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taizou

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« Reply #90 on: February 13, 2011, 08:33:19 PM »
Yeah, definitely. i bought a new video capture thingy to replace my old half-broken one, but the picture quality sucks, so I think i'll just try and make the old one work for long enough to record some stuff.
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« Reply #91 on: February 13, 2011, 08:35:40 PM »
I'm still trying to rack my brain to figure out just where I have heard that sound effect that the minigame menu opens with. It's totally from something I've played in the past.
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« Reply #92 on: February 13, 2011, 08:38:21 PM »
codeman38
Feb 13 2011, 08:04:15 PM
  • The music in Find Same Picture sound vaguely familiar? Yep, they stole that from Pokemon too. With notes just randomly changed around for no reason-- I mean, it's not like they weren't blatantly infringing things already.[/quote]Never watched the Japanese Pocket Monsters, but TBH I probably should have noticed that from Pocket Monster II for the Mega Drive, which uses a much better rendition of the same song.
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« Reply #93 on: February 13, 2011, 08:43:13 PM »
Cheetahmen
Feb 13 2011, 08:38:21 PM
Never watched the Japanese Pocket Monsters, but TBH I probably should have noticed that from Pocket Monster II for the Mega Drive, which uses a much better rendition of the same song.[/quote]Heh, yeah. Whoever developed that did some awesome renditions of the Japanese theme music. Same tune is also used in the Pokemon Ruby bootleg for GBC, and it's equally awesome (but hey, it's Vast Fame, what do you expect?).
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« Reply #94 on: February 14, 2011, 01:58:41 PM »
codeman38
Feb 13 2011, 08:43:13 PM
Cheetahmen
Feb 13 2011, 08:38:21 PM
Never watched the Japanese Pocket Monsters, but TBH I probably should have noticed that from Pocket Monster II for the Mega Drive, which uses a much better rendition of the same song.[/quote]Heh, yeah. Whoever developed that did some awesome renditions of the Japanese theme music. Same tune is also used in the Pokemon Ruby bootleg for GBC, and it's equally awesome (but hey, it's Vast Fame, what do you expect?).[/quote]Something better than the games on this Wii clone. :D

Also, I'm pretty sure it's just me but the sound effect when you pick a game sounds like one of the instruments from Bebe's Kids on the SNES, a game which quite frankly makes a lot of the games on this system seem fun by comparison. And I'm willing to bet that the songs in the Snake and Tapper clones are MIDI renditions of songs from SNES games or something, but I'm not sure what games they're from.

Also, that MIDI rendition of Another Day in Paradise sounds different to the MIDIs I got, so I assume the developers sequenced it themselves. Then again, some of the others are probably stolen from the internet, which really wouldn't surprise me. :P
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« Reply #95 on: February 14, 2011, 09:01:11 PM »
oh yeah, the music in Columns is only half that tune from the FDS game - its mixed with some pretty famous song that i can't bloody remember (the guy in the video doesnt play it long enough for that bit to kick in). its been driving me nuts ever since i bought the damn thing. anyone know?
http://www.mediafire.com/?cdyjcmwzp69ch43
also i just bought a Wiii3 on eBay. its by Qi Sheng Long and it comes with 205 games. which is a lot of damn games.

i'd imagine the majority of them other than the sports games will be Nice Code stuff, probably repeated a few times with different sprites, but still. I'll see when it gets here I suppose. (and i definitely will record a video of it along with all this other stuff when i get everything sorted out)
this one definitely *does* have a cartridge port btw. hopefully its famicom compatible. and ill finally have the damn wireless front-loading famiclone i've been trying to get all this time.

[i am seriously going to record some videos of it, and the Wow, and every other damn thing too btw. :D]
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« Reply #96 on: February 14, 2011, 10:19:57 PM »
I remember seeing a video of one of QSL's Wii clones somewhere on YouTube-- and indeed, unsurprisingly, a majority of the games are 8-bit Nice Code crap.
And I know I've heard the 2nd tune from the Columns music before somewhere too, but I can't think of where I heard it either. Gah!

