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codeman38

Jun 5 2011, 06:23:29 PM

The EVG2000 site also lists a Bicycle card game from TechnoSource that's... pretty much identical to the Hoyle one, at least software-wise. And which appears to be developed by Nice Code as well.

Also, there are a lot of JungleTac consoles on there![/quote]They're certainly more prolific than I thought they were, and I wouldn't say that's a good thing.

BTW, I just realised that this bloke has a page for Famicom games. What interests me on that page is the 250-in-1. Pity he doesn't show the list of games at all. If I remember correcty, one bloke that I know is selling the same cart and I might get that if possible, partly because it has Bubble Bobble on the label. What's odd about that multi is the font, which I don't recognise from anywhere else. No idea who made it either. I'd have guessed Supervision from the label, but I don't recall them ever putting Bubble Bobble on their carts.

Also, aren't the mountains in the background of the first 1000000-in-1 stolen from Megaman VI?

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Just found another couple of interesting things on the EVG2000 standalones page:

• Jollibee Game Box. Appears to have been a kid's meal toy at a Filipino fast-food restaurant. It's a joystick full of Inventor hacks, but different from the usual ones I've seen (possibly made specially for Jollibee?). The stick itself is shaped like one of the restaurant's mascots.
  
  
• FOX Sports 7in1. It's actually a rebrand of Qi Sheng Long/Niutai's 16-bit "All Sports". Who knows why 20th Century Fox thought this was worth licensing their brand name to.
  

That first 1000000-in-1 has something else rather interesting about it: the "Unique Star" branding. Which is basically the exact same logo as Macro Winners' "Game Star" (as seen in "Nuevo Tipo de Computadora", among others).

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most/all of those hacks on the Jollibee Game Box are also on ABL's 95 in 1 joystick thing, maybe the N-Joypad too - I think ABL made their own updates of a lot of Inventor's hacks with less engrishy titles, better graphics and (sometimes) just swapped around music instead of terrible hacked music.

& i wonder if Unique Star is really Macro Winners, or just someone ripping off their logo..

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anyone know anything about "超级机器人大战终极版" (something like Super Robot Wars Ultimate Edition) for the GBA by Vast Fame?
Sky League is selling a copy here - http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=10155154215&
& heres a post from someone in 2007 who apparently (going from a google translation anyway) tried to dump it but it has copy protection, same as Vast Fame's other GBA games. there's a rom link but its long gone. http://www.zdnf.com/thread-10746-1-1.html

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First time seeing that. I was wondering how long it'd be till another VFame game appeared According to the post the rom was still encrypted and not playable.

Edit: Stupid me not noticing taizou already said that pretty much :X

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Can someone please tell me more about these famiclones?

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Have to admit, I don't recall seeing any of those before. The first one would be pretty awesome to own though, especially seeing as it's called the "Nintendo Polystation" and apparently endorsed by Namco. What is it with companies using Namco as an alias anyway? First Dian Shi Ma Li, now this POS.

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that one attached to a DS is a Famulator Lite I think. Just uses the DS for a screen and controls.

the "Attack of the Clones" one is called "Fami-Compatible" really, that design is quite common in Japan and China.
http://balduin.wordpress.com/2007/04/25/another-famiclone-ive-found-in-japan/

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The one with the DS: CYBER Familator Lite

The last one is just a recent japanese generic clone, nothing interesting

3rd one looks like a generic famiclone from the 90s in Russia.

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Come to think of it, I'm sure I recall someone playing that last Famiclone and I believe it came with one of those Famicom Yarou carts. (or at least, multicarts with the same sort of hacks)

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Hey! Thanks!Hey Taizou! Find a game!

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Cheetahmen

Jun 5 2011, 03:42:31 PM

Power Joy Navigator - Includes the ex-Hummer games as well as Nice Code's junk. I was pondering buying it off eBay, but the only ones I can find are charging over £15 for it which is ridiculous for these games IMO. Apparently includes Hummer's mahjong solitaire game. (Which I'm betting is "Three Country" on the menu) Wondering what the Finger DDR's like myself.[/quote]just found this image thats been sitting on my hard drive for a long ass time (when i saved it i had no idea what any of those games were, thats how long ago it was), its some screenshots from the side of the PJ Navigator's box:

Navigator definitely is F22 then. and theres a screenshot of "Finger DDR", doesn't look like any DDR clone I've ever seen before, so maybe it is Hummer's?

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Just came across this Korean 20-in-1 for the Super Famicom on Youtube, featuring 19 emulated(?) versions of early Famicom/NES titles and a Tetris remake. The graphics and gameplay look identical to the original versions as far as I can tell (with the exception Balloon Fight which has the Balloon Trip mode removed), but the sound is simply awful. The songs are off-key, some games have the wrong music (i.e. Battle City using themes from Star Force and Bomberman) and in some cases like Super Mario Bros., some of them are missing. Another thing I don't get is the "Soft Bank" copyright on Star Force's title screen. Also weird is that some of the sound effects are also used in Super Big 2 for the Super Famicom. Not sure what's up there, especially since that game was a Chinese pirate and not Korean. :huh:

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Cheetahmen

Jul 27 2011, 07:56:20 PM

Also weird is that some of the sound effects are also used in Super Big 2 for the Super Famicom. Not sure what's up there, especially since that game was a Chinese pirate and not Korean. :huh:[/quote]Super Big 2's sound code was stolen from Super Pang.

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codeman38

Jul 27 2011, 08:02:43 PM

Cheetahmen

Jul 27 2011, 07:56:20 PM

Also weird is that some of the sound effects are also used in Super Big 2 for the Super Famicom. Not sure what's up there, especially since that game was a Chinese pirate and not Korean. :huh:[/quote]Super Big 2's sound code was stolen from Super Pang.[/quote]That'd explain why then. Seems a bit odd that both the 20-in-1 and Super Big 2 would take sound effects from that game though.At the risk of making myself look like an idiot, where's the theme from Star Force and several other games taken from?