Pirated Games Central

A Small Recap of the Pirated Companies Part 2: Someri Team

2010-09-18T17:48:00.031+02:00

Hello everybody, this is KingPepe here. No, I am not taking over this series but I want to write an article myself on this one team whose games are really popular, even people who aren't that into pirates might know it. However, their history is all confusing due to the lack of copyrights that they have. This one team...is Someri Team. All of their games in this article are published by Ge De Industry Co.

Here's a present from me:
http://www.mediafire.com/?boos1z1bbt58fja

Well, not really a present but some of the NSFs in here I want you to refer back to.

Let's take a look at their first game, shall we?

1992
Jing Ke Xin Zhaun

Someri Team uses "Supertone" for their alias here. Oddly, their first game is an RPG which I guess is understandable considering they're easy to make. (Waixing and Shenzhen makes like a ton of them.)

I will be honest, I haven't played through the whole entire game and I don't know the story but I don't know Chinese. If you downloaded those NSFs, keep the 13th track in mind...

Street Fighter II: The World Warrior

Yes, just as you probably thought. Street Fighter II on the NES. My guess is that this is a port of the SNES version seeing how getting that is easier then the original arcade version.
This is the earliest version of the so-called "Kart Fighter" engine although I prefer to call it the "SFII engine". There's only 5 characters, Ryu, Zangief, Guile, Chun-Li and Viga (Vega/M.Bison). Yeah I know, not a lot but considering how early this was. It's understandable. The characters have almost all their moves (Zangief lacks the Spinning Piledriver) and it's all right for a port. Nothing really that special. However, there is one thing I do want to point out. The 13th track in Jing Ke Xin Zhaun appears in the 2nd track of Street Fighter II's NSF (in the zip file, it's under Master Fighter II which I will get to soon. This already proved that Supertone is Yoko Soft and Jing Ke Xin Zhaun is probably one of their first games.

Street Fighter II has been hacked a few times as well. The game was released under as Master Fighter II with the only difference being the title. There is Master Fighter III which allows you to play as Viga. For whatever reason, Viga can't duck (but he still has that annoying sliding kick) but holding down can cause some strange stuff with the opponent. There is also Mario Street Fighter III where...yeah, you can play as Mario. His sprites are horribly stretched out and he is just a clone of Zangief. There is also stages of the castle in SMB3 where you talk to the kings and...Little Nemo for whatever bizarre reason.
One thing is that the title screen has a huge Mario character known as Fortran who has appeared in Dian Shi Ma Li. Bit Corp was responsible for that game...and they also distributed Street Fighter II in Argentina (and possibly elsewhere). I wonder if they're responsible for the hack.

1993
Master Fighter VI'

Not much is known about this game since it was never dumped. From the looks of it, it's a ported version of Street Fighter II: Champion Edition judging by the dash near it's name. This game has ALL the characters from the original Street Fighter II. The music is reused from Yoko's SFII but the graphics with the exception of some of the stages is that they are all new. This is also the first fighting pirate to use clones. They all have different portraits, names and colors, with the colors resembling the alternate plaettes in SFII: Champion Edition. The engine here seems slightly updated. One thing that's a bit important is that this (or the game below it) is the first fighting game to use the difficulty option.

There's a few videos on Youtube that show this game such as this:

KuaiDa ChuanShuo - Street Fighter IV
Despite the name, Street Fighter IV is NOT another port of Street Fighter. It's an (almost) original fighting game. This time, they go under the name "Gouder Co." This is one of the two only fighting pirates that uses voice samples. (The other is Sachen's Street Heroes).

Here are the characters:
Cliff - Ryu-wannabe, wears an orange gi and has a ponytail. Has all of his moves and he even shouts "Shoryuken!" in his...well...shoryuken. One thing is that he does have footwear like the first Street Fighter's Ryu.
Bunny - Bunny girl with moves similar to Cliff's. She shoots cards and can flip kick.
Chunfo - Monk with a hand shot, a spinning attack and a dive-in-like attack.
Pasta - Pretty much Cliff's Ken. Blue gi, no ponytail, brown hair and blue boots. His hadouken and hurricane kick go in some wavy pattern.
Stalong - Topless man that uses Guile's sprites from SFII (Yoko) as a base. Only character without a projectile AND a broken attack. (Hold back and b does a flying kick that can be spammed)
Musashi - Boss, possibly some ninja. Has an annoying attack where he bounces around and then does a flying kick at you.

Also this game has clones as well with Goho Li (white gi Cliff), Tracy (blonde Bunny with black outfit), Moon (purple pants Chunfo), Rober (purple gi Pasta with brown boots), Ranboo (Stalong with purple pants) and Conbon (Musashi with purple outfit, final boss). The AI is much better then Street Fighter II's. This game uses Ryu's and Guile's sprites from Yoko's SFII for Cliff and Stalong. This game would later be hacked into The Legend which appeared on a 15-in-1 cart. The video of the cart can be viewed here:

1994

Oh boy, this is where the fun begins... Something to point out is that the games in this year were made with a chip known as the Huang-1 chip so it's pretty much a given these were all by the same publisher. Street Fighter IV has an earlier version of the chip. (It is unknown about the others though)

Somari
I think we all know how this went. It's Sonic The Hedgehog on the NES with Sonic as Mario instead. Do I really need to go through a summary on this game? It's that popular that I don't even need to go over it. It's the first time that the company is addressed as "Someri Team" even though the intro says Somari Team. (It says Someri on the cart) This game was later hacked as Sonic 3D Blast 5 and Sonic 3D Blast 6 where Mario is Sonic and the starting level changes. Both of these hacks were published by NT who were responsible for publishing some of Hummer's games (Earthworm Jim 3 and Mortal Kombat 4) and Ei-How Yang's (Super Donkey Kong 2 and Toy Story). They also made Family Kid as well that appeared on one of their 2-in-1 cartts. Waixing later took Somari and hacked it into Doraemon. That 15-in-1 cart I mentioned has a game called The Hummer which is a hack of Sonic 3D Blast 5. The 13th track on its NSF should be kept in mind though (which is an unused chaos emerald grab sound)...

Kart Fighter
Another infamous pirate that you probably know. A fighting game with...characters from Super Mario Kart. One of the notable things about this pirate is that all the fighter's sprites have been done from scratch with some errors here and there. (but still IT'S ORIGINAL!). Peach wears a short skirt, Donkey Kong Jr's eyes are messed up and Bowser is short but it's still pretty done well. Although it's under 1994, it might have been released in 1993 since Somari was being developed at the time under "SoniMari". Now here comes the fun part. That unused chaos emerald tune appears in Kart Fighter when you select an option. Also remember the 13th track in Jing Ke Xin Zhaun? It's DK Jr's stage music but done a bit differently. Still the same stuff. Also another thing is that some of Kart Fighter's graphics later got reused in Hummer's Super Mario World. The ending music also appears a bit in Hummer's games either used or unused. Strange stuff we got here...

AV Jiu Ji Mahjong 2
AV Jiu Ji Mahjong 2 was released sometime in 1994, most likely after Kart Fighter. This game isn't really all that special since it's some weird Mahjong game with hentai. One thing about this game is that it uses Kart Fighter's ending music and Street Fighter IV's ending music.

AV Bishoujo Senshi Girl Fighting/AV Mei Shao Nv Zhan Shi
AV Bishoujo Senshi Girl Fighting...is actually original. It's a fighting game that after every round (on difficulty 4 or 5), you see hentai after every round. Isn't that just beautiful? But wait there's something important about that game...

After selecting...you hear that same unused chaos emerald tune and...
Look to the left on that select screen and tell me if those 2 girls look familiar. If they don't, stop skipping through the article then and READ THE WHOLE THING. Top left is Chun-Li from Yoko's SFII and bottom left is Marry who is Bunny from SFIV. The cart says Someri Team as well just like Somari! Honestly, the game got ridiculous with the stuff they reused. Also at first the new characters seem original at first. However, 2 of them are from the Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon (which is probably what AVBGF's title is based off of) and the others are edited off of the SNES Ranma 1/2's characters. Ok, let's see what they reused...

Jing Ke Xin Zhaun
-The battle music appears in Sugico's stage but it has a (horrible) triangle wave in it.

Street Fighter II: The World Warrior
-Chun-Li from the port is in there, anything else is need to be said?
-The "VS" came from that game.

Street Fighter IV
-Lifebars are the same thing.
-Marry is Bunny from SFIV.
-Uses the same font as SFIV.
-Cliff's, Bunny's, Chunfo's and Musashi's music was reused and put in other stages.
-All the stages in SFIV reappeared in this game.

Somari
-Unused chaos emerald sound that was carried over from Kart Fighter.

Kart Fighter
-Reused sound effects and music. Uses the select music, ending music, high score music (which is used for when beating one of the opponents), Peach's music (edited and non-edited), Yoshi's music (with a channel missing).
-4 of the characters reuses the same commands from the characters in Kart Fighter. Marry is a carbon copy of Mario, Janifer (bra and skirt only) uses Peach's, Vivian (girl in swimsuit/dance suit/whatever) uses Yoshi's, and Niny (with the exception of the projectile) uses Koopa's.
-The select screen works just like Kart Fighter's.

This game is like the center of Someri that it's scary. This game pretty much reuses a lot of stuff from their old games like if they were in a rush to get this out or something. However, this isn't their last fighting game because we have one more...

Garou Densetsu Special
Garou Densetsu Special is a port of Fatal Fury 2. This is Someri's last known game. There's a few things that are kind of surprising about this compared to the others however. The difficulty appears on the front but with 5 levels like Tekken 2's. It also uses parallax scrolling in some areas just like Tekken 2. The game's font was also reused in some of Hummer's other games as well. Also this doesn't contain clones but duplicates instead. No recolors, same people (some have different icons but that's about it). The real characters are Kim Kaphawn, Tung Fu Rue, Wolfgang Krauser, Ryo Sakazaki, Terry Bogard, NT Kau Lok (Andy Bogard), Joe Higashi, and Mai Shiranui. Now here's something bizarre about this game...

(You might have to click on the image to see it)

Yes, those are names from Mortal Kombat II. The game is a hack of MKII Special (or used it as a base) by Hummer Team. The commands were edited from that game as well. This game also uses the select character music from Street Fighter IV.

Well there we have it. Someri's history in one article. Now what happened with them later? Well...they moved onto different publishers with a new name...and here's some of their games:

Video-Uss Game Genie translation

2010-08-26T09:41:00.003+02:00

*** EDITORIAL ***

I dunno if Game Genie was really sold at Steepler's, but considering that Video-Uss Dendy was the first videogame magazine in Russia and that Video-Uss publishment had contacts with such widely known magazines as Joystick and Joypad (see below)... I guess that everyone who read this article wished to have such a thing at home.

Short but enjoyable. So enjoy it and sho-- wait, that's from the other movie.

*** TRANSLATION ***

(attention hackers)

IS IT POSSIBLE TO "HACK" A GAME ON THE CARTRIDGE?

A gaming console is not a computer in a regular meaning of this word., it doesn't allow you to reach every file of it, it doesn't allow you to change the code of the game. So, on the question placed in the header, some will say that it's not possible, some will say that it's only for the experts who own special hardware - EEPROM programmers (and that won't be in all cases), but there are the people who will definitely say 'yes'. These are the gamers who know what Game Genie ("Genius of the Game" [sic! - Nicker]) is. With Game Genie, you may be able to play your favourite games even better and use all the features of them, usually, even hidden ones! It's inserted into the console exactly the same way as a regular cartridge, and the game cartridge itself has to be inserted into Game Genie.

THE CONSOLE FOR THE CONSOLE! [ehrm, 'An addon for the console' would be a more exact translation, but it lacks the loudness of the original phrase - Nicker]

Game Genie, without damaging the cartridge, modifies the game for the rules you write itself. Lives that never end, ammo, invulnerability, superspeed, new arsenal, unlimited time - now you control these all. The Game Genie manual lists the descriptions of the genial possibilities of 74 games. These include Batman, Castlevania, Duck Tales, Double Dragon, Dr. Mario, Robocop, Solomon's Key, Tetris, Top Gun and many other popular games. Find the game that interests you in a manual and, using the arrows, input the listed codes on the Game Genie screen. Every code corresponds to the new special abilities the characters will gain. After that, press START button and the old game with new things shall begin. You may even combine infinite lives and energy or warp to the last area with superjump and infinite ammo e.t.c. Easy. The interface of Game Genie is understandable even for kids. If you want to play the game without using Game Genie's features, there's not need in pulling it off from the console, All you need is pressing START button without entering the code, then Game Genie will forget all your previous entries and you'll enter the game like if the cartrigde would be inserted directly into the console.

Dendy: The New Reality - Super Contra 6 Review (English subtitles)

2010-07-22T16:21:00.002+02:00

So today, we've got Super Contra 6 which is obviously the hack of Contra Force, but HEY. It doesn't look like Super Contra 6. No Rambo, Ryu and such. You still've got Burns, Beans, Iron... but you get 8 lives in the beginning of the game, like in SC3. So... may it mean that it is actually Super Contra 3?

P.S. May do a translation of any random moment from the season two which have been broadcasted on Channel One (former ORT). REQUESTS PLZ!

