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As a counterargument, it's not much of a compliment that a bootleg has better graphics than (particular official game.) There's a _lot_ of bad games that get official releases, making that a not particularly high bar. I can see comparing _this_ game to _that_ game as useful, but saying _this_ game looks better than _cherrypicked example of badness_ says little. Is _Batman Beyond_ a particularly bad looking game? I have no idea, and an opinion is not even offered.
The Zook games really skirt the line between bootleg/knockoff and unlicensed clone. Clearly, the character sprites have crossed that line, but some of the other graphics are just distinct enough.
@@lightbeingpontifexLiterally from the wiki. Demon King Piccolo is an evil Namekian who once precipitated the Earth into utter mayhem and pandemonium, spawning an army of demonic offspring and converting the peaceful planet into a living hell.
@@lightbeingpontifex Time to edecate the youngins. King Piccolo is from Dragon Ball and one of the main villains. When he is defeated, he spits out an egg so his son will avenge him. That egg becomes Piccolo from DBZ.
There's a certain charm that comes from finding a good bootleg It's a similar satisfaction I get from finding an obscure movie that no one seems to talk about
I actually had the Mig-29 cartridge growing up. It was chrome! I absolutely loved that game. None of my friends had ever heard about it. I don't even remember how I got it, lol. The soundtrack is amazing. I still find myself humming it to this day. Codemasters made some bangers on NES.
@@invisimine That's great. My family was robbed, then my dad left us, then everything fell apart and everything I ever owned was lost. It taught me a valuable lesson about how little stuff is actually worth. It's just stuff. But hey, happy for you.
@@invisimine Is my Lord and savior. Like I said, material possessions mean practically nothing to me now. It's amazing. All those old games I can carry around in my pocket on a cheap Chinese handheld, so what was really lost? Lol, all is well. My apologies for the macabre reply. Caught me at an odd time. I do have many things now, and I wouldn't miss any of them if they disappeared tomorrow. Family and Jesus are all that matters.
Yeah, English patch dev here. I used more proper Midis to fix some audio corruption issues on some builds of Kemulator. However, it seems like I never... Posted a midi sources file with the patched file. My apologies. The funniest part is, the original release also just used midis from VGMusic it seems!
This is one of my favorite videos that I've ever seen. You have such a wonderful way of expressing how impressive these bootlegs are, and you are specifically the reason for me to keep watching. I've never seen any of these bootlegs, and my man, your energy is perfect. Keep this up bro, you deserve success in this pursuit.
I love the attention you give to these really neat games. I feel as though I've been conditioned to snub any kind of bootleg as "just another crummy Chinese knock-off", when the reality is that a lot of these are fans lovingly recreating and reassembling their favourite games without a lot of resources at their disposal. You've completely shifted my perspective!
Hey St1ka, Thanks for another great video! I haven't heard about any of those games, and there are some pretty good games in the list! In fact, I liked so much your videos that since I first met your youtube channel, I've been watching all your videos by release order. And after watching some of your older videos, I must say you did a great job telling about some of Brazil's videogame history. Considering that you record your videos in english and the fact that our countries histories are intertwined, I guess you're the most qualified person on youtube to understand the context and culture of Brazil, since we have some cultural similarities besides the language we both speak. I also must say I'm pretty surprised by how much similarities our countries share in gaming history and our taste for videogames. And now that I know you're portuguese, maybe I'll start commenting only in portuguese hahaha Anyway, just wanted to thank and congratulate you for the great work! Um grande abraço do Brasil!
Great vídeo as usually, I kind of miss your videos talking about one game though, still I will keep on watching and liking them because your channel is pretty great
A little fun fact: There is a BOOTLEG version of Brave Battle Saga on the NES. Also, is kinda funny that I played at least 80% of these bootlegs on the video.
There's also a GBC port of Brave Battle Saga I believe. What good bootleg games would you recommend I cover in the future? I'm alwats on the lookout for more games :D
@@yichlyichl4204 Piko put their release of Brave Battle Saga on to Steam. It uses the existing fan-translation - pulled from RHDN at Piko's insistence - but with any mention of the translator group removed.
All of Hummer Team's NES games are fantastic. Their fighting engine is top notch, perfected at Street Fighter 3 (often called Super Fighter 3), SF2 demake. They also ported Lion King, Aladdin and Earthworm Jim from the snes to the NES, with very playable results
I still have that one bootleg Genesis game, brave battle saga, I got way back in the day after watching your video on it and it still remains one of my fave RPGs on the genesis. Thanks for this video St1ka
I've been watching your channel for a long time, but I finally subscribed for this video. This and the previous unlicensed games video are also 2 of only a small handful of videos I've pressed the like button on, so congrats on the good content! 🎉
FINALLY FOUND TINY TOONS 6! I tried before when this video came out but I had a hard time finding it and forgot, but I put this vid back on today for fun and it reminded me again! Thank you for making me aware of it!
