Fellas a few people have voiced their opinions on how the save file is retained and saved, now there are a lot of sources citing it to either be 'flash' storage or Static RAM as it were, but the chip does have the correct documentation presented here: courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse477/99sp/docs/W24257A.pdf Now people have vocied their concerns that technically this would mean that in an extreme loss of power your Save Data could be wiped, however upon looking into this further I decided to do some digging into the original creation of the save file, and it seems that this chip has had the save file on it for nearly 2 Years. NOW this would suggest that the save data is being dumped from what I believed to be SRAM to where the ROM is stored...Which would explain: 1. Why the Save Game Data will never be lost. 2. Why the save game glitch refuses to work (As the data is dumped straight to flash after being written to the SRAM) So ultimately the save files arent going anywhere, and I will leave the cartidge by itself for a few months to verify this, and will edit this with an update to let you know how well this form of retention works...Given how long the current save file had been there (Likely for Q and A Testing) It seems that the company who has taken to making these bootlegs were pretty clever. Hope this clears up a few areas and this directly relates to around 2:45 .... Then again I have never made a video before like this, so will be sure to stick this in a video rather than just typing out into a wall of text like I just have. Cheers
In order to make the patching of the ROM easy, the SRAM is still in the cartridge, but not battery backed. The ROM is modified to copy save data from flash to RAM on startup and RAM to flash after saving. Otherwise, the game interacts with the RAM as normal as long as the cartridge is powered by the Gameboy. If you turn off the Gameboy at the right point during saving it *should* still be possible to corrupt it, but this would just erase the save rather than do something useful. Other things of note: this is likely just an off the shelf ROM hack/translation and not the work of whoever manufactured the cartridge. The colorization of non-GBC games is done by the boot ROM of the GBC by checking the name and license code in the ROM header. They've likely just copied that data from a Pokémon Green Japanese ROM which is already being colorized by the GBC.
No one seems to have mentioned it, but the reason why a corruption occurs between Japanese and western Pokémon games is due to something along the lines of text pointers and Pokémon pointers being in different locations. As with many games of the era, translated games often had to use all new text routines with all new pointers, so it's reasonable to assume that the Pokémon data from one game goes near where the text data of the other is, since the games expect that particular space to be the 'right one' to go to. This happens in legitimate games, not just this bootleg, and only recently has been made possible to trade between JPN and western games.
I’m genuinely surprised how good that bootleg is. They didn’t just grab the crappy translation or some unplayable crap, it’s about as good of an English green version as you can get. Plus it doesn’t need a battery so the save file lasts. Where’s the downside?
@@graveofmonsters4076: Notice the title screens are different, among other aspects, there is more to this conversion that meets the eye. I explain further in another areas.
I bought a yellow version “game” for like $2 shipped to the US. My daughters been playing it off and non for over a year now. Still works perfectly and no complains from here.
You'd be surprised how many of these things are actually made well enough that you can keep and play them for a long time. They're not exactly state of the art technology anymore. Flashing a rom to a blank cart is cheap and easy. Yeah, sometimes the battery can be finnicky if there's one, but aside from that, there's usually no harm in buying a set of Pokemon reproductions or something. They'll probably work just fine. OR, if you're already going the route of unlicensed, unofficial copies. You could just grab a flash cart. Just got myself an EZ Flash Junior for around $50. I currently have around 330 Game Boy and Game Boy Color games on it, included a handful of rom hacks (Pokemon Red and Blue in full Game Boy Color-like color. Mario Land 1 and 2 in full color. Pokemon Green but English. A couple actual rom hacks of Pokemon that completely re-makes the game with new maps and things. And best of all, a hack of each Gen 1 and 2 game that lets you catch all the pokemon in a single game.) It's great.
I spent years of my childhood on Pokemon Gold when I got it but then after awhile the battery died and I did lose all my saves. I was so sad and pretty much never touched another Pokemon game since then...
I played Pokémon yellow as a kid. Then fire red as an older kid. Then fire red again on my phone on emulator lol. I think i played emerald too. But past that nope. I tried a newer one but without the fast forward in the emulator it was way too slow lol
If you still have it, replacing the battery is very easy. It won't get your save back but you will be able to play again with a new battery that won't die for a long time.
