Abab Soft

[Awesome Panda]

I think it would be a hack of Somari. It's doubtful that they'd rewrite the engine, and it'd make sense for the character to be red seeing as in the Sonic hacks, some things that should have been red were recoloured blue in those because of the changed colour palette.

[taizou]

just noticed something in MK4 - I dunno if anyone remembers all the weird names that were found in the ROM a while back (thread here: http://s1.zetaboards.com/The_RX_Community?topic=1553447/1/).

they didn't make much sense back then, but now.. well the first two do, at least.jack and rose! the same text is in harry's legend too, just slightly modified:

.ROSE..JACK..BOSS..ANY..BOATER..BIG.HEAD..RAINBOW..BOMB.MAN..PACO.HEAD.
.FAT.MAN..KILLER..COOKIER..MARY..SOU.JIN..AN.MEI..JU.KOU..JONU.UOU.
.CHUN.ARYUO..RYU.FU..CHEN..........................ZHAO.XIONG.....HU..XU..MA.
.FEI.FEI..RYU..LEE..AN..ZHANG..YANG..TIGER..SHUE..GEE..GENG..LIN..HUANG..XU.
.GAN..HUANG..CHUN..HUAN..ZU..SI..HO..WANG..THUN..ANN..SOU.SOU..IRON..MU.
.ZI..XING..HE..WANG..ZHU..YAN..SOU.SOU..RI.TEN.....FISH..LOBSTER..MEAT.BUN.
.PORK..BBQ..DUCK..MEAT.BUN..CHICKEN..GOLD..BOOK..GOLD..SCROLL..TREASURE.
.GONG................................................................................................................
.AXE..UNI..DAI..HAMMER..AIKOK..SWORD..SAI....

so i guess this proves Titenic came before Harry's Legend.. and it was in development at the same time as MK4.

[KingPepe]

Oh wow, that is strange. Maybe there is an NT version of Titenic going around? (Or just Hummer Team left and moved onto Abab Soft and continued from there)

[taizou]

yeah, there probably is an NT version, or something like that.

I wouldnt go so far as to say Hummer Team was working with ABAB Soft though..  everything discovered on one of their carts so far is either something already released on a single cart, or a hack, or something fairly amateurish (by hummer/etc standards) like Panda Adventure. My guess would be that maybe one member of staff joined ABAB (taking the sound engine and whatever games they had access to), and it was someone from whichever offshoot developed all those games for NT.

edit: though I think that 15 in 1 will probably hold a few answers. they seem to show up quite often on ruten. if only I had some damn money.

[MLX]

I'm trying to get one right now, I've a Taiwanese friend wich is going to make an account soon (when he will be back to Taiwan). So I may get it in the next 3 months.

I can't guarantee it will still be there but we just have to wish

I'll also buy a copynes to dump it myself. And I'm pretty sure the board will give us information of when it was produced and who made it.

[brightentayle]

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some things that should have been red were recoloured blue in those because of the changed colour palette.[/quote]
Offtopic... They COULD rehack the enemies so they would use Sonic's shoes's palette... couldn't they, theoretically?

[Awesome Panda]

Crash Nicker

Aug 9 2010, 08:09:48 AM

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some things that should have been red were recoloured blue in those because of the changed colour palette.[/quote]
Offtopic... They COULD rehack the enemies so they would use Sonic's shoes's palette... couldn't they, theoretically?[/quote]Probably, but I'd say it's more likely that they made the character red to rectify the colouring issues in the Sonic hacks. BTW, if Titenic came first than shouldn't we change the Harry's Legend page on BootlegGames Wiki to that? Also, if that text was in the MK4 rom then that'd mean it also came after Titenic.

[brightentayle]

I also wonder if Titanic had cutscenes... Harry's Legend had ones (nicely done IMO), but if Titanic has them... would they be in Chinese?

[MLX]

We aren't sure that Titenic came first, even if there are stuff about it in MK4. It was probably planned at that time but the project wasn't started at all and Harry's Legend was probably starting too. Or maybe the reverse.

Only the dump will give us enough informations...

[KingPepe]

I'm looking at Barver's post on RX and...that cart in the bottom-right looks JUST like the one in that auction.

I'm hoping that it is. XP

[Awesome Panda]

I was wondering that, it's too small and blurry to tell, but looking back at the auction they do look like the same multicart.

[MLX]

Is it possible to get few picture of your multi Cheetahmen ?

[Awesome Panda]

I haven't got a multicart, I was talking about the one on Ruten.
http://goods.ruten.com.tw/item/show?21001299047544

[MLX]

"I recently found a 4-in-1 multicart which when booted up brings up a screen with a logo and a website for Abab Soft. Using the Wayback Machine, I found that they seemed to have been active from 2003 to 2005, here's a link to what their website was like."

[Awesome Panda]

MLX

Aug 14 2010, 07:20:04 AM

"I recently found a 4-in-1 multicart which when booted up brings up a screen with a logo and a website for Abab Soft. Using the Wayback Machine, I found that they seemed to have been active from 2003 to 2005, here's a link to what their website was like."[/quote]Oh, I meant I found a rom of it, and screenshots of it can be found on the website.  I have a link to it here. http://www.planetemu.net/index.php?section=roms&dat=715&action=showrom&id=980304 Strangely, when translated from Chinese (you have to change the website into Chinese mode to get text) the multicart claims that the games on the cart are based off TV shows. Mind you, I've never heard of Panda Adventure and Snow Bros. cartoons myself.