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Stoffhimel

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pirate adds...
« on: May 06, 2021, 08:20:34 PM »
I just came across an old HES add.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8szli_epxZM

anyone ever come across pirate and unlicensed adds?

edit: just found this. its a color dreams promotional video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dn61oXP4Wck
« Last Edit: May 06, 2021, 10:18:53 PM by Stoffhimel »

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Re: pirate adds...
« Reply #1 on: May 06, 2021, 09:48:40 PM »
I once found an ad for a Gowin multicart in an old Taiwanese magazine, and have seen many companies include ads for their own games in manuals and on boxes

Edit: It was an issue of wolf weekly (aka 疾風快報) from the late 90s. Their url is gamewolf.com.tw
It was issue NO.41 if I am reading this right (I don't know how to read traditional Hanzi)
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Re: pirate adds...
« Reply #2 on: May 08, 2021, 08:39:52 PM »
very nice. any scans or screenshots?

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« Reply #3 on: May 08, 2021, 09:20:31 PM »
The one on the magazine I am pretty sure was the same as one of the ads on this old nesworld page on gowin. There are a lot of companies that throw in ads for games in their manual, but here is a neat example. If you scroll down you'll see that Sintax included an ad for Zook Hero 3 in the manual for an ultraman game.

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Re: pirate adds...
« Reply #4 on: May 11, 2021, 05:00:51 PM »
very nice. I wondered what the box art for zook 3 looked like.

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« Reply #5 on: May 11, 2021, 07:33:49 PM »
Here's a picture of the actual box that fcgamer posted so long ago I am pretty sure it isn't visible on this site anymore. The mainland china version of the games is called super rockman, but I don't have a picture of that one's box
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« Reply #6 on: May 12, 2021, 11:06:49 AM »
thanks.  I appreciate it. man some of that box are is so cringy.

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« Reply #7 on: May 12, 2021, 12:54:40 PM »
I just remembered a friend of mine asked yy小龙虾 about Super Rockman once and was sent a picture of this box on twitter

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Re: pirate adds...
« Reply #8 on: May 15, 2021, 09:29:11 AM »
is there any adds for any of their other games on the backs of the boxes?

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« Reply #9 on: May 15, 2021, 12:44:56 PM »
I have no idea. There probably are some, but I don't have that many pictures of Sintax boxes

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« Reply #10 on: May 16, 2021, 08:35:05 PM »
I honestly haven't seen that much of sintax carts and boxes on line, either. boxes for pirate games seem to be pretty rare.

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Re: pirate adds...
« Reply #11 on: May 16, 2021, 10:31:12 PM »
They seem pretty abundant on Xianyu, though I don't know many English speakers that post about finding stuff there

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« Reply #12 on: May 18, 2021, 08:54:29 AM »
maybe thats my issue. I always search english google and stuff like that.

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« Reply #13 on: September 10, 2021, 05:22:17 PM »
“史上第一片震動格鬥gb卡 7月1日震撼推出”. I guess the Makon distributor also advertised games. On the wiki people no longer consider this a Makon game due to its maker code, but it was definitely sold by the same distributor as Makon’s games, and was even released in a rumble cart. Also it uses their copy protection