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razorfennec

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« on: May 25, 2013, 10:24:00 AM »
Okay, so I'm new on these forums, I just found them not long ago, there's a few things I'd like to talk about though.

So first off, I have a bunch of yellow cartridges of pirated games, some of them though have have a similarity: Most of my single game cartridges have the name "Hi-Game" followed by a year number, usually 1999 or 2000. Most of these have "KT xxxx" Identifiers on the corner of the stickers, some of them having some chinese text put on them. Pictures:

http://kepfeltoltes.hu/130525/2013-05-25_14.50.08_www.kepfeltoltes.hu_.jpg
http://kepfeltoltes.hu/130525/2013-05-25_14.50.14_www.kepfeltoltes.hu_.jpg
http://kepfeltoltes.hu/130525/2013-05-25_14.50.20_www.kepfeltoltes.hu_.jpg
http://kepfeltoltes.hu/130525/2013-05-25_14.50.35_www.kepfeltoltes.hu_.jpg
http://kepfeltoltes.hu/130525/2013-05-25_14.50.42_www.kepfeltoltes.hu_.jpg
http://kepfeltoltes.hu/130525/2013-05-25_14.50.55_www.kepfeltoltes.hu_.jpg
http://kepfeltoltes.hu/130525/2013-05-25_14.51.01_www.kepfeltoltes.hu_.jpg
http://kepfeltoltes.hu/130525/2013-05-25_14.51.12_www.kepfeltoltes.hu_.jpg
http://kepfeltoltes.hu/130525/2013-05-25_14.51.19_www.kepfeltoltes.hu_.jpg
http://kepfeltoltes.hu/130525/2013-05-25_14.51.35_www.kepfeltoltes.hu_.jpg

The games on them (mostly based off memories, might be inaccurate, I don't have a functioning famiclone to test them right now):

-Valiant Pig 2:

It is a Talespin hack, The face of Baloo replaced by the face of a pig, and I think the stage order was switched as well, with the baseball stadium stage being the first.

-Kiwi Kraze:

The original Kiwi Kraze game, though the bosses often had glitched up tiles that used to scare the hell out of me back in that age.

-Captain Planet:

It is the actual Captain Planet game, though it either only has the first stage repeating over and over, or I just never really managed to get past the first stage.

-The Jungle Book:

Same Game, don't really know much about it though.

-Generic multi-game cartridge.

Don't know which games are on it sadly.

-Roller Games 2:

It's actually just the Rollergames game, don't know if it's an added feature or not, but pressing select while in-game instantly refreshes your health on this cartridge.

-Mickey Mouse 4:

Mickey's Safari in Letterland, it is pretty much left intact by the pirates.

-7-Up:

Honestly I have no idea what's on this cart, it might be a multigame piece, don't remember. (The sticker has been put on it upside-down, lousy pirates.)

-Turtles 5:

A hack of the original NES Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles without the cutscenes, pressing the select button on the title screen switches levels based on how many times it was pressed.

I believe that this "Hi-Game" is a pirate company, these are all the cartridges I have, but I have no other info on this, so if anyone can contribute, it'd be much appreciated.

All the carts except "Roller Games 2" have two dip switches within them, sharing the same board layout with minor modifications. "Roller Games 2" though has an entirely different board layout from the others, which means that it is either a special piece of their carts, or I just simply flipped the board with another one back in the days (we used to do that a lot as kids). Board pictures soon to come.

Now for another thing, back in the days, I had a pirated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game (definetly not the one that's in the pictures), and I wish to find it somehow, so:

According to my memories, you could only play as one turtle, it was a classic beat-em-up style TMNT game, but the turtle you played with was equipped with a mop(!) as weapon. The first level was some sort of a park, at the end of the level, you had to jump into the back of a truck to meet the first boss, some sort of a smudge monster, on a different level, the same boss but with a different reddish tint was used. I remember of a stadium stage, as well as a skateboarding stage. In the particular piece that I had, you were given infinite lives, and could only die in the last stage, where you had a vertical jumping platform area, and after it, once the top has been reached, there were big pitfalls on the ground, that could only be jumped over by the same jumping platforms as on the vertical area.

Now I highly doubt that this was actually a TMNT game, but I don't know anything about its origins, so if anyone could shed some light on this, it'd be once again, much appreciated.

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« Reply #1 on: May 25, 2013, 10:30:43 AM »
Was the game you're talking about a hack of Toxic Crusaders?

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« Reply #2 on: May 25, 2013, 10:48:21 AM »
Holy crap it IS actualy Toxic Crusaders! Even though I remember that the game itself had a TMNT sticker on it. Oh well, one more lost puzzle piece of my childhood has been found.

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« Reply #3 on: May 25, 2013, 12:20:45 PM »
I think there was a bootleg hack of Snake Rattle n Roll called 7-Up 2. Then again, it might be Spot for the NES.

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« Reply #4 on: May 25, 2013, 04:32:24 PM »
razorfennec
May 25 2013, 10:24:00 AM
I believe that this "Hi-Game" is a pirate company, these are all the cartridges I have, but I have no other info on this, so if anyone can contribute, it'd be much appreciated.[/quote]there's a bit of info here: http://bootleggames.wikia.com/wiki/NT
the company is more often known as NT or Ka Sheng (卡聖) but I guess they kept their real identity pretty secret. As well as the generic/hacked stuff they also published a few original games from Hummer Team and others.