Draft:Nice Code Software
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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.
{{Infobox company
| name = Xi'an Eastcom Software Co., Ltd.
| native_name = 西安东信软件公司
| native_name_lang = zh
| type = Private
| industry = Video Games
| founded = 1999
| hq_location_city = Xi'an, Shaanxi Province
| hq_location_country = China
| website = [https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.game-nc.com http://www.game-nc.com (archived)]
}}
History
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.{{Cite web |date=2008-06-20 |title=西安蜂鸟软件有限责任公司 |url=http://www.hummersoftware.com/introduce.asp |access-date=2024-12-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080620023859/http://www.hummersoftware.com/introduce.asp |archive-date=20 June 2008 }} 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, due to Famicom clones being widespread.{{Cite web |title=Nice Code Software |url=http://bootleg.games/BGC_Forum/index.php?topic=3085.0 |access-date=2024-12-03 |website=bootleg.games}} They later removed all copyrighted content from their ports, in order to sell them on their own plug-and-play consoles.
Reception
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.
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
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| Angry Birds
|愤怒的小鸟 |A bootleg port of the mobile game of the same name for the NES. Meant to be used on plug and plays. |
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See also
- 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.