If you think, rightly, that World Heroes 2 by Cony Soft was the most ambitious crossover in history, you might want to add 古今英雄伝 - The Ancient & Modern Heros (sic) as a contender for the second place. Not only it features a diversified character selection, they're mixed with the good old Street Fighter II characters.



It appears to have been released in the last third of 1993. It seems to be based of Fighter V which already has obscure origins as it bears no copyrights. That game already had one of the portrait replaced (Ryu portrait was replaced with Goku), yet the replaced portrait in that one does not match Goku portrait in The Ancient and Modern Heroes. Some of the portraits were ripped from ファミコンジャンプ 英雄列伝 (Famicom Jump: Hero Retsuden).

As for the fighters… whoever were in charge of this mess definitely played an exciting game of exquisite corpses.
Head - Body
Mario - Balrog (M. Bison)
Goku - Ryu
Sangokushi character #1 - E. Honda
Bart Simpson - Blanka
Ryo Saeba (City Hunter) - Guile
Sangokushi character #2 - Vega (Balrog)
Kenshiro (Fist of the North Star) - Ken
Cammy - Chun-Li
Wario - Zangief
Isamu (Kōya no Shōnen Isamu) - Dhalsim

Ryo Saeba and Isamu are the only two characters whose portrait do not appear on the front cover. It features rather Terminator (for Isamu) and seemingly another Sangokushi characters rather. See for yourself.

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This is one of those multicart that a lot of people remember but lost the original cartridge over time. It was made in 1991 by NTDEC and feature our friend Arnold with a nice rendition of the main theme of the 1987 Hong Kong movie Chinese Ghost Story. This cartridge is also known as Golden 250 as the cover calls it.
There are some other compilations, such as a 255-in-1 with the same menu but lacking the NTDEC copyright, those were made at a later time by an unknown company.

Powerful 250 in 1


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UPDATED 27th January 2019
The previous dump of Final Fantasy proved to be bad and so was replaced with a good dump. It was moved with Chongwu Baobao to mapper 268 because the SRAM could be corrupted by some mapper-specific writes. Mapper 4 ROMs of those two were added in the archive as well.
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Running to the christmas tree to tear up the paper used to pack your presents. What do you find inside? Fifteen sweet ROMs for your beloved console and from your all time favorite publishers! You feel that this year Santa finally heard you, right?
Well, he might not have but we did.

75 Bingo (SA-007)

An early Sachen game, this version with an English title screen was already available as an UNIF-format ROM image claiming to use a "NES-CNROM" board, having been released by Sanchez and dumped by "Mad Dumper". It turns out that "Mad Dumper" also mapper-hacked the ROM image without telling anybody. This is the unaltered ROM image, using iNES Mapper 79 used by Sachen and American Video Entertainment alike. Interestingly, the game also has compatibility code for Color Dreams' iNES Mapper 11. Does that mean that Color Dreams/Bunch Games were offered or planned to release this game? Nobody knows.

剑侠情缘 (Jiànxiá qíngyuán)

This is a previously-undumped re-release (or, more likely, pirated version) by 南通 (Shenzen Nántōng) of Waixing's Chinese translation of Square's Final Fantasy 1.

宠物宝宝 (Chǒngwù Bǎobǎo, lit. Pet Baby, NJ031)

As the Bootleg Games Wiki states, "a virtual pet game where you must raise one of three puppies, likely released amidst the Nintendogs craze". Developed by Nice Code Software, published by Shenzhen Nanjing, its Chinese version had not been dumped before and has full save/restore functionality. The English version is available on the PowerJoy SuperMax 30-in-1 as Pet Dog, but with the save/restore functionality disabled.

Smart Genius (a.k.a. Little Master/Sprytny Geniusz)

Yet another one among the seemingly-endless number of famiclone-based educational computer cartridges, this time published by Belsonic and supporting one type of the Subor mouse. This ROM was taken from a cartridge that was sold in Poland with the name Sprytny Geniusz on the packaging; the cartridge label calls it Little Master, while the in-game title is Smart Genius.