This video is too short. Way too short. But I got used to it. It was an entertaining watch, but earlier stuff on the site is better.

Dendy Is Still Alive - aka Crash Nicker's Cart Collection (part 1)

2010-06-15T20:26:00.014+02:00

Now that exams are done, I'm into LPs, but sadly, not into pirates yet... but Crash Nicker wrote an article. Here it is:

Another article today. No, not a translation of an article from the Great Dragon. And not even an article about the New Reality. Today, we're going to talk about... let's call it 'neopiracy'. I currently find no point of retelling about new games that are being stamped by the pirated for a billionth time. Well, on THAT topic, I had one game that was not available as a ROM before... it's Lion King 5, sent to CaH4e3 and still undumped, I suppose. Oh well. So you won't see this multicart in my collection I shall list below (yes, I will list my collection right here, right now).

So... first off, my second famiclone (the first one, Haili LM-888, turned dead long ago).

As I recall, on one site this thing was listed as 'Dendy-7' while on the box, it says 'Dendy-2'. Grappled from a local gaming shop just for ~$9. Cheap and semireliable. Also, the gamepads for this piece of plastic ACTUALLY resemble those which were on SEGA Mega Drive II... one thing to notice however: the 'C' button is binded here as 'A+B', while 'Z' is correspondingly 'X+Y' a.k.a. 'Turbo A+Turbo B'. Wait, one more: the 'SELECT' button is still here, as 'MODE' (which occupies the same location as R1/R2 buttons on your regular PS gamepad).

I also saw 'Dendy-3' there which was nothing more than a visual replica to PS. It even costs more: ten dollars. TEN F***ING DOLLARS. The question is: why pay more if it's the same quality? So I bought 'Dendy-2'. Later I equipped myself with two pads from 'Dendy-3', which are just goddamn comfortable to play with... The D-Pad glitches, however: when you try to turn to the left, it goes upper-left instead.

Sadly, I can't use my good ol' Beretta lightgun (which fits the hand better than that 'The Punisher' revolver) because the input port of this console was thinner than one on Haili LM-888! Dammit.

Moving on.

(Man, you cannot be serious about this pic.)

Before buying the Famiclone described above... I bought this. No cover. At all. Bought this at one of the shops of 'Atlant' network... and I actually saw it nearby an actual Dendy console, by Steepler, Dendy Junior! Yay! Still, when I came next week there, it was sold. Ah, never mind kids.

The cost of this is $1,43, counting that all games in this multicart minus one are kickass. Street Fighter VI - I own like three of these, no comment. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters - ripped copyrights and no intro. (I had a TMNT:TF full in a pirated cart.) No glitches, at least... Golden Axe 4 - Lord of King, also known as Astyanax, recently dumped by CaH4e3. (Had this too, glitched vertical levels.) And Super Contra 6, gfx+code hack of Contra Force.

This multicart shares the same menu as in 'K****' series (K4003, K4042, K4076 and K4086, to be exact), just with a neater color scheme. Will show it ASAP... well, when I set myself to grab some screenshots from it via my capture device.
The board was manufactured in... ehrm, 16/11/02 and it's marked as 99050-BD. We'll return to this 'BD' thing much, much more later...
P.S. Thanks to the scanner, the original yellow color of the cartridge case is lost. Same for the other two that were share the same case.

...and the bundle cart. Despite what it says on the cover, the menu actually says that there are 19 games. 19 menu entries, at least. So, it has Hwang Shinwei's Magic Jewelry, Track & Field (listed as Olympics 2008), Circus Charlie, Duck Hunt, Baseball and, what's unusual to wait for in there, is the EUROPEAN version of Super Mario Bros. Honestly. The music speed is soooo fast and the music itself is soooo distorted... Basically, famiclones work on 50 frames per second but retain the same sound pitch as on NTSC systems, so what.

You may probably ask: 'WTF is Demitri doing here?' Reply: 'Ehrm, nothing'
Yup, you won't see any Darkstalkers or Castlevanias here, but you sure may play Tetris, Adventure Island or... The Legend of Kage (which is just annoying to deal with). Not a big loss, however, since all the roster is exactly the same as on one multicart, known as 64-in-1 (Mapper 255) [p1] in GoodNES. One fun glitch to observe, however: if you run Galaxian and then do a soft reset, all the menu colors will switch to orange and light-blue. Just like in times of the Orange Revolution in Ukraine, dammit...

Here's one cart I got from a friend, thanks to Eugene Stezenko for this one... You'll meet his stuff there too. Yup, it retains the same 'BD' sign and even the same menu layout! The titles of the games are self-explanatory. It even has ONE MORE STREET FIGHTER VI WHICH I DON'T NEED. Talking about cartridge's art, it merely blows. Well, at least Commando's art used in Silkworm, some kind of postcard snowman for Snow Bros and Street Fighter Alpha art for Street Fighter VI is explainable. But what the hell are Sonic and chaos doing on Chip & Dale 2 cover?!

(I also had this game as a kid...)

As far as I know, there are two series released under 'FK****' code: Golden Gard [sic!] and Trump Series [if you don't LAWL at this title, then your name is definitely Donald]. Not known if both of them were released by the same company, however (the proof can be found below)... but still. This is the reproduction of Japanese version of Chip & Dale Rescue Rangers. I had this when I was a kid, beaten it till the end, still remember those mechanical dogs, still remember the Fatcat thing... and beaten it once more.

Trump Series. Addams Family (JUST Addams Family). And The Simpsons scenery. Omnigosh, I've just imagined a Simpsons parody on Addams Family... Okay, that was lame. Next.

This piece of shit costed exactly the same amount of money as the first cartridge listed here was... but this time, that was NOT a 'special offer' anymore. It was Mortal Kombat 4. Lame rip of Ture MK3/Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3. Three stages, four unique fighters, squeaky music, 3 hours to beat. (More.) Trash it or redo the board to make a flash cart. Basically, I have beaten cheaply with Shao Kahn (well, whadday gonna do if the game is cheap itself?) (Cornerkick, my friend.) and yup, it still is covered with dust.

And here comes that proof. Golden Gard, but instead of 'FK', it has 'VT'. Why? Hell knows! Okay, so now we have... Waixing's terrible try to make their own Contra game. Thankfully, comes packed with a trainer so you don't have to rape yourselves trying to beat the CIRCUS CHAIR OF DOOM boss. (I rather hate that fucking predatorhead... and L rules in this game)

Perhaps the oldest cartridge I own. Dated 1995, no menu (hence that, reset-based). The only two games I've actually beaten there are NYankies (Rockin' Kats in the American release) and Chip & Dale 2. One remark about NYankies, however. Beaten the main mode in just one sit while was messing up with the levels that appear after an ending. Damn passwords... JAPANESE VERSION! JAPANESE CHARACTERS! Cracked head.

One of the best menus for a pirate multicart. Honestly. Now, to the details. Dr. Mario, unlike on the most multicarts, is full and doesn't have the endings ripped. Even the Nintendo's copyright is still here! Aladdin is... Magic Carpet 1001. Just hacked into Aladdin III. (Memories. :'))

Cheap! Cheap!! Cheap!!! Only here and only today, we present you a special offer! Three shitty and annoying games in just one cartridge!.. Yup, I think that DOUBLE DRAGON THREE IS ANNOYING, even if it's the best of all the ports. Street Fighter VI - self-explanatory. Sonic 5 - Sonic the Hedgehog a.k.a. Somari. No difference, just has a terrible big red '5' written on the title screen (this version is dumped, as I recall). (It is.)

Oh. In fact, I've got a plenty of a multicarts (and just single-game boars) labeled with 'YH' letters. Here are two more for today.

Pretty fresh reproduction, I must say. Dated 2008. Mapper four version that lacks bonus stage and shows the Super Game logo for a shorter time (I even doubt that it actually was Super Game/Gamtec (if possible) who released this). Still, was fun to recall some childhood memories. By that time, I had a Super Game (this time, TRUE Super Game multicart) that had Super Lion King, Chip & Dale and Tom & Jerry... WHERE IS IT? I COULD BRING IT FOR DUMP!!

Same thing, just with one year thrown over the date of creation. Despite the title on the cover, this is actually 'The Rescue of Dino & Hoppy' which is part one, NOT two. Also, it turns out to be true that the 'Surprise at Dinosaur Peak!' became a prequel on such carts. What a rockhoward.

Here comes the dessert, folks! Grabbed from another friend, this time my sister's (whose name is Andrew, you may read it if you turn the image upside down), (Cyrill characters, folks.) this thing seems to be made by... possibly by Micro Genius, judging the layout and the music of the menu. Notable for containing FOUR (six-eight, if Chinese Chese [sic!] and Mahjongs count) pirate games. Harry Legend with warps (you'll never see a level select menu there), Harry Potter 1001 (earrape! period), Pika Man (same) and Sachen's World of Card Game (with ripped copyrights. That thing was actually fun to mess up with since I got bored of platform games). The rest is filled with first-generation games and warps to some of them.

Okay, that's it for now. Part two coming up soon and me coming up into the bathroom to have a quick wash. Comments, feedback and else is appreciated.
The tale thends there. Ad break.

BAK

2010-06-04T22:43:00.001+02:00

I'm back guys. Since there are not so many pirated games left for me, I might go for LP's.
Hehe.

Cheetahmen92: Harry Potter Pirated Games Review

2010-05-09T09:27:00.003+02:00

While I'm taking exams, other guys' videos might appear here. Oh, pirated LP's will be done if I will be wanted to return, hah.
So, this is a 2-video review of the Harry Potter pirated by Cheetahmen92, linked out with permission. Enjoy! I sure as hell did.

What's the deal?

2010-05-08T22:13:00.001+02:00

Exams. Lack of interest, thus I'm on a hiatus.
When will I return. You will see.

Let's Play Aladdin (NES Pirate)

2010-04-09T16:53:00.002+02:00

Childhood memories.

A very random musical moment...

2010-04-04T07:42:00.002+02:00

And I do mean very random. I sometimes create music. This is my latest creation under one of my codenames. And with me, my mood decides the sounding. This time I wasn't in a good mood, rather pissed off I was. I know it ain't pirated material, but sometimes something new might be useful here.
Anyways, here it is... Hagane Shizuka aka Steven Goldberg - Humanoid (Extended Mix) Demo.
Enjoy.

Ott Vinta! - Wolfenstein 3D Review (English subtitles)

2010-04-02T16:35:00.003+02:00

Do I need to say who did this?

Surprise, surprise! Season 2 begins! And it begins with another infamous Russian TV show of the past, 'Ott Vinta!' Ehrm, what's the title supposed to mean? Well, in Russian, this phrase is said when a plane is about to take off, so it may be translated as 'Off We Go!', I guess... but never mind, let's move on.

So, this time we have TWO hosts instead of ONE. These are Anton 'Gameover' Zaicev and Boris 'Bonus' Repetur, who will comment the ingame process as well (thankfully, more detailed than Suponev did in his show... but who cares). And yeah, unlike Suponev, these guys are STILL alive and keep making overviews of new (as well as retro-) games...

Now, it's time for a history lesson! (Can I go out now? I fail at history.) Timeline:
1994 - The first four episodes of the show are being shot.
1995 - First broadcast, as well as making new episodes as well. Channel: RTR (now Rossia-1), Sponsored by (surprise again!)... STEEPLER.
1996 - The show is being swapped from weekend rails on workday rails. The Ott Vinta! staff shouts desperately...
1997 - ...because of this, the show moves to the NTV (HTB in Cyrillic letters). Sponsored by ViewSonic, Spasskie Vorota and Beliy Veter.
1998 - mashups made out of legacy episodes; some new episodes and the show shuts down due to financial problems.
1999-200X - Bonus and Gameover still keep reviewing computer games, making appearences in various shows where they're given 5 minutes in average.
2007 - New retrogaming show starring them, 'Byloe i DOOMy'
2007-2010 - Igromania magazine takes the rights of Ott Vinta! show and (with cooperation with FXA Studio who made the restoration of the VHSrip) keeps releasing the show on their bundle DVDs. Some episodes are still unreleased though, cos' they weren't available.
2008 - New show, this time, 'Bez Vinta' (lame translation of the title: Without An Airscrew), starring BONUS AND GAMEOVER ONLY. Basically, the same format as in 'Ott Vinta!', just reviewing newer games.
2008-2009 - Bonus and Gameover are the hosts of the show that was released before them,,, and is still being broadcasted after they left their places, 'Ikona Videoigr' (The Icon Of Videogames).
2010 - Due to the worldwide crisis, Bonus and Gameover are making 'cameo appearences' in the Ikona Videoigr show. Sooner, they don't appear there at all.

P. S. Gaaawd mode!
P. P. S. Unlike in case with Dendy: The New Reality, I decided to start from the first episode. So pay no attention to a crappy intro of the show :D
P. P. P. S. One more extract is yet to come. Short but exciting.

Copyright spoiler: THIS VIDEO (as well as translation) IS PROVIDED FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY FOR FREE. No money or sweets were acquired during making this. (And no women neither.)

The Ninja's word: This review kinda fails, if you review something, do it without cheating. The music in the background is also disturbing a little bit for me. Also, the two guys seem entertaining and thus promising.

