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Just a place for me to dump my GB/C dumps. Everything is going to be a raw dump or a trimmed one. I don't modify them to make them work on non-hhugboy emulators since I'm not very well versed in that sort of thing. I'll get around to posting everything I have over the next few days or what not. Please excuse all the really long file names I give everything.
I've also got a public list (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zFJ-nsUwJm0vxt2OVNkfXUP_vrCAJD99I6tDTRpVcSk/edit?gid=0#gid=0) of all unlicensed and bootleg GB/C games I can find that are either on Handheld Underground, The Internet Archive, Bootleg Games Central, or on the BGC Discord. DISCLAIMER: I can never guarantee any ROMs you download from other sources will be virus-free, be cautious and scan files if you feel you need to.
Starting off is the Chinese version of Donkey Kong 5: The Journey Of Over Time And Space by Sintax. Not too much else to say here.
Developer: BBD
Publisher: Sintax
Da Jin Gang 5: Chao Shi Kong Zhi Lu (大金刚5-超时空之旅)
(https://i.imgur.com/L1vBG3K.jpeg)(https://i.imgur.com/FRxc2gs.jpeg)
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A strange alternate version of Ha Li Bo Te (哈利波特), also known as Harry Potter 2: The black art wtrstle edition. This version has no introduction text at all for some reason. In addition, the Game Over (after not continuing) does not work the same as the other two dumps I'm aware of. taizou's English dump (https://hhug.me/?post=66) goes to a glitchy introduction and a Chinese dump on The Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/Harry_Potter_gbc) simply crashes. This one goes back to the introduction just fine.
Developer: BBD
Publisher: ???
Ha Li Bo Te 4: Zhong Wen Ban 2004(哈利波特4 - 中文版2004)
(https://i.imgur.com/dm5WlJW.jpeg)(https://i.imgur.com/EgOt7zx.jpeg)
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This is a Chinese language hack of Pokemon: Yellow Version. Based on the copyright on the title screen, it's based on the International release. It's not... great. The size of Chinese characters in a game not meant to accommodate them means glitches and compromises. I'm always on the lookout for variations of these Chinese Pokemon translation hacks.
Developer: ???
Publisher: ???
Huang Kou Dai Jing Ling - Zhong Wen Ban (黃口袋精灵 - 中文版)
(https://i.imgur.com/gdoh0k2.jpeg)(https://i.imgur.com/ZJo5lLO.jpeg)
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This was interesting because I remember hearing about the infamous Pokemon Diamond and Jade when I was younger but never knew there were various different versions behind the scenes. Typically Diamond is a hack of Telefang Power and Jade of Speed. However this particular Chinese copy of Jade is a hack of Power. Why? No clue.
If you want to play this ROM, make sure you use the "Pokemon Jade/Diamond" compatibility mode in hhugboy.
Developer: ???
Publisher: ???
Kou Dai Guai Shou: Fei Cui Ban (口袋怪兽-翡翠版)
(https://i.imgur.com/dX4nnkV.jpeg)(https://i.imgur.com/FlEYmlj.jpeg)
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Featuring: Budget Rayquaza and definitely Pokemon Emerald
So far I've only played the very beginning of this hack of Pokemon Gold, but so far it seems like it's just a Chinese translation hack with a different title screen. Oh, also there is no RTC and time moves I think 2-3 times faster than in real life. Which still sucks a lot because that means you'd need to play 8 hours in order to move the day ahead once.
I'm not 100% sure that the publisher is called Tian Ren Electronics Factory (天任电子厂). I've just seen that name on the back of a box for a bootleg this unknown company released of Turrican. Maybe it's just where they outsourced the physical production of items.
Developer: ???
Publisher: Tian Ren Electronics
Kou Dai Guai Shou: Lu Bao Shi (口袋怪兽-绿宝石)
(https://i.imgur.com/1dBIAQZ.jpeg)(https://i.imgur.com/QFtP85y.jpeg)
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It's Pokemon Pearl! Just kidding, it's the 2nd Trading Card game for the Gameboy Color in Chinese. I bought this wondering if it was something I'd never heard of before but I forgot that I've seen some bootleg copies of the TCG have "Pearl" in the titles, possibly in reference to the Energy cards.
Developer: ???