齐天大圣 (Qítiān dàshèng, NJ082)

Another RPG from Shenzhen Nanjing, released on June 1st, 2008 according to the records of the Chinese copyright office (registration number 2008SR18758). Previously available only as a mapper hack for iNES Mapper 241, this redump provides the unaltered version for iNES Mapper 178.

1994 Super HiK 4-in-1 (JY-005)

The very first J.Y. multicart in the line to feature a game selection screen. Also, are those Pokeballs?

1994 Super HiK 3-in-1 (JY-007)

An unique selection of games, two of them were released the same year as this cartridge. It seems to have been an interesting approach by J.Y. to differentiate their activities from all the other that just copied the previously released cartridges that just contained that same selection of NROM games.

1994 Ball 4-in-1 Series (JY-009)

Another Sport themed multicart from J.Y. Company.


1995 Super HiK 4-in-1 (JY-018)

The first J.Y. multicart to use that menu layout. As usual, some common games and some uniques ones. Have you ever seen Ren and Stimpy or that strange Monster in My Pocket hack featuring Batman on another multicart? I certainly haven't seen (m)any.

1995 Super HiK 4-in-1 (JY-019)

A direct follow-up to the previous entry. Three games have been replaced with three others. Mickey's Safari in Letterland makes an appearance.


1997 Super HiK 8-in-1 (JY-097)

By 1997, J.Y. hadn't yet changed their habits. Here's a multicart featuring Zelda (without the possibility to save your progress, Bomberman II and Super Mario Bros. 2 (the original one - albeit uncomplete, it will crash upon completing 4-4).
It's unique but kind of disappointing when you know SMB2j is broken and you need to beat Zelda in one go.

1998 Super HiK 6-in-1 (JY-117)

We're nearing the end of the J.Y. line at this point. Here's the second and last multicart featuring Tiny Toon Adventures 6. This multicart theme seems to be games based on cartoons and super heroes. Oddly, a Cony game ended up on it.

1998 Super 3-in-1 (JY-118)

Possibly one of the multicart that offers the most limited choice in terms of variety. It's just three time Street Fighter III with different title and characters selection screens. Great. Seems like J.Y. recycled some Tekken 2 PCBs to make it. Yet it's such a weird choice.

Super HIK 8-in-1 (CK-124)

Two Datach games, the original Rockman (and not Rockman 3 or 5), that uncomplete SMB2j port and some other games. The broken sound in the Konami games is due because they don't properly reset the APU and J.Y. overlooked that. Booh.

方塊專集 HiK Block 14-in-1 (SC-126)

A puzzle themed multicart. There's enough variety on there to please anyone. But at the same time it's just puzzle games. So some will get bored quickly. 3D Block and Chinese Chess are the two originals on there. Both with copyrights removed (while SC-128 kept it on Chinese Chess).

Super Photo-Gun 13-in-1 (SC-130)

The penultimate J.Y. cartridge in the original line. This time it's a light-gun games selection with Lethal Weapon! It appears to have been released at the begining of 2000.

Super 魂斗羅 Super Contra

With a modified copyright reading © 1990 Yellow. Also they placed a nonsensical "DS" on the titlescreen.

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We're up for some good ROMs today. There's nothing particularly new, they are just rare so it's good to cross them off of some of those unexisting list.

Starting up with the multicarts. As you've guessed, they're from J.Y. Quite original and unexpected coming from here, right? But hold your horses, there's one from Bit Corporation too!

31-in-1 (3150) (Bit Corp.)

This is, I believe, the multicart with the largest selection of games on which you had to move actual DIP switches to select your game. If you did the maths already (or just looked at the above photo…), you've noticed that there are indeed five switches sticking out on the front.
I'm not making a mosaic of all the games, especially considering that 31 is a prime number. A scan will have to do.

1995 Super HiK 4-in-1 (JY-016)

Can you believe it? It's the first multicart in the J.Y. line to feature one Hummer game!

1995 Super HiK 4-in-1 (JY-017)

Almost the same, except Dragon Ball Z 2 replaces Mortal Kombat II. This one is slightly easier to find and seems to have been one of the most popular J.Y. It got three reprints; one in 1996, 1997 and 1998!

