Bootlegs. In many countries outside of Western Europe and North America, you have to resort to bootlegs just to occupy your mind with something that vaguely resembles Mario. Even to this day, the original NES seems pretty alien to someone who's used to Famiclones, Multicarts, hacks of other hacks with Chinese titles, and misleading titles written by a Chinese/Russian bootlegger with low English proficiency.

Some companies, such as Hummer Team and Super Game, made decent ports that still look and play relatively well, despite them being short due to time constraints or just running out of memory. Then, you have Cony Soft with their SHITTY atrocious fighting games, or Chengdu Tai Jing Da Dong SOMETHINGSOMETHING with pseudo-games like "Aladdin II.". So, I stopped being active because I felt that there was nothing left to see. I have played plenty of NES/MD bootlegs that I just didn't have as a child. I could probably name a bootleg game from the tip of my tongue at any given moment due to how many of them I have played throughout these years, well, except those countless Chinese RPGs set in medieval China. ROFL

Around the late 90s and 2000s, there was this company known as "Inventor", and they would BUTCHER, DESTROY, AND DISFIGURE regular NES games into something else as a way to prevent copyright infringement. Wanna see an example? I used to have a cartridge that came with a "game" known as "ROGE BRER." ROGE BRER is just a cheap hack of Mario Bros. for the NES. Now, what they did as a way to prevent copyright? They replaced Mario with a badly colored version of Milon from Milon's Secret Castle, butchered all notes, removed all copyright, and gave the game a brand new title screen that means nothing in English. IT LOOKS LIKE THIS.

NOT ONLY THAT. THEY WOULD DO THIS TO MANY, MANY, MANY OTHER GAMES. Well, eventually, I managed to play all of them. So... it's all over, right? Nope. There's a lot of ROMHacks just like that. I managed to find this stream by Retro Pals where they play a miniature arcade cabinet known as "RETRO GAME". There's a bunch of weird hacks on it that I have never seen before at all. All of them have that same "look and feel" as Inventor.

Eventually, those ROMs were dumped, and I played them! So, it's over now, right? NO. THERE'S MORE. AND MANY OF THEM ARE UNDUMPED AS OF TODAY'S DATE.

YouTube recommended to me this video by 12Bit Club of a hack known as Defender Fighter, and it's a ridiculous hack of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighter. To my surprise, it seemed that either Inventor, or a subsidiary was behind this crap! However, this time it wasn't tied to Inventor, NEW GAME, RESERVED, 2002, or whatever gibberish they keep attaching a copyright to. Around 2022-23, a company known as "TimeMax" has resurfaced with never before seen hacks in bootleg handheld consoles. Despite them only appearing recently, the hacks seem to be over 20 years old, so they came from Plug n' Play consoles and/or multicarts. I have researched a little, and I found this website. They have dumped a lot of unknown and obscure hacks, and as of now, I haven't found anything from the Subor Q6 handheld console as shown in 12Bit's playlist. Now I own a lot of good games with broken English, meaningless titles, and broken music... Neat!

If you have the played NES' whole library, here's a list of all known Inventor hacks and their descriptions.