ZHILITON 938 WTF?

Doge

Just came across this rather odd Lithuanian manufacturer of a NES clone and a Sega Mega Drive clone:




http://ultimateconsoledatabase.com/famiclones/zhiliton_938.htm




http://pchistory.ru/zhiliton-938-a-16bit.html



The mega drive clone in particular looks almost identical.

Is there any Lithuanian members on here that could shed more light on these consoles?

Could they actually play genuine nes / mega drive games?

Or did they have clone games built in or someting?

prn

Hi,

Zhiliton is not manufactured in Lithuania, it is made in China, like everything else:) but it was widely spread in Lithuania.

Zhiliton doesn't play mega drives (with mega drives I mean diskettes that sega genesis plays) but it does play the NES diskettes. This type of console was very popular in Lithuania about 15 years ago, but you can still find it for about 6 Euro in some places:)

I found an image that sows what kind of diskettes a 16-bit Zhiliton plays: http://www.aukcionas.com/pics/thumbs/42/64/74264_1.600x450.gif

o1s1n

In that photo it's playing Famicom carts. :eek: weird seeing something like that in a Megadrive case. Thanks for the info.

There's a good Megadrive clone called the Scorpion that actually includes region switches that people normally mod MDs with. They came out 'back in the day' too, they're not modern -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rg-E2jXVx5k

pinksoir

Jesus. Andy Crane. There's a blast from the past.

LoGiE

Thats bizarre! Looking identical to a Megadrive 1 and playing NES carts....:eek:

Jack burton

I'd love to get one of those.

Put a porper megadrive init and do some cool case mods

the boys at sega-16 wouldnt know what hit them!

holms

Hi, i only registered just because of this topic.

Zhiliton was a NES clone which was INSANELY popular in my country, Lithuania. I don't know who the **** bringed this here but this one was using famicon catridges, and most of them where a compilation of games.. like you could have double-dragon trilogy on one.. or the most popular is 99999in1 games..from which 20-50 classic nes games, like tetris, arkanoid, kingkong, popye, mario and etc=)

here's a good photo of zhiliton:


original link from facebook incase imgur will delete image: https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/170483_469332653078449_250924674_n.jpg

Here's a photo of catridges, actually from Lithuanian tradeboard:



Me personally didn't had a zhiliton, I had a strange clone of famicon.. who's color was white, and identical form as famicon. The controller was the same as on famicon with 2 turbo buttons.. and most bizarre thing is.. that I had a catridge right in the console [inside], which had "99999in1" and "captain tsubasa" [which I assume original of "tecmo cup soccer" in US.. captain tsubasa was in japanese language] and a "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles". and there was some kind of switch... one position is for 99999in1 games and another is for those 2 [good] games..

anyway quite nice solutions came from china to european market back then ))

p.s. if somebody can explain why the **** music from "Tecmo cup" was identical in captain-tsubasa i had..? because now i'm watching youtube videos and i can't remember even one tune from captain-tsubasa.. it's just completely different OST I had and tecmo-cup is the that ost which i actually heard!=) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8570i_80Fc

CiDeRmAn

Posting to 2 year old threads is bad form typically, but in this instance I'll let it go.
Some interesting info too.