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You're welcome. Thanks for helping dump these. I'll be sure to reach out again if I wind up with more undumped MD/SFC carts

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Recently I sent some cartridges out fellow BGC member Azathoth to be dumped. Some carts yielded ROMs that did not work in emulators during testing, but one of Azathoth's contacts (Eke) was able to crack some of them. Here is a list of what is included and some notes on them regarding any potential issues they may have

1. Rockman X3: This was dumped from an original Taiwan cart of the game. Specifically the release that says "Rockman X3" on the sticker, not the X3X3X3X3 release. Dumps of this game already exist but which release of the game they came from is unknown. They are suspected of having originated from a multicart but this is unconfirmed. More details on this can be found on BGW. Cracked by Eke as the raw dump does not work in emulators. As always, cracked versions may have inaccuracies to how the game plays on cartridge

2. Sun Green Sichuan Mahjong: Previously undumped. Cracked by Eke as the raw dump does not work in emulators. As always, cracked versions may have inaccuracies to how the game plays on cartridge

3/4. Dance 2000 Volumes  1 and 4: Games intended for use with a dance mat accessory by BBD (same one that made GBC games). None of the four volumes of this were dumped previously. This game however requires the usage of a non-standard controller, so while the game works in emulators, there is no way to play it because emulators don't have support for the dance mat

5/6. NewStar Basic and English Professor: Education software designed around usage of a keyboard controller. Some emulators may support controller options for these but most do not

7. Top Gear 2: A while ago on Taobao I encountered a listing for a Top Gear 2 cartridge. It had the Glorysun logo and the text Shaking on the sticker. The listing specified that it came from the capital, or in other words, Beijing (where Glorysun is from). There is documentation of a "Shaking" controller by Glorysun, so it may be possible that this cart was intended for use with that controller. As far as I can tell though the game appears to just work normally

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Game Boy dumps / Re: Tabor's Dumps
« on: October 12, 2025, 01:10:51 PM »
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)

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

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Game Boy dumps / Re: Handheld Underground dumps thread
« on: October 01, 2025, 02:02:12 PM »
Not sure if people here saw the news, but the English version for Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon by Gowin has been preserved and posted to hhug. Credit goes to yy小龙虾 and dhx for this one https://hhug.me/?post=117




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Game Boy dumps / Re: Pokemon Chikorita ROM
« on: October 01, 2025, 01:58:49 PM »
You're welcome. Most of the credit goes to taizou and JS7457 for figuring out how to emulate it. I just got lucky and found a cart a long time ago

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Famicom/NES / Re: Saint Seiya aka Knights of the Zodiac for the NES rom
« on: September 27, 2025, 10:51:30 AM »
unlicensed.games/libg/ (Lost in Bygone Gaming)

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Famicom/NES / Re: Lost Coca Cola Famiclone Game
« on: August 24, 2025, 06:25:01 PM »
I remember sharing pictures/listings for that on the BGC Discord a while ago. It is a UM6578 game and cannot be dumped with standard famicom dumping methods.  There are people here with contacts that can help with that if you wind up acquiring one though. It's worth noting that the Timetop game it is a variant of is also undumped. Most of their UM6578 carts are

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Game Boy dumps / Re: Ankos' Games
« on: May 12, 2025, 08:54:55 PM »
Hack of Milon's Secret Castle by SKOB

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Game Boy / Re: Alternate title screen Sonic (adventure) 8
« on: March 10, 2025, 06:43:17 PM »
That seller did not upload a picture of the title screen. What you see is the splash screen that appears before each stage, which looks normal to me. It's worth mentioning that taizou dumped this game from a Singaporean cart that has the same design as that one

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Game Boy dumps / Re: Ankos' Games
« on: March 10, 2025, 05:18:33 PM »
Last year a version of Zook Hero 3 dumped by dzd and yy小龙虾 was posted to hhug. That ROM was sourced from a cart from Mainland China and had its copy protection hacked out. Recently I obtained a Taiwanese cart, so here is the original unmodified ROM for that. Only emulators that can run unmodified Sintax games will work with this

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Game Boy / Re: Another Theory (Ka Sheng - NGCA)
« on: February 18, 2025, 09:16:39 PM »
I've seen stuff by PR Trans make it onto pirate carts (Pikachu Land is by them, and sometimes credtis them even on pirate carts). Not sure about unmodified stuff from them though. I'd say that I don't remember stuff on the matter clearly enough that I'd advise putting it on the wiki. Also gotta factor in that these translations went through multiple revisions

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Game Boy / Re: Another Theory (Ka Sheng - NGCA)
« on: February 16, 2025, 01:47:52 PM »
For reference there are a few different types of IDs that Ka Sheng multis are known to use on Gameboy multis. Examples include IDs that start with NT, JU, CY, UA, CA, US, and a couple other obscure ones that are almost never used. UA, NT, and CY I would say are the most common. US is also common, but those tend to not have anything good on them

Also, they often (but not always) use translucent plastic, sometimes with glitter

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Game Boy / Re: Another Theory (Ka Sheng - NGCA)
« on: February 15, 2025, 11:40:28 PM »
None of the carts in this thread look like Ka Sheng carts. The game has multiple publishers

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The Community / Re: Taizou is back
« on: February 09, 2025, 05:00:55 PM »
Cool. Good luck dude

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The Community / Re: Taizou is back
« on: February 09, 2025, 01:53:16 PM »
A lot of the members of BGC spend more time on the discord server than the forums. He never stopped being active over there. If you saw that document I posted on 2024 highlights for BGC, his name pops up a few times for some pretty cool discoveries he helped make

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