Author Topic: Finds (Read 130219 times)

taizou · « **Reply #255 on:** April 23, 2012, 04:30:51 PM »

I guess the manufacturer (whoever that was originally, Overmax is just a rebranding operation) licensed games from both V-tac and Senca... same deal as Macro Winners consoles having Waixing and Cube Tech games, or Trump Grand's having Nice Code and (occasionally) Hummer Team stuff.

There's a logo I don't recognise in the bottom right of the "Sport Game" screen that flashes up briefly at the end of the video, incidentally... maybe that could be the original manufacturer?

but I guess "Vi - Virtual Interactive" is the original name of this thing, or at least the series of consoles it's from - I found another here, a 20 in 1:
http://www.aukcije.hr/item.php?id=1572900&cat=658
which the seller credits to Jakks strangely enough. But that one seems to have Shenzhen Niutai games.

codeman38 · « **Reply #256 on:** April 23, 2012, 05:51:04 PM »

Aha! With a Google Image Search of "virtual interactive sport game", I think I've found the actual manufacturer:

http://www.solartune.com.hk/showroom_tv_game2.html

Edited to add: They make the X-Racer too!

Awesome Panda · « **Reply #257 on:** April 23, 2012, 05:56:56 PM »

You'll have probably already pointed this out by the time I've written this message, but looking through that site Solartune made an X-Racer III (which seems to run on 32-bit hardware, judging by the screenshots) and some of their other units have JungleTac and Nice Code games.

taizou · « **Reply #258 on:** April 23, 2012, 07:12:06 PM »

hey nice find! theres some interesting crap on that site.

Pepper-98 · « **Reply #259 on:** April 25, 2012, 07:00:32 PM »

Some awesome stuff today from Taobao!

Spoiler: click to toggle

(Top left to bottom right)
-Digital Monster: A title hack of Waixing's Digital Dragon game. Published by Coolboy Electronics, similar to the Pokemon Gold 2.0 and Telefang bootlegs I own of theirs. I'm hoping this copy will hold a save, but knowing my luck it won't.
-Lord of the Rings: A title/intro hack of V.Fame's Devil Island. Intro is mostly the same, but there's a glitchy image they seem to have added. Boots with "TD-SOFT".
-Dragon Quest 10: The best thing in this whole damn package. It's another title/intro hack, but of the mostly unknown Sheng Shou Wu Yu SRPG by V.Fame. The game itself is like a faster paced version of Digimon Saphire, and has an overworld like Digimon Pocket does. I recognize one song from Saphire, and another song very similar to one in San Guo Zhi: Lie Chuan, but the rest is all original. It's pretty neat, but you tend to just "stumble" into battles at random. Totally recording footage of this game, assuming it'll play on my GB Player. Boots with "Niutoude".
-Digimon Jade 2: Anyone remember the Digimon Jade game Yong Yong made that was dumped? Why? Oh, no reason...*weep*
-Digimon 3 Crystal & Digimon Pocket: Just extras of two games I already have. Nothing new.
-Digimon 4: Anyone remember that Digimon 4 game Yong Yong made? Why? No-Okay, it's another shitty Yong Yong game. Godammit.
-Hoshi wo Miru Hito: Not a bootleg, but it came the same day. It hurts soooooo gooooood...
-Bootleg Digivice: Just as the name says. "Dinosaur Reappear" with 588 in 1 of something. It's based off of the D-Tamer digivices.

codeman38 · « **Reply #260 on:** May 05, 2012, 09:07:35 PM »

Christmas Tree Shops still has that Wii-knockoff system from Qi Sheng Long in stock. I actually took a picture of it this time:

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It's clearly a rebranded version of this WiWi, with 198 Niutai games for Sunplus on a single cart.

I really should've flat-out bought it today, but I was already carrying enough stuff as it was. But they had, like, ten of them on clearance for $16 apiece (even more than the last time I went), so I can easily get it tomorrow or next weekend...

[Edited because I originally linked the wrong WiWi. Oops.]

Edit: It's also very clearly 16-bit, not 32-bit, given that the console I linked above is pretty much an exact match. Probably a close cousin to Taizou's Wiii3, it seems, but apparently without the extra Nice Code cart.

Awesome Panda · « **Reply #261 on:** May 06, 2012, 05:27:03 AM »

Somehow, I doubt that thing actually has 180 arcade games; it's probably about 50 or something with the rest being repeats.

Also, I think a fair few of them are probably ripoffs of arcade games; one of the games looks a lot like Rod-Land (probably Mr. Onion or something) and one of the other ones is obviously a Frogger ripoff.

taizou · « **Reply #262 on:** May 06, 2012, 08:38:55 AM »

codeman38
May 5 2012, 09:07:35 PM
Edit: It's also very clearly 16-bit, not 32-bit, given that the console I linked above is pretty much an exact match. Probably a close cousin to Taizou's Wiii3, it seems, but apparently without the extra Nice Code cart.[/quote]
Awesome Panda

Somehow, I doubt that thing actually has 180 arcade games; it's probably about 50 or something with the rest being repeats.[/quote]

Pretty much - my Wiii3 looks different but the "198" game carts are undoubtedly the same. And yeah, they really only have about 40 games. They all look nice enough in screenshots but generally control pretty badly. that's the Shenzhen Niutai difference™

Awesome Panda

Also, I think a fair few of them are probably ripoffs of arcade games; one of the games looks a lot like Rod-Land (probably Mr. Onion or something) and one of the other ones is obviously a Frogger ripoff.[/quote]

the Mr. Onion-looking one is actually a clone of Mr. Onion - strangely a couple of other games on there are clones of Jungletac stuff too.
Qiezei
Apr 25 2012, 07:00:32 PM
-Lord of the Rings: A title/intro hack of V.Fame's Devil Island. Intro is mostly the same, but there's a glitchy image they seem to have added. Boots with "TD-SOFT".[/quote]Also, I totally should have mentioned this earlier - "Final Fantaxy IX" (which i'm 99% sure was developed by BBD/Sintax) has the same boot logo and even credits TD Software on the title screen... I wonder who the hell they were?

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