Hummer Team

Hummer Team (also known as Somari Team, Jing Tay Team, and Hummer Technology Co., Ltd.) was a pirate Famicom developer that started in Taiwan in 1992 after some members of C&E left to form their own company. They were mostly known for developing Famicom ports of games for more advanced systems to the Famicom, like Somari (a port of Sonic the Hedgehog), Street Fighter II and Super Mario World, as well as having their games released by a large number of publishers
History
In 1992, some employees of C&E left to form their own company, Hummer Team. They developed an RPG called Jing Ke Xin Zhuan, which was based around the historical figure Jing Ke. They got it published by a company called Supertone Electronic Co., Ltd., who published it with a poster to go with it.
Afterwards, Hummer Team left Supertone and had their next two games, a port of Street Fighter 2 and an upgraded version of it called Master Fighter VI, published by Yoko Soft.
Then they left Yoko Soft later in 1993 and had their next game, a mostly original fighting game called Street Fighter IV by Gouder Soft.
Then in mid-1993, they left Gouder Soft and had arguably their most well-known games, Somari (a port of Sonic the Hedgehog with Mario instead of Sonic) and Kart Fighter (A game similar to Street Fighter II with the Super Mario Kart characters as the fighters), as well as a lesser-known game called AV Bishoujo Senshi Girl Fighting published by Ge De Industry Co.
After those games, they left Ge De Industry Co. and their next games, AV Jiu Ji Ma Jiang 2 and a port of Fatal Fury Special called Garou Densest Special were published by an unknown company.
After those two games were released, Hummer Team left the unknown company and in 1994 settled on the JY Company to publish their games. Under JY, Hummer Team released Mortal Combat II, Dragon Ball Z - Super Butoden 2, Super Mario World (a port of the SNES game of the same name, Alladdin (a port of the SNES ), Mortal Kombat II Special, Power Rangers III, Tekken 2, and Shin Samurai Spirits 2, a port of the PlayStation game of the same name.
In 1996, Hummer Team released Sichuan Mahjong II, possibly their first game to be published by KaSheng, also known as NT. They continued to publish a few of their games under JY, but primarily switched to publishing under KaSheng. They released the games Tiny Toon Adventures 6, Donkey Kong Country 3 (a port of the SNES game Donkey Kong Country), and Final Fight 3 (a port of the SNES game of the same name) under JY, before switching entirely to KaSheng.
Under NT, in addition to Sichuan Mahjong II, Hummer Team released Yuu Yuu Hakusho Final, Street Fighter Zero 2 '97, Earthworm Jim 3 (a port of Earthworm Jim on the Mega Drive), Ultimate Mortal Kombat 4.
Hummer Team planned to release their next game, (a port of the ) under JY, and even put the JY Company's logo into the game, but for unknown reasons released the game under KaSheng, and corrupted the JY Company logo.
After the release of King of Fighters '96, the team significantly reduced in size, and there were only a few members left. No more games were released until 2005, when a 15-in-1 multicart was published by an unknown company. The multicart included Hummer Team's next games: Dragon Running, Dance Y2K, Panda Adventure, Ping Pong, Space Shuttle Exploration, The Duck (with another variant of it called The Egg), Titenic (based on the movie Titanic), War, War of Strike Mouse, as well as a hack of their Somari from 11 years earlier that featured their new mascot, Hummer the pony, instead of Mario.
The next year in 2006, Hummer Team developed two famicom plug and play consoles called Samuri 60-in-1 and ZDog, both of which utilized VT03 technology to get better graphics than standard Famicom cartridges. Samurai 60 in 1 had several minigames, as well as the Somari hack featuring Hummer. The plug-and-play had a caterpillar that had to go through the different phases of metamorphosis to become a fairy. It would go up one stage every time you got a star. After completing one minigame, you earned one star. ZDog had 44 games and was a toy dog with a backpack containing the console. You could select games through a virtual pet-type game, a standard multicart menu, or a map.
Hummer Team went out of business after the release of ZDog.
Games
The following games are known to have been developed by Hummer Team:
*Jing Ke Xin Zhuan
*Street Fighter II: The World Warrior
*Master Fighter VI'
*Street Fighter IV
*Kart Fighter
*Somari
*AV Bishoujo Senshi Girl Fighting
*AV Jiu Ji Ma Jiang 2
*Garou Densetsu Special
*Aladdin
*Donkey Kong Country 4
*Dragon Ball Z - Super Butoden 2
*Earthworm Jim 3
*Final Fight 3
*King of Fighters '96
*Mortal Kombat II
*Mortal Kombat II Special
*Power Rangers III
*Shin Samurai Spirits 2
*Sichuan Mahjong II
*Street Fighter Zero 2 '97
*Super Mario World
*Tekken 2
*Tiny Toon Adventures 6
*Ultimate Mortal Kombat 4
*Yuu Yuu Hakusho Final
*Dragon Running
*Dance Y2K
*Finger DDR
*Panda Adventure/Pink Jelly/Rings
*Ping Pong
*Space Shuttle Exploration
*The Duck/The Egg
*Titenic / Harry's Legend
*War
*War of Strike Mouse

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