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Mcin:

--- Quote from: forgotusername on October 21, 2023, 12:14:14 AM ---
*Nice Code released hacked up versions of unreleased "revisions" of the Intellivision ports. For example, the Snafu hack "Shrew Mouse" has three players, while the official INTV plug & play only shows two. It would be incredibly difficult for such features to be hacked in if Nice Code didn't, at the very least, hold the original source code.
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They were too crappy for any other company to bother... sorry, I had to.


--- Quote from: forgotusername on October 21, 2023, 12:14:14 AM ---*Some of Nice Code's generic hacked versions are dated 2003/2004, meaning they would have had access to the games at effectively the same time the "licensed" consoles released. As such, it's not like they got ahold of the source code after the fact or something; the generic hacks were produced alongside the official versions.
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I somehow missed that fact. Do you remember,m out of sleeve, any generic hack dated 2003/2004? wiki entry has no date. If not, I am going to dig through the dump romset to find out.



--- Quote from: forgotusername on October 21, 2023, 12:14:14 AM ---Additionally, you seem to be confusing two entirely different plug & plays mentioned here. The Missile Command NOAC port is on a different 10-in-1 plug & play; it was released by Basic Fun in 2017 (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIYnHzGgpig). The Techno Source Activision console, while also not NOAC-based, was released in 2005 (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSZLbjOBojc). The Jakks Pacific versions are presumably Winbond-based.

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Basic fun is just re-releasing old Jakk's Pacific consoles, this was mainstream enough to get its Wikipedia mention: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Joystick_Controller_TV_Video_Game_System
Aand... It looks like wikipedia is entirely wrong, as I can clearly see other flashback games on the video. Which is cool in it's own merit - I one guy told me he'll help in dumping if I managed to somehow grasp my hands on one of them.
Additionally BG Wiki is missing a Volleyball entry from Basic fun release.

And the Activision console I meant was also Jakk's pacific, different than in your video:
https://piped.smnz.de/watch?v=aox7tglQK30

forgotusername:
Virtually every Intellivision-based hack has a copyright of 2004, with at least two particularly early revisions - "IQ Champion" (Buzz Bombers) and "Defend Homestead" (Astrosmash) - having a date of 2003. Note that IQ Champion is credited to "Dongxin techno", a literal translation of Nice Code's Chinese company name. Some of the Atari hacks have variants with 2004 copyright notices, including "Sudden Strike" (Battlezone); though most currently dumped revisions instead feature "Power Joy Ltd" bylines without a year. The Atari Flashback itself (according to Wikipedia) was first released in November 2004.

The Volleyball game seen on the Atari Basic Fun system is, possibly by accident, the Intellivision volleyball game; which is potentially another indication that the Atari and Intellivision NOAC library originate from the same source. There is a third Blaze tabletop (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hINjFL-AfBc) that also contains a volleyball game, though I am unsure if it's just the Intellivision game again or not.

EDIT: According to CaH4e3, the origin console of the Sudden Strike ROM (a 100-in-1 "D-CAT" plug & play) has a manufacturing date of 2004/12/17. So at absolute maximum, the hacked version was produced less than two months following the Atari Flashback's release (and it's more likely they were produced simultaneously).

Mcin:
Yes, volleyball is an Intellivision game, hovewer it looks like Intellivision 10 in 1 and 25 in 1 versions are different, probably a hack, wiki mention s it.
And thanks for showing me how strong the correlation is. Hovewer, there is still a minimum of doubt in me and I'll be looking further :)

Mcin:
Hi, I keep looking for more detailed info and my unchecked items list is going to an end.
One more place I could make use of is a nesbbs.com
If one colud help me to register there or be my proxy messaging there, I'd be grateful.

Mcin:
So, i ended up my research, all left I can do is to contact people from former TechnoSource, who were very likely involved. If one will help me to reach them on LinkedIn, I'd be grateful. I'm lacking Premium to send more messages :/ If you have an idea for other means to reach them, I'm open.

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