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1993-1999 / Unused levels in Panda Prince
« on: August 19, 2010, 02:41:24 PM »
KingPepe
Aug 15 2010, 04:25:43 PM
I know there's a Game Genie code that changes the story into Chinese and changes the title screen.

Code was: AANGAIPA[/quote]Oh, that's interesting. The altered title screen has the NT logo instead of the K one.

Edit: Not that this was big news or anything, since one of the hidden copyright screens also had NT's logo. Still curious that the two versions are credited to different companies, though!

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BootlegGames Wiki / BootlegGames Wiki
« on: August 19, 2010, 01:30:20 AM »
I just added a developer page for Vast Fame based on all the info I know about them so far. Surprised it's been this long until they were added, honestly.

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2000-present / Abab Soft
« on: August 17, 2010, 07:58:01 PM »
Don't forget that there's Arabic text from The Dragon in The Panda Prince. Stuff from that game just keeps showing up in random places!

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Famicom/NES / Harry Legend ID
« on: August 17, 2010, 03:17:17 PM »
taizou
Aug 15 2010, 08:21:41 PM
edit- heres mine, two 6 in 1s:
http://fuji.drillspirits.net/stuff/kmultis.jpg[/quote]I find it amusing that they refer to Captain Tsubasa by his Arabic dub name (Majid) on one of those carts!

Wonder if that's just an amusing translation gaffe, or if these things were intended to be sold in the Middle East?

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Pirate Talk / NusuttoSan's pirate game videos
« on: August 17, 2010, 01:36:13 PM »
taizou
Aug 17 2010, 12:50:02 PM
on a sort of related note I finally figured out where the music in Metal Slug 2001 is from - The Great Battle Pocket. i knew it was stolen from somewhere.[/quote]Ooh, good catch again! Typical Sintax.

Incidentally, both Great Battle and Super Robot Taisen are by Bandai/Banpresto. Though I doubt that's of any significance, since Sintax has also stolen music from J-Wing (Lemmings) and Nintendo themselves (Pokemon Pinball).

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Pirate Talk / NusuttoSan's pirate game videos
« on: August 17, 2010, 11:22:20 AM »
taizou
Aug 17 2010, 09:54:24 AM
i can't believe Pokemon Sapphire/Ruby/Carbuncle/etc's music is stolen! all this time i've been playing through that damn game thinking Sintax did a pretty decent job on the music. but no! those bastards. ill never trust a pirate again. ):[/quote]Yeah, that was a disappointment to me too! Now I'm wondering if the music from True Three Kingdoms is stolen, because that is way too good by Sintax standards.

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2000-present / Abab Soft
« on: August 17, 2010, 10:46:24 AM »
Cheetahmen
Aug 17 2010, 06:37:28 AM
Not really sure what significance that has. I somehow doubt they were around before 1990.[/quote]It's not significant or anything; I just thought it was funny that they were sort of aping the SNES logo.

I wonder if they named themselves after a Famiclone controller that had the buttons laid out like that?

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Pirate Talk / NusuttoSan's pirate game videos
« on: August 17, 2010, 01:34:54 AM »
So I just discovered this guy on YouTube named NusuttoSan who's posted some interesting videos of undumped pirates:

http://www.youtube.com/user/NusuttoSan

Some highlights include:
  • Bomboy, a Gamtec port of Super Bomberman to Mega Drive.
  • VFame's Pokemon Ruby, captured via Game Boy Player. With even more of a chance to hear VFame's awesome music. And more Engrish! Heh.
  • Pocket Monster Carbuncle. Or Ruby. Which we know better as Sapphire. Yeah, the Sintax one. Also, the reason its music is so good? It's stolen from a legit Super Robot Wars game (Dai-2-Ji Super Robot Taisen)!
  • Rockman X4. The unholy love child of Rockman 8 and Sonic Adventure 7. Played on real hardware.  <_<
Edited to add: Street Heroes GB! Wow, that music is ear-splitting. And it uses Ei-How Yang's fonts.

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2000-present / Abab Soft
« on: August 17, 2010, 12:45:58 AM »
Another random thing I just noticed: Turn the ABAB logo upside down. Does the color scheme look vaguely familiar? If not, find a picture of the Super Famicom or PAL SNES controller and compare.

Heck, it even sort of looks inspired by the Super Famicom logo...

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2000-present / D-CAT8 8bit Game Console
« on: August 17, 2010, 12:16:46 AM »
Ooh, I found a Word doc from the manufacturer (via DealExtreme) showing a rather low-res screenshot for each game. This might help me with identification as well. :-)

http://rapidshare.com/files/278504806/GameList.doc

A few observations:
  • IQ Champion is definitely a hack of something from the Intellivision plug-n-play (which actually runs on NES hardware) - I just can't remember what its title is. ::looks:: Ah, that's it: Buzz Bombers.
  • I don't think I ever have seen Magic Block on anything before; I'd definitely recognize that interface design.
  • Interesting. #49 in this listing is Space Shuttle Exploration, which is another ABAB game-- and I haven't seen anything beyond its title screen even still!
  • #53 in this listing is Aether Cruiser (a Waixing original), not Football. Also weird.
  • OK, Pizzaboy is definitely not Pizza Pop. I think that, too, may be a Waixing original; I swear I've seen it on one of those Waixing famiclones.
Edit: A few more observations, because there were fewer than I expected I'd have:
  • I know I've seen "Mine" before - possibly on one of those educational computer clones?
  • Yep, "Hit Mouse" is exactly the same one on the DDR-knockoff cart.
  • Battle City under its real name? That's unusual.
  • Wow, there are an awful lot of duplicates of legit games with hacked variants. Arabian and Pinball are all there in their regular form too. (Edit: Originally wrote Road Fighter, but I was getting that mixed up with Zippy Race. Doesn't everyone?)

