合卡 (JY-004)
1995 Super HiK 4-in-1 - 新系列熱血專輯組合卡 (JY-008)
1995 Super HiK 4-in-1 - 新系列機器戰警组合卡 (JY-022)
1997 Super HiK 4-in-1 - 新系列米奇老鼠Ⅲ组合卡 (JY-024 rev1)
1995 Super HiK 4-in-1 - 新系列魂斗羅二代組合卡 (JY-038)
1995 Super HiK 4-in-1 - 新系列真人快打组合金卡 (JY-039)
This reset-based multicart from Jingtai is special for being their only cartridge to contain the improved version of Mortal Kombat II with the game options scrolling upward on the title screen. Some background:
The source code snippets that can be found in the MKII part of this dump tell us that Hummer Team developed the game to run both on MMC3 clones as well as Jingtai's mapper 91; an assembler switch ("IF _mmc3") would produce the game for one or the other. Because mapper 91 can do scanline interrupts only every eighth scanline, the scrolling effect on the title screen was disabled in that variant, even as the sound effect indicates that it should have been there. Jingtai always put the mapper 91 version on all of their other stand-alone and multi-cartridges, likely because using that unusual mapper made it harder for other companies to pirate it. Kasheng did so anyway, putting out some rather glitchy MMC3 hacks that are notable not only for lacking the scrolling effect on the title screen (since the version they used as a basis did not have it), but with some visible shaking. When Jingtai later decided to put this game on the reset-based JY-039 multicart, they must have asked Hummer to send over the MMC3 version because among their reset-based circuit board designs, they only had MMC3 and MMC1. Our unscrupulous friends at Realtec later must have extracted this "good MMC3" version from JY-039 and put it on their own stand-alone cartridge with the "M-O9" cartridge code that Sanchez had dumped nine years ago as "Mortal Kombat II (Rev. B)(Unl) [!]". The mystery behind this improved MK2 version has finally been solved!
1995 Super HiK 4-in-1 - 新系列蝙蝠俠Ⅲ组合强卡 (JY-040)
1995 Super HiK 4-in-1 - 新系列洛克人Ⅲ组合卡 (JY-043)
1997 Super HiK 4-in-1 - 新系列獅子王組合卡 (JY-047)
1996 Super HiK 4-in-1 - 新系列超級飛狼組合卡 (JY-051)
1996 Super HiK 4-in-1 - 新系列NBA藍球組合卡 (JY-057)
1996 Super HiK 4-in-1 - 新系列怪獸大決戰 (JY-058)
The latest version of NintendulatorNRS and its source can be downloaded from its dedicated page, accessed via the top left menu.
➡Download the ROMs⬅
Credits to NewRisingSun and taizou.
1996 英語 CAI 3合1
;)
This is the earliest Waixing game to be dumped, featuring an unseen logo variant. Apart from that, it is a rather unexciting collection of learning games. Cartridge provided by taizou.
西天取经 - Journey to the West
This game has been included in GoodNES 3.23b for years, but only as a hacked version, likely from being some kind of multicart extract, that would fail to run on an actual BNROM circuit board due to bus conflicts. Our fresh redump comes from an original cartridge provided by taizou.
Super 19-in-1 (VIP19)
A very late J.Y. multicart with an odd Donkey Kong titled Joe & Mac hack. The separate ROM of that piece of art is of course included in the archive.
FIFA International Soccer '96 (JY-060)
J-League Winning Goal hack by J.Y. Company. It's not the first FIFA game by J.Y. in fact, there's a 1995 print as well that lacks any ID.
FIFA International Soccer '97 (EL-001)
The same except that it happens in 1997 and this time, in the separate "EL" line of J.Y. that saw got about four different cartridges in it. Was "EL" chosen after this odd "Electonnic Suki" alias?
