- TALUIGI
- Jun 17 2015, 10:17:09 AM
It's a "Company" called KUDOS(?). He's still making games today![/quote]I was about to say that!- Title: Finding the "Unknown Russian Developers"
Post by: HummerBootlegFan1992 on June 17, 2015, 04:43:18 PM- But I don't see any evidence? And please don't say Koloblocks because I'm pretty sure it's developed by another company taking the Unknown Russian Developers' engine. i don't even know what koloblocks is Like Digimon Adventure was made by Sintax taking the engine of Pocket Monster by DVS Electronics Co.
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Post by: TALUIGI on June 17, 2015, 06:02:27 PM
- HummerBootlegFan1992
- Jun 17 2015, 04:43:18 PM
But I don't see any evidence? And please don't say Koloblocks because I'm pretty sure it's developed by another company taking the Unknown Russian Developers' engine. i don't even know what koloblocks is Like Digimon Adventure was made by Sintax taking the engine of Pocket Monster by DVS Electronics Co.[/quote]This page! Go and scroll! This site haves alot of RUSSIAN bootlegs.
Warning! Addicting game :rolleyes:
(http://rufiles.narod.ru/page1.htm)
Yeah. But weirdly, this game is better compared to the another games. :O
Did they finally did right? O.o- Title: Finding the "Unknown Russian Developers"
Post by: Atomikku123 on May 02, 2016, 03:42:38 PM- I can't find the name "Kudos" on that site... Can somebody guide me?
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Post by: wario1990 on December 30, 2023, 10:27:15 AM- "KUDOS" is the company that the developer is working for. The developer is known as "BMB", But I have a theory related to his identity, his actual pseudonym (as they credited themselves secretly on a hidden sublevel in level 9 in Mario 3) is CARI TZAR.
If we look this name up, we get the following results:The incomplete homebrew game has similar physics to what you would find in a BMB game (might be a coincidence)
- CARI TZAR's account on a Russian forum dedicated to ROM hacking (https://shedevr.org.ru/forum/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=1770)
- CARI TZAR's website (http://www.cari-gamers.narod.ru/)
- An incomplete Sega Genesis homebrew game (made with the same SDK BMB's games are made on, SGDK) based on a PS1 game called The Neverhood, that they were working on back in 2009 (http://pscd.ru/games/smd/nsmd/1111-neverhood-the.html)
This might have been BMB's online identity before they got hired by KUDOS to work on games (Mario 3 is most likely the first game they worked on for KUDOS)- Title: Re: Finding the "Unknown Russian Developers"
Post by: waluigi1991 on January 07, 2024, 11:39:07 AM
Warning! Addicting game :rolleyes:
(http://rufiles.narod.ru/page1.htm)
Yeah. But weirdly, this game is better compared to the another games. :O
Did they finally did right? O.o
This doesn't mean Uwol: Quest for Money is made with BMB's engine, or vice versa, BMB only took the sound effects and some of its music (like the title screen) and used it in their games- Title: Re: Finding the "Unknown Russian Developers"
Post by: Vikograd on January 09, 2024, 04:19:34 PM
If we look this name up, we get the following results:The incomplete homebrew game has similar physics to what you would find in a BMB game (might be a coincidence)
- CARI TZAR's account on a Russian forum dedicated to ROM hacking (https://shedevr.org.ru/forum/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=1770)
- CARI TZAR's website (http://www.cari-gamers.narod.ru/)
- An incomplete Sega Genesis homebrew game (made with the same SDK BMB's games are made on, SGDK) based on a PS1 game called The Neverhood, that they were working on back in 2009 (http://pscd.ru/games/smd/nsmd/1111-neverhood-the.html)
This might have been BMB's online identity before they got hired by KUDOS to work on games (Mario 3 is most likely the first game they worked on for KUDOS)
This sounds promising, even though there's no way to know for sure.
Also in the third link about the unfinished game it says CARI aka Tzar meaning it's not just his nickname but possibly his first name and his nick. However, since I don't speak russian myself and with the English translation on the website being quite janky plus Cari sounding like a pretty strange name, I'm not to sure on this.
Just thought it'd be intersting to share though.- Title: Re: Finding the "Unknown Russian Developers"
Post by: SF-Human on April 05, 2024, 10:25:23 PM- Recently I found a few news article about a Genesis port of Plants vs Zombies was shown on an event, and judging by the screenshot I'm 100% sure it's the BMB version. The video was privated, so I can't see it in action.
https://www.megavisions.net/heres-plants-vs-zombies-on-sega-genesis/ (https://www.megavisions.net/heres-plants-vs-zombies-on-sega-genesis/)
https://segabits.com/blog/2013/07/23/plants-vs-zombies-running-on-the-sega-genesismega-drive/ (https://segabits.com/blog/2013/07/23/plants-vs-zombies-running-on-the-sega-genesismega-drive/)
https://www.polygon.com/2013/7/23/4548548/watch-plants-vs-zombies-running-on-a-sega-genesis (https://www.polygon.com/2013/7/23/4548548/watch-plants-vs-zombies-running-on-a-sega-genesis)
https://www.seganerds.com/2013/07/22/heres-plants-vs-zombies-on-sega-genesis/- Title: Re: Finding the "Unknown Russian Developers"
Post by: SF-Human on June 30, 2024, 02:35:03 AM- Recently someone goes by the name "Old_Pirate" claims to be BMB and is attempting to port Mario 3 to newer SGDK. He even screenshoted his Mario 3 folder on his Pateron. Judging by this and that his Battle City SMS port credits to TZAR I'm 99.9999% convinced that it's him, given the TZAR name isn't brought up much often than his BMB alias in discussions about his games.
https://www.patreon.com/OldPirate
https://x.com/OldPirate11
https://old-pirate.itch.io/- Title: Re: Finding the "Unknown Russian Developers"
Post by: Vikograd on July 19, 2024, 12:42:34 PM- If he's actually BMB we can confirm it's pronounced /vmv/ judging by his profile picture.
