I'm told there's a French option for the GC network configuration menu but "choosing French crashes the app" and corrupts your save, ouch. Also, this thing supports the GameCube Keyboard?! (which is only supposed to work with PSO) Trying it here with a Bluetooth keyboard via a Blueretro adapter:
Turns out there's an English version of the GameCube network configuration screen that you can only access from NTSC-U online games. So... no games (Phantasy Star Online used a totally different thing). Homeland's new English translation/matchmaking server revival will be the first to use it!
true, it does seem to start with the same notes, and the rest don't sound too far off
I also randomly ran across a version of the Mario Bros. hack with a different name and different colors on "Mario" (who apparently was supposed to be Milon). Probably one of the ones here, though I thought I remembered it having the leaf tunnels too... bootleggames.fandom.com/wiki/Invento....
Yeah, Extrems told me that "It's a program that was bundled with the SDK that developers could include with their game." It has en English version I'll post a video of in a moment.
so this drawing tablet can technically run Doom. well now I really want one.
forgotusername Sr. Member **** Posts: 266 View Profile Re: miscellaNEouS files « Reply #152 on: April 11, 2026, 02:41:09 AM » Here is a headered copy of the long-awaited Play Vision 95-in-1, featuring Advance Bright Limited versions of Inventor hacks. The Play Vision ROM is modified from the better-known "Vs. Maxx Maxxplay" plug & play, featuring the same otherwise-uncommon hacks as that system (e.g. the Pac-Man hack "Egg It"). While I plan on doing a full game extraction of the 95-in-1 eventually (as virtually every game on it was previously undumped), I wanted to share this finding beforehand. To represent the Track & Field games, the 95-in-1
BETTER screenshot of a hacked version of Pac-Man for the NES where the characters have been replaced with bugs. The ladybug that used to be Pac-Man is leaving pellet-sized eggs on its trail.
BETTER screenshot of a hacked version of Popeye for the NES where Olive has been replaced with a penguin and Popeye and Bluto are now bears.
BETTER screenshot of a hacked version of Tennis for the NES where the court is now in the middle of a grassy field, the judge is now a big caterpillar, and two characters who look like Master Higgins from Adventure Island are standing on the side.
Holy shit, so 6 days before I posted about these NES "CD" bootlegs being undumped, SOMEONE DUMPED THEM. After 20-ish years. So here you go, clearer screenshots of Pac-Man But You're a Bug Laying Pellets Instead of Eating Them ("Egg It") and a couple of the others. h/t @garrettgilchrist.bsky.social
something about it made me wonder if it was SMB backwards, but I reversed it and nope, still ringing no bells
A "Family Writer" device for copying Famicom games, with two slots for inserting cartridges. Next to it is a Famicom cartridge with a small switch on the front of its case and two circular black stickers. Source: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/256694274597
Two Famicom cartridges, both with a small switch on the front of their cases. One is completely black except for two square yellow stickers, and the other is gray with two circular black stickers and the text "SUPER REPEATABLE CASSETTE", then "GAME NAME", and then, handwritten, "マイティボムジャック" ("Mighty Bomb Jack"). Source: https://buyee.jp/mercari/item/m61417507573
A hand holding a white Famicom cartridge with a small switch on the front of the case, a small circular hole showing a chip inside the cartridge, and a copper-colored square sticker covering another hole. Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/Famicom/comments/1ifan7b/strange_cartridge/
Photo of a manual in Japanese. Part of the text has automatically translated English text on top, which says: Regarding the C changeover switch The "slow-speed toggle switch" depends on the game software being used. It can be left or right. If the image is abnormal when using it, please switch to the right side and use that. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3sSdRnTb-o
I'd wondered why the real "Super Maruo" cart above had a switch on it and just randomly ran across the answer: they were flashed in these "Family Writer" copiers, which apparently used the switch for different writing speeds? That's a slick looking illegal bootleg-making device right there.
will do!
Here it is at normal speed (to my surprise it looks like no one had uploaded this to YouTube in the 21 years since this game came out, so I just did) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ke3a...
GameCube has a little known Network Configuration screen accessible via exactly one Japan-only game (Homeland, my beloved). Like the GC's main menu music, it sounds like it might be a slowed down version of some other tune, so here it is at 16x. Not ringing any bells for me, can anyone identify it?
Ran into this "Super Maruo" cart on auction yesterday and got excited (not that way) because this early Famicom porno bootleg usually goes for hundreds (there's another one for $661) but it turns out it's an undisclosed Aliexpress clone. A bootleg of a bootleg. No honor among 8-bit porno peddlers.
