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forgotusername:
Due to an occurrence I like to call "I woke up at 5 AM and I could never go back to sleep", I did a deeper analysis on this thing. Since Nintendulator now supports the VT369 format, I can view that format of games easier; and there is...a lot to unpack here. So much that I really can't even document all of it. But I thought I'd mention what's there, to the best of my ability.

Basically, it seems that every Cube Tech VT369 hack is in here. That includes ones like the Donkey Kong Jr./Jr. Math hacks, which were not on the My Arcade console, but appeared on some 230/240-in-1s from other manufacturers. But more interestingly, there are at least eight hacks that have appeared on some of the plug & plays (in 2x resolution), but I don't think any mini arcades (which are 1x resolution) with them have surfaced. Those eight hacks are of:

*Bokosuka Wars (seems broken...)
*Glommy Chess
*Hon Shougi
*Magic Bubble (Nice Code Tetris)
*Ms. Pac-Man (Tengen)
*Pac-Man
*Tetris (Tengen)
*Xiao Ma Li

There are multiple Cube Technology original games that go unused as well, including:

*Cube (puzzle game)
*Love's Arrow (shooting game, hit both hearts at once)
*Unknown table tennis game
*Unknown puzzle game, Zuma-ish
*Unknown music/rhythm game
*Unknown karate game, smash the objects

I was only able to rip games that were 256K or 512K in size; meaning there are possibly more unused, larger-sized ones that I couldn't access. But I'll save trying to find those for another sleepless night; for now, here are the ROMs of every game listed above.

kelvin donna:

--- Quote from: forgotusername on December 21, 2020, 03:51:44 PM ---
*Unknown puzzle game, Zuma-ish


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HEY! That is the OTHER Version of that Luxor Copy, i searched like a madman.
i'm glad, that i own it now.


--- Quote from: forgotusername on December 21, 2020, 03:51:44 PM ---
I was only able to rip games that were 256K or 512K in size; meaning there are possibly more unused, larger-sized ones that I couldn't access. But I'll save trying to find those for another sleepless night; for now, here are the ROMs of every game listed above.

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This will include the Super C Hack and this Unknown Strikers 1945 clone, i thougt.

forgotusername:
Sometimes you just overlook the simplest things...

I saw the user "DreamGear Fan" mentioned the other day that VT369 sprites can be viewed as SNES "Mode 7" graphics in YYCHR. I actually directly used YYCHR to help rip the previous files in this thread, but somehow just... never thought to check the Mode 7 graphic viewer. Because of that discovery though, I was able to do a full, 100-percent analysis of the system's code.

The main notable find - as I suspected was in there somewhere - is the VT369 Super Mario Bros. hack, somewhat based on Inventor's "Pandamar" hack. There were a few more surprises too, though - such as a VT03 Mach Rider hack titled "Gear Master", and a few more "unknown" games (including a ping-pong and a sorta-mowing game?) that don't seem to be on any variants of the console. I also found a test menu, which can be accessed by holding A and B while turning the system on.

Attached below are four ROMs (including the Mario hack) which I believe are unused, alongside the test menu. I have also attached a .txt documenting all of the games inside the code - used and unused - with their HEX addresses, file sizes, and any other notable information.

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