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Game Boy / Re: Pokemon Gold Pocket Monsters (ROM hack)
« on: February 01, 2025, 11:30:27 AM »
Hello,

I just made an account to reply to this thread. Hope this random new account necro-ing a post is ok.

I believe I own the cartridge for the gold version, and my cousin has (or had) the version for silver. They are just a bootleg translation of the original japanese version.

Just want to share how we got them in case it gives extra context and information about the roms.

We were on a sky trip in Andorra.
My father bought them on a small electronic store as a Epiphany gift (In Spain kids get presents for xmats on the .6th of january).
This was on the year 2000. I do remember that we had them Magically (by my kid's brain) before they were in stores.

They came in what looked like complete genuine nintendo boxes, complete with manual and paperwork.
The cartridge is just black plastic with a non genuine sticker, no marking and not even a security screw.

probably this one? https://www.avid.wiki/Pikachu_Inc.

Whoa! Thanks for sharing this!
It's nice to know that a cartridge version of this game does afterall exist, I have it on one of my multicarts.
It would be really itneresting to know if your sister still has the silver version, since I'm not sure that's been documented yet. Although with this much time passed since their release I feel like someone else would've eventually brought up the silver version already so it's likely an incorrect childhood memory.

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Mega Drive/Genesis / Re: Finding the "Unknown Russian Developers"
« on: August 11, 2024, 02:19:23 PM »
Btw, the other issues of the TOF magazine are at https://gfaq.ru/load/igrovye_zhurnaly/tof/2

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Mega Drive/Genesis / Re: Finding the "Unknown Russian Developers"
« on: August 11, 2024, 02:05:14 PM »
Decided to plunge into this rabbit hole once more and I've actually managed to discover some striking new information!

First off, the game "Красный Краб" is a ROM hack of Super Mario Bros originally developped in December of 2005 which was later released in the first issue of the magazine TOF in 2006. By the developers its considered a milestone ROM hack in the scene since it's one of the first hacks to fully change everyting about a game, not just a few sprites.
The developers are Cari and TiberiyLTim.

Now about Cari. They're actually not one person but two brothers who shared a username at the time. They're also not even Russian but Ukranian. The name of one of the brothers behind Cari is "Голубев" (Golubev), born in the Soviet Union and in 2005 living in Украина г. Днепропетровск (Ukraine, Dnepropetrovsk)

https://romhacking.ru/news/bolee_10_let_khaku_red_crab_nes/2016-02-09-3355

"This year is the 10th anniversary of the release of the first Russian made ROM hack on the NES - "Red crab". This ROM hack was made in December 2005 and release to the public in the first issue of the electronic magazine "TOF", which was devoted to video games, emulation, romhacking and so on. Prior to this hack, independent romhackers had not been making full-scale hacks. A surprising exception was Kabal with his "UMKT" on SMD. At the time, the creation of mods only extended to crude redrawings of the characters or increases in the number of lives ("cheat hacks"), but such hacks, which changed almost everything (graphics, text, levels, sound, etc.) almost never existed from private ROM hackers."

https://gcup.ru/blog/10_let_moemu_pervomu_khaku_na_nes/2016-02-08-1332

"I came across the Super Mario Bros hack by Cari. It was the nickname of two brothers who were extremely illiterate, as they lived in Dnepropetrovsk and were quite young. And nobody wanted to work with them because they were behind a series of NES/SMD game translations into Russian of terrible quality. Perhaps some of their translations have been preserved to this day at bit16.ru."

This is from the mentioned TOF magazine, which I'll also post below. To read it, set the encoding to "Cyrillic (Windows)" otherwise you'll only see a jambled mess of characters:

From the "Redaction" page of the "Authors" section:

cari
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Name: Galubev
Place of Birth: USSR Russia
Residence: Ukraine, Dnepropetrovsk


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Mega Drive/Genesis / Re: Finding the "Unknown Russian Developers"
« on: July 19, 2024, 01:55:23 PM »
Sorry for the many posts. I just dug into that website again and the only thing of note I found was an SMB hack by the guy called "Красный Краб" (literally "Red Crab"). It's for the NES.
I downloaded the rom from his website and tried to play it on my 3DS but it wouldn't let me proceed past the initial screen. The game didn't crash I don't think, it just didn't recognize any button presses.

