Draft:Waixing Technology

Waixing Technology was founded in 1993. In the early years of the company, they developed NES multicarts and translated various Japanese NES games into Chinese. Using the knowledge they gained from this, they began producing homebrew games and ROM hacks as well. Several of their early games were published under the pseudonym ESC Co. Ltd.{{Cite web |title=Super Contra 7 (1996) |url=https://www.igdb.com/games/super-contra-7 |access-date=2025-04-24 |website=IGDB.com |language=en}}

In 2001, Waixing sued a developer named Weng Zhengwen, on the grounds of having several NES games they owned the copyright for illegally distributed by a company called Zhenhua Company.{{Cite web |title=Weng Zhengwen v. Fuzhou Waixing Computer Science and Technology Co. Ltd. et al. |url=https://www.cpahkltd.com/UserFiles/Cases100/english/e081.Pdf |access-date=2025-03-24}}

In the 2000s, the market for cartridge-based games was significantly smaller than in previous years. As a result, Waixing began developing games for plug and play consoles, which were primarily based on Famiclone and Sunplus SPG hardware. Examples of such consoles are the Zone 40 by Subor and the MiWi Xtra by Macro Winners (sold in North America under the name InterAct), both of which were inspired by Nintendo's Wii. They also republished several games by Chinese companies such as Nice Code Software, Cube Technology, and JungleTac. Their plug and play games were known to contain Chinese copyright numbers instead of traditional copyright information.

Another plug and play console series Waixing developed games for was the iSports series by Subor, a company with whom they had close ties. Consoles under this series used the 32-bit Sunplus S+Core architecture, which was also used in Mattel's HyperScan. Various plug-and-play consoles with English-language translations of the iSports games were sold by Lexibook, a French toy manufacturer, under the name TV Game Console. Several iSports games were also used on "educational computer" consoles. These also included utilities programmed by Waixing, such as a calculator.

Due to being a bootleg company, Waixing gained a fair bit of notoriety online. The games produced by them have been made fun of by numerous people on the internet. One such example is the Cinemassacre review of the game Super Contra 7, which is a hack of Super Contra. Their NES ports, however, were well received, and considered to be fairly accurate to the original games. The company is seen as a pioneer of the Chinese video game market, as well as companies such as Inventor and Subor.

The VT1682 is an improved Famiclone architecture, developed by a Taiwan-based IC designer called V.R. Technology.{{Cite web |date=2023-10-28 |title=Nerdly Pleasures: The Unofficial Enhanced NESs - Continuing On where Nintendo Left Off |url=https://nerdlypleasures.blogspot.com/2023/10/the-unofficial-enhanced-ness-continuing.html |access-date=2025-04-24 |website=Nerdly Pleasures}} Waixing developed several games for the system, which were used on many different shanzhai consoles.{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TgCefEU3lk |title=InterAct 32-in-1 - Obscure Machine |date=2020-06-08 |last=Sterophonick |access-date=2025-04-24 |via=YouTube}}

• Subor
• Famiclone
• Hummer Team
• Zemina

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