Joyomofrobro | 211 Posted May 17 Share Posted May 17 I am wondering if this is a licensed multi pak or a unlicensed? Also trying to figure out the story on this one because I am from Canada and it has become my holy grail of a game, a complete wonder to me though. It says Made In Canada and they mention shipping out, so now I am wondering too if it's a Canadian company or if they had permissions. Any help is well cared for from the many, a certain few may know I bet. But it seems to me to maybe count or not count as a official release by confusion, like a couple multi-games that do count! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferris Bueller | 497 Posted May 20 Share Posted May 20 I'm not big into multi-carts, but I did see this post while I was traveling over the weekend and I love it! I don't know why, but for some reason this thing has my attention now. @fcgamer, you know anything about this cart? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ankos | 481 Posted May 20 Share Posted May 20 Looks unofficial to me. I can't read the game list too well, but it looks like it might have some repeating games (battle city and super battle city), and I can't imagine a legit cart would do that. My guess would be that it was an overseas company with an office in Canada 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePhleo | 2,198 Posted May 20 Share Posted May 20 Undoubtedly a pirate bootleg multicart, for a myriad of reasons. The common nature of the selected games, the lack of Nintendo branding, the array of publishers, the fact that Nintendo first party games are on it. Also, the instructions are silly Engrish. Very good Engrish, but still Engrish. Quote TROUBLE SHOOTING DO NOT PANIC OR RUSH THE CASSETTE PLEASE a) Load Firmly. Power Up. b) Wait 30 seconds to warm up. c) FLASHING: Hold in reset 10 seconds. Then wait 10 seconds or flick the select switch on the hand pedal. - juggle the cassette for a clean contact while it is in the machine (You are not fully loaded or you ar not warmed up). d) Plain screen or alphabet soup. NOTE: Every cassette is played before we ship. (To ensure the problem is not your machine you may try a friends machine to eliminate this possibility). I can make out the following on the list of games: Arabian Chack Pop B Wings Sasa Devil World Bomber Man Warp Man Wrestling Milk Nuts Star Force Mappy Road Fighter Pooyan Macross Circus Charlie Battle City Combat Sky Destroyer Antarctic Front Line Super Star Force Super B Wings Super Battle City Super Pooyan Super Devil World Ultra Arabian Ultra Chack Pop Ultra Devil World Ultra Bomber Man Ultra Warp Man Ultra Milk & Nuts Ultra Mappy Ultra Road Fighter Ultra Pooyan Ultra Macross Ultra Circus Charlie Ultra Battle City Ultra Combat Ultra Sky Destroyer Super Arabian 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fcgamer | 4,792 Posted May 20 Share Posted May 20 Interesting cartridge. From a quick glance it looks as though there are only twenty games on it, and the rest are hacks. I'm curious how the menu looks for this one. Despite the hacks, there would be forty entries on the menu, the game is advertised as a forty in 1. What makes this interesting to me is that I have never to my knowledge seen a 40 in 1 multicart. There is a standard 42 in 1 multicart, but game content wise this doesn't match that either. 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tulpa | 3,569 Posted May 20 Share Posted May 20 (edited) I wonder if Super Star Force on that cart is the actual Super Star Force and not just Star Force starting on level two or with a Care Bear instead of the normal space ship sprite. Edited May 20 by Tulpa 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fcgamer | 4,792 Posted May 20 Share Posted May 20 35 minutes ago, Tulpa said: I wonder if Super Star Force on that cart is the actual Super Star Force and not just Star Force starting on level two or with a Care Bear instead of the normal space ship sprite. It's gonna be regular Star Force. I just had a quick look in Family Bits 3 (you should grab one if you are interested in understanding early multicarts), and even things like the 110 and 190 in 1 didn't include Super Star Force, so there's no way that this one does. On a different note, the Super versions generally changed the color palette of the title screen, and then sped the game up. No sprite hacks with Care Bears or anything silly like that. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePhleo | 2,198 Posted May 20 Share Posted May 20 23 minutes ago, fcgamer said: It's gonna be regular Star Force. I just had a quick look in Family Bits 3 (you should grab one if you are interested in understanding early multicarts), and even things like the 110 and 190 in 1 didn't include Super Star Force, so there's no way that this one does. On a different note, the Super versions generally changed the color palette of the title screen, and then sped the game up. No sprite hacks with Care Bears or anything silly like that. I was hoping you would chime in. So the 40-in-1 itself is unique eh? Neat! Maybe this is something cool. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fcgamer | 4,792 Posted May 20 Share Posted May 20 19 minutes ago, ThePhleo said: I was hoping you would chime in. So the 40-in-1 itself is unique eh? Neat! Maybe this is something cool. I think it should be, I've never seen a 40 in 1. Looks like twenty games and twenty alterations. But even the twenty games here I don't think match up 1:1 with any of the common 20 in 1 carts. To me from what I saw tonight, it looks interesting as far as multicarts go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joyomofrobro | 211 Posted May 21 Author Share Posted May 21 On 5/20/2024 at 8:38 AM, Ankos said: I can't read the game list too well This picture may show game list better! