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« Reply #180 on: December 17, 2011, 11:26:40 AM »
I hate how some of these bootlegs go by like a dozen names.  First it's Rockman, then it's Zook Hero, now it's Zook Man.  As for San Guo Zhi, I'd return it and get Magic Lamp if you can.  San Guo Zhi doesn't seem to be too rare of a game.  By the way, does Jue Zhan San Guo have the same game engine as Digimon Saphire or share music with another VF game, by any chance?
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« Reply #181 on: December 17, 2011, 11:31:21 AM »
2002 Fighter Strategy (or something like that) - One of Sachen's last ever games, I guess. Really weird, it doesn't have much in common with their other GBC stuff at all (the music isn't bad, for a start) so I'm guessing it was developed externally. It's a strategy game based on King of Fighters, anyway.. in Chinese.

Tenchi wo Kurau IV Credited to "Super Huge Dragon" aka SKOB. Judging from the music it was developed by the same people as their Super Robot Wars games.

Binary Monster 2001 - Actually different to the picture in the listing, which had 2001 in the title and not just in the corner. Its Gowin's Binary Monster virtual pet-ish-game, still in mono and everything (even though the box screenshots are in colour), just re-released with a "Hotkid" startup logo, presumably because the earlier Gowin logo broke GBC compatibility. I'm not sure if the other 2001 version has any differences, but probably not.

Next up: the Waixing games!
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Dec 17 2011, 11:26:40 AM
By the way, does Jue Zhan San Guo have the same game engine as Digimon Saphire or share music with another VF game, by any chance?[/quote]The engine seems to be unique - I don't recognise any of the music so far but it wouldn't surprise me if it was recycled, probably from San Guo Zhi Lie Zhuan or something.
Waixing games:

Guang Ming Zhi Zi ("Child of Light") - seems like a fairly mediocre RPG, a cut above a lot of their NES stuff though. Anyway there are guards that won't let me out of the first town and it's all in Chinese. D:

Huo Yan Wen Zhang (Fire Emblem) - Port of Fire Emblem Gaiden from the Famicom from the looks of things.

as for San Guo Zhi, well its dumped, so theres probably not much I could tell you about that. I'll maybe try and send it back and get Magic Lamp.
The purple Power Joy-ish plug and play isnt anything particularly interesting, just a standard famiclone - the 125 in 1 cart has about 70 games on it, Super Contra then a bunch of early-gen stuff, including a couple of those hacked lightgun games (which are dumped anyway)
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« Reply #182 on: December 17, 2011, 12:03:23 PM »
taizou
Dec 17 2011, 11:31:21 AM
The purple Power Joy-ish plug and play isnt anything particularly interesting, just a standard famiclone - the 125 in 1 cart has about 70 games on it, Super Contra then a bunch of early-gen stuff, including a couple of those hacked lightgun games (which are dumped anyway)[/quote]It's a bit of a long shot, but is there any built-in software?
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« Reply #183 on: December 17, 2011, 12:15:41 PM »
Nah, doesn't seem to be. Its not compatible with OneBus PJ cartridges either.

And then theres the Subor plug & play, which is... weird. That little wheel on the thing, I thought would be to control driving games, but it actually just lights up with 3 LEDs which flash constantly. It does have a cart slot at least. But it's battery only, and it suffers from the same audio interference problem as my Super Gun King, which you can see in some of the videos on my neopnp channel. D:
As for the built in games, theyre all Waixing/NC stuff, nothing I haven't seen before so far. Unusually for Subor its not a VT03 though.
and finally - the dance mat. it has "Panasonic Tau" branding on it, which was a line of TVs they sold around 2000 or so, which makes absolutely no sense. I'll try and get a picture of this thing at some point anyway. My theory is that, I guess, some Taiwanese Panasonic distributor had it made as a promotional item? Otherwise its just your standard dance mat Famiclone, the built in software is pretty much (if not completely) identical to one of the dumped DDR-clone ROMs.

Also it runs off an AC adapter only, there's a battery cover on the back which broke when I tried to open it, and then I discovered there werent any connectors for the batteries anyway. Quality stuff, this.
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« Reply #184 on: December 18, 2011, 11:19:48 AM »
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Dec 17 2011, 08:13:30 AM
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.[/quote]Could you please post screenshots of this game? I'm really curious about this game.  =O
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« Reply #185 on: December 18, 2011, 12:19:43 PM »
here you go:
http://imgur.com/a/lk4UY
i've included the screens from the back of the box as well, mine were taken from a gameboy screen so the quality isnt all that great. the last pic is the screenshots of Maple Story 1 from the included manual...
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« Reply #186 on: December 18, 2011, 12:24:13 PM »
Looks like the same game with different levels as far as I can tell. :\

The same as Final Fantasy X, that is.
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« Reply #187 on: December 18, 2011, 12:38:23 PM »
Zook Man ZX4's box art is, in fact, the same as Rockman Crystal's. Except for the title, of course.

