I learned, living in South Korea in the early 2000s (prior to Nintendo being allowed into the country), that there is a difference between a bootleg that is a cash grab, and a bootleg that was made because of restricted markets. The ones made in restricted markets are made by passionate people who are really trying to make a good product.
@@lilifel I don't know exactly. I remember that when Brain Age released on the DS, that was their ticket into the country. By pushing the DS as an educational machine that also played games, they finally made it in. But the bootlegs were plentiful and surprisingly high quality prior to that.
Turning Athena into Sakura because both have multiple outfit changes and a similar enough aesthetic is pretty clever actually. That kind of recycling of existing mechanics or assets is something that bootlegs were quite fond of, and sometimes the results were pretty decent.
It's interesting looking at these creations. Rina's moveset is almost exactly King's moves from Art of Fighting, Venom Strike, Trap Shot being the most used in the footage for the first game shown.
Not to mention King's Desperation Move, Illusion Dance...every time Rinoa - I mean Rina - did that, I could hear King in my head: "Illusion..." *plenty of beatdown* "...yaaah!!" And then I'd try to hear it in Rinoa's voice, which makes it hilarious.
When actual bootlegs are better than official games released on GB... what a world we live in! Also, some one savvy in the romhacking community should try to repurpose these games into actual SNK/Capcom games. I'd put these on a repro cart!
So, this looks 100% like an adaptation/expansion of KoF '96 GB and by someone who REALLY understands the engine behind it! It's always something I've wanted to tinker with, between this and the GB adaptation of Battle Arena Toshinden. I'm surprised TAKARA didn't have as many mainline fighting game titles as it did behind it's portable series. The graphical stylization is totally NGBC stuff/edits, too; and someone REALLY has to know their stuff to work spriting/movement/collision to sprites that were inconsistent with the base game. I hope there's a devkit for this, now; or at least the tools used to make this.
Falchion is a kind of sword...in pt, it's called Alfange. It's somewhat related to the Iberian Falcata, somehow. It's the kind of sword Strider Hiryu uses, if I'm not mistaken
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Nice stuff! 7:20 Not sure who you consider to be Ryu’s clone here, but "Regin" seems based on Kyoko Minazuki from Rival Schools and "Tanya" seems based on Iori Yagami from KOF.
Ah sorry I actually used the wrong footage. There's a character that has Ryu's background, but also shoots hadoukens, shoryukens, hurrican kicks and even has the same idle pose as Ryu
Maybe Regin's sprite desing was inspired from Kyoko, but her moves are taken off from Chun-li. Francis is the Ryu's clone, and Cio is a clone of Sakura from the Street Fighter series (also she appears in Super Fighters Alpha).
I discovered KOF '96: Heat of Battle on the Game Boy recently thanks to emulator consoles, and having known about Takara's other conversions for the Game Boy, it _did_ make me wonder why SNK stopped 'em on the GBC. I mean, yeah, they had competing hardware with the Neo Geo Pocket Color.... but the Neo Geo was competing with the MegaGen and the SNES during the 16-bit era, and that didn't stop 'em from having Takara put out Fatal Fury, Art of Fighting and SamSho games on other consoles for them. I like that Vast Fame did this - it's like a peek into another universe where Takara kept making _pretty good_ Game Boy fighting games.... even if yeah, Street Fighter Alpha and Power Quest *by far* play the best. I mean, there's also stuff like Super Chinese Fighter EX and SD Hiryu no Ken EX for the Game Boy Color though... I think one of them is pretty good, and the other's just as slightly janky and iffy with things like slowdown, slight input delays and hit detection as Takara's fighters... or Vast Fame's now, lol. But yeah, a little Game Boy jank is not a dealbreaker. Definitely wanna give these a whirl this weekend now that I know they exist!
I remember when I've discovered Queen Fighting 2000 on 2013. and took like till 2021 to be dumped because of an anti-piracy protection the cartbridge had. It felt like a treasure being shared after so many years of trying to dump it.
Fatal Fury looks amazing on the GameBoy color. The sprites look nice and colorful and the gameplay looks very decent,even though it never release outside Japan. Even the bootleg games looks very nice too on the GameBoy.
Once again an amazing video! I love the fact that your videos about bootlegs slowly taught me that there are some really good bootlegs out there and this video is no different. Its such a weird and fascinating world to explore! I hope for more videos of this quality :) Also I will be very much preserving these games!
The bootleg devs actually managed to redraw Morrigan's sprite to fit the art style, something that Capcom famously never did even once until they finally switched to polygons.
@TrueSinister True, but that barely counts since she had a much smaller moveset in Pocket Fighter than her other appearances, and therefore less frames that they'd have to redraw.
Thanks to your videos and seeing the hidden gems on the GameBoy video you posted, I was able to find and purchase a copy of Queen Fighters 2000. When it came in I was skeptical of it even working (I ordered it off Ebay) even more so considering I don't currently own a GameBoy Color. But popping it into my GBA SP and seeing it come to life with the game proved me wrong! It worked and even more better, when I plugged the GamePak into my GB Pocket, it functioned flawlessly! Thank you so much for bringing these relatively unknown games to light!!
