Ok. Thanks for responding. Out of curiosity, what other games did gangfeng release, and how did they release the? Did they bundle them with their game systems?

Thank you. Do you know if Vast Fame ever released a cart with the hack of Devil Island where the main character uses a sword instead of a whip? I have only heard of Li Cheng carts of that release

I was checking some of my games and comparing them with photos taken by other people and noticed something. There are a bunch of pirate carts of Vast Fame games that look incredibly similar to the actual mainland China releases of their games. When I say pirate cart, I am referring to copies made without ties to the original creator, with the copy protection edited out. When I say mainland China release I mean carts that have custom boot logos and copy protection that prevents emulation of the game's ROM. On Pepper-98's old blog, she showed a picture with a mainland China release of Digimon Crystal 3 and a pirate cart of Rockman DX3. Notice the rectangular black glob on the top left side of Rockman DX3? Yeah that appears on pirate carts that say "GB-A76E" on the back of their circuit board. I'll include some pictures of pirate carts like that one that I own. Notice how one of those looks pretty much identical to Pepper-98's copy of Digimon Crystal 3, except for the different circuit board. Yeah, thank goodness these things are transparent. That's all, watch out for these pirate carts (unless you want deprotected versions of these games), and happy hunting

Also, according to this dinosaur of a thread these pirate carts have a similar circuit board to the actual Vast Fame multicarts, so maybe they do have some sort of a tie to Vast Fame, but that is just speculation.

Another thought: the multicart versions of Vast Fame's games sometimes have the wrong music, most notably in Digimon Pocket. So does the pirate cart of Digimon 3 Crystal shown in my picture. If the two truly are related as speculated in the thread I previously mentioned, then that means that it is possible more deprotected Vast Fame releases were made by these guys. I know for a fact that Super Fighters Alpha 2001, Super Fighters S, Digimon Saphire, and Pokemon Ruby by Vast Fame all had mainland China releases, so they might have deprotected versions as well.

I guess that is not so surprising. I was basing my assumption that it was in English off of screenshots from this taobao listing

I recently saw what appears to be a skob game not listed on the wiki

https://tw.bid.yahoo.com/item/%E7%B4%AB%E8%89%B2%E5%B0%8F%E9%A4%A8-56-3-%E4%B8%89%E5%9C%8B%E5%BF%97-100347475774

Is this the original version of what the wiki has listed as "Tun Shi Tian Di IV"?

That old ROM has been circulating for a very long time. It seems to be a bad dump, so it does not work

Was there anything interesting about the KOF 97? I remember once finding a cartridge of it with a "GYY Unlock Team" intro, but I don't believe that game ever had any sort of copy protection

Yeah, that is the NGCA English release of Digimon 3 Crystal. I remember once hearing that Digimon Pocket also got an English release. They also released this thing, but I can't seem to find any listings for it outside of southeast asia