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As a counterargument, it's not much of a compliment that a bootleg has better graphics than (particular official game.) There's a _lot_ of bad games that get official releases, making that a not particularly high bar. I can see comparing _this_ game to _that_ game as useful, but saying _this_ game looks better than _cherrypicked example of badness_ says little. Is _Batman Beyond_ a particularly bad looking game? I have no idea, and an opinion is not even offered.
The Zook games really skirt the line between bootleg/knockoff and unlicensed clone. Clearly, the character sprites have crossed that line, but some of the other graphics are just distinct enough.
There's a certain charm that comes from finding a good bootleg It's a similar satisfaction I get from finding an obscure movie that no one seems to talk about
I actually had the Mig-29 cartridge growing up. It was chrome! I absolutely loved that game. None of my friends had ever heard about it. I don't even remember how I got it, lol. The soundtrack is amazing. I still find myself humming it to this day. Codemasters made some bangers on NES.
@@invisimine That's great. My family was robbed, then my dad left us, then everything fell apart and everything I ever owned was lost. It taught me a valuable lesson about how little stuff is actually worth. It's just stuff. But hey, happy for you.
@@invisimine Is my Lord and savior. Like I said, material possessions mean practically nothing to me now. It's amazing. All those old games I can carry around in my pocket on a cheap Chinese handheld, so what was really lost? Lol, all is well. My apologies for the macabre reply. Caught me at an odd time. I do have many things now, and I wouldn't miss any of them if they disappeared tomorrow. Family and Jesus are all that matters.
Yeah, English patch dev here. I used more proper Midis to fix some audio corruption issues on some builds of Kemulator. However, it seems like I never... Posted a midi sources file with the patched file. My apologies. The funniest part is, the original release also just used midis from VGMusic it seems!
Water Margin has to mention that the game is just a "re-skin" of the game Knights of the Round by Capcom. The entire game was made by copying Knights of the Round frame by frame. The 3 selectable characters, the moves/movements, enemies, the poses, the gameplay, absolutely everything was copied from Knights of the Round, just the sprites were redesigned.
A little fun fact: There is a BOOTLEG version of Brave Battle Saga on the NES. Also, is kinda funny that I played at least 80% of these bootlegs on the video.
There's also a GBC port of Brave Battle Saga I believe. What good bootleg games would you recommend I cover in the future? I'm alwats on the lookout for more games :D
@@yichlyichl4204 Piko put their release of Brave Battle Saga on to Steam. It uses the existing fan-translation - pulled from RHDN at Piko's insistence - but with any mention of the translator group removed.
I love the attention you give to these really neat games. I feel as though I've been conditioned to snub any kind of bootleg as "just another crummy Chinese knock-off", when the reality is that a lot of these are fans lovingly recreating and reassembling their favourite games without a lot of resources at their disposal. You've completely shifted my perspective!
The first Dynasty Warriors bootleg is actually Tenchi wo Kurau (based on the title card), which does use the same material as Dynasty Warriors (Romance of the Three Kingdoms) but is a different series entirely but a lot of people probably won't notice that.
I still have that one bootleg Genesis game, brave battle saga, I got way back in the day after watching your video on it and it still remains one of my fave RPGs on the genesis. Thanks for this video St1ka
This is one of my favorite videos that I've ever seen. You have such a wonderful way of expressing how impressive these bootlegs are, and you are specifically the reason for me to keep watching. I've never seen any of these bootlegs, and my man, your energy is perfect. Keep this up bro, you deserve success in this pursuit.
All of Hummer Team's NES games are fantastic. Their fighting engine is top notch, perfected at Street Fighter 3 (often called Super Fighter 3), SF2 demake. They also ported Lion King, Aladdin and Earthworm Jim from the snes to the NES, with very playable results
Great vid. Some info on a couple of the carts: The English Zook shown in this video is one of two releases of the game by Winsen, a very old pirate cart company from back in the day when Vast Fame was still in business. Li Cheng is still around though, and they sell their carts new in box, so they come with manuals and everything. Unfortunately they introduced bugs into some of their releases. The Li Cheng Zook dump is not a bad dump, it just comes from a broken release of the game Fantastic Battle Simulator on the other hand just has emulator issues. The crashes don't happen on the original cart (I've heard, haven't tried it myself)
Water Margin since it's been re-released is now a licensed game, published by Piko Interactive for the Evercade. Any licensing for the "original" consoles, is as obsolete as the estates of Homer and Richard Strauss coming after 2001 Space Odyssey.
