Generic Wii clone thread

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codeman38

Dec 15 2010, 02:49:48 AM

"Super Porter" is indeed Dangerous Zone. "Benthal Jewel" is, of course, Magic Jewelry/Jewel Master. "100 Floor" looks like Challenge 100. And "Balloon Boy" is...obvious.[/quote]Not sure if this has any importance or not, but on the 101-in-1 Arcade Action II there was a hack of Sachen's horrible Tetris ripoff (or Pyramid, if you prefer) called Benthal World, and given what benthal actually means it kind of makes sense for that and Benthal Jewel to be set underwater.

Also worth pointing out that Up Stairs (as opposed to Dountstairs ) is a ripoff of another game on the Cyber Arcade Centre, but I forget what that game's called. If I remember correctly, Brick Blaster has graphics stolen from some downloadable Arkanoid derivative I played years back, but I can't remember what I was called. Jumping Mary looks like a Q-Bert ripoff, Start Restaurant is definitely a ripoff of Root Beer Tapper, Gold Miner appears to be that coin catching game off the Zone 60 with different graphics, Seize Jewelry looks like a Donkey Kong ripoff, Super Brick sort of looks like Puzznic, Highway Racing looks like an upgraded version off the Zone 40 game and Track Racing looks like a Micro Machines ripoff somewhat similar to Go Karts on the Zone 60. Also, if you move the mouse over one of the pictures, it usually brings up some Chinese text and/or the number 1. However, doing this with Doudou comes up with "PACMAN" so I think we can assume what that's a copy of.

BTW, I like how they spelled Insurance wrong in Blackjack.

[taizou]

well as I mentioned in this thread Shenzhen Nanjing's website lists 16-bit sports games that I had, at that point, never seen anywhere.. but I just happened to wander into some shitty discount store in Manchester today, and propped up against a stack of Zone 40's there were a few "Wow Wireless Gaming" consoles (for £18) with some of those exact Nanjing games.. I'm not sure if Nanjing themselves developed them or if theyre just Nice Code stuff, but Nanjing's logo is in the Ping Pong game and their name is in the Football (at least in the screenshots on their website), so they may well have  had some kind of deeper involvement..

[codeman38]

And here's the official promo video for the Wow Wireless Gaming console. Is that a James Brown sample at 1:06?!

Edit: The only other hits I can find are auctions on eBay and the like. That, and a bunch of ads for World of Warcraft-themed wireless headsets...

Edit #2: Somehow I didn't notice this on my first time watching the video, but the console is clearly labelled "Vii" when it's shown at 0:15. :lol:

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codeman38

Dec 24 2010, 02:26:06 AM

And here's the official promo video for the Wow Wireless Gaming console. Is that a James Brown sample at 1:06?![/quote]Looking at that video, the announcer and family are clearly British, and as far as I'm aware (given that I'm not willing to travel to discount stores in other countries ) it wasn't released anywhere else, unless it was under a different name. As for that sound sample, I'd say it's more likely to be two sound effects playing at the same time, unless you've been listening to too much James Brown. (wait, is that even possible? XD)

[taizou]

well curiosity got the better of me. and I actually own the damn thing now. It does actually say "Wow Wireless Gaming" on it, the Vii one must have been pre-production I guess. but you can see the PCB through the flap where the cartridge port would be if this was actually equipped with one, which it isnt (its glued shut, but not very well) and it does still say "XA-VII-B 2008.6.25" on it
anyway the controls are mostly pretty bad, and there are tons of stolen graphics. makes the iSports look almost professional. theres no sign of Nanjing's logo in the table tennis either, unlike the version on their website - if i had to hazard a guess I'd say Nice Code had something to do with it, one of the non-sport games seems to be pretty similar to Burbles on the DreamGear only with Metal Slug graphics.

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taizou

Dec 24 2010, 09:38:12 AM

well curiosity got the better of me. and I actually own the damn thing now. It does actually say "Wow Wireless Gaming" on it, the Vii one must have been pre-production I guess. but you can see the PCB through the flap where the cartridge port would be if this was actually equipped with one, which it isnt (its glued shut, but not very well) and it does still say "XA-VII-B 2008.6.25" on it.[/quote]In other words, whoever made the Wow Wireless Gaming took a Vii case and modded it? Also, I think you could mod that thing to play cartridges, although I really don't see the point in that.

[taizou]

well I suspect its probably made in the same factory as the (8-bit) Vii, just with different built-in stuff. it does look like it could be modded to add a cart slot (and a 9-pin joypad port for that matter), but yeah, I have no particular reason to, and I also don't own a soldering iron so I couldn't anyway

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taizou

Dec 24 2010, 09:38:12 AM

anyway the controls are mostly pretty bad, and there are tons of stolen graphics. makes the iSports look almost professional. theres no sign of Nanjing's logo in the table tennis either, unlike the version on their website - if i had to hazard a guess I'd say Nice Code had something to do with it, one of the non-sport games seems to be pretty similar to Burbles on the DreamGear only with Metal Slug graphics.[/quote]Wow, I'd love to see a video recording of more of the games just because it sounds like such a train wreck.

