J.Y. Company in Game Boy business ?

[MLX]

Check this picture:

At first you may not notice anything.
Look at that PCB code on middle right starting with 82. Doesn't it remind you of something ? No ?
JY always used 8XXXXC codes for Famicom cartridges. This one is 820424-C1. The thing that make me do the comparison is that the Famicom codes uses the same way to number PCBs. For exemple: JY-001 1994 has a 830429C PCB.
So J.Y. was probably in the GB business before 1994...

[taizou]

that probably refers to the date using the ROC calendar. eg 83-04-29 = 29th April 1994, which would make sense for JY-001. so it might just be a coincidence.. Might not be though.

[MLX]

So you always add 11 to the number ?
And also what about this: EL860339C (DKC4/TTA6 board) ?
86 would be 97 which make sense, March and wtf here: 39 ?

[taizou]

yeah, the calendar starts in 1911 (the year the ROC was established) so you always add 1911 to get the western date.

but then that 39 is weird. Maybe its really only the year and the month, then the last two digits are a sequential ID, like Sintax's games?

[Awesome Panda]

I doubt it's JY myself. I'm sort of curious on that "Goldstar" chip though, as I remember (I think) a company called Goldstar made numerous multicarts for the Famicom.

[codeman38]

Cheetahmen

Sep 29 2010, 04:21:54 PM

I doubt it's JY myself. I'm sort of curious on that "Goldstar" chip though, as I remember (I think) a company called Goldstar made numerous multicarts for the Famicom.[/quote]The GoldStar that made that chip is the company now known as LG. So I doubt it's related.

[taizou]

Goldstar was just a chip (and general electronics) manufacturer, theyre part of LG now. multicart makers probably sourced chips from wherever they could get them, i doubt it means too much.

edit: ahem. beat me to it

[Barver]

Is it known what cart that is? An original game they could have been involved with, or just some multicart?

[taizou]

well the filename is "super150in1pcbfront.jpg". so i'd guess thats what it is.
i've never seen a single cart that was that big.

[Barver]

Oops, didn't think to look at the filename :x

I've seen several GB pirates in huge casings like that, though always multicarts. Have to wonder what the boxed for them were like.