Publisher: KongFeng
Kou Dai Ming Zhu - Zhong Wen Ban (口袋明珠 - 中文版)
(https://i.imgur.com/xOpwnTO.jpeg)(https://i.imgur.com/CwDXwM2.jpeg)
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A trimmed file this time, the header information was causing it to automatically dump as a 1mb file which didn't work, so I overdumped it (as my dumper doesn't allow for a specific dump size) and trimmed it down to 2mb.
Developer: ???
Publisher: Sintax
Kou Dai Yao Guai: Chong Ji (口袋妖怪-冲击)
(https://i.imgur.com/DPPRoOx.jpeg)(https://i.imgur.com/bRzjt1U.jpeg)
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A less common bootleg translation of Pokemon Blue based on the North American Version. The title screen certainly looks a lot better than the more common version for sale which means it could have been more recently produced.
EDIT: A bit late, but I think based on the fact that the title screen utilizes Traditional Chinese this is probably off Taiwanese origin.
Developer: Vast Fame
Publisher: New GB Color
Lan Guai Shou (藍怪獸)
(https://i.imgur.com/5BmhGCq.jpeg)(https://i.imgur.com/MC3Bhrq.jpeg)
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Although this game has already been dumped by Ankos from a multicart (http://bootleg.games/BGC_Forum/index.php?topic=3094.msg22284#msg22284), my dump seems to have slightly different data. To be honest I'm not sure what is actually different, just that the dumps aren't the exact same so here is mine just in case.
Developer: Makon Soft
Publisher: Ka Sheng
Shu Ma Bao Long: Kou Dai Ban (數碼暴龍-口袋版)
(https://i.imgur.com/YJhQles.jpeg)(https://i.imgur.com/RpNhYY3.jpeg)
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Odd, I thought I'd already posted this but I must have misremembered. Down the rabbit hole of Pokemon Diamond and Jade lore again, there seems to be different versions of Diamond and Jade featuring a Pikachu head title screen (copied over from Pokemon Pinball as pointed out eagle-eyed people in the BGC Discord). This version also retains the company credits in the intro and even has the correctly colored tree trunks in the intro sequence.
This one is the Diamond version but I'm aware that a Jade version exists due to a screenshot on the Wiki. Definitely still have my eye out for that one.
Developer: ???
Publisher: Tian Ren Electronics
Kou Dai Guai Shou: Zuan Shi Ban (口袋怪兽-钻石版)
(https://i.imgur.com/yySQTPa.jpeg)(https://i.imgur.com/gROhFBi.jpeg)
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The cart art doesn't feature Digimon at all, in-fact this was pointed out on the BGC Discord that the little monsters on the front actually seem to come from Gowin box art. Whether they actually come from somewhere else entirely is unknown (to me at least).
Developer: Makon Soft
Publisher: KongFeng
Shu Ma Bao Long 2 (數碼暴龍2)
(https://i.imgur.com/w6stE5r.jpeg)(https://i.imgur.com/798gmcH.jpeg)
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Similar to my above post of Jade, typically Diamond is a hack of Telefang Power and Jade of Speed. However this particular Chinese copy of Diamond is a hack of Speed. Why? Still no clue.
If you want to play this ROM, make sure you use the "Pokemon Jade/Diamond" compatibility mode in hhugboy.
Developer: ???
Publisher: ???
Kou Dai Guai Shou: Zuan Shi Ban (口袋怪兽-钻石版)
(https://i.imgur.com/fY0wNLK.jpeg)(https://i.imgur.com/kb1ZPQ3.jpeg)
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A multicart rip of a bootleg translation of Pokemon Gold into English, better known as Hong Kong Gold. I plan to play through it (or Silver) eventually as I'd like to experience all the wackiness on my own.
Developer: HC Translations
Publisher: Ka Sheng
Pokemon: Gold Version
(https://i.imgur.com/3gTnG9i.jpeg)(https://i.imgur.com/yq2Zams.jpeg)
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Same as the just above post, a multicart rip of a bootleg translation of Pokemon Silver into English. Oh and if you're curious, the name of the translation group can be found in the naming menu.
Developer: HC Translations
Publisher: Ka Sheng
Pokemon: Silver Version
(https://i.imgur.com/7a4j4xq.jpeg)(https://i.imgur.com/vzs5J5c.jpeg)
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Dumped from a standalone cart, it seems to be different from taizou's multicart rip (https://hhug.me/?post=44). Not sure what is different though.
