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Game Boy / Sintax and their 93+ games
« on: December 23, 2012, 12:23:26 PM »
Well, we know that ST-0206004 is Little Taichi now.

Which also means that it was only five games in before Sintax started reusing an engine. Five. (Granted, Donkey Kong 5 was a much more intricate graphical hack than their usual, but still.)

Edit: And something to throw a wrench into the whole "chronological order" thing. Super Robot War X is GT-0210001C. Which means...its sequential ID is earlier...but it came out in a later month than Little Taichi...?

Edit #2: Hm. Maybe the last three digits are still chronological, but the year/month are those of the specific printing? That...sort of makes sense, possibly. I'm almost certain that Super Robot War X is their first game, anyway, as the ROM doesn't have Sintax's typical assortment of tiles left over from previous games.
...Curiouser and curiouser. Guess what's buried in the Little Taichi ROM? Why, leftovers from Harry Potter! No, not the Super Mario DX play-alike, but the one with the Lemmings music.

Clearly, production order is not necessarily equal to release order.

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Game Boy / Sintax and their 93+ games
« on: December 17, 2012, 11:25:09 PM »
I suppose Star Wars 2 should be added to the list? Its serial number is GT-0210009C, putting it right before True Three Kingdoms II.

(Though I have no idea what alias of Sintax's would have started with a G...)

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Game Boy / Does anyone know what company made this gbc game?
« on: December 01, 2012, 01:46:15 PM »
Oh, another bit of trivia about 屠龍篇 that taizou didn't mention: the title screen is a hilariously blatant ripoff of that from Azure Dreams.

Attachments:

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Pirate Talk / R.I.P., Cube Tech's web site
« on: November 28, 2012, 01:24:00 AM »
Looks like they got the cubetac.com domain name back! Registered to Xu Dongwei, so it absolutely seems to be official.

Nothing's changed on their site at all since it last went down under the old domain, but hey, they at least are known to still exist now. That's good. At least for italo-disco fans, anyway.

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Pirate Talk / Finds
« on: November 28, 2012, 12:19:12 AM »
A video review (in French) of a newer version of the NJ Pocket. Looks to be one of the versions released by Qi Sheng Long, judging from the menu.

One interesting thing is that they changed the music in some of the games! Most notably, the ones that ripped off music from Tetris Attack. Which is especially funny, because Waluigi and Yoshi are on the system's menu screen.

Edit: Looks to be a variant of this model from QSL.

Also, somehow I missed that TechMamba had posted an hour-long playthrough of the NJ Pocket. (The original one, that is, with 60 games and Tetris Attack music in half of them.)

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Mega Drive/Genesis / Chinese Fighter (III)
« on: November 14, 2012, 12:03:48 AM »
Someone related to Gamtec, almost certainly. But I don't have anything more specific than that.

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Game Boy / Gba Rockman & Crystal
« on: October 29, 2012, 11:52:18 PM »
...Yeah, that's all debugging text that got stuck there by their compiler. I guess they must've run the compiler in debug mode, and never bothered to strip all the debugging stuff from the binary before putting it on the cart.

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Game Boy dumps / Handheld Underground dumps thread
« on: October 07, 2012, 01:49:23 AM »
Interesting thing spotted in the Digimom Sapphii ROM: not only are there random sprites from Harvest Moon in there (as often seems to happen in Sintax's games), but there's a title screen for that game at 0x2E4011:



Curiously, although it does indeed read 牧場物語, this title screen is not that of the Japanese version-- rather, it seems to be a back-translation of the English title screen (!), which has an entirely different design. This might also explain the 16x16 Chinese font (including Taiwanese phonetic characters) at 0x244004-- as far as I can surmise, Sintax built their ROMs on a Chinese translation hack of Harvest Moon.

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Game Boy / Digimon 6
« on: October 01, 2012, 10:49:08 PM »
Well, it was apparently crappy enough that I deleted it from my hard drive without realizing. Heh.
Ah, found it. Couldn't find it initially because the file name was just "GB Digimon (Unl)".

File download: http://cl.ly/2Y3k0k3A1T2z

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Pirate Talk / Finds
« on: September 24, 2012, 11:09:25 PM »
Waaaaiit. Digimon 3 Crystal boots with "Kwichvu", not "Niutoude"? I thought "Kwichvu" was a sure sign of Sintax's work...

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Game Boy dumps / Handheld Underground dumps thread
« on: September 24, 2012, 10:37:42 PM »
Clearly the same engine as Digimon Yellow Jade. Gotta love Sintax.

Edit: And now I'm wondering which is the original and which is the hack... because this isn't just a title hack; the graphics and levels are entirely different.

Edit #2: And it's totally a Li Cheng hack. "Niutoude" logo!

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Game Boy / West Story (西遊記)
« on: September 15, 2012, 10:11:47 PM »
Interestingly, the wall-of-text screens in the intro for West Story are typeset pretty much identically to those in Emo Dao. Hmm.

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Game Boy / West Story (西遊記)
« on: September 15, 2012, 07:16:51 PM »
For those who don't follow Qiezei/Nusutto/Watari's YouTube channel yet... an interesting little treat from the Vast Fame 8-in-1 cart (which was completely unadvertised on its packaging!):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67NTtHzu1G0

Yeah, it's definitely clear now that Vast Fame had something to do with that Harry Potter 3 shmup.

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Bootleg Bazaar / Interesting stuff for sale elsewhere
« on: September 10, 2012, 09:34:09 PM »
Picrodus
Sep 9 2012, 12:46:37 PM
Just one more. Not sure about this plug and play being fake either but it comes with multiple games that it plays on one disk. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/plug-and-play-console-/320976817079?pt=UK_VideoGames_VideoGameConsoles_VideoGameConsoles&hash=item4abbb58bb7[/quote]Heh, useful note on that one... the "discs" are actually just plastic fobs that push down buttons inside the console. All the games themselves are built in. (They're also all Inventor's lazy hacks of licensed games.)

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Not sure if this is fake Arcade action 2 apparently plays she's games looks more like famicom to me. Has 101 games http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/plug-and-play-game-/320976815921?pt=UK_VideoGames_VideoGameConsoles_VideoGameConsoles&hash=item4abbb58731[/quote]Yeah, that's definitely a Famiclone. Based on...VT02 or VT03 chipset, can't remember which, but I think it's the former.
TV Virtual Tennis made by Conny, of Pocket Dream Console fame. Which, as it's been pointed out here before, uses the same logo as some of Hamy's stuff...so maybe it's the same game, or maybe not? Who knows...

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Pirate Talk / Searching for some fonts found in pirates
« on: September 09, 2012, 11:33:34 AM »
First things first: all the fonts on that screen are from Deluxe Paint II for MS-DOS. (Which, incidentally, for those not old enough to remember, was developed by EA. Yes, that EA. No surprise that these fonts showed up in a lot of their games back then...)

Now, the conversions!

The font for Zone... I actually converted that one a while back. Check out DPComic on my fonts page.

As for "Green Hill", that one was also used in some old Sierra adventure games, and someone converted it from there. Behold the Royal Font of Krondor!

Edited to add: As an aside, "ACT" is in the default interface font from DeluxePaint. Which I also converted to TrueType, as "DeluxeFont".
As an aside... I seriously ought to consider setting up a page for Deluxe Paint on the Wiki, because those fonts are as common in bootleg games as PC Paint's. I've even seen them used in some of the Gamtec group's work-- I guess they had both paint programs in their dev kit?

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