List of BIC / Codemasters releases

[JC]

I think Videomation, which was the first release iirc, was the only BIC with a small box for Famicom. They learned their lessons, and probably to reduce costs decided to release them in the same boxes with plastic inserts to hold the smaller carts.

[fcgamer]

I think Videomation, which was the first release iirc, was the only BIC with a small box for Famicom. They learned their lessons, and probably to reduce costs decided to release them in the same boxes with plastic inserts to hold the smaller carts.

Cool, that is very interesting. 

I now wonder just how many different manuals were included with these games.  They all seem to have included the generic Codemasters NES manual, but I noticed that the copies meant to be sold in Poland for the Pegasus included Polish manuals, and the copy I had found in Taiwan of Mig 29 included a Chinese manual.  Makes me wonder if other special paper manuals were included for other releases around the globe, and where all these games were then distributed.

[mimipo]

BIC/Realtec 60pin Famicom

Bee 52(Realtec box) CIB
The Fantastic Adventures of DIZZY(Realtec box) CIB
QUATTRO SPORTS(CAMERICA box) CIB
Linus SPACEHEAD'S(CAMERICA box) CIB
VIDEOMATION(BIC other version) C

[MasterDisk]

Hey welcome, mimipo.

That's some nice BIC collection you have.

Taiwan & Japan(Hacker International) Unlicensed Cart Collector DESU!!

Mind showing more of your collection, I am very curious after reading this  ?

[L___E___T]

I know someone that coded some of these - he wants to upload some source code for the community.  I said, "I know a forum where you could do that"

[P]

I wouldn't mind looking at the source code of commercial games.

[UglyJoe]

I wouldn't mind looking at the source code of commercial games.

RHDN has some source code.  Not all of those are complete games, but a few of them are.

[P]

Yes, thanks.

[Martin]

Please correct your main post. All is confirmed!



I had over +10 new Fire Dragon carts to sell in 2012/13.


From our polish friend: amrita87

My Quattro Adventure cart:


"Typical polish" Quattro Arcade, know in my country as "Golden Four":


"Typical polish" Golden Five:

[fcgamer]

IMO, some official cart releases were not in the official BIC shells. 

BIC-published games were released prior to Realtec ones.  BIC published released reused the Camerica boxes, for the most part. 

Realtec-published games were mostly housed in plastic Sega-like cases, though the carts seem to be identical to their BIC brethren.  To distinguish between BIC and Realtec is just a technicality, imo, sort of like Sachen vs Thin Chen.

Some of these games have a couple different label designs.  Videomation's two label designs is because of two different publishers, BIC published in Taiwan, Brazil, etc, another publisher in Hong Kong.  Actually, the Videomation listed as "BIC other version" was published for the HK market by a different company, not BIC.  And since Western Technologies had made that game, actually the only thing BIC did was make the cases and PCBs (and BIC had made the PCBs for the Camerica NES games too, hehe).

For some BIC/Realtec games, there were some released in more - generic cases.  But these are also official product.

I do have what seems to be a bootleg Robin Hood though, as the label is very...er odd.  The mold is still a BIC mold though, and the back matches up too, so who knows on that one. 

[L___E___T]

 



It's weird for me to see these as many, most, if not all were released here in England as official (licensed by Nintendo) games.  I grew up with Dizzy games on Spectrum and MegaDrive.

I know WHY Codemasters went the unlicensed in the Americas but I was just thinking where thy got the name from and then it dawned on me - Camerica = Codemasters America.

How did I not realise this before?  And then why the change to Realtec?

[fcgamer]

Hi L___E___T, I've seen you mention different times about the Codemasters games being licensed by Nintendo in England, but the only Codemasters games I have seen released in Europe on Nintendo were all still unlicensed.  I would love to see some evidence on the contrary if you have any, since you are living in the UK and I do not.

Also, Codemasters and Realtec were different companies.

It's weird for me to see these as many, most, if not all were released here in England as official (licensed by Nintendo) games.  I grew up with Dizzy games on Spectrum and MegaDrive.

I know WHY Codemasters went the unlicensed in the Americas but I was just thinking where thy got the name from and then it dawned on me - Camerica = Codemasters America.

How did I not realise this before?  And then why the change to Realtec?