This Korean product listing for the Taikee variant is somewhat interesting:
http://www.10x10.co.kr/shopping/category_prd.asp?itemid=1280069 (http://www.10x10.co.kr/shopping/category_prd.asp?itemid=1280069)
In particular, note the game list halfway down the page. Six of the screenshots were very clearly replaced in post-production-- unlike the rest of the screenshots, which were captured from an emulator, these show clear signs of being from a camera pointed at an LCD screen, and even the captions are in a different font. These are: Unwonted Space, Fling Ball, Toy Factory, Abscondee, Falling, and Teleport. (Incidentally, Galaga is still Galaga on this version, so it seems to be from the same generation as Lexibook's model.)
We've already figured out that Unwonted Space was a replacement for Zuma, but now I'm a bit curious what five other games got replaced.[/quote]taking a wild guess based on the games that were present on the MiWi but absent here, and assuming a motive of "get rid of the knockoffs of super-well-known stuff", maybe they replaced the SMB, Pac-man and Ms. Pac-man hacks in the Arcade section, and a couple of Tetris clones/hacks in Puzzle?
(incidentally, knowing those games replaced others, their positioning now makes sense - they're the only Nice Code games not grouped at the end of each section with the other NC/Waixing stuff)
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In other news, the "who made this thing" situation may be even more puzzling than we thought-- Subor lists this on their HKTDC page (http://www.hktdc.com/suppliers-products/Micro-Arcade/en/1X07T2XX/2835561/), with an image that looks identical to Taikee's version. They also have a version of this closely related handheld (http://www.hktdc.com/suppliers-products/Game-Console/en/1X07T2XX/2830498/) that Taikee also makes a version of (http://www.hktdc.com/suppliers-products/Game-Console/en/1X08QBHM/2799609/). O_o [/quote]
That kinda makes sense, Subor has definitely manufactured stuff for Taikee in the past - Taikee's website (http://taikee.net) lists a number of products known to be Subor-related, including the iSports and iSports Pro Wii clones (I actually have the Taikee-released variant of the former), iFit yoga mat and the "Motion2" Kinect clone which looks like one of Subor's efforts too.
It would also explain why a bunch of Waixing-copyrighted games ended up on here, considering their close links with Subor..
oh and here's another interesting thing from that Korean site - http://www.10x10.co.kr/shopping/category_prd.asp?itemid=1430639 (http://www.10x10.co.kr/shopping/category_prd.asp?itemid=1430639)
apparently there's now a v2, with Senca's Family Sport games.
- taizou
- Feb 1 2016, 06:59:15 PM
taking a wild guess based on the games that were present on the MiWi but absent here, and assuming a motive of "get rid of the knockoffs of super-well-known stuff", maybe they replaced the SMB, Pac-man and Ms. Pac-man hacks in the Arcade section, and a couple of Tetris clones/hacks in Puzzle?
(incidentally, knowing those games replaced others, their positioning now makes sense - they're the only Nice Code games not grouped at the end of each section with the other NC/Waixing stuff)[/quote]The Mario hack was the first to come to mind immediately. Somehow Pac-Man and Tetris completely escaped my mind, so yeah, those guesses seem plausible.
(Even the positioning of Toy Factory, which is between two other NC/Waixing games, would completely make sense, if what it replaced was one of those companies' pirate-original takes on Tetris.)
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That kinda makes sense, Subor has definitely manufactured stuff for Taikee in the past - Taikee's website (http://taikee.net) lists a number of products known to be Subor-related, including the iSports and iSports Pro Wii clones (I actually have the Taikee-released variant of the former), iFit yoga mat and the "Motion2" Kinect clone which looks like one of Subor's efforts too.[/quote]*facepalm* Yeah, I should've probably realized there was a connection there with the whole "iSports" thing...
..actually, checking the MyMemory page again, it looks like that *is* the original list - it has these games in the slots filled with the random Nice Code games in the later versions:
Zuma -> Unwonted
Cube -> Twin Cards
Balls -> Fling Ball
Triple -> Toy Factory
Jumper -> Abscondee
Bean Eater -> Falling
Pea Eater -> Teleport
and looks like I guessed right, for the most part! Jumper, Bean Eater and Pea Eater are the SMB, Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man hacks respectively. "Triple" has been used as a name for one or two Nice Code Tetris clones. "Cube", I would guess is the Tengen Tetris hack listed as "Magic Cubes" on the MiWi. Not sure about "Balls", but maybe it's the Nice Code Tetris hack called "Shapes" on the MiWi?
Speaking of which, "Jumper" is one of the games listed on the sell sheet for the 300-game DreamGear variant (which is admittedly still unreleased, and thus subject to change). I seriously doubt that it could be that Jumper, but I can't think of what it could be. (It's not Bee Jumper or Jumping Kid; those are separate entries on the list. Is there a Nice Code game that's just "Jumper"?)
