well I think my days of having absolutely no idea who really made these things may be over.
I was actually just about to post this topic saying theyre probably by Shenzhen Nanjing, based on these:
http://en.sznanjing.com.cn/Default.aspx?PN=ruanjian_page&ps=&pID=33088http://en.sznanjing.com.cn/Default.aspx?PN=ruanjian_page&ps=&pID=34300http://en.sznanjing.com.cn/Default.aspx?PN=ruanjian_page&ps=&pID=34299& these:
http://www.sznanjing.com.cn/Default.aspx?PN=products&TypeID=8164&ItemIndex=3&Tip=1http://www.sznanjing.com.cn/Default.aspx?PN=products&TypeID=8165&ItemIndex=3&Tip=1(incidentally Nanjing's site lists some 16bit sport games that I've never seen *anywhere*, but thats possibly something for another topic)
but that still seemed a bit odd since many of them are copyright 2002, and Nanjing was, according to their site, only founded in 2003. one of those is the 2002 World Cup PK game on Nanjing's site, which maxzhou88 mentioned working on .. so I checked out his
blog post on the subject (the original plans were pretty impressive, proper accelerometer based motion control four years before the Wii) which names the software developer as 西安东信软件开发公司, Xi'an Dong Xin Software Development Co. or..
Nice Code Software! (and Nanjing's site actually mentions a development partner in Xi'an)
their website doesnt have a comprehensive list of games but there are a few for each console type, and many of the ones under 8-bit and "VT03" (the enhanced colour famiclone system) are unsurprisingly (what I previously thought to be) Trump/QSL games. the VT03 version of Twin Fish even has a Power Joy copyright. so I think we may have found the developer! they do also list some of those hacked Dragon Co games, Dragon was based in Xi'an too so Nice Code could be some kind successor I suppose..
not only that, one of the 8 bit games listed is Nanjing's Tomb Raider, so it seems like Nanjing has been outsourcing to this company even for its RPGs. AND one of their VT168 games, "Abey's Dream", has a Jungle Soft copyright visible in the screenshot, while another, Dingle Hunt appears on some obscure vertical Jungletac console (
one has been on eBay for what seems like far too much money for a while now), so it seems like this company worked for Jungletac too .. which would presumably explain both the Cyber Arcade Centre and those Jungletac games with Nanjing music (or vice versa). And some of their 8-bit games appearing in slightly modified form under Waixing makes a lot more sense knowing theres an external developer behind them.