- Awesome Panda
- Jul 4 2012, 12:04:56 PM
The general quality of the games suggest it was developed specifically for Kudos, as does the stolen music. I don't think there are any public domain versions of the games, at least.[/quote]Yeah, I wasn't saying the games themselves were developed as free homebrew stuff. I was just curious whether Kudos actually hired sceners to do some of the work, or whether they just took a bunch of open-source code and stolen TFM mods and hacked at things until they worked. The more closely I look at the quality of things, it definitely seems more like the latter than the former... :)- Title: Chip & Dale: Rescue Rangers for Mega Drive
Post by: brightentayle on July 04, 2012, 03:46:46 PM
- Awesome Panda
- Jul 4 2012, 12:04:56 PM
The general quality of the games suggest it was developed specifically for Kudos, as does the stolen music. I don't think there are any public domain versions of the games, at least.[/quote]Yeah, except for Rick Dangerous, Sonic Megamix 3.0 and Uwol: Quest for Money which were naughtily reconverted to cartridges forfunprofit and profit.- Title: Chip & Dale: Rescue Rangers for Mega Drive
Post by: Barver on July 06, 2012, 04:00:03 AM- I didn't know Uwol was on pirate carts already. Was wondering when that would happen.
If they ported Rescue Rangers I have to wonder what else they ported. They couldn't have just stopped at only this I'd think. Shame they don't bother making new graphics though.- Title: Chip & Dale: Rescue Rangers for Mega Drive
Post by: brightentayle on July 07, 2012, 03:06:53 AM
- Barver
- Jul 6 2012, 04:00:03 AM
I didn't know Uwol was on pirate carts already. Was wondering when that would happen.
If they ported Rescue Rangers I have to wonder what else they ported. They couldn't have just stopped at only this I'd think. Shame they don't bother making new graphics though.[/quote]
Uwol was hacked long ago, and I've even seen it having... some really lame cover art, to be honest.
I definitely think so, although I honestly don't know what else they can reconvert. Track & Field, maybe? And well, Squirrel King already has new graphics. While Kudos' products center mainly on "most accurate NES-to-MD port possible".- Title: Chip & Dale: Rescue Rangers for Mega Drive
Post by: AxelRage92 on July 29, 2012, 09:33:43 AM- Oh what for the blazing hells was that music in the Chip 'n Dale video (in the beginning of the first level)? It remembered me some old Russian song, I just can't say its name.
The storyline is completely different from the original:
"When the Rescue Rangers team was on a mission, the Fat Cat insinuated into their headquarters on the tree. He kidnapped Zipper, and the gang of his helpers demounted their ... to the footing". I can't see what they have demounted, because the story is not shown completely in the video.
Some words about Kudos: I have found their site, as it says the company goes back to 1995. There is a lot of carts with both official and unofficial games for NES, Sega Genesis and GBA, some of them translated in Russian. I think that maybe they have people in their own staff to make those translations. Among NES translated games there were CHIP & DALE 1, CHIP & DALE 2, DARKWING DUCK, JUNGLE BOOK, TOM & JERRY, and among Sega Genesis I've noticed some new-made games similar to Mario 3 & 4 and Ben 10 mentioned in another topic. These include Avatar, Assassin's Creed, Fast and Furious 5 (!), Narnia Chronicles 3, Kung Fu Panda 2 and some others. They also have a forum, but it seems to become active just one or two months ago. Here is the link to the Kudos site (in Russian only): Kudos (http://kudos-game.ru/)
Oh, by the way, their translations have some spelling mistakes thus being not perfect. I am from Ukraine myself, but Russian, so I can see it :)- Title: Chip & Dale: Rescue Rangers for Mega Drive
Post by: codeman38 on July 29, 2012, 11:00:39 PM
- AxelRage92
- Jul 29 2012, 09:33:43 AM
among Sega Genesis I've noticed some new-made games similar to Mario 3 & 4 and Ben 10 mentioned in another topic. These include Avatar, Assassin's Creed, Fast and Furious 5 (!), Narnia Chronicles 3, Kung Fu Panda 2 and some others.[/quote]Alas, if the games of those same titles on RuFiles (http://rufiles.narod.ru/page2.htm) are the ones in question, they're just lazy title/graphic hacks of legitimate games. (But at least now we know what company's responsible for them!)- Title: Chip & Dale: Rescue Rangers for Mega Drive
Post by: AxelRage92 on August 01, 2012, 01:01:58 PM
- codeman38
- Jul 29 2012, 11:00:39 PM
- AxelRage92
- Jul 29 2012, 09:33:43 AM
among Sega Genesis I've noticed some new-made games similar to Mario 3 & 4 and Ben 10 mentioned in another topic. These include Avatar, Assassin's Creed, Fast and Furious 5 (!), Narnia Chronicles 3, Kung Fu Panda 2 and some others.[/quote]Alas, if the games of those same titles on RuFiles (http://rufiles.narod.ru/page2.htm) are the ones in question
[/quote]Yeah, these are the games I meant :)- Title: Chip & Dale: Rescue Rangers for Mega Drive
Post by: Feel on August 02, 2012, 02:09:22 PM- Although it is cool to have this great game on MD, what is the interest oh porting a 8bit game to a 16bits system as is?
