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Pirate Discussion => Game Boy => Topic started by: Shenznanjing5x3lefami on July 19, 2020, 04:03:38 AM
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Is there any info for this cartridge?. For example, does it have cheats for vast fame games or official games?.
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I have never seen a picture of the cartridge, but based on what I have seen from playing around with the ROM, the Fire Bird works very similar to a GB Sacker or the Magic Editor Card by Yobo. It has cheats for official games (I do not know if it has any for unlicensed ones) and uses what are called Golden Finger cheat codes. Also, if you emulate it, it will act as though it was plugged into itself
Edit: Just scrolled through the list of games it mentioned having cheats for. Shawu Story was on it, so it has cheats for at least one unlicensed game
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I know I'm four years late to the party but about a year ago I found a cheat device on Xianyu that happened to have the English name "Fire Bird" on it, which I suspected to be the elusive Vast Fame cheat card. As it would turn out, Ankos already bought the listing by the time I mentioned it on the BGC Discord. After it arrived they pretty much confirmed that it was at least connected to the Fire Bird ROM that's been dumped online, with its ROM header sharing the same name as the one in the common ROM ("VAST FAME 1.0"). Unfortunately Ankos couldn't get their unit to work and later discovered that the pins for the connector on the cartridge were bent. The ROM they dumped from the cartridge also didn't work on emulators when they tested it, which they suspected to be copy protection. Personally I still have more questions than answers about that cheat card after refreshing my memory of that whole experience, but hopefully one day more of this mystery can be put to rest.
From the last time I was able to freely search for stuff on Xianyu, the Fire Bird cheat cards aren't terribly rare but they definitely seem uncommon in mainland China at least. If I had to describe what it looked like, it looks similar to a Gameshark but it uses a translucent blue shell. I'll attach pictures of the cartridge that I downloaded from a Xianyu listing on this post.
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@APM Do you remember the listing for the working Fire Bird I shared with you some time after I bought that broken one? I wound up buying it since you said you weren't looking for one at that time. My current recording setup isn't good for recording it, but it functions as expected based off of emulating the ROM. Let me know if there is anything you want to test about it
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Oh you actually bought that one? Neat. Frankly my initial excitement of getting a Fire Bird has dwindled since we last talked about it but if I find an opportunity to get one then I certainly would consider it, lol.
If you've gotten the opportunity to dump the ROM from the working unit, can you confirm if it's identical to the common ROM? I'd also be interested in seeing what that weird link cable option at the bottom of the main menu does on real hardware, as going by emulation of the ROM, it still has the menu cursor for some reason and pressing the A button shows a loading dialog with changing hex values, which probably isn't how it's supposed to work? I'm willing to be proven wrong though. :p