17:03 No, what are you talking about? I immediately recognize Knight of the Round and Warrior of Fate bootleg sprites, those games were pretty popular back then.
I'm not gonna lie, when you mentioned Tiny Toon Adventures 6 I legitimately thought it's some funny Chinese/Taiwanese sprite swap. I wouldn't expect it to be an unofficial port of a GameBoy game!
The Game Water Margin did have an official release. It's called Knights of the Round, and it was made by Capcom. Water Margin is just a reskin of that game. You should totally play Knights of the Round. It's one of the most fun arcade hack n slashes ever made.
The Water Margin game gives off Knights of the Round/King of Dragons Beat 'em UP vibes with how the enemies look too Now I REALLY want to play Brave Battle Saga as well...
Ever since I have watched VInesauce and Rerez covering bootleg/unofficial games and consoles, they do have a well deserved stigma for being knockoff products in hopes that some fool will give them money. This ideology still stands to this day with countries that have little to no copyright laws enacting or affecting them. Case in point, Zook, Fire Emblem, and Castlevania What I do end up seeing here is definitely an improvement of that stigma; an unofficial port of Tiny Toons that is able to compete with the real product, an ambitious shoot 'em up that went under the radar, an original arcade game, and an unofficial demake of FF7. Those things take skill, and some of them might be even made for love, like the demake. You rarely can say that about unofficial games with less budget than Action 52. For once I like seeing that positive side of this (and heck, I did not even know it existed). I'm already planning on adding some of these to my collection. Gread video!
The dynasty warrior bootleg are actually a mix of knights of valour (arcade), warrior of fate (arcade) and some images of dynasty warriors. You can use the same combat in warrior of fate arrorw down + front +atk for combo. Up+down + atk for super atm. Atk+jump for break attack by sacrifice some hp.
"Brave Battle Saga" is a great game, I played it to the end, it's a quality, full-fledged and very long JRPG on SEGA. I had a cartridge when I was a kid, but it was probably defective, it had a battery slot, and I changed the battery, but the save still didn't work, and this version was also called "Final Fantasy" (probably the pirates decided that with such a name the game would be easier to sell). But recently I managed to play this game from start to finish on an emulator =)
Interestingly, Langrisser I was the only game released into the U.S. by Japan. It was renamed Warsong and was distributed by Treco for the Sega Genesis. Langrisser II came out for the Japanese Sega. If you download the ROM, there is a patch that translates everything to English. The second game plays like the first but has more things to do.
I don't know if you've covered it already but Hyper Pacman is another good bootleg arcade game. It plays like standard Pac-Man but there's power ups for speeding up, jumping like Pac-Mania, shields and lasers like Raimais, there's boss fights like Raimais, the music's good, it's a bit easy and short at only 30 levels and 3 bosses but it's pretty fun.
Played the improved version of the FF7 demake last month and it's pretty good! The biggest problem is you see the same enemies throughout the whole game. Doesn't matter if you're in the Northern Creator or first Mako reactor. It's an FF3 Romhack btw :]
This video was great. I obtained most of the GBC games only to discover they need a special emulator in most cases. You can't drag/drop to FPGA cores or most portable emulators and expect them to work.
I saw the bootleg FFVII one at a store and I thought it was a joke. Really cool to see that it is a complete game. A lot of love poured into it for sure
How would Zook not be awesome when it combined Mega Man and Robocop? The second game looks cool too. It's like Super Mario Word mixed with Adventure Island.
Hey St1ka, Thanks for another great video! I haven't heard about any of those games, and there are some pretty good games in the list! In fact, I liked so much your videos that since I first met your youtube channel, I've been watching all your videos by release order. And after watching some of your older videos, I must say you did a great job telling about some of Brazil's videogame history. Considering that you record your videos in english and the fact that our countries histories are intertwined, I guess you're the most qualified person on youtube to understand the context and culture of Brazil, since we have some cultural similarities besides the language we both speak. I also must say I'm pretty surprised by how much similarities our countries share in gaming history and our taste for videogames. And now that I know you're portuguese, maybe I'll start commenting only in portuguese hahaha Anyway, just wanted to thank and congratulate you for the great work! Um grande abraço do Brasil!
