new dump(s)! sintaxvania showdown
on a little bit of a roll today - next up I've got a couple of variations on a theme, the theme being Sintax's surprisingly-decent "Castlevania DX" game - a demo ROM has been circulating for a while but the full version remains elusive. But! Suddenly less-elusive are these two dubious hacks of the full version based on popular RPG series, which surely has to be worth something.
A few general points that apply to both of these: they were dumped from GBA-sized carts, but the games still run in GBC mode; the black spot in the pics below is on my camera; and the new replacement sprites use swords while the original Castlevania guy had a whip, but the collision detection hasn't been updated to account for it, meaning you have to duck to hit enemies which look like they should be reachable. quality etc
Pian Wai Zhang Huang Jin Tai Yang - Feng Yin De Yuan Gu Lian Jin Shu (篇外章 黃金太陽-封印的遠古煉金術)
why yes, yes that is a long title, thanks for noticing. This one is based on Camelot's Golden Sun series, vaguely.
raw: Pian Wai Zhang Huang Jin Tai Yang - Feng Yin De Yuan Gu Lian Jin Shu (Unlicensed, Chinese) [Raw Dump].zip
fixed: Pian Wai Zhang Huang Jin Tai Yang - Feng Yin De Yuan Gu Lian Jin Shu (Unlicensed, Chinese) [Fixed].zip
Yong Zhe Dou E Long VIII (勇者鬥惡龍VIII)
Well, VIII on the title screen, not-VIII on the box. But I think I've seen a box with VIII on it on Taobao or something. Anyway. Dragon Quest this time, and I do at least recognise a couple of Dragon Quest enemies they've shoved in there.
raw: Yong Zhe Dou E Long VIII (Unlicensed, Chinese) [Raw Dump].zip
fixed: Yong Zhe Dou E Long VIII (Unlicensed, Chinese) [Fixed].zip
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oh yeah and the fixed versions run at 1mb because of magic and stuff
The Dragon Quest hack seems to have been the first of the two-- there are leftover tiles from its title screen in the ROM of the Golden Sun one.
Bowing down these new dumps soon.
The first name reminds me of SHENZHENSHIHENGGEKEJIDIANZIYOUXIANGONGSI.
Just a reminder we have four versions dumped. Including the full version of castlevania dx. Now we are awaiting the raichu sprite and level graphics hack of Pian Wai Zhang Huang Jin Tai Yang - Feng Yin De Yuan Gu Lian Jin Shu or castlevania dx to be dumped too.
Is there a such thing?
@guyzis Yes there is such a game. a Dump of the game by Ankos on the bootleg games forum exists however, it’s a raw dump and it only works on hhugboy.
@Agumonfan1 The raichu graphics hack has been dumped on the bootleg games forum, however it’s raw dump and only works on hhugboy. Hopefully a fixed version that works on other emulators or flashcarts will be dumped. BTW If you haven’t know already, the name of the hack is Pokemon emerald.
It’s a*
@Big R You can use taizou's excellent sintaxnator to remove the protection of raw sintax/bbd games:
Link = https://github.com/tzlion/hhugtools
But, why there is so much interest on that, i mean, it's just another reskin of their castlevania game that taizou already dumped here, so why not just play that?