Sonic Game Boy Bootlegs - But does it work on Real Hardware?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 31 พ.ค. 2024
- Are you a fan of Sonic on the Game Boy Advance? Then why not try Sonic on the original Game Boy and Game Boy Colour? Or should the question be, do they even work on the systems? It's time to put the infamous Sonic 3D Blast 5, Sonic Adventure 7 and Sonic Adventure 8 (aka Sonic 8) to the test. Also, a certain yellow Pokémon makes an appearance.
CHAPTERS:
0:00 - Meet the successors
0:50 - Tonight's hardware
1:38 - Obtaining the best picture quality
2:09 - Sonic 3D Blast 5 overview
4:17 - Cheater!
6:47 - The Game Boy goes super!
7:32 - Sonic 3D Blast 5 rating
7:37 - Sonic Adventure 7 overview
9:41 - The GB USB smart card 64M
10:15 - Sonic Adventure 7 rating
10:21 - Sonic Adventure 8 overview
10:46 - The Super Game Boy goes super!
11:42 - Checksum and other issues
12:26 - Sonic Adventure 8 rating
12:33 - Pokémon Jade and it's rating
13:27 - Conclusion 64
13:48 - Outro
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SOURCES:
The fastest and easiest way to flash the EMS usb 64m - • The fastest and easies...
Game Boy ROM Analyzer - www.romhacking.net/utilities/...
Sonic the Hedgehog - Blasting Adventure - sonicfangameshq.com/forums/sh...
DOWNLOADS:
Sonic 3D Blast 5 - info.sonicretro.org/Sonic_3D_B...
Sonic Adventure 7 - info.sonicretro.org/Sonic_3D_B...
Sonic Adventure 8 - info.sonicretro.org/Sonic_3D_B...
Pokemon Jade (Special Pikachu Edition) - hhug.me/?post=83
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#GameBoy #SonicBootlegs #BDIWORH - เกม
First BDIWORH in 4K, baby! Also, you may have noticed that at 2:09, I have a disc called ‘Swiss’ instead of the Game Boy Player (GBP) disc. Swiss is used to loading up another software called the ‘Game Boy interface’ (GBi) which is far more superior and rich in features compared to the Game Boy Player’s software. This is to make the display look sharp as possible and in 4K as the GBP is pretty soft. THIS DOES NOT AFFECT THE HARDWARE and it's still using the Game Boy Player hardware; only the software was swapped. And just to be sure, I did quickly try all games using the GBP software off-camera and it resulted in the exact conclusion as the GBi.
Also, yet again, thank you all for your incredible patience! The next BDIWORH will be the Sonic port on the commodore 64. Hopefully, within the next 2 months (time still isn’t on my side), I’ll make it worth the wait, I promise! 😊
Neat…
Good afternoon here from Peru!
I'm so sorry to ask this but...
Can you do one of the Sonic Debut rom hack?
So your gonna live stream these games right?
NO NOT THAT EAR BLEADING GLITCHING MESSES
Buuuuuuuuuuuuut he's still goanna live stream sonic blasting adventure
I knew the wait was worth it, a update for it not being before Christmas was still needed tho.
"Sonic 3D Blast 5"
That's 5 more 3D Blasts then I'm comfortable with.
Bootleggers are blasting Sonic into the 6th dimension and a million Bits
I hope you win this redhotlawsuit against that bootleg.
wow its him
@@Tetopettenson1 ofcores it him, it red hot and garry dylan
funny level has increased by +405!
Go redhot!
The perfect duo, redhotsonic and garrulous64!
"Shoot my ears off" has to be my favorite joke in the whole video. Laughed way too hard at the scene of you holding a gun to your ear.
2:07 FLEXTAPE CAN'T FIX THAT!!
7:52 and OH MY WORDS, KNUCKLES HAS THE MEASLES!
