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« Reply #30 on: April 16, 2011, 06:14:22 PM »
Have you guys noted that the City Connection hack (Goodhand) is almost impossible to understand because the floor doesn't changes its color when you drive over it? This makes extremely difficult to know what parts you already painted.

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« Reply #31 on: April 16, 2011, 06:46:49 PM »
Ninja-Kun
Apr 16 2011, 06:14:22 PM
Have you guys noted that the City Connection hack (Goodhand) is almost impossible to understand because the floor doesn't changes its color when you drive over it? This makes extremely difficult to know what parts you already painted.[/quote]I have, and I noted it somewhere on BootlegGames Wiki if I remembered correctly.

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« Reply #32 on: April 18, 2011, 07:21:23 PM »
I'm sorry for making this newbie question, but what game was originally "Caesar Captain"? It looks like a Sachen game, down to the music and everything. They might as well call it "Locksmith II" :P

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« Reply #33 on: April 18, 2011, 07:34:22 PM »
Ninja-Kun
Apr 18 2011, 07:21:23 PM
I'm sorry for making this newbie question, but what game was originally "Caesar Captain"? It looks like a Sachen game, down to the music and everything. They might as well call it "Locksmith II" :P[/quote]It's James Bond Jr., based off the cartoon of the same name. :P

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« Reply #34 on: April 18, 2011, 07:39:51 PM »
Thanks, Cheetahmen!
PS: I love your British accent. I watched your review of the Famicom Yarou carts on YT today :p

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« Reply #35 on: April 18, 2011, 07:48:02 PM »
oh yeah, i think that 50 Games thing was made by Macro Winners, same as the 88 games joystick - most of the hacks from the 50 are on the 88 (but not Inclement Trip, so I still have no idea about that one). the Plug & Play seems to be by MW too, "Game Star" is one of their old aliases.. and the 30 in 1 looks identical to that, so that might be another one of theirs.

I'm also starting to think the 101 in 1 is MW's, I opened the Arcade Action 2 console the other day and it had a BS-something code on the PCB, which is the same code they use on all their other stuff. so theyre pretty damn prolific in the world of.. famiclones with terrible hacks on them, i guess.
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« Reply #36 on: April 19, 2011, 06:33:10 AM »
taizou
Apr 18 2011, 07:48:02 PM
oh yeah, i think that 50 Games thing was made by Macro Winners, same as the 88 games joystick - most of the hacks from the 50 are on the 88 (but not Inclement Trip, so I still have no idea about that one). the Plug & Play seems to be by MW too, "Game Star" is one of their old aliases.. and the 30 in 1 looks identical to that, so that might be another one of theirs.[/quote]From looking around on Google, I found this blog which, as far as I can tell, says that it's a hack of Super Spy Hunter. (Or Battle Formula, if you prefer) Looking at the image, it looks just like stage 2 from that game.
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« Reply #37 on: April 19, 2011, 02:10:56 PM »
came across this Chinese-English dictionary the other day:
http://www.lexiconer.com/ecresult.php
seems like it might have been used by the makers of the hacks on this thing. all their favourite obscure words like "aether", "hoodle", "benthal", "kavass" etc are in there, but the one that really confirms it for me is "gunfignt". the very same blatant misspelling used by the hack of Wild Gunman.

its even on the first page of google results for "Dejectile", which is the title of one version of Nice Code's Bomberman clone.

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« Reply #38 on: May 29, 2011, 08:59:24 PM »
You guys, I know you'll hate me for this but here I go anyways. I recorded the hacked music from the James Bond Jr. hack, and I uploaded it to Megaupload:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=HRDQDXP6
Enjoy (or not  :P )

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« Reply #39 on: May 29, 2011, 09:05:28 PM »
Funny how about half the song is unchanged from the original. Then again, these Inventor hacks are the definition of lazy.

It's a pity that (aside from the music) the James Bond Jr game wasn't all that great to begin with.
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« Reply #40 on: May 29, 2011, 09:07:10 PM »
Exactly. They didn't even changed the music from the other levels. However, I still wonder how that Code Name: Viper hack they planned would have turn out. It's funny how badly hacked these latter-generation games are.

And I agree with the music: it's awesome, but the game itself is frustrating and boring... But look how cute "Caesar" looks in my avatar :3
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« Reply #41 on: May 29, 2011, 09:24:51 PM »
Ninja-Kun
May 29 2011, 09:07:10 PM
It's funny how badly hacked all of these games are.[/quote]Fixed. ;) Well, with the exception of Sea War 2000, at least.

Mind you, they did a hack of Tom & Jerry as well (called Bruce & Leo) and not much was changed from the original game. Jerry was replaced with the hat-wearing thing from Rescue Kuck. Also, I just realised that it happens to be Jerry himself with some twat's head stuck on.

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« Reply #42 on: May 29, 2011, 10:03:46 PM »
OMG! Is there a ROM of that hack somewhere? :P

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« Reply #43 on: May 30, 2011, 01:46:14 AM »
Ninja-Kun
May 29 2011, 10:03:46 PM
OMG! Is there a ROM of that hack somewhere? :P[/quote]Indeed there is, on Maxzhou88's web-drive thing:
http://maxzhou88.ys168.com/
Look under "04 NES" and you'll find it.
taizou
Apr 19 2011, 02:10:56 PM
came across this Chinese-English dictionary the other day:
http://www.lexiconer.com/ecresult.php
seems like it might have been used by the makers of the hacks on this thing. all their favourite obscure words like "aether", "hoodle", "benthal", "kavass" etc are in there, but the one that really confirms it for me is "gunfignt". the very same blatant misspelling used by the hack of Wild Gunman.

its even on the first page of google results for "Dejectile", which is the title of one version of Nice Code's Bomberman clone.[/quote]It could also be http://dict.cn/, which also came up in a search for "gunfignt".

I'm pretty sure both of them derived their dictionaries from Kingsoft's electronic dictionary, which is notoriously full of hilarious errors. One of my favorites is "mrvhsnidm" (which comes up on both dict.cn and lexiconer, further suggesting a common origin)-- which is what happens when someone tries to enter "mechanism" but has their left hand too far to the right.

Edit: Oh, yeah, it's definitely Kingsoft. From the company's own dictionary site: http://dict.en.iciba.com/gunfignt/
« Last Edit: May 30, 2011, 01:54:05 AM by codeman38 »

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« Reply #44 on: May 30, 2011, 02:11:20 AM »
ah Kingsoft. i should have known. whenever some hilarious Chinese-English mistranslation crops up its nearly always Kingsoft's fault. like this. I'm sure one of these days Nice Code will make a game about drying things and some poor distributor will get in a bit of trouble.
« Last Edit: May 30, 2011, 02:14:56 AM by taizou »