As a Taiwanese, this video just brings back so many memories. The term "神奇寶貝" is an old Taiwanese Mandarin translation of "Pokemon". However, in 2016, Nintendo aimed to "standardize" the translation across Chinese-speaking regions, so they changed it to "寶可夢", which is just a transliteration of "Pokemon". It's heartening to see that somewhere out there, "神奇寶貝" is still on someone's shelf, bearing witness to history.
Elliot after finding a piece of lost media nobody knew about and just peacing out without dumping the rom like nothing happened. Yeah it's a bootleg but it's still lost media
I dumped my copy of the Pokemon Emerald game by Sintax if you are interested. I posted it to the Bootleg Games Central forums under its Chinese name, 口袋妖怪绿宝石
The Pokémon “Green” was probably just Pokémon Blue. It started with the same animation and the sprites are from that game as well. The original Pokémon Green had different (and very ugly) sprites that got redesigned for Blue. Then we got Pokémon Blue sprites for our Red and Blue versions everywhere else in the world.
In the last game (the platformer with Raichu) I'll guess all of this: - The grounds sprites look ripped from Super Mario World - The music and probably some sounds are from GB Castlevania - I'm pretty sure the frame around Mewtwo in the game over screen is from the title screen of Super Mario Bros 2
To this day I watch YT vids like this in hopes to find out the game I played in Kindergarten. It's similar enough to regular Pokemon at a glance, but all you do is throw balls or rocks at some sprites approaching you from the edges of the screen. I know Onyx was one of the sprites, but I don't remember much else anymore. It was what I assumed Pokemon was until I actually played it in 2nd or 3rd grade.
I am jealous of those knock off Pokemon carts. I need to keep a better eye on stuff like that - pretty difficult to find online though since most sites don't allow bootlegs like that for sale.
I love a load of them, I have a few that I've collected over the years because of the novelty of them, you won't find these games for download anywhere else too
@@ashens2 I know someone who got a hold of a copy (I don't think they have a spare though). It is an alternate version of a platformer starring Chikorita
@@ashens2 I recorded a longplay of a Taiwanese copy of the game, which should match Metallic except for the title screen. I listed the video as Pokemon Crystal (SKOB)
I have to admit from an artistic standpoint the box art cartridges and manual work are visually gorgeous except for the dodgy game knock off. 10/10 effort with a Gold Star ⭐️
@@xMLGeezusx Go to the Gameboy section, then click on the ROMs section at the top. My thread should then be close to the top of the list. I placed this game under Sintax in that thread
@@xMLGeezusx From the main page click on the Gameboy section. At the top of the page there is a subsection for preserved games. Click on that and my thread should be close to the top of the page. This game I put under Sintax
I think it’s funny how sometimes in that 2d Pokémon one the level tiles look really good almost like they were taken from Mario world and other times they look absolutely terrible
Your Keith Haring video has really stuck with me since it came out, and recently inspired me to write my final A Level essay in art about him. Thank you for putting so much effort into all your videos!
Looks like a romhack of a wonderboy/monsterworld game with the dropped pink boots and tunic at the start with sprites turned into pokemon.....thats a wierd one.
I have a old bootleg copy of “need for speed” for the gba that i can’t handle anymore, it’s so weird it has a battery and off brand cart designs similar to this
The third game with the charmander, clefairy and squirtle on the front is actually blue version, not green. The jigglypuff battling gengar in the game's intro and the sprites gave it away.
Your Pokemon Green version was actually Blue version with a green pallet and a modified title screen. Pokemon red has a Charmander standing next to the player sprite, blue has a Squirtle and Green has Bulbasaur as the first Pokemon after booting.
I'm just thankful my parents weren't the ones that fell for the fake game or console bs that flew around when I was a kid honestly cause I know explaining why it's the wrong game or console would've been hell
Wait wait, what is that teal gameboy with the led screen that he is using? It looks astonishingly beautiful. Ok he does say analogue pocket, I looked it up and it's pretty pricey for what it is. Still very tempting, lol.
That one game saying Niutiude or whatever on the logo screen probably has something to do with the Analogue Pocket not running it. Also, I thought hacking a custom logo onto that screen while still booting was only possible on the DMG and GB Pocket. Those read the logo from the cartridge once to verify it and then again to display it, making it possible for a cartridge to present the correct Nintendo logo the first time and then the custom one to show. While the GBC and GBA read it once and both check and display what they read.
