The Arcade Action II is an early 2000s Famiclone, and one of the only ones to use the Nintendo 64's shell. This multicart bundled with it might be one of if not the earliest known release(s) of "Inventor" ROM hacks.
Unused Game#
It appears that the 101 in 1 compilation was once intended to feature ExtremityTask, a very rare hack of Ningen Heiki: Deadfox, the Japanese version of Code Name: Viper, only found so far otherwise on a PocketNES bundle of the game.1 However, the game was partially overwritten by Door Door and Track & Field data (strangely, the only unhacked games on the multicart), in both its PRG and CHR. It hasn't been found anywhere else, making this occurrence even stranger.
The order of ExtremityTask's code is as follows:
- PRG:
- 2A0010-2A4000 is Door Door PRG
- 2A4040-2B8000 is ExtremityTask PRG
- 2B8010-2C0000 is Track & Field PRG
- CHR:
- 3E0010-3E6000 is Track & Field CHR
- 3E6010-3E8000 is Door Door CHR
- 3E8010-400000 is ExtremityTask CHR