Developer: ???
Publisher: SKOB
Chao Jin Hua: Shu Ma Bao Long D-3 (超進化-數碼寶貝D-3)
(https://i.imgur.com/MVM1Np5.jpeg)(https://i.imgur.com/dYdicyJ.jpeg)
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Ankos has already dumped this (http://bootleg.games/BGC_Forum/index.php?topic=3094.msg22285#msg22285) but from a KongFeng cart. Mine is from a Ka Sheng cart and is different somehow, again. I can never tell what, but it's there. Probably.
If you want to play this ROM, make sure you use the "NT (Makon) new" compatibility mode in hhugboy.
Developer: Makon Soft
Publisher: Ka Sheng
Shu Ma Bao Long 02 5 (數碼暴龍 02 5)
(https://i.imgur.com/ydLTKUO.jpeg)(https://i.imgur.com/3d3WFqm.jpeg)
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Another game that's actually been dumped many a time as it's been published by so many companies and yet this one is different again somehow.
Developer: Vast Fame
Publisher: Lie Bao Technology
Shu Ma Bao Long 3: Shui Jing Ban (數碼暴龍3-水晶版)
(https://i.imgur.com/pKdVRzj.jpeg)(https://i.imgur.com/JuTTRyo.jpeg)
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A weird one, it's
Pokemon Platinum a strange hack of Pokemon Gold. There's a "title screen" before the game starts that then goes to the actual title screen, but devoid of any title or other text. Honestly they could have at least just pasted the title over the official title screen but that's just my opinion.
Developer: ???
Publisher: ???
EDIT: Needed to update the name of the file because I accidentally used the wrong character in the title leading to an inaccurate name. It's not Zi Jin, but rather Bai Jin (as in Platinum). 自 (zi) has one more stroke than 白 (bai), whoops! Sorry about that.
Kou Dai Guai Shou: Bai Jin Shen Shou (口袋怪兽-白金神兽)
(https://i.imgur.com/di4KV3e.jpeg)(https://i.imgur.com/FKuxG7N.jpeg)
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This is an interesting one, it's a title screen hack of Pokémon Diamond (or Telefang Power technically). It has the weird pre-title screen title screen that then leads to another blank title screen that simply says "Press Start". It doesn't even have the usual voice line that plays, plus it doesn't require you to switch to "Pokemon Jade/Diamond" compatibility mode in hhugboy. Also very sloppy, why is the title screen so far to the right-side of the screen?
Anyhow, this is my last dump until I get any more stuff in. I do have some multicart menus, but I'll leave those on the Discord for now.
Developer: ???
Publisher: ???
Kou Dai Yao Guai Zhi Shen Qi Tian Xian (口袋妖怪之神奇天线)
(https://i.imgur.com/SOe4aPY.jpeg)(https://i.imgur.com/9tA04Bd.jpeg)
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These are amazing. Thank you for sharing!!!
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These are amazing. Thank you for sharing!!!
You're welcome :) I'm glad I got around to posting these here.
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Kou Dai Guai Shou: Bai Jin Shen Shou (口袋怪兽-白金神兽)
Needed to update the name of the file because I accidentally used the wrong character in the title leading to an inaccurate name. It's not Zi Jin, but rather Bai Jin (as in Platinum). 自 (zi) has one more stroke than 白 (bai), whoops! Sorry about that.
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This is a weird one, why is it that the title screen says "Vida Translations" but the naming menu says "HC Translations"? The translation itself is (as far as I can tell at the beginning of the game) just HC's. Not really sure what the deal is here, but I'm sharing it anyways just because it exists. I've definitely seen the "CH" serial on bootlegs before but I'm not really sure who produced them.
Another neat detail is that the Pokemon logo is purple which looks pretty cool. I've seen images (as well as seen it on a multicart I can't get it off of sadly) that the Vida version has the standard yellow logo. So whoever made this recolored the logo, and I think it goes much better with Silver's title screen.
I still hope to find a standalone copy of a Vida Translations Pokemon Silver as well as other various Pokemon "translations".
Developer: ???
Publisher: ???
