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Pirate Discussion => Game Boy => Topic started by: MLX on September 29, 2010, 02:21:38 PM

Title: J.Y. Company in Game Boy business ?
Post by: MLX on September 29, 2010, 02:21:38 PM

Check this picture:
(http://img805.imageshack.us/img805/4788/super150in1pcbfront.jpg)
At first you may not notice anything.
Look at that PCB code on middle right starting with 82. Doesn't it remind you of something ? No ?
JY always used 8XXXXC codes for Famicom cartridges. This one is 820424-C1. The thing that make me do the comparison is that the Famicom codes uses the same way to number PCBs. For exemple: JY-001 1994 has a 830429C PCB.
So J.Y. was probably in the GB business before 1994...

Title: J.Y. Company in Game Boy business ?
Post by: taizou on September 29, 2010, 02:41:10 PM

that probably refers to the date using the ROC calendar. eg 83-04-29 = 29th April 1994, which would make sense for JY-001. so it might just be a coincidence.. Might not be though.

Title: J.Y. Company in Game Boy business ?
Post by: MLX on September 29, 2010, 02:57:38 PM

So you always add 11 to the number ?
And also what about this: EL860339C (DKC4/TTA6 board) ?
86 would be 97 which make sense, March and wtf here: 39 ?

Title: J.Y. Company in Game Boy business ?
Post by: taizou on September 29, 2010, 03:19:05 PM

yeah, the calendar starts in 1911 (the year the ROC was established) so you always add 1911 to get the western date.

but then that 39 is weird. Maybe its really only the year and the month, then the last two digits are a sequential ID, like Sintax's games?

Title: J.Y. Company in Game Boy business ?
Post by: Awesome Panda on September 29, 2010, 04:21:54 PM

I doubt it's JY myself. I'm sort of curious on that "Goldstar" chip though, as I remember (I think) a company called Goldstar made numerous multicarts for the Famicom.

Title: J.Y. Company in Game Boy business ?
Post by: codeman38 on September 29, 2010, 04:42:55 PM

Cheetahmen

Sep 29 2010, 04:21:54 PM

I doubt it's JY myself. I'm sort of curious on that "Goldstar" chip though, as I remember (I think) a company called Goldstar made numerous multicarts for the Famicom.[/quote]The GoldStar that made that chip is the company now known as LG. So I doubt it's related.

Title: J.Y. Company in Game Boy business ?
Post by: taizou on September 29, 2010, 04:48:09 PM

Goldstar was just a chip (and general electronics) manufacturer, theyre part of LG now. multicart makers probably sourced chips from wherever they could get them, i doubt it means too much.

edit: ahem. beat me to it :D

Title: J.Y. Company in Game Boy business ?
Post by: Barver on September 29, 2010, 08:54:10 PM

Is it known what cart that is? An original game they could have been involved with, or just some multicart?

Title: J.Y. Company in Game Boy business ?
Post by: taizou on September 29, 2010, 09:10:37 PM

well the filename is "super150in1pcbfront.jpg". so i'd guess thats what it is. :D
i've never seen a single cart that was that big.

Title: J.Y. Company in Game Boy business ?
Post by: Barver on September 29, 2010, 10:21:32 PM

Oops, didn't think to look at the filename :x

I've seen several GB pirates in huge casings like that, though always multicarts. Have to wonder what the boxed for them were like.