Question about a Japanese plug'n'play Famiclone

[Ninja-Kun]

I found this site: http://www13.plala.or.jp/chitose_game/goods/g10.htm where you can check the game list of a Power Player Super Joy-style Famiclone, and I found several oddities that I don't now if they have been discussing before, so I have a few questions:

1) Is that hack of Duck Hunt (game 6) found anywhere else?
2) The 10th game ("Submarine") looks much like the mysterious Christmas-themed Bomberman clone caH4e3 dumped a couple of years ago (see May 13th post at http://cah4e3.shedevr.org.ru/dumping_2007.php). Or is it another game?
3) What game is "Rocketman" (game 11)? Is it a pirate original or it's just a hack? I thought it could be a Son Son hack but as soon I saw the HUD it made me change my mind.

[taizou]

Ninja-Kun

May 9 2011, 09:24:17 PM

1) Is that hack of Duck Hunt (game 6) found anywhere else?[/quote]actually I recorded a video of it from another famiclone http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLnpLPgjARw

Ninja-Kun

 

2) The 10th game ("Submarine") looks much like the mysterious Christmas-themed Bomberman clone caH4e3 dumped a couple of years ago (see May 13th post at http://cah4e3.shedevr.org.ru/dumping_2007.php). Or is it another game?[/quote]
yeah, looks like that game with different graphics to me. theres another version on quite a few famiclones called "Dejectile".

Ninja-Kun

 

3) What game is "Rocketman" (game 11)? Is it a pirate original or it's just a hack? I thought it could be a Son Son hack but as soon I saw the HUD it made me change my mind.[/quote]
I think its something by Nice Code. i havent seen that exact one before but they have a bunch of games that look a bit like that.

[Ninja-Kun]

Thanks for your answers Taizou! :-)

[taizou]

no problem! i know far too much about these weird plug & play consoles, im just glad it came in useful for once

[codeman38]

Was just browsing that site, and this one's also interesting, in a "how did they get away with this?" sort of way:

http://www13.plala.or.jp/chitose_game/goods/g11.htm

The built-in game is a blatant hack of "J-League Winning Goal". Not the first one, either; there's another earlier World Cup-themed hack of the same game that cah4e3 dumped a while back.

[taizou]

I've seen yet another hack of that game (I forget where now) with Chinese teams - it seems to be quite a popular target for hacks.

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codeman38

May 10 2011, 11:01:46 AM

Was just browsing that site, and this one's also interesting, in a "how did they get away with this?" sort of way:

http://www13.plala.or.jp/chitose_game/goods/g11.htm

The built-in game is a blatant hack of "J-League Winning Goal".[/quote]Which has April O'Neill from TMNT on the half-time screen. :rolleyes:  Never played the original game, but I'm willing to bet that Brazil and Germany are the only teams in it.

BTW, game 11 on that N64 controller ripoff looks like one of the Spider-Man games off the GB Station Light II. (Yeah, somehow Nice Code managed to make a Spiderman game worse than Return of the Sinister Six on the NES)

Edit: I was looking around on that site and happened to find another Plug 'n Play thingy, presumably released in Japan. Looking at the box, the games look like Cube Tech hacks of early Famicom games although the menu system looks similar to one used on several JungleTac Plug 'n Play systems and one of the games is Russia, a poor man's Tetris developed by Nice Code if I remember correctly. In case you're wondering, "FORMULAR Zero" is a hack of Bump 'n Jump, judging by the screenshot.

[Ninja-Kun]

The worst of all about that N64-type famiclone is that it has only 8 games. How lazy can they get?  :rolleyes: By the way, "Deep Fighter" is a hack of "Sqoon", right?

[codeman38]

Cheetahmen

May 10 2011, 11:14:43 AM

Which has April O'Neill from TMNT on the half-time screen. :rolleyes:  Never played the original game, but I'm willing to bet that Brazil and Germany are the only teams in it.[/quote]Actually... in the original game, all the teams are (naturally) from the Japanese league. The '98 hack that cah4e3 dumped changed all of them to national teams... but left the original Japanese teams' mascots, no matter how little sense they made in the new context.

Cheetahmen

 

BTW, game 11 on that N64 controller ripoff looks like one of the Spider-Man games off the GB Station Light II. (Yeah, somehow Nice Code managed to make a Spiderman game worse than Return of the Sinister Six on the NES)[/quote]Oh, yeah, I've seen a screenshot of the Spider-Man game somewhere else-- I think it was on Trump Grand's site. I knew it looked familiar.

Cheetahmen

 

Edit: I was looking around on that site and happened to find another Plug 'n Play thingy, presumably released in Japan. Looking at the box, the games look like Cube Tech hacks of early Famicom games although the menu system looks similar to one used on several JungleTac Plug 'n Play systems and one of the games is Russia, a poor man's Tetris developed by Nice Code if I remember correctly. In case you're wondering, "FORMULAR Zero" is a hack of Bump 'n Jump, judging by the screenshot.[/quote]Yep, several of those are listed on Cube Tech's site. Though the menu looking a lot like JungleTac's is interesting-- usually Cube's carts have a more standard textual listing of the games.

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Ninja-Kun

May 10 2011, 11:25:25 AM

The worst of all about that N64-type famiclone is that it has only 8 games. How lazy can they get?  :rolleyes:[/quote]In all fairness, at least they're not 8 hacks of the same game, unlike a multicart I saw where all 8 games were The Little Mermaid.

Ninja-Kun

 

By the way, "Deep Fighter" is a hack of "Sqoon", right?[/quote]
Definitely looks like it if you ask me.

codeman38

 

Cheetahmen

 

Which has April O'Neill from TMNT on the half-time screen. :rolleyes: Never played the original game, but I'm willing to bet that Brazil and Germany are the only teams in it.[/quote]

Actually... in the original game, all the teams are (naturally) from the Japanese league. The '98 hack that cah4e3 dumped changed all of them to national teams... but left the original Japanese teams' mascots, no matter how little sense they made in the new context.[/quote]
Funny how despite that, they actually bothered changing the players' names after the ones from the actual teams. And last time I checked, England were the Three Lions, not a bloody whale.

And as a completely pointless point, they managed to mix up the colours of the French flag. (Vaguely amusing considering that the hack has "France" in the title)

[PlayerSecelt]

The last game looks like Balloon Boy for the Mega Drive (developed by AV Artisan)!