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It's Christmas in the most god-forsaken year since World War II, so what could be more appropriate than a gargantuan onslaught of grotesque new mini-games for the most wretched of plug'n play consoles?
First, we have the second edition of NES ports of various Intellivision games. Techno Source, seemingly unhappy with Nice Code's NES ports of games such as Night Stalker and Astrosmash, commissioned a different developer -- whose name is known but to God and to manufacturers of cheap dance mats -- to re-port some and newly-port other Intellivision games for their "Intellivision 2nd Edition" and two-players-supporting "Intellivision X2" consoles. Their effort bestows unto us a total of fourteen new NES versions of Intellivision originals. There would be even more titles bestowed unto us if the current "Intellivision X2" ROM image were complete; we have to work with what we have.
Next, we join in spirit the ranks of cartoon enthusiasts who rejoice any time a long-lost original title card of a Blue Ribbon Merry Melody is recovered from a dusty 16mm film can, thanks to a slew of Jungletac UM6578 and VT03 games with newly-found title screens. Did you know that "Push the Box" was originally called "Big Workload"? Did you know that "Gobang" was really called "Gobang" even inside the game? Did you know that Jungletac originally had a "Speed Racer" license? It's all true! And, you can now play "Snood" and "Snood Towers" in their "original" VT03 versions before they became "Magic Bubble" and "Bubble Factory", respectively. If that does not excite you, I don't know what will.
But wait, there is more! Jungletac (a.k.a. D.J. Jungle, a.k.a. Junglesoft) did not rest on their laurels after having blessed the world with their VT03 games. When V.R. Technology of Taiwan unleashed their next enhanced famiclone model, the VT369 with 256-color eight-bits-per-plane graphics, the "D.J." rose to the challenge and gave many of Jungle's games a much-needed facelift. All this in addition to entirely new titles, such as something that pretends to be a Golf game, something that pretends to be a Mini-Golf game, and something that pretends to be a Fishing game. The first impression is all that counts, they say, and accordingly, the games end or repeat after the first impression, or about three holes in Golf. Jungletac's business partner Lexibook seemingly had more luck than brains and for some inscrutable reason managed to obtain a license to publish Disney-themed variants of various Jungletac mini-games. So don't get suspicious when you see a Star-Wars themed "One Day of Mr. Potato", or Huang Xinwei's "Columns" port -- a game that Jungletac had originally hacked into "Jewel Master" -- with Minnie Mouse in it.
Project Plug'n Play had previously omitted one of the most prolific developers of plug'n play material: Cube Tech. Our exhibition of their handiwork will begin with an overview of their graphics hacks of regular NES games. Cube Tech's VT03 hacks can easily be recognized by their over-use of garish rainbow colors, and by some of them crashing after the first level, such as "Eat Beans" (Pac-Man). These early hacks were originally included as bonus material on various Macro Winners "Game Sporz" consoles whose main attraction, such as it were, was a single original Cube Tech sports game.
Cube Tech later created many, many hacks of NES games for the VT369, featuring all-enhanced tasteless 256-color graphics and completely-replaced audio comprised of 8 kHz samples of stolen Italo Disco and public domain tracks. Many of these VT369 hacks even exist in high-resolution (512x480) variants, but we only have the NES-resolution editions so far.
Slightly more exciting are Cube Tech's originals. You have seen many of their VT03 games without realizing that they were originally from Cube Tech: Waixing games such as Cat vs. Dog, Get Lost, Helli-Mission or Water Fire were all made by Cube Tech. Having an aversion to the NES APU, Cube Tech instead made use of a custom ADPCM sound chip to deliver low-fidelity smashing music on the title screens, and appropriate sound effects in-game. Waixing had no time for such extravagant nonsense, and in a jiffy replaced all audio with a single nerve-wrecking NES APU muzak track per game that never stops, and no sound effects whatsoever. With the original ADPCM audio, games such as Get Lost are actually somewhat fun to play. Some of the restored VT03 titles come from a VT369 source for the time being, so don't be surprised that it does not say "VT03" in the emulator's Debug window.
