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2000-present / 15in1 investigation
« on: September 01, 2010, 09:13:51 AM »
taizou
Aug 31 2010, 04:32:22 PM
i just noticed the font used to write "Harry Potter" in Harrys Legend is the same as the one used for ABABsoft's URL on their multicart menu .. Hummer/etc never used it before. so maybe Harrys Legend was actually only created (hacked from Titenic) by ABABsoft in 200-something? it never showed up anywhere before 2003 as far as I know.[/quote]Ah, that's because it's from one of the many versions of EA's DeluxePaint. And it doesn't really prove anything year-wise, since the latest version of DPaint is from 1990. :)

Edit: Although it might've been that Hummer only used DPaint later in their career, one of Hummer's other fonts very closely resembles the "Comic" font from DPaint, which I converted to TrueType as DPComic.

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Mega Drive/Genesis / Barver Battle Saga music rip
« on: September 01, 2010, 07:58:32 AM »
"ValleyBell" on the Project2612 forums has created what appears to be a full VGM rip of Barver Battle Saga. It's from the patched version, so the music includes the PCM percussion that's missing from the original pirate.

http://forums.project2612.org/showthread.php?p=3936

You'll need to sign up on their forums to download it, but it's worth it anyway if you're at all interested in Mega Drive game music.


Edit: Oh, yeah, this one's old news, but "projectstar" on the same forum ripped the Shui Hu Feng Yun Zhuan soundtrack, for those who still hadn't seen that post.

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2000-present / 15in1 investigation
« on: August 28, 2010, 11:33:46 AM »
Now I'm really wondering what the connection between Somari Team and Hummer Team is. There's definitely some commonality between them, given that both their games have shown up on this cartridge. Not to mention a hack of Somari called "The Hummer"...

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Game Boy / GBC videos
« on: August 24, 2010, 08:58:18 PM »
I want to see Final Fantaxy IX and all the VFame stuff.

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Game Boy / Lord of the Rings GBA from V.Fame
« on: August 24, 2010, 08:56:19 PM »
OK, even if it is boring, it's something that nobody other than Sky League seems to know exists. :)

What's the music like in it, anyway? Is it all GBC-style stuff, like in Rockman Crystal? New, or something that's been heard in an existing VFame game?

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2000-present / Modern famiclones on NicoNicoDouga
« on: August 24, 2010, 08:40:40 PM »
taizou
Aug 24 2010, 08:37:35 PM
theres a very similar bomberman clone on the cart that comes with the Yobo Factor 5 too (same music, but 16 bit-ish graphics) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BffA4sSDpWw
its a NES clone that also plays its own "G-Factor" games, most likely manufactured by Qi Sheng Long too (lots of Yobo's products seem to be). [/quote]Yup, looks like it! "Bomb Kid" is exclusively by Qi Sheng Long; no such title in the database for Waixing. And yeah, I noticed that pretty much all the Yobo famiclones were listed on QSL's site.

Edit: Incidentally, if you're wondering how to enter a wildcard in the Chinese copyright database, you need to enter "%25". So, for instance, to search for anything with "bomb" in it, you'd enter "%25BOMB%25". Normally you'd just enter a percent sign for the wildcard, but the Chinese government can't code their JavaScript properly.  <_<

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2000-present / Modern famiclones on NicoNicoDouga
« on: August 24, 2010, 08:32:06 PM »
Cheetahmen
Aug 24 2010, 08:17:59 PM
Really? I thought the game names were updated on some Famiclones to get rid of any Engrish. For example, Shooting Balloons is misspelled Shooting Ballons on some of them. (I've seen a 16-bit version that has the same error) Also, on one 16-bit Wii clone one game is called Dancing Girls on the menu but Dance Girls in the actual game, which I can't understand.[/quote]Yeah, I thought that was the reason too, but apparently some of this is an alternate-company thing. For instance, Waixing's version of Bomber Man is called... well, "Bomber Man". Qi Sheng Long's version is "Dejectile". Same engine, same music.

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2000-present / Modern famiclones on NicoNicoDouga
« on: August 24, 2010, 08:02:53 PM »
Cheetahmen
Aug 24 2010, 07:50:33 PM
I'm not sure about that. I doubt even Waixing could do hacks that badly. :P Also, the hacks themselves don't have those weird copyright dates that the originals (and Super Contra 7) have. Also, if I remember correctly in Bounce (a bad hack of Mappy) there's a copyright that says "2000 New Product" or something like that.[/quote]Incidentally, I found out that Awful Rushing is not Waixing - according to the Chinese copyright database, it is by 深圳市奇胜隆实业有限公司, which Google translates as "Shenzhen Qi Sheng Long Industrial Co., Ltd." Here's their full list of products.