Let's Play Super Contra 7/8 (NES Pirate)

2010-03-31T08:30:00.005+02:00

First of all, I do apologize for the sidebar being screwed up. I have absolutely no idea HOW did it get to the bottom of the page. I have to fix that thing.
Edit: Guess what, if you don't close DIV tags in HTML, your page totally screws up. XD
Anyways, here is the LP of SC7!
Newsflash: Sonic Adventure 7 and Aladdin are all recorded, next is SM3S.

Coming up.

2010-03-29T21:25:00.002+02:00

Ola reader, SpaceNinja here. Announcing what's coming:

- Commentary Super Contra 7 playthrough
- Commentary Aladdin [Hummer team] playthrough
- Commentary Sonic Adventure 7 playthrough
- Commentary Super Mario 3 Special playthrough
- Commentary Pokémon Adventure playthrough

Get ready...

Dendy: The New Reality - Prince of Persia Review (English subtitles)

2010-03-25T18:25:00.006+01:00

Crash Nicker's yet another translation. But this time, I'm going to annoy him with editing his editorial. XD

DAMN, WHEN I GOTTA STOP MAKING THESE VIDEOS? (Never.) Yeah, I promised that the video with Yel'kin will be a checkpoint one, but, as you see, I'm just too unexperienced to make the gameplay videos right now, especially commented ones, but who cares. I will. (Especially with your microphone's sound quality.)

Alright, my TENTH translation overall. And the THIRD translation this week. (Crazy.) Yeeeah, I'm mad. (No. You're crazy.) But, nevertheless, I clearly know why do I make 'em:
1) channel expansion (hence that, more views) (More women?)
2) training my skills in English (planning to go abroad... but who knows if I will)
3) historical value (LAWL) (Tesco Value)
4) just for fun (both mine and yours) (DCE slogan?)

Today, Suponev gets his hands over the NES port of Prince of Persia. He loves this game, as you may hear it from his words, and... I'll share my love with him, even if I haven't played PoP in my childhood. (What kind of sick fuck person you are?) Yeah, it may be butchered in contrast to the PC original, but you know what? The gameplay is nearly the same as PCs. The controls are easier to master, though.

Somewhat offtopic. I DO NOT LIKE TENGEN'S MEGADRIVE VERSION. In contrast to both PC and NES. Just for one reason: CONTROLS. Yeah. Now it's really hard to make a little step forward, because it doesn't performed with only one button anymore. Apart from that, the visuals as well as music is a great addition for this thingie... oh well.

Enjoy. Expect more genre variety on the channel from my hardworking lazy ass... to be continued. (Hardworking lazy he said. Can you even follow his thinking?)

The Ninja's word: Again, my problem is with the in-depth of the review. It is okay, yeah, but I cannot get over the fact he didn't really show much. But then again, it never meant to be in-depth. So, do I like this review? Yes. But it's - like everything - not perfect. Suponev still did an okay job at introducing the game. However, if you die, you start at the back of the level, and NOT at the point where you just died. Just how the fuck would you appear back alive at the spikes?
The Nicker's word: <__<. (This is my place. Not yours. Bye-bye. XD)

Dendy: The New Reality - Steepler Shop from ep. 4 (English subtitles)

2010-03-23T18:38:00.006+01:00

Crash Nicker's latest trans.

Editorial:
This is gonna be a checkpoint among all my videos. I'm going to do netplays, gameplay vids etc after I post this one, but... the project still lives.

Alright... Meet Alexander Yel'kin. He was the head of the Steepler's brand shop once... THE PRIMARY BRAND SHOP, lemmie tell ya, If you need EXACT locations, then lemmie bring you the address: Petrovka St, 12. More boring info on Dendy shops in nutshell: the most imporatnat dealers of Steepler were situated in Moscow, Kiev (yet it was Ukraine, not Russia), Nishniy Novgorod, Novosibirsk, Alma-Ata, Magnitogorsk, Kemerovo, Belgorog and Yekaterinburg, And I haven't mentioned all of them yet!

Also, look at Yel'kin himself. Yeah, it's funny to see a guy that looks like Yuriy Shevchuk from DDT chewing bubblegum, yet, he's nice. At least, nicer that geeky guy from the previous video... LAWL. By the way. There was ONE MORE Alex Yel'kin workin at Dendy. This time, in Kaluga. Recently, that man was (or is) a manager of an enterprise named 'Mir Barby' (World of Barbie). Ho-hum. Steepler is the first step to the more (or less) serious business, yeah?

Nevertheless... Here you get it. The CHECKPOINT VIDEO. So... Give comments, please. It was interesting anyway, wasn't it?

The Ninja's word: I kinda doubt Yel'kin actually played everything, somehow I feel he was acting a little bit. If he did, well, he did a good job, if not, then this guy rules. Thend.

Dendy: The New Reality - Steepler Shop from ep. 3 (English subtitles)

2010-03-22T20:01:00.009+01:00

Crash Nicker's latest translation.

Editorial:
To be honest, I have no emotions on releasing this one after a long hiatus, but yet I'm glad that my channel gets an update (as well as PGC). Yay! And, to notice a typo that I made during the translation... Yeah, the moment when the boy was talking about the 'second floor stuffed with hyperexpensive console' is meant to be... the first. Yup. In Russian-speaking countries, the number of floors in the building starts from the first level (not counting underground floors), while in Engilsh, it starts from the second. I.e. 'first floor' is 'ground floor' and 'second floor' is 'first floor'. That's it.

Okay, Suponev making interviews again. This time...
00:46 A bunch of kids who already has their Dendies. Boy #1 actually mentions that he doesn't have a Dendy console but rather another one 'from China with love' (Subor? Lika?) but still wants to buy a cartridge for his own 'pet' d:P. All I gotta say is... that console is PROBABLY not so called 'Rambo' that was in posession of some kids in those time. I dunno what it EXACTLY is, yet I've seen the photo of it. Also, notice that they ALL wanna get SEGA MegaDrive II. Yeah, I'm really sorry that NES had few strategy (especially real-time) games or something that SEGA actually stands with out the other consoles...
02:15 Basically, IT IS AN INTERESTING PART. Sergei interviews a granny who's going to buy a Dendy to his grandson. It's clear that grandma doesn't understand every wonder of the modern world... And she doesn't understand anything in gaming. Well, yeah, that's only the rise of gaming in ex-USSR, what could you expect?
03:19 Oh, I know that such nerds may take the managing post, but HELL, wy didwa pwut him twere? Just look at him. And listen to the way he speaks. No comment on this guy, Alex Yelkin whom I gonna cover in my next video is a more charismatic guy. Also, notice those 'registration cards' that I have mebtioned in my previous (and first) Steepler brand shop video. Piracy never was so 1337, lemmie tell you. And it still has the curtain of 'legalization' in our countries...

The Ninja's word: The huge difference. The memories. The price, being a huge step up between 8 and 16 bit. Since SNES and SMD were not really pirated, they costed a lot more than Dendys and Famiclones did. Everyone would wanted a SEGA back then. Not all got it. Neither did I. This is an interesting point of view in the second half. After kids come an old woman. Man, I imagined her buying a Genesis for his grandson, who's 29 now if he was 14 in 1994...
And the geek manager. Like "send back and get free catalog of stuff you will don't buy", hahaha.

The big Sintax post

2010-03-19T08:09:00.028+01:00

Sintax. If you don't know who they were (or are, we could never know!), this was another company that was targeting Gameboy piracy, mainly GBC stuff. But let's take a look at some info I gathered together on the RX Community (link on the right, go and visit please). Let's see:

First of all. There is a game named Super Sonik II. Boxart time, courtesy of Barver (translator of the Genesis pirate Barver Battle Saga!):

Well, let's take a look at the front boxart. Looks like it's from one of the newer games. "ACT"? That's the description of the game there, they always put a three (or sometimes two, or four) letter in the upper left corner, like RPG, or ARPG - so genre is there. Proof that it's from Sintax? Read the upper right corner. ST-040907SC. Wait wait WAIT!!! That could mean that it was published on 7 September, 2004? Or 4 September, 2007? Or 9 April 2007?! I rather say it's from 2004... And the name of the game. SONIK. Wait, we're going to go deeper, this ain't high-shit Engrish compared to later titles. This is going to be a long ass post, so stick around with me.

Let me quote Barver now, he has this game:
"I only played a bit of it today before getting annoyed to death. One major problem, this doesn't play like a Sonic game at all. All characters instead walk like snails. You can jump, and pressing B does a fireball attack. Tails can't even fly, he just shoots a fireball like everyone else. The music is annoying as usual. Throughout most of the game it seems to completely fade out due to attacking enemies. And that's also one of the worst things about this game, because when you hit an enemy it always lets out this very high pitched sound that grates your ears The same sound seems to randomly play within the music, though I can't tell if that's possibly because I'm near an enemy or if there's another reason. I only got up to the 2nd level, but from what I played the first level was some Volcano that you start on outside then start going underground. 2ND level was something I couldn't distinguish, but I found a door (which in fact happened to be ripped from the castles in Super Mario World on SNES) that lead to another area that I assume wasn't part of the level. Some lame ass toy land. Needless to say that no environments in this game bear any similarity to anything from the Sonic series. One thing I noticed is the back of the box shows rings. In game though those are instead stars. An earlier version on the box?
I just played the game with Knuckles, who turns out to be the strongest character, since he kills any enemy in one shot, so no more of that annoying ear grating sound. Unfortunately this led me to find the game only has 4 short levels! After that it's a fight with some odd thing with an eggman head and then a picture of Tails comes up that says END. The game only has three songs too: title screen, level, and one thing that's just the same sound repeating over and over. Sounds like a guy fapping off "

This describes the game very much. Sonic cannot spindash, Tails cannot fly, instead they go spitting fireballs. GENIUS. About the other area. That REALLY reminds me of the Chinese named Super Donkey Kong pirate. (Ninja you lost your memory lol...) Wait I know, Xiang Jiao Chuan. But still. This seems very Mario-ish to me. Even more than I thought. Let me move on and quote the others from Barver's topic, cause this is just the START.

Barver again:
"BTW the back of the box has Sintax's website (www.st168.net). Of course it's dead now, but through archive.org you can get a glimpse of it. Funny message on the site: "Sintax, the bridge to China, what? you want to know, All in the TV game and controlled in your hand" Even they doubt themselves "

See, I told you. VERY Engrish. But moving on. The bridge to posts, what? You want to know, All in the post and read in your eye.

Barver post #3:
"Anybody else checking out Sintax's page through archive.org? Lots of interesting stuff I never knew existed, including Castlevania DX and Lion King 2 for GB. They also show that Crash Bandicoot game that 64scener has for GBA up on YouTube.

They also used to have another website called sintaxtech.com that shows this. Very confusing since it's supposed to be a GBA game, and even the box says advanced. And yes, Sonik II has Yong Yong's quality :P All the character sprites appear ripped from Sonic Advance, but Tails for some reason looks like they just copied him, resulting in a goofy sprite. BTW is Sintax confirmed to just be the publisher while Yong Yong are usually the developers of games with their markings? Oh yeah, and one of the last working webpages of Sintax says that they had produced up to 34 GB/C games up to that point. So no doubt there's lots out there we haven't seen yet."

Okay, let's see. Castlevania pirate. That is a first. Not even Shenzhen Nanjing Technology and Waixing, the biggest NES pirate companies tried to make a CV pirate. Woah. Lion King. This is basically pirated on EVERY platform. Let me list it to ya: Super Game/Gamtec's Lion King, Dragon Co's HORRIBLE Lion King 3 - Timon & Pumba, the same game reboosted into Lion King 5 - this is one game I have yet to beat! - and I guess a 1995 version of Lion King; the Genesis has Lion King 2 and 3, the SNES got no LK pirates - even though it could have been ported onto it just like Pocket Monster games... - neither the GB. And then BAM, comes in Sintax with Lion King 2.
Then, there's that Crash Bandicoot pirate. You know, I never thought HE will get pirated. And it says it's from 2003. Hm, how long could have been they working. Up to 2006-7?
And Barver's idea of Sintax being Yong Yong's retailers... ugh. YY are literally the bottom barrel of the GB piracy. Not even Sachen could make worse games. Not even VFame - they are rather pirate kings on the handheld... - or Gowin - whose games are STILL not dumped properly goddamnit. 34 GB/C games. Hoho, wait, we're going even further.

Barver post #4: "Castlevania R Castlevania DX (possibly same game as above, not too sure) 2003 Crash II Advance Lion King III Final Fantasy Lord of the Rings (description says that it's a Castlevnia-ish game, possibly just the same thing as one of the above) Harry Boy (and this could be that Harry Potter game you can view on YouTube, the one that steals Metal Slug graphics) Eraq(sp) War 2001 Lots of others from series I don't recognize. I did see one I believe might be Metal Slug, which leads me to thinking they possibly repackage some of their old games with new characters i.e Lord of the Rings comes from one of their Castlevania games, Harry Boy comes from the Metal Slug etc.. I've yet to find any reference to Super Sonik II yet, wonder when this was made."