To the unfamiliar, the Dragon Ball brawler at 0:03 is called Dragon Bowl, by the Korean studio Nics. On top of being an unlicensed Dragon Ball game, it uses the engine of the Ninja Gaiden arcade game without Tecmo's permission.
13:50 about Tiny Toons sound: indeed sounds better, but the sound was taken directly from the original NES game, this team did not compose any of it :) Nice video as always. Regards.
Also @@st1ka The Tengen release of Rolling Thunder is a unlicensed western localized release of the Japanese version by Namco which was actually officially released in America in the Namco Museum archives collection (Rolling Thunder was in Volume 2).
I love your coverage of good bootleg games. On youtube, it's hard to learn about good bootlegs bc all too many videos end up being some american guy playing the cheapest and most broken pokemon-themed sonic romhack in the world while spewing sinophobic bile for 40 minutes. It's always a pleasure to see someone give the subject the time of day
@@st1ka i feel like it's because those said reviewers feel like they need to make what's being reviewed the most shameless as possible the concept of bootleg is when you either steal assets from already existing games or make a game that advertises itself to be a game that uses a certain property that doesn't belong to you and bootlegs are also generally sold so then you have something that takes stuff from other places, and is sold it also has to be bad in order to the review to work, or else people would talk about how it's a hidden gem and all
That Water Margin game expects you to know the original novel... but if you DO know the original novel, you'd be like "wait, why is there a girl fighting alongside the bandits?" My guess is that they just gender-flipped one of the dudes because ancient Chinese authors didn't like fighting women, but gamers who play beat-em-ups want another Maki in the world.
Castlevania Resurrection is actually called 梦回秦陵-千年之殇 (Dream of the Qin Tomb - Millenium of War) The track at 24:10 is actually the official midi version from Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow for J2ME.
We used to play a nes game called dead fox that was similar to rolling thunder. Afterwards we saw a bit of rolling thunder on a gaming tv show and were really curious about it.
About Castlevania Reincarnation, the original being called prince of qin reincarnation makes it also an unofficial spin-off in the "Qin" universe, as "Object Software Limited" made all their games in said universe, with titles like: "prince of Qin" and "World of Qin", so I guess it's a bootleg Castlevania turned into unofficial spin-off Prince of Qin game
EDITED COMMENT: You called out Morrigan from Darkstalkers and Rinoa from Final Fantasy 8 appearing in that Queen Fighter 2000 game, but there's another: Tesse from the Sunsoft fighting game Waku Waku 7 (in the maid outfit with hair covering her eyes).
I love how scuffed Zook Hero Z's box art looks. It _almost_ looks right, but all the artwork is mismatched, and Bright Man and Dust Man are duplicated for some reason.
The Tiny Toons 6 game is a hack of the Konami made TIny Toon Adventures for NES. The Soundtrack, the sound effects, and the sprites are taken from it. That's why the music rivals a Konami title...because it's Konami music ;)
Bom Diaz ;) Very interesting selection. I kinda think romhacks+fan games deserve their own videos and are very different from bootlegs as bootlegs are for profit.
The girl in Water Margin has exactly the same move sprites of Lancelot in Knights of the Round. Wish you showcased the other 2 characters a bit too, to check if they matched Arthur and Percival moves lol.
Buzz & Waldog looks fun. Tiny Toon Advetures 6 also looks fun! Water Margin also also looks fun!! Lord of the Rings: Return of the King looks really fun!
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honestly I didnt even notice, feel better brother
You sound fine
The Zook Games sound too much like Santana's music at times. xD
I pray you will feel better soon. Having the flu is a nightmare
I hope you get feeling better soon! As we can't have any sick people suffering here!
I think the reason Morrigan is a nurse, in Queen Fighter 2000, is because that was one of her combo costumes in Pocket Fighter lol
Makes sense 😅
she also has figures available in her nurse outfit, it seems to be a thing with her. Is she a nurse when in the human realm?