What's interesting is that a good number of these Qi Sheng Long games are ones that Waixing also holds a copyright on. Boxworld, for instance. (Edit: This would explain the name differences I've seen, as QSL's version is Boxworld, while Waixing's is Boxes World.) Maybe there was a 3rd party that developed these games for both Waixing and Qi Sheng Long?

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2000-present / Modern famiclones on NicoNicoDouga
« on: August 24, 2010, 07:37:43 PM »
What's interesting about the FamikonYarou 54 is that although most of the games are the hacks of licensed games found in the previous Yarous, there are a few possibly Waixing-developed originals mixed in. Seriously wondering if there's some sort of connection between the hacks and the originals.

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BootlegGames Wiki / BootlegGames Wiki
« on: August 24, 2010, 06:03:29 PM »
Barver
Aug 24 2010, 07:49:20 AM
I added a page for a Lord of the Rings game for GBA. I'm wondering if there should be a separate category for GBA, since Game Boy implies monochrome or color, not Advance. I can't figure out how to add that as a new category though so I assume only admins can.[/quote]Do you own that cartridge, incidentally? I'd love to see even poor camera shots of this thing, if so, because it is such a rarity that the Internet as a whole has barely heard of it.

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2000-present / Modern famiclones on NicoNicoDouga
« on: August 24, 2010, 04:08:39 PM »
One thing I'm loving in the Yarou vids is that the video maker has pointed out specific places that the hackers forgot to hack. Some of the ones that have amused me:

* The 2nd player in Frog Prince (SMB) is named Luigi, despite still being a frog-turned-human.
* In the money-collecting stage of Roge Brer (Mario Bros.), they left the "Mario" and "Luigi" score counters intact.
* In Spar (Urban Champion), there's a car driving by in the middle of a forest.
* In Rescue Kuck (Donkey Kong Jr.), the graphics for the ending were totally unhacked.

Edit: And just saw another one! They left the credits of Othello intact in "Chess". LOL. Apparently nobody actually tried to beat the CPU.

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2000-present / Modern famiclones on NicoNicoDouga
« on: August 24, 2010, 02:00:32 PM »
I found a list of some Famiclone-related videos on Nico Nico Douga. This guy has recorded videos of all the games on two famiclones (the Famikonyarou 54, and the Japanese version of the DreamGear 101-in-1) along with some explanatory notes (which, of course, are in Japanese, but even if you can only read kana there's some interesting stuff in there).

The Famikonyarou ones are particularly interesting, because it shows comparisons of the hacked games with the originals.

http://es.nicovideo.jp/mylist/16977644

For those who don't have a NicoNicoDouga account, you can play the videos via the Nicovideo Redirector. Or alternatively, replace everything before the "sm" number in the URL with http://d.hatena.ne.jp/video/niconico/ and that should work too.

Incidentally, I learned something from one of these, thanks to a very rudimentary ability to read kana: the music in "Falling Blocks" on the DreamGear is actually from "Kero Kero Keroppi no Daibouken". No wonder it sounds 50 times better than anything else on the console.

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2000-present / 15in1 investigation
« on: August 24, 2010, 01:39:52 PM »
If it's not too late, I'd like to see The Hummer. Possibly a few seconds of each level, if the level select still works-- it looks like the background is slightly different in Spring Yard.

Edit: Never mind; it's the same, just palette-swapped. Incidentally, is the music still identical to Somari in The Hummer?

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2000-present / Abab Soft
« on: August 24, 2010, 12:02:47 PM »
A few other random observations on Harry's Legend:

* In the sprites, the digits '01493' are separate from the digits '25678'. I wonder if this is an indication that this was hacked from a Somari Team game from 1993 or 1994? Or maybe it's just a coincidence. It just doesn't make sense why the numbers would be separated like that, though.

* There's a pair of sprites in there whose sole purpose appears to be replacing the "P" in "Potter" in the HUD with a "B". Yeah, like that will make the game totally non-infringing. :P (I've also seen a version out there, not yet dumped, in which the HUD reads "Harry Legend".)

* The letters to spell out "Jack" and "Rose" in the gradient font are not there, for whatever that's worth.

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2000-present / Abab Soft
« on: August 24, 2010, 11:33:41 AM »
I've always thought that the backgrounds in Harry's Legend looked more like something from the early 20th century than something set in the 1990s. Though maybe I'm just projecting now that I know there's a Titanic game with the same backgrounds... :)

Edit: Oh, wow. Something I never realized in Harry's Legend until now: if you press B+A in stage 2 and up, you can throw a broom. And it uses up some of your life meter in doing so. O_o

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