Actually it’s TL:DW? Flash memory incorporated to the original Japanese game so batteries are no longer needed for save file, translated well, allows trades with retail and stadium of US version, and audio is completely identical. Sprites are creepy but that’s due to Japan having a creepy state of sprites of the time
But then again that’s a tl:dr type comment anyhow due to the it being an exact replica except for translation, and I’ve bought this, I’d rather buy this “game” cart than a game boy cart cuz of original content
@@GodBroly I am one of your likes; has some capitalistic truth to it for sure. It was always interesting to see the actual price-gouging going on in online shops compared to what the raw prices were in all the recycle shops dotted around the suburban landscape over there. The record for me was stumbling upon pallets of old Sega Saturn games for $5 for each large box; it was a repeating story of if these old games weren't already snapped up by expensive Tokyo/Osaka electronics shops that were targeting tourists, there was commonly no sense of value to what they were sitting on. Just kind of cool to have a chance to play through all those old games I'd only read about in EGM and stuff as a little shit.
@@ashleygoode9346 It's true, it is irrelevant. The video just made me think back to my experiences when I was living there and how prices decreases dramatically; no more or less really. If you want an interesting feedback comment from a Spanish-speaking buyer from years ago, scroll down to the Pokemon Green here: feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback2&ftab=FeedbackAsSeller&userid=akqj10please&iid=-1&de=off&items=25&interval=0&searchInterval=30&mPg=35&page=25
KTDFox i bought one of these and yes it has the pokeball border when you use a super gameboy, and this also worked on my gba sp and my gameboy player for the gamecube
For someone that usually doesn't do gameboy tech related stuff, you did an amazing job on this video! Everything was really accurate and well researched, thank you! :)
When I was a child, I was in Iran and I saw a copy of what I assume was the same as this, but boxed. Really regret not picking it up, would be a neat little thing to display. Also saw some odd "Pokémon Diamond", that had an eel or something on the front.
@@norahsnewgroove i had that game and played thru it 3 times. its like pokemon using phone numbers instead of pokeballs. u get phone call from your friends telling you what they like. you can buy the item from shop and infuse them to gain xp. by the second town, it is possible to have a max level that can beat the game. there are evolutions. after you finish the game, its actually 50% complete. you can continue with new game + and revisit every town for a second fight with higher difficulty. but not a problem with your max level you got in early game
I wonder if they implement some kind of clock chip into the gen 2 games since they actually took advantage of the real time clock. Definitely looking forward to more!
I got drunk once and ordered 5 Pokémon GBA games from China. They all arrived, they all worked (could save, could trade etc, only thing that didn't work was dual slot gameplay with 4th gen). Still obvious fakes, of course. Then one day when I was sober I ordered two DS games from China... they didn't arrive... soooo the takeaway is to never order anything from China while sober. Edit: Oh and I've had these for a few years and no issue with the saves.
I received a DS Pokémon game randomly from China, Pokémon Diamond or Maybe pearl I believe. I did not order it at all, It just came. I wonder if it was yours 😂😂 or someone else that ordered on one of those sites & the sellers typed the address in wrong, this was about 2 years ago.
The screwdriver used to open the cartridge is called a "tri-wing" screwdriver for anyone interested in picking one up. They're pretty cheap on eBay and a bit more on Amazon. They also open up the Joycons for the Switch, and other Nintendo hardware.
FYI it has a battery slot because they're doing these in bulk and not just pokemon games. It's an all in one solution essentially that they can throw any game on there, needing of memory, battery, etc.
Side note: Pokémon Blue was released in Japan with the updated sprites and bug fixes and the Red and Blue released in America is based on that version.
Thanks for the video! If you get your hands on a Super GameBoy I'd like to see if it has a Pokémon Green themed border and if it gives an extended color pallet.
I DONT CARE if its real or fake, im gonna return my Pokemon Red to the new one that I ordered just right now via ROM/SAVE dumping process. Yes, I can do that! Finally, with the new save flash chip, I will never lose my savegame again! Thanks my friend for making this video. Just found on ebay a whole Gen1-3 of these versions, now I hope i can make all my former catridge based savegames reupload to these carts! Wish me luck, gonna report after 5th July when the games come via mail! STAY TUNED!
I have the same cartridge, but it was bought a little over one year ago. It doesn't use flash memory, but SRAM and a battery, like the original, so that's why there's still a battery holder, they didn't redesigned the motherboard. The game is perfectly playable, but some sprites are corrupted, like the ghosts of Lavender Town (they appears like Missingno, a least on my version) and the Hall of Fame is broken. Other than that, it's just Pokémon Blue with Pokémon Green sprite and color palette, pretty interesting, but nothing really fancy.