Another batch of Cube Tech originals are the aforementioned Boxing/Ping Pong/Tennis games from the Game Sporz consoles, plus ten soccer-themed sports offerings from a Taikee plug'n play controller. The term "soccer-themed" should be taken with a grain of salt though in light of such gems as "Soccer Arkanoid". The remainder of Cube Tech titles are all-original VT369 games, "original" in the sense that Cube Tech programmed them by themselves, though obviously "inspired" by the game ideas of more capable game authors.
Last, but certainly least, we have a few entirely original games from Shenzhen Wellminds. The most outstanding feature of these are the samples recorded at the ultra-low rate of 4 kHz. "Baba qu Naer" is a game based on some Chinese reality television show. The others are native games for a 160x128 handheld display, and will therefore look like thumbnails on a normal computer screen.
That concludes our fantastic journey into the cave of monsters for today. Be sure to download the latest NintendulatorNRS build from the left-hand panel of this blog, or you won't see much of many of the new exhibits. 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. Download the current archive here. Merry Christmas!
Credits to bunnyboy, Tim Schuerewegen and MAME for dumps of the various consoles from which these extracts were taken.
First, we have the second edition of NES ports of various Intellivision games. Techno Source, seemingly unhappy with Nice Code's NES ports of games such as Night Stalker and Astrosmash, commissioned a different developer -- whose name is known but to God and to manufacturers of cheap dance mats -- to re-port some and newly-port other Intellivision games for their "Intellivision 2nd Edition" and two-players-supporting "Intellivision X2" consoles. Their effort bestows unto us a total of fourteen new NES versions of Intellivision originals. There would be even more titles bestowed unto us if the current "Intellivision X2" ROM image were complete; we have to work with what we have.
;)
Next, we join in spirit the ranks of cartoon enthusiasts who rejoice any time a long-lost original title card of a Blue Ribbon Merry Melody is recovered from a dusty 16mm film can, thanks to a slew of Jungletac UM6578 and VT03 games with newly-found title screens. Did you know that "Push the Box" was originally called "Big Workload"? Did you know that "Gobang" was really called "Gobang" even inside the game? Did you know that Jungletac originally had a "Speed Racer" license? It's all true! And, you can now play "Snood" and "Snood Towers" in their "original" VT03 versions before they became "Magic Bubble" and "Bubble Factory", respectively. If that does not excite you, I don't know what will.
But wait, there is more! Jungletac (a.k.a. D.J. Jungle, a.k.a. Junglesoft) did not rest on their laurels after having blessed the world with their VT03 games. When V.R. Technology of Taiwan unleashed their next enhanced famiclone model, the VT369 with 256-color eight-bits-per-plane graphics, the "D.J." rose to the challenge and gave many of Jungle's games a much-needed facelift. All this in addition to entirely new titles, such as something that pretends to be a Golf game, something that pretends to be a Mini-Golf game, and something that pretends to be a Fishing game. The first impression is all that counts, they say, and accordingly, the games end or repeat after the first impression, or about three holes in Golf. Jungletac's business partner Lexibook seemingly had more luck than brains and for some inscrutable reason managed to obtain a license to publish Disney-themed variants of various Jungletac mini-games. So don't get suspicious when you see a Star-Wars themed "One Day of Mr. Potato", or Huang Xinwei's "Columns" port -- a game that Jungletac had originally hacked into "Jewel Master" -- with Minnie Mouse in it.
Project Plug'n Play had previously omitted one of the most prolific developers of plug'n play material: Cube Tech. Our exhibition of their handiwork will begin with an overview of their graphics hacks of regular NES games. Cube Tech's VT03 hacks can easily be recognized by their over-use of garish rainbow colors, and by some of them crashing after the first level, such as "Eat Beans" (Pac-Man). These early hacks were originally included as bonus material on various Macro Winners "Game Sporz" consoles whose main attraction, such as it were, was a single original Cube Tech sports game.
Cube Tech later created many, many hacks of NES games for the VT369, featuring all-enhanced tasteless 256-color graphics and completely-replaced audio comprised of 8 kHz samples of stolen Italo Disco and public domain tracks. Many of these VT369 hacks even exist in high-resolution (512x480) variants, but we only have the NES-resolution editions so far.
