This is a story about a cartridge that claimed to have unlimited games inside its memory, but it was a cruel prank on video game players. It was not the first lie that came from China (yes, it was made there) since my entire Famicom console it's a Chinese clone.
About the Cartridge:
If you take a look at its label, you will be able to see six games: Clay Shooting, Duck Hunt, High Jump, Super Mario, Soccer and Olympic 2008. Now, I have to explain what it is talking about.
First of all, High Jump is a built-in mode of Olympic 2008, which is actually Track & Field by Konami. It also includes Duck Hunt, split in two different modes: the one/two player mode and the clay shooting game. This cartridge also includes Super Mario Bros., Galaxian and Soccer.
By the way, in the cartridge's label, Clay Shooting is misspelled (Clay Shotting), and the Duck Hunt picture has nothing to do with the actual game; something that is very common in pirate cartridges and multicarts.
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| The actual cartridge, showing six games. Its size is half a standard Famicom cartridge. |
About the Built-In Menu:
The built-in menu is simple, just a bunch of names with numbers, a pointer, the compilation's name and the basic instructions ("press start to do something, select to do something else..."). If you look at it, you will notice that there are only 5 different games; the others are just names copied from already listed games that start in different levels, change palettes among other minimal changes in ROMs.
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| Notice game repetitions and separated modes after Galaxian. |
About the included games:
As I said before, only five games are included, although the cartridge claimed to have more than 9 million unique titles inside its ROM. This is a list of every game inside the cartridge (do not expect a 9999999-game list below, just listing different titles and its modes):
- Super Mario (the classic Super Mario Bros.)
- FIFA Soccer 2000 (Nintendo Soccer, 1985)
- Olympic 2000 (Track & Field, split into different modes)
- Duck Hunt (split into two modes)
- Galaxian (by Namco)
- Clay Shoot (from Duck Hunt)
- Long Jump (from Track & Field)
- Archery (from Track & Field)
- Triple Jump (from Track & Field)
- Skeet Shooting (from Track & Field)
- High Jump (from Track & Field)
- Hurdles (from Track & Field)
- 100m. Dash (from Track & Field)
- Javelin Throw (from Track & Field)
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| Playing Super Mario Bros. Everything is fine. |
Since there are original NES games only, the quality of this cartridge is "high". Everything works as expected, although there are some unusual things:
- SMB's titlescreen was hacked and states a "2".
- Mario's name was replaced with "Score".
- Every game's copyright was removed.
- Soccer's copyright was replaced with "© 2001 BBGBBG"
- You can select levels by pressing either A or B (SMB only)
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| Soccer's titlescreen, with the weird copyright. |
Is this cartridge worth?
If you play games, this cartridge should be fine. If you are a serious collector, look for the real thing.
How do I get this cartridge?
I got this cartridge from a retailer in South America. If you ask for the shopkeeper for a cartridge including Super Mario Bros, you'll probably get this one.
In case you want to watch some action:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-ISOx_hUZg
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI_a2v_Wa-o
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Text and Pictures by C. Palacio; 20151907:1326
rom file?
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