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+ | |name = Inventor |
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+ | |caption = Logo. |
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+ | |location = China |
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+ | |years = Late 90s / early 2000s |
| + | |consoles = Famicom |
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| + | |sounds = Sunsoft, Avilon (Street Dance game only) |
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| − | '''Inventor''' was a Chinese developer of various original games and hacks, believed to be responsible for the majority of hacks found on [[Famiclone]]s dating from 2000 |
+ | }}'''Inventor''' was a Chinese developer of various original games and hacks, believed to be responsible for the majority of hacks found on [[Famiclone]]s dating from 2000 onward, such as the Arcade Action II. Its original games and some advanced hacks use Sunsoft's sound engine. |
| − | Although Inventor itself is believed to no longer exist, many of its games and hacks appear to have passed to other companies, including [[Waixing]], [[Cube Technology]] and [[Nice Code]]. |
+ | Although Inventor itself is believed to no longer exist, many of its games and hacks appear to have passed to other companies, including [[Fuzhou Waixing Computer Science & Technology Co.,LTD|Waixing]], [[Cube Technology]], and [[Nice Code Software]]. For particular, its graphics appear to have been copied and reused by Shenzhen Nanjing in at least three games so far. |
| − | Other names used by Inventor or related companies include Shanghai Paradise & BBG |
+ | Other names used by Inventor or related companies include Shanghai Paradise & BBG (Bitter Brain Group - not to be confused with [[BBK Electronics]], which also went by the name BBG on earlier products). |
| − | == Original |
+ | == Original Games == |
| − | These games |
+ | These games can usually be identified by a Shanghai Paradise logo found in the game tiles, although it is displayed in only the original versions of them. Certain redistributions remove all mentions of Shanghai Paradise, remove any instance of (presumably) Chinese, give title screens new graphics, or even cut down the whole game severely. |
| + | Out of all the original Shanghai Paradise releases, only Blood of Jurassic has been dumped properly, due to the copy protection that lies within each Shanghai Paradise board. |
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| − | * ''Jurassic Park'' - So far only seen on Subor famiclones, with only 2 levels. The original version may have more. |
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| − | * ''Monkey King'' |
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| − | * ''Underground Mission'' |
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| + | *''Monkey King'' - A hack of batman: return of the joker by sunsoft, based on journey to the west. |
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| + | *''MusicBox'' - A karaoke game with three songs. |
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| + | *''Pingpong Qiu'' - A ping pong game based on the 2006 ping pong championship in china. |
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| ⚫ | *''Street Dance'' - A ''Dance Dance Revolution'' clone, the original version is ©2000 INVENT and uses standard NES music (with the Sunsoft sound engine), while an update made in 2008 apparently by Nice Code Software updates the copyright to ©2008 INVENT and adds PCM sampled music. [[2-in-1 Street Dance + Hit Mouse|A combined game pack]] with this and ''Hit Mouse'' also came bundled with certain third-party dance pads.<ref>[http://cah4e3.shedevr.org.ru/dumping_2009.php FAMI Dumping project]</ref> |
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| + | *''Underground Mission'' - A action game with graphics taken from code name: viper. |
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+ | *''Super Hang-On 97'', ''Skiing'' - fairly comprehensive hacks of ''Highway Star'', aka ''Rad Racer''. |
| − | * ''Alienis'' - Either a clone or an advanced hack of Battle City which introduces scrolling. |
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+ | *''Alienis'' - Either a clone or an advanced hack of ''Battle City'' which introduces scrolling. |
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+ | *''Power Boat'' - An advanced hack of ''Road Fighter'' that has you racing boats in a river. |
| + | *''Fish War'' - A hack of ''Balloon Fight'' with completely different graphics and music. |
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| − | == |
+ | == Subpages == |
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| − | These hacks usually change most/all of the graphics, and may modify (but not replace) the music, but nothing else. Inventor is only explictly credited in a small number of these so the extent of its involvement is unknown. Many of them have alternate versions by Advance Bright Ltd. on their Famiclones. |
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| − | ===Late-Gen Games=== |
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| + | |text = [[Inventor/List of hacks|List of standard hacks]] |
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| − | * ''Bionic Tank'' - Hack of RoadBlasters. |
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| + | |info = Less advanced hacks that were produced by Inventor. |
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| − | * ''Bruce & Leo'' - Hack of Tom & Jerry. |