Pokemon Pocket Monsters: Silver
(https://i.imgur.com/0hOTMNE.jpeg)(https://i.imgur.com/rvLWZ2s.jpeg)
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Yeah, it's just Pokemon Blue. They couldn't even put a space between Green and Version, but I guess that makes this "translation" so unique. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but as far as I know the GS symbol was only used on the North American releases of Pokemon Gold and Silver dating it's earliest possible release to around 2000. It also hilariously asks you to connect to Yellow to catch all 251 Pokemon (which wouldn't be possible even if it were Gen 2 since Celebi was event only in Japan... I think?). Even if you only consider non-event Gen 1 Pokemon, Ekans, Arbok, and Electabuzz aren't in Blue (https://www.serebii.net/rb/exclusives.shtml#red) or Yellow (https://www.serebii.net/yellow/missing.shtml) making it impossible without using glitches.
Anyways, we know it's from the Sun/Tian Ren publisher due to the "SD" coding on the front and the fact that it does say "SUN" on the back of the PCB. It's kind of just a lazy title screen hack of Pokemon Blue but, enjoy I guess?
EDIT: Slight correction, I had the wrong palette turned on my Pocket while capturing the title screen. I've replaced the title screen image.
Developer: ???
Publisher: Tian Ren Electronics
Pokemon: GreenVersion
(https://i.imgur.com/9vpoYpQ.jpeg)(https://i.imgur.com/Xzb1XhI.jpeg)
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I believe this game (and the next) are undumped. Since they're both very similar to each other as well as Metal Slug 2001 (https://bootleggames.fandom.com/wiki/Metal_Slug_2001), I wonder if they were both built on BBD's Platformer Engine. The game had to be overdumped, then trimmed down to 2MB as it was autodetecting and dumping as 1MB causing it not to run.
Anyways, enjoy!
Developer: ???
Publisher: Sintax
007 Shui Yu Zheng Feng (007誰與爭鋒)
(https://i.imgur.com/VRzFRd3.jpeg)(https://i.imgur.com/V7HKilU.jpeg)
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The game starts off with a cutscene starring what looks like Lara Croft to me. It's a very heavily edited down version of the opening scene from Tomb Raider for the GBC. They cut out some of the color, text, and most of the scene in general. Similar to 007, I had to overdump it to get a working ROM.
Developer: ???
Publisher: Sintax
Yue Nan Da Zuo Zhan 2 (越南大作戰2)
(https://i.imgur.com/RzSjL2R.jpeg)(https://i.imgur.com/p6fOz5w.jpeg)
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I thought this ROM was broken, but it turns out I just had to edit the header to fix it. Or at least make it work, for all I know it could break later on haha. I'm no wizard though, I literally just opened this and a working Tian Ren Pokemon hack and just copied over part of the header over which worked. And so here it is, Pokemon FireRed on the Gameboy. I have a few more to share, only one of which worked in the initial dump. I did notice the three games with "2009" on the QA sticker didn't work right away, wonder what changed between 2008 and 2009.
Oh yeah it's just a title screen and translation hack of Red really.
Developer: ???
Publisher: Tian Ren Electronics
Kou Dai Guai Shou: Huo Hong - Jin Qian Wu Xian Zhong Wen Ban V3.0 586 (口袋怪兽-火红 - 金钱无限中文版 V3.0 586)
(https://i.imgur.com/cF9a4Wk.jpeg)(https://i.imgur.com/FWlMYX6.jpeg)
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I know Blue is better because of fixed glitches and updated stuff but I wonder why they didn't choose to use Pokemon Green as a base for this one given the name. It's not like they stopped using Red. I also think this one has built in cheats for money? I can't quite remember but if there is there must be an action you have to take as simply going to the Trainer card only shows the standard 3000 Pokedollars. Similarly to the previous post, I had to edit the header to make it work.
Developer: ???
Publisher: Tian Ren Electronics
Kou Dai Guai Shou: Ye Lu - Wu Xian Zhong Wen Ban V3.0 586 (口袋怪兽-叶绿 - 金钱无限中文版 V3.0 586)
(https://i.imgur.com/JE0JvGp.jpeg)(https://i.imgur.com/2oDpksI.jpeg)
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It's Pokemon GreenLeaf! Nah, it's actually Pokemon LeafGreen but it's actually it's Pokemon Green V1.01 built on top of Pokemon Blue again. Makes sense.
I wonder what V1.0 is like.
Developer: ???
