[Table of Contents]

  1. System BIOS Translation
  2. History of Console in China
  3. Console
  4. Games
  5. Links (Sources)

 

1 - [System BIOS Translation]

The BIOS of the Chinese version of the console.

 

Fight Zhi God (Shen) Engage

 

Google Translate’s Photo mode says "wisdom god", or just “god". Would sometimes say “engage"

 

V.Smile Zhile Learning Pass is what the console was referred to as on the site, which proves it’s release, which when translating the box artificially upscaled, says under the logo “Zhike Learning” which misspells “Zhile Learning”.

 

2 – [History of Console in China]

 

To be researched, for now the console is mentioned on the Chinese history page, showing the console’s launch in 2005, but goes on to mention it’s good reception in the US.

 

It seems that the console has a launch event from January 29th, 30th, February 5th, and 6th. This was located at "Guangzhou Tianhe City South Gate Square". Looking up this location with Google Maps shows the “Tianhe District” which states that it is “home to a creative district at the Redtory Art and Design Factory, where hip art galleries, industrial-chic cafes, and boutiques fill converted warehouses. Large malls offering international brands line busy Tianhe Road, along with home-goods and jewelry stores. Paintings and ceramics are on display at the Guangdong Museum, while the vast South China Botanical Garden has greenhouses and a lake.".

 

 

 

It also says that all customers who purchase products on site will receive a premium gift. They let customers try the console, and enter a “lucky draw" and win prizes. It’s unknown what these prizes are, same with what the images shown on the page would have been of, maybe of the event itself, or what was being shown there. Both images link to ip address “10.99.36.71” followed by the path which shows the location of the image, which as of now says it’s info is as follows.

 

Source: whois.arin.net

IP Address: 10.99.36.71

Name: PRIVATE-ADDRESS-ABLK-RFC1918-IANA-RESERVED

Handle: NET-10-0-0-0-1

Registration Date: [None shown]

Range: 10.0.0.0-10.255.255.255

Org: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority

Org Handle: IANA

Address: 12025 Waterfront Driven Suite 300

City: Los Angeles

State/Province: CA

Postal Code: 90292

Country: United States

 

Looking up this address with Google Maps shows this location, captured on March 2019.

 

 

This is the building for Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, which helps keep the Internet pages running smoothly, and manages server related services. This could have been the former ip address that V-Tech used to save data for there servers (in China at least).

 

There is a page that is for the advertisement of the console. The page from Oct 29, 2005 features download links (shown as “Ad play”) for Media Player format (.wmv), or Real Player format (.rm). Both links have never been archived. Viewing the page on a web browser that supports in browser Windows Media Player support (like Internet Explorer), you can see a video player to view the trailer with Media Player format, but playing the video does nothing, even if it says it’s ready on the player.

 

 

3. -  [Console]

 

From left to right: The console image shown on the history page, the console from the original page of the console in 2005.

 

The image of the supposed box from the site, which shows the Chinese text under the logo, and a few games not shown on the site.

 

The console over there from what I can tell on the Chinese versions (could also apply to other non-American releases) show that the controller has bright yellow buttons under the “OK” button, which the text is most likely translated for China. Due to the poor quality of the image of the Controller connected to the console, it’s hard to tell if the controller in China was that Beige color, or was Purple like in America, or Europe. The history of the company page shows the stock image used using a light blue cable, and has the American controller, and could just be the American console shown for the history page at least, does not apply to the original site for the console in 2005. The console itself may have translated the text for functions and info on the console, or just removes the text from some things like the power, it’s unknown. The label on the bottom of the unit, which in America states the power info for the console, is probably changed to fit the standards of China for electric appliances. This also goes for the imprinted text under/above the power supply port on the back of the console.

 

The console image used for reference may have been a modded image of the typical stock image used by the company to fit with how it may have looked.

 

 

The V.Smile Pocket was also released over in China. This box shows gameplay of Zayzoo: My Alien Classmate, and is the Chinese version due to the Chinese text on the screenshot itself. I’m unsure what that holographic snowflake graphic on the lower right corner means, and the games shown here are Zayzoo: My Alien Classmate, ABC Park, Winnie The Pooh's Honey Hunt, and Mickey’s Magical Adventure.

