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oh and Tezhong Budui 2 has a bunch of content from the English version in the ROM, including graphics for a Chinese/English selection menu (which as far as I know doesn't appear in any known release of this game - both versions are locked to their respective language), so maybe it's possible to re-enable it?

There's also a Metal Slug title screen (with "© 2001 RUANXIN CO., LTD" copyright), indicating they were probably planning to release it as a straight up Metal Slug game before someone decided to slap the 9/11 theme on it..

oh i just realised - "Ruanxin" finally explains a super old mystery, why Hitek games (the original releases) boot up with a "GK.RX" logo.

back here:
http://s4.zetaboards.com/PGC_Forums/single/?p=8137833&t=8159149
was when I first noticed the logo, and discovered that Hitek was a trademark of a Chinese company called Gaoke ("hi-tech" literally) - which explained the "GK" but not the "RX".

so I guess this means the Hitek releases were a collaboration of sorts between Gaoke and Ruanxin .. Although I still really know nothing at all about Ruanxin (even the Chinese characters)

In searching for various variations on "black box gameboy demoscene", I managed to stumble across what I think is the original source of that tune in Taikong Zhanshi: http://gbdev.gg8.se/files/musictools/Music%20Box/ Specifically, it's the file named "BLASTAH.SAV" in BB-MB103.ZIP.

...Hah, the tune in the intro story is also from Music Box - it's MELODEE.SAV.

(Incidentally, the original composer for both appears to be Jukka-Pekka Luukkonen, a.k.a. Fusion.)

And naturally, the third tune is NOISYPIL.SAV. Because of course it is. (Also composed by Fusion. And I should probably have just listened to all of the sample tunes before posting my comments rather than spamming like this.)

Terrifying 9.11 completed. Ending is unrelated to the 9.11 events though.

Terrifying 9.11 ending: https://youtu.be/BPE09spc8fU

Terrifying 911's title sounds way too straight even with its new title... now the name of Al-Qaeda as its subtitle!

To no real surprise, Xin Guangming Yu Hei'an 2 seems to have some connection to Sintax as well - there are fragments of their logo in the ROM at 0x2C472. Certainly explains the pointless blank white screen at the beginning of the game.

(Also, why does the third story screen in that game's intro appear to show Abe from the Oddworld series?!)

here's a transcription of the Tezhong Budui 2/Terrifying 911 credits:

程式设计
真高明
背景制作
亮丽
动画制作
还可以
音乐制作
好动听
游戏测试
三颗星
游戏监制
缺席

.. but if you run those through your online translator of choice, you can see they *probably* are not real names.

Tezhong Budui 2/Terrifying 911 "credits" just comments for their program, design, music and so on... They are not real names.

Found a glitch in the FF DX3 game: can't max out stats, tried that near the end and the game crashed. I savestated before that luckily.

hm could you upload a save file from just before that point? i can try it out on the real cart

@taizou -- check the PM

I can confirm that crash using an emulator. However, I did manage to finish the game without the last levels of those stats. I jsut needed like 5 potions, lelz.

Oh, if you guys want to see the playthrough of it, here's the playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_7SZhTmUFWlkihdEuyHhuyIkZZP8-Cal

The final boss is surprisingly hard, but for the wrong reasons, naturally. Fireball projectiles are too fast to react to, so more often than not you get hit.

Oh and a FYI, the music it uses is from RPG Tsukuruu GB/RPG Maker GB

About that Xin Shediao Yingxiong Chuan game...

Apparently, there was an official Japan-only "Condor Heroes" RPG game for the PS1 made by Sony called 射雕英雄伝/射雕英雄傳 (Shachou Eiyuuden, basically a Japanese reading of Condor Heroes' Chinese hanzi), with the English subtitle "THE EAGLE SHOOTING HEROES" (it even has the official Jin Yong license and everything), and it holds the distinction of being the only known PS1 game having a selectable language option of Japanese AND simplified/traditional Chinese (which I guess made it an easy popular import/download choice for the Greater Chinese gaming community, similar to how the first three Ace Attorney games had their Japanese versions imported to the West before their official American releases because of its English option). I have a feeling that maybe the GBC game "Xin Shediao Yingxiong Chuan" might be an attempt to port the PS1 game to the Game Boy Color, either that or it does its own thing independent of Sony's game (or even the original novel), or a combination of both. Please look into this soon.

