yeah i'd say its probably not Asder itself, just some other company that ripped off their music.. a lot of other parts seem to be stolen or "inspired" by other games. like Lucky Ball, or the Typing School II title screen - its not directly stolen but it looks *really* adventure island-ish. i swear i've seen that exact same "Painter" program somewhere before though, maybe an older educational famiclone, maybe thats a clue to its real makers?
although Asder's name in Chinese is 亚斯德, "ya si de", which i suppose you could sort of almost abbreviate to Yese. maybe theyre just being careful about using their real name on products containing stolen material, considering what happened with NTDEC? i kinda doubt it though.
btw even though its seemingly more advanced palette and sound-wise it is compatible with standard famicom games, someones selling one here with a few generic pirate carts:
http://www.huuto.net/kohteet/famiclone-yese-v-mega-pc-cib-testattu-peleja-ei-hv/143025136and as for the mixing of british and american english, i think the most likely explanation is they didn't give a shit
the voice actor was probably just reading lines off a printout, i doubt he had any input into the actual development.[/quote]I think Typing School II was on some other Famiclones with a different looking title screen. I'm pretty sure I saw Painter on some other PC Famiclones, although I can't remember which ones TBH. I'm pretty sure the "IQ games" are from them as well, I definitely remember Minesweeper, Solitaire and Stick Fever from elsewhere. (and no, not Windows
) I'm also betting (although not really) that Smart Millionaire is a Monopoly clone with maths questions. (I saw that on another Famiclone) "Editor" looks like it was ripped from some Famiclone trying to copy a Windows OS.
Also, I noticed that Lucky Ball is somewhat different to those horrible hacks you find on Famicom Yarou, especially seeing as the music doesn't sound like a horrible re-edit of the Pinball theme.
Mind you, Famiclones by Asder tend to have games developed by them included. (like PC-95, which had several Caltron 6-in-1 games)
BTW, I wonder where they got the voice actors from in the first place. (keep in mind that they have different voice actors for the dialogue section) Also, I wonder if this was released in languages other than English. I somehow doubt it given the voice acting, but I wouldn't rule it out.