Super Mortal Kombat III 18-in-1 Series (JY-062)

A fairly unusual one from J.Y., it's got an high game count and it's from 1996. Sadly, more games goes with the fact that those are mostly NROM titles. It still includes Mortal Kombat III Turbo… which is kind of a miss because by 1996, Mortal Kombat II Special had been released. A different solder pad configuration allows the menu to change to a 80000000-in-1 (JY-067) version. Modifying 0100 to various values also enable two otherwise-hidden menus.

Super Aladdin III 18-in-1 Series (JY-064)

Made with the same philosophy as JY-062, except it features Aladdin… and BB Car with an updated copyright line, explicitely reading in latin alphabet "Xinwei Huang". Weird.
A different solder pad configuration changes the menu to a 54-in-1, which is JY-065.

1996 Super HiK 3-in-1 (JY-070)

A typical J.Y. multicart. One Hummer game that goes along some late offocial games.

Rockman 7-in-1 (JY-208)

Now that's a weird one. It's first entry is Rocman X and that's actually fairly interesting! You don't see the later Sachen titles often on multicarts. Now you would assume the rest is the hexalogy? Well no, the second one is Rockboard and Rockman 5 is the Darkwing Duck hack. Oops. Rockman 2 ends up being the one missing (with the true Rockman 5). Those two likely ended up missing because of some ROM size constraint.

動動腦 II: 國中英文(一) (Dòngdòngnǎo II: Guózhōng Yīngwén (I), Middle School English)

As I said in the title, the cherry on the cake (?) is this Sachen title. The current dumps appears to be a mapper hack. So consider using that one rather?

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Today we have a wide selection of multicarts from the 90s, the oldest being from 1992 and the latest from 1998. Most of them are from J.Y. by the way.

Super Mario Family (Alt: 92' Super Mario Family)

This cartridge is a follow-up to the Super Mario Party 6-in-1 compilation. It adds notably Mario IV, Bio Miracle (as Baby Mario), Doctor Mario, Mickey Mouse and… Dynamite Bowl ??
Unfortunately, Super Mario Bros. 2 (Japan) is not complete and will hang-up after completing 4-4.

Super Boy Top 5-in-1 特輯

It appears to have been released sometime in 1994. There's no indication on who may have published it. It's branded "Super Boy" and the cover design is kind of unique, as is the selection of games (one doesn't find Bio Miracle and Kaiser's Super Mario Bros. 2 port often on a multicart).

Super Boy 6-in-1

From the same publisher as the 5-in-1 above. This cartridge is mostly the same, except that Rockman 6 7 and SMB2j have been replaced by two Datach games and Contra.

JY Ball Series 18-in-1 (JY-010)

The updated version of the extremely popular Ball Series 11-in-1 which J.Y. originally released all the way back in 1990!

1997 Super Game 7-in-1 (JY-016)

The 1997 instance of JY-016 is different from the 1995 and 1996 counterparts. It removes Guevara, adds Goal II and variants of Street Fighter III and Mortal Kombat II.

1996 Super HiK 4-in-1 (JY-052)

The first multicart by J.Y. to features Aladdin.

1996 Super HiK 4-in-1 (JY-053)

Direct follow-up, with a background reading repeatedly Jaleco (why?).

1996 Super HiK 4-in-1 (JY-054)

Master Fighter II is in there, oddly.

1996 Super HiK 4-in-1 (JY-055)

Another unique selection of games rarely seen on multicarts.

1996 Power Rangers HiK 4-in-1 (JY-066)

A Power Rangers selection with Madmax, it features the Hummer port.

1996 Super HiK 3-in-1 (JY-068)

Popeye 2 starts in the cave rather than Agrabah Market.

1996 Super HiK 4-in-1 (JY-069)

This one features Aladdin with the button swap!

1996 Super HiK 3-in-1 (JY-071)

Kureyon Shin II is the Bio Miracle hack.

1996 Super HiK 3-in-1 (JY-079)

Hummer themed multicart completed with Galaxian.

Final Fight 3 Super 25-in-1 (SC-128)

One of the last J.Y. multicart from the original line! It features Final Fight 3. There's also TXC's Chinese Chess with copyrights untouched!

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