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joyomofrobro | 211 Posted May 21 Author Share Posted May 21 23 hours ago, fcgamer said: I think it should be, I've never seen a 40 in 1. Looks like twenty games and twenty alterations. But even the twenty games here I don't think match up 1:1 with any of the common 20 in 1 carts. To me from what I saw tonight, it looks interesting as far as multicarts go. There are Super games and Ultra games but not that many games, I hear the low number multi carts are best as well from some angles. Here is a picture of the back of game, I was able to glue back a small peel and it looks great now. They mention shipping it out after testing and troulble shoot the potential problems for knowledge! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joyomofrobro | 211 Posted May 21 Author Share Posted May 21 I am amazed by the front of cart how it says 'Made In Canada' at bottom left! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joyomofrobro | 211 Posted May 21 Author Share Posted May 21 (edited) On 5/20/2024 at 11:40 AM, fcgamer said: I'm curious how the menu looks for this one. There are multiple chip-tunes playing as you go through selections, game list jumps around until you press button so that is why it is out of order! Edited May 21 by Joyomofrobro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joyomofrobro | 211 Posted May 21 Author Share Posted May 21 On 5/20/2024 at 12:14 PM, Tulpa said: I wonder if Super Star Force on that cart is the actual Super Star Force and not just Star Force starting on level two or with a Care Bear instead of the normal space ship sprite. I did not see the Care Bear in Super Star Force! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tulpa | 3,569 Posted May 21 Share Posted May 21 1 hour ago, Joyomofrobro said: I did not see the Care Bear in Super Star Force! It was a joke, but hacking a game to change the sprites into something goofy (like Donkey Kong Jr. into a Ninja Turtle or Mario into Shrek) has happened. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joyomofrobro | 211 Posted May 21 Author Share Posted May 21 2 minutes ago, Tulpa said: It was a joke, but hacking a game to change the sprites into something goofy (like Donkey Kong Jr. into a Ninja Turtle or Mario into Shrek) has happened. I have a 250 In 1 where I play Cat Head, Bomber Man as a cat, so just thought it existed that's all! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AirVillain | 494 Posted May 21 Share Posted May 21 I am also from Canada and have not seen this game. That means it MUST be super rare. Haha... jokes.... no idea, but interesting. I hope you find the answers you seek. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferris Bueller | 497 Posted May 21 Share Posted May 21 Oh, so this is yours? I thought you were on the hunt. If you run across a double, let me know! I like this thing for some reason. Giving me Smart Boy vibes. I'm in to it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fcgamer | 4,792 Posted May 22 Share Posted May 22 (edited) Menu looks similar to some I've seen before, such as the 190 in 1. The contents are drastically less though. Yours could be an earlier version of this. The yt above is of a cartridge made in Taiwan, well yours was made in Taiwan too, lets be honest, assembled or manufactured on behalf of Canadians is more like it lol. Edited May 22 by fcgamer 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joyomofrobro | 211 Posted May 22 Author Share Posted May 22 22 hours ago, Ferris Bueller said: Oh, so this is yours? Yes this is mine. I wanted to get a story behind the game for reasons of my own, I am from Canada. But this picture is where you can see better the 'Made In Canada' mention! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joyomofrobro | 211 Posted May 22 Author Share Posted May 22 20 hours ago, fcgamer said: Menu looks similar to some I've seen before, such as the 190 in 1. I just looked at my game, the 190, and I had it too, just never gave it a go! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ankos | 481 Posted May 22 Share Posted May 22 Are you able to open the cartridge? You might be able to learn more about it by popping it open and comparing its internals to other multicarts. Krzysiobal has a database for stuff like that 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gloves | 11,890 Administrator · Posted May 23 Share Posted May 23 3 hours ago, Joyomofrobro said: I just looked at my game, the 190, and I had it too, just never gave it a go! I used to have the exact same thing as that but in a different coloured cart. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Code Monkey | 2,023 Posted May 23 Share Posted May 23 We live in the same city, I would buy this from you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fcgamer | 4,792 Posted May 23 Share Posted May 23 7 hours ago, Code Monkey said: We live in the same city, I would buy this from you. Wow, I didn't know that you collected bootleg cartridges. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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