@@ChibiKami I didn't know that. Could be! Like how Felicia was a nun?
I like how the Tiny Toons one used the Buster and Plucky sprites from the other NES games but didn’t have one for Hampton so he looks way different.
They should have made Fifi instead :3
That's a good point lol
@@st1ka It's the reason the music sounds so good for a Hummer Team game- they just ripped the music from the original NES game.
Hampton 😮I always thought it was Hamlot or something 😅
Hampton was playable in Tiny Toon Adventures 2: Trouble in Wackyland though- strange they didn't use that one.
At first I thought your wizard pixel art over the babe I'm Bubble Bath Babes was supposed to be there. It matched the form of the woman so perfectly 😂
Haha
"I'm playnig FF7 Demastered"
"You mean REmastered."
"I know what I said."
You can now play 3 different versions of ff7 for different systems it's kinda funny xD
@@st1ka Very good work on the graphic, now if some famitracker expert could improve the tunes this would be an instant classic
My game freezes after leaving the first Mako reactor. Does anyone else have this problem?
ff7 remake disc 3 hasnt even been published at the time of this comment
@@projectmayhem6898the game is bugged
thank you for praising games instead of bashing hard work, we need more positivity for gaming and game devs
I do what I can ^^
I can only upvote this once, so here's a reply as a 10x multiplier.
As a counterargument, it's not much of a compliment that a bootleg has better graphics than (particular official game.) There's a _lot_ of bad games that get official releases, making that a not particularly high bar. I can see comparing _this_ game to _that_ game as useful, but saying _this_ game looks better than _cherrypicked example of badness_ says little.
Is _Batman Beyond_ a particularly bad looking game? I have no idea, and an opinion is not even offered.
Agreed!!!
Meh
Why Bash ANYTHING then ?
damn, was not expecting evil king piccolo to make an appearance in rolling thunder
Hehe
hes not even really evil,,,
Whenever Java games are mentioned you got my attention
@@CyprusBeyblade hehe
only +18 bait thumbnails get my attention
The Zook games really skirt the line between bootleg/knockoff and unlicensed clone. Clearly, the character sprites have crossed that line, but some of the other graphics are just distinct enough.
Yep very true
Actually, Rolling Thunder on the NES isn’t a bootleg. They did release in Japanese Market officially before Tengen talked to Namco about that deal.
I think that was implied when they said 'launched in the west.' The famicom version is also a bit different.
@@PeperonyChease What was the difference between the Japanese version and Tengen version?
There's a certain charm that comes from finding a good bootleg
It's a similar satisfaction I get from finding an obscure movie that no one seems to talk about
Yep completely agreed :D
I actually had the Mig-29 cartridge growing up. It was chrome! I absolutely loved that game. None of my friends had ever heard about it. I don't even remember how I got it, lol. The soundtrack is amazing. I still find myself humming it to this day. Codemasters made some bangers on NES.
It's such a cool game! And yeah that euro-style soundtrack is so good
I still have it
@@invisimine That's great. My family was robbed, then my dad left us, then everything fell apart and everything I ever owned was lost. It taught me a valuable lesson about how little stuff is actually worth. It's just stuff. But hey, happy for you.
@@Lost_n_Found_1 Jesus Christ
@@invisimine Is my Lord and savior. Like I said, material possessions mean practically nothing to me now. It's amazing. All those old games I can carry around in my pocket on a cheap Chinese handheld, so what was really lost? Lol, all is well. My apologies for the macabre reply. Caught me at an odd time. I do have many things now, and I wouldn't miss any of them if they disappeared tomorrow. Family and Jesus are all that matters.
This video is a good reminder of why I'm subscribed to you. The amount of work, research and effort is put into this, I'm impressed.
Hehe thank you:D
It's kinda cool that Piko Interactive have been putting some of these bootlegs on Steam
Yep agreed :D
@@Nirakolov and Qubyte (a Brazilian publisher) is bringing some of those Piko games to the consoles
@@GeovaneSanciniSRcircle of life lol
Whoa! This uses my MIDI "Castle Corridor" theme in Castlevania Reincarnation
@st1ka where is the group that made cv reincarnation?