推倒胡麻將 (JY043) - Tuidaohu Mahjong
This is a J.Y. release of Kaiser's hack of the original Nintendo Mahjong game. The Kaiser version has been in GoodNES for some time as "Tui Do Woo Ma Jeung (Ch) [!].nes". It is not part of the original J.Y. line but rather the "late" one. It shows up in a line of cartridges with JY id that features many of the original J.Y. games as well as other unrelated & licensed games. So it may come from somebody claiming to be J.Y. instead of J.Y. themselves. The mapper differs from how most emulators emulate mapper 171 used for the Kaiser version; depending on which address bits are queried, both versions could run under the same mapper however. Therefore, until the original Kaiser board is analysed, we tentatively shall assign JY043 to mapper 171 as well.
西天取经 9-in-1
An updated reprint of the EW-010 multicart. "Updated" to change the menu colors and game order, correct a spelling error, remove the TXC logo from "Journey to the West", and correct the sound problems in 1943 that AlexSRMD described. Cartridge provided by taizou.
All of the following cartridges are soft or hard reset based. We figured a way to dump them with the proper hardware so why not add them to the menu?
瑪莉家族大集合 5-in-1
This multicart, by Ge De, features Somari as well as the most popular Mario hacks from this period. Games are switched on every power cycle, so press Shift-F4 to cycle through them.
1993 Heroes Series 4-in-1 (JY-001 rev0)
1994 Super HiK 4-in-1 - 新系列激龜快打組合卡 (JY-001 rev1)
1994 Super HiK 4-in-1 - 新系列兔寶寶組合卡 (JY-002)
1994 Super HiK 4-in-1 - 新系列侏羅記公園組合卡 (JY-003)
1996 Super HiK 4-in-1 - 新系列熱血專輯組合卡 (JY-004)
1995 Super HiK 4-in-1 - 新系列熱血專輯組合卡 (JY-008)
1995 Super HiK 4-in-1 - 新系列機器戰警组合卡 (JY-022)
1997 Super HiK 4-in-1 - 新系列米奇老鼠Ⅲ组合卡 (JY-024 rev1)
1995 Super HiK 4-in-1 - 新系列魂斗羅二代組合卡 (JY-038)
1995 Super HiK 4-in-1 - 新系列真人快打组合金卡 (JY-039)
This reset-based multicart from Jingtai is special for being their only cartridge to contain the improved version of Mortal Kombat II with the game options scrolling upward on the title screen. Some background:
The source code snippets that can be found in the MKII part of this dump tell us that Hummer Team developed the game to run both on MMC3 clones as well as Jingtai's mapper 91; an assembler switch ("IF _mmc3") would produce the game for one or the other. Because mapper 91 can do scanline interrupts only every eighth scanline, the scrolling effect on the title screen was disabled in that variant, even as the sound effect indicates that it should have been there. Jingtai always put the mapper 91 version on all of their other stand-alone and multi-cartridges, likely because using that unusual mapper made it harder for other companies to pirate it. Kasheng did so anyway, putting out some rather glitchy MMC3 hacks that are notable not only for lacking the scrolling effect on the title screen (since the version they used as a basis did not have it), but with some visible shaking. When Jingtai later decided to put this game on the reset-based JY-039 multicart, they must have asked Hummer to send over the MMC3 version because among their reset-based circuit board designs, they only had MMC3 and MMC1. Our unscrupulous friends at Realtec later must have extracted this "good MMC3" version from JY-039 and put it on their own stand-alone cartridge with the "M-O9" cartridge code that Sanchez had dumped nine years ago as "Mortal Kombat II (Rev. B)(Unl) [!]". The mystery behind this improved MK2 version has finally been solved!
1995 Super HiK 4-in-1 - 新系列蝙蝠俠Ⅲ组合强卡 (JY-040)
1995 Super HiK 4-in-1 - 新系列洛克人Ⅲ组合卡 (JY-043)
1997 Super HiK 4-in-1 - 新系列獅子王組合卡 (JY-047)
1996 Super HiK 4-in-1 - 新系列超級飛狼組合卡 (JY-051)
1996 Super HiK 4-in-1 - 新系列NBA藍球組合卡 (JY-057)
1996 Super HiK 4-in-1 - 新系列怪獸大決戰 (JY-058)
The latest version of NintendulatorNRS and its source can be downloaded from its dedicated page, accessed via the top left menu.
