I'm continuously hunting down any information I can about this system, mostly unreleased games. I'll post here when I have new info to share. Since All pirates are made primarily in Taiwan, I know many here must care somewhat about this system =p
First, here's the previous list, if anyone might remember, of confirmed unreleased titles with rough unofficial translations:
地心歷險(Journey to the Center of the Earth) A-RPG 台軟科技(Tai Ruan Technology)
貓球防衛隊(Cat Ball Defense Team) STG 鉅崴科技(AV artisan)
鳥籠院(Birdcage Yard) ACT 敦煌科技(Funtech)
雷霆機動隊(Lightning Mobile Unit) STG 弘煜科技專業(Fun Yours Entertainment)
恐龍戰記 SLG 敦煌科技股份(Funtech)
阿Q連環炮(A Q Lian Huan Pao) ETC 全崴資訊股份(C&E)
暴走族之戀(Romance of B_s_zoku) SPG 敦煌科技股份(Funtech)
王八妹(Woman Guerrillero) STG 鉅崴科技(AV artisan)
英雄戰記(Hero Saga) RPG 漢堂國際資訊(Dyansty International Information Co.)
快樂動物園(Happy Zoo) ETC 石將電腦(Stone General Computer)
惡魔島(Demon Island) ACT 傑克豆資訊(Jackbean Information Co.?)
At the moment here's what's new. I got a magazine today that covers the A'can(I mentioned this in the finds thread), and it has pics of some of the unreleased games. I don't have a scanner but I'll try to scan it eventually somehow. Kinko's or something maybe? I might be heading down there soon anyways so I'll bring it along.
Anyways, I've now got a couple pics of 鳥籠院(which appears to be based off of a manga, and is a comedy fighter or something, goofy animation etc..), one of 恐龍戰記(very plain, just an overhead map), and a shot of some bike racing game. Plus some more shots of 地心歷險(which the magazine calls 地心歷險記, adding the one character).
Son of Evil is listed as 邪神之子, instead of its final title 邪惡之子. Possibly a mistake by them.
In contrast to the above, there's pics of trading show event of some kind for the A'can that shows a booth for Son of Evil, and the logo clearly says 邪惡之子. Must be the magazines mistake.
More interesting for everyone, since it's an actual scan, is that I found out a magazine from the mainland was apparently previewing and advertising the A'can all throughout the year 1996. They apparently covered up to 30 games too. I'm going to try to acquire all 1996 issues, though it will probably cost a bit, so won't happen anytime soon unless someone wants to help(lol). I happened to find that someone did make a scan of one add in an issue, and it has some of the same exact shots that my magazine I got today has.
I wish I had it in better quality. I went to the blog advertised there and I see no trace of the guy having even scanned this, so I don't know if there's more or not.
I've found some people claiming that they played 鳥籠院(which btw is those two screenshots in the bottom left corner of the combat and fighting section above). The A'can was released in mainland China in 2006 apparently, some months after it was released in 1995 in Taiwan. Maybe it got an exclusive release over there? But then again, I talked to Tommy Xie, who was apparently the project leader, and he said it never was released. It's probably people's memory's going bad, since I even saw one guy claiming he played Final Fantasy 6 on A'can :lol: I'm still trying to ask some forums if they can confirm anything.
The price of the system when it was sold in the mainland was 1000RMB about. Or exact. I forgot heh.
One guy had a small story to tell. There was one of those spine cards that came with the system to join a club of sorts. After a whole year, they call the guy and tell him that due to some sort of tension between the companies in Taiwan and the mainland, that they were shutting down production and release of games. They offered to refund the whole system if he brought it to their company in Tian Lin, Shanghai(田林, 上海). He went and left it off there and returned home, Two days later a guy shows up to his door with the money. In an ironic twist, he used the money to buy a Saturn :rolleyes: Bettig it was just as dead the whole time he owned it. But I'm pretty surprised they were actually willing to refund a system that someone had owned for a full year.
That's all for now. It costs $44 to get all '96 issues of that magazine, FYI. That's not including shipping. Gonna be a bit till I can have enough together.
