Unknown/Obscure GBA pirates

[Barver]

Well if anyone wants to get those games and see what they are, all you have to do is ask volumerates since they apparently have the exact same source as the rest. I never noticed all those games on there before though, I even recall doing a find for "Crash" and never seeing Crash 4 :x

[codeman38]

I'm guessing Crash 4 is the same one that 64scener has (the weird Sintax/VFame thing), though one never can be too sure.

[Awesome Panda]

I'd say it's the Jungle Book hack on my PVP Station, but I somehow doubt they're still making GBA pirates in 2011.

BTW, I think it'd help asking 64scener what the box art looks like just to see if it's the same as the one on Volumerates and such.

[Barver]

I swear N64Scener used to have a page that talked about Crash 4 and even showed box art, now I can't find anything, and I even asked Martin on his youtube channel and he doesn't respond. Is it a false memory? :x

[Awesome Panda]

Well I can't find it either. Probably deleted the page or something. :\

[taizou]

Azathoth

Jul 26 2011, 07:33:26 PM

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 ⊙[/quote]I think a lot of those might be NES games. I know for sure Kirby Star Red Diamond is. Interesting that Star Wars 3 is there though, could it be that game I saw in Turkey all those years ago? O: You just *know* that if we request it from volumerates they'll only stock the actual Episode 3 game though.

[Awesome Panda]

It's probably just The Empire Strikes Back for the NES, knowing pirates.

[Smedis2]

Back to the "Sonic Worlid" (sic) pirate,I just can't believe that they (the pirates) spent ALL that time on the back of the box just to write it's legit.
That's such a desperate attempt to make people believe nonsense like that.

[taizou]

just a heads up, Volumerates posted a bunch of new GBA games (what? no that isnt an affiliate link, shh ), again they mostly just added other titles from the same series as the requested games lol. so we can probably assume they can't actually get most of these games. but Digimon Ruby is there at least, and Digimon Ruby is awesome.

[taizou]

!

?if anyone was wondering im having a problem with this that I kinda want to solve before I release it. the actual game data is only 4mb but it dumps as 32mb, with 4mb blocks like this:

1. Game
2. some repeating pattern of bytes
3. Game (duplicate of 1)
4. Pattern
5. Pattern
6. 00's
7. Pattern
8. 00's

i've experimented a bit and it seems like the contents of blocks 2-4 and 6-8 don't matter. 6-8 can be trimmed from the rom entirely and 2-4 can be replaced by 00's or whatever, but the pattern at position 5 (ie at 1000000-13FFFFF) has to be there or the game won't boot. I assume the cart doesn't actually contain a 32mb rom and it just returns certain bytes when ROM addresses between 100000-13FFFFF are accessed, as a form of (mostly failed) copy protection, but it does mean the rom is massively bigger than it should be.

[Awesome Panda]

Well if parts 2-4 are useless, can't you just remove them as well to leave 8MB in total?

[taizou]

nah, the game needs part 5 to be in the right place. there has to be 12mb of something between parts 1 and 5, even if it's just 00's.
Unless I could modify the pointers somehow, i'll have a look..

[Awesome Panda]

Well if GBA games are designed like NES games, then by my experience the main problem is trying to find the pointers. :\

[taizou]

yeah especially with this - i don't know where exactly it's going to be pointing to, just that it'll be somewhere in a 4mb block. so i don't have much to go on here.balls to it. here! http://fuji.drillspirits.net/?post=98

[Azathoth]

I can get all of the pirates I mentioned in post 15 above, but I cannot buy less than 10 of each title.

If anyone truly interested in going in on a group purchase for some or all of them you are more than welcome to drop me a PM.