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Shenzhen Multi-Content Software Co., Ltd (Chinese: 深圳市多元素软件有限公司) is a Chinese developer of games for various 16- and 32-bit plug & play consoles.

Overview[]

Multi-Content Software was founded in 2006, and claims to have developed games for a variety of 16-bit and 32-bit plug-and-play and handheld consoles. The company's chief executive is Zhu Zhiming (Chinese: 祝志明).[1]

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Comparison between a Family Sport game and a Shenzhen Multi-Content port.

Many of Multi-Content's games are, strangely, clones of other plug & play titles from Senca's Family Sport series; the games' visuals appear to be poorly recorded off of a television, with visible interference in the graphics. It is unknown if these ports were authorized by the original companies, though the strange nature of them may indicate they were unlicensed (making them somewhat "bootlegs of bootlegs").

Games[]

It is difficult to confirm exactly which games are Shenzhen Multi-Content creations. The company often goes uncredited; only one console is known to explicitly credit the company, and that is in a hidden copyright notice in the ROM header.

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Screenshot showing one of Beijue's handhelds on Multi-Content's web site.

  • Beijue/Bornkid/Zhishan 16-bit handhelds - This series of handhelds, which contain the Family Sport clones mentioned above, is displayed in an image on Multi-Content's web site. [2]
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      MCS' logo appears in the menu preview of the Table Tennis game on the Beijue handheld, but not in the game itself.

      The Table Tennis game on these handhelds shows an "MCS" logo in the background of the preview image, though curiously, this logo has been covered up to look more like "WLS" in the game itself.
    • Several sports games on these handhelds are identical to those on the Senario Double Dance Mania Mega 12 console, to the point of still including the Senario logo in the background.
  • Millennium Arcade 250 - Includes games from both Multi-Content and Niutai.
    • Oddly, despite including many games from Multi-Content, rather than using Multi-Content's hula hoop game from the Senario Wireless Fitness, it uses Niutai's clone of that game.
  • Senario Double Dance Mania Mega 12 - Shares several exercise games with the Beijue handhelds.
  • Senario Wireless Fitness - Shares several exercise and puzzle games with the Beijue handhelds.
  • WinFun Guitar Blaster - This console explicitly credits Multi-Content in its ROM header: "Copyright(C) 2009-2012 ShenZhen Multi-Content Software CO., LTD.ALL RIGHTS RESERVED"
  • Wireless Air 60 - Shares several games and music tracks with the Beijue handhelds.

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