Yeah I think you're right, it does seem to be an attempt at a port- I just played the PS1 game briefly and its opening scenes are basically recreated in the GBC one (the dialogue is mostly identical).

도술동자 구구 ROM덤프에서 hhug.me 어디에있어?

Taikong Zhanshi - Jingdian Ban using goddamn chiptune music (including Noisy Pillars!!) made me laugh. Thanks for the dumps as always Taizou!

thanks for another update. I may find these games nearly impossible to enjoy, but I love playing "spot the asset". There's Kou/h from the Azure Dreams GBC title screen in Xin Shediao! Looks like the Mad Gear Gang is expanding their turf in Xin Guangming Yu Hei'an 2, because that's definitely Birdie's SFA GBC sprite being fought.

I guess those spammy comments mentioning Vast Fame fighting games("queen of fighting 2000", "chaoji gedou 2001 alpha") are written by the guy with multiple names, living in the world of delusion - I mean that agumonfan/kdma guy.

Now this is the second time that I saw those comments popping out and Bootleggames Wiki being attacked by that guy almost simultaneously, and those spam comments always have capitalization issue.

So, the opening scene of this game is dramatic, nice semi video cutscene.

@msf007 - i don't think so, the IP addresses are in a different country.. and his posts were always more incoherent. i think *this* person is just someone who really wants to see those two games dumped

@"?" - if i can ever dump those games i will dump them, but right now i can't, so please fuck off and stop spamming my comments

Oh wow. Now I'm so sad to know there are even more strange guys in the bootleg games fandom...

The anonymous commenter is back with more of his spam.

Thank you for dumping it all! It is awesome.

Would you mind to do a post with codes for all your dumps?
Also: What will be your dump number 100? (I think you are around 98-99 atm.)

Have a great december, m8!

I had been waiting for a dump of 911 ever since I learned about it, it's been so long I forgot when that was. It's great you managed to do it, huge thanks and may the chinese pirate gods bless you

Angus macgyver what are codes in posts?

Agumonfan1 = kdma guy

Also the anonymous impatient is still posting the same link...

mm sadly i can't ban them because they have a dynamic IP address ):

hhug.me/?post=58

the return of li cheng 2015 (pt2)

hi I just want to be aware even though I did not post anything about the rom dumping scene or ask for anything. I do like the games queen of fighting 2000/soul falchion thank you.

Also even though there is a part 2 of this. I still want to be aware that the translations might take a while. But the pirate originals are not really interesting because some of them were recreated already.

the return of li cheng 2015 (pt2)

Curious where you're getting the cartridges for the rips...

Mostly auction/marketplace sites. These Li Cheng ones came from a Taobao seller who had a pretty big chunk of their library, not sure if the listing is still active.

it is.

when will the sintaxmas start? or even return of li cheng or makon crapstravaganzia, if you have the shenaningans to do that one.

there's definitely -something- coming soon

非常感謝！
P.S. it may be better if "特种部队2-基地" translated as "Special Force: Base" by it‘s meaning, rather than direct CHN pronunciation.

I usually name things by the romanisation of the title because it's the most accurate representation of the original name using the Roman alphabet, if I tried to translate the titles it's then my own subjective interpretation of it.. then you get into cases where the maker used different titles for an existing series, do I translate them differently or the same way?
example from this post:
太空战士DX3-最终幻想 -> (literally) "Space Warrior DX3: Final Fantasy"
but 太空战士 is also an alternate title for Final Fantasy, so I could also call it "Final Fantasy DX3: Final Fantasy"
so I prefer to just present the original title and let people interpret it however they want it.

(it's also consistent with the way most existing ROM sets handle naming for Japanese games, e.g. for the Japanese version of Zelda they will name it "Zelda no Densetsu" rather than "Legend of Zelda". With Chinese games, a lot of existing ROMs use an English translation or an assumed/invented English name based on the original property, but it's really inconsistent)

Yeah. The GoodGBX names were probably vomited out of someone's mouth. Like, "Dragonslayer Chapter Surrounded" and "Sky Dragon" for Shi Mian Mai Fu? Prrft.

Most of those games are well made, despite being pirated and all, could we ACTUALLY Consider "Tezhong Budui 2 - Jidi" to be Hong Kong 97's spiritual sucessor? xD

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