Nanjing's new website

[taizou]

Nanjing seem to have revamped their website recently:
http://www.sznanjing.com.cn/
It's now entirely focused on their lines of crap handheld famiclones and other related products, even the Chinese version has no sign of their famicom carts. (You'd think there'd be an opportunity to reissue them for the handhelds like Waixing did with the Coolboy, but I guess not).

also, according to Trenton_net in this thread at famicomworld (selling Waixing/Nanjing carts): http://www.famicomworld.com/forum/index.php?topic=6335.15

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UPDATE: I have word that Waixing and Nanjing are tightening distribution of these items over extreme copyright concerns outside of China. As a result, items are being discontinued or extremely limited to select local distributors. All sales have ended and items are now back at regular price. Sorry about the inconvenience, but with no guarantee of any future stock supply is likely to dry up (and has already started).[/quote]
i'm not sure how true that is - it seems very very strange that they'd stop distribution of games that - even if they were based on stolen content - were at least programmed from scratch, when all their handhelds bar the NJ Pocket are loaded full of straight-up stolen games and they still sell those openly.

But i guess this could mean the era of new famicom games (on cart anyway, I'm sure new plug-&-play stuff is still being made) is finally over...

[MLX]

Well YH is still everywhere and still produce cartridges. But they started activities in 1996-97 which was too late to be considered in Famicom era (same for nanjing) unlike waixing. Too bad but it had to end :/ Btw I see skype adresses for nanjing, you could give a try and ask if they still produce 8bits game cartridges.

[trenton_net]

taizou

Oct 1 2011, 08:55:53 AM

i'm not sure how true that is - it seems very very strange that they'd stop distribution of games that - even if they were based on stolen content - were at least programmed from scratch, when all their handhelds bar the NJ Pocket are loaded full of straight-up stolen games and they still sell those openly.[/quote]Nanjing and other companies generally don't care about multi-carts. They are a dime-a-dozen and can easily blend into the crowd - Especially if they are just generic Chinese label. The problem with their remakes is that they are considered rather collectible and unique. To the point that they get visible coverage in the news, gaming websites, and other places *outside* of China, with a big red arrow pointing back to them.

Now I'm not saying you can't find direct links back to these companies in other ways, but obviously when your visibly hurting a current IP directly, companies are much more likely to go after you rather than just a run of the mill pirating of games that were releases ages ago.

[SpaceNinja]

"Contant us"
MSN: thomasgao2010@hotmail.com
Skype: thomasgao2010

Hmmm... I wonder if I can leech out a game list of him.
Also it's weird that they stop selling their games...

[trenton_net]

SpaceNinja

Oct 4 2011, 02:45:06 AM

"Contant us"
MSN: thomasgao2010@hotmail.com
Skype: thomasgao2010

Hmmm... I wonder if I can leech out a game list of him.
Also it's weird that they stop selling their games...[/quote]<Shrugs> I Don't think it's strange, but that's what I heard from suppliers anyway. But it seems to be pretty accurate as I've had trouble finding some items.

BTW: I used to have a full catalogue list of all the games they sold with serials. I dunno where it is now unfortunately (doh!).

[taizou]

There was a forum post from a Nanjing developer (translated by Barver somewhere on here) where he mentioned there's not much money in new Famicom stuff anymore - that might be another factor in them stopping production. I could see it being a bit of both though. Plus their RPGs kind of naturally limit themselves to the Chinese market, whereas they can (and do) sell those crappy handhelds all over the world.

As for a game list, the one on the wiki is looking pretty good these days
http://bootleggames.wikia.com/wiki/Nanjing

[SpaceNinja]

Oh yeah, I forgot I took the base list from CinnamonPirate back then...
Do you think this guy has ROM files of the games? I mean, I kinda advertise them with the endings.

[taizou]

Yeah he probably would have access to ROMs, unless only their development team had them and they all left. But I doubt he'd hand them out, even with your free advertising - publicity in the West is exactly what they don't want, after all
(Plus Youtube is blocked in China)