Editing Multicart (section)

==Pirate multicarts==
Among [[video game piracy|pirate]] Famicom games, multicarts often advertise an inflated number of games on their labels, calling them "x-in-1" (x can be any number greater than 1, such as "76-in-1," "200-in-1," "1200-in-1," and even "9999999-in-1"), but in reality usually<ref>[https://famicloneblog.wordpress.com/2015/11/04/coolboy-400-in-1-real-game/ "This cartridge claims to have 400 games on it. If you’ve done much research in multicarts, you’ll know that most cartridges that say they have a huge number of games usually have just a few games repeated over and over again. Well, let’s turn it on and see what we have. Well, let’s turn it on and see if it lives up to {{sic|i|t's|nolink=y}} promise: ... Well, that’s the 400 games, as promised. That’s pretty uncommon with multicarts promising large numbers of games." - FamicloneBlog]</ref> only have anywhere from five to one hundred truly unique games. The list is padded by different variations of these games, modified to start the player either at different levels or with different power-ups. The games are usually first-generation Famicom titles, several of which were never officially released [[Parallel importing in video games|outside of Japan]], and in typical pirate fashion have either had their names deliberately misspelled, their copyright notices/logos removed, or both.

Other popular video game systems also have their own share of unique pirate multicarts. Unlike the Famicom, the Nintendo Game Boy multicarts have a variety of different, innovative multicart designs. Standard-sized Game Boy multicarts have either a game selection menu like the NES multicarts, or require quick toggling of the Game Boy power switch to select through games. Most of them incorporate an external soft reset button (not available on any original cart), so you can reset the game without powering off the system. To overcome the storage limitations of a standard-sized pirate cart, huge pirate carts were created. These unusually large and thick carts, more than two times the height and depth of a standard Game Boy cartridge, were able to store many of the larger new games, such as ''[[Donkey Kong Land]]'' easily. One drawback of these carts is they lack any battery backup, but some newer carts come with battery backup, so saving games on these carts is impossible if the battery backup is not included. Most of these carts were produced in [[China]], [[Taiwan]] and Hong Kong.

There have been [[Game Boy Advance]] multicarts with several GBA games and several or even hundreds of NES ROMs. These carts are known to include some bootlegs, [[ROM hacking|hacks]] or variations of games, advertising them as different games and giving them incorrect box arts on the main boxart.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Rex |date=2010-08-18 |title=The Nintendo Game Boy Advance Clone |url=https://obscurehandhelds.com/2010/08/the-nintendo-game-boy-advance-clone/ |access-date=2023-12-07 |website=Obscure Handhelds |language=en-US}}</ref>