ByteOff V Game Cartridge DEMO:
 
To forever commemorate the Byteoff V, we have made a physical release of Byteoff V Kearf ze Haenaekh demo cartridges for the Famicom, which are available for sale. Only 40 cartridges were made, and each is hand-numbered.
 
NOTE: Although these cartridges are all built using brand new parts, the cartridge shell color may vary from cartridge to cartridge. As these are demo cartridges, they are built using whatever shells we have lying around.
 
 
Background on Wan Khu language and the story of Kearf ze Haenaekh:
 
Kearf ze Haenaekh is based on a series of legends surrounding a mysterious cave situated on Xiaoliuqiu, an island off of Kaohsiung in southern Taiwan.
 
The text used in this game is entirely written in wan khu Wan khu is a constructed language (conlang) I wrote two or three years ago over the course of a weekend (grammar structure, phonemes) and several mornings at my day job (analyzation and then construction of vocabulary). I always envisioned wan khu to have started out of necessity, as some sort of pidgin from the time that the Dutch colonized Taiwan (1624 to 1662). In terms of the game Kearf ze Haenaekh, the language is spoken by a lost population of people that had interbred with the Dutch, remaining isolated on the island. As such, wan khu borrows some vocabulary and ideas from Dutch and Chinese, as well as German, English, Japanese, and even Portuguese! If interested, here is the only page online about this constructed language:
 
https://www.maliscash.com/wankhulanguage
 
Please note that although the cave on Xiaoliuqiu does exist, and the Dutch did colonize Taiwan for a spell, the constructed language wan khu and the premise for this game (uncovering lost treasure in the cave) is strictly fictional and is not meant to be understood as actual history.