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Game Boy / Sachen "alt" 31in1 and 6in1?
« on: August 09, 2014, 04:17:35 AM »
Hello everyone. I'm still wondering about Sachen's Game Boy library. You all know the 31 in 1 Mighty Mix including Thunder Blast Man and Jurassic Boy 2. However you can find a few pictures of a 31in1 cartridge with a different label.

bootleggames wiki Rocman

If you scroll down you find a picture and the description
Quote:
 
A 31-in-1 Sachen multi featuring the Rocman X Gold version and cover art that was not used anywhere else.[/quote]

Now I wonder: Where does the information about the inclusion of Rocman X actually come from? A bit more research made me discover this old order list from sachen.com.tw available at Nintendoage:

Sachen-Order

If you scroll down you can see the box and cartridge of this version. However in the game list they mention Thunder Blast Man and if you zoom in you can make out "Man" and two words written above which might be Thunder Blast but no chance this is Roc. So the only way this contains Rocman is a mistake on the label/description.

Does anyone actually own this version or did anyone ever see it in the wild at least other than this order list?

Even weirder they also list a Super 6 in 1 (6B-001) I see mentioned nowhere else but they show a real picture of boxart and cartridge. Nintendoage actually included this version in their game list probably due to this picture. Again did anyone ever encounter this release in real life? The fact they show this in their doc-files doesn't automatically mean they actually ever sent it out.

On another note: Currently a portion of Sachen's library is being accurately dumped (not by me) and there were amazing discoveries made during this process. As soon as this is done I will post about it.

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Game Boy dumps / Rocman X - Sachen
« on: April 30, 2014, 08:24:21 AM »
It appears I managed to dump Rocman X from Sachen which uses different graphics than Thunder Blast Man. However I encountered a huge surprise.

Link to my original post:

http://forums.no-intro.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=2219&p=14011#p14011

Let me just mirror my message here:

Now I have a rare one - the elusive Rocman X from Sachen which took me years to find.

This is really a strange one. A sidenote: I realized the dump of Thunder Blast Man I put into the dat which is basically the same game is probably underdumped. The file should be 1MiB as only this appears to contain all unique data. However strange enough the first 256k appear to contain the full game - the same size of the scene release from the old days. I will change the dat however since we have no risk to lose anything as long as the max sized version is included. I don't know the purpose of the other data.

Now what about Rocman X? Well overall the 1MiB version is quite different. However the first 256k (see above) differ in only a single byte from TBM. This made me wonder what is going on. I confirmed that Rocman X is on the cart by playing it in my Game Boy Color. It did not work in any emulator out there unfortunately. But the fact alone should tell you that TBM and Rocman are more or less the same and the single byte might work as a trigger.

Now I found a little hack to make it work in emulators - seems an update is required in their code to support the game accurately. Funny enough this means you can also just take TBM from the internet, edit two bytes and it will turn into Rocman X :)

I will include the 1MiB version of the untouched read of course. People will of course complain about a non-working dump so I will also release the hacked version with it.




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Game Boy / Sachen 4 in 1 4B-003 - does it exist?
« on: April 01, 2011, 06:49:59 AM »
Your database lists version 3 of Sachen's multigame releases. However to my knowledge it has never surfaced anywhere. Do you have a physical proof of it's existance? Thank you.

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Game Boy / Beast Fighter (Sachen) dumped!
« on: March 31, 2011, 07:27:41 AM »
I'm not sure if this dump is absolutely correct but it can be played till the end with BGB or KiGB.

http://forums.no-intro.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=1612&start=40

http://hotfile.com/dl/112743407/b34e8d6/Beast_Fighter_1B-001.zip.html

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