0:20 "LOOK TO LOOK TO LOOK TO LOOK TO LOOK TO LOOK TO LOOK TO" Man, I agree. St1ka, you have a subversive streak and seem to really like finding pirate companies, (and countries,) and I applaud you.
I got a King Of Fighters 97 cart for Gameboy color.. there is no orochi or orochi team(o.iori and o.leona are in the game as the Gameboy version of 96 is the first time we actually see orochi versions for Leona and Iori).. anyways, with that said, all this game is is someone took the Gameboy 95 and Gameboy 96 and combined them into one game as each char from both games is on this cart .. final bosses are still the same as 95 where you fight saishu and rugal(and sometimes nakoruru who is actually in the 95 Gameboy game as a hidden boss).. you also have the 96 bosses(chizuru and goenitz as well as Gameboy 96 hidden boss Mr. Karate)..
Great video, definitely lives up to my hype! I'm not overly familiar with anime, so some of the stuff in Queen Fighter passed me by. Even though these games are fairly easy, they're still fun and well made. Thanks for highlighting them and I hope this means more love for Vast Fame
i'm so glad to see some love to good unlicensed games :) you should also take a look at vast fame's take on lotr: the return of the king on the gba… it might be their only good gba game and i'll just say that it makes it all worth it lol. i also find impressive that handheld underground is mostly the work of just one guy who's bought and dumped literal hundreds of chinese and taiwanese carts
"And what if I told you these games had remained undumped and unplayable until 2022" \*looks at Kenny Lauderdale's video of anime starting to disappear and Golden Bat media that are so far only have the tiniest of scraps to prove it existed posted on the web* I say I believe it that said I'm impressed with both the character rosters these games have included and the sprite art/gameplay implemented as well as the surprisingly robust copy protection. I assume its Fal Chion(She~on) but it will be interesting to see these gems retranslated to be properly spelled/read and be ported into a program to play on a 3DS handheld. also I loved your video on those Chinese Mega Man bootleg \*hug*
@@st1ka indeed but if technology and cleverness are used right what is there can be salvaged, remade into a sleek clean look and possibly redubbed using all surviving notes along with a greater push to preserve medias that would be difficult to obtain I say we have a chance. biggest thanks to icons like Kenny and yourself to not only make these thing aware but to give those that have the ability to help that motivation to seek out to aid
Although the first game looks pretty cool(specially by the late 90s / early 2000 standards for portable fighting games), I think it is necessary to mention that its mechanics are not that much of an improvement over SNK's Gals Fighters simply because it doesn't limit itself by ripping off only that game. Upon closer inspection, one can see that Morrigan sprites were actually taken from SNK vs Capcom: Match of the Millenium. The tag system was taken from the KOF R-1 and R-2, and there's even a scenario from Samurai Shodown 2 Pocket Fighting Series, all of those also Neo Geo Pocket games.
@@st1ka Yes. They were the last ones remaining. There are still variants of some Vast Fame games that are undumped, such as English translations of some of their RPGs, but those translations are pretty much gibberish. A lot of Vast Fame's games were dumped due to their multicart releases. These were not aftermarket multicarts, but instead official game compilations made by Vast Fame. The copy protection normally found in the games did not work with the multicart code, so they used earlier versions that had no copy protection. Some had pretty much no differences from the final version, like Zook Hero Z, while others had oddities like taking music and pallets from previous entries, like how Soul Falchion's multicart ROM features music from Super Fighters 2001 Alpha. Copy protection was a necessity for companies who sold their stuff in copyright-weak regions (Vast Fame sold their goods in Taiwan, Mainland China, and some parts of Southeast Asia). Without it, aftermarket copies of their games would have out-competed the originals. Considering the regions Vast Fame operated in, they were definitely a lot more legit than many of their peers
@@st1ka Their best RPGs did not get any translations that made it to retail. With that being said, there is a fan translation in the works for Shi Kong Xing Shou, or Spatio Monster as it is called on their multicarts. It's a Pokemon-inspired game, and is pretty good. It has some nasty glitches though, so if you do wind up playing it, I'd recommend making lots of savestates. I've heard using the move roar in a boss fight crashes the game and deletes the save file
hey i remember some games like this that ran on a specific gbc emulator, hhugboy! its always pretty neat to find these! aaaaand its mentionned at the end of the video XD ! that will teach me to comment before finishing a vid! thank you for mentionning that, because i really love these little pepits of the past :D
A TRAINING MODE!?!? i know that was considered a standard feature of the time, but a lot of fighting games and ports would omit it for seemingly no reason, so to see a bootleg find the time to put it in is outstanding. plus training modes are really appreciated by most fighting game players, so it's totally worth it.
