I tested with one more emulator - this time an emulator for android OS called GBC.emu, and it just behaved exact the same as Visualboyadvance. (Crashs at Stage 2 and 13, Stages 6, 9 and 17 are playable but glitchy)

And I noticed that glitched maps shown when you load Stages 6, 9 and 17 in VBA have identical layout - it resembles the map used in stage 15 and 18(The Solomon space fortress). Entering stage 9 in hhugboy also shows the same glitched Solomon map. I'm not sure this would help since hhugboy doesn't show the same glitched map at Stage 6/17...

Aside from emulation problem, I saw a Chinese comment on nesbbs(http://www.nesbbs.com/bbs/thread-26165-1-1.html) and it said there are three Gangdan Wuyu games. According to the comment, while Gangdan Wuyu 2 is this one and Gangdan Wuyu 3 is Super Robot Wars X renamed, Gangdan Wuyu 1 was about the story of "Mobile Suit Gundam Side Story : The Blue Destiny".

SRW IMPACT gives you characters and mechs from that Blue Destiny story as your initial squad, and Gangdan Wuyu 2 has "SRW03" as its internal header name, implying the possible existence of SRW02. So maybe SKOB's second SRW game was also re-released by Li Cheng as Gangdan Wuyu 1...

...Oh, and if I understood that comment correctly, the real Gangdan Wuyu 2 cart also had some problem at Stage 6!

This game was dumped by taizou at Handheld Underground, as Li Cheng re-release version called "Gangdan Wuyu II(means Gundam Story II in Chinese)" and finally I found out what the original version looked like. Those lazy Li Cheng guys couldn't bother more to get rid of that "IMPACT" on the title screen!

A Chinese page with some pics

The REAL Super Robot Wars IMPACT is a Playstation 2 game came out in 2002. SKOB previously tried to port a Sega Saturn/Playstation game "Super Robot Wars F Final"(and the result was rather disastrous), which was an earlier entry in the same Super Robot Wars series. However, if you guessed that this would be their later attempt of porting a Super Robot Wars game from that, you're wrong.

Despite being named Super Robot Wars IMPACT and borrowing the label art from the original game, this game has nothing to do with SRW IMPACT. It is an original game heavily based on SD Gundam G Generation F, a Playstation game. Well, both Super Robot Wars and SD Gundam G Generation series feature Gundam mechs, and actually they look and play quite similar but they are never the same. And it looks like SKOB failed to catch the difference...

It looks like this game recycles the engine used SRW F Final, and they did some modifications to make it play more like SDGGF, such as removing spirit command system and adding the ability to purchase/sell new mechs. Graphics and character stats are all taken from SDGGF, and all these things actually do make it look like being faithful to the original. Oddly, musics are taken from various SRW games rather than SDGGF.

As you keep playing, you'll realize SKOB just failed to represent the gameplay of SDGGF properly. The Morale point and Unit performance grade work in SRW-ish way despite all other stats are directly taken from SDGGF, and now the game is completely broken. Gundams and other cool-looking robot mechs are usually WAY weaker than rather pathetic-looking planes and tanks, and killing some random enemies as soon as possible will make your further attacks deal ridiculously high amount of damage, making the whole game a piece of cake.

The game is 20 stages long, and the story follows the events of 1979 anime "Mobile Suit Gundam" rather loosely. One neat feature is that this game lets you play back previous stages(with dialogues omitted) for training your pilots, giving out something to mess around even after you reach the final stage.

The ending sequence doesn't show any info about the developers - just a bunch of Chinese text with starry background.


The current "Gangdan Wuyu 2" dump has some emulation issues - most emulators crashes at stage 2 and 13. taizou's hhugboy handles those stages properly but fails at stages 6, 9 and 17. I had to use Visualboyadvance for those stages(I tried bgb first but it failed), and while VBA lets you beat those three stages it still had some issues like garbled map graphics and destroying main save data after the stage map is loaded.

I don't like Hummer Team musics that much but I don't think they are as bad as "shitty", considering the abundance of much worse musics in the world of bootleg games.

Super Angry Birds above has amazing quality with its music using extensive sampling, but some may prefer chip-tunish feeling that really fits with the 8-bit hardware. While I'm very impressed at this game's sound technology, I don't find it that "interesting". The guys behind this game just gave us the exact same music we are used to...

I see, so your main concern was about that letter difference, rather than the entire word.

Yes it is unusual when both 權 and 権 are used in the same screen, but still I never saw it that strange since the game already contains Chinese mode and Chinese font, and even outside that Chinese mode the whole game is trying to be in Chinese-style and look somewhat dangerous/suspicious(That is what so called "underground games" are trying to do) Though being a Japanese game, HappySoft intentionally wrote the copyright message in Chinese(版權所有 翻印必究), and I think they just lazily copy-and-pasted 版權 from that message to display it again, despite it was going to be used in Japanese mode and they actually had a font to display 権.

Oh, if we can trust everything written on Japanese Wikipedia page about HK97, HappySoft actually had a Chinese guy to give help on the Chinese text, according to an interview with Kurosawa!

He's banned and most of his words should not be trusted. Don't wait for these. They just don't make sense, you'll NEVER get Explorer by just hacking Galaxian's palette.