I've just been informed by someone that China's pirate game business could now cease to exist when apparently, China is now allowing its own people and businesses to use their own technology and pursue interests outside of their homeland, also given the evolution of technology in itself too, meaning that there's no real reason for them to do what they were infamous of making, from pirate games to weird-looking Famiclones. And other bootleg garbage. Another reason for this is that there is a cultural clash between it and several other countries right now (and I don't know what they are of precisely, probably of political matters). Since this, the people of China have moved on to other places in the world or of having business elsewhere, and thus leading up to the potential demise of them plagiarising stuff and all that. Of course, China doesn't have copyright laws as we all know but, this is the modern era and they've been doing this sort of thing since the 1800s, would you believe.

Even though China is slowly going through that phase and that not many places in the UK, US or elsewhere sell bootleg stuff anymore or have specialised outlets closing down, it's still big business over at Russia, Brazil and Mexico. So with the direction China is taking, is there any need for pirate games anymore?

I know this place has been pretty quiet and this might not be noticed but, I wanted to bring this up to all the people here, and maybe have their say on the subject too.

It might be too late to ask this as the forum itself has become quiet but, I'm just wondering of how everyone found this wonderful place. For me, as having been a member here for six years (and I can't believe it's that long), it might've been through a promotion that Pepe made about this place within RXComm. I can't quite remember.

If this is a forum dedicated to bootleg games, then I'm going to change things around with something called bootleg toys. Some of us have seen them plastered around the web, or that some of us have been cursed of owning one and our childhoods scarred by them. Let me begin by posting some fine examples that may shock, traumatise or just make you chortle for how lame they are:



These will do for now, and I know there will be comments aplenty of these. You are free to post any more that you can find to further make our eyes bleed Or, talk about if you had been cursed of owning any of these in your childhood.

Also, though I seem to believe that I never owned a bootleg toy myself, I suspect that this could be it, as I first had it when I was five. It's still there with me, locked away in a drawer as a keepsake I suppose that's one of the better-looking ones, as at least I never owned anything with a crappy paintjob or some Russian knockoff of a Mario toy.

When I saw and played the awful pirate game that is Jungle Adventure, it contained things from The Panda Prince even when the main character has been edited into a brown bear. Kage told me that it's not a hack of said game but I would like proof whether this is a heavily-hacked version of it or is it a new game made from scratch but using things from it.

I think it'd be good if this forum has a new skin because to be honest, I really don't like this one at all. It's too dark for my tastes and I don't like seeing my reflection on this laptop's screen whenever I view a website with black backgrounds and such. If this can be done, that'd be great.

As there's a GBS rip of Rockman DX3, I wonder if there'll be GBS rips of Shi Kong Xing Shou and Soul Falchion, and maybe a few other of Vast Fame's games too. Of course, GBS rips of Yong Yong's games won't be ideal for obvious reasons