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Pirated Work / hhugboy GB emulator
« on: February 20, 2013, 09:42:00 PM »
Hm, I wonder if it'll be possible to get Queen of Fighters 2000 or Super Fighter 2001 to work under this. Right now is one of those times I really wish I understood Game Boy assembly better...

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Pirate Talk / Finds
« on: February 18, 2013, 08:36:59 PM »
taizou
Feb 17 2013, 10:16:35 PM
Definitely looks like a VFame translation anyway. I think they did them in-house, rather than New Game handling them, though - their GBA translations are basically the same, and I don't think New Game had anything to do with those releases.[/quote]Also related to that, there's the fact that some of Sintax's games (e.g., Pokemon Sapphire) were released by New Game... and rather than having the usual Engrish on the back, those just used blurbs from actual game reviews.

(For that matter, the manual layouts for the New Game-published VFame games look very much like their Chinese versions, too.)

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Pirate Talk / Finds
« on: February 17, 2013, 07:15:39 PM »
Typographical interestingness: the font used for most of the story screens is from PC Paint (naturally!)... with the sole exception of the Hagrid screen. For some unknown reason, that one is in PMingLiU, the default font in Taiwanese versions of Windows. (It's also the same font used in Digimon Ruby's intro!)

...Yes, I tend to obsess a bit over fonts. Heh.

Edited to add: And yeah, the quality of that translation further points in the direction of this game being developed by, if not VFame, someone VFame-related. It's certainly not Sintax, anyway; their translations are perfectly grammatical in comparison. :lol:

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Other Pirates / Pirate PS2 hacks
« on: February 10, 2013, 01:44:36 PM »
Yeah, I just noticed Taizou's thread. I'll merge this into it.
HEEE. This may be one of my favorites from the Syrian Games catalogue:

Avatar: The Last Airbender: Into the Inferno

I suppose this is what happens when the box art designers are told they're doing an Avatar game without any more specific detail. :lol:
Fantastic 5. Sequel numbers do not work that way!
The GTA hacks mentioned in the original article are somehow not the weirdest. Goofy? Donald? Barbie?!

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Other Pirates / Pirate PS2 hacks
« on: February 10, 2013, 12:42:16 PM »
[Yes, the below is redundant-- I originally created this as a separate topic, and realizing my mistake, merged it. But it's still well worth checking out the Syrian Games link at the bottom, because it has even more inspired nonsense.]

A columnist for The AV Club found some PS2 bootlegs at a flea market in Nairobi. Both the box art, and the actual hacks themselves, are...inspired.

http://gameological.com/2013/02/the-pirate-hacks-of-africa/

But then one of his fellow columnists decided to investigate the Syrian bootlegging outfit behind some of them, and discovered even more inspired madness. Some of these rival the utterly incongruous choices of cover art in KaSheng's Famicom bootlegs.

http://gameological.com/2013/02/the-art-of-syrian-games/

Edited to add: Be sure to check out the Syrian Games site--the PS1 and PS2 sections, especially--for even more bizarre cover art!

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Pirate Talk / What's this thread
« on: February 05, 2013, 10:35:59 PM »
Re: http://goods.ruten.com.tw/item/show?21301170571693

If I'm reading that correctly, it's a bundle containing both a Game Boy cart and a Famicom cart.
Picrodus
Feb 5 2013, 10:35:24 PM
What about this? Is it like one of those vii things? http://www.ioffer.com/i/interact-g5400-white-console-video-gaming-system-40-ga-525899831[/quote]Yep. I've seen this one in a store locally--it's exactly the same thing as the MiWi Xtra. The games are all 16-bit CubeTech/Waixing stuff.

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Pirate Talk / Finds
« on: January 07, 2013, 12:20:29 AM »
Interesting that that box has the same "compatible with NEW GAME" burst that's typically found on VFame's boxes... particularly given that this is yet another company that's used PC Paint fonts in their games.

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Pirate Talk / Finds
« on: January 06, 2013, 09:32:01 PM »
More video footage of Terrifying 911 (a.k.a., Hitek's September 11-themed Metal Slug bootleg), by the same Portuguese guy who reviewed it on YouTube previously:

Intro sequence: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMoYhZlQx3U
Level 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duXk-vhjgOs
Level 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9yVWjAkX_c

This time around, you can hear the music! Seems to be entirely original, though from the sound effects, it does sound like they used the sound engine from one of the Zelda games.

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Game Boy / Emo Dao, West Story, and Vast Fame
« on: January 05, 2013, 07:38:35 PM »
Interesting that it has that 'full color' Chinese text on the side-- I don't think I've ever seen a VFame game with that, but I have seen it on both Sintax carts and bootlegs of licensed games.