Slightly more exciting are Cube Tech's originals. You have seen many of their VT03 games without realizing that they were originally from Cube Tech: Waixing games such as Cat vs. Dog, Get Lost, Helli-Mission or Water Fire were all made by Cube Tech. Having an aversion to the NES APU, Cube Tech instead made use of a custom ADPCM sound chip to deliver low-fidelity smashing music on the title screens, and appropriate sound effects in-game. Waixing had no time for such extravagant nonsense, and in a jiffy replaced all audio with a single nerve-wrecking NES APU muzak track per game that never stops, and no sound effects whatsoever. With the original ADPCM audio, games such as Get Lost are actually somewhat fun to play. Some of the restored VT03 titles come from a VT369 source for the time being, so don't be surprised that it does not say "VT03" in the emulator's Debug window.
Another batch of Cube Tech originals are the aforementioned Boxing/Ping Pong/Tennis games from the Game Sporz consoles, plus ten soccer-themed sports offerings from a Taikee plug'n play controller. The term "soccer-themed" should be taken with a grain of salt though in light of such gems as "Soccer Arkanoid". The remainder of Cube Tech titles are all-original VT369 games, "original" in the sense that Cube Tech programmed them by themselves, though obviously "inspired" by the game ideas of more capable game authors.
;)
Last, but certainly least, we have a few entirely original games from Shenzhen Wellminds. The most outstanding feature of these are the samples recorded at the ultra-low rate of 4 kHz. "Baba qu Naer" is a game based on some Chinese reality television show. The others are native games for a 160x128 handheld display, and will therefore look like thumbnails on a normal computer screen.
That concludes our fantastic journey into the cave of monsters for today. Be sure to download the latest NintendulatorNRS build from the left-hand panel of this blog, or you won't see much of many of the new exhibits. 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. Download the current archive here. Merry Christmas!
Credits to bunnyboy, Tim Schuerewegen and MAME for dumps of the various consoles from which these extracts were taken.
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Super Mega Christmas
Three years ago, LIBG offered to all of its reader an Idea-Tek'mas. It's only natural that a Super Mega Christmas would happen someday, and here it is! Now we can only hope for a TX'mas in the future?
Venice Beach Volley (Super Mega)
This sports game, originally commissioned by American Video Entertainment, was published in Taiwan by developer Idea-Tek themselves under their "Super Mega" brand. Nonetheless to say, this is definitely the hardest Super Mega and TXC Micro Genius title to find.
A mapper-hacked dump has been in GoodNES for a long time; we now provide the original unmodified ROM that uses Idea-Tek's custom mapper 172.
Cartridge cover
Olympic I.Q.
Kuk Je Academy was likely on a ride to release all of Sachen's educational catalog. But they were ultimately stopped at their... third release? Olympic I.Q. is their last known release. The Thin Chen version was advertised in the English, Pyramid manual, meaning it was not finished at the time of its release. Any subsequent game to Olympic I.Q., if any must have went completely unnoticed.
Cartridge cover
虎門禁煙 (Hǔmén Jìnyān)
In 1996, Fuzhou Waixing published an original RPG under the name 林則徐禁烟 (Línzéxú Jìnyān, "Linzexu Banned Smoking").
It was popular enough to be pirated by other Chinese companies, such as 振华 (Zhènhuá). This ROM file here is assumed to be Zhènhuá's pirated version of the Waixing RPG, which changes the title slightly.
Apparently, the name of the pirated version had become enough of an established name for Waixing to later re-release the game, under their Fuzhou Coolboy brand, with that name.
Pokémon 2000
This previously-undumped variant of the Pokémon-themed hack of Hudson's Felix the Cat has the player begin as Charmander, who turns into Pikachu on the occasion of a power-up.
Super 500-in-1
Super Mario 160-in-1 Funny Time
Y2K 76-in-1
Generic multicarts of various sizes, dumped for their colorful menus, and because we can.
Smart Kids
A rather large educational computer cartridge in Spanish. There is also a speech chip on the circuit board whose functionality is not emulated at the moment.
The latest version of NintendulatorNRS (binary and source) can be downloaded from its dedicated page in the blog sidebar.
➡ Download the ROMs ⬅
Credits to SupahRetroooo for dumping Hǔmén Jìnyān, Pokémon 2000 and Smart Kids, to Consolethinks for dumping Super 500-in-1, superretrogamer2741 for dumping Super Mario 160-in-1 Funny Time and Y2K 76-in-1 and to GamingAlexandria for Olympic I.Q.