We played SF and MK on the GB because that was what we had 🤷 Also, mix Taiwan with China and Taiwanese get mad. Clearly separate Taiwan and China and China gets mad. Geopolitics is not for the faint of heart... 🤣
"Vast Fame" Now THAT'S a mark of bootleg quality... at least during their GBC days. Their GBA games are a lot more hit-or-miss. Hummer Team, an NES bootleg dev, is another one that comes to mind (the surprisingly good NES Street Fighter II and Fatal Fury Special bootlegs you've looked at before, Somari, Kart Fighter), but they aren't nearly as good. EDIT: The standalone release of Soul Falchion finally got dumped? Awesome! Why did nobody tell me!? :p
How did this company actually get away with this?!? There is grounds for lawsuit on top of lawsuit over and over and over again, AND ON TOP OF THAT, ITS OFFICIALLY LEGALLY COPYRIGHTED AND PRODUCED??!?!? HOW BIG WERE THE IRON-CLAD STONES ON THIS COMPANY?!?!?!?
Seeing them go from making such incredible games like these to terrible GBA games makes me wonder just what was even going on behind the scenes during the GBA times. I would assume that after their glory days, some of their best staff left the studio for some reason & then got merged with some other Taiwanese unlicensed game developer. Not sure who it could've been, but whatever studio they got merged with was likely a rather crappy developer, likely Sintax considering they made Zook Hero 3. Definitely not Makon Soft since I'm pretty sure not even Sintax wanted to work with Yong Yong for very good reasons. And that ultimately resulted in Vast Fame being forced to rush out their titles for release like what happened with Hummer Team & Ei How Yang with publisher JY Company meanwhile Sintax themselves just kept using their crappy platformer engine over & over again. Combine with the fact that again, their best staff had left the studio & you got yourself a recipe for disaster. I know that sounds a bit strange, but that's my possible theory as to why Vast Fame's GBA games sucked.
So, are these ROMs stripped of their copy protection, or is there something on the hhug website where I have to do it myself? I really want to play these games on my modded 3DS.
Well it's actually a good thing this is a natural bootleg fighting game with literal system combos and counters wow I mean finally bootle fighting game with a counter mechanic I mean that's really impressive for a bootleg honestly.
@@st1ka also there's a bootleg Gameboy color port of garou Mark of the Wolves made by the same developer and this has extra characters like Andy Joe and even mai and even characters from garou as well in the pocket fighter art style.
Buy them? That's difficult, tracking down bootleg carts isn't easy as they rarely surface on eBay. Honestly there's no good way to track these, you just gotta be very lucky
@@st1ka yeah its an odd one since other bootleg games in the past had no problem using the actual names and titles. Maybe they had ambition to sell some copies in Japan?
Nice video. I had to laugh here: ruclips.net/video/al4OBnzTEb0/видео.html when you talk about most bootleggers reusing sprites while using the Nurse Morrigan character as an example. Forget bootleggers, Capcom themselves where rather lazy in the early 00's reusing Morrigan's sprites over and over in the crossover games.
Ok unexpected to get clickbaited like that. Those are bootleg/fanmade games, not official SNK fighting game titles. Thought u digged up some "lost to time"/"alpha/beta" projects SNK did back then which people forgot were a thing but this way it's shameful that I got excited about this!
I understand your concern, but these are basically ports of Gals Fighters, KOF and Last Blade, using the official SNK engine and play very similarly to their NeoGeo pocket color counterparts. It's true that they weren't developed by NeoGeo themselves, but then again, neither were the official Gameboy KOF, samurai showdown or Fatal Fury games. Heck they weren't published by NeoGeo either. To me, these games deserve to join the ranks of the NeoGeo conversation and deserve to be seen in a positive light instead of the usual "bootleg games suck" attitude.
So what's the story behind your username? St1ka? As in Sticker? Lol I don't quite get it.... Care to give us the story behind it & what it means/stands for?
Ah sure. Basically everyone used to call me "estica" which means "Stretch" in Portuguese. They called me that because of my height (192cm / 6'2''). When typing my nickname on chatrooms my friends would just write in "Stika" so I just started using that online. But that name was Already taken on RUclips, so St1ka was born
@@st1ka Lol I see. Funny thing is there's actually another guy with the exact same name that does Horizon Forbidden West vids & he had the same explanation too. Guess his name has a slight variant to yours.
I learned, living in South Korea in the early 2000s (prior to Nintendo being allowed into the country), that there is a difference between a bootleg that is a cash grab, and a bootleg that was made because of restricted markets. The ones made in restricted markets are made by passionate people who are really trying to make a good product.
very true!
Taekwon V
Why was Nintendo not allowed
@@lilifel japan-korea has bad time relation on the past
@@lilifel I don't know exactly. I remember that when Brain Age released on the DS, that was their ticket into the country. By pushing the DS as an educational machine that also played games, they finally made it in. But the bootlegs were plentiful and surprisingly high quality prior to that.
