Sintax and their 93+ games

[taizou]

tried another one from one of those trade sites, sintax@163.com - it hasn't bounced yet, lets see what happens. (probably nothing)

Cheetahmen92

 

Also, what's with the Super Tortoise banner at the top? Did Sintax make a ripoff of one of the TMNT arcade games or something?[/quote]
yeah i was wondering about that.. i don't think i've seen any other reference to it apart from that one banner. Its probably out there somewhere though.

[Barver]

taizou

Sep 22 2010, 08:22:35 AM

do you have any ideas about dumping them btw? i'm still having no luck with pretty much all my unlicensed stuff. i've been in touch with Martin Nielsen of 64scener/NES World, he owns a bunch of different GB copiers but he still hasn't been able to dump any of his Sintax games.[/quote]Well, I was planning to get that GB Transferer 2 cable that you had, but now that you've said that I have my doubts.  I know Martin must have lots of copiers, so if he can't get a single one to dump and neither can you, it's probably a waste of money for me to get anything then...x

It seems like the No-Intro group have experienced dumpers, perhaps sending the games to them for dumping is the only option available, since it seems like it's not even possible to dump anything without some programming help.

[taizou]

the one thing im not sure about is whether you could actually get a working copy from the dumps I have - i don't know if the dumps are complete but just protected somehow, or if theyre actually corrupt/incomplete. if theyre complete but just need descrambling or whatever, then i wouldn't need to actually send the carts anywhere (except FFIX and the multi). but i've yet to find anyone who can tell me either way. Forgot about No-Intro though, that might be worth a try.

[Barver]

I've been wondering that myself. I take it you've tried finding someone already to send the ROMs you dump to? Probably not an easy task :/ And I personally don't like sending stuff away constantly heh. I still never got back my A'can games I had dumped.

New game for the list btw:
ST-0306034C Dragon Ball Z3

[taizou]

I've asked around a few places, I can't seem to find anyone. although I have pretty much zero idea of where people with any kind of GB technical knowledge might hang out. I think most of the GB pirate roms out there come from Chinese dumpers, but I dunno where I'd find them either. apart from Sky League maybe.

but yeah I can't even afford to send carts around the world at the moment.. if there was someone in the UK that could dump them, thatd be ideal. but there probably isnt.

[Barver]

Yet another one

ST-0210021C Super Robot War X

[taizou]

thanks! i've seen that one before but the ID was cut off. i wonder if Pokemon Sapphire/Carbuncle is based on the same engine? (especially since it seems to have been the next release sequentially)

[codeman38]

taizou

Sep 22 2010, 10:26:24 PM

thanks! i've seen that one before but the ID was cut off. i wonder if Pokemon Sapphire/Carbuncle is based on the same engine? (especially since it seems to have been the next release sequentially)[/quote]Not to mention that Pokemon Sapphire has a ROM header of "ROBOT WAR v3.0".

[Barver]

Found another one buried in some email pics Doesn't say ST at the beginning though, just the numbers.

0405073C Pokemon Leaf Green

[Awesome Panda]

Not sure if it has much relevance here but I just realised that Donkey Kong 5 may be a hacked version of Super Mario Bros. Deluxe. The level designs are identical (obviously) and the save select and map screens look the same from what I remember of SMBD. Then again, not really that surprising considering that Sintax was involved.

[taizou]

i'm not sure, it does look like a very close copy design-wise, but the physics seem off to me.

btw i dunno if people have seen this already but NusuttoSan mentioned yet another variation on that game in the comments on this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ru9V6fLk8fs

Quote:

 

I own a hack of this game, called "Digimon Amethyst: The Dangerous Journey of Deviloom." All they did was change the intro, title (which features Greymon from Digital Monsters 3 and the T-Rex from Jurassic Boy 2) and graphics. Your "titful" (Sintax's word, not mine) hero is Bub from Bubble Bobble, who can evolve into...Agumon. Yep. Story involves the hero's sister being kidnapped during a storm or something. Level 4-2 has a WAY TOO DARK palette...[/quote]

[Awesome Panda]

taizou

Sep 24 2010, 04:18:13 PM

i'm not sure, it does look like a very close copy design-wise, but the physics seem off to me.[/quote]Good point. Then again, they could've done what Yong Yong did (with Rockman and change the engine.

[taizou]

completely unrelated but i just found what Little Taichi is based on, a Taiwanese cartoon:
http://www.magicplay-ent.com/taichikid.htm
Gamtec even had a PC game in development based on it (and I guess theirs might have actually been licensed, with them being in Taiwan too). but I don't think it ever came out.

edit: actually Sintax's game was licensed too! its on the official site:
http://www.taichikid.com.tw/
merchandise page: http://www.taichikid.com.tw/series/series01.htm

so Sintax actually did have the rights to make one of their games. who knew.

[Awesome Panda]

For that Little Taichi game, wasn't that made in 2008? :huh: (That's as far as I can tell from the text from the website at least)

[taizou]

where'd you see 2008? AFAIK its one of their older ones. probably from around 2002 or something.