Venice Beach Volley (Super Mega)
This sports game, originally commissioned by American Video Entertainment, was published in Taiwan by developer Idea-Tek themselves under their "Super Mega" brand. Nonetheless to say, this is definitely the hardest Super Mega and TXC Micro Genius title to find.
A mapper-hacked dump has been in GoodNES for a long time; we now provide the original unmodified ROM that uses Idea-Tek's custom mapper 172.
Cartridge cover
Olympic I.Q.
Kuk Je Academy was likely on a ride to release all of Sachen's educational catalog. But they were ultimately stopped at their... third release? Olympic I.Q. is their last known release. The Thin Chen version was advertised in the English, Pyramid manual, meaning it was not finished at the time of its release. Any subsequent game to Olympic I.Q., if any must have went completely unnoticed.
Cartridge cover
虎門禁煙 (Hǔmén Jìnyān)
In 1996, Fuzhou Waixing published an original RPG under the name 林則徐禁烟 (Línzéxú Jìnyān, "Linzexu Banned Smoking").
It was popular enough to be pirated by other Chinese companies, such as 振华 (Zhènhuá). This ROM file here is assumed to be Zhènhuá's pirated version of the Waixing RPG, which changes the title slightly.
Apparently, the name of the pirated version had become enough of an established name for Waixing to later re-release the game, under their Fuzhou Coolboy brand, with that name.
Pokémon 2000
This previously-undumped variant of the Pokémon-themed hack of Hudson's Felix the Cat has the player begin as Charmander, who turns into Pikachu on the occasion of a power-up.
Super 500-in-1
Super Mario 160-in-1 Funny Time
Y2K 76-in-1
Generic multicarts of various sizes, dumped for their colorful menus, and because we can.
Smart Kids
A rather large educational computer cartridge in Spanish. There is also a speech chip on the circuit board whose functionality is not emulated at the moment.
The latest version of NintendulatorNRS (binary and source) can be downloaded from its dedicated page in the blog sidebar.
➡ Download the ROMs ⬅
Credits to SupahRetroooo for dumping Hǔmén Jìnyān, Pokémon 2000 and Smart Kids, to Consolethinks for dumping Super 500-in-1, superretrogamer2741 for dumping Super Mario 160-in-1 Funny Time and Y2K 76-in-1 and to GamingAlexandria for Olympic I.Q.
Mainland China may have been the country that had the largest throughput in educational titles. Let's be honest, not so many people are interested in them and while original games developed there seem to be quite hard to come by, there's quite a fair supply of unheard of, old educational cartridges showing up on auctions sites. But hey, don't think this is all boring and not worth being checked out!
小学生数学 CAI
Moving the date of the earliest known Waixing cartridge a bit further back in time, this collection of four math learning games is far less professionally made than the English 3-in-1 CAI cartridge released here some time ago. Use the Subor keyboard to enter numbers when asked to.
What's the nice touch that makes this educational cartridge unique? Possibly the fact you're greated by a flying saucer. That's some Extraterrestrial Technology after all!
Scans:
Cartridge cover
Box cover
小状元数学 (B1.0版)
A completely obscure Math-teaching cartridge made by 宏图发展公司 (Hongtu Development Company) and manufactured by 先达电子公司 (Xianda Electronics). It was released sometime in 1995. The included games are really simple and while some have interesting title screens, the games themselves are neither particularly polished nor enjoyable.
The cartridge cover suggests that there may be more cartridges. It notably reads Ｂ版 (B Version). May we suspect that an A版 may exist with a different set of games? And before we forget this last fact, it appears to use a font last seen in Supergun 3-in-1, developed by Tai Jing Da Dong and released by TXC around 1993.
Cartridge scans:
Cartridge front cover Cartridge back sticker
铁甲突击 (KT-1025)
星河战队 (KT-1026)
Two Jncota title screen hacks of the same game, namely, Waixing's Chinese translation of Bandai's third entry into the SD Gundam Gachapon series, the original Japanese title being "SD Gundam Gachapon Senshi 3: Eiyuu Senki".
