GBA Digimon RPG from Vast Fame

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codeman38

Oct 24 2010, 04:32:01 PM

taizou

Oct 24 2010, 01:49:45 PM

I think bootleg GB game manufacturers just have some secret source for the worst batteries ever. I don't have a single one with its original battery that actually still holds a save. but I can replace them with the cheapest batteries I can actually find for sale anywhere and they last forever.[/quote]Probably the same source as those knockoff AA batteries that are sold at flea markets, heh. Those things do not last long at all.[/quote]Presumably it's some knockoff batteries they could get for as cheap as possible, considering that some bootleg handhelds like this POS Popstation use them. Then again, I don't think GBC carts used AA batteries so obviously V.Fame were being cheap with production costs.

[taizou]

well i replaced the battery and it works. woo. incidentally theres a battery test screen that sometimes comes up if you wait for the title music to finish, but thats complete bollocks. it was still reporting "battery OK!!" when there was actually no battery in there.

there also seems to be a bug with the music that occurs after you load a save (one of the sound channels doesnt play until you exit to the map screen, which is kind of an arse). but it doesn't happen every time.

[taizou]

video!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqqjA-5r_2c

[codeman38]

Hey, the first town's music in the prologue is from Crazy Richman 2!

Also, the intro music is used on the title screen of VFame's Digimon Sapphire, albeit without the neat added PCM percussion.

Edit: The added PCM percussion gives the music a really neat effect, actually. I sort of like it.

Edit #2: The town music seems to have a weird glitch. Listen to the second loop of it starting at 7:13 in the video-- the bass line starts to become more and more incoherent, like it's out of sync or something.

Edit #3: The compass on the world map is... interesting. It's got north and south, but south is at the top; that's reasonable, because not all maps are oriented northward. But the "S" is forwards, and the "N" is backwards. Bwuh?OK, I just mucked around with the title screen music in Audacity, and it's not just me: it is being played at double the speed it should be. Still no idea where it came from, though.

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codeman38

Oct 26 2010, 09:53:20 AM

OK, I just mucked around with the title screen music in Audacity, and it's not just me: it is being played at double the speed it should be. Still no idea where it came from, though.[/quote]Doing the same, I'm not sure either but judging by the general sound (as in, it doesn't sound like a video game song in my opinion) I'm guessing it was probably taken from the anime's OST or something. I doubt I'm right but I can't think of a better guess. :huh:

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Cheetahmen

Oct 26 2010, 10:28:25 AM

Doing the same, I'm not sure either but judging by the general sound (as in, it doesn't sound like a video game song in my opinion) I'm guessing it was probably taken from the anime's OST or something. I doubt I'm right but I can't think of a better guess. :huh:[/quote]I'm thinking it's probably from the anime as well. It sounds vaguely like the English dub ending from series 4-- probably it's whatever Japanese song that one was based on, heh. Actually, the ending is based on the 4th-season English opening, which, of course, bears no resemblance to the Japanese theme. Duh. And I can't find any of the Japanese themes with a similar tune...

(Edited because I can't keep the series straight. That's the 4th season, not the 3rd as I originally wrote.)

Edit: And they probably didn't base it on the American opening anyway-- Taiwan uses dubs of the original Japanese tunes. So I have no idea where it came from.

[taizou]

found it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sRVDjMbv3k

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taizou

Oct 26 2010, 10:51:55 AM

found it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sRVDjMbv3k[/quote]Ooh. Good catch! I didn't even think to look for non-OP/ED music. D'oh! ::facepalm::

[Awesome Panda]

I wonder where they got that 50 second (approximate) re-edit from then, unless they did that themselves.

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Cheetahmen

Oct 26 2010, 11:02:46 AM

I wonder where they got that 50 second (approximate) re-edit from then, unless they did that themselves.[/quote]Might've been on a soundtrack CD or something that had a "TV-size" edit.

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codeman38

Oct 26 2010, 11:12:39 AM

Cheetahmen

Oct 26 2010, 11:02:46 AM

I wonder where they got that 50 second (approximate) re-edit from then, unless they did that themselves.[/quote]Might've been on a soundtrack CD or something that had a "TV-size" edit.[/quote]Bootlegged, I presume. Mind you, if they had a DVD of it as well that'd explain where the images in the intro are taken from. What I don't get is why they would speed it up to twice the regular speed. Maybe it was a bug that the programmers didn't feel like fixing, which would explain the glitchy town music.

[codeman38]

Out of curiosity, taizou, were you able to get even a bad dump of this game? I'd be curious even to look at a bad dump to see if there's any interesting information hidden within-- it was from an incomplete dump of Rockman & Crystal that I found Vast Fame's logo hidden in the ROM, for instance.

[taizou]

Yeah, I do have a bad dump - I'm just about to try dumping it again with something else, if I get the same result I'll PM you (and anyone else who wants it) a link

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I'd like to see that rom as well, even if it doesn't work.

[taizou]

well the DS dump was 32mb, the PC one is 2mb, but the 32mb dump seems to just be the same 2mb repeated 8 times plus 16mb of repeating patterns after that.so i've just uploaded the 2mb one for now.