I answered your question man. I might be wrong, but who knows! Eraq War 2001 - seems very Metal Slug re (or pre???)-release to me. Also, I can see that this means they are re-re-rehacking their old games with newer characters (good luck stealing sprites?) and rerelease them as new games. Pff.

Next quote from codeman38, who even provided some extra images and info. Thank you! :)
"Castlevania DX has actually been dumped, believe it or not - it's available on PlanetEmu under the peculiar title "Castlevania EMO Demo". It mentions Sintax' website in the opening credits, so there's no mistaking it at all.
[Edit: Oh, this is interesting. The ROM header for Castlevania DX, aside from identifying the game as "EMO -by WS", also contains references to Sonic in the header. And elsewhere in the ROM, there are references to the Gamtec patcher which has been referenced in SKOB's ROMs as well. Oh, and viewed in a tile editor, there are Digimon graphics!]"

Okay, let's see. EMO.
NOT THAT EMO DAMNIT!!!
I don't get the name. Why EMO. Also, Sintax is mentioned, but then comes in SKOB and GAMTEC. What the hell! And how come Sonic AND Digimon graphics into the picture? This is very, very confusing. What could this mean? They probably used some of the graphics - or the engine - into C.DX? But how comes Gamtec into game? I don't know. And it's still not over yet...

After these posts, I posted this:
Let me get this straight... so. They ripped off Mario more than Yong Yong, used Digimon graphics, re-released several games with minor changes, have ties to VFame and SKOB...

Codeman replied:
"Still not entirely sure about VFame, as we don't know what precisely Sintax' Crash Bandicoot game is. (I seriously doubt it's the same one, as the one 64scener posted is most definitely a GBA game, but this one only pretends to be.) But SKOB, I'm pretty certain they do have ties to-- and there's some sort of vague connection with Gamtec for both Sintax and SKOB."

But Gamtec was NES and Genesis pirates!!! Seems like GB/C too. And SNES also, see ports of Pocket Monster. And after this reply he wrote a lot more interesting one. Gentlemen, we're heading towards batshit Engrishness. Gonna comment each and every game. Also, uploading pics and copying the storyline, so if the pages don't load you'll see everything.

"Some rather interesting Sintax games found via a site-wide search on the Internet Archive. There's plenty more where these came from, but these are the ones that caught my eyes: 2003 Digimon ~~Fighter~~ Fighted. Perhaps where the graphics in the Castlevania ROM came from?

2003 digimon fighter

ACT

Jaror, Tai’s sister, is captured and taken to digital world by unknown digital spirits…. Seven years ago, Chocolate Monster disappeared at flower field in summer and now Chocolate Monster, corrupts owing to loneness, are keeping conveying the captured girls back to the digital world where he turn back time to their childhood to find seven years ago’ Walets

What the fuck! Now what kind of game could THIS be? And how can they mistype a goddamn word? I know, D and R are next to each other, but COME ON. This is just plain lame! Chocolate Monster - this definitely reminds me of Lollipops' storyline from Action 52...

Digital Drachen. Wait, they made games in German too?! Another possible source for the Digimon graphics. Curious which of the many Digimon pirates on Game Boy this might be.

Digital Drachen

AVG

Bica can’t help rushing towards his sister and embracing her after his overcoming all difficulties one by one.... Suddenly, his sister turned into smoke and vanished. What challenges will Bica face?...The secret passages and the unpredictable traps may deprive your life at any moment. Anyway, treasures can help to enhance power and thus increase the possibility of success.

Digital Drachen. Seven? Digimon 7... hm, there are two, or THREE Yong Yong Digimon pirates. I've seen two GBC pirates, which were ported to the NES by Waixing as Digital Dragon (aka Digital Monsters 4, YUCK) and by SNT as Shu Ma Zhan Dui II (1. My mind has been fucked by that goddamn annoying music which totally reminds me of some classical music, 2. One Digimon at L99 kills everything, 3. That game sucks.). Next...

True Thre Kingdoms! Not that we needed any proof that this was Sintax' work, as 64scener has a physical copy of that one. And they made a sequel too (it's also dumped, incidentally, as Shin San Guo Shi 2).

Ture Three kingdoms

ACT

There are numerous games on the background of Three kingdoms story, but few of them is GB. Players are looking forward to GB on the background of three kingdoms.TrueThreeKingdoms centers on Liubei’s visit to Zhu Geliang three times, the brillant military consultant’ s hub and attempting to persuade him to be his army adviser

Ture Thre Kingdoms. Isn't the ported to the NES by SNT? That is another one I CANNOT BEAT CAUSE I STUCK AAAAA!!! And LOL at Engrish. Sequel's intro... no pic this time :\

TRUE THREE KINGDOMS Ⅱ

ACT

The totally new fighting system: the increase of capability of attack and defense, replenishment of HP, preternatural skill of summoning magical stone, and magnificent fighting scene. All these show the super power of Guanyu and Zhaoyun, and allow players to rewrite the history before the Chibi war

Space Baby. Wasn't there some pirate ROM that had graphics of Lilo & Stitch? I swear there was-- either Harry Potter or Ice Age, I'll have to check. Because this would be the source of those graphics. And we have another name for the company-- "Saturn Technology". Wish I could see the screenshots better.

Space Baby

AVG

As a product of an illegal experiment,Stitch is a perilous creature that flees away from exile area by spasecraft to the earth. In order to conceal his real face, he turn himself into a dog and become Lio’ s pet. Meanwile, the aliens find out what have happened and dispatch policemen to pursue him.On the other hand, Stitch learn from Lio to be considerate and of care which are exclusive in his program. Can Stitch and Lio stay together?

Lio. LOL. At least this kinda reminds me of the original animated movie! Wait what? Saturn Technology? Is this ANOTHER company? Or another alias? Boy, boy, boy, this is getting somewhere.

Pocket Monster Carbuncle! Hey, that description sounds awfully familiar... Xiaozhi? Improbity badge? Magic babies? This is WhiteLionness' Pokemon Sap(p)hire game! Even as blurry as the screenshots are, it's pretty obvious. And this one's under the Saturn Tech brand as well. So now we know who made it!

Pocket Monster

ACT

After winning the long-time lost improbity badge, the Rocket Brigade barbarically destroyed the peace of magic baby’s world and crazily loot previous Magic Babies. Being aware of this, Xiaozhi and his pals decided to stop their devilry but failed and being imprisoned

Maybe this is the game we're talking about? Oh by the way, this is WhiteLionness' ending.

Apparently it's also called Digimom Sapphii-- wow, these guys can't even misspell consistently.

Digimom Sapphii

ACT

This is absolutely ridiculous. Rocket Brigade is NOT in Digimon, or sorry, DIGIMOM. (Digipop and Digimom. XD) Magic Babies. XD LOL, let's rather move on.

And apparently they made a sequel to that one as well, with an even more hilariously Chinglish description.

DIGIMON CRYSTAL Ⅱ

SLG

After obtaining the long lost Evil Badge, Yichengsi began to spoil the peace of the Digital Baby’s world at its will and loot the valuable Digital Babies. Having learned Yichengsi’s rascality, Dafu, among others, planned to stop him, but were captured and imprisoned, instead. Batula has lost the track of Dafu and determined to find its lost master and free the Placket Monsters that have been captured by Yichengsi. Batula decides to set off along with its companions, while they are confronted one problem after another on their way. Can they overcome all the difficulties without any harm this time?

Digital Baby and Placket Monsters. What's the point? XDXD

Ice Age II. Yep, those of y'all who needed proof that this game was by Sintax? There you have it. Apparently it was even released in English, though that version isn't dumped. And wow, that description has absolutely nothing to do with the actual game!

Actually, looking even further at that ROM's graphics... oh, wow, it's like a motherlode of Sintax-ness. Aside from the Lilo & Stitch graphics, I've found: * Both the Spider-Man logo and several intro-story screens related to Spider-Man. * Graphics from the intro to Harry Potter (the one that has Lemmings music and Metal Slug backgrounds). * Graphical text reading "Stage 2: Tartoine" (sic), ~~with what appears to be a graphic of the Death Star~~. (Edit: It's just the planet. There's also graphics for Kamino-- or, as Sintax spelled it, "Kanomi".) * One full-screen illustration that appears to be of Little TaiChi.

Ice Age Ⅱ

ACT

When the Sward Tiger attacks the inhabited area of humans, a human mother jumped off the waterfall to save her son and struggled hard to swim toward the bank. She came across Tree Otter and Mammoth. The mother pushed the child onto the bank and then lost her strength and was washed away by theWave. Seeing that the child has lost his only kin, the Tree Otter and Mammoth decided to bring him back to the human. The Sword Tiger also follows them to grab the child. Therefore, they begin a thrilling adventure on the ice land

Yes, this has actually no sense and no relation towards the movie. Several things thrown together as you can see.

Star War Episode II: Battle among Cloned Humans, Spider-Man, Little TaiChi, Lord of the Rings. I'm curious what these games actually are, because the descriptions don't tell me a thing about the actual game play.

star war episode

ACT

Greatening of fortune and power from commendable to frightful give birth to crafty mind. The Silver kingdom is under disorder and unstableness. Anergene, a universe warrior, is responsible for guarding empress Amedera until she returns to Hunebo star safe. Will they explore evil force’s plot? Will they fall in love? All of these are critical to Silver Republic; Star war may break out at any moment…

Silver Republic, Anergene, Amedera... I don't get it. Is it some sort of mistranslation or they just fucked up the names? Also: STAR WAR. Missing a letter there...

spiderman

ACT

Peter pike originally was a normal high school student. However, after bit by a radicalized spider, he gets all kinds of supernatural power: walking on the wall and ceiling, projecting net from wrist etc. At first Peter just make small money with these supernatural power. But after bad person murdered his affectionate uncle, he swears to fight against criminals with his supernatural powers…

Peter PIKE. XD Radicalized. XD Bad person... aaaaaaa... XD!!! Next!

Little TaiJi

AVG

Little Taichi,BigDragon and Kinwei become close friend accidentally.Led by Little Taichi,they can travel in time space, however, stumbled on the trick of the king of virus: Create computer virus to make pain and sufferings,even go to the myth world that stir up time immemorial of the key prouct,and all tend away,combine the history person to away in the every locality.Brave of Little Taichi is with the Big Dragon when they decide to cross the time space go to rescue immemorial the disrupt myth.....

This is one game I don't know. Seems Engrish still. XD

LORD OF THE RINGS

A.RPG

A long long time ago, Sulen forges a number of powerful magic rings with the technique combining metallurgy and magic. However, he forges one more magic ring, the most powerful one, to rule and restrain other magic rings’s magic and establish a evil kingdom with great influence. Bajins, not knowing the situation, resumes the critical responsibility of saving the world and both the evil side and righteous side trying to make him become one of them

New Game Color. Typical pirated scam text. Sulen? Bajins? Did I miss something?

Crystal Age. Not only am I curious about what this game actually is, but... Benco Technology? They have another name?!"

Crystal Age

RPG

The four leading roles have been ordered by the king to search the claws of Heaven-Dragon, the eyes of the Fire-Dragon, the teeth of the Ice-Dragon and the horns of the Saint-Dragon. Their journey is full of dangers. Will the four leading roles fulfill their task peacefully? What are waiting for them?

No idea what this could be. Now after all this, Barver found something:
"I found out recently that Zuke Hero 3 is from Sintax, which does seem to further indicate that they might be V Fame, which in turn might suggest Sintax, Yong Yong and V Fame are all the same company?ｏ＿Ｏ"

Highly doubt it, V Fame rules, Sintax is average, Yong Yong is ass.
Then, I said: I hope you don't tie Gowin into this whole story, but their games aren't emulated properly or dumped yet.

Now came Taizou into picture:
"Oh I could definitely tie Gowin into this, and Waixing too. kinda. There are V.Fame multicarts with Gowin's earlier (mono) games on them, but Gowin's later (colour) games are pretty different from their earlier ones, to the extent that they seem to be were developed by different people. So my guess would be that the dev team that made Gowin's earlier games decided to go it alone and formed V.Fame, and Gowin hired some other people later on to make GBC stuffs. As for Waixing... well I've seen a Gowin game, complete with original looking Gowin packaging and manual and stuff, in a yellow Waixing GB cart, so uh yeah. That's my tenuous connection that might just have been a factory mixup. o_o But I wonder if Gowin was involved with Waixing's GB games? (it'd probably help if I'd ever played a Waixing GB game, I suppose) Zook Hero 3 though, I dunno. looking at those screenshots from Sky League, doesn't it seem ... lower quality than V.Fame's usual work? Maybe it's just me, but even before Barver said it was by Sintax, I always kinda suspected it wasn't actually V.Fame's doing. I wonder if Sintax just ripped off the name and made their own unofficial sequel? They are pirates, after all, that's what they do. That said, it wouldn't surprise me if V.Fame (or Gamtec or SKOB, or some other part of this whole clusterfuck) actually did work with Sintax (or BBD) at one point or another, but they're almost certainly not the same company. And I don't think Yong Yong was involved either. I mean, Sintax's games are bad, but they're not Yong Yong bad."

So yeah. Waixing might be behind a few things... or they just are publishers. After all, they never went outside the NES, and neither did SNT - OR DO THEY. I mean, there is NJ080, Cave Story. Goddamn it, I found that on GBC. WTH!!!