Not surprisingly, there are some hits for the Chinese title on some .cn/.tw sites. But only when it's spelled with a 洛 rather than a 路. (The latter being the way that VFame spells it, I guess in an attempt to say "hey, we're not that Capcom character, our guy's name has 4 more strokes!") Curiously, there are no hits when it's spelled with the latter character, despite that being how it's written on the box...
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« Reply #188 on: December 18, 2011, 12:44:30 PM »
codeman38
Dec 18 2011, 12:38:23 PM
Not surprisingly, there are some hits for the Chinese title on some .cn/.tw sites. But only when it's spelled with a 洛 rather than a 路. (The latter being the way that VFame spells it, I guess in an attempt to say "hey, we're not that Capcom character, our guy's name has 4 more strokes!") Curiously, there are no hits when it's spelled with the latter character, despite that being how it's written on the box...[/quote]In that case, why do the alternate releases of Zook Hero 2 have "Rockman" in the title? :huh:
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« Reply #189 on: December 18, 2011, 12:50:06 PM »
Awesome Panda
Dec 18 2011, 12:44:30 PM
In that case, why do the alternate releases of Zook Hero 2 have "Rockman" in the title? :huh:[/quote]A good question indeed! And it's not just in English; they also use the Capcom-preferred character for luo in the Chinese title.

The only thing I can think of is that none of the Rockman-branded versions that I've seen actually have the VFame logo anywhere in the packaging. (Even though the dumped DX3 ROM does have the VFame boot logo. Go figure.) So it's like they released the 'official' version as Zook with the non-standard Chinese rendering of the name, and then they also put out an anonymous black-market version as Rockman.

Not the first time they've done this. There are two versions of Devil Island out there too, one of which actually uses Castlevania's Chinese title.
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« Reply #190 on: December 22, 2011, 08:36:45 PM »
Nice to see the original copy of Rockman and Crystal. I was starting to wonder if it was never even released in Taiwan. Gives me hope for finding a copy myself someday.
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« Reply #191 on: December 23, 2011, 03:35:08 PM »
Oh fucking lawd, I busted a gut when I saw the very bottom of my newly-arrived Ruten order:



Looks like you got my copy of San Guo Zhi that I ordered, Taizou, and I got your Magic Lamp!  :lol:  I'll gladly trade Magic Lamp to you in exchange for that game, if you still have it.

Looks like I didn't get that Yugioh! game that I ordered (the one with the Zook Hero Z cart) but oh well.  Speaking of, I wonder if it got mixed up with another order or if the seller used a stock image?
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« Reply #192 on: December 23, 2011, 05:24:29 PM »
ha! :D That was... unexpected. I'll PM you.
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« Reply #193 on: December 29, 2011, 09:02:58 AM »
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Top to bottom, left to right:
NT8049 3in1 - include Aladdin by SuperGame
JY-044 4 in 1 - Adventure Island 4, Little Samson, Bonk, Captain Tsubasa
Dian Shi Ma Li (with copyrights)
JY-015 7 in 1 - Bunch of Chess, Othello and other board game. Strangely, only the game by TXC still have copyrights...
JY-038 4 in 1 - Bubble Bobble 2, Contra, Son Son 2, Wacky Races
JY-028 Super Mario World
NT 309 Real Bout Special 97
JY-025 Aladdin II (MMC3 hack, with a JY label...)
Super Donkey Kong (EHY)
JY-010 42in1
4in1
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« Reply #194 on: December 29, 2011, 09:22:01 AM »
MLX
Dec 29 2011, 09:02:58 AM
JY-015 7 in 1 - Bunch of Chess, Othello and other board game. Strangely, only the game by TXC still have copyrights...[/quote]hmm o: that's interesting. i wonder if there was some kind of relationship between JY and TXC, and TXC allowed them to use the game? I noticed a while back that a lot of Taiwanese JY releases (including that multi) use the same style of cart as TXC's games, so if they were close enough to at least share a cart shell manufacturer, JY probably wouldn't have pirated one of TXC's games without permission.. (since both were in Taiwan I'd imagine TXC could have sued).
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