Edit: The bass line is totally "Pretty Fly For A White Guy", though. Just noticed that. It's like a cross between three different songs!
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« Reply #97 on: February 14, 2011, 11:14:18 PM »
was it this one? (or something similar) - i'd imagine the Wiii3 is something like that. only with more games. It does come with a cricket game though, which seems to be kinda rare on these things.
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« Reply #98 on: February 14, 2011, 11:17:10 PM »
taizou
Feb 14 2011, 11:14:18 PM
was it this one? (or something similar) - i'd imagine the Wiii3 is something like that. only with more games. It does come with a cricket game though, which seems to be kinda rare on these things.[/quote]Yep, that's the one! I distinctly remembered the multicart menu being orange, even.
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« Reply #99 on: February 15, 2011, 10:16:02 AM »
taizou
Feb 14 2011, 11:14:18 PM
was it this one? (or something similar) - i'd imagine the Wiii3 is something like that. only with more games. It does come with a cricket game though, which seems to be kinda rare on these things.[/quote]I'd say it's part of some rebranding for the UK, but seeing as the EZi was released over here I'm not sure why. Maybe they were running out of sports to make games out of. :P And yeah, if there's 205 games then it's pretty safe bet that Nice Code will rear its ugly head with some proprietary cartridge, or possibly a built-in multicart like the 8-bit Vii.

Speaking of which, I recently found this video and from watching this, there seems to be at least 2 different versions of that one. Whereas Tweeterman's version has those horrible Nice Code games built in, this one has standard Nintendo games on it which is a lot better. I'm guessing the manufacturers figured that if they released this version in the US, they'd end up with a huge lawsuit by including games like Super Mario Bros. on their console. (Then again, that Slalom hack is included on the cartridge of both versions)
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« Reply #100 on: February 15, 2011, 11:31:06 AM »
Cheetahmen
Feb 15 2011, 10:16:02 AM
I'd say it's part of some rebranding for the UK, but seeing as the EZi was released over here I'm not sure why. Maybe they were running out of sports to make games out of. :P And yeah, if there's 205 games then it's pretty safe bet that Nice Code will rear its ugly head with some proprietary cartridge, or possibly a built-in multicart like the 8-bit Vii.[/quote]Probably a different distributor - I doubt Qi Sheng Long cares how many different names their consoles get released under, its all more money for them. as far as I can tell there are two different Wiii3s (or at least two that were released in the UK) - one has the same selection of games as the EZi but a different case, the other is the 205 in 1 one i'm getting.
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« Reply #101 on: February 16, 2011, 07:10:52 PM »
i've uploaded videos of a few of the games from the Wow here: (more coming soon)
http://youtube.com/neopnp
i have some kinda vague plans to catalogue all the games from chinese plug & play consoles on my site, and its an extension of that. or its supposed to be. so i'm going to upload individual videos of games to that account, and maybe do a proper review of the Wow on my main one sometime in the future. or something like that.
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« Reply #102 on: February 16, 2011, 11:24:46 PM »
I already commented on this on the video, but I swear that the character sprite in Strong Builder is a sprite hack of Dale from Chip 'n Dale. The character's motions are practically identical.

Edit: And of course, I see you mentioned that on Twitter when you posted the screenshot of the game, heh. It's still hilarious, though.
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« Reply #103 on: February 17, 2011, 11:24:51 AM »
well the Wiii3 is here - few early observations:
comes with two carts, a 7 in 1 and a 198 in 1. the games on them seem to be by different developers, the 7 in 1 is by Nice Code (their logo is in "Battle of Freekick").

the 198 in 1 actually *isnt* full of 8-bit Nice Code games, the games are 16-bit and possibly by Cube Tech? (not sure, none of them are on their website, but the ping pong is definitely an updated version of their VT03 one). A couple of the games kinda resemble Jungletacs (eg theres a Columns clone called Jewel Master and one that looks a lot like Deep Storm) but theyre nowhere near as well programmed, so maybe its a coincidence/ripoff/something. And there are repeats! D: I havent gone through all 198 yet to see how many unique games there really are, but I thought we'd left that kind of bullshit behind. apparently Qi Sheng Long hasn't.

oh and despite having a 60 pin cartridge port, this thing isnt compatible with Famicom carts at all. even OneBus ones. Its also not compatible with any other console's wireless controllers.
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« Reply #104 on: February 17, 2011, 11:45:15 AM »
In that case, I suppose the 7-in-1 contains some (really bad) sports games. (and evidently, yet another free kick game due to laziness)
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