 

 

4 – [Games]

Update 2/1/2021: I have ordered the following game’s Chinese versions and will add more info on those once they arrive at my house. ABC Park, Winnie The Pooh's Honey Hunt, Mickey's Magical Adventure, Toy Story 2, Cars, and Lion King: Simba’s Quest.

 

The games list is going to have translation errors from Google Translate miss-translating the words of titles, or characters. These won't be fixed when quoted, unless I find better translator.

 

All the games taken from the page all has a cover, and content links to pop up links for the covers, and content. Only a few of these games has a “Demo" listed, and only one is shown to have a link to try it out, but no archived version exists, and the current server just 404s.

 

It refers to all the cartridges (or as V-Smile called them “Smartridges”, the site always calls it as a “_ card" where the underscore is instead the contents of that cart. The one that says “Chinese card" could mean the game content was changed more extensively past translations, and could also be the case for all of the games, but no one really knows that as of yet.

 

From what I’ve gathered, most of these only exist in an image that has the game’s icon with text next to it, and thumbnails of the game’s boxart images, which I put where, that game is, and seems to be for this Chinese version based on the retail cover. The only exception to this rule is Zayzoo: My Alien Classmate which has some screenshots for the Chinese version on the V.Smile Portable box used over there. Whenever you click on a link to a cover will attempt to view an archive of a url that ends with “products_content.asp?cSMPModel=#” which a cSMP Model is short for “Capital asset pricing model” which in finance "is a model used to determine a theoretically appropriate required rate of return of an asset, to make decisions about adding assets to a well-diversified portfolio.” according to Wikipedia.

 

Zayzoo: My Alien Classmate is shown to have two different label variants used on the Chinese releases. The one on the site is the only one to have yellow text on the logo which on the other releases is Zayzoo, while all other images I saw with this game’s logo only shows the purple part of the logo which on other releases says My Alien Classmate.

 

On the front box from the site, we can see the cart in the kid’s hand, and in the console are both Alphabet Park. The ones located on the upper left corner from the console is The Little Mermaid, Mickey’s magical Adventure, and The Lion King: Simba’s Big Adventure. As for the ones on the right side of the console are Winnie the Pooh. Unknown game with light dirt color, Care Bears: A Lesson in Caring, unknown game with a blue background, little grey character (maybe dolphin?), and possibly My Alien Classmate. These won’t be added as games until I know they were for China, and had a planned release.

 

 

Name: 小熊维尼 (Winnie the Pooh)

Original Name: Winnie the Pooh’s Honey Hunt

Card Type: Language Card

Release Date: Unknown

cSMPModel: 92068 (URL for the try it now button shows the same number as the page name)

Has demo: Yes (With try it out link)

 

Winnie the Pooh " is a language card, and the learning content is synchronized with the Chinese textbooks for the middle and large classes of kindergarten and the first grade of elementary school.
The content of the learning card includes: shapes, colors, numbers and 35 common radicals, more than 1,000 Chinese characters and their corresponding pinyin, 200 idioms, 500 phrases, 100 pairs of antonyms, 100 classifiers, and 50 ancient poems.

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Name: 我的外星人同学 (My Alien Classmate)

Original Name: Zayzoo My Alien Classmate

Card Type: Chinese Card

Release Date: Unknown

cSMPModel: 92368

Has Demo: Yes (No link)

 

My Alien Classmate " is a Chinese card, and the learning content is synchronized with the Chinese textbook for the first, second and third grades of primary school.
The content of the learning card includes: Chinese pinyin, polyphonic characters, synonyms, antonyms, poetry, idioms, as well as three-dimensional models, music appreciation, and world-renowned building puzzles. Among them, you can learn nearly 300 groups of phonetic phrases, 450 groups of near and antonyms, and 250 Articles of idioms, 30 poems, etc.

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Name: 英语天堂 (English Paradise)

Original Name (America): Alphabet Park Adventure

Original Name (French): ABC Park

Original Name (Dutch): Alfabet Pretpark

Card Type: English Card

Release Date: Unknown

cSMPModel: 92008

Had Demo: Yes (No link)

 

English Paradise " is an English card, and the learning content is synchronized with the new English textbooks for kindergarten and the first and second grades of elementary school.
The content of the learning card includes: 26 English letters, alphabetical order, more than 300 words, 60 common sentences, 50 sets of situational dialogues, etc.