Turning Athena into Sakura because both have multiple outfit changes and a similar enough aesthetic is pretty clever actually. That kind of recycling of existing mechanics or assets is something that bootlegs were quite fond of, and sometimes the results were pretty decent.
Indeed. It's a pretty great idea
It's interesting looking at these creations. Rina's moveset is almost exactly King's moves from Art of Fighting, Venom Strike, Trap Shot being the most used in the footage for the first game shown.
Yep, she was clearly inspired by King
Not to mention King's Desperation Move, Illusion Dance...every time Rinoa - I mean Rina - did that, I could hear King in my head: "Illusion..." *plenty of beatdown* "...yaaah!!" And then I'd try to hear it in Rinoa's voice, which makes it hilarious.
@@DragoonMS hehe xD
finally your channel is getting the attention it has always deserved. much respect for sticking at it brother.
Thanks man! Not gonna lie, there were many moments of desperation. I hope things are going well for you too ^^
When actual bootlegs are better than official games released on GB... what a world we live in! Also, some one savvy in the romhacking community should try to repurpose these games into actual SNK/Capcom games. I'd put these on a repro cart!
That'd be awesome! :D
So, this looks 100% like an adaptation/expansion of KoF '96 GB and by someone who REALLY understands the engine behind it! It's always something I've wanted to tinker with, between this and the GB adaptation of Battle Arena Toshinden. I'm surprised TAKARA didn't have as many mainline fighting game titles as it did behind it's portable series. The graphical stylization is totally NGBC stuff/edits, too; and someone REALLY has to know their stuff to work spriting/movement/collision to sprites that were inconsistent with the base game.
I hope there's a devkit for this, now; or at least the tools used to make this.
Hopefully this will lead to tools being leaked /created as well
ive always loved the neo geo pocket color fighting game aesthetics. these look pretty cool.
same here. I was super happy to get the neogeo pocket color collection for the Nintendo Switch
@@st1ka I only got Card Fighters. I havent grabbed the collection yet but now I must.
@@timmer919hep sadly the physical edition is a LRG exclusive so it might be difficult
@@st1ka theres still the digital version
@@timmer919hep yep very true ^^
Falchion is a kind of sword...in pt, it's called Alfange. It's somewhat related to the Iberian Falcata, somehow.
It's the kind of sword Strider Hiryu uses, if I'm not mistaken
aaah thank you xD
Sword that Hwang also uses as well as Yun seong..
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@@f5673-t1h that's a good idea. Done!
I've been looking all my life for the perfect bootleg fighter. This is a treasure.
haha glad I could help
Nice stuff!
7:20 Not sure who you consider to be Ryu’s clone here, but "Regin" seems based on Kyoko Minazuki from Rival Schools and "Tanya" seems based on Iori Yagami from KOF.
Ah sorry I actually used the wrong footage. There's a character that has Ryu's background, but also shoots hadoukens, shoryukens, hurrican kicks and even has the same idle pose as Ryu
Maybe Regin's sprite desing was inspired from Kyoko, but her moves are taken off from Chun-li. Francis is the Ryu's clone, and Cio is a clone of Sakura from the Street Fighter series (also she appears in Super Fighters Alpha).
Yep Francis was the character I meant to use xD
I feel like if those were released as indie titles they would probably bang.
oh yeah, that's a very good point!
Oh boy... Whoever made these and similar bootleg ports needs to be given props for effort in doing so...
Right?! It's so cool!!
I discovered KOF '96: Heat of Battle on the Game Boy recently thanks to emulator consoles, and having known about Takara's other conversions for the Game Boy, it _did_ make me wonder why SNK stopped 'em on the GBC. I mean, yeah, they had competing hardware with the Neo Geo Pocket Color.... but the Neo Geo was competing with the MegaGen and the SNES during the 16-bit era, and that didn't stop 'em from having Takara put out Fatal Fury, Art of Fighting and SamSho games on other consoles for them. I like that Vast Fame did this - it's like a peek into another universe where Takara kept making _pretty good_ Game Boy fighting games.... even if yeah, Street Fighter Alpha and Power Quest *by far* play the best.
I mean, there's also stuff like Super Chinese Fighter EX and SD Hiryu no Ken EX for the Game Boy Color though... I think one of them is pretty good, and the other's just as slightly janky and iffy with things like slowdown, slight input delays and hit detection as Takara's fighters... or Vast Fame's now, lol. But yeah, a little Game Boy jank is not a dealbreaker. Definitely wanna give these a whirl this weekend now that I know they exist!
I'll check them out, thank you for the awesome recommendations:D
I remember when I've discovered Queen Fighting 2000 on 2013. and took like till 2021 to be dumped because of an anti-piracy protection the cartbridge had.
It felt like a treasure being shared after so many years of trying to dump it.
