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
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
@@BlackLotuses 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
@@BlackLotuses 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)
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.
@@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
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!
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
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.
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 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 ⭐️
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.
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
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
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.
Pokemon Green is the rest of the world's Blue; Japanese Blue is a third version, and Japanese Yellow was the fourth. (The non-Japanese versions use the art from Blue but everything else from Red and Green; this is why the Kanto remakes are Fire Red and *Leaf Green* rather than something watery, like maybe Ocean Blue.)
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.
lol the spiral holograms take me back, somehow every 2000s bootleg toy had to have these holo-spirals all over them hahaha It made spotting fake pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh or what not cards easy haha.
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.
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 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
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.
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.
@@JaxTheEpic 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.
2:27 It is "Hey, You Pikachu!" and yes it is on the N64 and my cousin loves it for some reason.
Yup I recognized it immediately. Such an awesome game to play as a kid
Came here wondering if that's what it was 😂 takes me back lol
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.
*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.
I love that he had to stunt on everyone with his grass energy card. What a smooth criminal.
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“ 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?
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
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
7:33 - the music in the game is from Castlevania - Belmonts Revenge, just pitched a little lower.
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
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 😅
@@BlackLotuses 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 :)
@@BlackLotuses 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)
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.
The last game looks like some crazy mashup of Casltevania and Gargoyle's Quest.
Gotta Find 'Em All
I love that the knockoff Yellow Version has a Djinn from GoldenSun on it.
Bro why you actin like you don't know the names of the pokemon 😂
It's crazy how many fakes there are
So glad to see all these new videos recently
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
Loving the deadpan sarcastic humour!
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!
My lord you've graded one of my favorite pokemon cards ever
I never thought I'd see a Pokémon game that's a platformer and has music from the Game Boy Castlevania games...
I love that copy protection hack with the custom boot logo.
You should dump and upload the ROM from that weird line green game, I'm sure the community will find some hysterical exploits.
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
"I gotta use my Childish Chicken GameBoy Advance."
We're just continuing the content immediately after? Okay.
That raichu platformer is on every collection of rom hacks and there are usually loads of copies of it with different names
Got excited to see this video hoping to see some that I played as a kid 😂
this lad doesn't know his pokeymans
That Lime Green Cart of Emararld is awesome. Makes me want to reshell random dmg games like that.
I don't even like Pokémon but I'm dying at that Djinn on the cover. Had to click through and watch.
That's a sick pullover. Jelly.
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.
Wow, that last game is such a classic.
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
The random Djinn on that box art xD
oh man eliot you know me so well lol pokemon game boy and bootlegs all my fav things gaga another amazing video
I fully support the live stream of... whatever the hell that game is 🤘 really enjoy your content, keep it up!
Well, i like that they didn't try to make it look real
All the pokemon names you said wrong was killing me
glad you're using the extra tetris carts...
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
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 ⭐️
I liked the part where he put the boots on
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.
I wonder if any of these have been dumped and uploaded for the internet to enjoy yet.
Yooo talk about some Knock off hidden gems! I had no idea stuff like this existed back in the 2000s
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
these games appear to be cursed by the internet. tragic
At least he got Raichu correct.
The cartridge with rayquaza is so funny
That's some Raichuvania right there.
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
That Childish Handheld has some cool coloring!
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
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 😅😂😂
It might say Green Version but the sprites are from Blue (USA Red/Blue, JP Blue).
Honestly, at this point I enjoy more the knock off things than the original ones
Gotta admit though , that is a pretty good side scroller. Id play it, and im not even joking either
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.
The door in poket monster game like Castlevania one 😄
I love the screen shot in the booklet with pickachu. That looks like 'Hey, You, Pickachu!' on n64. Was a silly game.
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!!
I love that slime green cartridge
A Pokemon rpg? Who would of guessed
A lot of them could have the og intro but the actual game content are different
Never knew these existed! Cool!
Lol the raichu game has music from castlevania 2 belmonts revenge. I need that game.
Pokemon Green is the rest of the world's Blue; Japanese Blue is a third version, and Japanese Yellow was the fourth. (The non-Japanese versions use the art from Blue but everything else from Red and Green; this is why the Kanto remakes are Fire Red and *Leaf Green* rather than something watery, like maybe Ocean Blue.)
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 got triggered by the Castlevania death Mewtwo.
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.
Chuckled at Nintendo being at your door 🤝
lol the spiral holograms take me back, somehow every 2000s bootleg toy had to have these holo-spirals all over them hahaha It made spotting fake pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh or what not cards easy haha.
Very interesting!
All the mistakes you made hurt😭
I like the Carts, Its like getting a TENGEN game over the Nes Version lol
or the Electronic Arts / Micromachine Carts for the Genesis
no telefang? im surprised
I enjoy your videos
So Beas just playing Pokémon on the analog pocket
You guys just don’t know what meowth looks like anymore , this guy is totally correct
And mew has grown ..
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.
I love this!
Meowth...
Can you please dump that rom? Or do you have a link to it?
0:25 that was a clean shutter roll 🫦
"Sorry about that. That was Nintendo, wanting to sue me. So that's exciting."
-he said calmly
Hahaha
I kinda want the one in the strange cartridge in English to play looks so good 😂
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.
Also, I don’t care how bad the Syntax game is, I want to play a sidescrolling action-platformer starring fat Pokemon Gold/Crystal Raichu.
sintax games are kinda hard to find, only managed to find 3 of them in my country so far
I love old fake games and just generally old fake and counterfeit stuff in general
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