The other weekend I stumbled across a NES (Famicom-adaptor) Chinese Pirate Multi-Cart. It advertised 42 games on the label, including Milk and Nuts and Chack 'n Pop, so I gladly purchased it. After cleaning the game and powering up my NES, I was disappointed to find only 20 games on the Mappy mascoted menu, but overinflated number of games in Chinese multi-carts is supposed to be par for the course from what I understand so I took the disappointment in stride. Well, tonight I popped the game in and instead of getting the Mappy menu screen with 20 games I got a totally different screen with 22 games, different music, and an unknown mascot. Pleased and a bit confused, I tried to figure out how to switch between the two sets of games, and the best I can figure out is that it has something to do with hitting/holding power or reset, but nothing I try gets consistent results. Does anyone know what the deal is? How can I consistently switch between the two menus? Are separate menu screens a common occurrence for Famicom Pirates?
Here is the cart:
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Here is the pcb:
(https://sphotos-a-atl.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/64433_10153231383605294_173260402_n.jpg)
Here are the two menu screens:
(https://sphotos-a-atl.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/q71/s720x720/1239473_10153231367845294_1696080269_n.jpg)
(https://sphotos-b-atl.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/q77/s720x720/1148846_10153231349260294_735950136_n.jpg)
I have the same cart but on famicom just reset the system to switch between the two menus
I have some like that, though with dip switches to switch between the menus.
A friend of mine has that cart as a famicom cart
I had it but it had only one menu, all the 42 games were shown in the mappy-mascot menu. maybe a later release of the one you have.