Click to expand.Okay, very cool. You're actually the second person to tell me that the newer Jakks systems use a SunPlus architecture, so I guess I should believe it. I've heard that Jakks is going to start putting cartridge ports on their systems so that they can release new games for them.
I think it'd be very cool if they released cartidges (they're calling them 'Game Keys' I guess) the the games for their older systems, too. I I think a lot of their games look cool, but I can't afford nor do I have space to buy like 15 plug'n'play systems just from Jakks. Click to expand.Not exactly. Jakks Pacific isn't the only company that makes these plug-n-play systems. A number of systems from other companies definitely use NES-on-a-chip architecture. As I mentioned, the ROM has been dumped from the Intellivision plug'n'play system and found to be working on an NES emulator (I don't have a link to this info, but it was Kevin Horton that did the hacking, it's not on his page, but I remember him talking about it on some mailing list I was on at the time).
The original Atari Flashback also definitely uses an NES-on-a-chip (the removable controllers are even compatible with other pirate Famicoms), though the new Flashback 2.0 which sounds totally killer will be using 2600-on-a-chip architecture. There's also these systems form dreamGear that must be NES-on-a-chip because even though all the games on the dreamGear systems are original, I've seen the same games mixed in with pirate NES games on other Famiclones from other companies. The last systems that you can be sure are NES-based are the Konami Arcade Adavnced ones from Majesco, they feature new games (Time Pilot, Frogger and I think Scramble is new, too) as well as some NES classics (Rush'n Attack, Yie-Ar Kung Fu and one other), the other Majesco system which just has Frogger is probably NES-based, too, but I can't say for sure. Then, as for Mega Drive-based systems, I guess only the Radica ones are. They have to Sega collections out and a Street Fighter 2 CE (with Ghouls'n'Ghosts hidden) and Menacer collection ones coming out soon. No newly programmed games here, but they're obviously Genesis hardware. I also have to wonder about the EA Classics one from Jakks; why would they have the '95 versions of the games on there if they were newly written for the SunPlus architecture?
And since other systems use MD-on-a-chip, maybe that one does, too. Maybe not, though. I, too, am really curious what the other Play TV Legends systems from Radica use, the earlier Play TV systems were Xavix-based and the Genesis ones are Genesis, but what about the Tetris and Space Invaders ones? I've been planning on getting the Space Invaders one (lots of good games on it), so I'll definitely be taking it apart to see what I can see. I would be interested in the Tetris one, since Tetris is always one of my favorite games, but man, that controller just looks so shit.word is bondage. Click to expand.None the games for these systems are emulated, thay've all been ported (or technically just re-written since I assume they didn't have access to the actual source code).
As Radar just posted the games on the Namco systems were coded by HotGen. The games on all the Atari 2600 systems form Jakks were done by DC Studios (who are also behind the Commodore DTV system, though they didn't write the games for it since it uses original ROMs). Urok samopoznaniya v 7 klasse teplo chelovecheskogo obscheniya 3. And the EA Sports and Mortal Kombat systems were done by Digital Eclipse. These three companies are also responsible for most of the original games on Jakks' systems, too.
The Star Wars joystick I bought recently says it was developed by a company called Griptonite, though. I used to know who wrote the games on the Radica Arcade Legends systems, too, because I remember going to their website once and noticing that they had also worked on some Sega CD games, but I can't recall the name now. As for the Xavix system you mentioned, yeah I've seen that, too. It's called the XavixPort and not only do the cartridges contain the game ROMs, each one also contains the Xavix hardware. All the XavixPort itself is is an interface box. The Xavix stuff I'm referring to, though, are the older systems from Radica like Play TV Boxing and Play TV Ping Pong and some newer ones from Tiger like the Lord Of The Rings and SSX Snowboarding ones.
ATARI JAKKS Pacific Black 2600 Plug and Play 10-in-1 Games TV Game Controller. Jakks Pacific Atari 2600 Joystick TV Plug n Play Game w/10 Games - Free Shipping. Jakks Pacific Atari 10 in 1 Plug and Play TV Game This unit has 10 great Atari classics built in or pre-loaded including Centipede, Breakout, Gravitar, Pong, Circus Atari, Asteroids, Adventure, Missile Command, Yars Revenge, and Real Sports Volleyball.
Those used the same Xavix architecture as the XavixPort, but didn't take cartridges or anything. The xavix systems are cool because they mostly all use really interesting control methods. There's also a ton of Xavix-based systems available in Japan, too, including some pretty cool looking ones like a Dragon Quest game and Choro-Q and much cooler sports games (called Excite Boxing, Excite Tennis, etc.).