Scans:
KT1025-1026 (1)
KT1025-1026 (2)
KT1025-1026 (3)
KT1025-1026 (4)
KT1025-1026 (5)
4-in-1 HQ 高品質合卡꞉ 金牌可選關 - 影像淸晰穩定
This four-in-one multicart has both Super Mario Bros. and the Japanese disk-only Super Mario Bros. 2 on the same cart, but with the graphics swapped!
The Chinese tagline ("off-image is clear and stable") seems to imply that the status bar at the top of the screen not scrolling along with the rest of the image, which it did in Whirlwind Manu's LE10 conversion of SMB2j.
Super 1998 6-in-1 (VT-856)
It's your run-of-the-mill late 1990's non-repeating multicart, with one 512 KiB game (China Rabbit Baby), one 256 KiB game (Eliminator Boat Duel), and four CNROM-sized games (Gradius, Hokuto no Ken, Dr. Mario, Battletank).
少林武者 (Chinese Kungfu)
We'resorry happy to bring this game again into the spotlight. A redump of a redump! It turns out that our previous copy had a single bit flipped from its intended state, either due to age or a manufacturing error. We redumped it to ensure that it was not a processing mistake and it definitely wasn't. Now, this matter should be settled, finally.
三国志 II꞉ 覇王の大陸 (Subor 0102)
Namco's second Three Kingdoms game seems to be insanely popular in China, going by the sheer number of both fan and official translations in existence. This bootleg version from Subor was most likely the most common version of the game until Chinese translations came along. Waixing's translation in turn is based on this bootleg version.
Batman꞉ The Video Game (Fine Studio)
Bootleg copy on a custom mapper with a level select cheat. Take sarcastic note of the "easy-to-follow" instructions on the disk label! The game's circuit board for some reason has the words "HAPPY NEW YEARS 1990" etched on it. Well, thank you nearly 30 or so years later.
Cheats sheet (back cover)
The latest version of NintendulatorNRS (binary and source) can be downloaded from its dedicated page in the blog sidebar.
➡ Download ⬅
Special thanks to NewRisingSun for the emulation, Consolethinks for the VT-856 and famiac for Batman and the 4-in-1.
小学生数学 CAI
Moving the date of the earliest known Waixing cartridge a bit further back in time, this collection of four math learning games is far less professionally made than the English 3-in-1 CAI cartridge released here some time ago. Use the Subor keyboard to enter numbers when asked to.
What's the nice touch that makes this educational cartridge unique? Possibly the fact you're greated by a flying saucer. That's some Extraterrestrial Technology after all!
Scans:
Cartridge cover
Box cover
小状元数学 (B1.0版)
A completely obscure Math-teaching cartridge made by 宏图发展公司 (Hongtu Development Company) and manufactured by 先达电子公司 (Xianda Electronics). It was released sometime in 1995. The included games are really simple and while some have interesting title screens, the games themselves are neither particularly polished nor enjoyable.
The cartridge cover suggests that there may be more cartridges. It notably reads Ｂ版 (B Version). May we suspect that an A版 may exist with a different set of games? And before we forget this last fact, it appears to use a font last seen in Supergun 3-in-1, developed by Tai Jing Da Dong and released by TXC around 1993.
Cartridge scans:
Cartridge front cover Cartridge back sticker
铁甲突击 (KT-1025)
星河战队 (KT-1026)
Two Jncota title screen hacks of the same game, namely, Waixing's Chinese translation of Bandai's third entry into the SD Gundam Gachapon series, the original Japanese title being "SD Gundam Gachapon Senshi 3: Eiyuu Senki".
Scans:
KT1025-1026 (1)
KT1025-1026 (2)
KT1025-1026 (3)
KT1025-1026 (4)
KT1025-1026 (5)
4-in-1 HQ 高品質合卡꞉ 金牌可選關 - 影像淸晰穩定
This four-in-one multicart has both Super Mario Bros. and the Japanese disk-only Super Mario Bros. 2 on the same cart, but with the graphics swapped!
The Chinese tagline ("off-image is clear and stable") seems to imply that the status bar at the top of the screen not scrolling along with the rest of the image, which it did in Whirlwind Manu's LE10 conversion of SMB2j.
