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Game Boy / GBS Rips
« on: January 13, 2023, 02:40:02 PM »
I know a lot of people enjoy the soundtracks to some of these games, and are often looking for GBS rips of them. I've decided to make a dedicated thread for this, since most of the time, GBS rips (of unlicensed/bootleg games) are lumped in as a small segment of most usual licensed GBS rips, as well as just generally being scattered around.

I would post "The Ultimate Bootleg GBS Collection" or something like that, except I won't because I haven't collected many GBS rips. But I can post the rips I've made recently, which haven't been shared anywhere other than getting totally buried in the Discord server. There's some more rips others may have heard me talk about, but they're unfinished, so I won't post them since they're buggy or broken as of now.

The rips I've made myself are the following:
- VF's Devil Island (also known as Lord of the Rings)
- Sheng Shou Wu Yu
- Soul Falchion
- Street Fighter 2001 Alpha
- Super Fighters S
(These can be downloaded via the attachment on this post)


Anyone else is welcome to post their rips, or rips they've found scattered around. Or even post updates/fixes to other GBS rips.

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By the way, Super Fighters S was an interesting rip. It wasn't emulated in hhugboy or other emulators at all due to the copy protection. I had to take my own copy's dump. and find where the audio page was. To my surprise it was extremely easy, since it was just a simple music hack of the original KOF '96 sound driver. Which meant I was able to re-use header settings from the KOF '96 GBS rip. Definitely easier than "Kouji Murata's Mega Man V driver but the bytes are shifted around a bit", I'll just say that.

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Game Boy dumps / Forple's Dumps
« on: January 12, 2023, 01:43:39 AM »
Hi. I've uploaded these ROMs to the discord server at one point or another. However, I've decided to take all the dumps I've made there and put them as one ROM set here. Quite a few of them aren't properly supported by hhugboy's copy protection, as the protection for those ROMs has not been cracked yet, so I'm unsure if the dumps made are "proper" dumps. But it doesn't hurt to post them here. Maybe someone can cross-verify them with their dumps, or something. Or, maybe it may be a useful binary source to start trying to crack it.

As such, the attachment contains:
- Star War (Sintax)
- Super Donkey Kong 5
- Super Fighters S*
- Sanguozhi (VF Standalone Cart)*
- Zook Hero Z (English Version)*

(Note: The * indicates an ROM unsupported in hhugboy)

All dumps are verified via hhugboy and repeated dumping to identify a "consistent" ROM output. I would have gladly included my dump of Zook Hero 2 as well, but the cart is unfortunately unreliable, and the cart spews inconsistent garbage each time I try and dump it. I've tried cleaning the pins, cleaning the dumper, tweaking dumper settings, etc; but to no avail. To make matters worse I don't think this version of Zook 2 is supported by hhugboy or any emulator at the minute. Despite that, the SRAM was able to be dumped properly, but that's not very useful, either. I also have a 36-in-1 GB multicart, but all I can dump from it is a 16-in-1 multicart that is only capable of running the game that was hacked to run the menu, that being Trump Boy. I may make a second post with all my dumping attempts from those two ROMs.

For the Star Wars dump, you can view scans of the box, manual, and cart label here.
I need to scan the Sanguozhi box, manual, and cart label. I will update this post when I get to doing so.

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