This translation is actually downloadable separately, and was made by fans. They simply took the map layout and sprite data of the original pokemon green and patched it into a retail pokemon blue rom. So it's more like a modified us pokemon blue rather than a translated green
Very Interesting Indeed, as for these sprites I remember seeing them in 3rd party strategy guides here in the U.S. but never knew why they went with those.
Time and budget constraints most likely. Its something a lot of people don't know about, but Game Freak actually struggled to get the original Red and Green finished, at one point they even faced bankruptcy and couldn't afford to pay their employees. I wouldn't be surprised if they wanted to change them, but just really had to get them out the door. They later remade them for the Japanese blue, which was the basis for our red and blue versions.
Modern VBA-M should be able to emulate link cables, or at least it does for for GBA games, though it can be somewhat finicky. As for Stadium, you can emulate that in Project64. You just have to use the N-Rage controller plugin, head to its Controller Pak tab, select Transfer Pak, and point it to your GameBoy ROM and save files. Also, the color palette is optional on these games. You can select what palette to use by pressing combinations of directions, A and B at the GameBoy Color's logo screen. Later games that actually used colors properly like Yellow and onward didn't allow this, but these older games just apply one palette across the entire game so you can choose.
My like button is broken... I can only like this video 1 time!!! :) Awesome video, I am not a huge Pokemon fan myself but I loved the opening of the cart and exploring it. I have been seeing these fake carts for years now and was always curious about them. Thank you for the video!
I could imagine the battery bay was for games that used an internal clock to track the time (like the gen 2 games) but it's great, that you might just slide a fresh battery in to make it work again.
I also got green from China, however I received a really good copy. It has the original "Nintendo Gameboy" at the top instead of "game", the label look a lot better than in this video and the green is a lighter colour. I guess you have to research your sellers by the picture reviews, always ask them for a case without "game" on as well and they'll probably be able to do it, from my experience.
This is actually super cool! The sounds is pretty accurate IMO, based on my US Red Cart, and it is a pretty ingenious reproduction. Heck, my friends would finally have an excuse to get a GameBoy if I bought this thing since it's so usable yet so cheap.
A lot of bootleg Pokémon games literally save directly to the rom. My firered carries over its save file when dumping the rom, but not the save. Pretty interesting
There's a few sellers on eBay who will let you fully customise your cartridge, like having your own artwork on the sticker, customs ROMs and any cartridge colour. Seems like a cool idea, especially if you want to make your own game
Based on your description of the game bring a modified version of blue using greens assets I believe that the rom itself is actually a fan translation patch that can be found on the website "romhacking" which was completed a few years ago
6:30 If you ever try something like trading between gb games again, I recommend BGB or VBA-M for emulating link cables/trading. (BGB is quicker/easier to setup for trading IMO, and it's more hardware accurate)
My guess is that this version wouldn't work with the transfer pak anyway due to having the SRAM changed out for flash memory, which Pokemon Stadium doesn't expect. You might be able to play GB Tower, but you probably wouldn't be able to transfer Pokemon into Stadium.
If I get hold of the hardware to test it. I'll definitely be giving it a go. Although I reckon it'd be worth testing all of these just to see how they'd work.
Knowing how good Nintendo usually are with their emulation it wouldn't surprise me if they had emulated some of the save functions to maintain near 100% Parity with the original release.... I got it to work on my OG Red Release, but this Green Release was having none of it.
Makes sense that the game works since it’s just a sprite hack of Red version. Since none of the actual gbz80 code was modified to make this, official games just see it as the English Red version. It’s not blue because the intro battle is between Gengar and Jigglypuff in Blue version. I wish we got green over red, green is my favorite color and Venusaur is my favorite final evolution out of the three. Also since this is just a simple sprite hack of Red you will be able to encounter glitch Pokémon like Missingno. with no major issues.
Fellas a few people have voiced their opinions on how the save file is retained and saved, now there are a lot of sources citing it to either be 'flash' storage or Static RAM as it were, but the chip does have the correct documentation presented here: courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse477/99sp/docs/W24257A.pdf
Now people have vocied their concerns that technically this would mean that in an extreme loss of power your Save Data could be wiped, however upon looking into this further I decided to do some digging into the original creation of the save file, and it seems that this chip has had the save file on it for nearly 2 Years. NOW this would suggest that the save data is being dumped from what I believed to be SRAM to where the ROM is stored...Which would explain:
1. Why the Save Game Data will never be lost.
2. Why the save game glitch refuses to work (As the data is dumped straight to flash after being written to the SRAM)
So ultimately the save files arent going anywhere, and I will leave the cartidge by itself for a few months to verify this, and will edit this with an update to let you know how well this form of retention works...Given how long the current save file had been there (Likely for Q and A Testing) It seems that the company who has taken to making these bootlegs were pretty clever.
