- taizou
- Aug 21 2010, 08:04:01 PM
wow :D RPG Maker. Fantastic. seriously did no one apart from V.Fame make their own music on the GBC (and Yong Yong, but, well, yeah).[/quote]Well, there is Sachen, but they're basically an extension of Yong Yong anyway on most of their recent stuff. I think Gowin's GBC games have original music, too, but since they won't even play on some actual hardware, much less emulators...
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Last Bible was originally released for the mono GB in 1992 btw (only the '99 colour version got a US release)[/quote]Ah, that would explain it. The GBS rip is of the GBC rerelease, and thus shows a '99 copyright.- Title: Stolen music in GB pirates
Post by: taizou on August 21, 2010, 08:17:37 PM- I just noticed the music from my 19 in 1 is from Last Bible too. though i guess thats not surprising, what with both menus being pretty much identical. I wonder if the menus were coded by someone who worked on Meng Huan Zhi Xing or if its just a coincidence..
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Post by: codeman38 on August 21, 2010, 08:36:36 PM
- taizou
- Aug 21 2010, 08:17:37 PM
I just noticed the music from my 19 in 1 is from Last Bible too. though i guess thats not surprising, what with both menus being pretty much identical. I wonder if the menus were coded by someone who worked on Meng Huan Zhi Xing or if its just a coincidence..[/quote]LOL, I had just edited my comment to mention the 12-in-1 cart before you posted that. :D
I have no idea if it was coded by one of the same programmers, though with the links between so many pirate companies, you never can be too sure...- Title: Stolen music in GB pirates
Post by: taizou on August 21, 2010, 09:08:43 PM- ooh I just found the game True Three Kingdoms's music is from. its Seme COM Dungeon: Drururuaga. published by Namco but developed by the same team as RPG Maker GB.
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Post by: codeman38 on August 21, 2010, 09:17:06 PM
- taizou
- Aug 21 2010, 09:08:43 PM
ooh I just found the game True Three Kingdoms's music is from. its Seme COM Dungeon: Drururuaga. published by Namco but developed by the same team as RPG Maker GB.[/quote]Ooh, good catch! Don't know how I missed that. That would explain why it sounds so much like the RPG Maker music!
And the music in Castlevania EMO Demo is from Castlevania II. Yeah, that one's a shocker.
So yeah... pretty much every good GB pirate soundtrack is from another game, with the exception of VFame's. This is enlightening, but sad...- Title: Stolen music in GB pirates
Post by: taizou on August 22, 2010, 01:44:08 PM- Yeah, it is a bit. though I guess there werent as many pirate/unlicensed GB developers as on other consoles - its just unfortunate that probably the most prolific one (assuming all these Sintax/SKOB/TD games were developed by the same people, which seems kinda likely) was the one with a habit of stealing music.
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Post by: codeman38 on August 22, 2010, 05:06:05 PM
- taizou
- Aug 22 2010, 01:44:08 PM
Yeah, it is a bit. though I guess there werent as many pirate/unlicensed GB developers as on other consoles - its just unfortunate that probably the most prolific one (assuming all these Sintax/SKOB/TD games were developed by the same people, which seems kinda likely) was the one with a habit of stealing music.[/quote]I know BBD is responsible for a large number of Sintax' games that I've seen, and is often explicitly credited therein. And one of those explicitly credited games, True Three Kingdoms, has the TD-Soft boot logo in its ripped version (San Goku Shi Act C). So yeah, there's definitely a connection on those two, at least. And it wouldn't surprise me at all that they did contract development for SKOB too, given the similar quality and given that a SKOB game used the same music as a TD-Soft game.
[Edit: Thought I had something here with Saishuu Gensou displaying the same "Please use a Game Boy Color" message in mono mode as several Sintax titles, but Saishuu Gensou wasn't credited to SKOB in the first place. Oops. However, it does appear that the code to display the "Please use a Game Boy Color to play this game" message is buried in the ROM of SKOB's Super SLG, but doesn't run in the dumped copy. And both Super SLG and the Sintax games have "0123456789ABCDEF" in PC Paint's font near the beginning of the ROM. So yeah...]
But yeah, it could still be much worse. It could be that the most prolific one made music like Yong Yong's rather than stealing it from good soundtracks. <wishes there were a "covering ears" emoticon>