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Xi'an Eastcom Software Co. (西安东信软件公司), known in the West as Nice Code Software, or simply Nice Code, was an infamous Chinese developer of shovelware video games for inexpensive plug-and-play consoles. It has developed for various famiclone and Sunplus SPG-based console architectures.
Native name | 西安东信软件公司 |
|---|---|
| Company type | Private |
| Industry | Video Games |
| Founded | 1999 |
| Headquarters | , |
| Website | http://www.game-nc.com (archived) |
History
[edit]Nice Code was originally founded in 1999 as a spin-off company of famous bootleg Famicom developer Dragon Co., which was founded in 1997 and also based in Xi'an.[1] Their early games were programmed on unmodified Famiclone and OneBus hardware. They later upgraded to working with the Sunplus SPG2xx series.
Nice Code licensed several ports of Atari 2600/7800 and Intellivision games, remaking them for Famicom hardware for easier inclusion on plug and play consoles.[2] They later removed all copyrighted content from their ports, in order to sell them on their own plug-and-play consoles.
Reception
[edit]Nice Code's ports were not very well received. They were criticized for things such as the poor quality of the in-game music.
Power Joy Co. Ltd.
[edit]Many of Nice Code's games contain credits for Power Joy, a distributor of plug-and-play consoles. This company is the UK division of a Chinese plug-and-play manufacturer known as Trump Grand.
Games by them
[edit]| Game | Chinese Name | Hardware | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Angry Birds | 愤怒的小鸟 | Famiclone | A bootleg port of the mobile game of the same name for the NES. Meant to be used on plug and plays. |
See also
[edit]- Makon Soft, a Chinese bootleg developer for the Game Boy, also famous for the poor quality of its games.
- Famiclone
- Waixing Technology, a Fuzhou-based bootleg game company which owned the copyright of several of Nice Code's games.
- ^ "西安蜂鸟软件有限责任公司". 2008-06-20. Archived from the original on 20 June 2008. Retrieved 2024-12-04.
- ^ "Nice Code Software". bootleg.games. Retrieved 2024-12-03.