And now, for Codeman's additional package I got from him. Ice Age findings!

These are Harry Potter findings in the game. You can clearly see it. Especially on picture 02.

And these are Star Wars findings. Wait, we got more.

Say hello to Spiderman in the ROM!

...as well as to Stitch!

And this is Little Taichi.

See? There are FIVE games' leftovers! This means that Ice Age must have came after this five.
Here are the ROM addresses of the pictures as well for Ice Age.

Filename ROM Addr
---------- --------
potter1 64330
potter2 65a80
potter3 719e0
spiderman1 560a
spiderman2 31870
spiderman3 549bb
starwars1 140542
starwars2 1004c2
stitch1 124152
stitch2 126672
taichi1 51c4f
taichi2 1bf061

Phew. This is a very long post. And I bet this is going to be updated a lot.

Dendy: The New Reality - Who? What? Where? from ep. 2 (English subtitles)

2010-03-12T20:03:00.002+01:00

Crash Nicker's latest translation! (Y) D:

Editorial:
Yeeeeaaaah, I did those 9 minutes at last!!... I feel that this translation would bring me more harm than good because I sit just a BIT TOO MUCH. That translation took me somewhere around 3 or 4 hoirs to do, so... RESPECT THE VALUE OF THIS VIDEO! If you won't, I may be laid off my notebook for a really long time. Rawr.

Okay, so as you noticed, this is the longest video I've done so far. Yet I fixed everything that I threat like a typo, I give no warranty (yet again) that there would be NO GRAMMATIC TENSE ERRORS. And added a Sorec Video's commercial (Sorec Video is the company that helped Steepler to organize the show) as bonus... And, lemmie remind you, 4 hours of my life are gone only for that stupid video. But struggle is worth its' own prize, isn't it?

Okay, this time Sergei Suponev, Dennis Panov and A NEW FACE - a somewhat punky-looking guy with curly hair named Alex (dunno his family name, even if I watched most of the episodes) - will uncover the tricks of Golden Axe III (MD), Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (MD), Mickey Mouse 3 aka Kidklown in the States (NES) and, finally, Tiny Toon Adventures (NES). I won't make a comment on this vid for now because:
1) it's just too long to comment on;
2) I'm damn tired after this trans;
3) this video carries mostly a nostalgic/historical value, so...

FEEDBACK!

No more translation this week, I swear... but I promise: I'll give you an interview with Alex Yel'kin ASAP. No guarantee that I will do it next week, but I'll keep my promise after all!

The Ninja's word: Well, this was a nice video, although a few secrets are not really secrets. Golden Axe 3 guy does a double call, then we move onto Sasha and Dennis. I still think Dennis is a bit more experienced in games than Sasha. Also, I have a feeling that those games are prerecorded and played on the TV via a video. Or it is severely edited. Also, how can a FC and a Genesis get hooked on the TV at the same time without doing some cable work? I might sound silly, but this is very weird. The ad at the end made me LOL.

Top Fighter 2000 MKVII review

2010-03-12T15:00:00.002+01:00

TOP FIGHTER 2000 MKVII

Developer: possibly Gamtec
Platform: Sega MegaDrive
Year of release: unknown

Everyone tells that most of the "M.U.G.E.N. full games" are crap... well, even being a M.U.G.E.N. fighter myself, I'll tell you that that's true. I've seen loads of amateurs' "full games" which are actually stupid mishmashes of various Capcom, SNK and anime chars that have been put ONLINE as completely new games... But the victim of our today's review is a complete pile of crap. Even more rusty than M.U.G.E.N. "1000000-in-1" collabs. This is Top Fighter 2000 MKVII.

Okay. Why MK? It definetly has nothing to do with Mortal Kombat at all... and, if we have MKVII as well as MK5, where's MK6 then? Well, whatever. Let's get deeper into the game.To be honest, out of Gamtec's MD fighting games, Top Fighter 2000 has the sweetest amount of gameplay elements, but still sucks.

Wanna know why?

- Super moves (one per character) and three-tiered gauge for them;
- Faster speed of walking compared to Tekken games;
- Two original characters, which were drawn very nicely, by the way;
BUT
- Really bad hit detection;
- The same jumping physics a-la Street Fighter One (whoo!);
- Lack of proper endings (Oh well. Struggle for 5 hours to get a stupid CONGRATULATION screen that flashes for five seconds. Worthless.);
- Cheap, really cheap AI that pulls out all the specials and supers with ease... while you struggle to pull them out on your part because of the...
- Crappy controlling.
- And, as a matter of fact, the lack of feeling that YOU HIT and IT HITS THE OPPONENT. But that's the crappy engine; could you expect anything else from it?

The roster consists of more or less known celebrities of fighting game industry... as well as sports. Seriously! You throught that the availability of Bobby Ologun in Power Instinct Matrimelee-2 was too drastic for the series? Try MKVII's Muhhamad Ali version then! Think that putting Shaq O'Neill into a fighting game is just too weird? Pick Michael JODEN and see what's even more weird. Thankfully, they're all drawn as great as Rock, Terry and Kim brothers in GBC version of Garou, so they already have a potential of hitting a King of Fighters dream match game if they have more fluid animations... but hey, their moves are just weird. No, not THEIR actually, but HIS. That Michael JODEN thing. I guess that Gamtec have played Chaos in Windy City before, because JODEN has a special where he launches a basketball... and an MK3-inspired move where a flaming ball flies up from the ground (do you remember Shang Tsung having a similar move?).

Ali is just damn good. Nuff said. Seriously, did you ever had an idea to mix Balrog [boxer] and Sagat?

The rest of the chars has been cheaply ripped from other games. Cyclops and Ryu - MvC series, Ryo, Kyo and Geese - King of Fighters and Fatal Fury games, Goku (in his... Shin form) - Dragon Ball Z. All crappily animated. No need to say more I guess. And - OH - the intro. Please, don't watch it if you don't want to LOL your lungs off, okay?

Now, lemmie tell you how does your regular MKVII match look like. You pick a character and ROUND 1 title shows on the screen. Opponent makes the first attack and you desperatedly try to launch a fireball or something just to knock him down. Finally, you do a special, but: 1) it doesn't hit your enemy; 2) he does a counter attack on you. With success, lemmie tell you. And, to make a final blow on your nerves, he performs a SUPER MOVE, while you don't have at least one tier of the gauge full and... you dunno how to do that. His attempt to crush you becomes successful... as usual. Result? Owned. Even at the easiest difficulty. Now tell me, is there any need to play this when you already know that you'll be dissappointed?

And, as required, the remaining things of this game.

Controls. Like any NES or NGPC fighting game, this game exploits 2 BUTTONS ONLY... while your usual MD pad has 3 or even 6. Need any comments? If you need, well... THAT'S CHEAP. How lazy of you, Gamtec.
Music. I heard those blimps and drums somewhere... Seriously. Just a bunch of random MIDIs reconverted to MD format. Nuff said.
Sounds. Same situation as music.
Replayability. Guess if it's here. If you can't, read the article from the beginning, don't just stare at the very end of it.

BOTTOM LINE:
Basically, having two awesomely drawn original characters for the pirated game is cool. But it's the only reason you have to play this. If you want something more promising, refer to GameBoy Color pirate based on Garou: Mark of the Wolves (and again, possibly made by Gamtec as well). Yeah, it has flaws too, but not as much as Top Fighter 2000 does. Honestly.

Written by Crash Nicker

Dendy: The New Reality - Samurai Pizza Cats (English subtitles)

2010-03-08T19:11:00.004+01:00

A new translation by Crash Nicker. YES, he DID use the Digital Chimera Entertainment version of his intro. :P

Editorial:
...better late than never. At least the upload date is March 8, so here you go. Girls' day special.

Okay, so Mario 16 and Joe & Mac translation showed a really stunning contradiction... but it's nothing compared to THIS REVIEW, I've never seen Kyatto Ninden Teyandee AKA Samurai Pizza Cats AKA Ninja Cat on ex-USSR channels being broadcast (while Ninja Turtles went on their conquer of the planet Earth, whoo!)... so here you go. A mashed review of a great platform game. No more comment on this one, except he mentions about the 13th issue of Video-Uss Dendy,

And one more warning gals... You may get your lungs damaged during the LAWLing at the review. Anyway, I hope you had nice holidays. And, proudly, I wish you good luck and a lot of ninja fun (Yet I doubt that there are oldschool gaming girls watching this. Nevertheless, you have the documentary).

Who? What? Where? episode two is coming up next. Yet it's gonna be PRETTY LONG (9 minutes of the main section and 1-2 mins on placing the Steepler's advertisment as an extra)...

The Ninja's word: Since I always write VERY short comments on the translations, now comes a longer one. This review is LULZ. You can select from three characters - and can be changed every level and each time you die, plus you get four helpers to choose from, they use the NINPO meter up, as well as your special attacks - hold Up and attack. The third one for Speedy is the strongest, his infamous sword move. I had this game as a kid. I really, really liked it. It actually had the feeling of the cartoon. The game is awesome. The translation too. The review... not.

Retrocraze 58.: Xing Jing Wu Shi - Super Fighter (NES pirate) review

2010-03-05T13:00:00.002+01:00

Here's my latest review.

Dendy: The New Reality - Who? What? Where? from ep. 1 (English subtitles)

2010-03-04T20:55:00.006+01:00

Crash Nicker, and basically the daily translation.

Editorial:
Yeah, I just keep stamping new and new translations. Don't even know where to stop... Alright. New subseries called 'Who? What? Where? translations.' Yeah, I decided to change the original title (Who? Where? Where to?) so it could sound more sweet, but that doesn't change the meaning of the section anyway, r-r-r-right?

Now, it's time to meet that... no, not the head guy of Steepler. For now, we have a more interesting dude. His name is Dennis Panov, who was an expert of Steepler once... Dunno where he works right now, but, unlike Suponev himself (who lies in a wooden smoking at the moment... rest in peace), he keeps enjoying his living.

The video... well, episode one. Meet Dennis Panov. He'll tell you about the job (his 'on the phone expert' occupation... 'Wizard' movie, anyone?) and show you some secrets of Sonic the Hedgehog 3. Cool thing to start with. But still, I have an objection... Dan may say (as well as Sergei) that he beaten all the games on all existing consoles... HA! Oh doctor Whiteman! Where are your awesome lie detection techniques?.. Without kidding, I highly doubt he had beaten Summer Carnival '92: Recca... nevamind, it's a show for kids, y'know. Such fairy tales are allowed in there.

Next on Siting Place:
- Interview with Alexander Yel'kin
- More Dendy shop moments
- 8th of March special
- And WWW episode two, now with a 'henchman' d=)

P. S. LAWL AT SINKING DENDY! (the elephant)

* For those who don't know. Dr. Whiteman is a protagonist of Lie to Me serious. Smart man. Smart but weird. I guess that will be enough for you.

The Ninja's word: This is a good addition. I mean, we can see one of the brains behind the show. The gamer who does it all. Hired by Dendy. Hard to believe, but true. Also, we see Sonic 3. Not pirated. This still should be watch. Background info. Or something like that.

Kart Fighter (NES Pirate) Review by ARProductions

2010-03-04T08:49:00.000+01:00

Aaron made a review of K.F. Enjoy!

Dendy: The New Reality - Steepler Shop from ep. 2 (English subtitles)

2010-03-03T18:42:00.005+01:00

Ladies and Gentlemen. Crash Nicker's latest translation is pure gold here.

His editorial:

Okay, kids. If you watch this video, I hope you know anything about the unlicensed games but... Do you know how all this famiclone stuff and cartridges as well as joysticks, lightguns, Dendy magazines and such were sold? No? Well then...

MEET YOUR MEAT!!

This video's going to start some kind of subseries or something like that where you will have a possibility to see a REAL FAMICLONE SHOP with REAL CUSTOMERS. In fact, Steepler had all its' customers registered. How? Buy a console, get a registration card, fill that form in and - YIPPEE! - get a possibility to take part in various lotteries where you could win a cartridge, an ULTRA COOL BAZOOKA LIGHTGUN or even a console. Cool, huh? But, there were millions, and there was only one winner, sadly... Also, in the later Steepler shop extracts, you'll see THE HEAD AND FOUNDER OF STEEPLER! His name, face and biography will be covered in a secret... FOR NOW.

In this vid, Sergei Suponev interviews a randomly selected family who bought a Dendy Junior (DENDY CLASSIC WAS WAY BETTER!) recently. The questions for the interview were not prepared long time ago before the release but rather improvised by Suponev himself. Yeah, Suponev is a truly great showman as you can see in this video...

Also, I swear this is gonna be one of my last translations before I get deeper into my studies. Really. I have hard time with those Ukrainian classes, you know? But hey, I'm Crash Nicker. I may go internet when I have some free time, can't I?

