MAMEWorld Forums - News - Re: DU: Is that your first DDR game or are you just happy to see Mickey

> DDR Strawberry Shortcake seems to run on the same hardware as DDR Disney Mix, and it
> is easy to get one on eBay...
>
> > > ClawGrip got DDR Disney Mix and My First DDR
> >
> > ... I've been trying to get these (and DDR Strawberry Shortcake) for the past five
> > years because curiosity kept getting the best of me. But dang...
> >
> > DDR Disney Mix is exactly like the crappy DDR pirate original pads you can buy at a
> > mall. It even uses generic Famiclone pirate game sound effects. Haze mentioned that
> > Famiclone-based games are much more advanced now, but I seriously wouldn't be
> > surprised if this game ended up being created by a Chinese Famiclone original game
> > developer and it had an NES on a chip inside of it.
> >
> > I'm looking forward to finding out what makes these tick.

It's by Majesco (who did a lot of work with Sega) but Majesco made the following TV Game too which is clearly NES based
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApEevjHJ2dM

The same version of Frogger also ended up in the officially licensed 'vgtablet' (doesn't work quite correctly at the moment due to screen timing)

So Konami already licensed out their Frogger IP to Majesco for use on NES based ones.

So yeah it's probably one of the NES-VT things as Konami clearly had no problem giving official licenses to Famiclone manufacturers.

Small chance (0.01%) of it being a Sega derived system with modified sound, but really looks and sounds more like one of the 'NES + Extra Colours' setups and Majesco's TV game tech of choice appears to have been NES VT / Onebus.

Majesco made this too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx5_qBAQd58
which again sounds like a NES.

It's kinda funny seeing official products on Famiclone hardware, especially since there was no Nintendo involvement, you would have thought the big name companies would steer clear.

No matter how legally aggressive Nintendo is we've never seen meaningful action against Famiclones, you can still buy a ton of NES based bootlegs on the high street in big name stores, often themed as things like mini-arcade machines, often with actual reskinned bootleg Nintendo games.

Note, they'll likely be 'glob' logic. If you're lucky there will be some pads resembling ROM pinout that you can solder too, but in a lot of cases you'll be having to work out pinouts and going straight onto tiny PCB traces.