For anyone who hasn't been following this thread too closely, I made a post here where I briefly talked about a 32-bit Wii clone named the WiWi 65 manufactured by Qi Sheng Long, which came with 32-bit games from Nice Code and didn't appear to have been released, and in the same post, also briefly mentioned a similar 48 in 1 system from the same manufacturer (which comes with Shenzhen Niutai games, just for the record), which along with the 65 in 1 I suspected to use SPG293 hardware. Just to go on a side tangent about the 48 in 1 for a moment, I only recently just found out that there was actually solid proof of it using the SPG293 in the form of Chinese copyright filings (They're linked on the BootlegGames Wiki page for Sunplus SPG but are on a website that no longer works. I dunno if there's a way to access the Chinese copyright database still).
Anyway, as luck would have it, I managed to find a Wii clone system with 54 games on Carousell that has a similar menu to the previous two Wii clones I mentioned. It doesn't appear to have a proper name, instead just calling itself something along the lines of "TV Sport Game plus color 32 bits", with the menu calling itself the "Ultimate Sport 54 in 1". The console's box credits it to a "Virtual Interactive", or Vi as also shown on the box. Unfortunately, it's sold out, but here's a link to the listing just to prove that I'm not making stuff up:
https://www.carousell.sg/p/tv-games-like-wii-36764154/ - I'll also attach the pictures from the listing here in case the link goes down for any reason.
From the looks of things on the box and menu, it appears to mostly consist of the same 32-bit Shenzhen Niutai games from the 48 in 1. Assuming that all 48 of the 54 games are Shenzhen Niutai games, though, that still leaves 6 extra games. I don't believe those extra games are shown on the box and the picture of the console's menu from the listing shows games that already exist on the 48 in 1 to my knowledge. I also haven't a clue on who could've developed the extra games. I really want to believe that they may be SPG293 Nice Code games though, and I think that it's definitely possible, as Nice Code games being included with other games has happened on at least one plug and play system before to my understanding. The 205-in-1 "Wiii3" console comes to mind, which supposedly does a similar thing if the BootlegGames Wiki is anything to go by, although the Nice Code games are included on a separate 7-in-1 cartridge instead of being built in with the rest of the games, and the 198 games it comes with are currently unknown (the regular 198-in-1 model shows Shenzhen Niutai games on the box, for whatever that's worth). The possibility of the extra games just being more Niutai games or even games from an as of yet unknown developer is also likely, though. I haven't looked too hard but it does seem like this specific console isn't too easy to come by, which makes things annoying to research but also intriguing. Where was this console released? When was it released? How different is it from the 32-bit 48 in 1 console? Not sure if we'll ever find out, but learning that this exists at all is exciting to me and I'm glad to be able to talk about it here.
EDIT: Realized that two versions of the Wiii3 were released. A 198-in-1 model that appears to come with Shenzhen Niutai games according to the back of the box (it's being sold on eBay from Greece at the moment), and a 205-in-1 model with a 198-in-1 cartridge with games of unknown origin (according to an old thread most of them were from Cube Tech? Unless that was ye olde timey bootleg company speculation that no longer applies) and a 7-in-1 cart with 16-bit Nice Code games. Reworded my theory regarding the 54-in-1 to consider this information, although it doesn't affect it by much.
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