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Post by: Vikograd on July 19, 2024, 12:59:02 PM
Gotta correct myself here: it seems Cari is just the romazination of Цари, which is itself the plural of Царь which romanizes to Tzar.
Idk what I was thinking about it being his actual name or whatever...
https://cari-gamers.narod.ru/news.html
"Автор Cari [Цари]"- Title: Re: Finding the "Unknown Russian Developers"
Post by: Vikograd on July 19, 2024, 01:55:23 PM- Sorry for the many posts. I just dug into that website again and the only thing of note I found was an SMB hack by the guy called "Красный Краб" (literally "Red Crab"). It's for the NES.
I downloaded the rom from his website and tried to play it on my 3DS but it wouldn't let me proceed past the initial screen. The game didn't crash I don't think, it just didn't recognize any button presses.
Here's the rom if anyone wants to try to get this game running to find out if there's more to this than just a single screen.
https://www.cari-gamers.narod.ru/krab.htm- Title: Re: Finding the "Unknown Russian Developers"
Post by: SF-Human on July 20, 2024, 06:33:38 AM
I downloaded the rom from his website and tried to play it on my 3DS but it wouldn't let me proceed past the initial screen. The game didn't crash I don't think, it just didn't recognize any button presses.
Here's the rom if anyone wants to try to get this game running to find out if there's more to this than just a single screen.
https://www.cari-gamers.narod.ru/krab.htm (https://www.cari-gamers.narod.ru/krab.htm)
Attempted to fix it up.- Title: Re: Finding the "Unknown Russian Developers"
Post by: lancuster on July 20, 2024, 07:25:26 AM- Title: Re: Finding the "Unknown Russian Developers"
Post by: SF-Human on July 20, 2024, 10:30:37 AM- Title: Re: Finding the "Unknown Russian Developers"
Post by: Vikograd on August 11, 2024, 02:05:14 PM- Decided to plunge into this rabbit hole once more and I've actually managed to discover some striking new information!
First off, the game "Красный Краб" is a ROM hack of Super Mario Bros originally developped in December of 2005 which was later released in the first issue of the magazine TOF in 2006. By the developers its considered a milestone ROM hack in the scene since it's one of the first hacks to fully change everyting about a game, not just a few sprites.
The developers are Cari and TiberiyLTim.
Now about Cari. They're actually not one person but two brothers who shared a username at the time. They're also not even Russian but Ukranian. The name of one of the brothers behind Cari is "Голубев" (Golubev), born in the Soviet Union and in 2005 living in Украина г. Днепропетровск (Ukraine, Dnepropetrovsk)
https://romhacking.ru/news/bolee_10_let_khaku_red_crab_nes/2016-02-09-3355
"This year is the 10th anniversary of the release of the first Russian made ROM hack on the NES - "Red crab". This ROM hack was made in December 2005 and release to the public in the first issue of the electronic magazine "TOF", which was devoted to video games, emulation, romhacking and so on. Prior to this hack, independent romhackers had not been making full-scale hacks. A surprising exception was Kabal with his "UMKT" on SMD. At the time, the creation of mods only extended to crude redrawings of the characters or increases in the number of lives ("cheat hacks"), but such hacks, which changed almost everything (graphics, text, levels, sound, etc.) almost never existed from private ROM hackers."
https://gcup.ru/blog/10_let_moemu_pervomu_khaku_na_nes/2016-02-08-1332
"I came across the Super Mario Bros hack by Cari. It was the nickname of two brothers who were extremely illiterate, as they lived in Dnepropetrovsk and were quite young. And nobody wanted to work with them because they were behind a series of NES/SMD game translations into Russian of terrible quality. Perhaps some of their translations have been preserved to this day at bit16.ru."
This is from the mentioned TOF magazine, which I'll also post below. To read it, set the encoding to "Cyrillic (Windows)" otherwise you'll only see a jambled mess of characters:
From the "Redaction" page of the "Authors" section:
cari
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Name: Galubev
Place of Birth: USSR Russia
Residence: Ukraine, Dnepropetrovsk
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Post by: Vikograd on August 11, 2024, 02:19:23 PM- Btw, the other issues of the TOF magazine are at https://gfaq.ru/load/igrovye_zhurnaly/tof/2
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Post by: DRS on January 30, 2025, 09:55:17 AM
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Post by: DRS on January 30, 2025, 10:16:37 AM- If their last name is "Golubev", then the assumption that "BMB" means the initials of the developer is incorrect.
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Post by: Vikograd on February 11, 2025, 11:53:00 AM- Ah, that makes total sense. thanks :)