Super 1998 6-in-1 (VT-856)
It's your run-of-the-mill late 1990's non-repeating multicart, with one 512 KiB game (China Rabbit Baby), one 256 KiB game (Eliminator Boat Duel), and four CNROM-sized games (Gradius, Hokuto no Ken, Dr. Mario, Battletank).
少林武者 (Chinese Kungfu)
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三国志 II꞉ 覇王の大陸 (Subor 0102)
Namco's second Three Kingdoms game seems to be insanely popular in China, going by the sheer number of both fan and official translations in existence. This bootleg version from Subor was most likely the most common version of the game until Chinese translations came along. Waixing's translation in turn is based on this bootleg version.
Batman꞉ The Video Game (Fine Studio)
Bootleg copy on a custom mapper with a level select cheat. Take sarcastic note of the "easy-to-follow" instructions on the disk label! The game's circuit board for some reason has the words "HAPPY NEW YEARS 1990" etched on it. Well, thank you nearly 30 or so years later.
Cheats sheet (back cover)
The latest version of NintendulatorNRS (binary and source) can be downloaded from its dedicated page in the blog sidebar.
➡ Download ⬅
Special thanks to NewRisingSun for the emulation, Consolethinks for the VT-856 and famiac for Batman and the 4-in-1.
What do we have here?? FDS conversions? Multicarts?! Educational multicarts!?! The later are always the most exciting of the set. And we mean it.
Lucky Rabbit (ロジャー・ラビット)
Roger Rabbit for the NES? Yes… and before it was framed!
Audience booing
Here's an obscure Disk System to cartridge conversion. This conversion look fairly professional on the outside. The japanese title screen and copyrights were completly removed without leaving any blank space. You still get to see the "Now Loading" message after pressing start.
As to the company responsible for this port… we just don't know. The cover is bland and so is the PCB.
Regarding the name of the ROM, this photo should be self-explanatory. Cartridge cover
エキサイティングサッカー コナミカップ (Exciting Soccer Konami Cup)
If you read this blog, the name Super Soccer Champion may ring you a bell. This was a port of Exciting Soccer Konami Cup released around 1992 that featured a bunch of cosmetic changes to make the title more attractive to international markets. It definitely was not particularly popular however as the cartridge is not particularly common except in South America…?
Now, did you know it had a predecessor? Kaiser had released their own cartridge conversion of this one game around 1989. A more faithful port retaining the original title screen. In comparison to the FDS game, it just lacks the Konami copyright.
小百科 精选教育启思卡 2合1 智力拼图+嘟嘟哇哇大冒险
This is the pinch of educational goodness this release needed. It is a compilation of two mini-games made by the mysterious developer named "SUMAN GAME" (or not, it is 北京先锋卡通 aka Xianfeng Cartoon). It was released by Shenzhen Lingjie Electronics in 1994 at the modest price of 76 RMB. According to tenyuhuang, this was quite more expensive than the common cartridges on the market back then so it probably sold poorly. The cartridge is advertised for their series of Famiclone named 小百科 and has the ID 104. We honestly really wonder if it is good or bad news that there may be more cartridges from this series. Provided are photos of the cartridge to satisfy your curiosity: Click here for detailed photos of the front and the back of the cartridge
Next up are a few game compilations released throughout the 90s and 2000s from numerous companies such as Ka Sheng, Waixing...
All of the following ROMs were provided by Consolethinks.
'95 卡聖 2-in-1 (NT-811) COVER
4-in-1 1999
4-in-1 (0203)
New Super Game 4-in-1 (FK-7079)
1998 Series No. 10
80-in-1 (KD-6096)
9-in-1 Super Game (KY-9006)
3-in-1 (VT-4063)
Precious 500-in-1
4-in-1 (YH-4103)
9999999合1 - 可能是世界上最強組合
'95 世界大賽冠軍卡
The latest version of NintendulatorNRS (binary and source) can be downloaded from its dedicated page in the blog sidebar.
⇨Download the ROMs⇦
Special thanks to NewRisingSun for the emulation, Consolethinks for most of the dumps in this publication, famiac for the FDS conversions and tenyuhuang for the Lingjie cartridge.
As a side note, this website has moved to a new domain as the masterdisk site was closed. All links are even redirected nicely so no one gets to face a 404 page!
