Generic Wii clone thread

[taizou]

i wonder how it got there, though.. surely no one would still be using PC Paint or GRASP or whatever in this day and age. and it certainly looks like its been resized in a modern graphics program. maybe they just lifted the text from some older game that actually did use PC Paint? or maybe they downloaded your truetype versions of the fonts

oh and i just finished Kungfu. the ending .. well there is no ending. you just get the game over screen. what!

[codeman38]

taizou

Feb 26 2011, 03:24:05 PM

i wonder how it got there, though.. surely no one would still be using PC Paint or GRASP or whatever in this day and age. and it certainly looks like its been resized in a modern graphics program. maybe they just lifted the text from some older game that actually did use PC Paint? or maybe they downloaded your truetype versions of the fonts [/quote]::snort:: I was wondering the same thing, actually... what's the copyright date on this thing again?

But seriously, I have actually seen a few Taiwanese/Chinese games that mix PC Paint fonts with standard Windows fonts. I've noticed this in several games by Sintax and VFame; it's especially noticeable in the latter's GBA stuff, of course. There's also Lonaisoft's Bubble Hero 2, for that matter. So perhaps they really did use PC Paint for preliminary sprite work and then resize/recolor it in Windows.

taizou

 

oh and i just finished Kungfu. the ending .. well there is no ending. you just get the game over screen. what![/quote]Gaahhh! How disappointing...

[codeman38]

I just discovered something incredibly odd on the OmniSpecial (Xinan) site.

View source on http://www.omnispecial.com/8%20Bit%20Video%20Game%20Console.htm and you'll notice something that's just a bit off:

Code:

 

<!-- saved from url=(0044)http://www.qishenglong.com/docc/default.html -->

So perhaps Xinan is related to QSL?

[taizou]

Maybe.. Or maybe they just stole a page from Qi Sheng Long's website and used it as a base for their own

I did think it was odd that both companies were using the "Power Player" name until I looked up QSL on the chinese trademark database and found that they had trademarks on "Micro Genius", "Ending Man", "Dendy" and some other stuff that i'm pretty sure they have no rights to. so i think if any particular famiclone gets popular they just rip it off.in fact i think all of the famiclones in the first set of pictures here are by QSL:
http://cah4e3.shedevr.org.ru/pirates.php
"King Game" and "Fei Hao" are their trademarks too.

[Awesome Panda]

Ran into yet another Wii clone today, the Wisp. According to the box it has 7 Hyper-Sports (which I'm guessing are ripoffs of Track & Field), 16 arcade games and 8 beat games or something if I remember correctly.

[taizou]

ah yeah, i just saw one of those on eBay yesterday:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk//320678042956
Looks like a rebranded MiWi of some kind, theyre always the ones with the "tatacon drum-master games".

[Awesome Panda]

That's definitely it, although I recall the one in the store coming in a different box oddly enough.

[taizou]

as i mentioned in another thread i recently got hold of the carts/controllers/etc from the EZi, in the hope that they'd all work with my Wiii3 .. which they didn't, of course. well i suppose the various crap sports attachments will fit the Wiii3 controller, but thats it.

but out of curiosity i opened all the carts and i found something quite interesting (well possibly). The Wiii3's 7 in 1 (16bit Nice Code) cart and the EZi's 69 in 1 (VT03 Nice Code) just contain a standard rom chip, as you might expect. the 69 in 1 even works in my Power Joy Supermax, since its a OneBus system, but half the games don't run or have glitched graphics because the PJ is only VT02. I'd imagine it'd run perfectly on something like a Generation NEX or that Subor console the Japanese guy reviewed though.

BUT the Wiii3's 198 in 1 (16bit Niutai)  & EZi's 18 in 1 (16 bit Niutai) PCBs have an extra glop-top and all kinds of other shit on them - a bunch of resistors and capacitors and a timing crystal and whatnot. Now I confess to not knowing much about electronics but I've never seen stuff like that on a cartridge before. which makes me wonder if these carts actually contain an additional system on a chip, OneStation-style, that overrides the console's "native" architecture (VT03 for the EZi, and some Sunplus 16-bit for the Wiii3), rather than the console itself being some kind of dual-system hybrid. thatd certainly explain why no Famicom or OneBus cart works on the Wiii3, and probably why the EZi 18 in 1 doesnt work either - the method QSL use to override a VT03 system might be entirely different the one they use for a Sunplus system.

