posted by taizou @ 2013-05-06 17:32:45
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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
posted by taizou @ 2013-04-15 13:44:05
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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
posted by taizou @ 2013-04-14 19:01:46
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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
posted by taizou @ 2013-04-14 17:02:04
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well i'm just ploughing through some more Sintax stuff here. two variations on the previously dumped Spider-Man game! once again the raw versions should work in hhugboy & MESS + im supplying fixed ones for other emus.
Movie Version Spider-Man 3
This is the English version - aside from the language and a new animated "3" on the title screen it seems to be the same as the Chinese one. Dumped by BigFred!
raw: Movie Version - Spider-Man 3 (Unlicensed, English) [Raw Dump].zip
fixed: Movie Version - Spider-Man 3 (Unlicensed, English) [Fixed].zip
Chuan Shuo (傳說)
Lazy, lazy hack of Spider-Man. Still has his head in the status bar. Cart supplied by Qiezei, dumped by me.
raw: Chuan Shuo (Unlicensed, Chinese) [Raw Dump].zip
fixed: Chuan Shuo (Unlicensed, Chinese) [Fixed].zip
posted by taizou @ 2013-03-07 13:58:47
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got some more backlogged Sintaxness today: He Jin Zhuang Bei II (合金裝備II) or Metal Gear II, a Metal Gear-based beat 'em up. It uses the Three Kingdoms engine but pretty much does its own thing with it (unlike Shaolin from the last post) and it's pretty decent, quite Metal Gearish in presentation and not at all Metal Gearish in gameplay.
(There might also be an English version and it possibly might have been released as "Eraq War II", but I've never seen it under either name.)
Cart provided by Qiezei - thanks (again)! As with the previous post, the raw dump should work in hhugboy + MESS and the fixed should work in everything else.
raw: He Jin Zhuang Bei II (Unlicensed, Chinese) [Raw Dump].zip
fixed: He Jin Zhuang Bei II (Unlicensed, Chinese) [Fixed].zip