Lucky Rabbit (ロジャー・ラビット)
Roger Rabbit for the NES? Yes… and before it was framed!
Audience booing
Here's an obscure Disk System to cartridge conversion. This conversion look fairly professional on the outside. The japanese title screen and copyrights were completly removed without leaving any blank space. You still get to see the "Now Loading" message after pressing start.
As to the company responsible for this port… we just don't know. The cover is bland and so is the PCB.
Regarding the name of the ROM, this photo should be self-explanatory. Cartridge cover
エキサイティングサッカー コナミカップ (Exciting Soccer Konami Cup)
If you read this blog, the name Super Soccer Champion may ring you a bell. This was a port of Exciting Soccer Konami Cup released around 1992 that featured a bunch of cosmetic changes to make the title more attractive to international markets. It definitely was not particularly popular however as the cartridge is not particularly common except in South America…?
Now, did you know it had a predecessor? Kaiser had released their own cartridge conversion of this one game around 1989. A more faithful port retaining the original title screen. In comparison to the FDS game, it just lacks the Konami copyright.
小百科 精选教育启思卡 2合1 智力拼图+嘟嘟哇哇大冒险
This is the pinch of educational goodness this release needed. It is a compilation of two mini-games made by the mysterious developer named "SUMAN GAME" (or not, it is 北京先锋卡通 aka Xianfeng Cartoon). It was released by Shenzhen Lingjie Electronics in 1994 at the modest price of 76 RMB. According to tenyuhuang, this was quite more expensive than the common cartridges on the market back then so it probably sold poorly. The cartridge is advertised for their series of Famiclone named 小百科 and has the ID 104. We honestly really wonder if it is good or bad news that there may be more cartridges from this series. Provided are photos of the cartridge to satisfy your curiosity: Click here for detailed photos of the front and the back of the cartridge
;)
Next up are a few game compilations released throughout the 90s and 2000s from numerous companies such as Ka Sheng, Waixing...
All of the following ROMs were provided by Consolethinks.
'95 卡聖 2-in-1 (NT-811) COVER
4-in-1 1999
4-in-1 (0203)
New Super Game 4-in-1 (FK-7079)
1998 Series No. 10
80-in-1 (KD-6096)
9-in-1 Super Game (KY-9006)
3-in-1 (VT-4063)
Precious 500-in-1
4-in-1 (YH-4103)
9999999合1 - 可能是世界上最強組合
'95 世界大賽冠軍卡
;)
The latest version of NintendulatorNRS (binary and source) can be downloaded from its dedicated page in the blog sidebar.
⇨Download the ROMs⇦
Special thanks to NewRisingSun for the emulation, Consolethinks for most of the dumps in this publication, famiac for the FDS conversions and tenyuhuang for the Lingjie cartridge.
As a side note, this website has moved to a new domain as the masterdisk site was closed. All links are even redirected nicely so no one gets to face a 404 page!
Update 2020-09-17: Now that Krzysiobal has analyzed 大話三國's circuit board, it turns out that the bank order should be different after all.
大話三國.nes and NintendulatorNRS were updated accordingly.
You heard right: Mega Soft dumps. With some others that lacks the Soft part.
大話三國 (Dahua Sanguo)
We have a completely new undumped game. But before you hyperventilate out of sheer excitement, keep in mind that the game was developed by Mars Productions and published by Yancheng. 大話三國 (Dahua Sanguo) is a turn-based strategy game. It plays like Fire Emblem on the NES, except that enemy troops look exactly like player troops unless they are active. The music is probably the worst you will ever hear on the NES/Famicom, even after factoring in The Terminator. As if that were not enough, any time that a message window or character portrait opens, the current song is restarted from the beginning, to make sure you hear the same two seconds again, again, again, and again. You have been warned.
The game comes is provided as an unmodified ROM file for NintendulatorNRS as well as mapper hacks for the very-similar-but-not-quite-the-same mapper 164, which is supported by better PC emulators, as well as for mapper 241, which even most flashcarts will support. Note that the game saves to EEPROM rather than battery-backed RAM, which only NintendulatorNRS emulates at this time.