But I probably know what I'll do next. "WHO? WHERE? WHERE TO?" section, first episode. The extract from the episode 2 will come as a straight continuation of both those videos (with a little joke before the advice giving part as well). The picture below shows the head of the particular shop. His name is Alexander Yel'kin. Without him, this video could have never been made. The interview with him will be in episode four! Get ready people! :)

The Ninja's word: I have never, EVER expected to actually SHOW a shop. This is pure piracy, people. Pure piracy that even I was living in, although on a market. This video is fucking amazing. The family don't even know that this Dendy Junior is not legal. THIS IS ILLEGAL YOU KNOW. And they plan to buy a SMD... too bad we don't know what they did later on. I bet the kid was OMGWTF when he got it, cause a 16-bit console is seriously a nice step up from the Dendy. Russia and the world behind. Seriously watch it more than twice. I mean... you could see their low knowledge about the truth behind. Awesome video.

Dendy: The New Reality - Mario 16 + Joe and Mac (English subtitles)

2010-03-01T21:28:00.003+01:00

Crash Nicker, who basically keeps releasing interesting, new stuff for us, has brought another translation.

He says:
Fine, today I come with TWO reviews in one. Both made on a same game, but... one game was a hack and was reviewed earlier and the second was the original licensed game and was reviewed later. Result? Sergei Suponev, the host of this show, got confused and said that Joe & Mac HAS MARIO 16's MUSIC AND BACKGROUNDS, therefore, it's a "somewhat hacked Mario 16". Well... EVERYONE MAKES MISTAKES, you know.

Okay, so what is Mario 16? The most popular pirated 'sequel' of good old Super Mario Bros among the ex-USSR kids, of course! Haven't got it owned in childhood, but hey, my friend had this game built into his famiclone, Lika (brrrrr, undeattachable pads). Like in many other cheap Mario hacks (from parts 4 to 17 excluding, ehrm, part 5 which is SMB2USA) this is merely a GFX hack with the protagonist replaced with Mario in his SMB3 skin. But hey, doesn't the font at the title screen of Joe & Mac look like SMB3's? And the shout that Joe does as soon as he gets wounded, - reminds you of Mario's voice too, right? Well, nevertheless, good game. Not the awesome one like *cough*Recca*cough* TMNT Tournament Fighters, but hey, there is a SNES version that doesn't actually look as cheap as this one, so you gotta check it out.

The episode 9 of the first season was actually the one where Super Nintendo made its' debut. NO, NOT FAMICLONE. All imported. The price of the console and the cartridges was obviously expensive though. That's why Suponev had to tell kids about Mario's REAL ORIGIN (i. e. Nintendo) after Mario 16 review. However, I think that Mario's career actually began with the release of Donkey Kong (known as Jumpman in there)...

In fact, if you want to see the intro of this program at the very beginning of my translations, REQUEEEST!! Thank you.

Video:

The Ninja's word: I had Mario 16. I kinda hated the jumping mechanics. Jump higher with UP on the D-Pad. Why not A? Damn. This makes less sense. Otherwise, the game CAN kick your ass if you're not careful. Especially that big flesh-eating flower. Anyways... the reviews are good, although the second made confusion. Watch it now! :P

Velikiy Drakon article on Duke Nukem 3D (Genesis), translated!

2010-02-26T17:42:00.001+01:00

Guess who translated it. Of course! It's Crash Nicker, who else? :P
I'm only showing the bottom parts of the page including this article. You remember the Commandos Genesis pirate article? That was on the upper half of the page both times.

(EDITORIAL) (From our beloved translator... :P)
Men, that review is supposed to be translated long ago. But, as you see, I haven't been making it as long as Duke Nukem Forever (who had to shut itself down eventually) and you got it fresh and cold. Enjoy.
COMMENT ON THE GAME: Whoo, PC games keep storming SEGA MegaDrive! Yeah, TecToy's try to port the infamous 'Come Get Some' shooter was not that brilliant as... no, wait. BLOODSHOT WASN'T BRILLIANT AS WELL! Same for Zero Tolerance. Well, you have a save feature (not passwords!) but you have only 9 levels and singleplayer mode to mess up with. And, just for heck, it consumes 4 megs of RAM (for comparision: Super Street Fighter II used 5, Ultimate MK Trilogy uses 10). At least the monsters are not one-si... No, I don't mean gay monsters, I mean monsters' sprites. And the controls. Only one suggestion: WHY DO I HAVE TO PUSH A, B AND C AT THE SAME TIME TO PAUSE THAT GAME!?!? Perhaps these guys at TecToy are way too lazy to make a 3/6-button joy detector (or, no, ONE guy who made the music and the coding) and decided to put an 'activator' feature in there. Stupid. But, overall, worth tryin' at least once.
COMMENT ON THE ARTICLE: Well, it's okay, but LAWL, the author thought that it was developed by pirates. And LAWL it's not Beretta but rather a Desert-Eagle-looking thing. And LAWL again, a team of programmers. A+B+C, CREDITS, list to the TecToy's part.

DUKE NUKEM 3D

The protagonist of our next game is not needed in any kind of introduction. All the gaming people know him or, at least, heard about him. A big lover of women, big guns, stylish cars and a cool comedian. The humanity's savior and leading pigcop-herd. It's nearly impossible to not to recognize that all-known man after such a description - Duke Nukem.
The appearence of this blondie on MD was less unexpected than in case of our previous game, but anyway. It's not actually known why do the great pirates decided to show Duke in his 3D appearence to people since there are a lot of games starring him but consuming much less power. For those who just started playing computer games, I have to admit that Duke didn't become a 3D Action hero from the very beginning as he was popular earlier, in the era of 2D platform games. There, he was running on space stations ripping all the extraterresial flora and fauna on the way. As I remember, the game was playable on the 286 comps, and that's yet another proof of it's ability to be ported to 16-bit consoles. If pirates would rescramble THIS version of Duke, they would deserve, at least, a statue while the happy owners of MD would get a really splendid action game.
But, alas, pirates decided to go the other way around, like, on the progress side, and went 3D. The 3D, however, got scared and fled, so as the result we have a game resembling Zero Tolerance and Bloodshot but much worse than they both are. Of course, there were supposes that the game wasn't created by pirates either but, by known reasons, the supposes didn't go through well.
During the porting, as everyone could expect, graphics were downgraded. But it seems like it could be much worse. The team of unknown programmers did, even if partly, moved that athmosphere that Duke is surronded with. He keeps trashing his neaty jokes and running with countless bunches of monsters on an unknown space station, shooting them at the same time. Talking about shooting, there's a lot of weaponry to choose from. Beginning from a weak Beretta and ending to the alldevastating rocket launcher. When all the ammo is gone, you may kick those alien bastards with a cleany army shoe. When you tap a combination of buttons, you'll be able to see the map which will help you to not get lost in the labyrinths.
Unfortunately, all the good ends here and now we're going to a morbid part where I'm going to shame the game a little bit.
First, when playing it, you feel a catastrophical lack of ammo and medkits, the worst is that both categories of stuff are decreasing at the same time. You don't even know to what to try to keep. But whatever you do, you still run out of both ammo and health. The death comes much earlier now. Even firing at long distances while trying to dodge a fireball launched at you became harder due to the inaccuracy of the crosshair. To mention, that is the main inconvinience. Thank God they've left strafe in, cos' without it, you won't be able to survive even for a minute.
But, in any case, Duke Nukem is an unkillable classic of the genre which you probably might want to try in any of its' instances. And even some cons (that you will meet here) won't spoil that overall Duke feeling whatever they will do.

CONTROLS:
A - opening doors;
B - strafe;
C - fire;
X - turn run mode on/off
Y - show map;
Z - change the weapon;
X+Y - pause the game (er, X+Y+Z+START I guess - NIX);
X+Y+Z - main menu (that's A+B+C - NIX)

The Ninja's word: I couldn't even complete the goddamn FIRST level! Seriously, this game is just plain cruel on difficulty. If you seriously want to play Duke, then pop in a PS1 version. OR the PC version if you can find a normal one. The pausing in this game is lol - a+b+c... what the hell? - as well as, well the idea. 3D is not always the best idea even on 16-bit, with of course exceptions like Super Mario RPG on the SNES...

Panda World (NES Pirate) Review by ARProductions

2010-02-25T21:11:00.000+01:00

My friend Aaron's review of this game.

Dendy: New Reality - Master Fighter II Review (English subtitles)

2010-02-25T11:45:00.000+01:00

Crash Nicker, who has became a member of Digital Chimera Entertainment (woot?), translated another Dendy show. This time it's Master Fighter 2, 1992 by Yoko Soft... which apparently seems to be their BEST pirate if Cony = Yoko. Weird. Very, very weird.

His comment:

Here I come with another pirate game review, proudly provided by Steepler [somewhat RIP], Sergei Suponev [RIP], SpaceNinja88 and kinaman. Episode five, season one, Master Fighter II by Yoko, the pirate game that is known to start a GODDAMN HUGE wave of cheaply (and not that cheaply made) SF2 clones. No need to mention them all, because... well, see above, in capital letters.

Background info: Suponev actually told children on how to insert a cartridge properly so your Dendy wouldn't get broken (like, insert the cart first THEN push the Power button) in the FIRST release of this nostalgic TV show, so, if you want me to translate this one, request me, I gonna do this some time...

There was also a 'Tips&Tricks' section named 'What? Where? Where to?' featuring a Steepler expert Dennis Panov with his assistant (forgot his name) and Street Fighter II for MD has been mentioned in this episode... well, IT IS in the episode, moved to thst section, and in here, you will learn how to pull out Ryu's infamous Hadoken... Heh.

The Ninja's word: The review is good although the player got very badly owned by Chun-Li, and almost by Ryu. Otherwise I also recommend some netplay practising first before tackling the "story" mode. However, when I had this game - YES, I had this game on a reset-selector cartridge with... Rockman 5, the first game I have ever played - I could compete fine, and this was when I was 7 years old in 1995. Yes, the game lacks characters. Yes, the game lacks a difficulty selection screen. But also: No, the game isn't super cheap! This is easily a good SF pirate!

Velikiy Drakon article on Commandos (Genesis) translated!

2010-02-23T15:30:00.000+01:00

Another article from the Great Dragon, translated by Crash Nicker. Thanks!
The Duke Nukem 3D one isn't translated - YET :P
(EDITORIAL) (Note: This editorial is written by Crash Nicker :P)
Good morning dear malchiki and devochiki. Malchiki particularly, because today is the special release, dedicated to the Day of The Mothership Defender holiday which is celebrated, as far as I know, only in our big and dirty ex-USSR and only on February 23. It's the Great D review of the Commandos port for MegaDrive written by C.J.C. and posted in issue 60 (one of the last ones). My opinon about the game? Well, BEST TOMSOFT GAME EVER. But freaking hard.
Background info. Mentioning 'Ho Sung Pak' in here actually means mentioning the whole Chinese piracy. You know who was that guy actually? He played Liu Kang in Mortal Kombat. Then, one guy (I dunno who was that, perhaps Agent Cooper or Lord Hanta) dicided to koin that name in and here you go. One thing else to mention about that Ho Sung Pak joke. There is a cheat/secrets/easter eggs section in the Great D magazine and (ONCE UPON A TIME) an unknown guy sent them a 'description of an easter egg', where he says something like 'watch the MK staff roll carefully and you'll notice a familiar name'. Then something like 'LOL, I don't get the joke'.
But, just to mention, another guy who wrote an article about Sonic Jam 6 (Super Mario Bros 2 in that case) was even noobier... Well, nevamind Aladdin article coming soon.
Enjoy your coke.

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Article:

Everyone knows that pirates keep watering the plentifying soil of MegaDrive. And now, the comrades and relatives of Ho Sung Pak have a whole bunch of projects for the owners of SEGA 16-bit consoles. Today, we're going to tell you about two of them that stand out against the others.

COMMANDOS

The first game was not actually expected by the others, while thoughts about porting it to MegaDrive would be treated like an unreal insanity. But these agile Chinese proved that there's nothing impossible yet again and made a rush on the bastions of "Cold" PCs. Well, who actually noticed that, not counting us? However, I'm glad to present you Commandos in the 16-bit format.
The stiry of the game is taking place during World War II at the Nazis' rear. A small team is going under control of the player and in that small team, every member is being a pro in their favourite jobs. The goal of each level is pretty simple: to complete a mission without losing even a single warrior.
In the MegaDrive version of this game, you can play as the following characters:

GREEN BERET - the most important and skilled saboteur in the team. Some kind of a ringleader. His strong shoulders will carry all the primary tasks in this game. Has a knife, able to move the dead enemies' bodies to a secluded nook. Has a bunch of medkits and a decoy in his posession.
SNIPER - never leaves his sniper rifle alone, which he uses for shooting the enemies out on large distances without any miss. Use this advantage for destroying your opponent who's being far away. His only weakness is a low amount of ammo.
MARINE - as soon as he has a harpoon, he can kill the enemies without any noise. One more unique ability of this character is a scuba gear that allows him to pass water obstacles without being detected, and, of course, the ability to ride teammates on a boat.
SAPPER - the most explosive team member. Knows how to use dynamite, throws grenades with a precise accuracy and sets beartraps everywhere. But, using his abilities is problematic since it's very hard to get to the place of dynamite or trap setting without a proper weapon.
SPY - has no weapon, and that makes him completely helpless when he meets an enemy. But the lack of weaponry is fully compensated with the ability to disguise that allows him to walk freely even under enemies' noses. In addition, you can also stand closer to the enemy soldier and kill him with a poison prick.