I'm jealous, I want a copy too xD
Fatal Fury looks amazing on the GameBoy color. The sprites look nice and colorful and the gameplay looks very decent,even though it never release outside Japan. Even the bootleg games looks very nice too on the GameBoy.
yep that's true! ^^
Once again an amazing video! I love the fact that your videos about bootlegs slowly taught me that there are some really good bootlegs out there and this video is no different. Its such a weird and fascinating world to explore! I hope for more videos of this quality :)
Also I will be very much preserving these games!
good, I'm really glad to hear that :D
Where's cat eating on a diner table for the thumbnail?...
The devs
I ran out of space on the thumbnail xD
The bootleg devs actually managed to redraw Morrigan's sprite to fit the art style, something that Capcom famously never did even once until they finally switched to polygons.
Hahah
@TrueSinister True, but that barely counts since she had a much smaller moveset in Pocket Fighter than her other appearances, and therefore less frames that they'd have to redraw.
Thanks to your videos and seeing the hidden gems on the GameBoy video you posted, I was able to find and purchase a copy of Queen Fighters 2000. When it came in I was skeptical of it even working (I ordered it off Ebay) even more so considering I don't currently own a GameBoy Color. But popping it into my GBA SP and seeing it come to life with the game proved me wrong! It worked and even more better, when I plugged the GamePak into my GB Pocket, it functioned flawlessly! Thank you so much for bringing these relatively unknown games to light!!
0:20 "LOOK TO LOOK TO LOOK TO LOOK TO LOOK TO LOOK TO LOOK TO"
Man, I agree.
St1ka, you have a subversive streak and seem to really like finding pirate companies, (and countries,) and I applaud you.
Haha
Great video, this is some seriously cool stuff! I love the NGPC fighting games and I can't wait to try all of these out!
hope you'll enjoy it! :D
Só de ver o vídeo deu vontade de jogar e como você disse no vídeo a jogabilidade parece ser melhor que 90% dos jogos de luta lançados oficialmente
Sim é mesmo muito bom :D
I got a King Of Fighters 97 cart for Gameboy color.. there is no orochi or orochi team(o.iori and o.leona are in the game as the Gameboy version of 96 is the first time we actually see orochi versions for Leona and Iori).. anyways, with that said, all this game is is someone took the Gameboy 95 and Gameboy 96 and combined them into one game as each char from both games is on this cart .. final bosses are still the same as 95 where you fight saishu and rugal(and sometimes nakoruru who is actually in the 95 Gameboy game as a hidden boss).. you also have the 96 bosses(chizuru and goenitz as well as Gameboy 96 hidden boss Mr. Karate)..
Oh I know is about that hack. It's still an interesting hack ^^
St1ka, that video was a true work of art! You're the best, thanks for all you do!
Haha thank you I try!
Great video, definitely lives up to my hype! I'm not overly familiar with anime, so some of the stuff in Queen Fighter passed me by. Even though these games are fairly easy, they're still fun and well made. Thanks for highlighting them and I hope this means more love for Vast Fame
Thank you! I try! :D
Finally, Game Boy Color games that look and play like NeoGeo Pocket Color games. Where's my clicky stick mod, handheld modders?
Maybe one day 😎
1:44 Really impressive how accurate spot on that actor looks too Andy Bogard
right?! :D
Can you cover Robert Cop on the sega mega drive next? And yes that wasn't a typo lol.
Oh I know about that game. There's not enough for a full video, but perhaps as part of a list video or a theme like this video was
i'm so glad to see some love to good unlicensed games :) you should also take a look at vast fame's take on lotr: the return of the king on the gba… it might be their only good gba game and i'll just say that it makes it all worth it lol.
i also find impressive that handheld underground is mostly the work of just one guy who's bought and dumped literal hundreds of chinese and taiwanese carts
yep, Taizou has done an amazing job! And I know all about that LOTR game, I plan on covering it eventually.
These look impressive. I love the Sakura and Athena mishmash.
Yep same here :D
"And what if I told you these games had remained undumped and unplayable until 2022" \*looks at Kenny Lauderdale's video of anime starting to disappear and Golden Bat media that are so far only have the tiniest of scraps to prove it existed posted on the web* I say I believe it
that said I'm impressed with both the character rosters these games have included and the sprite art/gameplay implemented as well as the surprisingly robust copy protection.
I assume its Fal Chion(She~on) but it will be interesting to see these gems retranslated to be properly spelled/read and be ported into a program to play on a 3DS handheld. also I loved your video on those Chinese Mega Man bootleg \*hug*
Oh yeah I've seen that video too. It's sad how much anime was lost.
@@st1ka indeed but if technology and cleverness are used right what is there can be salvaged, remade into a sleek clean look and possibly redubbed using all surviving notes along with a greater push to preserve medias that would be difficult to obtain I say we have a chance.
biggest thanks to icons like Kenny and yourself to not only make these thing aware but to give those that have the ability to help that motivation to seek out to aid
@@Dead-Pool3_II_Sij6 haha thank you! I try! ^^
World heroes 2 on the GB was great. I got it on a bootleg cart on holiday in Malta in my youth. Still have it
oh damn, I'll have to check out World Heroes 2 for the gameboy. Didn't even know that one existed.
