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[taizou]

it's by Yong Yong.
... enough said?

[Awesome Panda]

taizou

Dec 10 2011, 10:30:01 AM

it's by Yong Yong.
... enough said?[/quote]No. Is it as bad as their other games?

[Pepper-98]

Yeah, what's the game like?  Is it a hack of Digimon or something?

[taizou]

Yeah, its based on one of their Digimon games, Digimon 02 4 I think. Most of the enemies are still Digimon, even.

[Pepper-98]

taizou

Dec 10 2011, 12:54:37 PM

Yeah, its based on one of their Digimon games, Digimon 02 4 I think. Most of the enemies are still Digimon, even.[/quote]Oh, Yong Yong... :lol:

[taizou]

also I've just discovered that, in what has become a Yong Yong tradition, it crashes at some point in the first level. >:0

[Awesome Panda]

Apparently, Christmas comes early because I managed to find a Gamezone II 128 in 1 at Cash Converters earlier.

Haven't been able to play it yet though, because it didn't come with batteries and I don't think I have a DC 6V adaptor.

Edit: Having played the arcade ports this thing has (by which I mean the games which were never released on the Famicom or NES) I think they're made by the same company who did those 8-bit DDR ripoffs. The reason being that the sound engine is taken from those games. None of them seem to credit a developer but the games vary in quality:

Scramble - The rockets don't seem to launch at any point and the transition between levels is different.
Missile Command - Seems to be based off both the arcade and Game Boy versions. The player has two bases instead of three and the missiles themselves work differently: they fire a lot faster but the explosions only last for a couple of seconds.
Asteroids - The worst one out of the lot. The physics flat out suck and the warp move seems to be missing.
Frogger - There's no music (apart from some generic tune on the title screen) and you only have to get two frogs to the end of the stage instead of five.
Moon Cresta - Not sure on this one as I've never played the arcade version. :\

[Pepper-98]

Two games  that I figured didn't need their own blog post, as there's not much to them.  I'll put up scans in my next Collection Update, since I'll be getting tons of neat shit in (hopefully) short time.



Both games, it turns out, are the undumped Chinese version of Digimon 3 Crystal featuring the original soundtrack.  Fun note is that the right one boots up with "Niutoude" which I think is Winsen's boot-up logo.  Left one boots with just "Nintendo" as it's a generic bootleg.

And I just realized that I now own five copies of this game.  Fuck yeah!

[codeman38]

Makes sense on the logo thing-- the right-hand version has the Xing Xing logo on the cart, and Xing Xing is Winsen.

[taizou]

Got some more Harry Potterness today:
http://imgur.com/a/263IN
Harry Potter 2, or to give it its full title, "Harry Potter 2 and the Sorcerer's Stone: The black art wtrstle edition"

This was actually sealed when I got it, but I've kind of squandered the opportunity to sell it for a bazillion dollars to some mad collector by opening it. Ah well.

It's basically the dumped Harry Potter platformer, except the opening cutscene text is in English (and it repeats the entire thing for each screen, in what I assume is a mistake, but at least the English text printing routine doesn't make the music slow way down like the Chinese one does), the title screen is in Chinese, and there's a screen of engrishy text with a picture before each level.

Theres a sticker on the back indicating it was manufactured in 2002, and it tried to start up with a BBD logo the first couple of times (which didn't work on my SP, and I don't have a GBC with me, but worked eventually) so I guess its one of their earlier titles, before Sintax started releasing stuff (unless BBD and Sintax are actually the same thing). And kind of interestingly, theres a "BE-014" serial number in the bottom right of the box. just a guess, but B=BBD, E=English? And that'd mean it's the 14th game they released... presumably one is Metal Slug 2001, I have no idea what the rest could be.

[codeman38]

Curiously enough, there actually is some English text buried in the dumped Chinese ROM! Spoilering it because it's a long bunch of short lines.

And yes, this is copied verbatim; it does indeed start in mid-word. (Perhaps they overwrote the English text with Chinese, for once?)

Spoiler: click to toggle

ved with
his dreadful    
stepparents, the
Dursleys.      
Until that fate-
ful day....Harry
received a      
letter that inv-
iting hime to  
attend Hogwarts
School of Witch-
craft and Wizar-
dry.            
After take the  
train from plat-
form nine and  
three-quarters.
Harry arrived  
the mestrious  
school of witch-
craft and wizar-
dry.            

The sorting hat
distribute,Harry
insist that he  
want Gryffindor.
The overture for
his fancy adven-
ture in magic-  
world will begin
................

'Welcome to the
Diagon Alley'.  
Hagrid with    
smilling face  
that spoken to  
the surprised  
Harry.          
After the walls
were opened, a  
street covered  
with pebble, a  
lot of shops,  
goods, and      
peoples appeared

'Welcome to    
Hogwarts School
of Witchcraft  
and Wizardry'.  
Said by        
Professor      
McGonagall with
loud voice.    
'A banquet for  
school opens    
will begin soon
All of you will
be distribute  
to the college  
of yourself,    
and the college
will be your    
home in the    
HOGWARTS SCHOOL
Now break up    
and find the    
dormitory of    
yourself!'      

They learned the
general sense of
plant in the    
greenhouse.    
Professor Sprout
teach them how  
to observe the  
numerous strange
forms of plants
and the fungi,  
and find out the
usage of the    
plants and fungi
At the same time
professor want  
Harry Potter to
complete the    
experiment in  
the garden.    

