Tomy/Mani licensed 4 in 1
Even though I'm mostly just going to cover unlicensed stuff here, every so often I might come across something with the Nintendo Seal of Quality on it that's just as obscure as anything the likes of Sintax might turn out. Did you know there were two different officially licensed Gamecube cassette players? Seriously.
This thing here isn't quite so odd - it's a licensed multicart, made for the Chinese/HK market only, with four Tomy games on it: Ganbaruga, Raijinou, Zoids & Miracle Adventure of Esparks. It was actually released by Nintendo's HK distributor Mani (even though their name isn't on the cart itself) along with at least one other, containing Taito games. Presumably this was their official attempt to compete with the pirate multicarts flooding the market - but given that I've never seen one of these before and pirates are all over the place, it seems to have been met with minimal success. Interestingly Mani made it themselves in China, though - all other regions' licensed Game Boy games were made by Nintendo in Japan.
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esparks conspiracy! don't be afraid
i won't, my sober friend. also i just found out there's one of these carts with Nintendo games too, so that's a thing.
(DMG-601 CHN = Nintendo, DMG-602 CHN = Taito, DMG-603 CHN = Tomy... so far)
In japan this game was released as Taito Variety Pack. Mani just replaced the menu screen.
I've got a picture of this one boxed if ur interested in seeing it :)
This is a different version of MANI 4in1 compared to the Taito Variety Pack / MANI 4in1 that contained Bubble Bobble, Elevator Action, Chase H.Q. and Sagaia (which having their own split releases as well).
The real Menu+header+checksum is started at offset 0x78000.
I believed this is the 4th cart with Cartridge Type MMM01 (the other 2 were mentioned above and Momotarou Collection 2).
Can you make this available? It will always run as Adventure of Esparks on any non-supported emulators (lacking a proper MMM01 emulation).
@BigFred
I believed this have to go into the dat, or else the other datted MANI will stay alone forever...
Any news?
Yeah, coming soon - been busy with stuff, sorry
rom now available! http://hhug.me/?post=31
Thanks!
Thanks!
请原谅我，我不会英语。这卡看上去就像是伪造的！正版卡的做工哪有那么粗糙！还有，我在淘宝见到过和这张卡一模一样的游戏卡，该不会是你们......
@Taizou
That is a weird looking cartridge board. o_O
虽然是老帖子了，看到了还是想回复一下11楼的，这个确实是万信生产代理的原装卡
No original
Judging by the up comments, this site has lots of traffic from China.