Publisher: Tian Ren Electronics
Kou Dai Guai Shou: Ye Lu - Zhong Wen Ban - Green V1.01 (口袋怪兽-叶绿 - 中文版 - Green V1.01)
(https://i.imgur.com/Vl9K7Jk.jpeg)(https://i.imgur.com/uXyvJTI.jpeg)
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A hack of a hack. Or something. It really bills itself as a Pokemon game in a different way, which is extra misleading because every other similar release by Tian Ren has actually been Pokemon but this was a cool discovery. This also needed a header fix to work. Had to overdump it as well as it kept autodetecting as a 64KB file.
Developer: ???
Publisher: Tian Ren Electronics
Kou Dai Guai Shou: Fei Cui Ban V3.0 586 - Zhong Wen Ban (口袋怪兽-翡翠版 V3.0 586 - 中文版)
(https://i.imgur.com/Jne5x8A.jpeg)(https://i.imgur.com/1Jpo1oy.jpeg)
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Wildly confused, I could have sworn I already shared this but oh well. Better late than never I suppose.
It seems to just be Pokemon: Diamond, just published by a different company. A lot of companies were just taking from one another though unsurprisingly.
Developer: ???
Publisher: Lie Bao Technology
Kou Dai Guai Shou: Zuan Shi Ban (口袋怪兽-钻石版)
(https://i.imgur.com/udoPekN.jpeg)(https://i.imgur.com/W0DOvXo.jpeg)
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This is something you can easily find online to be honest, but this is meant to be a dump with a known source. I ripped it this off the pictured multicart, no idea who released it though. One thing that is funny is that most multicarts will slightly edit titles on the menu to disguise that they are repeating the same 10 games. Not this one though, it just repeats everything with the exact same titles. I played this for a bit as a test, but I suck to be honest so I couldn't even get through the first level to the boss (which I assume there is one).
By the way, the constantly flashing title of Thunder Blast Man with different colors makes it a little annoying to capture a title screenshot.
Developer: Sachen
Publisher: ???
Thunder Blast Man
(https://i.imgur.com/iSY36Xp.jpeg)(https://i.imgur.com/y55fEwl.jpeg)
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Yeah, it's just Pokemon Blue. They couldn't even put a space between Green and Version, but I guess that makes this "translation" so unique. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but as far as I know the GS symbol was only used on the North American releases of Pokemon Gold and Silver dating it's earliest possible release to around 2000. It also hilariously asks you to connect to Yellow to catch all 251 Pokemon (which wouldn't be possible even if it were Gen 2 since Celebi was event only in Japan... I think?). Even if you only consider non-event Gen 1 Pokemon, Ekans, Arbok, and Electabuzz aren't in Blue (https://www.serebii.net/rb/exclusives.shtml#red) or Yellow (https://www.serebii.net/yellow/missing.shtml) making it impossible without using glitches.
Anyways, we know it's from the Sun/Tian Ren publisher due to the "SD" coding on the front and the fact that it does say "SUN" on the back of the PCB. It's kind of just a lazy title screen hack of Pokemon Blue but, enjoy I guess?
EDIT: Slight correction, I had the wrong palette turned on my Pocket while capturing the title screen. I've replaced the title screen image.
Developer: ???
Publisher: Tian Ren Electronics
Pokemon: GreenVersion
(https://i.imgur.com/9vpoYpQ.jpeg)(https://i.imgur.com/Xzb1XhI.jpeg)
Sorry to post in your thread but I recognize this version. It's also on the 100 in 1 multicart by Game USA (UC-100M01). Not sure if this has been known or is significant
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Sorry to post in your thread but I recognize this version. It's also on the 100 in 1 multicart by Game USA (UC-100M01). Not sure if this has been known or is significant
I don't mind if you post. I never noticed this was on the 100 in 1, that multicart really has a wide range of various games.
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Finally, I found a multicart that provides working dumps of the PIS Watch hacks of Japanese Gold and Silver. I have a standalone Silver that dumps a glitchy ROM and another multicart that doesn't dump anything but the menu. I've only tested this up to getting the Pokedex and beating a wild Pokemon. In the previous partially functional dump of Silver a lot of sprites and sounds were messed up and the game would crash as soon as you got into your first battle.
Developer: ???
Publisher: ???
Poketto Monsuta Kin (ポケットモンスター金)
(https://i.imgur.com/c1G5Shg.jpeg)(https://i.imgur.com/LV9nWeR.jpeg)
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Same as above.
