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Other Pirates / Arabic Bootleg Video Game Websites
« on: January 23, 2018, 02:38:49 AM »
Their other domain games-sy.com is the one that's just a wordpress blog now. Used to be their online storefront.

I actually messaged their FB page about it, though I doubt they'll respond.

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Other Pirates / Arabic Bootleg Video Game Websites
« on: January 21, 2018, 08:31:32 AM »
Darn, the Syrian Games website has been replaced with a spammy-looking Wordpress blog. I was looking forward to actually buying some of these >:(

The Geomatrix Games link upthread looks promising though... I wonder if those guys will ship out of Brazil or wherever they are based

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Game Boy / More JungleTac GBA ports?
« on: January 05, 2018, 05:51:13 AM »
Y2K05
Jan 1 2018, 02:10:04 PM
I found these games in a Ritmix RZX50 emulator pack from Yandex Disk.[/quote]Wow, these ports really do seem to have spread everywhere. Good work!

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Game Boy / More JungleTac GBA ports?
« on: December 24, 2017, 11:45:21 PM »
Y2K05
Dec 24 2017, 11:23:28 PM
How do you extract it from a firmware image though? [/quote]If you're talking about extracting the files from a firmware image, this requires a copy of the Actions Media Player Update Tool (I used this one though I think there are newer versions out there) and OllyDBG. Basically you have to launch the update tool and load the firmware into the tool, then attach OllyDBG to the updater tool's process.
Then open the Memory Map (Alt+M) and sort the sections by their size in descending order.
Then right click>Search, and search for the hex sequence 53 51 4c 69 74 65 20 66 6f 72 6d 61 74 20 33 00 (that's the SQLite magic header).
Ollydbg should find a match pretty quickly and open a new window displaying the match, so right click that window>Edit>Select all and then right click>Backup>Save to file (or something like that). Then open the saved backup in a hex editor and trim off a few bytes from the beginning so that it begins with the SQLite header (i.e. the first few bytes should be 53 51 4c 69... etc). After that you should have an SQLite database that can be opened up in any viewer.
The files themselves are stored as binary blobs in a table called FileTable, and the interesting file is HideDisk.img which should have a copy of all the games in the firmware. (update: maybe not, I've come across some firmware images that have references to .gba files in them but nothing in HideDisk.img)

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Game Boy / More JungleTac GBA ports?
« on: December 24, 2017, 11:06:13 PM »
kelvin donna
Dec 24 2017, 05:57:23 AM
can you maybe fix these 4 games, so that they work on my EZ flash iv microsd card edition please  :unsure:
[/quote]Unfortunately, since I don't actually have a proper GBA, I won't be able to test any fixes. Besides, the only possible fix I can think of is the one I mentioned earlier in the thread -- open the ROM file in a hex editor and change the 4th byte in the file from 15 to EA. Anything else is outside my realm of expertise.
In other news, I have worked out how to extract the files from a firmware image for one of these PSP-ripoff products. If anyone has any firmware images that contain the still-undumped GBA games, post them here and I'll try to extract the .GBA files from the image.

I've also found out that all of these PSP ripoffs are based on the Actions ATJ2259 SoC, for which there's significantly more info online than I could find previously. Hopefully this means that there's some information on how to enter the "ADFU" mode that lets a user copy the firmware from the device (which could prove useful if any of the devices with the undumped games show up somewhere).

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Game Boy / More JungleTac GBA ports?
« on: December 24, 2017, 05:12:08 AM »
Linkrulezall
Dec 9 2017, 01:49:24 PM
inability
Apr 12 2017, 10:58:34 AM
some of the resources like backgrounds do not load/are replaced with corrupted garbage.[/quote]They're all in working order on my end, you sure your emulator's up to date? I had that same problem with Pinball Fish and Squirrel Bobble a while back, it turned out to be because my copy of VBA hadn't been updated since 2005![/quote]You were right, I switched to VBA-M and they worked properly. It's always something obvious...
kelvin donna
Dec 23 2017, 03:03:51 PM
guys, there is one problem, most of these games dont work on EZ flash iv microsd card edition  :( [/quote]Were you using the original or the fixed ROMs? Mind you, I doubt that these games were tested extensively on actual hardware; they could be broken from the start.

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Game Boy / More JungleTac GBA ports?
« on: April 12, 2017, 10:58:34 AM »
I have achieved a sort-of-breakthrough with the ROMs on Baidu -- changing the 4th byte from 15 to EA seems to put the game in a partially working state where it is playable but some of the resources like backgrounds do not load/are replaced with corrupted garbage.