Brilliant stuff, you actually tested bootlegs. A very strong way to kick-off 2022! Keep rockin'!
my entire existence has been made horrifying because of this video
And now there's an absolutely miniscule part of me that wonders what would have happened had I chosen to buy that Pokemon Jade bootleg in Benidorm 20 years ago, if only to see if an original bootleg cartridge would have worked on the hardware.
I can confirm that it works on real hardware... to a point. It crashes at some points because it's REALLY REALLY BADLY translated and the second you save a number, n o p e.
(OG GBA, btw, no idea how other consoles might work.)
Though it was the one that went with the bootleg "Diamond" version, the Telefang hack and not the Sonichu monster. (the fact there's two different Pokemon Jade bootlegs...)
12:16
“GORDON BERNETT! Shoot my ears off already!” LOLOLOL Gets me every time.
With Sonic Adventure 8, the original cartridge should work on real hardware. I know the available ROM was incredibly hard to get dumped, and had to be modified to work on emulators, so that may cause issue with the Flash Carts. There are some videos floating around of it working on Game Boy Players from the past few years.
Imagine if the makers of these bootlegs are like:
Sonic 3D Blast 5: Oh yeah, let’s just skip out 3D Blast 2, 3 and 4.
Sonic Adventure 7&8: We’ll not count Heroes, 2006 or even World Adventure (Japanese name for Unleashed) and not have 6, let’s just have 7 then 8 the end.
For me, I always thought that Heroes could sort of be Adventure 3, but then it could be Sonic Unleashed that’s Adventure 3 instead (since in Japan it’s known as Sonic World Adventure), it’s a mystery on what’s another Adventure game.
confused by everyone calling 2006 Sonic 06 so they just continued counting?
I feel like sonic 06 is sort of adventure 3
Multiple characters
Branching stories
Finishing all character stories gives you epilogue like ending.
I feel like 06 was meant to be adventure 3 but Sega decided for it to be more of a reboot.
sonic o6 could be adventure 3, as sonic unleashed (world adventure) could be 4.
SH is SA3
SNG is SA4
SU is SA5
SC is SA6
SG is SA9
SF is SA10
SFr is SA11
I'd imagine that the compatibility issues in this case (especially on Sonic 8/Pokemon Jade) are due to inaccurate/missing mapper emulation. The original cart seems to use custom mappers that were never used in official games (or any known homebrew for that matter), and hhugboy was the only emulator that seemed to run it due to its focus on these broken carts/pirate mappers.
I think it's less that more so terrible programming. Like REALLY BAD programming.
@@ExtremeWreck I'm more so talking about flashcart compatibility, the flashcarts like he used in the video have to reimplement/emulate the mappers as well. Due to the relative obscurity of these pirate games and the fact that these games were the only ones that used these mappers, it's very unlikely that they were implemented on the flashcart. Good or bad programming, if your software relies on an external library/device/chip/etc. that isn't present, it simply won't work.
@@TheEssem And what if said mapper alone is filled to the brim with poor implementation?
@@ExtremeWreck That would be a completely different story, the main issue here is the games barely running at all. The only way we would be able to know for sure is if we obtained an original cartridge of the game.
@@TheEssem People have & it's just as barely playable as they are here as far as I'm aware:
th-cam.com/video/t1dgszOHpic/w-d-xo.html
10:46
Redhotsonic: hold on let me sprinkle a few super emeralds on here...
No assistance here apparently.
Anyways here's the Super Game Boy 2, or if you're a fancy person like me, the Hyper Game Boy
I thought Sonic Heroes was Sonic Adventure 3, especially if we're going by Generations logic. lol
In a seriousness though, it's nice to know these bootlegged ROMs work on actual hardware. These have mostly (with the exception of Sonic Adventure 8), been around for ages.
I can't wait for when you do Sonic Fighter for the GBA lol
Tenicaly Heroes is Adventure 3, and i guess Shadow The Hedgehog would be 4 (not compleatly sure about that one) and 2006 would be 5, being the last Adventure Style game with Unleashed starting the Modern Boost Era on consoles
@@NerdGames864ooo sweet 🥹
12:10 Since this issue doesn't exist on the real cart, there's nothing deceitful about fixing it. The original cartridge uses a mapper unsupported by emulators and flash carts, so you've been using a patched ROM to begin with.
