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Super Famicom/SNES / Twin Eagles Group rom hacks
« on: June 08, 2011, 12:07:12 AM »
I finally got into contact with the head of TEG today, Mr. Byte. I asked some basics that have been on my mind. First of all, I knew I'd seen that Sonic sprite for Sonic the Hedgehog 2 somewhere before...



He confirmed it's a hack of Sparkster. He promised to send me the ROM, including all the other games on the site that no rom links are up for. But he's very busy so it's gonna have to wait till Friday(or I'm guessing Thursday my time, not sure). So I'll have them emailed to me then and I'll post them up here so we can finally check them out  :clap:

I asked a bit more about TEG, not too much but I got some interesting info. Most interestingly is that all of TEG's hacks were distributed on cartridge with their consent! In his own words...

Quote:
 
all the hacked games were burned on eproms and sold in cartridges here in peru to resellers . as i know , in other countries, like paraguay, some people dumped the rom back to pc and so they released it .
basically , some people X from some country Y paid us an ammount Z to do that kind of work. then we sent them the "master" and they produced the cartridges and distributed to many countries , including back to Peru
 another way was that we directly did the job and sold ourself directly to resellers . that was for Futbol Peruano series in Playstation, for example .
[/quote]

He also said that Sonic 2 actually was distributed on cartridge. I'm assuming the same goes for the majority of their hacks. And all this time I thought it was piraters doing it without their knowledge. That explains why there's cartridges of hacks like 101 Dalmations and Bananas en Pijamas which aren't available on their site to download.

Anyway, look forward to Friday(or Thursday =p), I'll be sharing all the ROMs then!

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Game Boy / Pokemon Crystal from SKOB
« on: June 01, 2011, 10:54:19 PM »


Pic from an auction some time ago. For anyone that saw SKOB's old website, there was this pic of the box:



I'm sure some already can recognize by the screenshots that this game seems to be a sort of basis for Pokemon Gold Silver on SNES. You can only play as Chikorita in this one, and none of the levels are the same as the SNES one. But like that one, Pokemon Crystal is also only four short levels.

I don't know much more to say, but at least now we can know what it is :) Next on the list is to find that Digimon game they made  :D

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BootlegGames Wiki / NT - is that even their name?
« on: April 09, 2011, 04:34:39 AM »
As the wiki says, and as has been discovered through findings of lots of cartridges for the Pirated Game Museum, it appears Carson/卡聖/Ka Sheng did all sorta of IDs, besides NT being GT, KT, PS, GT, PT and I can't remember what else. Clearly NT is just another one of the ID systems. So it seems more appropriate that they're not referred to as NT, since that's just as valid as calling them KT or whatever you pick.

I'm still wondering which came first, but it does seem possible by the dates on all these different ID carts that they may have used different ID types within the same year of using others, every year. Either way, unless I'm forgetting about some games they distributed actually crediting an "NT", it looks like it's time to forget about calling them NT and from here on referring to them by their real name, Ka Sheng. I mean, even their Genesis distributed games showed the Ka Sheng logo, nothing showing NT.

Let's fight, for change! :somari:

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Pirate Talk / Pic of my collection so far
« on: March 29, 2011, 02:26:28 AM »
Yes, Barver's showing off  :P  I probably could have taken a better pic, or even separate pics of all games for each console, but this gets the point across, and I was lazy!
Put as a spoiler since it stretches the forum tables a bit.
Spoiler: click to toggle


Still trying to reach 100 games, maybe someday this year =p


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Discussion Center / Happy Birthday Thread
« on: March 22, 2011, 03:09:46 AM »
17 years old!? All this time I thought you were in your 20s  :lol:  

Have a good one, from one pirate nut to the next  :thumb:

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Pirated Game Museum / Sources for pirate cart pics
« on: March 20, 2011, 12:19:44 AM »
Thought it's a good idea that anyone wanting to contribute, or just wants to have some fun discovering all the weird pirates out there, to have a list of sources to search. These are the sites I use at the moment:

http://cah4e3.shedevr.org.ru/cartsbase.php      Good place to start!

http://archiwumallegro.pl/pegasus-61692/0,0     A site that archives tons of old auctions of the Polish auction site allegro.pl. Very hit and miss to find auctions that have a bigger picture of the main item unfortunately. This links to finding FC games(Pegasus as they call it over there), and there's other systems to the side too.

http://www.mercadolivre.com.br/    Probably the only place you'll find any SNES pirates. Check out the other MercadoLibre sites in Argentina too.

http://carts.emunes.pl   Lots of gallerys of people's collections, mainly FC. Another good starting point.