The only loss of commandos is the DRIVER who could control all the types of autotransport. But, even without him, the game is still addictive.
Every character should complete only that kind of task that he's able to. And remember: when one of your soldiers gets killed, you have to restart all the mission over.
But the loss of one of the heroes is not such a big one. Since MD can't outmaster the PC by it's power, we have only five missions to play compared to the original ninteen. However, even that is enough to spend at least a week in front of your TV set. And, in fact, five mission is much better than no missions at all.
But in anything else, the game keeps itself close to the original. And you also play the game with cursor (D-Pad will replace a computer mouse in that case). Add the gameplay that will keep you on your toes where you have to be as quiet as a weapon stock mouse. An interactive world where anything may be destroyed. The availabilty of the footsteps on the snow which may be noticed by guards is a welcome feature too.
I guess that the only unrecoverable loss of the gameplay is the unability to see to where the Nazi guard is looking at the moment. Now, you have to be patient while looking at the opponent's head and then determining where does he actually look. Because of this, at the first sight, little problem, the game became much harder than before. But that's not the reason to reject this game at all. You adopt to this inconvinience really fast and then you begin to be happy about making your humble donation to the Nazis' army destruction.

CONTROLS:
X - take
Y - draw the pistol
Z - get up/lie down
A - confirm action
B - change the character
C - cancel

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The Ninja's word: Awesome article. I can understand why it's the best Tomsoft SDK game ever made. I'd definitely take this over the HORRIBLE NES port by ESC, AKA Waixing. Even though this one has absolutely no ending, just the results screen and then the title screen... so yeah. Still, it deserves a ride.

Dendy: New Reality - Somari Review (English subtitles)

2010-02-22T20:37:00.001+01:00

Crash Nicker yet again got something very interesting for you.

Quoting him:

Before you watch this video, some background info. The boom of famiclones on the territory of ex-USSR began in the year 1993, when the newborn Dendy 8-bit console (distributed by the Steepler Company) breached into every family's house. To PR themselves, Steepler decided to go make a specialized magazine named "Video-Uss Dendy" and a TV show named "Dendy: The New Reality" (in Russian: Dendy Novaya Realnost). Both soon transformed into the "Great Dragon" magazine (Velikiy Drakon) and "The New Reality" TV show (without the word "Dendy", as you may see).

The host of this program is Sergei Suponev, widely known among the children of 90s for hosting a quiz show "Zvyozdny Chas", a competitive show "The Call of the Jungles" (Zov Djoongley) and taking part in the Russian version of the Survivor reality show named "Last Man Standing" (Posledniy Geroy). Died some years ago in a car crash. Rest in pieces, dude...

For the show itself. For a starter, it made a quick description of those cartridges for Dendy and SEGA MegaDrive that have been recently appeared in Steepler's stores in Moscow, along with a quick walks to the stores itself and interviewing the customers and sellers... SNES, GameBoy and Virtual Boy games came sooner. For the ex-USSR, the program was merely unique since nobody made a TV show dedicated to the videogames before and, of course, VERY popular, since I'm showing this vid to you.

This is an extract from the 11th episode of the first season (broadcasted on 2X2 channel) where a particular game is being "reviewed". It's name is Somari. Everyone who has been interested in pirate games knows it. Basically, it's a port of Sonic the Hedgehog made by J. Y. Company (AKA Hummer Team and AKA Somari Team). Some people said that the port itself is actually strong, while the others hated it (and still hate) for the squeaky JYish music and for the physics. No matter if you like this game or not, this translation's gotta be in your collection if you love NES games d:).

The game that was reviewed before is actually Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. DON'T FLAME PLEASE IF YOU HATE THIS GAME TOO!!

...and, at the end, the ugly truth about every famiclone's owner about copyrighting... and pirates particulary. Heh.

SPECIAL THANKS GO TO:
- SpaceNinja88 for hosting this translation on his Pirated Games Central blog (No problem, dude!)
- BrydoRX/Retinex, Cheetahmen92 and Lin for their moral support
- J. Y... well, you know for what
- The creators of Media Subtitler
- Sachen for the dino and TomSoft for Metro Goldwyn Mayer
- Sergey Suponev (R.I.P.) for a piece of nostalgie
- Kinaman for collaborating all the episodes of this program
- Grandma for teaching me English d:D

My comment on the video: Well, the Indiana Jones part was directly left in. But, about the Somari part... Quick review, though you only get to see two acts. The first zone only... This is my main problem with the otherwise good review. Also, the copyright part... this is VERY risky to talk about on the television. But, since ex-USSR countries, including Hungary where I live, had piracy a huge time, especially in my childhood, this is somewhat accepted here. It also mentions Mario 16, a Joe&Mac hack, what I too had... memories. Definitely worth a watch.

Darkseed NES pirate. The (almost) full breakdown.

2010-02-18T00:05:00.000+01:00

First, the playthrough. :o I'll look around for certain deaths too. XD Requested by 34Bahamut.

Darkseed
Platform: Nintendo Entertainment System / Famicom
Seen on cart?: No, but was released
Year: After 1992, around 2000

Darkseed. The infamous mystery/horror game from 1992, being very abstract and dark, thanks to Giger's design. It got released on Amiga CD32, PC, later on PS1 and Sega Saturn but sadly, the latter two ports got only released in Japan. Years (?) later, Chinese people decided to port this onto the still-alive and kicking 8-bit console, the Famicom. This port was done by the Chinese/Taiwanese company named Mars Production, which in most of our opinions are just Waixing's worse quality game releasers. Let's see how did the port turn out...

Story:
Since the intro only has one picture and the three lines of Chinese text, if you don't know the original game, you might be thinking "What is that guy doing on that one screen and what the fck is that?" Well, if you don't know: Mike got an alien embryo implanted into his forehead (...in the original's cutscene, it looked like a result of male sexual liquid... well, you get the idea.) and he has three days to save himself and the mankind by stopping the invasion.
Story is good, even though it isn't developed very well in this port. Thus I give it a 6.

Music:
You get one, yes, ONE track playing all the time. No differency if you go into the Dark World. No differency in the city. Nothing. It is a nine second loop which might seem random Beeps and Blips (hello, Action 52 reference!) to you, it has an actual rhythm... but still, it is very bad. But how might it turn out in a Shizuka (& Yoshikoto?) remix? Who knows! XD (Note: I run under the name Hagane Shizuka when it comes to music.)
Music gets a 1.

Sound effects:
Hardly any of them, one when you select an item, one when you exit from the inventory / trying to save (with that woman face on the left... resembles the face from the alien computer... hmm...)
Crap. Thus I give this one also a 1.

Graphics:
The game goes around TWO colours. Brown in the real, green in the dark world. I know the NES can't handle many colours, but come on. And why the hell is the screen always in a frame? Why not giving it an Ancient-ish frame like in the original? Would it have been hard? No.
However, the nightmares are ported okay, but still, coloured badly...
Graphics get a mild 4. (And I'm light-hearted on this one, otherwise, it would have gotten a 2.)

Controls:
No problem with this one, although it is very picky when using/wanting to get the items. Pixel-perfection almost...
Controls get an 8.

Gameplay:
The gameplay seem to follow the original, but three (counted them) screens were cut out. One between Mike's house and the city, one between the entrance of the cemetery and Mike's house, and one before the pathway to the alien police station. Also, there are differences which ticked me off, because of them, I had to restart a few times. One of them is around the scotch whiskey. You get it from the shop (SERVE YOURSELF, MISTER DAWSON XD.) and then Dilbert (who only appears ONCE and NOT twice... also, he is BLUE XD.) comes in to invite you. Well, on the second day, you can only get to his garden after six... and the place is empty and NO stick there... but luckily, no alien puppy neither at the alien police station. Ohohoho, wait, it isn't all. The scotch is a MUST to beat the game. Normally, you would pour it into the car (which is better than yours XD.) on the third day. WAIT A SECOND HERE. The alien policeman, who will be ticked off for taking the gun in the real world after getting out of there using Dilbert's card, will take away ALL your stuff and you cannot get another bottle of scotch. So, if you don't use it on the first day, you will be fcked and bam, you will never beat the game. Plus, you can get something from the shop on the third day, but I have no idea what it could be. So, you can see that Mars/Waixing did mess around which is a bad thing. Otherwise, it almost totally follows the story, and MIKE WALKS FASTER than in the original. Yay!
Gameplay gets a 5 because of the edits. If you port something, port properly.

Ending:
This fucks up everything. No cutscene showing the flying away ship. No animation of the braking mirror. But this is not all. You probably think they still managed to port the ending, right? In the original, the librarian, who is an Ancient (...my enemy has an ally helping me, ironic, like the whole game!), gives you pills (which destroys the embryo, stopping the headache (face shown in the original.), then the house is shown with the "For Sale" sign, with "The End" at the bottom.
But NO. Here, you see the librarian (who looks awful, I say) in the door, whose legs are seen, but not Mike's head, genius, and some text scrolling in the bottom...
...and nothing else. This text keeps fucking repeating. No staff list. Nothing.
This is not an ending. I tried TWO different dumps. Nothing different.
Ending gets a 2.

Replay value:
This game can be completed in 20 minutes sped up. No replay value, neither in the original, so this gets no score to be fair.

Let's see the scores.

Story: 6/10
Music: 1/10
SFX: 1/10
Graphics: 4/10
Controls: 8/10
Gameplay: 5/10
Ending: 2/10
Replay value: No score

Total: 27/70 ~ 3,8/10 ~ 4/10

Now, the SNAPSHOTS! Don't tell me I'm not prepared... Also, since Blogger's imageuploading fucking sucks, I've thrown the pics on ImageShack, click on them for full size.

01: The adventure starts, now in Chinese!
02: Ah my head hurts. Fuck this game has bad music.
03: Lalalalalalalala, my singing is better than the only track in the entire game.
04: Pills are good for headache, but bad for music.

05: Everything looks fudge brown. Even this room.
06: A hidden door, a must to find.
07: The rope. An absolute must to beat the game.
08: The statue, must be used to avoid the cops on Day 03.

09: The battery still works! Get the gloves!
10: Ah, how cute... :)
11: Hey, it looks like me in a gasmask! Er... yeah.
12: SERVE YOURSELF MISTER DAWSON!!!

13: A BLUE Dilbert, who we will NEVER see anymore. Not even meeting him!
14: The bobby pin. Leave it there, and you fuck up in the alien jail.
15: Find teh green bookie! Where's Hotel Mario's enclosed instruction book!?
16: The barber. Cannot get in here.

17: The cemetery. Pretty sad looking.
18: Push those buttons...
19: Pretty bald looking. No animation here.
20: Definitely reminds me of Mike's wine cellar... hm...

21: Look around here.
22: Going home!
23: The book, gotten by the library card.
24: The save screen with the Ancient woman. Nice porting, however, the colour is a no-no.

25: We didn't break it! We just fucked up making everything look like shit brown!!!
26: Nightmare after Day 01 - no music changing. Shit.
27: Okay, this reminds me of a pasta monster. XDXDXD
28: The broken mirror piece. A definite must to get.

29: Welcome to the Alien world! Green is the colour you must get used to!!!
30: The Ancients await their moment to get awaken by the embryo... OR DO THEY!
31: What does THIS remind you of? Yeah, it's Mike's house basically.
32: The library in Mike's house in the Alien world. The embryo screen is missing. Bad.

33: See? Nothing. Stupid thing.
34: Teleporting from point A...
35: ...to point B!
36: This room is... well, it's no use here.

37: Got the spade. Dig it baby...
38: ...to get this peace of paper, pushing the storyline forward.
39: YOU ARE UNDER ARREST.
40: No way out? Oh really? Hide the money, the bobby pin and the gloves into the pillow!

41: GET OUT OF JAIL FREE. Nice present from our blue friend Dilbert.
42: A FRIEND OF DILBERT, HUH? COME WITH ME, DAWSON.
43: Get the gun and get the fuck out.
44: Absolutely pointless. Dilbert and the dog not here, stick not here and it only lets you here after 6.

45: SO THAT'S WHERE MY GUN WENT. YOU'RE GONNA ROT FOR A FEW CENTURIES, HUMAN!!! Too bad there is no close-up on the alien policeman. Would have been cool.
46: This is why you have had to hid those three items into the pillow. Everything gets stolen from you, so if you haven't used the scotch on Day 01, you're fucked, buddy.
47: Give him the bobby pin. You will be rewarded with the invisibility bandana in return.
48: Get out of jail free? XD

49: Almost there. No need to use the bandana yet.
50: Use it here. Just stay at the entrance point. You won't be blinking in this port, but if you see that it's gone after usage, you're fine to go in.
51: Turn on the computer. She was sending you the message through the radio earlier this day. Go home and sleep.
52: The second nightmare. Starts out weird...

53: ...and goes even more weird!
54: Oh, my, God.
55: Hammer time. Or Miller time. XD
56: This is what you MUST see to move on. This microfilm was given to you by the woman at the end of day 2.

57: Going there...
58: Still going...
59: Even still going:
60: Use the loose rock, the stick and you got your hammer.

Nine pictures got kicked off.

Velikiy Drakon article on Mortal Kombat 3, translated!