I wouldn't be surprised if these were made using a modified Super Mario Land 2 engine. It would certainly explain why you can only defeat enemies by jumping on top of them.
Except unlike these bootlegs Super Mario Land 2 is an actual good game
If they used SML2’s engine and modified it, they did a good job making it terrible.
That makes sense lol
Honestly i would believe it would be Super Mario Land 1 instead
@@Fenyx_Birbno Super Mario Land engine is better than this bootlegs
6:58 The chaos emaralds were so powerful that it even shifted me during transformation.
Definitely not an error on my editing skills.Nope, not at all!
Took almost 15 to 25 minutes to pause at the exact time
You can do frame advance on desktop using either the , and . keys, or the < and > keys.
fun fact there is a gameboy color game that uses fmv (non compressed) but ony to show the THQ logo
The Spike Big Makes A Return 3:54 😭
Always a wonderful time with these videos, from the extra attention you give for a full test, to lots of sprinkled gags throughout to keep us engaged.
I really loved Sonic being yeeted out the door. That's quality.
EHHOOH!
7:52 That music gave me "It came from the Green Hell Zone" vibes. I must be paranoid from Badnik Mechanic's videos. XD
I am in love with how vitriolic he is about mentioning the spike bug
Special Thanks to the guy who liked this comment 2 months after I made it, making me realize I typed "without vitriolic"
Someone in my daycare had 2 gameboy multicarts, and Sonic 5 was in the Super Color 21-in-1 (right next to Super Mario 4!).
Hello redhotsonic, My gba sp (PAL) runs Sonic 8 on my EZ-FLASH JR. Perfectly fine!
No matter what you cover, it's always awesome seeing one of these videos show up in my notification feed. Your stuff has and keeps on getting better and better! Looking forward to your next upload already RHS.
2:45 If I recall Sonic pocket adventure used flying battery act 2 as boss music on the Neo Geo pocket color
Yeah but there it was descent here its like literally designed to hurt the ears and thats saying alot as the choices didint fit the game at all
6:52 that was clever lol
10:47 clever the sequel!
Hi redhotsonic, if you’re reading this. I really like your videos, Thank you for reading my comment. You work really hard you need to hit the 200k milestone
Need to hit 100k first 😝
Great video RedHotSonic as always. Happy New Year to you both too 😀
Man I have not watched you in a while it's nice to see your doing well!
You didn't answer the most important question: But does Vegas work on Real Hardware?
i'd say *PARTIA-[Vegas Pro has stopped working]*
Depends on the CPU.
No
7:54
Forget the measels, how about the fact that Knuckles is green?
See you're using the X-treme ost. Good this (unofficial) soundtrack is gold. Keep up the great work
0:18 there are 3 versions, Genesis, Saturn, and PC, also I am the one who finished the:
sonic 3d blast 5
adventure 7
adventure 8
sonic retro pages
As much fun as it would be to watch you play these bootlegs on a live stream, I can't in good conscience ask you to go through with that. *shudders in collision detection*
Greatly appreciate this; been having a rough month.
I really respect the fact that you always try to use genuine hardware. I do the same even though I just make commentary videos because it doesn't feel right otherwise
Small to small, do you think I should try making shc2023 on real hardware? It would be pretty low quality though but I love rhs and kinda wanna make it
@littlemacisunderrated412 hey, I'm so sorry I didn't see this comment when you first replied! Yes, go for it man! Some of my videos have very bad visual issues at some points and people still enjoy it. Don't let that stop you from making the content you want dude :)
No wonder it took so long to get this one out 🤣 good effort at trying that bit 100 times over!
I remember mucking about these as roms years ago. Nice to see Sonic sprites on GB, be cool to have a proper sonic game made for original gb.