As for "Balls" (giggle), that could also possibly have been "Maze Ball", Cube's inexplicably-named Tetris clone from the 16-bit 111-game MiWi.
well! I just got one of the Taikee ones from MyMemory (my excuse is I wanted to have one on my desk at work) and the ROM seems to match the Lexibook - with Galaga still called Galaga but all the game substitutions in place - but the manual still has the old game lineup, complete with screenshots.
from that it looks like "Balls" actually is "Shapes", "Triple" is some probably-VT03 version of the same NC Tetris game, but "Cube" is something else entirely: https://imgur.com/hXlqHdS (https://imgur.com/hXlqHdS)
.. matters are confused slightly by them seemingly mixing up the names for "Cube" and "Copy It"; the Rotation/Ratation game listed as "Cube" in the manual is actually present on the console as "Copy It", so presumably the manual's "Copy It" is the real "Cube". And that is some kind of block-based puzzle game which I haven't seen before, which I'm guessing got the axe because the blocks looked too Tetris-like for comfort..
- codeman38
- Feb 4 2016, 02:29:44 AM
Speaking of which, "Jumper" is one of the games listed on the sell sheet for the 300-game DreamGear variant (which is admittedly still unreleased, and thus subject to change). I seriously doubt that it could be
that Jumper, but I can't think of what it
could be. (It's not Bee Jumper or Jumping Kid; those are separate entries on the list. Is there a Nice Code game that's just "Jumper"?)[/quote]It's probably "Fatso Jumper" (an NS-Shaft clone featuring a quite blatant sample of Homer Simpson's "Woo-hoo"), which occupies roughly the same spot on the 240 in 1 version.
oh and here's some random stolen music I just identified -
- "China Corpse", a Plants vs Zombies clone and one of the few games on here I haven't seen anywhere else, uses For an Angel by Paul van Dyk.
- The menu uses "True Companion" by Russ Freeman & The Rippingtons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec-XHt_kjKs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec-XHt_kjKs)
...The Rippingtons! That is amazing. Every time I think this thing couldn't manage to be any more bootleg, it manages to do that.
Edited to add: Incidentally, Shazam doesn't seem to recognize the music in the Multicade 230's version of the menu (at least from this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxcSo-stHbc), which has a long enough sample of it). That one probably is production music-- it sounds exactly like the kind of thing a producer would drop in when they couldn't afford the rights to Van Halen's "Jump".
RetroGamerVX posted a review of the Lexibook version (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBtakLvvRSM) earlier this month. Interestingly, in contrast to the video that I had linked earlier in the thread, this one uses the "Galaxy Battle" name instead of "Galaga" (while keeping it at the top of the section), so it seems like the updated ROM made its way into Lexibook's chassis as well.
Edited to add: Just noticed another minor difference-- the banner above the screen reads "Arcade Console" in the earlier French video, but "Cyber Arcade" in RetroGamerVX's video. The packaging carries the "Cyber Arcade" name in both, but seems to have changed from white to black in the newer variant.
Oh, hey, someone on Amazon is selling a "Game Zone"-branded handheld (http://www.amazon.com/Game-Zone-Games-portable-game-console/dp/B016ANAVF4/) that looks like a rebranded version of the Xtra Game Portable. 240 games, and the box shows screenshots of the same hacks from the Micro Arcade. (Though oddly, the hero image inexplicably shows a screenshot of unhacked Duck Hunt.)
Interesting that these things are showing up in more and more places. Maybe I'll eventually stumble across Taikee's elusive light-gun console one of these days...
- taizou
- Feb 2 2016, 06:24:26 PM
..actually, checking the MyMemory page again, it looks like that *is* the original list - it has these games in the slots filled with the random Nice Code games in the later versions:
Zuma -> Unwonted
Cube -> Twin Cards
Balls -> Fling Ball
Triple -> Toy Factory
Jumper -> Abscondee
Bean Eater -> Falling
Pea Eater -> Teleport
and looks like I guessed right, for the most part! Jumper, Bean Eater and Pea Eater are the SMB, Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man hacks respectively. "Triple" has been used as a name for one or two Nice Code Tetris clones. "Cube", I would guess is the Tengen Tetris hack listed as "Magic Cubes" on the MiWi. Not sure about "Balls", but maybe it's the Nice Code Tetris hack called "Shapes" on the MiWi?[/quote]yeah, speaking of zuma on that console, that got replaced, does someone know, where to get this exact game? :angry2:
can somebody read this topic:http://s4.zetaboards.com/PGC_Forums?topic=30152482/1/
This reminds me; There was a Super C hack called "Combat"- Any info on that one?
- NintariousFamicreep
- Oct 29 2017, 03:27:54 PM
This reminds me; There was a Super C hack called "Combat"- Any info on that one?[/quote]no, there is no info, there was no info before and there will NEVER be info of this game :angry:
but i have a much more important mission, i need the game "Zuma" to play it on gameboy advance if possible :|