Here's the rom if anyone wants to try to get this game running to find out if there's more to this than just a single screen.
https://www.cari-gamers.narod.ru/krab.htm

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Mega Drive/Genesis / Re: Finding the "Unknown Russian Developers"
« on: July 19, 2024, 12:59:02 PM »
Also in the third link about the unfinished game it says CARI aka Tzar meaning it's not just his nickname but possibly his first name and his nick.

Gotta correct myself here: it seems Cari is just the romazination of Цари, which is itself the plural of Царь which romanizes to Tzar.
Idk what I was thinking about it being his actual name or whatever...

https://cari-gamers.narod.ru/news.html
"Автор Cari [Цари]"

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Mega Drive/Genesis / Re: Finding the "Unknown Russian Developers"
« on: July 19, 2024, 12:42:34 PM »
If he's actually BMB we can confirm it's pronounced /vmv/ judging by his profile picture.

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Famicom/NES / Re: Subor’s new site
« on: May 19, 2024, 04:53:02 PM »
Don't think many people noticed but thanks for sharing. I'm sure it's gonna be useful in the future!

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Hacker Center / Re: Project BRUH
« on: March 03, 2024, 03:25:38 AM »
fair point

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Hacker Center / Re: Project BRUH
« on: February 24, 2024, 05:49:45 AM »
What sort of hacks are these? sprite hacks or cheats to make the games more fun

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Mega Drive/Genesis / Re: Finding the "Unknown Russian Developers"
« on: January 09, 2024, 04:19:34 PM »
"KUDOS" is the company that the developer is working for. The developer is known as "BMB", But I have a theory related to his identity, his actual pseudonym (as they credited themselves secretly on a hidden sublevel in level 9 in Mario 3) is CARI TZAR.

If we look this name up, we get the following results:
The incomplete homebrew game has similar physics to what you would find in a BMB game (might be a coincidence)
This might have been BMB's online identity before they got hired by KUDOS to work on games (Mario 3 is most likely the first game they worked on for KUDOS)

This sounds promising, even though there's no way to know for sure.
Also in the third link about the unfinished game it says CARI aka Tzar meaning it's not just his nickname but possibly his first name and his nick. However, since I don't speak russian myself and with the English translation on the website being quite janky plus Cari sounding like a pretty strange name, I'm not to sure on this.

Just thought it'd be intersting to share though.

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The Community / https issues
« on: December 17, 2023, 02:56:51 PM »
Hey, I just wanted to let the staff know that the forum doesn't want to load if the browser automatically attempts to upgrade the connection to https. It will definitely put new members off when they're greeted with a big fat security warning from their browser, so turning this site https would probably be for the better.

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Game Boy / Re: Question about how to dump a GB and GBA physical cartridge
« on: December 14, 2023, 04:49:53 PM »
Bump.

I'm actually also interested in is. I've had the gbxcard in the back of my mind for a long time so knowing if it is possible to dump my multicarts with it would be helpful. C:

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Discussion Center / Re: Worst Bootlet Pokémon Card
« on: September 12, 2023, 01:31:25 AM »
indeed I have not heard of the "three in one magnetic monster". this one might be even worse actually, I mean cmon.

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Discussion Center / Worst Bootlet Pokémon Card
« on: September 11, 2023, 12:35:24 PM »
I was just browsing ebay when I came across possibly the worst fake Pokémon card I've ever seen.

Literally nothing makes sense here. What is that fricking wall border, the classic 520HP, it literally evolves from Magnemite and the icon is just the card image scaled down. The pokédex entry at the bottom is also hilarious.

How did people even consider falling for these xD

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Discussion Center / Re: Hello for everyone
« on: August 18, 2023, 03:45:00 AM »
Hello Hello, hope you enjoy the forums!

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