Merry Sintaxmas 2014!
bet you didn't think it'd be back! I didn't even think it'd be back. but here it is! Sintax Claus has visited us once again and his sack is full of dubious games:
Qi Long Zhu Z 3 (七龍珠Z3) / Dragon Ball - Advance Adventure
This is something you don't see very often - an attempt at a port from Sintax, rather than an original game and/or lazy reskin of a previous game loosely based around whatever property they're ripping off. So the game being ported is the pretty excellent Dragon Ball: Advance(d) Adventure for the GBA; I've previously dumped a (yes) lazy reskin of this game posing as "Bynasty Warriors 5" but this is the original.
raw: Qi Long Zhu Z 3 (Dragon Ball - Advance Adventure) (Unlicensed, Chinese) [Raw Dump].zip
fixed: Qi Long Zhu Z 3 (Dragon Ball - Advance Adventure) (Unlicensed, Chinese) [Fixed].zip
Yuenan Zhanyi X - Shenru Dihou (越南戰役X-深入敵後)
Now this one is interesting - it appears to have started life as a followup of sorts to Vast Fame's quality Mega Man-clone Zook Hero series, titled something like "洛克英雄传3" or "Rock Hero Legend 3". I have no idea if Vast Fame approved of these shenanigans, but they may well have done, given that they're known to have worked with Sintax in the past. This is a Metal Slugified version of that game, but it still retains plenty of signs of its origins; perhaps inevitably it's nowhere near as good as the Vast Fame games that inspired it though.
raw: Yuenan Zhanyi X - Shenru Dihou (Unlicensed, Chinese) [Raw Dump].zip
fixed: Yuenan Zhanyi X - Shenru Dihou (Unlicensed, Chinese) [Fixed].zip
Lao Fuzi Chuanqi (老夫子傳奇)
Hey it's this engine again. Taking the starring roles this time are "Spudz" and "Master", of the popular Chinese comic Old Master Q; the official translation of Spudz' name these days seems to be the overly-literal "Big Potato" but for once I like Sintax's version way better.
raw: Lao Fuzi Chuanqi (Unlicensed, Chinese) [Raw Dump].zip
fixed: Lao Fuzi Chuanqi (Unlicensed, Chinese) [Fixed].zip
Digimon Crystal II
I've previously dumped the Chinese version of this game, but here's an English one! I love English Sintax games. They're the best. But they're also much harder to find than the Chinese versions. :(
raw: Digimon Crystal II (Unlicensed, English) [Raw Dump].zip
fixed: Digimon Crystal II (Unlicensed, English) [Fixed].zip
There was another one with boats in it as well but it only differs from a previous dump in the title screen and a few backgrounds and I didn't manage to hack out the protection in time. maybe later!
Comments
Second game completed.
Hmm very intresting port about dragon ball advance adventure i would rather see a port of denestu no stafy on gbc rather than those games would be nice :)
well maybe you already know this, but the first Starfy game was originally in development for the GBC - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoczELvuafs
so maybe that version still exists inside Tose or Nintendo somewhere.
I doubt any pirate port was ever made though, the series was never really popular enough for that (at least outside Japan)
와우~~!! 빅뉴스~~~!!!
@Taizou
Why don't do a New Year's Day post. I thought that's what you were going to do, instead of Christmas, again. It's nothing, really. I don't know, I just you were going to plan different, that's all.
ゲームセンターSINTAXMAS この世界よりもすることができる！
Es sorprendente el trabajo que hicieron estos diseñadores fans no oficiales con respecto a esta gran cantidad de videojuegos bootleg.
Es sorprendente el trabajo que hicieron estos diseñadores fans no oficiales con respecto a esta gran cantidad de videojuegos bootleg.
Taizou i have looked in the metal slug X rom. And i think i have found all the graphics from their zook hero clone minus the intro and title screen. It turns out according to the rom zook X is actually the name of a robot master. That is where the title Yuenan Zhanyi X - Shenru Dihou comes from. Also i think i found a title screen hack of the zook hero clone called rockman DX8 on taobao that uses the title screen of the undumped taiwanese release of zook hero 1 for the gbc by vast fame.
I need cheats for the Yuenan Zhanyi X - Shenru Dihou please.
No Sintaxmas '15? Such disappointment!
Dooly Bravo Land (둘리 브라보랜드)
Fun Fun Club (Daou Infosys)
1992
http://www.autofish.net/hosted/famitek/koreanunlicensed.html
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/korea/part1/company-daou.htm
Appears to be a Tiny Toon Adventures clone.
Magic Kid Googoo aka Dosuldongja Googoo (도술동자 구구)
Zemina
1992
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/korea/part1/company-zemina.htm
Appears to be a Psycho Fox clone.
Destroyer
NTDEC
1992
http://web.archive.org/web/20110520094642/http://www.er.uqam.ca/merlin/fd491499/nintendo/nes/megasoft/destroyer/
Also I think we are already aware that destroyer is just a title screen hack of one of these roms cah243 dumped earlier.
To Agumonfan1: While playing Metal Slug X on the hhug emulator I decided to map select to down as that is how you look down in that game, but I forgot to unmap what I had already picked as down. This caused me to skip to the next stage. So if you want to just skip a stage you already beat press down and select at the same time.
yay
There are many English grammatical errors in this(Digimon Crystal II)game, so that I can't understand what the people in the game want to say