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Name: 美人鱼梦幻之旅 (Mermaid Dream Journey)

Original Name: The Little Mermaid: Ariel’s Majestic Journey

Card Type: English Card

Release Date: Unknown (listed as new on the page from Oct 29, 2005)

cSMPModel: 92128

Has Demo: No

 

Mermaid Dream Journey " is an English card, and the learning content is synchronized with the new standard English textbooks for the second grade of elementary school.
The content of the learning card includes: more than 200 English words that must be mastered, more than 30 commonly used sentences, more than 70 sets of dialogues, and listening training.

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Name: 狮子王辛巴成长历险记 (The Adventures of the Lion King Simba)

Original Name: The Lion King: Simba’s Big Adventure

Card Type: English Card

Release Date: Unknown (listed as new on the page from Oct 29, 2005)

cSMPModel: 92108

Has Demo: No

 

The Adventures of the Lion King Simba " is an English card, and the learning content is synchronized with the new standard English textbooks for kindergarten and first grade primary school.
The content of the learning card includes: 200 words, 40 groups of English dialogues, 50 groups of daily expressions, more than 30 common sentence patterns, as well as colors, patterns, and shapes.

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Name: 米奇魔幻历险记 (Mickey Magical Adventures)

Original Name: Mickey’s Magical Adventure

Card Type: Math Card

Release Date: Unknown (listed as new on the page from Oct 29, 2005)

cSMPModel: 92088

Has Demo: No

 

Mickey Magical Adventures " is a math card, and the learning content is synchronized with the new standard mathematics textbooks for the first and second grades of primary school.
The content of the learning card includes: number recognition, addition and subtraction within 100, abdication, multiplication and division formulas, four mixed operations within 100, comparison of calculation formulas, vertical addition and subtraction within 10,000. At the same time, learn about time recognition and calculation, RMB conversion, and understanding of plane and three-dimensional graphics such as points, lines and surfaces.

 

Name: ? (Fill Chinese release’s text not yet known)

Original Name: Cars: Rev It Up In Radiator Springs

Card Type: Unknown

cSMPModel: ?

Has Demo: No

 

[No official Description yet found]

Name: ? (Full Chinese release’s text not yet known)

Original Name: Toy Story 2: Operation Rescue Woody

Card Type: Unknown

cSMPModel: ?

Has Demo: No

 

[No official Description yet found]

 

 

5 – [Sources]

Link to V-Tech’s product page for education, dated Feb 08, 2006

Link to V-Tech’s awards page which mentions the V-Smile, dated Feb 09, 2006

The homepage to the Chinese V-Tech site

An alternate Chinese V-Tech homepage (official sales system)

An archive of the Chinese V-Tech site from Nov 24, 2005

 

The history page for V-Tech of China

A page showing a launch event of sorts for reviews from the press, last archive from May 23, 2007.

 

The thumbnail image for the boxart of Alphabet Park Adventure, only archive from Jan 25, 2005

Archive of the Little Mermaid thumbnail image for it’s boxart, only archive from Jan 25, 2005

Archive of the Lion King thumbnail image for it’s boxart, only archive from Jan 25, 2005

 

An archive of the V-Smile “Content” page dated Oct 29, 2005

The page for the V-Smile from Nov 24, 2005

An archive of the advertisement page that has download links to the ad for the console dated Oct 29, 2005.

The “Try it now” link from the Winnie the Pooh game, with no archives

 

The about page for IANA

The IP lookup tool to find the ip address info from V-Tech

Wikipedia article for Capital asset pricing model

 

A product page for the sale of “Vtech-Smart Learning” from Tiaozao

The seller of the console on Tiaozao, known as “lebaishi111"

Another listing for the Console with a controller, and 10 games (5 are US releases. Unknown if sold there, or import)

A wiki article on the list of consoles, mentions the V.Smile, and V.Flash having a date formatted in Chinese date. (Format is year年 month月 day日)

 

A forum topic I posted asking about any info on the console’s sale in China, posted on 8/11/2020

An archive of a forum topic I posted asking about info on the V-Smile in China, archived on Aug 12, 2020 2:34am

 

 

 

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