You can find the translation in this discord server: discord.gg/jKR2yCWg
Yeah, English patch dev here. I used more proper Midis to fix some audio corruption issues on some builds of Kemulator. However, it seems like I never... Posted a midi sources file with the patched file. My apologies. The funniest part is, the original release also just used midis from VGMusic it seems!
Water Margin has to mention that the game is just a "re-skin" of the game Knights of the Round by Capcom. The entire game was made by copying Knights of the Round frame by frame. The 3 selectable characters, the moves/movements, enemies, the poses, the gameplay, absolutely everything was copied from Knights of the Round, just the sprites were redesigned.
Even so, it's an impressive bootleg :D
A little fun fact: There is a BOOTLEG version of Brave Battle Saga on the NES.
Also, is kinda funny that I played at least 80% of these bootlegs on the video.
There's also a GBC port of Brave Battle Saga I believe. What good bootleg games would you recommend I cover in the future? I'm alwats on the lookout for more games :D
I like how it's on Steam, personally.
@@pyrotictiger9930 I have the steam version, got as a birthday gift a few years ago.
@@pyrotictiger9930 It's WHAT
@@yichlyichl4204 Piko put their release of Brave Battle Saga on to Steam. It uses the existing fan-translation - pulled from RHDN at Piko's insistence - but with any mention of the translator group removed.
Water Margin got all them Knights of the Round sprites edited, ya'll ain't slick, lol.
Those dynasty warrior games look incredibly playable for a gbc game. Ridiculously smooth in a way ive never seen on gameboy
I love the attention you give to these really neat games. I feel as though I've been conditioned to snub any kind of bootleg as "just another crummy Chinese knock-off", when the reality is that a lot of these are fans lovingly recreating and reassembling their favourite games without a lot of resources at their disposal.
You've completely shifted my perspective!
You have no idea how much that means to me! :)
Buzz & Waldog seems very familiar to MC Kids for NES. That game is a key collecting game too. MC Kids was absolutely inspired by Mario 3 too.
Yeah it definitely gives an MC kids vibe
Nostalgia kick!!!!! OMG I love Weird Al, so ready for this videooooooooooo!!!!!
Hope you'll enjoy it :D
Water Margin is totally Knights of the Round!!!!!!!!! LOVE that game!
Great video, even though you had to mention my repressed childhood nightmare that was trying to land the plane in Top Gun.
Sorry xD
The first Dynasty Warriors bootleg is actually Tenchi wo Kurau (based on the title card), which does use the same material as Dynasty Warriors (Romance of the Three Kingdoms) but is a different series entirely but a lot of people probably won't notice that.
Man. I would LOVE to see FF7 on the SNES. It would look SO GOOD!!
I still have that one bootleg Genesis game, brave battle saga, I got way back in the day after watching your video on it and it still remains one of my fave RPGs on the genesis. Thanks for this video St1ka
Glad you enjoyed it :D
This is one of my favorite videos that I've ever seen. You have such a wonderful way of expressing how impressive these bootlegs are, and you are specifically the reason for me to keep watching. I've never seen any of these bootlegs, and my man, your energy is perfect. Keep this up bro, you deserve success in this pursuit.
@@funnerfunerals thank you! I try ^^
"Bubble bath babes is not great. . ."
Bro, it's amazing for before the time of easily available internet.
Bubble Bath Babes actually got a censored reskin as "Mermaids of Atlantis" which *was* licensed for sale by Nintendo.
That's pretty hilarious haha
sheesh. why even bother
All of Hummer Team's NES games are fantastic. Their fighting engine is top notch, perfected at Street Fighter 3 (often called Super Fighter 3), SF2 demake. They also ported Lion King, Aladdin and Earthworm Jim from the snes to the NES, with very playable results
Hummer team deserved better
Great vid. Some info on a couple of the carts:
The English Zook shown in this video is one of two releases of the game by Winsen, a very old pirate cart company from back in the day when Vast Fame was still in business. Li Cheng is still around though, and they sell their carts new in box, so they come with manuals and everything. Unfortunately they introduced bugs into some of their releases. The Li Cheng Zook dump is not a bad dump, it just comes from a broken release of the game
Fantastic Battle Simulator on the other hand just has emulator issues. The crashes don't happen on the original cart (I've heard, haven't tried it myself)
Thanks man ^^
Water Margin since it's been re-released is now a licensed game, published by Piko Interactive for the Evercade.