Hope this clears up a few areas and this directly relates to around 2:45 .... Then again I have never made a video before like this, so will be sure to stick this in a video rather than just typing out into a wall of text like I just have.
Cheers
Ok
Use wag tail!
In order to make the patching of the ROM easy, the SRAM is still in the cartridge, but not battery backed. The ROM is modified to copy save data from flash to RAM on startup and RAM to flash after saving. Otherwise, the game interacts with the RAM as normal as long as the cartridge is powered by the Gameboy. If you turn off the Gameboy at the right point during saving it *should* still be possible to corrupt it, but this would just erase the save rather than do something useful.
Other things of note: this is likely just an off the shelf ROM hack/translation and not the work of whoever manufactured the cartridge.
The colorization of non-GBC games is done by the boot ROM of the GBC by checking the name and license code in the ROM header. They've likely just copied that data from a Pokémon Green Japanese ROM which is already being colorized by the GBC.
I have an n64 with Pokemon stadium and transfer pack I can get to you if you wanna try it out with this game? And I’m in the uk
Want a copy of the dump to analyze
>Has lvl 20 ivysaur
>fights lvl 10 Geodude
>uses tackle
Mate...
That hurt to watch
Lmfao vine whip doesn't exis~
Ah yes, Pokémon green for my favourite console *_GAME_*
Actually, Pokémon green is a real game for the gameboy color, but was only in japan.
Yes, ***GAME*** is also my favorite console as well. #Wintendoh
It's 2019 so they made it gender neutral lol
@@saibot0 no way
@@_._._._._._._._._._._._._. 😂😂😂😂
"ordered a few more expensive gen 2 ones"
£3.89
To be fair, I have less than that in my bank account...😪
No one seems to have mentioned it, but the reason why a corruption occurs between Japanese and western Pokémon games is due to something along the lines of text pointers and Pokémon pointers being in different locations. As with many games of the era, translated games often had to use all new text routines with all new pointers, so it's reasonable to assume that the Pokémon data from one game goes near where the text data of the other is, since the games expect that particular space to be the 'right one' to go to. This happens in legitimate games, not just this bootleg, and only recently has been made possible to trade between JPN and western games.
The *GAME* was pretty neat, but I prefer *GAME COLOR*
Everyone knows that *GAME ADVANCED* is the best smh
ManicRobot no, GAME ADVANCED SP is the best
can someone at least talk about the *GAME MICRO*
Too bad, there's no GAME DS
Also I'm really bothered over how a obscure company from Japan named Nintendo copied the *GAME* series of consoles.
Sound - doesn't sound great.
Pokémon fans - sounds amazing. Gets nostalgia goose bumps.
Was more getting at the speaker quality, not the OST
I’m genuinely surprised how good that bootleg is. They didn’t just grab the crappy translation or some unplayable crap, it’s about as good of an English green version as you can get. Plus it doesn’t need a battery so the save file lasts. Where’s the downside?
Nowadays there always good
It's just a fan translation put on a cart. They do this all the time on multi game bootlegs.
@@graveofmonsters4076: It's not
@@BudgetBuildsOfficial www.romhacking.net/hacks/876/ it looks like it's this patch. There's no other way to do it.
@@graveofmonsters4076: Notice the title screens are different, among other aspects, there is more to this conversion that meets the eye. I explain further in another areas.
I bought a yellow version “game” for like $2 shipped to the US. My daughters been playing it off and non for over a year now. Still works perfectly and no complains from here.
They just copy the game data to another drives and make game copies there is no problems in the game
You'd be surprised how many of these things are actually made well enough that you can keep and play them for a long time. They're not exactly state of the art technology anymore. Flashing a rom to a blank cart is cheap and easy. Yeah, sometimes the battery can be finnicky if there's one, but aside from that, there's usually no harm in buying a set of Pokemon reproductions or something. They'll probably work just fine.