- Title: Chip & Dale: Rescue Rangers for Mega Drive
Post by: AxelRage92 on August 03, 2012, 01:08:36 PM
- Feel
- Aug 2 2012, 02:09:22 PM
Although it is cool to have this great game on MD, what is the interest oh porting a 8bit game to a 16bits system as is?[/quote]You know, I asked myself the same question when I saw this for the first time. They've just ripped off all the graphics from the original and brought nothing new to the game. Moreover, they didn't care about the music and the storyline, so if you wanna get that nostalgic feeling, you can just take a NES emulator instead. What does it mean for the players? Just a marketing act? Something like "Yeah, now you can get the eternal NES classics on your Sega MD"! An 8-bit game on a 16-bit console? Looks strange. As for me, porting 16-bit games to NES is really interesting, because even some pirate-made games can show that NES has high potential that wasn't used before (remember Super Lion King, Donkey Kong 4 and Pocahontas 2). But what is the sense of bringing lower-generation games to Sega? I can't give an answer.- Title: Chip & Dale: Rescue Rangers for Mega Drive
Post by: Azathoth on August 03, 2012, 10:50:54 PM- Maybe they figured on riding the coattails of Squirrel King's "success".
- Title: Chip & Dale: Rescue Rangers for Mega Drive
Post by: Raistlin on August 08, 2012, 08:26:57 PM- Today the game arrived finally. A few words about it. The game is short. Really short. I needed 12 minutes to beat it. You can rush through the levels like Sonic. The controls are pretty good. There are three bosses. Between these bosses there are 4-5 short level. But between the second and the last boss there is only one level. The bosses are simple too. Throwing 4-5 times a item upwards and they are history. A fun fact is that you hear this Techno-Mortal-Kombat-The-Movie-Music during the fights. Yeah and you can choose your character to play with.
I will keep it some days to play it again (it's quite fun) and then I will send it to a friend to let it getting dumped so all of you will be able to play it.- Title: Chip & Dale: Rescue Rangers for Mega Drive
Post by: Specter on August 09, 2012, 10:18:19 AM
- Raistlin
- Aug 8 2012, 08:26:57 PM
Today the game arrived finally. A few words about it. The game is short. Really short. I needed 12 minutes to beat it. You can rush through the levels like Sonic. The controls are pretty good. There are three bosses. Between these bosses there are 4-5 short level. But between the second and the last boss there is only one level. The bosses are simple too. Throwing 4-5 times a item upwards and they are history. A fun fact is that you hear this Techno-Mortal-Kombat-The-Movie-Music during the fights. Yeah and you can choose your character to play with.
I will keep it some days to play it again (it's quite fun) and then I will send it to a friend to let it getting dumped so all of you will be able to play it.[/quote]Have you played original NES version? Are there any other major differences gameplay-wise except shorter length?
As for the pirate itself, I'm actually surprised pirates didn't make another half-baked hack of existing games like they usually do.- Title: Chip & Dale: Rescue Rangers for Mega Drive
Post by: Raistlin on August 09, 2012, 01:27:45 PM- When I first heard about that game I tested the NES version and as far as I remeber there weren't big differences but I have to play it again to be sure. I will tell soon.
- Title: Chip & Dale: Rescue Rangers for Mega Drive
Post by: Raistlin on September 28, 2012, 11:10:23 AM- Hi everyone. I am really sorry about it but I didn't test the NES version yet to tell the differences and I haven't send the game to be dumped yet. I have much work to do at the moment so I rarely have any sparetime but things will be getting better.
There is one thing that I have to tell you though:
Chip 'N Dale 2 is a new bootleg game which appeared not long ago in Russia and this is NOT the same as Squirrel King. My russian mate will buy it today and when it arrives I will test and tell about it. (The dumping(s) are not forgotten I promise).
Here you will have a first impression of that game:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fehiP5UXNdY (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fehiP5UXNdY)
Sorry again for the long delay.