Awesome to see you doing Game Boy content. I took up hacking the Game Boy recently
Amazing video as usual!
I also did a video on sonic bootlegs on real hardware, and found out the Sonic Adventure 7 will actually run on the original Gameboy and Gameboy Pocket
Interesting
I love this vid great job Redhotsonic
The freezes on Sonic Adventure 7 might not be caused by the save states. YuriofWind did a video on this game years ago and he crashed at the same exact area you did... and gave up.
Awesome video. I had no clue these bootlegs existed until today.
Amazing video as always 👏
Yeahhh time is enjoy an video!
Edit: yeah you should do blasting adventure and also woah that's alot of pain you had to go through
Cant wait for the Commodore video!
Just found your channel, cool video dude
Pokémon Jade certainly should work on real hardware, the cart is just built with custom mapper hardware that flashcarts and most emulators aren't able to handle, but an actual physical card should "work" (though I believe it still crashes after level 1).
Quite possibly. But if it still crashes after level 1, does it really still "work"?
The answer would be yes but the hardware was so disgusted by the fact that you wanted to play a bootleg and not an official game or a romhack that it refused to continue to run the game and as such the game crashed before the console yelled at you and told you to play a better game/j
Maybe the game only has one level?
But why would they release that god awful game, but then not work? (That’s probably for the best.)
Imagine if there were other levels in Pokémon jade that weren't Sonic 3d blast 5 levels and we'll never know
Love your vids redhotsonic
redhotsonic, Sonic blasted adventure are the same 4 bootlegs but with improvements that means the level you died over 100 times will now be easy to pass!
“Live Stream Time”
RHS “Hell To The No, Absolutely Not”
God, that widescreen CRT is so cool
Yep! It's a pvm (professional video monitor) or bvm (broadcast video monitor) if you wanna look more into them
I loved my ears getting blown off my head! Great review!
Well done, RHS! You played through EVERY Sonic bootleg by Yong Yong on the Game Boy, so that *we* don't have to! Big round of applause for RHS!
These bootlegs definitely deserve to be chucked into the fire to burn 😌
Ooh cool nice job covering these sonic game boy bootleg games on real hardware
I waited a long time for this video
Cool a New Real Hardware Video discover!!
Oh hey! I just bought a multicart with 3D Blast 5! Fun stuff.
RHS the crashes on the hour and a half death trap zone you mentioned I think is because you went off screen because every time ( except for the one where you die and sonic got hurt again ) you went off screen when the game crashed.
I love this video you had me laughing the entire time keep up the good work I'm Jason by the way
Yaaaaay you're back! 🎉
You can't get over the same, "master-approved" checkpoint in all the mentioned Game Boy bootlegs. Here's some holy water (🥤). LOL!
Great vid!
Vid idea: BDIWORH for rayman redemption (a remake of the original rayman for PS1)
Also I would love to see blasting adventure
That wouldn't be suitable, as Rayman redemption is only rated to work on modern systems.
Uhh, as long as you don't have a PC from the 90s....yes?
Ah yes, who doesnt remember the protagonists of the first season of the pokemon anime: Jin, ShNy and Gun?
I would love to see you play through Blasting Adventure.
Just as a suggestion, you should give the EZ Flash series a try! The EZ-Flash Jr is an excellent little gameboy rom cart that I use for many of my classic gameboy consoles.
Shadowcat's interactions are always pure gold.
maybe not as gold anymore...
@@polocatfan
Yeah, I'm aware of how poorly all these comments about Shadowcat have aged. Very unfortunate.
Having to subject yourself to _three_ of Makon Soft's awful Sonic bootlegs? That's a big oof from me, friend. What a hell of a way to start the new year! On bright side, at least you didn't have to play Pokémon Adventure with its unkillable enemies.
_(also I totally saw that Pokémon Jade in that homebrew cart list, very nice)_ EDIT: didn't finish watching the video, you mentioned that at the end. Was honestly hoping it was the Telefang bootleg.
