Tabor's Dumps

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Managed to get my hands on one. I've not really tested it out much but it's kind of like a Tamagotchi but with Digimon. It's supposed to be able to connect with (probably only older) official Digimon devices but I can't really test that out. I also am unsure of how it compares to official devices, as I'm fairly sure a real one doesn't have a feature to skip forward in time. In any case, the dump seems to work fine, but I cannot guarantee it won't do something wacky later.

I always name my stuff after the title screen (since unlicensed games often can have different labels from different publishers, etc.) but if you want a tad bit more information check out the wiki page on Digimon 6 and the source.

Developer: Best Rich
Publisher: ???

GB. Digimon

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Works on my Analogue Pocket and my Gameboy Color, but not my Advance. Strange indeed. Not much more to say to be honest, this is an alternative and less common Pokemon Red translation hack.

Developer: Vast Fame
Publisher: New GB Color

Kou Dai Guai Shou: Hong Se Ban (口袋怪獸-紅色版)

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The title screen looks remarkably similar to Pearl's. It's also really weird how the top of "PUSH START" seems to be missing the border, unless the border was done in white? Who knows.

Developer: ???
Publisher: Sintax

Kou Dai Yao Guai: Ye Lu (口袋妖怪-叶绿)

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It's strange being Shadow Lugia and not being able to fly? I guess that'd trivialize this being a platformer I suppose. Also I thought the Koffings were Cryogonals and was very very confused about how late of a release this game was.

I vaguely remember looking for the label art and found that it was from a volume of the Pokemon manga but frankly I can't remember which one.

Fair warning for this one, I can't confirm it was a good dump. I was unable to get it dump a working game a second time, and even then I barely could get my dumper to read it. But hey it seems to work?

Developer: ???
Publisher: Sintax

Kou Dai Yao Guai XD: An Zhi Ju Feng (口袋妖怪XD-暗之飓风)

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Final upload for now (unless I can figure out how to get some other dumps to work off-console). We got the Hulk! You can play as either Bruce Banner or the Hulk. Both can jump on enemies to kill them, but the Hulk can shoot a projectile. I'm not sure what he's doing, but Bruce is able to delay his fall if you press the A button while in midair. If you spam it, you can basically glide over parts of a level.

Developer: ???
Publisher: Sintax

Lu Se Ju Ren (綠色巨人)

[APM]

Neat thing about the Hulk ROM: it actually switches some of the XOR values used for the copy protection during gameplay despite being a modified version of Digimon Adventure 2001. That now makes three Sintax games known to use their protection mapper on-the-fly, the other games being Langrsr II/Fantastic Simulated Battle and Metal Max. I'm not sure what compelled Sintax to do this especially since some of the late-era releases from like 2006 use the typical one and done protection XOR settings on startup (at least Langrsr II and Metal Max were likely released in 2003 according to Sintax's copyright filings) . This does mean that the ROM for Hulk and the other aforementioned Sintax games using the on-the-fly protection can't be automatically cracked with tools like Sintaxinator, though.

[CALENTADASTCG]

Little treasures! Lot of thanks

[tabor62gb]

This is an RPG called(?) Final Fantasy: Unlimited Saga. There's already a dump available on the Internet Archive but I thought I'd do my own since I wanted my own copy anyhow. I did compare them and they aren't exactly the same. What has changed? As usual, no idea. The wiki does mention Sintax listing an English copy on their website so it *possibly* exists, but as far as I know nothing has turned up yet sadly. Thankfully the Chinese characters are all big and clear, making it easier to translate using a phone.

I do plan on playing this as it doesn't seem that bad so far. One random thing I did note is that despite being a Sintax release, there is no intro logo at all, it just boots straight into the opening scene (which you can't skip by the way :l).

Developer: Sintax
Publisher: Sintax

Zui Zhong Huan Xiang: Wu Jin Sha Jia (最终幻想-無盡沙加)

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Well, when I bought this I was curious about the language option. Indeed, you are able to switch between Chinese and English before starting the game. As I was watching the beginning scene, I thought "wow, this is pretty well animated and done!", only for the game to mention "Daikatana". Yep, it's a Chinese translation hack of Daikatana for the Gameboy Color.

Developer: ???
Publisher: Tian Ren Electronics

Xia Ke Xing (侠客行)

[Ankos]

This is an RPG called(?) Final Fantasy: Unlimited Saga. There's already a dump available on the Internet Archive but I thought I'd do my own since I wanted my own copy anyhow. I did compare them and they aren't exactly the same. What has changed? As usual, no idea. The wiki does mention Sintax listing an English copy on their website so it *possibly* exists, but as far as I know nothing has turned up yet sadly. Thankfully the Chinese characters are all big and clear, making it easier to translate using a phone.

I do plan on playing this as it doesn't seem that bad so far. One random thing I did note is that despite being a Sintax release, there is no intro logo at all, it just boots straight into the opening scene (which you can't skip by the way :l).

Developer:
Publisher: Sintax

Zui Zhong Huan Xiang: Wu Jin Sha Jia (最终幻想-無盡沙加)

The English version (Crystal Age) also had a listing on one of Sintax's Alibaba pages, meaning they did attempt to sell it at one point. As for the common dump of this game, my understanding is that is an early build that got leaked. Sky League had access to someone at Sintax who shared a few protos. This, to my knowledge, is the first time the final version has been dumped

Edit: And it was developed in-house. Could've started development under BBD I guess, but Sintax bought them out, so the distinction between the two isn't that important