To elaborate, the PIS Watch menu (as seen here) (https://bootleggames.fandom.com/wiki/86_in_1_Color), allows you to change the time and day at will. It's not like there is no RTC, I'm not sure if time moves while off but it certainly moves as you play the game. Current goal is find a working PIS Watch version of Crystal which apparently does exist (https://x.com/taizou_hori/status/1066700317591568387).
Developer: ???
Publisher: ???
Poketto Monsuta Gin (ポケットモンスター銀)
(https://i.imgur.com/XaE8ihh.jpeg)(https://i.imgur.com/xyDkgWt.jpeg)
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Based on what I've seen, this could be an earlier version of a Pokemon Yellow translation of Taiwanese origin that I've seen. I'll have to see if I can find it and play and do a little comparison. I'm going to guess it's better than the previous (far far more common) Chinese pirate translation of Yellow though.
For some reason it won't boot on my GBC or my GBA but it will boot on my Analogue Pocket. Thankfully it dumped fine and works in hhugboy, which will boot it in SGB mode automatically. I haven't tested it out *too* much really, all I've done is withdraw my free Potion and win my first battle.
EDIT: Forgot this was built on Japanese Yellow and the Japanese version doesn't have the fancy GBC bells and whistles the other releases have so I turned on the palette for Japanese Yellow on my Pocket and recaptured the screenshot.
Developer: Vast Fame
Publisher: New GB Color
Kou Dai Guai Shou: Huang Se Ban (口袋怪獸-黄色版)
(https://i.imgur.com/sqCwZl2.jpeg)(https://i.imgur.com/ASIEgDn.jpeg)
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Yup, definitely Pokemon: Ruby Version for the GBC. As expected, I needed to fix the header for this dump.
Developer: ???
Publisher: Tian Ren Electronics
Kou Dai Guai Shou Hong Bao Shi - Zhong Wen Ban: V3.0 586 Guai Shou (口袋怪兽红宝石 - 中文版-V3.0 586怪兽)
(https://i.imgur.com/07mwlxu.jpeg)(https://i.imgur.com/x4XJlJh.jpeg)
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From the same people who created the fake Pokemon: Platinum Version, we have Emerald with all 386 Pokemon! Makes me wonder when the first 386 hacks came out and if these title screen hacks copied them or pioneered the idea.
This time, in addition to an inserted title screen before the game boots we actually have an edited title screen! I didn't notice before, but the game will autoboot in SGB mode in hhugboy but no border shows up until after the actual game starts.
Another interesting feature of this hack is that it's says it's GreenVersion, but is actually Blue similar to the alleged English translation I previously shared. However, the palette that loads automatically in a GBA (it's too dark to really tell on my GBC) is that of Pokemon: Green Version. Pretty neat in my opinion.
Developer: ???
Publisher: ???
Kou Dai Guai Shou: Lu Bao Shi 386 (口袋怪兽-绿宝石386)
(https://i.imgur.com/y6Guk39.jpeg)(https://i.imgur.com/40Y35G1.jpeg)
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Oh hey, yet another Emerald (this time it's a hack of Yellow). By some miracle, despite being a 2009 release, this required zero header editing and works as is. They insert this cursed looking Gallade with a limited palette at the beginning of the game before anything starts and just totally blank out the actual starting screen. Kind of like those unclaimed Pokemon and Telefang Hacks I've posted. Hmmm.
By the way, I can't identify the Gallade image being used on the label. I tried looking through some official art and reverse image searched it as well. If you know, please let me know.
Developer: ???
Publisher: Tian Ren Electronics
Kou Dai Guai Shou: Lu Bao Shi V2.0 493 (口袋怪兽-绿宝石 V2.0 493)
(https://i.imgur.com/Fz0IZtN.jpeg)(https://i.imgur.com/wqSaUdD.jpeg)
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This one was tough, it wouldn't always get detected by my dumper, it sometimes gave me a garbage file, and it always automatically detected as 8MB causing it to take a long time to dump multiple times. Why did I need to dump it multiple times? Because it keeps giving me inconsistent dumps. I did get two dumps that were exactly the same, which is what I'm sharing here. I trimmed it down to 1MB (the same size as the Internet Archive dump as well as 02 4 which I think it's based on).
Developer: ???