2010-02-16T18:09:00.000+01:00

It's time for another translation, this time it's MK 3. Credit goes to Crash Nicker yet again, thanks!

Snapshot time:

And now, the translation:

Nobody would doubt that Mortal Kombat 3 would appear on the 8 bits in any way! Unfortunately, this game didn't gave me an impression that the Greatest Ever MKII. Let's discuss why.
Do you remember the things that were new for MK3? The RUN button and combos a-la Killer Instinct, of course. Ones were happy, the others supposed that these new features just devastated whole athmosphere of the Kombat fights, but everyone had to agree with the fact that they made the player's possibilities wider and made his freedom of butt-kicking bigger (now you decide whether it's good or not). But that's not present on the 8 bits. I have nothing offensive against that Street Fighter engine, but it became so-o-o-o boring! No running, two-in-one combos (juggle kick + three sweeps), the characters that become dizzy at the middle of the round - we are seenig this since 1991, and not just on this console... That prehistorical battle system doesn't even go close to the MK3, because these are absolutely different things. When those Chinese who keep stamping fighting games with the only graphic part changed are going to understand that?
Talking about the graphics, this part has been drastically shrinked, compared to that version of MKII that I have reviewed already in issue 23. Let me put this in a nutshell. In MKII, you had all 12 heroes + 2 bosses while in here you have 7: Liu Kang, Sonya, Sub-Zero, Kano, Nightwolf, Stryker and a guy that resembles Shao Kahn but has a name of Shang Tsung for unknown reasons (on my cart called... erhm... Ture MK3, the roster has been repeated twice). The number of backgrounds became fewer too - only 5 to play at. The characters, actually, look close to their arcade prototypes, with the exception of Liu Kang who wears white trousers instead of read ones and Stryker who fights not in boots, but... in socks!
While chasing for a new bag full of money, the creators of this game haven't adored so much about its' quality. As a fan of Mortal Kombat, I must say that Samurai Spritis for 8-bit is much, much better that the game that the reviewed game. Seriously.

Yours, frustrated Agent Cooper

LINES UNDER THE SCREENSHOTS (in their respective order):
- Choose the colour (and the flavour) you prefer
- Shao Kahn: small, bald and pretty evil
- Bow to the frozen Kang
- Fixing the bicycle [note: meaning Liu Kang's brand kick]
- The native Americans are driving crazy this time
- Stryker is to the right, not Tobias!
- Say your prayers, COP!

SPECIAL MOVES:
DOWN, FORWARD + A
DOWN, FORWARD + B
BACKWARD - blocking

And I swear, no posts before the Darkseed post!!! And about MK3... I'd also take MK2 over this one.

Edit:
On the MK3 article, they missed a command: Down, Down, A. This is a different move for each character. Just from the commands, this game seems like it was hacked off of Street Fighter Zero 2 97. Thanks KingPepe for pointing these out!
Update: Rendering part 3 out of 4 of Darkseed's playthrough.

Darkseed coming very soon!

2010-02-16T10:40:00.000+01:00

Finally recorded a normal playthrough, although I almost messed up once. Got around 25 screenshots too. Review written. So, everything is set for a very big post ;)

Tomsoft SDK for the Megadrive

2010-02-15T18:18:00.000+01:00

Crash Nicker has done it again. He got ahold of Tommy Xie's Megadrive SDK. Tommy Xie itself was Tomsoft. I know it doesn't make much sense, but when I mention Dragon Co., who made Tom & Jerry 3, Felix The Cat (NOT the licensed one), and The Lion King 3 (Which is the worst of all three due to the controls, in my opinion.), plus maybe Titanic (Which was released by SNT), everything suddenly will make sense.

Snapshot time:

Wanna know what game was made using the SDK? None other than the infamous Genesis port of Commandos! It's there in the header, as codeman38 pointed it out under my video's comment.

So yeah. I may have a feeling that there's more games done with this baby. For example: A Bug's Life. And Crash Nicker just sent me a list: Command and Conquer Beta, Lion King 2, Lion King 3, and I have a suspicion about Mulan and Harry Potter.

Download link?
Providing you two. One stable one and one Megaupload one:

Crash Nicker's Megaupload link
SpaceNinja's Dropbox mirror link

Have fun using it, I guess. :3

Also, an update: Will re-make the Darkseed playthrough. I have a written review, plus I want to make screenshots. Tomorrow's the day to make that. Also one more: KingPepe's Super Mario War mod named Super Mari War 5 will be regular here. A mod containing pirated characters, music and levels? Sure thing!

Velikiy Drakon article on Mortal Kombat 2, translated!

2010-02-14T16:31:00.000+01:00

Greetings! Boy, have I got something special for you today. This time I got an article from a Russian magazine named Velikiy Drakon, in English The Great Dragon. This magazine actually had articles about pirated games!

Here's the Mortal Kombat 2 article. Thanks for Crash Nicker for sharing and translating!
Quoting him:

"I've divided the pages onto two parts (so it could make watching the magazine easier on my lame DVD player that has troubles with proper zooming)"

Here are the pictures first. Click on them for full size!

And now, here's the translation.

KILL ME...
Welcome to Hell! I mean, to the Outworld, where the Mortal Kombat tournament is held. The object of the tournament is about saving the world, returning the good old order, balance between males, females, the Chinese and so on, and so on, and something like this. But now, all the Bad Company (12 fighters and 2 bosses) has been thrown onto the 8-bit format. Not anywhere else, but on our favourite console like Dendy (R) or Kenga (R) (underline the one that you prefer)! It seems like there was little losses during the port, so I guess that this cartridge will start a whole wave of bloodlust killers and hacking maniacs among the owners of 8-bit consoles that were quiet and harmless before (Mothers and grandmothers: "How could he say that?!").
Alright, my best beloved Jasons and Kruegers, let's begin our talk. I must mention that the sticker on my cartridge actually said "Mortal Kombat 4 Special" but this title is just a mean pirated joke and senseless PR-ing, because this game is nothing else than MK2, and you can't give it a name other than this. An awesome, certainly classic realization where ALL the characters are kept alright, as well as most of their moves. The average quanitity of the moves for all fighters is three, not counting the regular ones. The most interesting fact is that altrough every fighter has unique moves, they are all performed via the same button combinations. So all in all, if you already studied all Sub-Zero's tricks, you may pick Jax or Liu Kang without a shadow of doubt: you will experience no discomfort while controlling them. Now, about the thing that confused me most of all: about the engine of the game. It's not the Kombat. I mean, it is MK, certainly, but it works more like Street Fighter II: two-hit combos, being dizzy at the middle of the round after a series of strong attacks... Looks like the creators of this game decided to recycle the already existing SF2 code with changing the graphics and adding some cosmetic changes since some moves like Raiden's shocker and Kitana's fan grab won't be able to suit the SF2 engine.
And now I hope that you, my future zombies and vampires, are ready to face the MOST GREATEST DISAPPOINTMENT EVER: no Fatalities. Hey, what's wrong with you? Sit down and calm. Imagine that you're walking in a forest, with birds singing everywhere? Calmed down already? As I see, mothers and grandmothers already did. Alas, but those loved-with-passion operational surgery sessions are not present in this version, as well as Friendships and Babalities. Mournful. But that didn't make the game worse. No! Because everything we see is a really decent action game with a huge capacity of memory - 5 megabytes, and great graphics; in addition, it has a fine "playability" after all.
Think yourselves: would the scenes with ripping the heads, arms, legs and such suit the 8-bit that well? That would look completely non-realistic, imitative, and that would make all the game look worse since MK's motto is "the reality, uncovered". Well, at least you have blood flying out of fighters as they get hit, then what else do you need, my young cannibals and copses?

KILL ME NEAT...
The graphics probably won't be overlooked: all the 14 heroes are drawn (not digitized) that way that they are still recognizable, there are only 3 backgrounds missing, while the rest boasts with their accuracy to the originals and their palette. Of note is, however, that for the reason unknown to the science, both bosses are instantly selectable from the fighter selection screen. Kintaro, with the help of some soft of mystic powers, not only became three times smaller, but also started to call himself his brother's name, Goro (who has been deceased by our adorable Liu Kang in part one). Some additional info: in the MK2 ports for GameBoy and Game Gear, the developers left only 8 players and 2 bosses (Baraka, Cage, Kung Lao and Raiden were thrown away due to memory restrictions). But this version actually had Fatalities (one per hero).

KILL ME LOUD...
The music has always been one of the main 8-bit games' problem and this game, unfortunately, doen't even try to fix the problem. The tunes will remind you a squeak of a cat which has its' last feathers pulled out of the tail - the only recognizeable melody was found on the Living Forest background. But, if you don't like the music, then why don't you turn your TV's volume down? The sounds: overall, it doesn't sound bad; no shouts and Shao Kahn's round number announcements, of course, but all the hits and falls are heard okay, while on the title screen you may hear an astonishing thunder. The fact that while you perform special moves, you hear a sound that resembles a sound of flying helicopter, just adds some more drama into the game. Just imagine Liu Kang flying around performing his "bicycle kick"; and, on his back, he has a propeller, just like Karlsson. Cool!

KILL ME CLEVER...
The AI is very tricky, but everyone could choose one of five available difficulty levels and then enjoy fighting in the tournament. After you win on the first four difficulties, you will be asked to increase it, but when you beat the game on the fifth, you'll see... a nice ending screen? Not that! You will see an even more nice "CONGRATULATIONS" title! If you are bored to play with a bunch of steel, you may invite a friend and kick his ass (of course, in a good, kombatish meaning of this word) - is there anything more addictive than this?

OVERALL: MK2 on the 8-bit consoles is a decent fighting game (I repeat this again, but I'm ready to repeat this yet a lot of times). It has some really spotable differences to its' 16-bit counterpart, but still, it tends to become a really popular game. Not only newbies are gonna like it, but the insane Kombat veterans will enjoy it as well.
MK RULES FOREVER!!!

Valeriy "Agent Cooper" Korneev

TITLES BENEATH THE SCREENSHOTS (in their respective order):
"No! I'm too young to die!!!"
"Mugshots. Just like from a passport."
"START and OPTIONS screen - everything's just like in the original game"
"Achtung! Achtung! Liu Kangs are in the sky!"
"Who knows where this guy stores batteries?"
"Reptile to Shang Tsung: 'Today I've caught SUUUUCH a huge fish!'"
"Careful, you'll break the windows!"
"Fine, Mileena's blue, but why Sonya is... PINK?!"
"Kintaro (Goro) - the SMALLEST player ever"
"You won't hear his evil 'You will die', but Shao Kahn is all the same"

MOVELIST
A - punch
B - kick
down + A - uppercut
down + B - sweep
down, forward + A; down, backward + B; backward, backward + B - special moves (the controls are the same for all the characters)

There you go.
What's my opinion? It kinda sounds like they were paid to do a good review on it, but they actually weren't, according to Crash Nicker. Anyways, it is a good idea to include a movelist. Same for every character. It isn't a really bad game, but not the best pirated NES fighter. That's SFIV in my heart. The review is detailed, did include lots of snapshots, although it's kinda risky to make an actual comparison to the original MKII.

Next up, the Aladdin article! Stay tuned fellows!

Coming up: Darkseed (NES port) playthrough!

2010-02-09T09:19:00.000+01:00

Yes, people. Darkseed will be the first game featured on the site as a playthrough. I'll write a review under the videos, so I don't have to upload a lot of screenshots and you can also see what they modified and how fast can I complete this game.

Stay tuned! :D

Pirate game endings' playlist.

2010-02-06T20:21:00.000+01:00

Here they are. The pirated game endings I got.
Currently I'm above 150. :o

Watch them here

A small recap of the pirated companies... part 1: Bit

2010-02-01T09:05:00.000+01:00

Good day. I'm going to cover up some information about some pirated companies that created or are still creating the Famicom/GB/GBC/Genesis/SNES games.

Let's start with Bit. They are one of the oldest companies... they started up piracy at around 1987. They created a game that was hacked into Dian Shi Ma Li, aka Mario Lottery. If this doesn't give you an idea which one this is, then: PUSH START TO RICH.
Ah yeah. Just look at Mario... OR I MEAN FORTRAN. That is not Mario... Weird looking face with a weird, bloody looking mouth. Oh my god, do not eat me.

Also, they made a game called Duck.
Imagine something like Lode Runner, but going down. You have to take your egg with mommy duck to the bottom, to home while avoiding bad guys, huge gaps causing the egg to break (mmm, omelette du fromage, anyone?), so yeah. This game is not easy, but if you can get the hang of it, it's going to be easier. Well. I couldn't complete one level at all, so olo i suk. I'm going to look around my collection of games. I know that there is ANOTHER slot machine game. Dunno who made it, but it might be Bit.

That's all for this post. I know it's short but hey. Gotta start somewhere.

Post #1.

2010-01-31T13:15:00.000+01:00

Hi people, SpaceNinja, the head honcho of the site is here.
I've decided to open up a pirated gaming ONLY blogsite, where I will write several things, feelings, written - or/and - video reviews here.
I already beat like 140 of these pirated crap. Yes, one hundred and forty. I think I already KNOW what is good and what isn't.

That's all for this post... get ready for a huge pile of pirated games.