Any licensing for the "original" consoles, is as obsolete as the estates of Homer and Richard Strauss coming after 2001 Space Odyssey.
Fun fact: the Konami JRPG series Suikoden is also (VERY loosely) inspired by The Water Margin!
17:03 No, what are you talking about? I immediately recognize Knight of the Round and Warrior of Fate bootleg sprites, those games were pretty popular back then.
I will not stand for st1ka disrespecting Hampton J. Pig like that.
Haha
I'm not gonna lie, when you mentioned Tiny Toon Adventures 6 I legitimately thought it's some funny Chinese/Taiwanese sprite swap. I wouldn't expect it to be an unofficial port of a GameBoy game!
Right?! Even I was shocked the first time I played it
I like Zook's "Abadox" type explosion sound.
The Game Water Margin did have an official release. It's called Knights of the Round, and it was made by Capcom. Water Margin is just a reskin of that game. You should totally play Knights of the Round. It's one of the most fun arcade hack n slashes ever made.
Thank you for your much apreciated love for bootleg stuff
All the "bootleg = bad" reviews were getting boring
Yeah I've gotten really tired of how bootlegs are treated
I like the concept of Evil Stone(6:39). With a little bit of work, I can see this being a successful game on the App Store.
The Water Margin game gives off Knights of the Round/King of Dragons Beat 'em UP vibes with how the enemies look too
Now I REALLY want to play Brave Battle Saga as well...
If you do, I hope you'll enjoy them :D
Ever since I have watched VInesauce and Rerez covering bootleg/unofficial games and consoles, they do have a well deserved stigma for being knockoff products in hopes that some fool will give them money. This ideology still stands to this day with countries that have little to no copyright laws enacting or affecting them. Case in point, Zook, Fire Emblem, and Castlevania
What I do end up seeing here is definitely an improvement of that stigma; an unofficial port of Tiny Toons that is able to compete with the real product, an ambitious shoot 'em up that went under the radar, an original arcade game, and an unofficial demake of FF7. Those things take skill, and some of them might be even made for love, like the demake. You rarely can say that about unofficial games with less budget than Action 52.
For once I like seeing that positive side of this (and heck, I did not even know it existed). I'm already planning on adding some of these to my collection. Gread video!
The dynasty warrior bootleg are actually a mix of knights of valour (arcade), warrior of fate (arcade) and some images of dynasty warriors. You can use the same combat in warrior of fate arrorw down + front +atk for combo. Up+down + atk for super atm. Atk+jump for break attack by sacrifice some hp.
"Brave Battle Saga" is a great game, I played it to the end, it's a quality, full-fledged and very long JRPG on SEGA. I had a cartridge when I was a kid, but it was probably defective, it had a battery slot, and I changed the battery, but the save still didn't work, and this version was also called "Final Fantasy" (probably the pirates decided that with such a name the game would be easier to sell). But recently I managed to play this game from start to finish on an emulator =)
So many games I would like to had the chance to play when I was a child
Interestingly, Langrisser I was the only game released into the U.S. by Japan. It was renamed Warsong and was distributed by Treco for the Sega Genesis. Langrisser II came out for the Japanese Sega. If you download the ROM, there is a patch that translates everything to English. The second game plays like the first but has more things to do.
A trailer with Weird Al? Win, lol
Heck yeah:D
i love these good old MIDI-Sounds
I like that you put a lot of effort talking about so many games in less than one Hour. keep it up
I don't know if you've covered it already but Hyper Pacman is another good bootleg arcade game. It plays like standard Pac-Man but there's power ups for speeding up, jumping like Pac-Mania, shields and lasers like Raimais, there's boss fights like Raimais, the music's good, it's a bit easy and short at only 30 levels and 3 bosses but it's pretty fun.
I definitely hope to cover Hyper Pacman in the future.
45:28 got to love the 8-Bit sound for this game
Mig 29 reminds me a lot of Raptor Call of the Shadows, which can only be a good thing.
Evil Stones graphics are very appealing it looks awesome.