OR, if you're already going the route of unlicensed, unofficial copies. You could just grab a flash cart. Just got myself an EZ Flash Junior for around $50. I currently have around 330 Game Boy and Game Boy Color games on it, included a handful of rom hacks (Pokemon Red and Blue in full Game Boy Color-like color. Mario Land 1 and 2 in full color. Pokemon Green but English. A couple actual rom hacks of Pokemon that completely re-makes the game with new maps and things. And best of all, a hack of each Gen 1 and 2 game that lets you catch all the pokemon in a single game.) It's great.
@@OmPrakash-pc1ec there usually is a couple problems with the rom
>game boy sound
>Not very pleasant to listen to
I wot m8?
Probably the fact that it was a recording of the Game Boy Color outdoors with background noise
@@Wflash00: My man gets what I was talking about
A game only released in Japan, rated by ESRB. Seems legit to me
I spent years of my childhood on Pokemon Gold when I got it but then after awhile the battery died and I did lose all my saves. I was so sad and pretty much never touched another Pokemon game since then...
I played Pokémon yellow as a kid. Then fire red as an older kid. Then fire red again on my phone on emulator lol. I think i played emerald too. But past that nope. I tried a newer one but without the fast forward in the emulator it was way too slow lol
If you still have it, replacing the battery is very easy. It won't get your save back but you will be able to play again with a new battery that won't die for a long time.
I had a Halloween pumpkin leak onto my Silver. I was not happy.
You can just replace the battery
TL;DR: It works perfectly fine.
arguably better than the original because of flash memory lol
Actually it’s TL:DW? Flash memory incorporated to the original Japanese game so batteries are no longer needed for save file, translated well, allows trades with retail and stadium of US version, and audio is completely identical. Sprites are creepy but that’s due to Japan having a creepy state of sprites of the time
But then again that’s a tl:dr type comment anyhow due to the it being an exact replica except for translation, and I’ve bought this, I’d rather buy this “game” cart than a game boy cart cuz of original content
@@xJustPullTheTriggerx UMM AkkkKTUALLYY YOU neeD a Semicolon. i
Uhm actually youre right 😂
>GAME
>GAME COLOR
>GAME ADVANCE
>DOUBLE GAME
>3GAME
>NEW3GAME
better naming than nintendo came up with
And then game switched.
@@MolliOlli182 the GameNX is just a rumour
GameNXMini
best emulators: visual advance, No$GA
The watch and game instead game and watch
I absolutely love the PMD music it always makes me cry 😢😢😢
Same, theres so much nostalgia and so many memories built up it gets me emotional every time I hear it.
The mystery dungeon series is definitely underrated, so it’s nice hearing it here.
Nostalgia
I used to buy authentic Pokemon Green carts when I lived in Japan for around $5 and resale them online for like $40 a piece. Times have changed.
So you were a douche lol
He was smart * @@GodBroly
I have two dads which are Zezima and Notch. This comment is just as irrelevant as yours and has about as much proof.
@@GodBroly I am one of your likes; has some capitalistic truth to it for sure. It was always interesting to see the actual price-gouging going on in online shops compared to what the raw prices were in all the recycle shops dotted around the suburban landscape over there. The record for me was stumbling upon pallets of old Sega Saturn games for $5 for each large box; it was a repeating story of if these old games weren't already snapped up by expensive Tokyo/Osaka electronics shops that were targeting tourists, there was commonly no sense of value to what they were sitting on. Just kind of cool to have a chance to play through all those old games I'd only read about in EGM and stuff as a little shit.
@@ashleygoode9346 It's true, it is irrelevant. The video just made me think back to my experiences when I was living there and how prices decreases dramatically; no more or less really. If you want an interesting feedback comment from a Spanish-speaking buyer from years ago, scroll down to the Pokemon Green here: feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback2&ftab=FeedbackAsSeller&userid=akqj10please&iid=-1&de=off&items=25&interval=0&searchInterval=30&mPg=35&page=25
PMD music is the background?
Good narrative?
A funny review?
Niiice.
Got this game off eBay. It never arrived!
Luckily for you.
Try the 1st Gen and 2nd gen set on Amazon all 7 re produced and then they have the 3rd gen GBA reproductions
@@vulgervulcan I got the sets on amazon have you tried those ?
dude this was a really cool video I didn't know I needed this but awesome bro awesome
Love this video, I enjoy this content as well as your normal content!
The Mystery Dungeon music playing through this video is giving me nostalgia and feels.
