One of the best-known 100-in-1 cartridges of the early era of NES emulation is called Contra Function 16. It contains about 30 working NROM games (and hacks thereof) and claims to have Contra, As of early 2001, most NES emulators could not run Contra and a few of the NROM games, but newer emulators (Nintendulator, FCE Ultra, Nestopia) have no trouble. Even though the 1-megabyte cartridge uses RAM for graphics (the largest legit ROM published in North America was 768 KB), most are not compressed (except Contra) so they're easy to skin with Tile Layer.
100-in-1 Contra Function 16: Included games
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Early NES Games Metanode!
- Konami's Contra (nonworking in LoopyNES)
- Taito's Arkanoid
- BPS's Tetris (only released in Japan; sucks)
- Tengen's Tetris (port of arcade Tetris)
- Nintendo's Super Mario Brothers
- Hudson Soft's Bomberman
- Nintendo's Mario Brothers
- Popeye
- Nintendo's Donkey Kong
- Nintendo's Donkey Kong 3
- Wild Gunman
- Nintendo's Duck Hunt
- Hogan's Alley
- Pinball
- F1 Race
- Urban Champion (an extremely crappy fighting game)
- Balloon Fight
- Baseball
- Ice Climber
- Mappy
- Galaxian
- Galaga
- Antarctic Adventure (very impressive penguin racing game; prequel to Tux Racer?)
- "Chack Pop" (non-working in LoopyNES)
- Star Force
- Pac-Man
- Warp Man
- Battle City
- "Combat" (non-working in LoopyNES)
- Pooyan (very cute, almost Sanrio-ish)
- Sky Destroyer
- Hudson Soft's Binary Land starring Tux and his girlfriend
- Macross: a side-scrolling space shooter
- Broderbund's Lode Runner
Downloads
- Tile Layer: http://nesdev.parodius.com/
- 100-in-1 (Contra Function 16): http://www.pe2000.net/roms/nes/numbers.shtml
- Emulators: http://www.zophar.net/