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Game Prince RS-16

The Game Prince RS-16 is yet another famiclone handheld started by Renshun.

Unused Graphics#

In the 1st pattern table loaded into VRAM for the 100-in-1, these graphics lie completely unused by the menu, located at ROM address $040010.

Sparkles at offset $30, ordered in a similar way to the ones used in the PXP2's menu.

At offset $60, an ASCII font, somewhat. ASCII fonts are usually used by multigame compilations to list games, but the starting letters don't match the name of any game; the bottom portion of tiles can be used to spell out "wenmeisoft@163.com", the old email address of Wellminds. The uppercase font was used in plug & play consoles by Nice Code instead, so it's likely that the developer simply used another compilation with this font and the sparkles overwrote other letters missing from this font.

Most of the tiles halfway through, at offset $1B0, are occupied by yet another rendition of Red from Angry Birds, looking more primitive than the other ones found so far.

Revisional Differences#

Renshun

Wolsen

The Wolsen version adds their brand to the main menu instead of simply saying "PLAYER4", the reason for which is unknown.