Edited to add: How quickly I forget! This thread mentioned several mainland-released VF games that had the same text down the side, including one image of a Digimon cart with a nearly identical layout. (Sintax's games usually have it in a red box rather than along the side; see, for instance, the Lion King box. Possibly some sort of Gamtec-supplied logo?)

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Bootleg Bazaar / Interesting stuff for sale elsewhere
« on: January 05, 2013, 12:12:29 AM »
KAGE-008
Jan 1 2013, 10:46:02 PM
http://goods.ruten.com.tw/item/show?21004239930654 - Hai Zhan Qi Bing (GBC), boxed

Also, this Sintax game is getting SkyLeague's typical treatment: selling the ROM for an incredibly high price.[/quote]I'm kind of wondering when that second auction was posted... because it was one of the Sintaxmas presents.
RobGBA
Jan 4 2013, 07:33:23 AM
Marlobars 2? (or Marlobors 2)
Can anybody read what it says on the purple tube on the label? It looks like MAKON to me, but that's probably me being a dumbarse.[/quote]I'm pretty sure that's the "16U029" mentioned in the description.

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Pirate Talk / Finds
« on: January 03, 2013, 01:35:04 AM »
...Is there any chance you could record video footage of the two GBA games? I'm very curious to see (and hear!) them.

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Game Boy / Sintax and their 93+ games
« on: December 24, 2012, 01:20:56 PM »
taizou
Dec 24 2012, 07:50:51 AM
Yeah, I think a few SKOB games were actually developed by BBD - Fire Emblem, Digimon D3, Pokemon Crystal (the Chikorita one) etc.[/quote]Final Fantasy X, too. That one's been confirmed by both a flyer and an original box to be a SKOB release.

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Game Boy / BBD and Sintax: an attempt at historical reconstruction
« on: December 23, 2012, 07:30:56 PM »
The dumped Chinese ROM is clearly based on the "Game USA" revision, it seems-- the title screen has the English logo clumsily hacked in, and the only English font in the ROM is bordered and in all caps.

(Interestingly enough, the Chinese title screen from the original BBD release is still present in the ROM, though!)

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Game Boy / BBD and Sintax: an attempt at historical reconstruction
« on: December 23, 2012, 04:38:27 PM »
(This post is sort of a continuation/split-off of Sintax and their 93+ games.)

So I was looking through the recently dumped ROM of Sintax's "Little Taichi" (here, for those who missed it), and noticed that there are quite a few leftovers from that unlicensed Harry Potter platformer which has already been dumped--most notably, the large images from the game's opening sequence. This seemed particularly curious, since according to its product ID (ST-0206004), Little Taichi is only Sintax's 4th game--and Harry Potter was not one of the previous three.

However, as taizou pointed out in the above-linked thread... this is explainable in that Harry Potter does not appear to have been a Sintax game! It may have been re-released by Sintax at some later point, but the original version appears to have been purely a BBD production. Indeed, the boot logo embedded in the dumped ROM isn't the "Kwichvu" that normally characterizes Sintax games, but rather, "BBD".

This actually makes sense: BBD reused one of their pre-Sintax game engines to create a new game for Sintax when requested! The leftover images aren't the only thing from Harry Potter remaining in that ROM; the engine itself is clearly lifted as well. (Note, in particular, the similarity between the two games' status bars.)

BUT WAIT. There's more!

Remember Digimon 9 2002? Well, there are some graphics from the level intros to that game lying around in the Harry Potter ROM as well! (In particular, the old man who appears just before the first level is clearly recognizable at location 0x3C914.) And this, too, is an engine that BBD just kept reusing over and over in Sintax games as well.

And it may very well be that Harry Potter, in itself, is a hack of still another game. Elsewhere in the ROM (0x10142), there's a somewhat scrambled character selection screen featuring...Harry Potter and three Teletubbies. And, of course, some Teletubby sprites to go with Harry's later in the ROM.

Edit: And just remembered about this video, where someone found (and destroyed) a copy of the original (non-Niutoude) release of Digimon 9. The boot logo? BBD, of course.

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Game Boy / Sintax and their 93+ games
« on: December 23, 2012, 04:03:11 PM »
That actually would make sense. It's clear that they recycled at least part of the Harry Potter engine for Little Taichi (just look at the status bar!), so the tiles would've come along for the ride.

Edit: Yeah, d'oh, I had forgotten that the boot logo in Harry Potter was "BBD" rather than...that "Kwichvu" thing. So looks like this was the first case of BBD reusing one of their pre-Sintax engines for a Sintax game!

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