One thing I was wondering that didn't get covered: Did they remember to change the Super Game Boy border for this release?
KTDFox i bought one of these and yes it has the pokeball border when you use a super gameboy, and this also worked on my gba sp and my gameboy player for the gamecube
Love that Red Rescue Team main theme music. Classic.
For someone that usually doesn't do gameboy tech related stuff, you did an amazing job on this video!
Everything was really accurate and well researched, thank you! :)
Great video man, absolutely love this.
When I was a child, I was in Iran and I saw a copy of what I assume was the same as this, but boxed. Really regret not picking it up, would be a neat little thing to display. Also saw some odd "Pokémon Diamond", that had an eel or something on the front.
It might have been this
bootleggames.fandom.com/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_Diamond_and_Jade
Keitai denju telefang bootleg copy?
Its engrish is very strong
@@WheatPasta That was it! Yeah! Dang, had I had the foresight to know I'd be really into obscure junk when I was older I would have grabbed that.
@@norahsnewgroove i had that game and played thru it 3 times. its like pokemon using phone numbers instead of pokeballs. u get phone call from your friends telling you what they like. you can buy the item from shop and infuse them to gain xp. by the second town, it is possible to have a max level that can beat the game. there are evolutions. after you finish the game, its actually 50% complete. you can continue with new game + and revisit every town for a second fight with higher difficulty. but not a problem with your max level you got in early game
Yo, hella respect for playing the mystery dungeon music, that was a nostalgic blast from the past
Very professional video quality, subscribed for more. Good work!
I really liked this change in style for the episode, hope you make more dude :D
A game released in Japan only?
For cheap?
_Whaaaaaaa?_
I paid $6.50 for Japanese Tetris. Ebay does wonders
I paid £2 each for my boxed copy of Pokemon Gold and Pokemon Silver (the Japanese copies).... car boot sales do wonders, lol :P
@@LucasSaturn The Japanese copies of Pokemon games are actually fairly cheap at least compare to there international releases, especially complete.
Not a very good joke honestly, plenty of undesirable Japanese shovelware
Should a just released it over here when it all came out.
Knockoff copies are my go-to, the versatility is insane
Wow great video! We can tell that you spent a lot of time on it!
Damn the cheapest one I ordered was 3 years ago and I’m still waiting
Did you get it yet?
Wow, this actually seems like a pretty good deal. It's a version of Pokémon green with everlasting saves! That sounds pretty awesome actually.
Pokémon Green + Pokémon Blue = .....
Pokémon Teal?
No brown
@@SirAarthur probably for the best, really!
Holy crap I freaking love Pokemon Mystery Dungeon thank you for using it as your background music
Never played any pokemon game or wasn't even born when these were out but I still enjoyed the video, you're a perfect narrator
you should make this a series but its like computer components you got from china for cheap
Already thing by quiet a few people
FD The Gaming Animator I know but budget builds has his own feel on his videos that no other TH-cam has
I wonder if they implement some kind of clock chip into the gen 2 games since they actually took advantage of the real time clock. Definitely looking forward to more!
I was _this_ close to buy the cart :D
At that time, I didn't care about authenticity n all...i just needed the game!
I got drunk once and ordered 5 Pokémon GBA games from China. They all arrived, they all worked (could save, could trade etc, only thing that didn't work was dual slot gameplay with 4th gen). Still obvious fakes, of course. Then one day when I was sober I ordered two DS games from China... they didn't arrive... soooo the takeaway is to never order anything from China while sober.
Edit: Oh and I've had these for a few years and no issue with the saves.
I received a DS Pokémon game randomly from China, Pokémon Diamond or Maybe pearl I believe. I did not order it at all, It just came. I wonder if it was yours 😂😂 or someone else that ordered on one of those sites & the sellers typed the address in wrong, this was about 2 years ago.
What are you going on about lad
The screwdriver used to open the cartridge is called a "tri-wing" screwdriver for anyone interested in picking one up. They're pretty cheap on eBay and a bit more on Amazon. They also open up the Joycons for the Switch, and other Nintendo hardware.
But did the *Missingno.* glitch work?? Great vid, man.
And don't forget the Mew glitch, the best of them all
@Legend 27 yeah it does, caught mew only a couple of weeks ago in blue
oh my god that cup "I mous-tache you a question" i love it
Looks like a nice game
Helo
You are here too lol
FYI it has a battery slot because they're doing these in bulk and not just pokemon games. It's an all in one solution essentially that they can throw any game on there, needing of memory, battery, etc.