Google.com    A couple searches I use that generate results are [game name] pegasus gry, [game name]Денди. Probably many more you can come up with.

Anyone else have any recommendations, list them here!

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Pirated Game Museum / Pirated Game Museum
« on: March 19, 2011, 03:16:21 AM »
Not much goes into starting a wiki, and I mentioned having this idea, so I made it.

http://piratedgamemuseum.wikia.com/wiki/Pirated_Game_Museum_Wiki

Not complete or anything, but no point holding it back, since putting pics up one by one is very time consuming, especially since I have to look for them, then save them, then upload. Too bad wiki doesn't let you just type the link to the pic instead of having to save  <_<

Obviously there's a TON of pictures out there to find, so if anyone is ever bored, this is a fun way to kill time! I'm sure everyone here can probably find ways to better improve it, I'll continue that myself as much as I can. I'm still getting used to it.

Lots to get to!

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Discussion Center / The Super A'can thread
« on: March 11, 2011, 03:30:07 AM »
I'm continuously hunting down any information I can about this system, mostly unreleased games. I'll post here when I have new info to share. Since All pirates are made primarily in Taiwan, I know many here must care somewhat about this system =p

First, here's the previous list, if anyone might remember, of confirmed unreleased titles with rough unofficial translations:

地心歷險(Journey to the Center of the Earth) A-RPG 台軟科技(Tai Ruan Technology)
貓球防衛隊(Cat Ball Defense Team) STG 鉅崴科技(AV artisan)
鳥籠院(Birdcage Yard) ACT 敦煌科技(Funtech)
雷霆機動隊(Lightning Mobile Unit) STG 弘煜科技專業(Fun Yours Entertainment)
恐龍戰記 SLG 敦煌科技股份(Funtech)
阿Q連環炮(A Q Lian Huan Pao) ETC 全崴資訊股份(C&E)
暴走族之戀(Romance of B_s_zoku) SPG 敦煌科技股份(Funtech)
王八妹(Woman Guerrillero) STG 鉅崴科技(AV artisan)
英雄戰記(Hero Saga) RPG 漢堂國際資訊(Dyansty International Information Co.)
快樂動物園(Happy Zoo) ETC 石將電腦(Stone General Computer)
惡魔島(Demon Island) ACT 傑克豆資訊(Jackbean Information Co.?)


At the moment here's what's new. I got a magazine today that covers the A'can(I mentioned this in the finds thread), and it has pics of some of the unreleased games. I don't have a scanner but I'll try to scan it eventually somehow. Kinko's or something maybe? I might be heading down there soon anyways so I'll bring it along.

Anyways, I've now got a couple pics of 鳥籠院(which appears to be based off of a manga, and is a comedy fighter or something, goofy animation etc..), one of 恐龍戰記(very plain, just an overhead map), and a shot of some bike racing game. Plus some more shots of 地心歷險(which the magazine calls 地心歷險記, adding the one character).

Son of Evil is listed as 邪神之子, instead of its final title 邪惡之子. Possibly a mistake by them.

In contrast to the above, there's pics of trading show event of some kind for the A'can that shows a booth for Son of Evil, and the logo clearly says 邪惡之子. Must be the magazines mistake.

More interesting for everyone, since it's an actual scan, is that I found out a magazine from the mainland was apparently previewing and advertising the A'can all throughout the year 1996. They apparently covered up to 30 games too. I'm going to try to acquire all 1996 issues, though it will probably cost a bit, so won't happen anytime soon unless someone wants to help(lol). I happened to find that someone did make a scan of one add in an issue, and it has some of the same exact shots that my magazine I got today has.