Harry would be  
playing in his  
first match    
after weeks of  
hard training:  
Gryffindor v.s  
Slytherin.      
The mission of  
Harry in this  
competition is  
to capture the  
Golden Snitch  
and to win for  
Gryffindor.    

In the Hagird's
hut.The very    
anxious Hagrid  
told Harry that
he need flame  
seed to hatch  
the dragon egg.
And it need to  
through the area
of waterfall and
go deep into the
cave to find the
flame seed.    

In the dark cave
,mountains of  
crises and      
monsters were  
waiting for    
Harry Potter.  
Harry brings the
exception of    
Hagrid, looking
for the place  
that flame seed
spread with the
most meticulous
care.          

Because Harry  
entered the    
third-floor    
corridor by    
mistake. Harry  
and his partners
were punished by
professor,Hagrid
bring them to  
the edge of the
Forbidden Forest
,and point a    
narrow and curve
footpath that  
disappeared in  
the dense and  
dark forest.    
They divide into
groups and enter
the forest.    

To prevent from
the plane that  
Professor Snape
want to stole  
the magic stone,
Harry and his  
partners need to
outflank        
Professor Snape.
They decide to  
go to the danger
taboo basement  
to take a risk.

Unexpectedly the
devil is......  
Quirrell!!      
It's so hard to
believe.        
Harry to face  
the hitherto un-
known dangerous!

Does any of this match the text in your copy, taizou?Also: CGB-P-ACNE. Lulz. I thought that might actually be a SKU for a real game, but no, the Internet has never heard of such a thing.Speaking of SKUs and Metal Slug, "The Beet Terrif Battle of 2002" is BE-015. So yep, Metal Slug was one of these. Same "Game USA Color" packaging, too.

[Awesome Panda]

If anything, I just wonder what the other 13 games are. Probably just platformers running on the same engine as the Harry Potter game and Bomb 2.

Also, why do they bother writing "Game USA Color" on the front when it says "Only for Game Boy Color" on the back? :rolleyes:

[taizou]

codeman38

Dec 17 2011, 02:15:42 AM

Does any of this match the text in your copy, taizou?[/quote]
Yeah, that matches the text in mine - here's the cut off bit at the beginning:

Spoiler: click to toggle

A stary and also
unbelieve ably
quiet night.
A giant, name
Hagrid, ride a
huge motobike,
bluster through
the sky.
He left a baby
on the doorstep
of number four,
Privet Drive.
Harry Potter the
boy who lived.
For the next
eleven years,
Harry lived with
(...)

The paragraph about the sorting hat doesn't show up at all, but it looks like it was supposed to be in the intro and they messed up somehow. Everything after that is pre-level text.

It does seem like the English version came first though, and then they had trouble getting it to display Chinese - hence the slow music in the dumped version's intro, and the lack of any of the pre-level stuff.

[Awesome Panda]

taizou

Dec 17 2011, 07:47:51 AM

It does seem like the English version came first though, and then they had trouble getting it to display Chinese - hence the slow music in the dumped version's intro, and the lack of any of the pre-level stuff.[/quote]In that case, I'm guessing the English version doesn't have that problem.

Also, what is the pre-level stuff? Is it cutscenes or something like that?

[taizou]

Awesome Panda

Dec 17 2011, 08:04:04 AM

In that case, I'm guessing the English version doesn't have that problem.

Also, what is the pre-level stuff? Is it cutscenes or something like that?[/quote]It doesn't. And yeah theyre sort of cutscenes, just a screen of text with a picture.Finally took delivery of a package I've been waiting for for quite a while now:

http://imgur.com/a/7fuY1

(there was also a dance mat but I don't have much room to unfold it at the moment)

I'll post some impressions as I play stuff, for now I've tried:

Bynasty Warriors Advance 5 - seriously that's what the title screen says. Its the unboxed yellow Sintax cart - just a GBC game in a GBA case. Some of you may have seen "Dragon Ball Z3" by Sintax which is either a port of DB: Advanced Adventure, or at least something stealing a lot of graphics from that game - well this is a poorly done hack of that game. The character's name in the status bar is even still "Gokou". and it has music from Lemmings naturally.

Zook Man ZX4 - Rockman & Crystal by Vast Fame with a different title screen.

Jue Zhan San Guo (the one that says "SLG" on the box) - Seems to be a GBA strategy RPG by Vast Fame, it's all in Chinese and the save battery is dead though. But definitely interesting. o:

Incidentally the copy of San Guo Zhi Lie Zhuan (in the plastic bag) seems to have been sent in error instead of the English copy of Magic Lamp I ordered. Dunno if its worth returning it.More:

Maple Story 2 - Another Sintax GBC game in a GBA case, seems to be a variation on the beat 'em up engine used in
Final Fantaxy IX (though there's no world map or anything). Music is from a Castlevania game I think. Strangely the manual is for Maple Story 1, which seems to be an entirely different game.

World of Warcraft - Crappy Sintax game. You just walk to the right and shoot things, and pick up HP recovery items, and that's it. You can jump but I've yet to see a platform. Also I just paused the game and it crashed. And there's Lemmings music again.

Lion King 3 - Can't get this to work, no matter how many times I blow on it. Seems a bit of a tight fit in the GBA, I'll have to try it on a GBC or something when I get access to one again.