Hey guys, got another quick ROM dump release for you all. This time it's for the Spanish version of Makon Soft's Pokémon Jade (no relation to the Telefang hack of the same name), Pokémon Esmeralda (or "Pokémon - La Versión Esmeralda (Special Pikachu Edition)" on the box). I have Cris_Kaiju to thank for this one. This is simply a Spanish translation of their Pokémon themed Sonic Adventure 7 hack, featuring a new title and the story and transition screens translated into Spanish. I'm not sure if they fixed the bug that crashes Stage 1 upon completing it, but otherwise it's pretty much identical to the English version in terms of gameplay.

The raw dump currently only works on hhugboy if you set the unlicensed compatibility mode to "NT (Makon) new" before running it, or if you're using the latest version of mGBA (0.10.3), go to "Tools > Game overrides..." without a game running, and in the Game Boy tab, select "NT (new)" for the memory bank controller and select Save (this setting will reset when you restart the emulator, but just in case, reset the option back to "Autodetect" if you want to continue using other ROMs when you're done). No GBX version this time, sorry. I'd like to look at the cart PCB to exactly know what hardware it uses to create a GBX based on that for the most accuracy before releasing one. So far I haven't been able to find any pictures of it for Pokémon Esmeralda's cartridge, but if anyone is willing to provide pictures of the cart's PCB then I'll likely make a GBX ROM and add it here.

I'll just preface this post before I continue by saying: these aren't my own dumps and these were technically publicly released since about a year ago, albeit only on the BGC Discord. I had these downloaded on my computer for a year and only rediscovered them yesterday, which is when I had the idea to publicly share them so these dumps wouldn't end up being lost to time. I have Cam from the BGC Discord to thank for dumping these in the first place and for giving me permission to release their ROMs here. I likely will not be doing this often, so don't expect me to release many ROM dumps.

Now, the dumps in question are for two cartridges for the Game Boy Color: a multicart named the "Super Color 26-in-1" with an ID of CY2086, and an English release of Digimon 02 5, a Makon Soft game (cartridge ID is CGB-208-USA).

The Super Color 26-in-1 includes a couple games developed by Makon Soft. The games in question (Street Fighter Zero 4 and Pokemon Gold 2) use the "NT (Makon) new" mapper. Both games, as well as the Pikachu INC. translation of Pokemon Gold appear to be identical to dumps that have been released elsewhere. I'm including a dump of the full multicart anyway for preservation's sake and in case anyone can figure out the mapper this cart use. At the moment, the full multicart dump only partially works in emulators and the only game that can be launched is The Pikachu Nightmare ("POKEMON GO GO" in the menu).

Now, for the slightly more intriguing dump of the two. Digimon 02 5 is yet another Makon Soft platformer, and the dump is of the English release of the game. Until now, the only version of this game dumped was a Kongfeng release of the Chinese version with no copy protection that Ankos dumped. While Digimon 02 5 definitely controls better than the games that made Makon Soft infamous as it's based on their Digimon 2 engine, it's still not great and can be very frustrating to play through. This time, though, the game's intro is a slideshow of various Digimon followed by a story (in English in this case) and stars... something that I think is supposed to resemble Veemon as a playable character. You can pick up a power up to transform your character into a guy with armor that gives you a more powerful fire attack. I managed to play through four levels (with the help of save states, of course) and it's nothing particularly out of the ordinary for a Makon Soft game. I'll be releasing two versions of the dump here: the original raw dump, which only works on hhugboy if you set the unlicensed compatibility mode to "NT (Makon) new" before running it, and a GBX ROM of the raw dump configured to use the NT new mapper and 32 KB of save data (the original cartridge uses a 32K GoldStar GM76C256ALLFW70 SRAM chip), which will automatically run on hhugboy and the latest version of mGBA to my knowledge (for anyone who cares, I used rari_teh's GBXBuilder tool to create the GBX ROM).

Enjoy your new ROM dumps! Pictures of the cartridges, and PCBs if applicable, taken by the dumper (Cam) will be posted shortly.

What is called the multicart?

There exists a hack of the game Panda Adventure for the NES/Famicom, aptly named Pink Jelly NES.

There is none, and I doubt one can be made without rewriting major parts of the game. One-screen mirroring is such a different way of programming a scrolling routine that the original publisher would rather use different hardware (TLSROM rather than TLROM) instead of just adapting the game for more common hardware.