Please please bring back @dril.bsky.social and @websitehomepage.bsky.social's Truthpoint on the actual InfoWars website www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGUr...
gotta be TruthPoint, man @bencollins.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGUr...
I'm pleased to confirm that Moon Child's OG dev, @seven.eurosky.social, is actually super based
(Screenshot taken from site)
A Famicom cartridge with a simple label that says "SUPER MARUO".
Why am I so bad at speedrunning? I always practice on...
I do wish someone would take one of these apart and find out if there's actually a little cart inserted into a slot in there, like in some Famiclones, so that the games can be easily dumped
Yup, that’s exactly right. It’s just ROMs on CD. Same story as the Doctor V64.
It takes a slightly non-standard CD drive but people have come up with adapters to connect more normal drives to it so you can connect cheap standard drives to it. forums.nesdev.org/viewtopic.ph...
...plus I found out there are some variants with the "CD lid" and a regular Famicom cart slot underneath, which is less fun.
There are several variants with the same "disc reader" concept. The one I found (on an online listing, haven't bought it) appears to be this one, which has an AC adapter: unauthorizon.org/product/rec8... I'd buy it for the bootleg games, but that page claims this version doesn't have them, sadly...
Screenshot of a hacked version of Balloon Fight for the NES where the characters have been replaced with aliens and there's a spaceship in the background. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T7LH4WAKco
Screenshot of a hacked version of Donkey Kong for the NES where Donkey Kong has been replaced with some sort of large green cat, the enemies are octopi, and Mario is a pink blob. Pauline is the same. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T7LH4WAKco
Screenshot of a hacked version of Donkey Kong 3 for the NES where Donkey Kong has been replaced with a large spider, the setting is now a garden, and Stanley is now a bug. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meEHZ9YhUAc
Screenshot of a hacked version of Tennis for the NES where the court is now in the middle of a grassy field, the judge is now a big caterpillar, and two characters who look like Master Higgins from Adventure Island are standing on the side. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1tO0H9QRpI
There's also Balloon Fight but it's aliens, Donkey Kong but he's a cat or something, Donkey Kong 3 but this time he's a spider, and my favorite: Tennis but now it takes place in Adventure Island. This video goes over all the N-Joypad games (there's original ones too): www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1tO...
Some of the suspiciously familiar-looking games built into this thing look pretty cool: there's Pac-Man but you're a bug laying pellets (eggs) instead of eating them, Popeye but you're a bear romancing a penguin, Excitebike but it's cars, and Mario Bros. but you're... is that Gazoo? (All undumped.)
An ES-800 bootleg Famicom (Famiclone) that appears to have a PlayStation-like disc drive, with its two controllers. Source: https://www.fromjapan.co.jp/japan/en/auction/yahoo/input/p1226785870/
An N-Joypad famiclone with its "disc drive" open, revealing it has three buttons inside. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T7LH4WAKco
Three disks of different sizes being held up in front of an N-Joypad famiclone with its "disc drive" open. Each disc is sized so that it will press a different button when inserted into the console. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T7LH4WAKco
Coincidentally just came across a bootleg NES with a "disc drive" that takes these weird CDs of different sizes. BUT it turns out the CDs just press down buttons on the fake disc drive and load different sets of built-in games. Wiki article on this marvel of ingenuity: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-Joypad
I'd love one of these, but the only time I found one that wasn't hundreds of dollars (a Super UFO) it was missing the cartridge slot adapter, so I chickened out figuring it's probably impossible to find on its own.
Found one of these Super Famicom floppy copiers... with a CD drive?! I can find absolutely nothing about this "Game CD Drive for DSF7" (Game Doctor SF7), but I'm assuming it just let you load regular ROMs from a CD (as opposed actual CD games, like in the Nintendo PlayStation). Going for $420-ish!
I'm continuing to explore this fascinating part of gaming history in the dumbest ways possible:
Steamed Hams but it's "remade" on Mario Artist: Talent Studio for the Nintendo 64DD www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5oB...
Sad to report the original Steamed Hams upload on YouTube is still broken, but at least the image cuts off at 31 seconds instead of 5 now. Chalmers' wistful "may I see it?" sounds even sadder now.
My brain instantly categorized this as a Heathcliff
going from lil' Scotty Engel to something like "Darkness (Plague of Locusts)" is brain-melting