➡Download the ROMs⬅
Credits to NewRisingSun and taizou.
Here's your weekly delivery of dumps, savor it, please.
GameStar Fun Educator 32-in-1
Yet another GameStar compilation of their educational stuff. They had some really high throughput of those in the early 2000s.
Super Cool Boy 4-in-1 (CB-4011)
At first we only thought ABAB was involved in the CB-4030+ cartridges but it seems in fact they're behind the a good chunk of the 40xx line, if not all of it. Here's one of these cartridge that doesn't have any of the Hummer Technology game but credits ABAB.
Super Cool Boy 4-in-1 (CB-4034)
This ABAB Soft cartridge had been dumped for years (it was the first one publicly available, in fact) but it was hacked to run on some other mapper, boo! Here's the original ROM. Stomp a crow and become a Panda Adventure master because yes, it's possible.
7-in-1 1993 Chess Series (JY-015)
An early J.Y. cart, at the time they were frequently doing themed multicart. JY-013 was a Mario 4-in-1, JY-014 is about Soccer. It was just logical that JY-015 would be about Chess (to balance out the Soccer, you know…). It features TXC's Chinese Chess with copyrights untouched. It's got a nice menu, by the way.
1995 Super HiK 8-in-1 (JY-050)
We previously released the 1997 instance. The earlier prints uses a completely different menu and PCB so here it is. Next.
1996 Soccer 6-in-1 (JY-082)
Yet another Ball selection from J.Y. about Soccer specifically. This one is kind of an alternate to JY-014 (Soccer 6-in-1, also) as the game proposed are somewhat different, it features, for example, Fifa 96 the J-League hack.
1996 Photo-gun 9-in-1 (JY-084)
Simple Zapper selection from J.Y. with the standard set of Zapper games. SC-130 is an updated version of JY-084 with some more advanced games.
Super 8-in-1 Gold Card Series (JY-085)
A collection of not so special games.
Super 8-in-1 Gold Card Series (JY-086)
Just so slightly better than before, with some games not so often sighted on multicarts like Kid Kool and Rockman 1.
1997 Super Game 8-in-1 (JY-111)
A small selection of licensed games that manages to offer more than just the typical NROM games.
1997 球類大進擊 8-in-1 (JY-112)
J.Y.'s attempt at a Kunio 8-in-1, may be the first to offer more than four. JY-207 is their second attempt. We'll get to that one at some later point maybe.
Super HiK 8-in-1 (SC-131)
The last J.Y. multicart of the original series, released approximately at the beginning of 2000, such an adventure for them. This cartridge notably retains the key elements of standard J.Y. menu and brags about its capacity. It doesn't use their proprietary ASIC, abandoned after SC-130 that was released in 1999 or so.
1996 Super HiK Gold Card 3-in-1 - 新系列强卡組合卡 (NT-707)
餓狼傳說超強 3-in-1 (EW-3004)
Three-in-one with Garō Densetsu Special, Super Mario Bros. 3 and a Cony Fighter. This exact same cartridge was also released by Ka Sheng as 1996 Super HiK Gold Card 3-in-1 (NT-707). Which came first? Nobody knows.
Gamguer 6-in-1 (PK-208)
A Korean multicart from the 2000s! It's mostly like the JY-2xx cartridges featuring Sonic, the Somari hack and REX' King of Fighters.
No. 44 Super 4-in-1
I hope the rest of the cartridges in this series have a better selection.
➡Download the ROMs⬅
The latest build and source of NintendulatorNRS can be obtained on its dedicated page, on the left pane.
Credits to Consolethinks and NewRisingSun.
GameStar Fun Educator 32-in-1
Yet another GameStar compilation of their educational stuff. They had some really high throughput of those in the early 2000s.
Super Cool Boy 4-in-1 (CB-4011)
At first we only thought ABAB was involved in the CB-4030+ cartridges but it seems in fact they're behind the a good chunk of the 40xx line, if not all of it. Here's one of these cartridge that doesn't have any of the Hummer Technology game but credits ABAB.