Is that last one some bootleg Castlevania they put a Pokemon skin on? That music is definitely from the Game Boy trilogy and that attack sound is the Vampire Killer.
Pokemon Green was changed to Blue when it was localized by Nintendo of America because they thought Blue would sell better in the West. Blue is the one that truly never left Japan
I have Pokemon Black and White 3 on Game Boy Color as Pokemon Crystal graphics and plays like Pokemon Black and White it's pretty sick and then I got the orange the Indigo League ones pretty dope and a few other bootlegs that are sick based on story lines
You are kind of right but kind of wrong about us not getting Green. The localized versions of Red and Blue are JP Red and JP Green's encounter tables on their "third version" -- which was Blue -- engine. We got Blue's art and bugfixes/stability, but Red and Green's adventure. The only reason we didn't get "Green" is that the NoA thought Blue/Blastoise would be more popular than Green/Venusaur. We have Red and a re-labled Green on a 1.1 engine. (I think Yellow could be considered 1.2?). The only reason Green is considered "so different" is that we didn't ever get to see 1.0, and it's even more of a glitchy mess than what we got.
We didn't get any of the japanese Pokémon red, green or blue. The Pokémon red and blue we got in the West was the Japanese Pokémon blue with the Pokémon placement of japanese red and green. The actual japanese Pokémon blue had unique placement for all of the Pokémon. You could get all of the trade evolution Pokémon from the npc that trade with you. What we got was more like an official rom hack of japanese Pokémon blue. I know this information because I have played through japanese Pokémon red, green and blue. Red and green were pretty much the same game, and blue was unique.
I really wished i could go on JRPGs I am an action boomer. Was working on GB 300video i fall asleep with Nintendo JRPGs intros. OMG i AM burn out! Golden sun, swordcraft Stories, breath of fire... So much exposition. I needed the save state for those 10 esconds of Gameplay lol
4:18 That's a hack of Pokémon blue, not Green. Pokémon Green didn't had a Jigglypuff in the intro animation and the trainer was on the right side of the screen without a Pokéball on its hand. They just changed the version name in the title screen.
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You called a Mankey a Meowth and it made me irrationally upset.
My day was ruined.
I wonder if he did it on purpose knowing 🤔 it would be Irritating? Clearly that was Brock at the end there but said nothing...
ikr, Meowth is my favourite and have tattoos.. bruh haha
also Mewtwo XD
I haven't paid attention to Pokemon since the 90s, and even I was like wth dude.
He also called Mewtu Mew...
"is that raichu"
"pink mew"
"it's meowth"
Can't tell if I'm being wound up
Old bootlegs always intrigued me because there wasn't exactly an effort to replicate the actual style but instead making it appealing.
I'm Chinese and I used to play the Pokemon Red version showing in the video when I was a kid. It's so hilarious to see in Elliot's video
As a Taiwanese, this video just brings back so many memories. The term "神奇寶貝" is an old Taiwanese Mandarin translation of "Pokemon". However, in 2016, Nintendo aimed to "standardize" the translation across Chinese-speaking regions, so they changed it to "寶可夢", which is just a transliteration of "Pokemon". It's heartening to see that somewhere out there, "神奇寶貝" is still on someone's shelf, bearing witness to history.
Do you any other knowledge on bootleg games I wanna know ones that have not been dumped.
@@JaxRetroGamer look it up online. Using the keywords 口袋妖怪綠寶石 "SINTAX" in google I found out the company made around 93+ games in the early 2000s.
Thank you for the insight!
Fk the pandering to china market. 神奇宝贝 is the only one in my heart.
If Elliot ever watched the anime, i bet he could never get the "Who's that pokemon?" during the show.
Elliot is the guy who says "its Pikachu" every time.
That sounds like castlevania game sounds. The whip strikes heart pickups the death music.
Yup.
I came here to say this.
Second that
i was about to say that, i immediately recognized that death sound when he died lol
Syntax games typically steal other games sound chips, and I'm pretty sure all the music and sounds are from CastleVania 2: Belmont's Revenge.
