Now this is unusual. This game - called Xiao Tai Ji - Shen Hua Li Xian (小太极-神话历险)
- is based on a Taiwanese cartoon by the name of Taichi Kid - and, so what? you might think. Sintax based games on tons of shit. But this game...
wait for it
was LICENSED by the cartoon's production company! seriously! it's right here on the official website and everything!
The game itself isn't half bad either (although the music is stolen from Lemmings as usual). you should definitely try this one! There was also an English version called "Little Taichi: The adventrure of myth" which.. I'd quite like to find.
this game is called 2003 Crash II Advance, and I've never played any of the original Crash Bandicoot games, but judging from like one minute's research on youtube they've done a pretty good job of capturing the gameplay of the originals.
Well the world hasn't ended yet, so how about an extra game? I figured out how to get this one working right in the middle of Sintaxmas, but it kinda sucks so I was going to save it for later. But for the apocalypse, why not?
It's called San Guo Wu Shang 5 (叁國無雙5) on the cart and, amazingly, "Bynasty Warriors Advance 5" on the title screen, but it's based on the engine from Sintax's port(?) of Dragonball: Advance Adventure, right down to the status bar still saying "Gokou". I blogged about it here a while back. (oh and don't be fooled by the GBA size cart, it's GBC through and through)
got another strategy game today - Super Robot War X (超級機器人大戰X). judging from the ID, this may have been Sintax's first game!
I have two versions of this game to release; the first was dumped from Qiezei's cart (the grey one) and the alt version was dumped from my own (the yellow one). I can't see any immediate differences in-game but the ROMs are definitely different.
Rawr! Here we have a game based, roughly, on the various Mega Drive Lion King games. Strangely it's named Jing Ling Wang III (精靈王III), which approximately translates to "Elf King III", but I have seen a cartridge for sale that actually used the "Lion King" title (in Chinese, 獅子王); maybe they changed it at some point to avoid any trouble with Disney?
Anyway, it's a pretty average platformer; the Simba sprite is a bit weird though. I also have three copies of this game, and only one of them works. Just saying, like. Quality. (The grey one came in the box pictured above, if anyone was wondering)
