This may be of interest...

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http://gdri.smspower.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page


These guys are doing the same kind of research into games members on this forum are. Might want to share information with them on pirate devs.

[MLX]

They search about lost games, not pirates.

[taizou]

nah, they research uncredited developers and stuff like that, so it is pretty similar to some of the stuff we're doing. they just don't cover pirates. though I dunno if that's because they don't want to or they just havent got around to it.

[oaa]

http://gdri.smspower.org/wiki/index.php/Blog:4
"The world of Chinese pirates and bootlegs and other oddities is traditionally a mysterious one. Well, it got a little less mysterious when maxzhou88, who worked at Super Game, started posting stories, artwork, and source code from the illegitimate games he worked on, like The Super Shinobi (an FC/NES conversion of The Super Shinobi II/Shinobi III)"

His blog has been posted on here before though. I think it still would be a good idea to contact them.

[KingPepe]

Woah, woah, woah

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when maxzhou88, who worked at Super Game[/quote]
He worked for Super Game? I never knew that.

[codeman38]

They also discovered the High Seas Havoc sound engine's prevalence among Mega Drive pirates around the same time we did; see the footnote here:

http://gdri.smspower.org/wiki/index.php/Mega_Drive/Genesis_Sound_Engine_List

KingPepe

Aug 23 2010, 07:03:05 PM

Woah, woah, woah

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when maxzhou88, who worked at Super Game[/quote]
He worked for Super Game? I never knew that. [/quote]Yup! He's blogged about several of the games he developed, including Shinobi, Earthworm Jim 2 and Boogerman.

Edit: Oh, this is interesting. The menus in taizou's 12-in-1 and 19-in-1 multicarts? Zhou might have developed that code, at least if I'm understanding Google's translation of this post correctly.

Edit again: Yep, that is definitely the same menu code, Last Bible music and all! Wonder if he had any role in developing Meng Huan Zhi Xing...

[oaa]

I wonder if we can somehow get someone to write to him in Chinese for him to dump his prototypes. He'd probably think what we're doing is awesome.

[KingPepe]

I wonder if we could ask him anything about Pocket Monsters or Panda World (seeing how they came from Super Game...or it seems like it)

[taizou]

i think he speaks some English, he posted a couple of times on the RX boards before the pirate forum had a 10-post limit. maybe he'd even post here if someone left a comment on his blog or something.

i can't quite tell from the google translation of that blog post though, but it seems to me like he dumped the menu from some other cart in 2001 and made his own version using its code. and my 19 in 1 only has games from 1999 or earlier, so I'd guess it was made before '01.

[codeman38]

taizou

Aug 23 2010, 07:24:25 PM

i think he speaks some English, he posted a couple of times on the RX boards before the pirate forum had a 10-post limit. maybe he'd even post here if someone left a comment on his blog or something.

i can't quite tell from the google translation of that blog post though, but it seems to me like he dumped the menu from some other cart in 2001 and made his own version using its code. and my 19 in 1 only has games from 1999 or earlier, so I'd guess it was made before '01. [/quote]That was my understanding as well, but it also sounded like the original was only monochrome and silent, and he added the color support and music to it, both of which are in your multicarts. Though maybe I'm misreading... I wish I could read more than a few words of Chinese. -_-;;

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codeman38

Aug 23 2010, 07:29:05 PM

Unfortunately, because of confidentiality agreements at the time, the earth worm's source code I've been deleted from the hard drive, and I currently only SuperGame's "Pocahontas (Pocahontas)" and "Mr. Ma Tong (Boogerman)" the source code, please see my previous article published:FC did our team the original game (with source code), in mymaxzhou88 web diskin the two Game of the source code.[/quote]http://hi.baidu.com/maxzhou88/blog/item/f5f6376e20920ddc81cb4ae5.html