maxzhou88 dumped X-War and X-Plan from some multicarts recently -
http://hi.baidu.com/maxzhou88/blog/item/a93323128d35c5d2c2fd786d.htmlthese were both already dumped in different forms so im not creating a whole new topic in the dumps forum (X-War is slighty different to the dump, it has a 2001 copyright, a TM symbol left over from Silkworm and remnants of a Sammy logo) but the interesting thing (to me anyway) is the carts these things were dumped from.
I don't think I can hotlink images from baidu but go to the blog post and have a look for yourself - they're X Boy multicarts! X Boy being the publisher of a whole bunch of Mega Drive pirate originals developed by Gamtec & co. Now this would explain Panda World only being found on a similar XB multi - its a Gamtec (or related) game. After a certain point they seem to have switched to Inventor hacks though.
Heres a list of the ones I'm aware of:
XB-F70 - 76~10MGin1 Super Pocket Monster, Castlevania (Boku Dracula Kun), Chip & Dale 2, Galaxian, Pooyan, Track & Field, Ninja Fighter (Ikki), Macross, Bungeling Bay, Bush Roller (Cheetahmen has this one. btw any chance of a PCB shot? im kinda curious)
XB-F812 - 9 in 1 Panda World, Konami 1, Bubble Bobble, Duck, Robot Fighter, Pinball, Mario Bros, Macross, Road Fighter
XB-F863 - 8 in 1 Star Wars (
), Fighter, Spar, Hellfire, Maze, 3 more
XB-F865 -8 in 1 Super Fighters (Nekketsu Kakutou Densetsu hack), Basketball, X-Plan, Ladangel, Little Hag, Tennis, Bomb, Penguin
XB-F866 - 9 in 1 Frog Prince, Basketball, Bomb, Tennis, Aether, Sheer Nijia 3 (
), 3 more
This probably also explains the broken Super Pocket Monster on the 76 in 1 - its a previously unseen variation, and it'd be quite hard to break a game that way if they'd just ripped it from some other cart, but if it came direct from their contact at Gamtec he might have accidentally sent them the wrong version of the game.
also according to maxzhou88 the Inventor-hack ones came from a friend who got them from the Hong Kong Game Show in 2002 (or something like that), so who knows if they were ever actually released in the end..