I know I'm one year late, but I think it's still cool to share this detail (although someone probably already shared this)
There is one more bootleg just like those 3 Sonic games and the Pokemon Jade: Special Pikachu Edition (that is the one that you reviewed). This one is called Pokemon Adventure, and it actually have different levels (but all the other problems still persists)
There is also an bootleg called Pokémon Diamond: Special Pikachu Edition that is an rom hack of an bootleg called Super Mario 3 Special, both also for the GBC
And one last detail that you probably know already, but both the Pokémon Jade that you've reviewed and the Pokémon Diamond that I've just talked about aren't the only bootlegs with that name. There is another Pokémon Diamond/Jade that is an romhack just like every other pokemon bootleg. The difference however is that this one is an bootleg of an game called Keitai Denjuu Telefang that is an official game for the GBC and basically plays like an Pokemon game. Also, the two versions is basically an rom hack of each Telefang version (Diamond is the Power version and Jade is the Speed version)
I applaud your dedication my dear friend
May the dream cast lords bless you ;)
'That what she said'
Never gets old
When he started the music at the start I sounded like he made a joke that is crashed a lot but the video just started loading again lol 😂
You brought up Blast 5 mix and matching zones and bgm but I couldn't recognize any of them for the life of me
I think I know what he's gonna do with that c64 equipment ;)
ah yes iconic Sonic bootleg played these monsterof games on bootleg 20 in 1 carts
i like a lot watching your videos because you are amazing and you are an awesome uk guy RedHotSonic
When the world needed him the most!
Hello, my name is Logan and really everything you say is just pure truth, I have also suffered with these games, I also produce content for TH-cam and I have made videos of these three games, BLAST 5 even had part two and the rest was just a part. I really struggled to record it and I also had to abuse the savestate because getting through this in just one game is impossible but I always thought about the case but I never had the courage to play again because I would have to play several game overs and my mental condition would be ruined. I have the videos. on my channel and I'm a Brazilian TH-camr and I liked your content, good videos man.
10:55 Mario goes to the fridge to get a glass of milk
I like this guy, very entertaining video!
Those screenshots on sonic 3d blast 5 at 3:01 is impressive for the game boy
Nah it doesn't take much effort to take stills from something and convert it to a monochrome palette suitable for the gameboy.
@@Turbulation1 oh
3:59 seems like Bungie played some of this game because I can’t collect things sometimes when I walk over them either
6:05 5 deaths and you're out 🤣🤣
It looks so clean in 4k!
"HA You Wish Yours Was That Big"
RHS: My Disappointment Is Immeasurable And My Day Is Ruined.
Keep on red hot sonic! Btw I luv ur vids
Incrível e divertido vídeo, tenho essas versões no meu Everdrive, e é só risadas
thnx rhs for the video !
He's Back!
a video suggestion makes a video of Dreeamcast homebrew like open sonic, retro sonic and great video 💙
=(
This is everything I imagined Sonic the Hedgehog by LJN would be.
Trust me, it's *far* worse than that would be.
neat
also, the server invite you linked I refuse to agree to because I’m not getting my IP logged by some random site
This is a temporary measure because we've been raided once or twice. All it does is checks it against known spam and VPNs so spammers who got banned stays banned. Either wait until we eventually go back to normal or don't join 🙂
@@redhotsonic ah
I still don’t like my actual ip getting logged but eh
@@redhotsonic why would people even raid your server anyways
what is the song he replaced sonic 3d blast 5's music with, i love it but idk what song it is! (the first track)
8:28 I swear I've heard this music before but can't place my finger in it.
It the sonic 3 carnival night zone prototype and pc version music sorta
Can't expect it to be good. After all, it was made back in the day.
RHS: What's that you want me to live stream these games from beginning to end? (Laughing) No!
Me: Reasonable response.
I actually played sonic adventure 7 for hours on an emulator on a ds a few years ago.
See, I knew it was Sonic Adventure 7, 8, & Sonic 3D Blast 5!