@@st1ka It's a pretty good port. I would have rathered they ported the original World Heroes 2.
I'll check it out though :D
that smooth criminal was just a cherry on top
Haha right?!
Although the first game looks pretty cool(specially by the late 90s / early 2000 standards for portable fighting games), I think it is necessary to mention that its mechanics are not that much of an improvement over SNK's Gals Fighters simply because it doesn't limit itself by ripping off only that game. Upon closer inspection, one can see that Morrigan sprites were actually taken from SNK vs Capcom: Match of the Millenium. The tag system was taken from the KOF R-1 and R-2, and there's even a scenario from Samurai Shodown 2 Pocket Fighting Series, all of those also Neo Geo Pocket games.
Every Vast Fame game has had some variant of it dumped, though some still have undumped variants
From what I understand queen fighter and super Fighter 2001 were undumped until now ^^
@@st1ka Yes. They were the last ones remaining. There are still variants of some Vast Fame games that are undumped, such as English translations of some of their RPGs, but those translations are pretty much gibberish. A lot of Vast Fame's games were dumped due to their multicart releases. These were not aftermarket multicarts, but instead official game compilations made by Vast Fame. The copy protection normally found in the games did not work with the multicart code, so they used earlier versions that had no copy protection. Some had pretty much no differences from the final version, like Zook Hero Z, while others had oddities like taking music and pallets from previous entries, like how Soul Falchion's multicart ROM features music from Super Fighters 2001 Alpha. Copy protection was a necessity for companies who sold their stuff in copyright-weak regions (Vast Fame sold their goods in Taiwan, Mainland China, and some parts of Southeast Asia). Without it, aftermarket copies of their games would have out-competed the originals. Considering the regions Vast Fame operated in, they were definitely a lot more legit than many of their peers
@@ankosgbx I would like to play their RPGs, but between me not speaking the language and their shoddy translations... Well...
@@st1ka Their best RPGs did not get any translations that made it to retail. With that being said, there is a fan translation in the works for Shi Kong Xing Shou, or Spatio Monster as it is called on their multicarts. It's a Pokemon-inspired game, and is pretty good. It has some nasty glitches though, so if you do wind up playing it, I'd recommend making lots of savestates. I've heard using the move roar in a boss fight crashes the game and deletes the save file
@@ankosgbx oh where can I get the translated version?
Oh man, now I'm going to have to track these down. I hope you're proud of yourself.
Haha sorry :P
the art in the thumbnails really cute! do you have a source for the artist?
This is where I got it facebook.com/139788632766909/posts/pfbid027bmXkwQs8388D6vNFq68SLPZKp12mMPboWy3WU1aSu7fG6e2nCPjGbwAcbGykujol/
I love these bootleg game videos, I've not even heard of these but they look legitimately good!
indeed they're very fun :D
Can you make a full list video of all the bootleg/fan games ever released for all the console systems
Tbh no one knows the full list a lot of stuff hasn't been catalogued yet. It's a wild west.
Your best source is the bootleg games wiki though
Hey, I live in Taiwan! I'ma pick these up after work.
Oh man send me some if you find them haha
@@st1ka I'm a big retro gamer. If I ever see any interesting bootlegs, I'll reply to THIS comment about it.
Thank you! Be sure to check the metal gear solid and Zook (MegaMan) bootlegs too
hey i remember some games like this that ran on a specific gbc emulator, hhugboy! its always pretty neat to find these!
aaaaand its mentionned at the end of the video XD ! that will teach me to comment before finishing a vid! thank you for mentionning that, because i really love these little pepits of the past :D
haha no worries. Glad you enjoyed the video ^^
you say that game have CardCaptor Sakura
Me: say no more, i'm sold
haha
A TRAINING MODE!?!? i know that was considered a standard feature of the time, but a lot of fighting games and ports would omit it for seemingly no reason, so to see a bootleg find the time to put it in is outstanding. plus training modes are really appreciated by most fighting game players, so it's totally worth it.
Agreed:D
Holy s***, I'm in love with the Game Boy SFII chip tunes. The game may suck, but that music is A+
Oh the Gameboy has great music
ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!!! As a huge SNK fan this is mindblowing!!!! This made my day!!! PREMIUM CONTENT RIGHT HERE!!😎👍👍👍👌👌👌
Glad you liked it :D
What an interesting historical curiosity!
Right?!
2:00 what's the song? I really like the sound :)
ruclips.net/video/LAPvZ86Xzj4/видео.html
DANG-IT. Not working on the GBC Core from NT Mini Noir, only the cracked ones are working….
Yeah I think these only work with a specific emulator
"Official best girl Leona!"
Ah, I see you're a man of culture as well!
