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PangentTech:
https://bootleggames.fandom.com/wiki/Nice_Code_Software

Alienis - Originally released by Inventor, Alienis is an advanced hack of / clone of Battle City, with scrolling levels. Also called Alienis (VT03), Bugs (VT02), Ice Age (VT02), Monster War (VT02), Monster War (VT03), Pulver (VT02), Pulver (VT03), Pulveration (VT02), Pulveration (VT03) and Pulverize (VT02).

Is the "Ice Age" version circulating anywhere?

forgotusername:
I do have a copy of it, I believe it came from archive.org (in the "Undatted NES" set).

PangentTech:
 Thank you very much!

 This is almost identical to the Monster War version, but has different graphics for the player and enemies, and they are visibly animated, with two frames in two directions ... Monster War just uses two identical frames for this, so there isn't visible animation.

Mcin:
Hello everyone! Pegasus affictionado with famiclone-scene activity that can be traced back to 2008 here. I'm here to continue a research I started on atariage: https://forums.atariage.com/topic/341063-atariintellivision-flashback-classics-on-nes-review/#comment-5330446

Recently I've been doing intel regarding NES clones of Atari Games, starting from Atari Flashback 1, which for sure IS a NOAC. However, authorship of the games is somehow disputable. Wiki says it's nice code, https://bootleggames.fandom.com/wiki/Nice_Code_Software however, I lack any hard proof for that. wiki says Nice Code is believed to have programmed officially licensed ports of Atari 2600, Atari 7800, and Intellivision games to the Famicom for use in plug & play systems. But why? because Flashback games are cross-found on consoles with a lot of nice code shovelware? I cannot trust this argument, as Chinese companies copied each other in other occasions.

Intellivision raises the same question, as there is no hard evidence. I found out that Blue sky Rangers were involved in releasing those consoles, but who coded games?

There are earlier Activision 10-in-1 and Atari 10-in-1, which are commonly believed to be a NoaC consoles, hovewer, shared games between atari 10-in-1 and atari flashback, like adventure, are totally different. I doubt these are famiclones but rather winbond-compatible, but maybe, just maybe, DC-studios, who made games for these consoles, did also flashback games? They gad GB games in portfolio, and their founder is a c64, so 6502 know-how was there.

As for missile command, which is said to be undumped, this is probably not NES game. As I said, 10-in-1 is most likely not noac, and atari keychain is not as well - this topic suggests that Digital Eclipse Vancouver used winbond-compatible instead https://bootleggames.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_Undumped_Games

Finally, we have Blaze mini arcade, which looks like it has flashback version of Adventure, Sprint Master and Gravatar, DIFFERENT version of Yar's revenge and nowhere-else found 2600-centipede recreation
https://piped.smnz.de/watch?v=RuBy8rVjlQs
However, this is #2. Atari Mini arcade #1 was released at the same time, and it uses ARM f1c100, as seen in this video https://piped.smnz.de/watch?v=9du237nO26M. Would they use different hardware for other console released in the same time and in the same series?

I'd be grateful for any evidence-based response, as I'm sick of clues after long time internet scrapping. If there is any member who owns those consoles, show up, for we need these as our research material.

forgotusername:
I can confidently say in my research that the ports were Nice Code-developed, though that isn't easy to prove in short terms. Some examples off the top of my head:

*Numerous NOAC ports of Atari 2600 games (including Activision/Imagic titles) exist as Nice Code-hacked versions, but were never officially released on any licensed plug & play. This includes Street Racer ("Lightning"), No Escape ("Ice Ocean"), Pressure Cooker ("Candy Workshop"), and quite a few others.
*Nice Code released hacked up versions of unreleased "revisions" of the Intellivision ports. For example, the Snafu hack "Shrew Mouse" has three players, while the official INTV plug & play only shows two. It would be incredibly difficult for such features to be hacked in if Nice Code didn't, at the very least, hold the original source code.
*Other verifiable Nice Code games are known to be included on Techno Source consoles, meaning Techno Source presumably commissioned Nice Code to make the Intellivison titles. Nice Code may have also been hired by Techno Source to produce the Activision/Imagic titles; however, Techno Source's eventual p&p under this license used emulation.
*Some of Nice Code's generic hacked versions are dated 2003/2004, meaning they would have had access to the games at effectively the same time the "licensed" consoles released. As such, it's not like they got ahold of the source code after the fact or something; the generic hacks were produced alongside the official versions.

Additionally, you seem to be confusing two entirely different plug & plays mentioned here. The Missile Command NOAC port is on a different 10-in-1 plug & play; it was released by Basic Fun in 2017 (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIYnHzGgpig). The Techno Source Activision console, while also not NOAC-based, was released in 2005 (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSZLbjOBojc). The Jakks Pacific versions are presumably Winbond-based.

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