夢工場: ドキドキ Panic (Doki Doki Panic, Kaiser version)
We released Kaiser's cartridge conversion of this FDS game almost two years ago here, dumped via Kazzo back then to suit the already-existing emulation code of FCEUX. A collector has now desoldered the mask ROM and read it out directly, showing that the bank order was incorrect in the previous dump. This new dump has the advantage of being 100% faithful to the actual mask ROM content, and the disadvantage of not running in FCEUX and Nestopia Plus anymore, only in NintendulatorNRS so far. Tough luck.
もえろ TwinBee꞉ Cinnamon 博士を救え! (Moero TwinBee: Cinnamon Hakase wo Sukue!, Whirlwind Manu LG25 version)
Another FDS-to-cartridge conversion, manufactured by NTDEC. This conversion is well-done, preserving even the ending. It actually is slightly better than Konami's official "Stinger" U.S. and Japanese cartridge re-release in one aspect: vertically-scrolling stages have no garbage tiles at the bottom of the screen because unlike Konami's official cartridge ports, this bootleg conversion has selectable nametable mirroring.
Bookyman (Mega Soft)
You have seen this game a thousand times probably, but not with its "original" Mega Soft copyright. This cartridge was sold in Brazil by CCE.
Destroyer (Mega Soft)
Another game that has already been dumped in various forms, but again not with its "original" Mega Soft copyright.
Credits to famiac for dumping Moero TwinBee and Doki Doki Panic's mask ROM, fcgamer for Bookyman and NewRisingSun for the emulation.
➡Download the ROMs⬅
The latest version of NintendulatorNRS (binary and source) can be downloaded from its dedicated page in the blog sidebar.
大話三國.nes and NintendulatorNRS were updated accordingly.
You heard right: Mega Soft dumps. With some others that lacks the Soft part.
大話三國 (Dahua Sanguo)
We have a completely new undumped game. But before you hyperventilate out of sheer excitement, keep in mind that the game was developed by Mars Productions and published by Yancheng. 大話三國 (Dahua Sanguo) is a turn-based strategy game. It plays like Fire Emblem on the NES, except that enemy troops look exactly like player troops unless they are active. The music is probably the worst you will ever hear on the NES/Famicom, even after factoring in The Terminator. As if that were not enough, any time that a message window or character portrait opens, the current song is restarted from the beginning, to make sure you hear the same two seconds again, again, again, and again. You have been warned.
The game comes is provided as an unmodified ROM file for NintendulatorNRS as well as mapper hacks for the very-similar-but-not-quite-the-same mapper 164, which is supported by better PC emulators, as well as for mapper 241, which even most flashcarts will support. Note that the game saves to EEPROM rather than battery-backed RAM, which only NintendulatorNRS emulates at this time.
夢工場: ドキドキ Panic (Doki Doki Panic, Kaiser version)
We released Kaiser's cartridge conversion of this FDS game almost two years ago here, dumped via Kazzo back then to suit the already-existing emulation code of FCEUX. A collector has now desoldered the mask ROM and read it out directly, showing that the bank order was incorrect in the previous dump. This new dump has the advantage of being 100% faithful to the actual mask ROM content, and the disadvantage of not running in FCEUX and Nestopia Plus anymore, only in NintendulatorNRS so far. Tough luck.
もえろ TwinBee꞉ Cinnamon 博士を救え! (Moero TwinBee: Cinnamon Hakase wo Sukue!, Whirlwind Manu LG25 version)
Another FDS-to-cartridge conversion, manufactured by NTDEC. This conversion is well-done, preserving even the ending. It actually is slightly better than Konami's official "Stinger" U.S. and Japanese cartridge re-release in one aspect: vertically-scrolling stages have no garbage tiles at the bottom of the screen because unlike Konami's official cartridge ports, this bootleg conversion has selectable nametable mirroring.
Bookyman (Mega Soft)
You have seen this game a thousand times probably, but not with its "original" Mega Soft copyright. This cartridge was sold in Brazil by CCE.
Destroyer (Mega Soft)
Another game that has already been dumped in various forms, but again not with its "original" Mega Soft copyright.
Credits to famiac for dumping Moero TwinBee and Doki Doki Panic's mask ROM, fcgamer for Bookyman and NewRisingSun for the emulation.
➡Download the ROMs⬅
The latest version of NintendulatorNRS (binary and source) can be downloaded from its dedicated page in the blog sidebar.
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