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« on: July 21, 2011, 01:17:57 AM »
I considered putting this in the "What's this" thread, but since it's all GBA it may as well be here so it's more easily findable later =p

As some may know the GBA seems to have lots of still unknown titles out there. I wish we could get some clarity on these.



Lion King 3, this could be just Lion King 1 1/2 with a different label.

And the rest I've found, well just reference this Lost Levels thread:

http://forums.lostlevels.org/viewtopic.php?p=24349

www.game-boy.ru is an abandoned site now unfortunately, but you can still browse it and possibly even find more games they missed. The only one I have any clue about is Aladdin 2, more specifically the Russian version that's says Super Aladdin 2 on the box if you look at that site. I found this auction and asked the seller about it:

http://produto.mercadolivre.com.br/MLB-186376156-alladin-2-game-boy-advance-gba-_JM

According to him it's just a GBC game housed in a GBA casing. I guess he means the official Aladdin port on GBC, but now I have to wonder if this one is different from the other Aladdin 2 that doesn't say Super...

And if anyone is wondering, I looked into Kirby Red Diamond and it's just an NES emulator with Kirby's Adventure. Not a hoax as that guy speculates.

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« Reply #1 on: July 21, 2011, 08:20:22 AM »
oh wow, how did i miss that lost levels thread? no doubt some of those are probably unknown Vast Fame games. I bet Lord of the Rings IV is an English (or Russian) version of that one you have.

There are quite a few GBA pirates out there that are just NES games running in an emulator though. I've seen Megaman and Pokemon games like that at least.

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« Reply #2 on: July 21, 2011, 08:26:29 AM »
I'm willing to bet that Mario DX is just Super Mario Bros. Deluxe on the Game Boy Color. Either that or the NES version being played on an emulator.

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« Reply #3 on: July 21, 2011, 09:37:01 PM »
That's a reasonable guess. With Aladdin 2 apparently being a GBC game it's not too improbable a good portion of these are just GBC or NES games in a GBA casing :/ Reminds me of this pirate:





If I remember correctly it's just Sonic 5 or 3D Blast 6 or one of those Somari hacks in a GBA casing. Showing it since I dunno how known it is, best people know now rather than find it later and end up thinking it's a unique pirate =p

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« Reply #4 on: July 21, 2011, 09:42:53 PM »
Sonic Woirld? Apparently, they got an illiterate from Brooklyn to do the cartridge art. :P And yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if it's what you're guessing. Then again, it might be Sonic Adventure for all I know.

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« Reply #5 on: July 21, 2011, 09:43:11 PM »
It can probably be one of the gameboy pirates by YONG YONG because i have seen S3DB5 on GBA or mabey a pirate cart and box for Sonic Advance.
Also i found a 36 in 1 bootleg. here is a video of it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNIcNA5sFkc
« Last Edit: July 21, 2011, 09:45:56 PM by ThunderBlastMan »

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« Reply #6 on: July 21, 2011, 09:46:15 PM »
Worst Engrish ever :D

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« Reply #7 on: July 21, 2011, 09:56:41 PM »
Oh god, please SUPERSONICDUDE91 for all that is good on this green earth, don't be a klax and start posting a bunch of multicart stuff :x This topic should be for unknown pirates, or at least very deceiving like the Sonic Land Adventure one where someone might not know what it is immediately. A multicart isn't like that. Just...please ugh :x

And I found the topic about that game, and like I remembered it's just Sonic 3D Blast 6 I think. Sonic Retro post:

http://forums.sonicretro.org/index.php?showtopic=11046&st=15&p=202606&hl=+pirate%20+land&fromsearch=1&#entry202606

You have to be registered to look I think? But here's a quote if you can't look.
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So, I recieved that thing.
Well, it's a terrible GBC pirate of Sonic 1. When the game starts, you see the artwork of Sonic Gems Collection with "Sonic World the land adventure". After pushing "start", there is a GBC version of Sonic 1's title screen.
The game begins in Spring Yard Zone, not entirely the same as we know, the layout is different. Controls are awful. I couldn't even get past SYZ act 3.
But I watched the demos after the title screen. There are Green Hill, Labyrinth and Marble zones at least...and the Green Hill zone reminds me of this pirate: http://www.sonic-cult.org/dispart.php?catid=7&gameid=9&subid=1&artid=1
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« Reply #8 on: July 21, 2011, 10:02:05 PM »
Barver
Jul 21 2011, 09:56:41 PM
don't be a klax and start posting a bunch of multicart stuff.[/quote]Ok. just searching up GBA bootlegs and i found that. I will try finding one.