Heck yeah! 😎
We played SF and MK on the GB because that was what we had 🤷
Also, mix Taiwan with China and Taiwanese get mad. Clearly separate Taiwan and China and China gets mad. Geopolitics is not for the faint of heart... 🤣
Aye, geopolitics is not an easy topic lol
Well difference is taiwanese peoples wont harass you
Now if only the copy protection could be broken on Primal Rage so that it can be emulated properly...
Oh, I didn't know primal rage wasn't emulated properly
@@st1ka Yeah, currently trying to emulate it in MAME causes graphical issues such as layers not aligning properly.
13:13
I always knew Leona was best girl
It's nice to know it's official
*fist bump*
Great video. Thank you for sharing these games. :D
Thank you! I appreciate it :D
Thank you! I try! :D
"Vast Fame" Now THAT'S a mark of bootleg quality... at least during their GBC days. Their GBA games are a lot more hit-or-miss.
Hummer Team, an NES bootleg dev, is another one that comes to mind (the surprisingly good NES Street Fighter II and Fatal Fury Special bootlegs you've looked at before, Somari, Kart Fighter), but they aren't nearly as good.
EDIT: The standalone release of Soul Falchion finally got dumped? Awesome! Why did nobody tell me!? :p
Hey did you know? The vast fame solo release of soul falchion got dumped
Another quality video :D such amazing games
Thank you! I try ^_^
To be honest, I find the pixel demake on Street Fighter II (GB) looks amazing.
It looks good and it sounds good, but it's very choppy imo
@@st1ka Yeah it looks like it plays horribly, lol. The Street Fighter Alpha in comparison has such fluid animation.
@@SoushinSen oh Alpha 1 for the GBC and Alpha 3 for the GBA are technical marvels!
are these multiplayer playable with the link cable?
Sadly I can't test it out for myself. But they should be compatible with the link cable
I'm so trying the fighting ones out
hope you enjoy it! :D
There are 2 other good unlincesed games from TW ( one is a metal slug clone and the other is a Dynasty Warriors beat em up).
Oh man I gotta check those out. Any idea where I can find them or what their names are?
A "falchion" is a type of 13th century French sword.
how do you pronounce it? xD
@@st1ka From what I remember f-al-ch-ee-on.
@@st1ka Swordtube has the answer ruclips.net/video/OlMGTXMolQo/видео.html
Thank you xD
Those Tawaine's developers are impressive.
Right? :D
How did this company actually get away with this?!? There is grounds for lawsuit on top of lawsuit over and over and over again, AND ON TOP OF THAT, ITS OFFICIALLY LEGALLY COPYRIGHTED AND PRODUCED??!?!? HOW BIG WERE THE IRON-CLAD STONES ON THIS COMPANY?!?!?!?
I assume copyright laws weren't as strong in Taiwan back in the day
Seeing them go from making such incredible games like these to terrible GBA games makes me wonder just what was even going on behind the scenes during the GBA times. I would assume that after their glory days, some of their best staff left the studio for some reason & then got merged with some other Taiwanese unlicensed game developer. Not sure who it could've been, but whatever studio they got merged with was likely a rather crappy developer, likely Sintax considering they made Zook Hero 3. Definitely not Makon Soft since I'm pretty sure not even Sintax wanted to work with Yong Yong for very good reasons. And that ultimately resulted in Vast Fame being forced to rush out their titles for release like what happened with Hummer Team & Ei How Yang with publisher JY Company meanwhile Sintax themselves just kept using their crappy platformer engine over & over again. Combine with the fact that again, their best staff had left the studio & you got yourself a recipe for disaster.
I know that sounds a bit strange, but that's my possible theory as to why Vast Fame's GBA games sucked.
Oh I assume it was the same. The decline in quality was immense so clearly something happened
Does anyone know how to download the emulator hhugboy on an android device
I don't think it's available for phones, but I could be wrong
These games look like something I played on the Neo geo Pocket!
Indeed, they're clearly inspired by those titles
You've already one my respect for prasing the SNK game boy games.
I actually plan to return to these in the near future.
Can you play these on original hardware w roms?
I assume so
As a Taiwanese I... what?! I didn't know we had this thing
Oh Taiwan has a rich history of quality bootlegs. Don't let anyone tell you Taiwan's bootleg games were bad
I never understood why companies chose the GB over the NES.
That's all fine and dandy, but where's the source of that Mai pic?
here you go: m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid04GnqThJFjGtmggNFDS9ZemhEXYB3sf7ZAv1VKwdV5JRWmiPkqfwvL1YwdyewbV1vl&id=139788632766909
So, are these ROMs stripped of their copy protection, or is there something on the hhug website where I have to do it myself? I really want to play these games on my modded 3DS.
From what I understand, they were striped of their copy protection, but still use some mappers that aren't read by most common emulators.
@@st1ka Okay, thanks!
So a bootleg team got 3 fighter tag team on the game boy color but capcom couldn't get 2 fighter tag team on the ps1
Realy is sometimes confusing
Truth is stranger than fiction
@@st1ka fiction can still be stranger
I’d really like the play the GBA lord of the rings shooter that used the Pocky and Rocky with Becky engine.