Yeeees! More handheld content!
Loving the Videos :)
Side note: Pokémon Blue was released in Japan with the updated sprites and bug fixes and the Red and Blue released in America is based on that version.
Professor Oak “ choose your 1st Pokémon! Would you like Fire GAME, water GAME, or leaf GAME??”
This is high level old school game content
Hi,
What do you use to dump the ROM, and can you use it to backup/restore the save file?
Fantastic video, editing felt really professional. Great job!
Nice video! I find game boy videos usually pretty interesting.
This video was surprisingly fantastic. It was a breath of fresh air!
Let me correct
*GAME*
Thanks for the video!
If you get your hands on a Super GameBoy I'd like to see if it has a Pokémon Green themed border and if it gives an extended color pallet.
I DONT CARE if its real or fake, im gonna return my Pokemon Red to the new one that I ordered just right now via ROM/SAVE dumping process. Yes, I can do that! Finally, with the new save flash chip, I will never lose my savegame again!
Thanks my friend for making this video. Just found on ebay a whole Gen1-3 of these versions, now I hope i can make all my former catridge based savegames reupload to these carts!
Wish me luck, gonna report after 5th July when the games come via mail!
STAY TUNED!
Oh boy I loved the Nintendo game color.
This is not a translation it is just a skinned version of Pokemon blue because if you look at the end credits it says “Pokemon blue end credits”
Once again it really does help to watch the video, because I cover all of this, and how they have gone about it.
I have the same cartridge, but it was bought a little over one year ago. It doesn't use flash memory, but SRAM and a battery, like the original, so that's why there's still a battery holder, they didn't redesigned the motherboard.
The game is perfectly playable, but some sprites are corrupted, like the ghosts of Lavender Town (they appears like Missingno, a least on my version) and the Hall of Fame is broken. Other than that, it's just Pokémon Blue with Pokémon Green sprite and color palette, pretty interesting, but nothing really fancy.
They seem to have fixed these issues from what I have been able to find
That's actually a pretty cool little thing there. Looks good, works well, highly affordable. Quite nice.
imagine you pick up a amazing stats in one of these "not released" game and able to transfer the pokemon to official released game.. LMAO
Music to my hears, it is very much so pleasant to hear!
This translation is actually downloadable separately, and was made by fans. They simply took the map layout and sprite data of the original pokemon green and patched it into a retail pokemon blue rom. So it's more like a modified us pokemon blue rather than a translated green
I do mention this
@@BudgetBuildsOfficial Yes, I know. I wanted to point out that the conversion was done by fans and not the chinese resellers
Very Interesting Indeed, as for these sprites I remember seeing them in 3rd party strategy guides here in the U.S. but never knew why they went with those.
Time and budget constraints most likely. Its something a lot of people don't know about, but Game Freak actually struggled to get the original Red and Green finished, at one point they even faced bankruptcy and couldn't afford to pay their employees.
I wouldn't be surprised if they wanted to change them, but just really had to get them out the door. They later remade them for the Japanese blue, which was the basis for our red and blue versions.
Modern VBA-M should be able to emulate link cables, or at least it does for for GBA games, though it can be somewhat finicky. As for Stadium, you can emulate that in Project64. You just have to use the N-Rage controller plugin, head to its Controller Pak tab, select Transfer Pak, and point it to your GameBoy ROM and save files. Also, the color palette is optional on these games. You can select what palette to use by pressing combinations of directions, A and B at the GameBoy Color's logo screen. Later games that actually used colors properly like Yellow and onward didn't allow this, but these older games just apply one palette across the entire game so you can choose.
My like button is broken... I can only like this video 1 time!!! :) Awesome video, I am not a huge Pokemon fan myself but I loved the opening of the cart and exploring it. I have been seeing these fake carts for years now and was always curious about them. Thank you for the video!
Pokemon red rescue team ost in the background, brings back memories
You should buy and open Pokémon Ruby, Fire Red...
You can found it in aliexpress.
Bootleg Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald carts have issues due to the lack of a real time clock. Fire Red and Leaf Green bootlegs will work fine though.
Very cool. Nice video!
For a fake cartridge, it seems a really good job.
- It is cheap
- it works
- no battery
What else!
Btw, amazing video as always!
I could imagine the battery bay was for games that used an internal clock to track the time (like the gen 2 games) but it's great, that you might just slide a fresh battery in to make it work again.
