huge Game Boy pirate cart

I found a huge Game Boy 150in1 pirate cart on a flea market. It's double the size of a standard Game Boy cartridge. However it features only 50 unique games. The cart has also a reset button, which is quite useful.




I thought it would be interesting to share some pics of the pcb:



As you can see there are two placeholders for additional chips. So I assume the cart could hold up to 150 unique games.




nothing interesting on the backside.

 

I wonder who decided making a PCB that large was a good idea. Seems like an accident waiting to happen.

 

Well, I don't think all those traces would've fit onto a normally-sized pcb, unless they'd used thinner ones which you need better equipment for which they apparently didn't have, and a triple-layer pcb would've driven the costs way up.

Having used various Action Replays, a GB Bridge and whatnot on various handhelds, let me tell you, you get used to stuff sticking out at weird angles very quickly, and I haven't had any accidents yet either.

I'm slightly surprised they went the extra mile and also made an oversized cartridge case tough. Nice touch.

 

I recall seeing one of those many years back, though my memory might be blurry.

Any chance of seeing a gamelist, or pics of it in action?
Awesome find.

 

I have one of this as well!. I found it two years ago at a street market (!). I'm going to upload a couple of images tomorrow as well.
I want to extract it's content it but I don't know how

 

I've seen these in China, Taiwan, etc. The cartridge is oversized so it's less convenient, but you get more original games with it. With normal sized pirates, you get maybe 12 original games and 12+ hacks.

 

Got a similar one here too. Except this one has an LCD screen (on the reverse side) that tells you what number game you're on.
Instead of having a menu on boot up, you just keep pressing the blue button until you're on the number you want.

 

The pcb looks like it's pretty high quality. Also the components are not the least expensive. I bet it was sold a pretty high price in it's time.

 

I used to have one of these!

 

I suppose business tanked for these things once BUNG and other manufactures started producing flash products.

 

Don't be fooled, this thing is cheaply made (no bypass capacitors even) but it's largely besides the point since it works. My guess is that the ROM is 16 megabit and all but a couple games are 256 kilobit. Logically the 139 decodes in the 273 register which selects the games. The GAL adds additional combinatorial logic to the register output for addressing the ROM, this is necessary since all of the games aren't the same size. The MK-11 is an oversized MBC(1) for whichever 1/2M games are on the cart.

 

I own several GB pirate carts, but not one that big...

I got recently a 30 in 1, with zelda DX/Pocket monster yellow and many good games, Both zelda/pocket monster keep their save file at the same time (You can play both without loosing the save).

I also own a 32 in 1 which contain only 3 real game, the other titles links to the three real games over and over again... (the pcb is ridiculously small, that's already awesome they could fit 3 games in this.)

 

I remember an X in 1 games cartridge a friend had years ago, had a yellow button on the outside and one of the games had two characters, some girl and some guy, and it was a kind of puzzle game, would love to play it again, anyone happen to know what it was called? (My memory is bad so the description is vague )

 

I have one with a Yellow button, was it like this?



And the game you're describing, im guessing is this:



Boxxle (also known as Sokoban), which if im not mistaken had a girl/guy scene (that sounds wrong) in the opening sequence.

 

Duck Talk? Must be a real exciting game!
I remember playing a pirate cart like these ones, except it had a couple switches of the on/off variety to determine which menu you got.

 

There are many types of GB pirates. Some use DIP switches to bank the different games, some use the power switch (if I recall correctly, where you turned off-on the power quick to swap games), some used a button which cycled over the games, and some didn't need any of that.

In any event, GB pirates are pretty common. I have quite a few for collectors purposes, as well as Chinese Original GB games as well.

Shameless plug: I have this available if anyone wants to trade or buy it from me (^_^);



Pokemon, Harvest Moon, Yugioh, etc... Unofficial Chinese language versions.

 

I guess the puzzle game is pitman/cattrap (I have it on at least two of those chinese cartridges).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTOAjPF-vkM&feature=related

This game is awesome.

Edit: changed the youtube link as it was a HUGE spoiler for that game (final level).

 

Even the latest EMS USB GB Smart Card 64m uses this method to switch between its two 32Mbit pages:banghead:

 

Nope, it looked like that cart but the sticker was different, just had pictures from what I remember and only 6 or 8 games.

YES! YES! YES!
AWESOME!
Thank you for this, that's it!