Water Margin has to mention that the game is just a "re-skin" of the game Knights of the Round by Capcom. The entire game was made by copying Knights of the Round frame by frame. The 3 selectable characters, the moves/movements, enemies, the poses, the gameplay, absolutely everything was copied from Knights of the Round, just the sprites were redesigned.
Great vid. Some info on a couple of the carts: The English Zook shown in this video is one of two releases of the game by Winsen, a very old pirate cart company from back in the day when Vast Fame was still in business. Li Cheng is still around though, and they sell their carts new in box, so they come with manuals and everything. Unfortunately they introduced bugs into some of their releases. The Li Cheng Zook dump is not a bad dump, it just comes from a broken release of the game Fantastic Battle Simulator on the other hand just has emulator issues. The crashes don't happen on the original cart (I've heard, haven't tried it myself)
Water Margin since it's been re-released is now a licensed game, published by Piko Interactive for the Evercade. Any licensing for the "original" consoles, is as obsolete as the estates of Homer and Richard Strauss coming after 2001 Space Odyssey.
13:50 about Tiny Toons sound: indeed sounds better, but the sound was taken directly from the original NES game, this team did not compose any of it :) Nice video as always. Regards.
I'd love a an anime adaption of LotR if they'd take the same ratio of being faithful vs. adaption changes of the Peter Jackson movies. The fight scenes would be epic lol. And no, the Rohan one doesn't count as anime in the English meaning of the word and is no adaption either.
These kinds of videos are really nice to watch. Are you planning maybe one on homebrew games? Homebrew scene - especially on NES - is blooming with all the new Japanese titles, compo productions and more.
Found this channel scrolling, so far I like the Content, even found a few new games to play from a. Few of the vids. Mind you I have to emulate most of them, but still. Thanks
I'm not gonna lie, when you mentioned Tiny Toon Adventures 6 I legitimately thought it's some funny Chinese/Taiwanese sprite swap. I wouldn't expect it to be an unofficial port of a GameBoy game!
I saw the bootleg FFVII one at a store and I thought it was a joke. Really cool to see that it is a complete game. A lot of love poured into it for sure
thank you for posting this video... the only ones I'm really familiar with are Final Fantasy7, Castlevania one and the Queen Fighter 2000. I was very happy to see Zook Hero, Water Margin and Brave Battle Saga, looking forward to see play these three.
Jali the Dwarf's Bio: He is a coarseness man but utterly loyal, He is always ready to smile to also love angry You know. "Wipes Tear" i couldn't have said it better, myself.
The first Dynasty Warriors bootleg is actually Tenchi wo Kurau (based on the title card), which does use the same material as Dynasty Warriors (Romance of the Three Kingdoms) but is a different series entirely but a lot of people probably won't notice that.
Great vid! I love learning about these weird hidden gems. Def wanna try that breath of fire like game. And I'm kinda shocked about that castlevania one.
To the unfamiliar, the Dragon Ball brawler at 0:03 is called Dragon Bowl, by the Korean studio Nics. On top of being an unlicensed Dragon Ball game, it uses the engine of the Ninja Gaiden arcade game without Tecmo's permission.
Buzz & Waldog looks fun. Tiny Toon Advetures 6 also looks fun! Water Margin also also looks fun!! Lord of the Rings: Return of the King looks really fun!
17:03 No, what are you talking about? I immediately recognize Knight of the Round and Warrior of Fate bootleg sprites, those games were pretty popular back then.
Ever since I have watched VInesauce and Rerez covering bootleg/unofficial games and consoles, they do have a well deserved stigma for being knockoff products in hopes that some fool will give them money. This ideology still stands to this day with countries that have little to no copyright laws enacting or affecting them. Case in point, Zook, Fire Emblem, and Castlevania What I do end up seeing here is definitely an improvement of that stigma; an unofficial port of Tiny Toons that is able to compete with the real product, an ambitious shoot 'em up that went under the radar, an original arcade game, and an unofficial demake of FF7. Those things take skill, and some of them might be even made for love, like the demake. You rarely can say that about unofficial games with less budget than Action 52. For once I like seeing that positive side of this (and heck, I did not even know it existed). I'm already planning on adding some of these to my collection. Gread video!
Queen Fighter 2000 was so difficult to find; this was a great list because i like to collect bootlegs to try out, but i have only played QF2000 and FF7. Great video as always 🎉
The Game Water Margin did have an official release. It's called Knights of the Round, and it was made by Capcom. Water Margin is just a reskin of that game. You should totally play Knights of the Round. It's one of the most fun arcade hack n slashes ever made.
I love your coverage of good bootleg games. On youtube, it's hard to learn about good bootlegs bc all too many videos end up being some american guy playing the cheapest and most broken pokemon-themed sonic romhack in the world while spewing sinophobic bile for 40 minutes. It's always a pleasure to see someone give the subject the time of day
@@st1ka i feel like it's because those said reviewers feel like they need to make what's being reviewed the most shameless as possible the concept of bootleg is when you either steal assets from already existing games or make a game that advertises itself to be a game that uses a certain property that doesn't belong to you and bootlegs are also generally sold so then you have something that takes stuff from other places, and is sold it also has to be bad in order to the review to work, or else people would talk about how it's a hidden gem and all
I remember an earlier video in this series had underperformed, but I was a big fan, since I really like hidden gems. I'm glad you revisited the subject; hopefully this video will do a little better.