The Zook gameboy advance reaction was hilarious 😂
Played the improved version of the FF7 demake last month and it's pretty good! The biggest problem is you see the same enemies throughout the whole game. Doesn't matter if you're in the Northern Creator or first Mako reactor. It's an FF3 Romhack btw :]
That ffVII bootleg was a labour of frickin love!
This video was great. I obtained most of the GBC games only to discover they need a special emulator in most cases. You can't drag/drop to FPGA cores or most portable emulators and expect them to work.
Sorry! Yeah bootleg GBC emulation is still in its infancy in many ways :/
I saw the bootleg FFVII one at a store and I thought it was a joke. Really cool to see that it is a complete game. A lot of love poured into it for sure
How would Zook not be awesome when it combined Mega Man and Robocop? The second game looks cool too. It's like Super Mario Word mixed with Adventure Island.
That FF7 NES game was such faithful a port it even gave you the "disc 2 unplayable" bug of the first batch of FF7 games.
Haha
For Evil Stone: If you'd like a more simple version, it seems like Star Tropics with the jumping mechanism. Beware though, it's a hard AF game
The first thing that popped into my mind was crazy Kong from the arcades. It was Donkey Kong but you played all four stages in a row every time.
I wonder what you would consider Final Fight LNS Ultimate to be. It is basically a fan-made Final Fight at its core, but has a LOT added to it.
Mal… Malkovitch?! YOU’RE ALIVE?!
that Buzz and Waldog game also looks like it was took some Bonks adventure gameplay.
Wow Mig 29 premisse is incredible.
Right?!
Hello st1ka ignore the negative comments and I hope you will upload more of this bootlegs and homebrews games 😊
@@fantoon670 thank you! I try ^^
Excellent episode, these game boy color games are impressive, I will try out
Thanks for the researsh and for share
Sempre às ordens, Pyron! :D
12:24 Tiny Toon 6. I remember a Tiny Toons game but I did not know they made six of them. I believe I played it either on a Sega or Super Nintendo
Hey St1ka, Thanks for another great video! I haven't heard about any of those games, and there are some pretty good games in the list!
In fact, I liked so much your videos that since I first met your youtube channel, I've been watching all your videos by release order. And after watching some of your older videos, I must say you did a great job telling about some of Brazil's videogame history. Considering that you record your videos in english and the fact that our countries histories are intertwined, I guess you're the most qualified person on youtube to understand the context and culture of Brazil, since we have some cultural similarities besides the language we both speak. I also must say I'm pretty surprised by how much similarities our countries share in gaming history and our taste for videogames. And now that I know you're portuguese, maybe I'll start commenting only in portuguese hahaha
Anyway, just wanted to thank and congratulate you for the great work!
Um grande abraço do Brasil!
@@sandroconrado7417 Muito obrigado! Tenho saudades de fazer um video sobre a história do Brasil lol
35:21 I was looking in your description and I thought that this was going to be like a Bubble Bobble game too bad you can't get enough of those games
To the unfamiliar, the Dragon Ball brawler at 0:03 is called Dragon Bowl, by the Korean studio Nics. On top of being an unlicensed Dragon Ball game, it uses the engine of the Ninja Gaiden arcade game without Tecmo's permission.
I wonder if anybody made a drinking game where they take a shot after every single time he said try it out if you can😂
13:50 about Tiny Toons sound: indeed sounds better, but the sound was taken directly from the original NES game, this team did not compose any of it :)
Nice video as always. Regards.
Aaah makes sense 😅
Rolling Thunder...I remember playing that game on our Famicom back in the day.
It's a super fun game :D
@@st1ka it is! :D
Also @@st1ka The Tengen release of Rolling Thunder is a unlicensed western localized release of the Japanese version by Namco which was actually officially released in America in the Namco Museum archives collection (Rolling Thunder was in Volume 2).