 

I wish I had it in better quality. I went to the blog advertised there and I see no trace of the guy having even scanned this, so I don't know if there's more or not.

I've found some people claiming that they played 鳥籠院(which btw is those two screenshots in the bottom left corner of the combat and fighting section above). The A'can was released in mainland China in 2006 apparently, some months after it was released in 1995 in Taiwan. Maybe it got an exclusive release over there? But then again, I talked to Tommy Xie, who was apparently the project leader, and he said it never was released. It's probably people's memory's going bad, since I even saw one guy claiming he played Final Fantasy 6 on A'can  :lol:  I'm still trying to ask some forums if they can confirm anything.

The price of the system when it was sold in the mainland was 1000RMB about. Or exact. I forgot heh.

One guy had a small story to tell. There was one of those spine cards that came with the system to join a club of sorts. After a whole year, they call the guy and tell him  that due to some sort of tension between the companies in Taiwan and the mainland, that they were shutting down production and release of games. They offered to refund the whole system if he brought it to their company in Tian Lin, Shanghai(田林, 上海). He went and left it off there and returned home, Two days later a guy shows up to his door with the money. In an ironic twist, he used the money to buy a Saturn  :rolleyes:  Bettig it was just as dead the whole time he owned it. But I'm pretty surprised they were actually willing to refund a system that someone had owned for a full year.

That's all for now. It costs $44 to get all '96 issues of that magazine, FYI. That's not including shipping. Gonna be a bit till I can have enough together.

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Pirate Talk / Concept: A website dedicated to showing all pirate variations of games
« on: March 09, 2011, 12:55:30 AM »
I've had this on my mind, and I know taizou was considering making a gallery on his website before. Does anyone think a website that shows all types of pirate variants of games would be interesting? I'm mainly talking about pirates of official games. It would be an interesting concept site to see with how many different labels exist out there. Then again, there's so many games that exist, the sheer amount of games to have to list in the database would be overwhelming, especially for all systems. I just know I like seeing all the fancy and weird label variants many games have, so one huge site would be cool.

I dunno if something like this could be done on free web hosting or not, mainly wondering what people think. I myself save pics of interesting pirates I see every so often, so I know I'd probably have an endless source of pics to provide.

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Game Boy / Look at all this Gowin crap on NESWorld
« on: March 06, 2011, 02:22:35 AM »
http://www.nesworld.com/gbx-gowingame.php

I don't know if it's new or not, but I never saw this section of NESWorld before, not sure how it slipped past me. I didn't know English versions of their games even existed.

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Pirate Talk / Dunk Kong for DOS
« on: February 21, 2011, 04:24:46 AM »
I chanced upon this thread at HC Gaming today and found this  :lol:




It may be a PC game, but just like console pirates it's trying to rip-off a licensed character so this may as well be considered a PC pirate of sorts. I'd love to try it out, but all I can do is type the Korean for Dunk Kong, which brings no results on Google. One thing to consider though is that this came from a magazine scan, so there's no proof the game was actually released.

Anyone more capable of helping in figuring out the status of this thing?

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Game Boy / Rockman and Crystal gameplay videos
« on: February 10, 2011, 07:27:19 AM »
Someone who owns the game put up videos of most stages of the game. Interesting to finally see!

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=9D0D2F9C7C49E032

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Mega Drive/Genesis / Hidden logos in Conquering the World 3
« on: February 07, 2011, 01:36:18 AM »
I found this post on the SpritesMind forums, 2nd post in the topic.

http://gendev.spritesmind.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=791

Quote:
 
The only one thing: after beating the game you see black screen with music playing. I hacked palette and get strange logo with fax number.

Here's how to get it:
Open ROM in hex-editor, go to address $62B6 write
22BCC0000000700F209A51C8FFFC60FEFFFFFFFF
Here are saves:
http://slil.ru/29603997

Also I found 2 easter eggs:
1. On screen "Start/Continue" press Start + A + B + C.
2. On screen "Start/Continue" press Right + Start + A + C.[/quote]

The links for the save are down so someone whos at the end could try the hex edit and tell us what appears. I don't recognize the first easter egg pic, but the 2nd one I think is Winsen?