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| − | * ''Caesar Captain'' - Hack of James Bond Jr. |
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| − | * ''Dream Rapid'' - Hack of F-1 Hero. |
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| − | * ''Happy Angel Legend'' - Hack of Tiny Toon Adventures. |
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| − | * ''Hellfire'' - Hack of Batman. |
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| − | * ''Inclement Trip'' - Hack of Super Spy Hunter. |
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| − | * ''Racing Car'' - Hack of Race America, with the credits completely unaltered. |
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| − | * ''Space War'' - Hack of Gun-Nac; notably with the original game name on the options screen. |
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| − | * ''Street War'' - Hack of Mighty Final Fight. |
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| − | * ''Super Fighter'' - Hack of Super Contra. Several variations of this one exist; some without titles on the title screen and others with a "Select bullet" menu. |
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| − | * ''Super Fighters'' - Hack of Nekketsu Kakutou Densetsu. |
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| − | * ''Ultimate Speed'' - Hack of Ferrari Grand Prix Challenge. |
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| − | * ''X-Plan'' - Hack of [[Super Contra 6]], which is in turn a hack of Contra Force. |
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| − | * ''X-War'' - Hack of Silkworm. An alternate version exists on a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkX5wT8Jqgc#t=358s OneStation multicart] which uses the original name. |
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| − | === First-Gen Games=== |
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| − | * ''Aether'' - Hack of Warpman. |
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| − | * ''Aether Kavass'' - Hack of Choujikuu Yousai Macross. |
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| − | * ''Aether Tiger/Air Tiger'' - Hacks of 1942. |
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| − | * ''Air Ship/Boat Race/Panzer Fly Car'' - Hacks of Road Fighter. |
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| − | * ''Air Umbrella/Zero Gravity'' - Hacks of Balloon Fight. |
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| − | * ''Airway'' - Hack of Xevious. |
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| − | * ''Archery/Bitha'' - Hacks of Pooyan. |
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| − | * ''Astro Robo Toto'' - Hack of Astro Robo Sasa. |
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| − | * ''Bandits'' - Hack of Donkey Kong 3. |
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| − | * ''Benthal World'' - Hack of Pyramid by [[Sachen]]. |
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| − | * ''Bicycle Race/Boat Race/UFO Race'' - Hacks of F-1 Race. |
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| − | * ''Billard 2008'' - Hack of Lunar Ball. |
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| − | * ''Bomb'' - Hack of Chack'n Pop. |
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| − | * ''Bounce'' - Hack of Mappy. |
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| − | * ''''Bounce Ball/''Hoodle'' - Hacks of Pinball; both change the table designs somewhat. |
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| − | * ''Coin Tetris'' - Hack of [[Magic Jewelry]]. |
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| − | * ''Combata'' - Hack of Ninja-kun: Majou no Bouken. |
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| − | * ''Conqueror/Super Elf'' - Hacks of Circus Charlie. |
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| − | * ''Conte Enegy/Spider'' - Hacks of Lode Runner. |
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| − | * ''Crazy Gold Digger'' - Hack of Super Arabian. |
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| − | * ''Cryptcar'' - Hack of Dig Dug. |
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| − | * ''Dada'' - Hack of Popeye. |
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| − | * ''Destroy I'' - Hack of Wrecking Crew. |
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| − | * ''Dragon'' - Hack of [[Fire Dragon]]. |
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| − | * ''Football'' - Hack of Soccer. |
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| − | * ''Frog Prince/Mushroom/Pandamar'' - Hacks of Super Mario Bros. |
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| − | * ''Future Tank/Sea War 2000'' - Hacks of Battle City. Sea War 2000 changes the HUD and replaces the soundtrack. |
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| − | * ''G-3 Cobra of Sky'' - Hack of Raid on Bungeling Bay. |
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| − | * ''Golfer'' - Hack of Golf. |
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| − | * ''Golgotha/TNT'' - Hacks of Bomberman. |
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| − | * ''Goodhand'' - Hack of City Connection. |
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| − | * ''Gun Fignt'' - Hack of Wild Gunman |
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| − | * ''Hassle'' - Hack of Front Line. |