[as for the Wiii3 it seems like its natively a Sunplus SPG288 or 243 or something, but the 198 in 1 cartridge is SPG289. but thats just going from from Nice Code's site  and  the Chinese copyright database  respectively. official info on the various Sunplus systems - and there are a lot of them - is extremely sparse online, Sunplus doesnt publish any public documentation like VRT as far as I can tell. I can't even find a list anywhere.]

edit: mixed up the two wiii3 carts. ahem. fixed that.

[taizou]

heres a video review of the Wireless 60, which was mentioned a while back:
unboxing/intro - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l28IKR9t7Mw
arcade games part 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEksX9m5hA4
arcade games part 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5zIMliVS3A
arcade games part 3 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYf0KeSrrYE
"motion" games - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78RjSBB0Aac

but here's one on ebay which seems to have an entirely different set of arcade games - http://cgi.ebay.com//200559655903
i was thinking some of the games might just have been renamed (Totally Jet is Jet Rush 2 for example, I'm pretty sure of that) but i recognise some of the games on the ebay version from other Jungletac consoles - On n Off & Rotating Puzzle for example - and they don't show up on the reviewed version in any form.

[codeman38]

taizou

Apr 14 2011, 08:18:53 PM

heres a video review of the Wireless 60, which was mentioned a while back:[/quote]Ooh, yes, that is totally the same one I saw at Big Lots a while back. I remember that disclaimer distinctly.
Speaking of JungleTac crap, British1500, the guy who introduced us to the DreamGear 75, now has video of over half of the Zone 60 up:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaezEtkzHwU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9a2X02w6EK0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-aAhvPWk4Y

Same exact menu layout as the Wireless 60-- one's probably just a rebrand/alternate of the other.

No, my brain is already getting tired and confused. A slightly different menu layout for the main menu, but the sub-menu is entirely the same. Many of the same games, even.Lulz. The Zone 60 instruction screen shows a white controller when its actual controller is black. And as Farmhouse's review points out, the Wireless 60 shows a black controller, but its controller is white!

[taizou]

oh yeah, talking of the Zone 60, i noticed something weird about it that i mentioned in the wiki article - it looks exactly the same as this:
http://www.suborchina.com/product.asp?id=234
the Smart Station by Subor. but the Smart Station has absolutely nothing in common with the Zone software wise - i've seen screenshots in taobao auctions, its like a cross between a Wii clone and an upgraded version of Subor's old computer Famiclones. its full of 32-bit Waixing games and educational stuff, it has PS/2 ports on the back for a keyboard and mouse and it can play MP3s (and possibly NES games?) off a MicroSD card. Looks pretty interesting really, I hope Ultimate Products pick it up as the next Zone or something.

[taizou]

well I just got a Zone Interactive for a whole six pounds. even though the box says 40 games in one place and 30 games in another (thats professionalism for you), its actually a rebranded version of that Family Sports 41 in 1. i've been messing around with it and it seems like in the sports games it can actually detect the strength of a movement (but not direction), whcih is.. something, I guess. oh and it has really annoying rumble.

[Awesome Panda]

Just found the 20-in-1 Spielekonsole, yet another Wii ripoff released in Germany. (And yeah, the video's in German in case you're wondering) From what I noticed, several of the games are rebranded from that steering wheel thing that Tweeterman287 reviewed, it contains the obligatory Puzzle Bobble, Sokoban, Zuma and Columns ripoffs, there's one shooter which (I think) rips off graphics from R-Type III and another which sort of looks like a cross between Life Force and Fly War off that Wii clone that Taizou has.

[taizou]

oh i've got one of those. i mentioned it further back in this thread somewhere.

[PlayerSecelt]

I saw a Sport Vii in a store in Croatia! However, I didn't take a photograph, but it's the same that the one at the wiki. I didn't buy it, I recognized it's a clone, a very bad one (I think).