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Other Pirates / Singing Cicada mobile games
« on: January 28, 2011, 04:17:20 AM »
I can't recall if this was discussed on the RX forums before, but I recently came across them again and thought I might as well bring it more attention. Singing Cicada are a company in China who are probably only ever going to be known for having produced a rip-off of Castlevania for mobile phones called 秦殇—千年轮回, roughly translated The Qin War - Thousand Year Rebirth or usually just called Qin Shang. A lot of the graphics are clearly ripped from the whole Castlevania series, possibly mainly SOTN. Here's a video of it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6c7lzt1XH8&feature=related

You can get the Java executable from here. http://s1.cngba.com/rom!/PSP_TOOL/MO/QS_EMC.rar
Apparently this is a version someone made to run on PSP or something, I don't get it. Fastest download I could find though, the game is easy to find, it's in a folder marked as Qinsan. Also comes with a cheap port of Aria of Sorrow for mobile, may as well ignore that. If you want to play it on your PC, you need the emulator Sj Boy Special Edition. There's also another one called KEmulator, but I think Sj Boy is supposed to be better.

Back onto the company, they seem to still be making games, though it's been over a year since their last one, which is called Monkey King. I haven't looked much for the file yet, but you can see shots here. http://bbs.spforum.net/viewthread.php?tid=282136
I swear the graphics feel familiar at parts, and of course if they're gonna ripoff graphics for one product, they'd likely do it again. But I don't remember anything they might be from. it looks pretty good though.

Their first game appears to be a shooter called 天空战记, or Space Chronicles I guess. I can't find much about it besides the official page here: http://www.singingcicada.com/product_2.html
That title screen feels familiar. The game's name leads me to believe they stole it from this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legend_of_Heavenly_Sphere_Shurato

The only other two games they list on their site don't have a page of their own, but appear to be released. Here's some pages with shots I found.

征神领域(Lost Odyssey)
http://mgame.qq.com/mobilegame_show.jsp?from=0&id=2255

火线奇兵
http://news.joyes.com/details.aspx?id=7384

Though that site for 征神领域 seems to have a download for the game, their official forums which has a subforum for each games makes it appear that game is still in development. Lazy on updating I guess? But what's interesting is they also have a subforum for a Qin Shang II. I bet it never gets released  :D




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Pirate Talk / Barver's Pirate Bazaar
« on: December 18, 2010, 01:42:44 AM »
Here's a list of what I'm selling. Updated as stuff is sold. Shipping is not included in prices, let me know your location so i can calculate. :) Don'y do trades, payment is always Paypal only.



Son of Evil and C.U.G for Super A'can - $30 each, willing to take offers if you want to buy both together.

http://oi55.tinypic.com/8xld6s.jpg  (image limit reached, you'll have to click this one yurselves =p)
Thunderbolt 2 - on hold  $35, shooting game from Gamtec I think? They made the FC version anyway so i assume its their game. Pics and video:
http://park21.wakwak.com/~suka/sega/consumer/raiden2/raiden2.html



Phantasy Star 4 - $25, port of the Genesis game. This is the original first print run of the game, harder to find than more recent reprints. The tabs holding the manual inside are broken, plus the box has a tiny chip at the top right. Besides that it's in great condition.



GameBoy pirates CIB. All except Monster Card Tactics(Chinese) are in Japanese.
 Prices as follows:
Metal Walker = $4 sold
Juukou Senki Bullet Battlers = $8
Super Robot Wars Link Battle=$6
Dragon Quests I&II = $7
Dragon Monster Card = $15, here's a video of this game: http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=irjXnVy4geY


Code: HTML
 
http://oi54.tinypic.com/14aegbd.jpg

King of Fighters 97 - $15, hack of King of Fighters 95 I think, that adds more characters and possibly levels? There's a video on youtube I'm sure.



Megadrive games. Samurai Spirits is already sold.
Wonder Boy III - $5, the MD logo on the side of the box is cut off by the previous owner :(
Super Monaco GP II - $4

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