I love that he had to stunt on everyone with his grass energy card. What a smooth criminal.
*Mewtwo
*Mankey
r/woosh
I immediately came looking for this comment
@@alecbiswell-ayres5084same
@@jezusmylord we don't use Reddit any more so how are we supposed to get the joke? Life is so complicated :(
@@alecbiswell-ayres5084 yeah, so did I. And I was disappointed, so I took it upon myself. Glad I could be of service.
Elliot after finding a piece of lost media nobody knew about and just peacing out without dumping the rom like nothing happened. Yeah it's a bootleg but it's still lost media
I dumped my copy of the Pokemon Emerald game by Sintax if you are interested. I posted it to the Bootleg Games Central forums under its Chinese name, 口袋妖怪绿宝石
All the games in this video have been found and preserved by now, though some more recently than others
The Pokémon “Green” was probably just Pokémon Blue. It started with the same animation and the sprites are from that game as well. The original Pokémon Green had different (and very ugly) sprites that got redesigned for Blue. Then we got Pokémon Blue sprites for our Red and Blue versions everywhere else in the world.
was scrolling to see if someone mentioned this, those were 100% the sprites from Blue. What a bizarre bootleg.
In the last game (the platformer with Raichu) I'll guess all of this:
- The grounds sprites look ripped from Super Mario World
- The music and probably some sounds are from GB Castlevania
- I'm pretty sure the frame around Mewtwo in the game over screen is from the title screen of Super Mario Bros 2
The „Pokémon“ with Ash on the cover of the box, is actually a so called Djinn from Golden Sun(GBA)
Went to the comments just to see if anyone else recognized it
Having the Djinn supposed to be a pokemon is crazy lol
I saw that too. God I love that series.
Im half asleep, and was like: wait... why is there an earth djinn on the boxart?
I need to play that Raichu side scroller 😂
Me too! Raichu is my favorite Pokémon!
I didn't expect it to be in the thumbnail, but we be eating well tonight boys
To this day I watch YT vids like this in hopes to find out the game I played in Kindergarten. It's similar enough to regular Pokemon at a glance, but all you do is throw balls or rocks at some sprites approaching you from the edges of the screen. I know Onyx was one of the sprites, but I don't remember much else anymore. It was what I assumed Pokemon was until I actually played it in 2nd or 3rd grade.
A Djinn from Golden Sun on the box! X) it's so funny
Was oddly happy about seeing that. Makes me wish Pokemon Jupiter was a fully fleshed out hack.
Lol
The last game looks like some crazy mashup of Casltevania and Gargoyle's Quest.
7:33 - the music in the game is from Castlevania - Belmonts Revenge, just pitched a little lower.
I am jealous of those knock off Pokemon carts. I need to keep a better eye on stuff like that - pretty difficult to find online though since most sites don't allow bootlegs like that for sale.
I love a load of them, I have a few that I've collected over the years because of the novelty of them, you won't find these games for download anywhere else too
@@HUYI1do you have Pokémon Metalic? I've been looking for that game for 15 years 😅
@@ashens2 I know someone who got a hold of a copy (I don't think they have a spare though). It is an alternate version of a platformer starring Chikorita
@@ankosgbx is there gameplay? I'd love to see it :)
@@ashens2 I recorded a longplay of a Taiwanese copy of the game, which should match Metallic except for the title screen. I listed the video as Pokemon Crystal (SKOB)
I have to admit from an artistic standpoint the box art cartridges and manual work are visually gorgeous except for the dodgy game knock off. 10/10 effort with a Gold Star ⭐️
At least he got Raichu correct.
Loving the deadpan sarcastic humour!
So glad to see all these new videos recently
Gotta Find 'Em All
I love that the knockoff Yellow Version has a Djinn from GoldenSun on it.
this lad doesn't know his pokeymans
I really hope there's a dump of that last game, that was beyond weird and I need to play it😂
I preserved my copy. It's on the bootleg games central forums in a thread called Ankos' Games. I posted it using its Chinese name
@@ankosgbx Thank you very much! Can't wait to check this out😁
@@ankosgbx hey ankos which one is it on there? im on the forum but not sure how to find out which is the correct one
@@xMLGeezusx Go to the Gameboy section, then click on the ROMs section at the top. My thread should then be close to the top of the list. I placed this game under Sintax in that thread
@@xMLGeezusx From the main page click on the Gameboy section. At the top of the page there is a subsection for preserved games. Click on that and my thread should be close to the top of the page. This game I put under Sintax
I love that copy protection hack with the custom boot logo.