8:54 worth seeing how it sounds, Fast Fourier Transform please.
Red/Green came out in Japan 27/2/96. 1995 is just the copyright date.
Pokemon Green did come out in Japan, but in the first year it was discontinued due to poor sales, never sold in North America or Europe
Like this, it's a change from usual content, but it's great
Oh i love that Music..Pokemon Mystery Dungeon
Man what a touch that was. Maybe I should replay that game, I remember really liking that blue mystery team or whatever it was called
@@MisterTipp team Blue yea, i think i buy a ds and play it again
I also got green from China, however I received a really good copy. It has the original "Nintendo Gameboy" at the top instead of "game", the label look a lot better than in this video and the green is a lighter colour. I guess you have to research your sellers by the picture reviews, always ask them for a case without "game" on as well and they'll probably be able to do it, from my experience.
The sound is actually not bad :o
Does it have the original Lavender Town Theme?
Used to scare my little ass
Finally someone is asking THE REAL questions
This is actually super cool! The sounds is pretty accurate IMO, based on my US Red Cart, and it is a pretty ingenious reproduction. Heck, my friends would finally have an excuse to get a GameBoy if I bought this thing since it's so usable yet so cheap.
1:52 PMD! Gods I love that game
Is that the music from chrono chross in the background?
Best game ever
Maybe I am a little bit biased because this was literally my childhood, but that to me sounds glorious. I love it! :)
OST is good, the quality of my capture, not so much
@@BudgetBuildsOfficial Oh, like that! Hahaha yeah, I understand what you mean now, hahaha. Great video, by the way 😊
I love that you used the mystery dungeon music in the background.
A lot of bootleg Pokémon games literally save directly to the rom. My firered carries over its save file when dumping the rom, but not the save. Pretty interesting
Lavandia music original or the patched version?
very interesting, subscribed
For the next pc you build, plz benchmark total war warhammer (1 or 2), if it can run modern games.
There's a few sellers on eBay who will let you fully customise your cartridge, like having your own artwork on the sticker, customs ROMs and any cartridge colour.
Seems like a cool idea, especially if you want to make your own game
Interesting. I don't suppose you have a link to this?
Didn't know these were a thing, but then again in China everything is possible. In any case, a very neat find and a great video :)
Based on your description of the game bring a modified version of blue using greens assets I believe that the rom itself is actually a fan translation patch that can be found on the website "romhacking" which was completed a few years ago
6:30
If you ever try something like trading between gb games again, I recommend BGB or VBA-M for emulating link cables/trading. (BGB is quicker/easier to setup for trading IMO, and it's more hardware accurate)
loved the vid keep it up
Do you have problem with health bar? My cart is doing this, when in battle and taking hit health bar glitches and then it comes back to normal.
1:53 to 1:56
What song is this and what game???
It so familiar!
LilPuff It’s the main menu screen music to Pokemon mystery dungeon red rescue team
@@jimjamjon2285 Yoo yeah it is.
God damn it I miss playing Red Rescue Team on my GBA
LilPuff The best game series of all time no doubt
My guess is that this version wouldn't work with the transfer pak anyway due to having the SRAM changed out for flash memory, which Pokemon Stadium doesn't expect. You might be able to play GB Tower, but you probably wouldn't be able to transfer Pokemon into Stadium.
If I get hold of the hardware to test it. I'll definitely be giving it a go. Although I reckon it'd be worth testing all of these just to see how they'd work.
Man that mystery dungeon sound at 1:53 is sooooo nostalgic
As far as I know the save glitch should still work. I got it to work on a 3ds with an SD card. Correct me if I'm wrong
Knowing how good Nintendo usually are with their emulation it wouldn't surprise me if they had emulated some of the save functions to maintain near 100% Parity with the original release....
I got it to work on my OG Red Release, but this Green Release was having none of it.
Fair enough, thanks for replying
I have this repro as well. How did you dump the ROM? I'd love to play this on my Gameboy Micro.
Makes sense that the game works since it’s just a sprite hack of Red version. Since none of the actual gbz80 code was modified to make this, official games just see it as the English Red version. It’s not blue because the intro battle is between Gengar and Jigglypuff in Blue version. I wish we got green over red, green is my favorite color and Venusaur is my favorite final evolution out of the three. Also since this is just a simple sprite hack of Red you will be able to encounter glitch Pokémon like Missingno. with no major issues.