[taizou]

yeah, I probably will record some - it seems to be a bit more responsive now at least, maybe the "motion" "controls" have loosened up a bit or something. the games are kind of a mixed bag really - if they are by Nice Code theyre mostly better than their usual 8-bit stuff gameplay-wise. though theres inevitably not much depth to any of them.  Kind of Jungletac level, only with more stolen stuff.

[taizou]

well i just tried something on a whim that totally worked - seems like the Wow controllers are compatible with the iSports *and* my Excalibur 101 in 1, even though theyre all ostensibly by different companies (Power King/Xinan, Subor & Trump Grand respectively). i guess theyre all based on a standard design probably introduced by some old wireless famiclone years ago, and no manufacturer can be arsed moving to something more complex (hence all the "motion" controlled ones just mapping a shake to the A button instead of having a separate input for it, I suppose.. even the latest 32 bit wii clones still only have the same old A/B/Select/Start buttons)

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I'm sorry, but a question I got to ask:

1) The Wii ripoffs like the iSport and the Interactive TV Game, which have Commander and such, are these 16 bit games supposed to be SNES-based, Genesis-based or are they not based on any official system?

[taizou]

as far as i'm aware they aren't clones of anything, they use generic system-on-chip type things... possibly VRT's VT168 or something by Sunplus.

[codeman38]

I'm pretty sure that the Zone Mini is Subor/Waixing's doing as well. Just saw one in a store today, and the packaging said it was made in Zhongshan. And all the videos I can find of it seem to confirm this-- it's the same 32-bit Waixing-copyrighted games as always, including a few that are probably by Cube Tech.And although it's not a Wii knockoff, it's too good not to mention: the Zone Fusion, which is another of those mysterious vertically-oriented Jungletac handhelds.Another one I saw recently: the Xtreme Fit mat, which is basically an all-in-one DDR-mat-style console. It, too, appears to have Waixing connections-- "Hitting Mice" and "Highway Racing" are two of the included games. It also has some yoga exercises, which I think are the same ones on Cube Tech's listing. No, they're not-- those are for a system with an actual balance scale, while this is just a pressure-sensitive mat. But yeah, it's almost certainly made by Waixing, anyway.

Edit: Yoga Sports & Exercise Mat from Subor. Yep, that's exactly the same thing.Hm, weird. The Xtreme Fit is actually sold by a hitherto unheard-of Shenzhen company called Joylink, if this Alibaba listing is to be believed. That's exactly the same box I saw in the store the other day.

Probably just a rebranding/licensing of Subor's version, though, since everything else totally points to Waixing.

[taizou]

yeah that Xtreme Fit is the same thing as the Zone Family Fit afaik. Subor's version is called ifit Sports, the packaging is very similar (only in Chinese): http://www.andriasang.com/e/blog/2010/02/06/chinese_wii_fit/

& I found this the other day - its another version of the Zone Fusion I think, with a game list + screenshots:
http://cybertoy.ru/joom/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=17&Itemid=2
(although cybertoy's website is just about the slowest thing ever at the moment)

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taizou

Jan 1 2011, 12:57:12 PM

yeah that Xtreme Fit is the same thing as the Zone Family Fit afaik. Subor's version is called ifit Sports, the packaging is very similar (only in Chinese): http://www.andriasang.com/e/blog/2010/02/06/chinese_wii_fit/[/quote]Heh, I knew I'd seen video of a Chinese-language Subor version before somewhere. It was indeed in Nikkei's video-- they'd also done some videos on Subor's iSports "V" console.

taizou

 

& I found this the other day - its another version of the Zone Fusion I think, with a game list + screenshots:
http://cybertoy.ru/joom/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=17&Itemid=2
(although cybertoy's website is just about the slowest thing ever at the moment)[/quote]"Abey's Dream"? Yep, totally the stuff that NiceCode made for JungleTac. (And those are the best screenshots I've seen of those so far!)Something else interesting I just noticed, though: The GC12 PocketGame (discussed in the NiceCode thread) uses what sounds like 16-bit music. The Zone Fusion, on the other hand, uses the NES sound chip, with typical JungleTac-sounding music. Same games, same developer, same chassis... same processor, even, as far as I know. Weird.

Edit: Nope, not the same chassis. The PocketGame is the same chassis as the Classic Pocket, but the Zone Fusion is rounder. Either way, the Fusion is definitely not your standard Famiclone games, though.