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« Reply #9 on: July 22, 2011, 05:40:13 AM »
Barver
Jul 21 2011, 09:56:41 PM
Quote:
 
So, I recieved that thing.
Well, it's a terrible GBC pirate of Sonic 1. When the game starts, you see the artwork of Sonic Gems Collection with "Sonic World the land adventure". After pushing "start", there is a GBC version of Sonic 1's title screen.
The game begins in Spring Yard Zone, not entirely the same as we know, the layout is different. Controls are awful. I couldn't even get past SYZ act 3.
But I watched the demos after the title screen. There are Green Hill, Labyrinth and Marble zones at least...and the Green Hill zone reminds me of this pirate: http://www.sonic-cult.org/dispart.php?catid=7&gameid=9&subid=1&artid=1[/quote][/quote]That's just weird. It sounds a lot like Yong Yong's work but Sonic Gems Collection came out in 2005, and I don't know of any Yong Yong games made after 2001. :huh: Some screenshots would help though.

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« Reply #10 on: July 22, 2011, 08:25:21 AM »
the "title screen" is probably just a GBA splash screen added before the emulation starts, a lot of non-GBA GBA pirates do that. so it could have been made long after the game itself. like "Megaman X8" which has a modified version of one of the Zero games' title screen before starting the real game, which is a very slightly hacked Megaman 4 running in PocketNES.

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« Reply #11 on: July 22, 2011, 08:47:36 AM »
So it's basically an awful remake of Sonic the Hedgehog? Wonder where I've seen that before. ;D

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« Reply #12 on: July 22, 2011, 09:18:58 PM »
Yeah, I don't think it's likely anything else besides one of the Somari hacks. How many other Sonic pirates out there start off in Spring Yard Zone? :P

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« Reply #13 on: July 22, 2011, 09:21:07 PM »
Yeah, I suspect that whoever wrote that doesn't know the difference between a Famicom game and a GBC game. Like I said earlier, some screenshots would help.

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« Reply #14 on: July 26, 2011, 07:33:26 PM »
Armed with the info you guys posted I trawled through a bunch of Chinese wholesalers and noticed a trend; apparently a bunch of them get their pirate GBA carts from the same factory as they've all got more or less the same inventory list along with the same game ID's that correspond to the titles.

I noticed that virtually every list has the same titles marked with some type of symbol, and several of these are obviously just PocketNES or are a GBC game reprinted with a GBA PCB and shell. However, some of them also use this same notation next to unlicensed games, so I dunno. Here's what I came across consistantly, besides a million GBA Pokemon fan-made hacks...

STAR WARS 3 ⊙
SUPER TETRIS DELUX ⊙
ALADDIN ⊙
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES II⊙
SUPER MARIO BROS 3⊙
CONTRA FORCE⊙
BATMAN RETURNS⊙
POKEMON CRYSTAL ⊙
POKEMON BLUE DIAMOND II⊙
KIRBY STAR RED DIAMOND ⊙
SUPER ALADDIN 2 ⊙
SPIDERMAN 4 ⊙
CRASH BANDICOOT 4 ⊙
FINDING NEMO 3 ⊙
LION KING 3 ⊙
POKEMON EMERALD 2 ⊙
POKEMON RUBY 3 ⊙

So there were two separate model numbers assigned for the two Aladdins, two separate model numbers for "Star Wars 3" and the real "Star Wars: Episode III". Contra Force used the same box art as the NES version, as did Batman Returns. Seems like one (or all, I don't follow the series) of those Pokemon games was a GBC game.