Rare games from Zemina

By Ivan

Ascended (9373)

11-11-2006, 19:03

No idea, but Charles Bronson plays the main character

By Abi

Hero (604)

11-11-2006, 21:03

as far i know the onl game for MSX where Charles Bronson caracter is used is the death wish 3 ( and 1 end 2?).
But if i look to the game pictures on the box, then this is not death wish3.
It looks like this game is on a 3,5" floppydisk, i thought there where only cartridges in Korea?
btw, many korean cartridges got a label/cover which has nothing to do with the game!

By wolf_

Ambassador_ (10135)

11-11-2006, 21:13

w000t, Umax did that horn'ish creep in the background as Art Gallery pic in MCCM once..

By Huey

Prophet (2696)

11-11-2006, 21:14

Korean software was also released on tape and disk. MegaRom Firebird was released in Korea under name of zemina on a tape. Needed software was some sort of special memory mapper (named blackbox or something)

Black box:
www.hqunix.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2006/04/b0054474_2123919.jpg

Firebird box outside:
www.hqunix.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2006/04/b0054474_1941242.jpg
And on the inside TADA!

More VERY interesting things about korean MSX games and hardware can be found over here: www.hqunix.com/wp/?cat=3

Another interesting piece of hardware:
www.hqunix.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2006/04/b0054474_211237.jpg

Strange things happened in Korea.....

By Abi

Hero (604)

11-11-2006, 22:08

WoW that mmc card adapter connector connected on the joystickport is a nice item!!
http://www.hqunix.com/wp/?cat=3

By Ivan

Ascended (9373)

11-11-2006, 23:48

Abi: You have to click on '« Previous Entries' on that page to see other very rare Korean MSX stuff.

By cronos

Rookie (23)

12-11-2006, 08:03

Abi: I think the MMC card adapter is cool too. The page about MMC on my site is Korean translation and the original article is in Japanese. So I think I have to inform you the original source. Here http://www.hat.hi-ho.ne.jp/tujikawa/mmc/mmc.html goes the original informaion in Japanese. Other hardwares and games boxes on my page are I captured! I guarantee :D
Huey: the hardware labeled "back-up tool" is a "back up tool". One slot(I think the slot at the back) is for the game cartridge and another is for S-RAM so that you can copy(dump actually) the contents of game cartridge to S-RAM, main memory, cassette tapes or floppy disks. It's simple hardware I suppose, it controls the slot select signals and memory / IO selector and the control is mapped to some I/O address space of Z80. Then you can actually on and off the ROM by software.

By Huey

Prophet (2696)

12-11-2006, 08:33

@Cronos: Hi and welcome to MRC. After some extensive searching (translating english keywords to korean) I have finaly found your website. You're website is full of very interesting stuff.
Are there more Korean websites also with valuable korean MSX information?

By cronos

Rookie (23)

12-11-2006, 10:33

Huey: Thanks for reply.
As far as I know, I think I can tell you two Korean MSX related websites.
http://blog.dreamwiz.com/hanhogyu - this guy has many kind of MSX machine and his website is a blog mainly focused on MSX. all the information are in Korean.
http://blog.naver.com/saebaryo - MSX games and lots of non-MSX related stuffs. click "MSX" tag on his website.
all the information are in Korean.

By Manuel

Ascended (19691)

12-11-2006, 14:04

Hi Cronos!

Nice to see you here indeed

Who made that back up tool? Is it Zemina or Daewoo hardware? Is there a product code? Of course I want to include it in the MSX hardware list...