Sky Dragon (GBC) - Vast Fame bootleg?

[KenjutheDenjuu]

After viewing the only video for this game on Youtube, i'm really curious to know if this game was made by Vast Fame: http://www.youtube.com/watch?hl=en&v=sQXPeixuWm8&gl=US

This game has tons of stolen material in it, including bits pirated from Telefang, Link's Awakening, Dragonball Z and Fire Emblem. The overworld design reminds me a lot of Digital Monsters 3 and i'm sure the menu system and the main title screen options are identical in style as well. If this really is one of Vast Fame's bootlegs, it seems to be poorer in quality than their other games.

[taizou]

Yeah, my theory is that some other company, maybe Xing Xing Technology, got hold of one of Vast Fame's engines and hacked it together, it's definitely low quality for a VF game..

There are actually like four or five of these games, based on House of Flying Daggers, but only two of them are dumped, and the rom names are both based on loose translations of their subtitles for some reason - "Dragonslayer Chapter Surrounded" and "Sky Dragon".

[codeman38]

I'm still wondering just what the heck "Tian Cai Xiao Zi" (Boy Genius) is. (A bootleg company? A homebrew hacker?) There's a logo for it buried in both of these Flying Daggers games which can be triggered by a glitch; a screenshot of it is in this post.

[KenjutheDenjuu]

Do you know if they use the same graphics or music in the other versions?

[taizou]

Seems that way. I got another version recently, I'll post some more about it when I'm less stupidly busy. but this one actually displays the Tian Cai Xiao Zi logo ..