You can find the rom on handheld underground
@@st1ka I can’t get it to work on hhug emulator or vba
I came back, to leave you a comment. All hail to the 4K Raytraced Beard Magical Wizard😂
thank you kind sir xD
Not enough love for the Neo Geo Pocket Color
Nailed it St1ka! thank you!
Thank you :D
5:23 excuse me? there is literally Sakura from "Card Captor Sakura" - but named "Mia"! XD what? XD
Yeah they renamed everyone xD
But do any of these have bosses?
Well it's actually a good thing this is a natural bootleg fighting game with literal system combos and counters wow I mean finally bootle fighting game with a counter mechanic I mean that's really impressive for a bootleg honestly.
Right?!
@@st1ka also there's a bootleg Gameboy color port of garou Mark of the Wolves made by the same developer and this has extra characters like Andy Joe and even mai and even characters from garou as well in the pocket fighter art style.
@@supermariojean oh wow, has it been dumped yet? I need to check it out
Vast Fame were to the Gameboy what Hummer Team was to the NES
Very true!! ^^
Where I download this Roms?
Handheld underground ^^
SNK 💖💖
Hehe yep!
Vast fame, quite possibly the most high effort pirates that ever were? You decide!
Quite possibly yes!
Where can I buy them legally?
Buy them? That's difficult, tracking down bootleg carts isn't easy as they rarely surface on eBay.
Honestly there's no good way to track these, you just gotta be very lucky
@@st1kaOk. Thanks
I checked ebay. Saw a Game year version of the snk gals but no game boy. I guess my mistake is looking on english websites.
Can you post source for the thumbnail please.
here you go: m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid04GnqThJFjGtmggNFDS9ZemhEXYB3sf7ZAv1VKwdV5JRWmiPkqfwvL1YwdyewbV1vl&id=139788632766909
Another great vid
Thank you! :D
Super Fighter 2001 needs a name change fix patch ASAP
Yeah it's not a good name at all
@@st1ka Well I mean that and the individual character names changed to their actual KoF names and the menu options font changed to English
@@budgiecat9039 yep. Not sure why they change the characters' names and just give them random names instead,
@@st1ka yeah its an odd one since other bootleg games in the past had no problem using the actual names and titles.
Maybe they had ambition to sell some copies in Japan?
It's definitely possible
These games look awesome!
They are :D
Nice video. I had to laugh here: ruclips.net/video/al4OBnzTEb0/видео.html when you talk about most bootleggers reusing sprites while using the Nurse Morrigan character as an example. Forget bootleggers, Capcom themselves where rather lazy in the early 00's reusing Morrigan's sprites over and over in the crossover games.
hah very true.
Nice
Thank you ^^
Ha great thumbnail 😅
Glad you liked it :D
How interesting.
Right?!
Eugene Bogard the best Bogard
Terry is not ok! xD
that first game sucks. they have Rinoa but neither her fireball or her super is the dog cannon from ff8. :D such a great opportunity missed heheheheh
*waggles finger*
:P
Ok unexpected to get clickbaited like that. Those are bootleg/fanmade games, not official SNK fighting game titles. Thought u digged up some "lost to time"/"alpha/beta" projects SNK did back then which people forgot were a thing but this way it's shameful that I got excited about this!
I understand your concern, but these are basically ports of Gals Fighters, KOF and Last Blade, using the official SNK engine and play very similarly to their NeoGeo pocket color counterparts.
It's true that they weren't developed by NeoGeo themselves, but then again, neither were the official Gameboy KOF, samurai showdown or Fatal Fury games. Heck they weren't published by NeoGeo either.
To me, these games deserve to join the ranks of the NeoGeo conversation and deserve to be seen in a positive light instead of the usual "bootleg games suck" attitude.
So what's the story behind your username? St1ka? As in Sticker? Lol I don't quite get it.... Care to give us the story behind it & what it means/stands for?
Ah sure. Basically everyone used to call me "estica" which means "Stretch" in Portuguese. They called me that because of my height (192cm / 6'2'').
When typing my nickname on chatrooms my friends would just write in "Stika" so I just started using that online. But that name was Already taken on RUclips, so St1ka was born
@@st1ka Lol I see. Funny thing is there's actually another guy with the exact same name that does Horizon Forbidden West vids & he had the same explanation too. Guess his name has a slight variant to yours.
@@skins4thewin haha he's called St1ka too? xD
Taiwan is part of China, so saying it was made there isn't inaccurate
Let's just say the Chinese and Taiwanese don't see eye to eye on that lol
@@st1ka How about not saying that? That is a great option too.
I had to correct the mistake of my past video. So I had to say it
Your social credit has increased by 1.
Oh, they are from Taiwan?
Don't you mean REAL China?
not even gonna touch that one lol
the games suck i downloaded all sorts on my jail break ps3 these games suck
They're awesome