Oh hey, yet another Emerald (this time it's a hack of Yellow). By some miracle, despite being a 2009 release, this required zero header editing and works as is. They insert this cursed looking Gallade with a limited palette at the beginning of the game before anything starts and just totally blank out the actual starting screen. Kind of like those unclaimed Pokemon and Telefang Hacks I've posted. Hmmm.

By the way, I can't identify the Gallade image being used on the label. I tried looking through some official art and reverse image searched it as well. If you know, please let me know.

Developer: ???
Publisher: Tian Ren Electronics

Kou Dai Guai Shou: Lu Bao Shi V2.0 493 (口袋怪兽-绿宝石 V2.0 493)

The image of gallade is likely traced from the front artwork of this booster pack :)

A BBD Digimon game, this one has a lot of aliases. You can probably tell what it is just from the title screen.

This one boots with a BBD logo on a GBC which is always neat.

Developer: BBD
Publisher: ???

This one was tough, it wouldn't always get detected by my dumper, it sometimes gave me a garbage file, and it always automatically detected as 8MB causing it to take a long time to dump multiple times. Why did I need to dump it multiple times? Because it keeps giving me inconsistent dumps. I did get two dumps that were exactly the same, which is what I'm sharing here. I trimmed it down to 1MB (the same size as the Internet Archive dump as well as 02 4 which I think it's based on).

Developer: ???
Publisher: Tian Ren Electronics

From the same people who created the fake Pokemon: Platinum Version, we have Emerald with all 386 Pokemon! Makes me wonder when the first 386 hacks came out and if these title screen hacks copied them or pioneered the idea.

This time, in addition to an inserted title screen before the game boots we actually have an edited title screen! I didn't notice before, but the game will autoboot in SGB mode in hhugboy but no border shows up until after the actual game starts.

Another interesting feature of this hack is that it's says it's GreenVersion, but is actually Blue similar to the alleged English translation I previously shared. However, the palette that loads automatically in a GBA (it's too dark to really tell on my GBC) is that of Pokemon: Green Version. Pretty neat in my opinion.

Developer: ???
Publisher: ???

Based on what I've seen, this could be an earlier version of a Pokemon Yellow translation of Taiwanese origin that I've seen. I'll have to see if I can find it and play and do a little comparison. I'm going to guess it's better than the previous (far far more common) Chinese pirate translation of Yellow though.

For some reason it won't boot on my GBC or my GBA but it will boot on my Analogue Pocket. Thankfully it dumped fine and works in hhugboy, which will boot it in SGB mode automatically. I haven't tested it out *too* much really, all I've done is withdraw my free Potion and win my first battle.

EDIT: Forgot this was built on Japanese Yellow and the Japanese version doesn't have the fancy GBC bells and whistles the other releases have so I turned on the palette for Japanese Yellow on my Pocket and recaptured the screenshot.

Developer: Vast Fame
Publisher: New GB Color