Kouchuu Kakutou Mushi-1 Grand Prix (Beetle Grapple Insect-1 Grand Prix) is a DS game produced by Rocket Company. As far as I understand, it's pretty much about weird anime children training realistic 3D beetles to fight eachother on a stump >_> There were also playing cards given out with the first release of the game which had the beetles on them. I've always wanted to play this because the screenshots look hilarious, but it doesn't work on DS emulators, and I don't want to pay $40+ just to find out it's actually terrible / I can't understand what's going on / whatever. Here's its website:
http://www.rocketcompany.co.jp/mushi1/
Anyway, while unpacking the NDS rom for this game (I wanted to get the 3D models of the insects) I came across the header information, which included the following:
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0x00 Game title MUSHI-ONE GP
0x0C Game code AKFJ (NTR-AKFJ-JPN)
0x10 Maker code 2N (Smilesoft ???, Rocket ???)
Was Smilesoft working on this game before the company was dissolved? Or when Smilesoft handed its licenses over to Rocket Company, did that include some of their (outsourced?) employees as well? Or.. did Smilesoft BECOME Rocket Company? Although if the latter is the case, why would both company names be credited in the rom...? This is really strange, I'd guess the first option myself though.
EDIT: Hm I also just realized, the dates are very weird here too. Smilesoft died in mid-2003. The DS wasn't released until Nov 2004, and Beetle Grapple itself wasn't released until almost exactly a year later.