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Game Boy / Best Rich's Digimon 6 Link-Up Feature
« on: April 27, 2020, 02:23:31 PM »
I was looking around some old threads and saw one on "Digital Monster 6" by a company called "Best Rich". After getting the cart, I was pretty disappointed in the gameplay, but saw something cool on the old thread. Taizou had found an archived website that gave some info on the cart. Apparently the metal knob at the side of it allows it to communicate with other Digimon related products. Has anyone here been able to test/verify if that is actually something this cart can do?

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Pirate Talk / Games of Unknown Origin
« on: April 23, 2020, 07:57:28 PM »
Recently I have been wondering where the "Emo Demo" game by Sintax came from. I know it is a demo for their Castlevania clone, but I don't remember ever seeing any demo carts for any Bootleg/Unlicensed games. That got me thinking that a thread for asking where some of these old pirate game ROMs came from could be a fun idea. I decided to put this in Pirate talk since there are probably a lot of games that people do not know the origin of for consoles that are not Gameboys.

Note: Yes, I am aware that Taizou once mentioned that the demo likely was made to show off to potential business partners. I am just using it as an example because much of its origin is still pretty mysterious (like whether or not a cart of it exists, what the cart looks like if it does exist, and whether or not more Sintax demo games exist)

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Game Boy / Oneself Play BBD Carts
« on: March 28, 2020, 08:26:18 PM »
I got a cartridge for the English version of "Digimon 2001" by "BBD" not too long ago and saw that the label says "by oneself play". I did a little digging and saw that someone was selling what appears to be "Mark of the Wolves" by "BBD" with the same "by oneself play" sign. It was a bit harder to tell on that one though, since the seller took the picture with really bad resolution. When I load "Digimon 2001" it boots with a "BBD" logo and the cart looks like it predates any dump of the game, so I think that these "oneself play" guys must have had some sort of contact with "BBD" (oneself play is probably just an alias for "BBD"). I was wondering if anyone else here has seen carts with this same sign. So far I have only seen "BBD" games with it, but it seems possible to me that these guys may have released other games in these carts. I'll include pictures of the carts I mentioned previously.

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Game Boy / A Bunch of Li Cheng games ID'ed
« on: March 02, 2020, 06:01:40 PM »
I recently found a Taobao listing that had a ton of unidentified Li Cheng games (almost all of them with IDs between CBA001 to CBA174), with screenshots of what the games are. Some of the games they show off are pretty neat. One that made me especially intrigued was "Rockman DX8" which according to the Pirated Games Museum page is supposed to be Sintax's Zook Hero 3. It isn't. It is Zook Hero Z (the first one). The picture of Zook Z shows English text. They also appear to have a Pokemon game with edited sprites for all the Pokemon, and a few re-releases of Gowin games. The seller also has some listings for Li Cheng's Mega Drive games, but I do not really play Mega Drive much. I'll attach a pdf copy of the listing, since I know these sorts of things tend to go down over time.

Note: I used Microsoft print to pdf, which messed up the how the pdf looks. You can still see some of the games on it (a few were cut off).

Here is a link to the page. It redirects if you are not located in China, but you can halt the redirect by using incognito mode on Firefox, or quickly downloading the webpage as an html before the redirect.

https://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=a230r.1.14.106.1a331b15AfSBKV&id=563443710012&ns=1&abbucket=6#detail

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Game Boy / Waixing GBC Game List
« on: February 12, 2020, 01:00:05 PM »
I was searching on Taobao earlier today and saw that someone had listed what appears to be most (if not all) of Waixing's GBC releases. I figured I'd at least post the pictures from it, just in case anyone wanted to start collecting these and needed a game list.

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Discussion Center / A Neat Little Website
« on: February 02, 2020, 11:12:35 AM »
A while back I came across a neat little website called Skywaypro that had some unlicensed games for sale. They mainly sell Neo Geo stuff, but they have some gbc games in the other consoles section. I went ahead and bought a couple of their cheaper gbc games (mostly unlicensed fighting games) and they shipped them reasonably quickly. The stuff listed under Other Consoles has some stuff that I think is decently priced, but their special items section is pretty expensive. I'll leave a link to their website if anyone is interested.

http://skywaypro.bravehost.com/otherconsoles.html

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Game Boy / Gowin English Game Distributor
« on: January 03, 2019, 03:18:55 PM »
Not too long ago I saw an article on a website called Worthplaying.com. They described a company called Crystal Interactive that once
sold English Gowin games. They left a link for the site, but the last time they were active appears to be early 2002.