It's crazy how many fakes there are
I think it’s funny how sometimes in that 2d Pokémon one the level tiles look really good almost like they were taken from Mario world and other times they look absolutely terrible
Your Keith Haring video has really stuck with me since it came out, and recently inspired me to write my final A Level essay in art about him. Thank you for putting so much effort into all your videos!
That’s SO cool!!! Send me the essay retrofutureinfo@gmail.com. Would love to read it!
I never thought I'd see a Pokémon game that's a platformer and has music from the Game Boy Castlevania games...
7:44 I lowkey wanna try this game...is it available anywhere online? Great video!!! 👏
I’m not sure but it’s certainly very interesting!!
That raichu platformer is on every collection of rom hacks and there are usually loads of copies of it with different names
That Lime Green Cart of Emararld is awesome. Makes me want to reshell random dmg games like that.
Looks like a romhack of a wonderboy/monsterworld game with the dropped pink boots and tunic at the start with sprites turned into pokemon.....thats a wierd one.
I don't even like Pokémon but I'm dying at that Djinn on the cover. Had to click through and watch.
My lord you've graded one of my favorite pokemon cards ever
I have a old bootleg copy of “need for speed” for the gba that i can’t handle anymore, it’s so weird it has a battery and off brand cart designs similar to this
Got excited to see this video hoping to see some that I played as a kid 😂
We had Pokemon green in Australia 😊
I remember it had Venusaur on it
You should dump and upload the ROM from that weird line green game, I'm sure the community will find some hysterical exploits.
I'm surprised bro knew it was Pokémon green before the title screen came up but yet he called mankey a meowth and a mewtwo a mew
I love the screen shot in the booklet with pickachu. That looks like 'Hey, You, Pickachu!' on n64. Was a silly game.
I fully support the live stream of... whatever the hell that game is 🤘 really enjoy your content, keep it up!
"I gotta use my Childish Chicken GameBoy Advance."
We're just continuing the content immediately after? Okay.
The third game with the charmander, clefairy and squirtle on the front is actually blue version, not green. The jigglypuff battling gengar in the game's intro and the sprites gave it away.
Huh i thought these games would be some funny roms hacks or something, the game over which failed miserably at the end was dam hilarious tho 😅😂😂
Wow, that last game is such a classic.
That's a sick pullover. Jelly.
That's some Raichuvania right there.
oh man eliot you know me so well lol pokemon game boy and bootlegs all my fav things gaga another amazing video
Yooo talk about some Knock off hidden gems! I had no idea stuff like this existed back in the 2000s
I found out the last game is called "口袋妖怪 绿宝石 ". But I did not find this specific game sadly
I liked the part where he put the boots on
That's music is Castlevania II: Belmont's Revenge
Your Pokemon Green version was actually Blue version with a green pallet and a modified title screen. Pokemon red has a Charmander standing next to the player sprite, blue has a Squirtle and Green has Bulbasaur as the first Pokemon after booting.
I'm just thankful my parents weren't the ones that fell for the fake game or console bs that flew around when I was a kid honestly cause I know explaining why it's the wrong game or console would've been hell
The random Djinn on that box art xD
Wait wait, what is that teal gameboy with the led screen that he is using? It looks astonishingly beautiful. Ok he does say analogue pocket, I looked it up and it's pretty pricey for what it is. Still very tempting, lol.
It might say Green Version but the sprites are from Blue (USA Red/Blue, JP Blue).
I wonder if any of these have been dumped and uploaded for the internet to enjoy yet.
these games appear to be cursed by the internet. tragic
Gotta admit though , that is a pretty good side scroller. Id play it, and im not even joking either
All the pokemon names you said wrong was killing me
"Sorry about that. That was Nintendo, wanting to sue me. So that's exciting."
-he said calmly
Hahaha
Lol the raichu game has music from castlevania 2 belmonts revenge. I need that game.
