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pichichi010:
Hello,

I been wondering how hard would it be to get a hold of those companies?

I am interested in talking to any of their ex-employees or developers. And may be buy their engine and game developing tools. And if possible some of their original titles!

It would be awesome to port those games to other platforms without getting a random lawsuit from a lost IP holder lol.

any help is well appreciated

fcgamer:
pichichi010May 27 2013, 05:49:48 PMHello,

I been wondering how hard would it be to get a hold of those companies?

I am interested in talking to any of their ex-employees or developers. And may be buy their engine and game developing tools. And if possible some of their original titles!

It would be awesome to port those games to other platforms without getting a random lawsuit from a lost IP holder lol.

any help is well appreciated[/quote]It is certainly possible to do, but it will not be easy.  Some of these companies had very small offices, located in apartment buildings, where they talked about their castles in the sky.  Some of these companies were most likely involved with organized crime in one way or another.  Some of these companies were fronts for other companies.  Etc.  I have been doing extensive research on these companies, and yet at times, nothing has turned up after tons of research and money spent.

Here is a little story I like to share with some of you.  My girlfriend grew up in the same small town where Vast Fame was located.  One day I went down to visit her hometown, and of course I also checked out the "site" where Vast Fame was.  It was apparently just an office located in an apartment in a residential area of town, or so it seems.  Then I later stumbled upon one or two game shops in the area, that had been around since the early 1990s.  These guys didn't even have a clue that there was a game company located there, producing Game Boy Color games, even though it was practically in their backyard!

So yeah it can be done, but it is definitely not as easy as some may think, and there are also other reasons why some of these people might not want to be "found".  

Also, just on another note, some of the games (especially BBD and Sintax) use copyrighted materials in their titles, stolen from other companies, so I doubt you could remake and release them without some altering of sorts.

pichichi010:
Well Im mostly interested in some Engines, they seem to have their own engine, and It can be used very well. They are "Not too bad" for a pirate.

Like you I've spent several nights till very late trying to find a contact information and Nothing.

The ones I've seen have more quality are the Vast Fame's ones.

There is a Megam Drive RPG that  has been recently translated that also has very good quality; and the pokemon platformers for SNES those are not so bad too.

I checked Vast Fame's Site through the time machine, and they do have a contact email. I emailed it and it didn't returned a Delivery Failure notification. haha who knows may be someone still using it!

Barver:
Dunno what planet you're living on, Pokemon and Digimon on SNES have a shitty engine you can barely control. If you want to make an SNES game, best thing to do is learn whatever ASM programming language the system uses and create your own engine. It sounds like you're under the assumption that just owning the engine means you'll be able to make games easily, but you'll always still need lots of programming knowledge to get anything working right.

Is your main goal behind all of this just to make a shortcut so you can start making "pirate" games yourself? I'd say if you can't bother to try to make your own game with all the SNES resources out there available already, you'd probably be too lazy to even figure out how to utilize any of these engines if you were lucky enough to even acquire them. The engine won't just be a program with a GUI where you insert graphics and press the "make SNES ROM" button.

Hopefully none of that comes off harsh, I'm just trying to get you to see it realistically.

pichichi010:
Lol Dude,


First of ALL, I DID NOT asked about 99% of the things that you answered?

I have 4 SNES developers that help.

This is just to release fun little things to the public, I DO NOT need programming knowledge because all the developers actually have their own library to program for the consoles. Besides I doubt any tools used to make those games are still saved in a computer. But the Roms can always be hacked.

Im not trying to make "pirates" games myself, Im just trying to do something about things that are out there and people don't know instead of sitting on my sofa eating pizza.

If you think that Im too lazy to probably figure out how to utilize any of those engines, I am not. I might not know how to use them, but with my team we can hack those games within weeks, Make a new game, new levels new AI new sprites, not stolen.

I know Using  the engine for new games will not be as easy as pressing a "Make SNES Rom" button?

But one of my hackers can probably program an editor to do so lol; but again, why bother if we don't have full permission.

I have played all the pokemon games and I think they have fair engines, I don't think they are bad at all, I played the games and had fun, that is the only purpose of a video game isn't it?


Good Bye

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