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Chameleon 24

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Chameleon 24

Platform: Arcade (NES-based hardware)
Released in KR: 2002


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The Chameleon 24 is basically a bootleg take on the PlayChoice-10, retaining the annoying "pay for time" system but with 24 non-changeable Famicom titles to choose from.

Unused Games

The Chameleon 24 seems to just be a hacked-up version of a common "64-in-1" Famicom multicart, originally released in the early 90s. Almost all of the games from that multicart are still intact in the code - making over half of the games present in the PCB's data unused. The known unused games include:

Despite most of the games being untouched, a handful of the 64-in-1's contents were overwritten by the new menu (e.g. Circus Charlie's CHR data). Also of note is that the Chameleon 24 uses some "hacked" duplicated games from the 64-in-1, with games like Galaxian using what is labeled as "Super Galaxian" in the 64-in-1, hacked to have faster bullets.

Unused Graphics

There is a Korean menu font at the very end of the CHR data. This is not present in the 64-in-1, and was presumably created for a Korean-language release of the Chameleon 24. There does not seem to be a way to enable a Korean menu in-game.

Unused Text

The 64-in-1's original menu text is present, starting at address $0955CC:

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