Publisher: Tian Ren Electronics
Shu Ma Bao Long 02: Fei Cui Ban (數碼暴龍02-翡翠版)
(https://i.imgur.com/O0UtMFD.jpeg)(https://i.imgur.com/eu6lk9n.jpeg)
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Another tough one, this time no consistent dumps at all. I had to compare 6 dumps in a hex editor to see which data was the most consistent. There wasn't much, but some had half half and I needed to make 3 additional dumps to break ties.
This appears to be a title screen hack of Vast Fame's Digimon 3: Crystal.
Developer: ???
Publisher: Tian Ren Electronics
Shu Ma Bao Long 4: Yu Cheng Pian (數碼暴龍4-育成篇)
(https://i.imgur.com/4g87IiL.jpeg)(https://i.imgur.com/l5NEH7V.jpeg)
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A BBD Digimon game, this one has a lot of aliases. You can probably tell what it is just from the title screen.
This one boots with a BBD logo on a GBC (https://bootleggames.fandom.com/wiki/BBD?file=BBD_Boot_Logo.jpg#Gallery) which is always neat.
Developer: BBD
Publisher: ???
Shu Ma Bao Long 2001 (數碼暴龍2001)
(https://i.imgur.com/QnY7QIY.jpeg)(https://i.imgur.com/AxMI8Q1.jpeg)
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Oh hey, yet another Emerald (this time it's a hack of Yellow). By some miracle, despite being a 2009 release, this required zero header editing and works as is. They insert this cursed looking Gallade with a limited palette at the beginning of the game before anything starts and just totally blank out the actual starting screen. Kind of like those unclaimed Pokemon and Telefang Hacks I've posted. Hmmm.
By the way, I can't identify the Gallade image being used on the label. I tried looking through some official art and reverse image searched it as well. If you know, please let me know.
Developer: ???
Publisher: Tian Ren Electronics
Kou Dai Guai Shou: Lu Bao Shi V2.0 493 (口袋怪兽-绿宝石 V2.0 493)
(https://i.imgur.com/Fz0IZtN.jpeg)(https://i.imgur.com/wqSaUdD.jpeg)
The image of gallade is likely traced from the front artwork of this booster pack :)
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The image of gallade is likely traced from the front artwork of this booster pack :)
Oh neat, thanks for the information!
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Managed to get my hands on one. I've not really tested it out much but it's kind of like a Tamagotchi but with Digimon. It's supposed to be able to connect with (probably only older) official Digimon devices but I can't really test that out. I also am unsure of how it compares to official devices, as I'm fairly sure a real one doesn't have a feature to skip forward in time. In any case, the dump seems to work fine, but I cannot guarantee it won't do something wacky later.
I always name my stuff after the title screen (since unlicensed games often can have different labels from different publishers, etc.) but if you want a tad bit more information check out the wiki page on Digimon 6 (https://bootleggames.fandom.com/wiki/Digimon_6) and the source.
Developer: Best Rich
Publisher: ???
GB. Digimon
(https://i.imgur.com/qM6due3.jpeg)(https://i.imgur.com/rmIB1fm.jpeg)
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Works on my Analogue Pocket and my Gameboy Color, but not my Advance. Strange indeed. Not much more to say to be honest, this is an alternative and less common Pokemon Red translation hack.
Developer: Vast Fame
Publisher: New GB Color
Kou Dai Guai Shou: Hong Se Ban (口袋怪獸-紅色版)
(https://i.imgur.com/ccL1Ef6.jpeg)(https://i.imgur.com/aQmMXvN.jpeg)
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The title screen looks remarkably similar to Pearl's. It's also really weird how the top of "PUSH START" seems to be missing the border, unless the border was done in white? Who knows.
Developer: ???
Publisher: Sintax
Kou Dai Yao Guai: Ye Lu (口袋妖怪-叶绿)
(https://i.imgur.com/PyuVZ8X.jpeg)(https://i.imgur.com/GrgLkzM.jpeg)
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It's strange being Shadow Lugia and not being able to fly? I guess that'd trivialize this being a platformer I suppose. Also I thought the Koffings were Cryogonals and was very very confused about how late of a release this game was.
I vaguely remember looking for the label art and found that it was from a volume of the Pokemon manga but frankly I can't remember which one.
Fair warning for this one, I can't confirm it was a good dump. I was unable to get it dump a working game a second time, and even then I barely could get my dumper to read it. But hey it seems to work?
Developer: ???