That wasnt Meowth, It was Mankey.
I'm going back in my pokéball.
The cartridge with rayquaza is so funny
That one game saying Niutiude or whatever on the logo screen probably has something to do with the Analogue Pocket not running it.
Also, I thought hacking a custom logo onto that screen while still booting was only possible on the DMG and GB Pocket. Those read the logo from the cartridge once to verify it and then again to display it, making it possible for a cartridge to present the correct Nintendo logo the first time and then the custom one to show. While the GBC and GBA read it once and both check and display what they read.
I like the Carts, Its like getting a TENGEN game over the Nes Version lol
or the Electronic Arts / Micromachine Carts for the Genesis
glad you're using the extra tetris carts...
That Childish Handheld has some cool coloring!
Is that last one some bootleg Castlevania they put a Pokemon skin on?
That music is definitely from the Game Boy trilogy and that attack sound is the Vampire Killer.
Well, i like that they didn't try to make it look real
I like the box that has Ash with a Venus Djinn from Golden Sun. XD
Pokemon Green was changed to Blue when it was localized by Nintendo of America because they thought Blue would sell better in the West. Blue is the one that truly never left Japan
I have Pokemon Black and White 3 on Game Boy Color as Pokemon Crystal graphics and plays like Pokemon Black and White it's pretty sick and then I got the orange the Indigo League ones pretty dope and a few other bootlegs that are sick based on story lines
You are kind of right but kind of wrong about us not getting Green. The localized versions of Red and Blue are JP Red and JP Green's encounter tables on their "third version" -- which was Blue -- engine. We got Blue's art and bugfixes/stability, but Red and Green's adventure. The only reason we didn't get "Green" is that the NoA thought Blue/Blastoise would be more popular than Green/Venusaur. We have Red and a re-labled Green on a 1.1 engine. (I think Yellow could be considered 1.2?). The only reason Green is considered "so different" is that we didn't ever get to see 1.0, and it's even more of a glitchy mess than what we got.
We didn't get any of the japanese Pokémon red, green or blue. The Pokémon red and blue we got in the West was the Japanese Pokémon blue with the Pokémon placement of japanese red and green. The actual japanese Pokémon blue had unique placement for all of the Pokémon. You could get all of the trade evolution Pokémon from the npc that trade with you. What we got was more like an official rom hack of japanese Pokémon blue.
I know this information because I have played through japanese Pokémon red, green and blue. Red and green were pretty much the same game, and blue was unique.
6:26 i can’t believe that pokemon ripped off the strange ball’s design from the boot screen of a crappy knock off game. shame on you gamefreak
A lot of them could have the og intro but the actual game content are different
I really wished i could go on JRPGs I am an action boomer. Was working on GB 300video i fall asleep with Nintendo JRPGs intros.
OMG i AM burn out! Golden sun, swordcraft Stories, breath of fire... So much exposition.
I needed the save state for those 10 esconds of Gameplay lol
One of these days Nintendo will raid Elliot's house with all this "fan-made" IP xD
I want the Pokemon with a Djinn from Golden Sun on the cover
The door in poket monster game like Castlevania one 😄
Bro why you actin like you don't know the names of the pokemon 😂
there were plenty of fake yu gi oh cards in primary school and they had the same shiny circle stuff like the sealed fake green version.
I love old fake games and just generally old fake and counterfeit stuff in general
That game you called Pokemon Green is actually Blue. You can tell by the sprites.
A Pokemon rpg? Who would of guessed
the yellow monster on the pack with ash on it is a jin from golden sun xD
Why does that one box have a Djinn from Golden Sun on it?! 😂
I love the knock offs, I just got some last week.
Chuckled at Nintendo being at your door 🤝
Honestly, at this point I enjoy more the knock off things than the original ones
sintax games are kinda hard to find, only managed to find 3 of them in my country so far
0:25 that was a clean shutter roll 🫦
Can you do a video on the fake Pokemon games GB that looks like the original Pokemon red blue yellow and green and the jhoto ones
4:18 That's a hack of Pokémon blue, not Green. Pokémon Green didn't had a Jigglypuff in the intro animation and the trainer was on the right side of the screen without a Pokéball on its hand.
They just changed the version name in the title screen.