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| − | * ''Ladangel'' - Hack of Challenger. Two versions exist; one runs about twice as fast as the original game while the other one doesn't. |
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| − | * ''Mars'' - Hack of Star Force. |
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| − | * ''Mars Man'' - Hack of Binary Land. |
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| − | * ''Maze Tussle'' - Hack of Pac-Man. |
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| − | * ''Monster/Tunny'' - Hack of SonSon. |
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| − | * ''Penguin'' - Hack of Nuts & Milk. |
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| − | * ''Pocky'' - Hack of Ninja Hattori-kun |
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| − | * ''Porter'' - Hack of [[Caltron 6-in-1|Porter]]. |
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| − | * ''Risker'' - Hack of Excitebike. |
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| − | * ''Rnpid Gunnery'' - Hack of Hogan's Alley. |
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| − | * ''Roge Brer'' - Hack of Mario Bros. |
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| − | * ''Rescue Kuck'' - Hack of Donkey Kong Jr. |
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| − | * ''Scoring'' - Hack of Arkanoid. |
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| − | * ''Sky Invader'' - Hack of Sky Destroyer |
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| − | * ''Space 2050'' - Hack of Duck Hunt. |
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| − | * ''Space War'' - Hack of Exerion which confusingly has the same name as the Gun-Nac hack. |
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| − | * ''Spar'' - Hack of Urban Champion. |
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| − | * ''Surface Fire'' - Hack of Millipede. |
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| − | * ''Tactical Mokey'' - Hack of Championship Lode Runner. |
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| − | * ''Tennis'' - Hack of Tennis. |
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| − | * ''Trump Tank'' - Hack of Mach Rider. |
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| − | * ''Van-1'' - Hack of TwinBee. |
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| − | * ''X-Racing'' - Hack of Zippy Race. |
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| − | * ''X Terk-2'' - Hack of Geimos. |
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+ | == Reference == |
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[[Category:Companies from China]] |
[[Category:Companies from China]] |
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Revision as of 16:25, 30 September 2020
Inventor was a Chinese developer of various original games and hacks, believed to be responsible for the majority of hacks found on Famiclones dating from 2000 onward, such as the Arcade Action II. Its original games and some advanced hacks use Sunsoft's sound engine.
Although Inventor itself is believed to no longer exist, many of its games and hacks appear to have passed to other companies, including Waixing, Cube Technology, and Nice Code Software. For particular, its graphics appear to have been copied and reused by Shenzhen Nanjing in at least three games so far.
Other names used by Inventor or related companies include Shanghai Paradise & BBG (Bitter Brain Group - not to be confused with BBK Electronics, which also went by the name BBG on earlier products).
Original Games
These games can usually be identified by a Shanghai Paradise logo found in the game tiles, although it is displayed in only the original versions of them. Certain redistributions remove all mentions of Shanghai Paradise, remove any instance of (presumably) Chinese, give title screens new graphics, or even cut down the whole game severely.
Out of all the original Shanghai Paradise releases, only Blood of Jurassic has been dumped properly, due to the copy protection that lies within each Shanghai Paradise board.
- Blood of Jurassic GD-98 (獵殺侏羅紀) - Also has a cut-down multicart version named Jurassic Park.
- F22 aka Navigator - The original version has 16 levels, but the version featured on certain Waixing multicarts and Famiclones that include Waixing's software built in has only 3.
- Monkey King - A hack of batman: return of the joker by sunsoft, based on journey to the west.
- MusicBox - A karaoke game with three songs.
- Pingpong Qiu - A ping pong game based on the 2006 ping pong championship in china.
- Street Dance - A Dance Dance Revolution clone, the original version is ©2000 INVENT and uses standard NES music (with the Sunsoft sound engine), while an update made in 2008 apparently by Nice Code Software updates the copyright to ©2008 INVENT and adds PCM sampled music. A combined game pack with this and Hit Mouse also came bundled with certain third-party dance pads.[1]
- Underground Mission - A action game with graphics taken from code name: viper.
Advanced Hacks
- Super Hang-On 97, Skiing - fairly comprehensive hacks of Highway Star, aka Rad Racer.
- Alienis - Either a clone or an advanced hack of Battle City which introduces scrolling.
- Power Boat - An advanced hack of Road Fighter that has you racing boats in a river.
- Fish War - A hack of Balloon Fight with completely different graphics and music.
Subpages
| List of standard hacks
Less advanced hacks that were produced by Inventor. |