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2000-present / D-CAT8 8bit Game Console
« on: August 16, 2010, 11:48:04 PM »
taizou
Aug 16 2010, 11:32:20 PM
56. Snowball - a Sokoban clone with a snowman pushing snowballs into holes. I'd like to say they took some inspiration from Snowman Legend on the Gamate but I know no one apart from me has ever played it. I think its a hack of another Sokoban clone but I can't remember its name - its not Porter, and the background music is Frere Jacques. any ideas?[/quote]"Box World", a.k.a. "Boxes World", by none other than Waixing!

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58. Pizza Boy - guy on a scooter, you have to pick up pizzas from a shop and deliver them to people around a town with constantly shifting obstacles. i'm sure i've played a better take on this same idea somewhere before.[/quote]Sounds like a hack of the real Famicom game "Pizza Pop".

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2000-present / D-CAT8 8bit Game Console
« on: August 16, 2010, 11:24:01 PM »
taizou
Aug 16 2010, 11:15:53 PM
ah, i'll have to keep a lookout for that. was it on youtube?[/quote]I think so. Probably was Tweeterman287's Sudoku/Sudo/Shudu Game.

Edit: No, it wasn't that one-- though it did include the music from another DreamGear famiclone. And it wasn't the Vii either. Maybe I'm just imagining things?

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oh I'm not finished with this thing yet, Dada is in there too :D[/quote]So they've got both Popeye and a hack thereof? Those cheeky bastards!

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2000-present / D-CAT8 8bit Game Console
« on: August 16, 2010, 11:03:03 PM »
taizou
Aug 16 2010, 10:50:05 PM
oh, hell, that has the same menu music! that tune is going to drive me insane.

all of the hacks on the Yarou 5 apart from Future Tank are on the D-Cat btw. and the Yarou 54 (undumped currently, but I think cah4e3 has one) uses that same damn menu music! argh.[/quote]I'm pretty sure that, too, has some connection to Waixing! I seem to recall that I've heard it in one of the games in one of those Waixing-copyrighted famiclones, but maybe I'm misremembering.

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its actually dumped - Famicom Yarou vol.5 on this page:
http://cah4e3.shedevr.org.ru/dumping_2006.php
so anyone who wants to hear it can inflict it on themselves at their leisure :D[/quote]Ah, that might've been where I saw it was on the Yarou dump rather than a real Famiclone. Though I think there was a YouTube review which I can't find that featured it too.

Edit: "Dada" on that cart is also worth checking out. At least in your famiclone, you got a version of Popeye with... actual Popeye music, and not a completely tone-deaf rendition. But at least the name's appropriate, because it is very dada.  :lol:

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2000-present / D-CAT8 8bit Game Console
« on: August 16, 2010, 10:31:49 PM »
taizou
Aug 16 2010, 08:25:52 PM
23. Magic Block - a Tetris clone. i've no idea where it comes from but it seems to use the Sachen/Shin-Shin/EHY sound engine, and the in-game music is actually good and stuff. unfortunately some of the block shapes are different from normal tetris which kinda makes it not as good. theres a "type" selection on the options screen that doesn't seem to do anything.[/quote]Is that the same as "Falling Blocks" on this DreamGear famiclone, out of curiosity? Or a different one? Because the music is quite catchy, even if it does sound like a knockoff of the Mr Clean jingle. :lol:
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30. Billiard 2008 - Lunar Ball hack. with absolutely the worst music of any of these, or possibly any game ever made.[/quote]Oh, gah. I have seen this hack on a Famiclone. I can definitely agree on the "worst music" comment. O.o Seriously, this one is so bad it deserves a line-in recording or something. (Or else I need to find one of the YouTube reviews featuring it...)
Also, on another note: I wonder what the font that's used in this thing's menu is from— I've also seen it used in Poké Tetris and several of those Waixing famiclone originals. It looks very much like the font from Sonic 2, but there are definite noticeable differences. Maybe it's something that Waixing made themselves?

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2000-present / Abab Soft
« on: August 16, 2010, 07:21:00 PM »
Cheetahmen
Aug 14 2010, 08:30:19 AM
Oh, I meant I found a rom of it, and screenshots of it can be found on the website.  I have a link to it here. http://www.planetemu.net/index.php?section=roms&dat=715&action=showrom&id=980304 Strangely, when translated from Chinese (you have to change the website into Chinese mode to get text) the multicart claims that the games on the cart are based off TV shows. Mind you, I've never heard of Panda Adventure and Snow Bros. cartoons myself. :P[/quote]They also have a sci-fi 4-in-1 with Space Shuttle Exploration, The Avengers, Samurai Pizza Cats, and Chip & Dale 3 (which, judging from the title graphic, appears to be the one that's a graphics hack of Heavy Barrel-- and even then, still isn't very sci-fi).

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