VIC-20 Cart Games on PC Engine

[English Invader]

I've been enjoying the new PC Engine mini (ordered from Amazon Japan) and decided to supplement that experience with an open source emulator on my computer and a less than kosher romset to explore some of the other games that didn't make the mini and one of the first things I came across was a 15-in-1 cartridge that contained ports of our Jelly Monsters, Omega Race and several more of our treasured classics:
https://bootleggames.fandom.com/wiki/15 ... Collection

Anyone else here come across this before?

[Mike]

Anyone else here come across this before?

This is probably the same collection as mentioned in the thread "VIC-20 on the Gameboy Advance!":

It appears Turbo Grafx 16 = NEC PC Engine? You could download an emulator for that system and run it directly instead of going through GBA emulation.

Mobsie posted about this 15-in-1 pack before:
http://sleepingelephant.com/ipw-web/bul ... .php?t=305

Jeff has also posted about VIC games on Gameboy Advance, maybe it is the same kind of approach as you took:
http://sleepingelephant.com/ipw-web/bul ... .php?t=523

There is also the Omega Race for Sega Megadrive:
http://sleepingelephant.com/ipw-web/bul ... .php?t=187

By the way, I went to a ROMZ site and found six different variations on the 15-in-1 file. After unzipping, the files have three different sizes; one is 12288 bytes (broken?), three are 262144 bytes each and the last two are 262656 bytes each. All files seem to differ, and I believe the two largest ones contain an emulator header while the other three are just binary dumps.

I'll get an emulator and see if the games differ.

Greetings,

Michael

[English Invader]

Thanks for that. It's nice to know that someone out there cared enough to make a compilation of VIC-20 games. Maybe one day our mystery coder will make an appearance here and shed more light into its development.

[Jeff-20]

Yep. I used a PC Engine emulator (Turbo Grafx 16 for some regions). I know there is also an emulated version of the VIC version of Omega Race for the Sega 16 bit system (Megadrive or Genesis).