Super Cool Boy 4-in-1 (CB-4034)
This ABAB Soft cartridge had been dumped for years (it was the first one publicly available, in fact) but it was hacked to run on some other mapper, boo! Here's the original ROM. Stomp a crow and become a Panda Adventure master because yes, it's possible.
7-in-1 1993 Chess Series (JY-015)
An early J.Y. cart, at the time they were frequently doing themed multicart. JY-013 was a Mario 4-in-1, JY-014 is about Soccer. It was just logical that JY-015 would be about Chess (to balance out the Soccer, you know…). It features TXC's Chinese Chess with copyrights untouched. It's got a nice menu, by the way.
1995 Super HiK 8-in-1 (JY-050)
We previously released the 1997 instance. The earlier prints uses a completely different menu and PCB so here it is. Next.
1996 Soccer 6-in-1 (JY-082)
Yet another Ball selection from J.Y. about Soccer specifically. This one is kind of an alternate to JY-014 (Soccer 6-in-1, also) as the game proposed are somewhat different, it features, for example, Fifa 96 the J-League hack.
1996 Photo-gun 9-in-1 (JY-084)
Simple Zapper selection from J.Y. with the standard set of Zapper games. SC-130 is an updated version of JY-084 with some more advanced games.
Super 8-in-1 Gold Card Series (JY-085)
A collection of not so special games.
Super 8-in-1 Gold Card Series (JY-086)
Just so slightly better than before, with some games not so often sighted on multicarts like Kid Kool and Rockman 1.
1997 Super Game 8-in-1 (JY-111)
A small selection of licensed games that manages to offer more than just the typical NROM games.
1997 球類大進擊 8-in-1 (JY-112)
J.Y.'s attempt at a Kunio 8-in-1, may be the first to offer more than four. JY-207 is their second attempt. We'll get to that one at some later point maybe.
Super HiK 8-in-1 (SC-131)
The last J.Y. multicart of the original series, released approximately at the beginning of 2000, such an adventure for them. This cartridge notably retains the key elements of standard J.Y. menu and brags about its capacity. It doesn't use their proprietary ASIC, abandoned after SC-130 that was released in 1999 or so.
1996 Super HiK Gold Card 3-in-1 - 新系列强卡組合卡 (NT-707)
餓狼傳說超強 3-in-1 (EW-3004)
Three-in-one with Garō Densetsu Special, Super Mario Bros. 3 and a Cony Fighter. This exact same cartridge was also released by Ka Sheng as 1996 Super HiK Gold Card 3-in-1 (NT-707). Which came first? Nobody knows.
Gamguer 6-in-1 (PK-208)
A Korean multicart from the 2000s! It's mostly like the JY-2xx cartridges featuring Sonic, the Somari hack and REX' King of Fighters.
No. 44 Super 4-in-1
I hope the rest of the cartridges in this series have a better selection.
➡Download the ROMs⬅
The latest build and source of NintendulatorNRS can be obtained on its dedicated page, on the left pane.
Credits to Consolethinks and NewRisingSun.
It's been a while we haven't had a post that featured more than one ROM of a single game. Let's fix this, shall we?
哥伦布传 - 黄金中文版 (Columbus Zhuan, original release)
哥伦布传 - 黄金中文版 (Columbus Zhuan, re-release)
哥伦布 冒险记 - 黄金中文版 (Columbus Màoxiǎnjì)
This Japanese RPG was originally published in 1992 by Tomy. Waixing released their Chinese translation in 2005, re-released it in 2006 or 2007, followed by another re-release from Waixing offshoot Bensheng. Both Waixing releases have been dumped before; the original release uses a mapper (#195, FS303) that only NintendulatorNRS fully emulates and so is uncommon, while the re-release ROM is usually found with the wrong mapper number in the header. We present both Waixing versions for completeness' sake together with our fresh dump of the Bensheng release.