Here are the modified ROMS for Lightning Plan, Hanoic Tower, Quick Move, Mr Onion, and On no Off: https://www.solidfiles.com/v/Vv3n2pMGaZYZa

The byte that I edited is apparently part of the "Entry Point", so my theory is that the original entry point does some extra setting-up stuff for the backgrounds etc which standard GBA emulators cannot handle for some reason. Perhaps someone with better knowledge of GBA internals than I do can shed some light on this.

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Game Boy / More JungleTac GBA ports?
« on: April 11, 2017, 10:24:27 AM »
I've reuploaded the files from the Baidu drive here if anyone is having trouble downloading them: http://www.solidfiles.com/v/vZ23YrzV2GQZP

Indeed, they don't seem to work on emulators. This makes me wonder if there's some special code in the GBA emulators for these things that makes them work, but I somehow doubt it. I stopped trying to get the firmware files from my console a while back, but I might start again.

EDIT: Googling this time found me this thread where people are sharing firmware files for what looks to be the same console (or type of consoles). There appear to be instructions on how to put the thing into "ADFU mode", after which I could possibly read the firmware off the handheld, but Google translate gives me incomprehensible output so I can't quite understand what's going on.

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Game Boy / More JungleTac GBA ports?
« on: February 09, 2016, 07:17:35 AM »
I recorded footage of Hanoic Tower, On no Off, Mr Onion and Lightning Plan. It's available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NKSx0hzC5g

EDIT: I've found what looks to be the same console I have on AliExpress, if anyone's interested: http://www.aliexpress.com/item/4-3-LCD-Game-Console-PMP-MP4-MP5-Player-8GB-Free-2000-games-Media-Player-AV/32432621532.html

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Game Boy / More JungleTac GBA ports?
« on: February 03, 2016, 11:59:49 PM »
taizou
Feb 3 2016, 06:59:27 PM
Is it possible to get the ROMs off this console?[/quote]not right now, I've tried connecting it to a PC but it looks like the ROMs that come with the console are on a separate partition or something that's inaccessible.
I tried looking for more information on my specific console, and while doing so I came across this blogspost about the firmware on these devices. The post included a dump of the files found on their copy of the firmware, which includes the Pool Pro and Plumber ports shown here as well as some new ones like Auto X , Final Round Tennis and Go, Smile.

For convenience, here are the games: https://www.mediafire.com/?0lpijiery4fp600

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Game Boy / More JungleTac GBA ports?
« on: February 03, 2016, 11:57:29 AM »
So I won a PSP lookalike in a contest recently, and it's your typical portable GBA/NES emulator. Most of the games on it are simply ROMs of licensed GBA games, but I saw a few original-looking games hidden among them. I later found that most of these were ports of JungleTac games. Most of them are available here. However, there were a few that I couldn't trace:

Hanoic Tower (obv tower of hanoi): https://imgur.com/a/Klmqi

"On no Off" (actually Lights Out): https://imgur.com/a/6mcqp

Mr. Onion (port of the JungleTac game): https://imgur.com/a/GVnIK

Play Plane/Lightning Plan: https://imgur.com/a/ubvoW

Plumber: https://imgur.com/a/zIimw

The two in particular which I couldn't find anything about are On no Off and Hanoic Tower. I suppose these were made especially for these GBA emulator manufacturers or something.

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Other Pirates / Arabic Bootleg Video Game Websites
« on: November 07, 2015, 11:01:38 AM »
People here who are familiar with Vinesauce might remember that Joel/Exinthevatican did a stream where he played two GTA San Andreas bootlegs of Indonesian origin based on Dragonball and Wolverine. The guy who provided him the bootlegs, x8BitRain, posted download links to .iso images of the two bootlegs:
Dragonball: https://mega.nz/#!iokGlRTZ!WmIjSbuvoOF4TSlf8oKZFC8DrqurZ0ywgVcXBn3Q0gU
Wolverine: https://mega.nz/#!b8lmFBzT!zPpweTqgrPX1t2t-fTZnRmbsCbE4a_s03csnfH9gwj4

Judging by the listings on the Syrian Games website, I suspect a lot of these follow the same formula of GTA:SA with a couple of modpacks added and loading screens changed.

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Pirate Talk / Weird DVD Player with pirated NES/Famicom Games
« on: November 01, 2015, 08:48:32 AM »
I don't know if you ever found a solution to this, but I recently helped someone with a portable DVD player exactly like one in the link you gave (except this one had a "CYBERVIEW" branding on it), and I found out that it does in fact accept NES roms without any modification, but you'll have to use a USB device or an SD card.
The device has to have the FAT32 filesystem. Just copy the .nes files into the device, then plug it into the player. When you press Play, you should be taken to a file explorer. Press the Menu button (the leftmost button of the three buttons in the middle of the two d-pads), then navigate to Game. You should be able to select your ROMs from there.

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