posted by taizou @ 2012-10-04 01:41:15
Dumps
got a quicky release today - this one is an alternate version of a game that has been dumped for a long time, Digimon 3: Crystal Version (Shu Ma Bao Long 3 - Shui Jing Ban, or 數碼暴龍3-水晶版) by Vast Fame. The existing dump uses music from another Vast Fame game, Shui Hu Shen Shou, which also for some reason leaves it with an oddly silent intro and title screen, but this new version has an entirely different soundtrack and comes with characteristically excellent music for both. Other than that, I can't see any differences between them (not that I've looked or anything). Aside from the subtitle, this version also seems to be the same as the currently not-successfully-dumpable Taiwanese release (presumably the original version of this game) called 數碼暴龍3-超夢版, which could be translated as, uh, Digimon 3: Mewtwo Version.
As with Digimon 9 the original dump is too big but works fine, the fixed version is trimmed down to its correct size and the header updated to match everything is fine so just download it. It comes from a generic modernish-looking cart made by I don't know who, but presumably they had access to this alternate version from somewhere. Many thanks to Qiezei for sending it, anyway!
Shu Ma Bao Long 3 - Shui Jing Ban (Unlicensed, Chinese).zip (updated 2013-05-09 to proper size!)
posted by taizou @ 2012-09-25 00:52:12
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got another dump for you all today - a game by the name of Digimon 9, or, you know, other things. Its full Chinese name as per the title screen is Shu Ma Bao Long 9: Bao Long Pian 2002 (数码暴龙9-暴龙篇2002) but I'm 99% sure this is a title hack anyway, judging from the crude title logo.
It was developed by Sintax or BBD or whoever was behind their earlier games; being an earlier one, it actually seems to have had a decent amount of care and effort put into it - the cutscenes are really well-done, the sprites are cute, there are some nice little touches like the falling leaves in the first level and idle animations, and it all plays quite well as far as generic GBC platformers go. The music is still from Lemmings though. As usual.
Anyway this cart is another nicely protection-free generic release courtesy of the same company that brought you the Pokemon cart earlier - I suppose a hacked title logo is a small price to pay for a working dump. The raw version works but it's 4mb - the fixed version is only 1mb it just works, okay. And that's that. enjoy!
Shu Ma Bao Long 9 - Bao Long Pian 2002 (Unlicensed, Chinese).zip (updated 2013-05-09 to proper size!)
posted by taizou @ 2012-08-21 02:00:31
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Hey it's another dump! Well I never. Presenting the long-lost (not really) mono Game Boy game: STORY OF LASAMA (拉薩瑪傳奇). It's a fairly generic little platform game, developed, I think, by some people connected to Vast Fame (although they seemingly hadn't gained a decent musician at this point) and published by Gowin, a Taiwanese company who released about 17 games total across both mono and color Game Boys. (If you want to read some more about this game, and you know Chinese, this here archived page on Gowin's old website might be a good place to start)
Five of Gowin's other mono games - Rainbow Prince (which is excellent), Fire Dragon (which has excellent music), Prince YehRude (which is weird), Magic Ball (which is a thing) and Lost Trip/Losing Trip/Puzzle Path/Mi Tu De Lu/Top Secret (which has too many names) - were dumped and cracked by one "GYY Game Unlock Team", who also saw fit to hack their own name into the games - I've done no such thing here, so you can enjoy the game in its unmolested glory. The raw dump is 4mb 128kb and contains a good chunk of Magic Ball, for some reason, but the fixed version is a mere 64k and actually works and stuff.
Incidentally, this is numbered GS-04, and while GS-02 and up are accounted for, I've never seen a GS-01 and neither was one ever listed on Gowin's website. the fact that this one's PCB has "No3" written on it in black marker makes me think there never actually was one (or if there was, it was cancelled) ... But you never know.
La Sa Ma Chuan Qi - Story of Lasama (Unlicensed) [Raw Dump].zip (updated 2013-05-09 to proper size!)
La Sa Ma Chuan Qi - Story of Lasama (Unlicensed) [Fixed].zip
posted by taizou @ 2012-07-27 03:32:41
Dumps
Well! One thing I've been trying to do for quite some time is dump all the various weird Game Boy games that have come my way over the years; usually this fails due to copy protection or weird cart hardware or other stuff, but every so often a cart surrenders its contents without too much hassle (usually thanks to a game being re-released by a different company that didn't care so much about protection). And this is one of those! In Chinese it's snappily titled Chong Wu Xiao Jing Ling: Jie Jin Ta Zhi Wang (宠物小精灵 结金塔之王) which translates roughly to Pokemon: King of the Golden Tower. ALthough the title just calls it Chong Wu Xiao Jing Ling, and then maybe you could call it "Pokemon Pikecho" too? oh these games and their consistency.
It's an RPG developed by Vast Fame (which are totally the best kind), based on the same engine as another one of their games, Digimon Pocket. I think Digimon came first though - there's a massive Digimon on the game over screen, for one thing. Oh yeah, and the header says Digimon. Just call me Sherlock fucking Holmes. It has also seen an English(?) version called Pokemon Ruby and probably had an earlier release in Chinese with a different name, too - this cart I dumped it from dates from about 2005, and is part of a line of otherwise mostly generic and/or title-hacked pirate carts identifiable by that "酷" (cool!) character in the top left. As is (sort of) tradition with VF, alternate versions feature entirely different music, for some reason - aside from the intro, the entirety of my dumped version's soundtrack comes from Shi Kong Xing Shou, but the English version's is entirely different.
Anyway, enjoy the game! I had to change precisely one byte to get it working in emulators, so I dunno if that means I'm a terrible person that totally ruined its integrity or what - I've uploaded both versions in any case, [Fixed] is the one that works.
Update 5 Aug 2012 - I'm going to abandon the GoodGBX-esque naming scheme for now, it kind of implies I'm adhering to a standard that I really have nothing to do with ... ROMs are the same though
Chong Wu Xiao Jing Ling - Jie Jin Ta Zhi Wang (Unlicensed, Chinese) [Raw Dump].zip
Chong Wu Xiao Jing Ling - Jie Jin Ta Zhi Wang (Unlicensed, Chinese) [Fixed].zip