圣斗士 (Shèng Dòushì)
This Bensheng re-release of Waixing's Chinese translation of Square's 1988 game Hanjuku Hero for some reason changes the title screen to show a character from the Saint Seiya anime series.
风尘异侠录 (Fēngchén Yìxiálù)
An RPG developed by Nice Code Software, and published by Henge Dianzi. A re-release of this game has been dumped and been available before (塞外奇侠传, Saiwai Qixia Zhuan); our fresh dump is believed to be an earlier release.
8-in-1 (kk3311)
8-in-1 (kk3314)
The Waixing kk331x multicarts each pack one larger Waixing game together with seven small games from Nice Code Software. What makes them somewhat interesting is that being released outside of China, Waixing bothered to actually translate some of their games into English for them. Here are ROM files of two of these multicarts, along with extracted versions of Dragon Knife and Journey to the West. The particular version of Dragon Knife with Chinese title but an English subtitle is not found elsewhere; neither is the English translation of the surprisingly playable True and False Monkey King (真假猴王, Zhen Jia Houwang), which despite the misleading English title Journey to the West is actually the third game in Waixing's Journey to the West series.
12-in-1 (SPC002)
A not so good multicart by Realtec. The engine is quite terrible, you can only move the cursor by one position on every press. And you cannot spam the d-pad to move it fast otherwise it gets stuck! Aladdin is Hummer's, Captain Tsubasa II is the Arabic translation. There's also two odd Street Fighter II Pro hacks loosely inspired on Ka Sheng's fighters of the same names?
➡Download the ROMs⬅
The latest version of NintendulatorNRS and the associated source can be downloaded on its dedicated page on the left pane.
Credits to NewRisingSun.
哥伦布传 - 黄金中文版 (Columbus Zhuan, original release)
哥伦布传 - 黄金中文版 (Columbus Zhuan, re-release)
哥伦布 冒险记 - 黄金中文版 (Columbus Màoxiǎnjì)
This Japanese RPG was originally published in 1992 by Tomy. Waixing released their Chinese translation in 2005, re-released it in 2006 or 2007, followed by another re-release from Waixing offshoot Bensheng. Both Waixing releases have been dumped before; the original release uses a mapper (#195, FS303) that only NintendulatorNRS fully emulates and so is uncommon, while the re-release ROM is usually found with the wrong mapper number in the header. We present both Waixing versions for completeness' sake together with our fresh dump of the Bensheng release.
圣斗士 (Shèng Dòushì)
This Bensheng re-release of Waixing's Chinese translation of Square's 1988 game Hanjuku Hero for some reason changes the title screen to show a character from the Saint Seiya anime series.
风尘异侠录 (Fēngchén Yìxiálù)
An RPG developed by Nice Code Software, and published by Henge Dianzi. A re-release of this game has been dumped and been available before (塞外奇侠传, Saiwai Qixia Zhuan); our fresh dump is believed to be an earlier release.
8-in-1 (kk3311)
8-in-1 (kk3314)
The Waixing kk331x multicarts each pack one larger Waixing game together with seven small games from Nice Code Software. What makes them somewhat interesting is that being released outside of China, Waixing bothered to actually translate some of their games into English for them. Here are ROM files of two of these multicarts, along with extracted versions of Dragon Knife and Journey to the West. The particular version of Dragon Knife with Chinese title but an English subtitle is not found elsewhere; neither is the English translation of the surprisingly playable True and False Monkey King (真假猴王, Zhen Jia Houwang), which despite the misleading English title Journey to the West is actually the third game in Waixing's Journey to the West series.
;)
12-in-1 (SPC002)
A not so good multicart by Realtec. The engine is quite terrible, you can only move the cursor by one position on every press. And you cannot spam the d-pad to move it fast otherwise it gets stuck! Aladdin is Hummer's, Captain Tsubasa II is the Arabic translation. There's also two odd Street Fighter II Pro hacks loosely inspired on Ka Sheng's fighters of the same names?
➡Download the ROMs⬅
The latest version of NintendulatorNRS and the associated source can be downloaded on its dedicated page on the left pane.
Credits to NewRisingSun.
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".
;)
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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