new dump! Digimon D-3 (+10 in 1)

got another game from one of my old videos today - in Chinese it's known as Chao Jin Hua: Shu Ma Bao Long D-3 (超進化 數碼寶貝D-3) but for short I'll call it Digimon D-3, which also happens to be the name of the official English version. It's a fairly okay averageish platformer originally published by SKOB but developed probably by BBD or something.

download - Chao Jin Hua - Shu Ma Bao Bei D-3 (Unlicensed, Chinese) (Multicart Rip).zip

This was ripped from a 10 in 1 multicart, called "數碼暴龍專集 10 in 1" - as the multicart is only 4mb I was able to dump the whole thing (the Vast Fame ones are larger than that and use some kind of bankswitching which my dumping hardware can't replicate at the moment), so just for completeness I'm posting that as well, but note that it isn't properly emulated in anything. All the other games on it are identical to existing dumps, but it's an interesting cart nonetheless:

• "Digmon Crysta" = Digimon 3 Crystal
• "Digmon Digmon" = Digimon 9
• "Digmon Gold 2" = "Pocket Monsters GO!GO!GO! (Unl) [C][h1].gbc" in goodgbx
• "Digmon Boy" = Digimon D3 ^
• "Digmon Fihgte" = "Gamera - Daikai Jukuchuu Kessen (J) [S][T+Chi].gb" in goodgbx
• "Digmon Mario" = Super Mario Land
• "Digmon Monste" = Monster Truck
• "Digmon Hospit" = Dr. Mario
• "Digmon Battle" = Battle City
• "Digmon Bomber" = Bomb Jack

download - Shu Ma Bao Long Zhuan Ji 10 in 1 (Unlicensed).zip

a new thing

I've just added a new page to the site indexing all the dumps I've released so far, including emulator compatibility info; should be an easier way for people to find something they're looking for rather than clicking through five pages of blog posts.

It also serves as a place for me to list undumped games I'm looking for, so hopefully if someone owns one of those games and is searching for info about it, they might find my page and get in touch. (Also if any of you can think of any other rare/unknown/undumped games to list there, please leave a comment!)

dump housekeeping

well i was going through my old dumps, for reasons, and i've noticed a few of them were overdumps, namely Digimon 3, Digimon 9 and Story of Lasama - these were the dumps made with my old GB Transferer which dumped whatever the header told it to, and in these cases (as it so often is) the header was wrong. so! i've trimmed them down (and for the two Digimons, removed the "fixed" versions which are now unnecessary) - if you care about that sort of thing, you can redownload them at their respective pages: Digimon 3 / Digimon 9 / Story of Lasama

new dump! Feng Kuang Da Fu Weng

hey it's that time again! once again thanks to Qiezei and one of his fantastical multicarts I'm bringing you another Vast Fame game: Feng Kuang Da Fu Weng (疯狂大富翁), which you could possibly translate as "Crazy Richman" or "Crazy Monopoly" (Richman is a series of popular Taiwanese PC games kinda loosely based on Monopoly, they both share the 大富翁 name in Chinese).

Its sequel has been dumped for a while, but this one has a bigger ROM and consequently a greater variety of events and stuff, despite having fewer characters. I can't exactly get the most out of this not knowing Chinese, but it has a ton of charm and there are a bunch of little self-referential things in there and the music is great and you know. after 10000 mediocre Sintax games this is the sort of thing that makes it all worthwhile for me.

two ROMs this time, the "header fix" version sets the header correctly to allow saving in emulators. and please note there seems to be a bug in the game - I don't know if this happens on the real cart, but if you go to create a new game, then reset before you've finished selecting your character, it will probably corrupt your saves. so don't do that.

raw: Feng Kuang Da Fu Weng (Unlicensed, Chinese) (Multicart Rip) [Raw Dump].zip
header fix: Feng Kuang Da Fu Weng (Unlicensed, Chinese) (Multicart Rip) [Header Fix].zip

new dump! Onimusha 2

oh the sintax just keeps coming. I've been interested in this one for a while, but only just tracked down a copy recently - it's Onimusha 2! or Gui Wu Zhe 2 (鬼武者2) in Chinese.

I'm not at all familiar with the real Onimusha games so I have no idea how faithful this one is to the originals plot/setting/characterwise, but they've turned it into a sort of platform game with RPG elements - it's not an engine I've seen before but it seems decently made, aside from enemies seemingly spawning out of nowhere all the time.

raw: Gui Wu Zhe 2 (Unlicensed, Chinese) [Raw Dump].zip
fixed: Gui Wu Zhe 2 (Unlicensed, Chinese) [Fixed].zip