I love your coverage of good bootleg games. On youtube, it's hard to learn about good bootlegs bc all too many videos end up being some american guy playing the cheapest and most broken pokemon-themed sonic romhack in the world while spewing sinophobic bile for 40 minutes. It's always a pleasure to see someone give the subject the time of day
As someone who grew up playing bootlegs, it often bothered me how all bootleg coverage on TH-cam was always done in bad faith
@@st1ka i feel like it's because those said reviewers feel like they need to make what's being reviewed the most shameless as possible
the concept of bootleg is when you either steal assets from already existing games or make a game that advertises itself to be a game that uses a certain property that doesn't belong to you
and bootlegs are also generally sold
so then you have something that takes stuff from other places, and is sold
it also has to be bad in order to the review to work, or else people would talk about how it's a hidden gem and all
That Water Margin game expects you to know the original novel... but if you DO know the original novel, you'd be like "wait, why is there a girl fighting alongside the bandits?"
My guess is that they just gender-flipped one of the dudes because ancient Chinese authors didn't like fighting women, but gamers who play beat-em-ups want another Maki in the world.
Haha makes sense
Much love for Final Fantasy 7 NES Demake
Castlevania Resurrection is actually called 梦回秦陵-千年之殇 (Dream of the Qin Tomb - Millenium of War)
The track at 24:10 is actually the official midi version from Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow for J2ME.
Oh interesting! The source I originally found used a different name xD
@@st1ka I'm going by what @RasgarBlue says since he has done extensive research on these Chinese Castlevania knockoffs!
Ah I'll check it out
Dang, I think I might actually check out water margin. That looks really solid.
@@WrestlingWithGaming it's a really fun game imo :D
Loved this video. Having your volume up on future videos would be helpful. A bit hard to hear you at times.
We used to play a nes game called dead fox that was similar to rolling thunder. Afterwards we saw a bit of rolling thunder on a gaming tv show and were really curious about it.
WAIT WAIT WAIT! That portrait isnt Barret Wallace, that's Bian Zoldark from Super Robot Wars!
So happy that the Swedish baker from Family Guy is making A+ TH-cam content.
About Castlevania Reincarnation, the original being called prince of qin reincarnation makes it also an unofficial spin-off in the "Qin" universe, as "Object Software Limited" made all their games in said universe, with titles like: "prince of Qin" and "World of Qin", so I guess it's a bootleg Castlevania turned into unofficial spin-off Prince of Qin game
EDITED COMMENT: You called out Morrigan from Darkstalkers and Rinoa from Final Fantasy 8 appearing in that Queen Fighter 2000 game, but there's another: Tesse from the Sunsoft fighting game Waku Waku 7 (in the maid outfit with hair covering her eyes).
whoops! my bad!
I love how scuffed Zook Hero Z's box art looks. It _almost_ looks right, but all the artwork is mismatched, and Bright Man and Dust Man are duplicated for some reason.
The Tiny Toons 6 game is a hack of the Konami made TIny Toon Adventures for NES. The Soundtrack, the sound effects, and the sprites are taken from it. That's why the music rivals a Konami title...because it's Konami music ;)
Haha that explains it
guy sounds like Jontron's "Malkovich's Gaming Guilty Pleasures"
Haven't seen improved version for Final Fantasy VII until now.
Bom Diaz ;)
Very interesting selection. I kinda think romhacks+fan games deserve their own videos and are very different from bootlegs as bootlegs are for profit.
Thanks for digging through the bizarre world of questionably sourced games.
I try my best xD
Wow, was not expecting to see gameplay from Fantasy World Dizzy on the Speccy in this video, one of my favourite games as a kid.
I aim to please ^^
your videos always find their way to me when im not even logged in, just cause its the content i like. keep up the good work
haha I'm glad to hear it :D
The girl in Water Margin has exactly the same move sprites of Lancelot in Knights of the Round. Wish you showcased the other 2 characters a bit too, to check if they matched Arthur and Percival moves lol.
Yeah everyone's moves were basically mirrored from Knights of the Round
lmao. I had that exact same TinyToon game. I didn't even realize it was a bootleg😂
Some of these Games are licensed and released by Blaze for the evercade console and handheld
Yes but that's a recent development :)
Well, the Zook game looks a little too similar to Megaman Xtreme
It's similar but it's using its own engine
Pokemon Diamond and Jade had a way more compelling storyline than any other Pokemon game
Buzz & Waldog looks fun.
Tiny Toon Advetures 6 also looks fun!
Water Margin also also looks fun!!
Lord of the Rings: Return of the King looks really fun!
I do feel king of ring is the weakest game, it's a little too janky for its own good xD