Here's a link to the Worthplaying post
https://worthplaying.com/article/2002/1/29/news/2112/

And here's one to an archived version of Crystal Interactive's site
https://web.archive.org/web/20020804194749/http://www.crystal-interactive.com:80/console/gameboy/index.html

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Game Boy / Game Amy Carts
« on: September 22, 2017, 02:43:49 PM »
A while back I had acquired a copy of Monster GO GO GO, and noticed that in the place where the words "Nintendo GAME BOY" are embossed into the plastic there were the words "GAME AMY" with amy being in a smaller font. Coincidentally I found a listing on Carousell Singapore of King of Fighters 97 with this same embossing. I found this especially interesting since both games have had connections drawn to Vast Fame (especially King of Fighters 97), with King of Fighters 97 using the same engine as the Vast Fame fighting games, and Monster GO GO GO sometimes coming in a cartridge similar to that of earlier Vast Fame titles and having a title screen that looks like it was made with PC Paint. I was wondering if anyone here knew where this cart type comes from, and what games had releases with it?

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Game Boy / Gowin ROMs
« on: July 28, 2017, 08:42:36 PM »
Recently I have been looking for Gowin ROMs and I was wondering if anyone here would know where to find them.

What I have found: On hhug there is Fire Dragon, Magic Ball, Story of Lasama, Lost Trips, Rainbow Prince, and Prince Yeh Rude. On EmuRussia there is Final Robot, Amazing Robot, and Journey to the West. Finally this directory has Crouching Tiger, and Stone Age.



Please be careful if you visit these sites, I did not check these websites for viruses (the directory is the one that worries me).

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Game Boy / The GBC Takara Engine Multiplayer
« on: July 23, 2017, 08:36:35 PM »
I hooked up a copy of KOF 97 (with the GYY Unlock Team intro), and a copy of Soul Falchion, which appeared to be using the multicart ROM on hhug. Surprisingly the games were compatible, and I was able to enter multiplayer. If anyone here has other Takara Engine games, and the equipment to play multiplayer I'd like to know if this works with all the Vast Fame games.

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Game Boy / Cracking Zook Z Passwords
« on: May 15, 2017, 09:49:40 PM »
In zook z (or zook hero z) on the password screen, some squares can be filled in to represent numbers. In the top left two squares this number represents h-tanks. The very top left most squares adds by multiples of four to the h-tank count, a blank square adds nothing, a yellow armor adds four, red shoes adds eight, and a blue helmet adds 12. The square to the right of the top left square adds by multiples of one, with a blank square adding nothing, a yellow armor adding one, red shoes adding two, and a blue helmet adding three. Having more than nine h-tanks will make the game use glitchy symbols. The top right most cell adds to s-tanks by multiples of one, the cell to the left of the top right cell adds to s-tanks by multiples of four (the symbols are the same for h-tanks). The lowest cells in the middle alter lives, the third cell from the left at the bottom adds to lives by multiples of four, and the fourth cell from the left at the bottom adds to lives by multiples of one. Therefore it is possible to have fifteen lives, s-tanks, and h-tanks.

Armor is manipulated by the two rightmost squares that are three rows down. On the third row down on the fifth column, red shoes gives the leg armor, and a blue helmet gives the leg upgrade and the leg armor. If a piece of yellow armor is placed in the third row on the sixth column, and red shoes is placed in the third row on the fifth column then the player will get the helmet armor and leg armor.

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Game Boy / Good Life Multicarts
« on: February 14, 2017, 05:53:28 PM »
Recently I acquired a multicart titled Super 40 in 1. When I loaded it I noticed it had the same menu as the Super 25 in 1 that has the Good Life Pokemon Stadium game. The 40 in 1 had both the card game and pokemon stadium. After switching between games quickly I noticed that if the game system is shut off and then turned back on quickly that the cart
will load as the previous game loaded. This also worked when I tried it on the Super 25 in 1. I tried to see if i could extract the ROMs for the Good Life games with this and a Benn Venn device, but got no usable ROMs. However the device appeared to recognize the headers for the Good Life games, but I could not repeat these results with any of the other games on the carts. I used a Gameboy Pocket when testing the carts.


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Game Boy / Bypassing Other Custom Logos
« on: January 06, 2017, 06:59:18 PM »
I remember a while back there was a post that explained how to run Binary Monster 3 on the gba sp, as well as a different post on Famicom World describing other Gowin games running on the gba sp through the usage of a device called the gb sacker. Recently I found that the Sorcerer Card by Touch Boy, and 4 in 1 4B-006 by Sachen could be played on a gba sp by inserting them into an InterAct Mega Memory Card, having the Mega Memory Card load its main menu, and then moving the switch on the Mega Memory Card to cause it to load the game plugged in. This also worked on my Gameboy Pocket when it would always load the Nintendo logo as being cut off in the bottom right corner when I tried to use the Sorcerer Card. This did not work for the 4B-001, and 4B-004 Sachen carts, both of which have the custom logo that says Commin.

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Game Boy / GeNiUs Backup Card and Sachen
« on: August 05, 2016, 01:43:24 PM »
Recently I got a gameboy backup card, and found that the only games it seems to completely ignore are the Sachen 4-in-1 games.
Does anyone know why they can't be read?

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