Fair point, then. I certainly don't want to muck about and do it wrong. I'll try to send it out to him when money's a little better, and let him know in advance. Sincerest apologies for having taken this long.

Hey, just wanted to say I still have this and will attempt to get it out to Taizou to be dumped as soon as possible. I literally just moved twice in the past two months and it took a lot out of me, so I should finally be getting enough free time to ship it out soon.

Still waiting to hear back again.

I'll bust open the gameboy box tomorrow and try to find it/shoot a vid. It's almost identical to the one from white lioness but there ARE differences on the title screen.

I just got a copy of this today from a lot I took a gamble on. Here's what my cart looks like:



Yes, that is ash and misty standing in front of a house filled with more ashes and mistys. The logo comes up as "Niutoudz" for this one. XD

The ROM inside is a little different from WhiteLioness's copy as it doesn't say pocket monsters crystal on the title screen, or have the blue text at the top, just the red text. Perhaps this means it's a bootleg of a bootleg and therefore copy protection on it is dead making it easier to dump? The strange label makes it hard for me to believe this is the original production run. XD

I'll take a video of it a little bit later.

Can anyone point me in the right direction to dump this thing? I feel all games should be preserved.

It's a spritswapped hack of "Decap Attack".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YpxkphszDo

So when browsing amongst SEGA genesis games I came across a listing with a very peculiar label on one game. I've cropped out that game here:



I know the top text reads "Your family will enjoy playing home video entertainment like never before!". I'm pretty sure the yellow piece of tape below it reads "Sunset Riders", as this is the game the seller listed the cart to be in his auction.

From a little reasearch, apparently these carts originate from a Taiwan Pirate company known as "Supervision" who had also released several pirates on NES with the same "your family" tagline written on them, but I couldn't find ANY related to the genesis when I searched the phrase (or supervision), just NES ones.

Does anyone have any more info on these? The cart seems interesting to me but if it's just a copy of sunset riders on there I don't really care about owning it, as I already own a legit copy.

So, for all of us to have gathered here on this forum about bootleg games, we've surely had something that sparked an interest in knockoffs before it.

For me, it was a singing piglet plush at a friends' house from when I was very young, perhaps six or seven. We decided to play with it after she got it from some garage sale, but it did NOT act like piglet.

The first time we squeezed its hand, it sung allouette (a popular french children's song) in a badly compressed voice.

The second time we squeezed its hand, it let loose a BLOODCURDLING SCREAM. Badly compressed, but still.

It was terrifying as a child, and I never played with it again after that. I thought it was possessed. Looking back though, it was probably a pirate toy whose soundchip contained several mismatching recordings; allouette from some french child toy, and the scream from a halloween toy, perhaps?

That was my first experience of seeing piracy bastardize a character I knew well, but certainly not my last, being part of PGC now and all.

So, what was your first experience with pirates? It doesn't have to be a game, just as long as it wasn't legit! I'm sure there are interesting stories to be told.