Publisher: Sintax
Kou Dai Yao Guai XD: An Zhi Ju Feng (口袋妖怪XD-暗之飓风)
(https://i.imgur.com/JShhRjx.jpeg)(https://i.imgur.com/c1toduK.jpeg)
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Final upload for now (unless I can figure out how to get some other dumps to work off-console). We got the Hulk! You can play as either Bruce Banner or the Hulk. Both can jump on enemies to kill them, but the Hulk can shoot a projectile. I'm not sure what he's doing, but Bruce is able to delay his fall if you press the A button while in midair. If you spam it, you can basically glide over parts of a level.
Developer: ???
Publisher: Sintax
Lu Se Ju Ren (綠色巨人)
(https://i.imgur.com/EHFdVS6.jpeg)(https://i.imgur.com/KHRbYQw.jpeg)
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Neat thing about the Hulk ROM: it actually switches some of the XOR values used for the copy protection during gameplay despite being a modified version of Digimon Adventure 2001. That now makes three Sintax games known to use their protection mapper on-the-fly, the other games being Langrsr II/Fantastic Simulated Battle and Metal Max. I'm not sure what compelled Sintax to do this especially since some of the late-era releases from like 2006 use the typical one and done protection XOR settings on startup (at least Langrsr II and Metal Max were likely released in 2003 according to Sintax's copyright filings (https://fuji.12bit.club/stuff/xin.html)) . This does mean that the ROM for Hulk and the other aforementioned Sintax games using the on-the-fly protection can't be automatically cracked with tools like Sintaxinator, though.
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Little treasures! Lot of thanks
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This is an RPG called(?) Final Fantasy: Unlimited Saga. There's already a dump available on the Internet Archive but I thought I'd do my own since I wanted my own copy anyhow. I did compare them and they aren't exactly the same. What has changed? As usual, no idea. The wiki does mention Sintax listing an English copy on their website so it *possibly* exists, but as far as I know nothing has turned up yet sadly. Thankfully the Chinese characters are all big and clear, making it easier to translate using a phone.
I do plan on playing this as it doesn't seem that bad so far. One random thing I did note is that despite being a Sintax release, there is no intro logo at all, it just boots straight into the opening scene (which you can't skip by the way :l).
Developer: Sintax
Publisher: Sintax
Zui Zhong Huan Xiang: Wu Jin Sha Jia (最终幻想-無盡沙加)
(https://i.imgur.com/2DvUqdt.jpeg)(https://i.imgur.com/VmqOOPu.jpeg)
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Well, when I bought this I was curious about the language option. Indeed, you are able to switch between Chinese and English before starting the game. As I was watching the beginning scene, I thought "wow, this is pretty well animated and done!", only for the game to mention "Daikatana". Yep, it's a Chinese translation hack of Daikatana for the Gameboy Color.
Developer: ???
Publisher: Tian Ren Electronics
Xia Ke Xing (侠客行)
(https://i.imgur.com/yYnKLL6.jpeg)(https://i.imgur.com/EdOpz8T.jpeg)
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This is an RPG called(?) Final Fantasy: Unlimited Saga. There's already a dump available on the Internet Archive but I thought I'd do my own since I wanted my own copy anyhow. I did compare them and they aren't exactly the same. What has changed? As usual, no idea. The wiki does mention Sintax listing an English copy on their website so it *possibly* exists, but as far as I know nothing has turned up yet sadly. Thankfully the Chinese characters are all big and clear, making it easier to translate using a phone.
I do plan on playing this as it doesn't seem that bad so far. One random thing I did note is that despite being a Sintax release, there is no intro logo at all, it just boots straight into the opening scene (which you can't skip by the way :l).
Developer: ???
Publisher: Sintax
Zui Zhong Huan Xiang: Wu Jin Sha Jia (最终幻想-無盡沙加)
(https://i.imgur.com/2DvUqdt.jpeg)(https://i.imgur.com/VmqOOPu.jpeg)
The English version (Crystal Age) also had a listing on one of Sintax's Alibaba pages, meaning they did attempt to sell it at one point. As for the common dump of this game, my understanding is that is an early build that got leaked. Sky League had access to someone at Sintax who shared a few protos. This, to my knowledge, is the first time the final version has been dumped
Edit: And it was developed in-house. Could've started development under BBD I guess, but Sintax bought them out, so the distinction between the two isn't that important