Hi! I found this version of Monkey King in the Project Plug 'n Play files, labeled "美猴王". It seems to have a few differences from the more common version. These include an alternate title screen, an additional cutscene, and a level select instead of a password screen. Notably, this variant seems to have more remnants from the mysterious Shanghai Paradise version in its CHR data, such as the top of the "TIAN YUAN GONG SI BAN QUAN SHUO YUO" logo unseen in the Waixing version's ROM (although it's conspicuously separated from the rest of it) and some additional password screen graphics that actually fit perfectly when pasted into its otherwise blank space. Would anyone happen to know where this came from?

Thanks!

This is pretty cool actually! Nice to have a centralized source for these things instead of having to dig through Chinese eBay equivalents.

I do have a question, though: I noticed that when it was first discovered, you had posted some photos of the cartridge for Blood of Jurassic by Shanghai Paradise. Unfortunately, due to Photobucket's shutdown as well as general link rot, the links no longer work. Would you happen to still have them? I can understand if you don't, that was over a decade ago, after all.

I found dragon2snow's YouTube channel, and they still seem to be active, posting a video just yesterday. I have asked them if they can provide a picture of the BOJ cart. Now, it's just a matter of waiting for a response.

Sorry for not talking much, it's hard researching these things. I did some digging and found this image, would this happen to be a BOJ cart?

Hi! I've been exploring Joy Van's NES catalog recently, and I of course came across Master Chu. I was curious about the Chinese variant, so I found a copy and decided to play it through. However, unlike the US version, it works fine for the first level, only to turn into a glitched mess afterwards. I'm fairly certain it's using the tile / sprite set from Level 1, so it must not be switching the banks. Does anyone know why this happens?

Here's an updated version I put together that now includes the copyright text on the title screen.