Taizou // You were right. Sorry. I found these games working on mGBA Dev version.
Anyway mGBA is uncomfortable to speed up....
EDIT : About the prologue boss.
"Hahaha. Zook! Stop right here! I, Midoll(米多爾), won't let you proceed!"
He fires sonic wave in 3 directions and dashes, And he throws his saber like a boomerang - It can be easily avoided by going the most left of screen.[/quote]Chinese:
"Hahaha. Zook! Stop right here! I, Midoll(米多爾), won't let you proceed!"
English:
"Hey Hey Hey~ Zook!
It's end! I Meduoer won't
let you move on!
Just for comparison :pandaaway:
Atomikku123 // Thank you for Engrish script. :)
here are the credits from Zook:
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CASE LEADER
Manager
DESIGN
Shin
PROGRAM
Linda
ART
David
MUSIC
Hanman
TEST
Nereid
Sonic
Moby
THANKS
Jackie
Jannet
George
Ruman
Black
Akira
Kiwi
Momo
All first names/pseudonyms only, but some of the names are familiar from their other later games.
oh and there's no "to be continue" like in Zook Hero 2 or their Digimon games, it just says "THANK YOU FOR PLAYING... AND SEE YOU AGAIN..." so maybe they knew this would be the last Zook game..
also I think some of you already know about the unused 2003 Vast Fame copyright present in Zook's graphics (it was in the portion of the ROM dumped a long time ago), but Juezhi Sanguo has a big VF logo in there which also seems to be completely unused (unless it's displayed at the ending)
...I wonder if "Hanman" is in any way connected to Liao Hanmin of Gamtec.
If so, that adds a whole new interesting twist to things-- the opening level's music is straight out of Super Fighter 2001α, so maybe Liao Hanmin and Liao Yishen were one and the same?
Edited to add: Also, I wouldn't be surprised if "Jannet" was Lin Cuie, what with her having been credited as Janet Lin on several Gamtec games. The reason she'd only be credited under "thanks", rather than as a producer, is likely that she was working for Sunplus by 2003! (I'd already shared this link with taizou, but for everyone else wanting receipts for that statement: an abstract, in Chinese, from a university presentation she gave (https://info.tcu.edu.tw/hot_news/today_activity_content.asp?app_no=1021119006).)
The two companies are most definitely connected. I think I have a good shot at being able able to meet some of these folks, in person at that. Per the thread about Hummer Cheng, maybe it is best to take stuff like this to PMs, so that other folks involved in the industry also don't get bombarded with countless messages.
As another random aside, the credits in the game itself don't entirely match up with those in the manual (a scan of which can be found at The Mechanical Maniacs (http://themechanicalmaniacs.com/articles/pirateGB.php)). Most notably, in the manual:
- The Case Leader is "Jackie" (instead of "Manager")
- The Music credit is "Man" (instead of "Hanman")
- "Shin" and "Ruman" also worked as artists
- "Black" was an additional tester
Did anyone notice "Sonic" in the credits?!