@@st1ka Incidentally, I just noticed a lot of the enemies in MiG-29 are actually aircraft from the United States and western Europe; I'm pretty sure I recognized F-4 Phantom IIs (American), Hawker Siddeley Harriers (British) and Dassault Mirage IIIs (French). Gives a whole new meaning to "Red Team," no?
Bom Diaz ;) Very interesting selection. I kinda think romhacks+fan games deserve their own videos and are very different from bootlegs as bootlegs are for profit.
For the zook one, try a website called handheld underground. It dumped several zook games but you want the first game in the series Final fantasy 7 should be relatively easy to find in rom websites I think? At least, Google gave me the original and patched versions fairly quickly
@@st1ka I was looking for the patched one under the title it was listed in the game's chapter so that threw me off at first. But thanks for the reply. I'll check for zook now.
EDITED COMMENT: You called out Morrigan from Darkstalkers and Rinoa from Final Fantasy 8 appearing in that Queen Fighter 2000 game, but there's another: Tesse from the Sunsoft fighting game Waku Waku 7 (in the maid outfit with hair covering her eyes).
I'm not sure if this was mentioned in the comments, but some of the music used in Brave Battle Saga was also used for some stages in Top Fighter 2000! Guess that means the games were made by the same company, I assume.
"Brave Battle Saga" is a great game, I played it to the end, it's a quality, full-fledged and very long JRPG on SEGA. I had a cartridge when I was a kid, but it was probably defective, it had a battery slot, and I changed the battery, but the save still didn't work, and this version was also called "Final Fantasy" (probably the pirates decided that with such a name the game would be easier to sell). But recently I managed to play this game from start to finish on an emulator =)
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honestly I didnt even notice, feel better brother
You sound fine
The Zook Games sound too much like Santana's music at times. xD
I pray you will feel better soon. Having the flu is a nightmare
I hope you get feeling better soon! As we can't have any sick people suffering here!
thank you for praising games instead of bashing hard work, we need more positivity for gaming and game devs
I do what I can ^^
I can only upvote this once, so here's a reply as a 10x multiplier.
As a counterargument, it's not much of a compliment that a bootleg has better graphics than (particular official game.) There's a _lot_ of bad games that get official releases, making that a not particularly high bar. I can see comparing _this_ game to _that_ game as useful, but saying _this_ game looks better than _cherrypicked example of badness_ says little.
Is _Batman Beyond_ a particularly bad looking game? I have no idea, and an opinion is not even offered.
Agreed!!!
Meh
Why Bash ANYTHING then ?
I think the reason Morrigan is a nurse, in Queen Fighter 2000, is because that was one of her combo costumes in Pocket Fighter lol
Makes sense 😅
she also has figures available in her nurse outfit, it seems to be a thing with her. Is she a nurse when in the human realm?
@@ChibiKami I didn't know that. Could be! Like how Felicia was a nun?
@@ProdmullefcFelicia being a nun is canon though. She was raised by a nun and ran that orphanage in one of her endings.
I like how the Tiny Toons one used the Buster and Plucky sprites from the other NES games but didn’t have one for Hampton so he looks way different.
They should have made Fifi instead :3
That's a good point lol
@@st1ka It's the reason the music sounds so good for a Hummer Team game- they just ripped the music from the original NES game.
Hampton 😮I always thought it was Hamlot or something 😅
Hampton was playable in Tiny Toon Adventures 2: Trouble in Wackyland though- strange they didn't use that one.
At first I thought your wizard pixel art over the babe I'm Bubble Bath Babes was supposed to be there. It matched the form of the woman so perfectly 😂
Haha
Whenever Java games are mentioned you got my attention
@@CyprusBeyblade hehe
only +18 bait thumbnails get my attention
The Zook games really skirt the line between bootleg/knockoff and unlicensed clone. Clearly, the character sprites have crossed that line, but some of the other graphics are just distinct enough.
Yep very true
"I'm playnig FF7 Demastered"
"You mean REmastered."
"I know what I said."
You can now play 3 different versions of ff7 for different systems it's kinda funny xD
@@st1ka Very good work on the graphic, now if some famitracker expert could improve the tunes this would be an instant classic
My game freezes after leaving the first Mako reactor. Does anyone else have this problem?
ff7 remake disc 3 hasnt even been published at the time of this comment
@@projectmayhem6898the game is bugged
This video is a good reminder of why I'm subscribed to you. The amount of work, research and effort is put into this, I'm impressed.
Hehe thank you:D
damn, was not expecting evil king piccolo to make an appearance in rolling thunder
Hehe
@@lightbeingpontifexLiterally from the wiki. Demon King Piccolo is an evil Namekian who once precipitated the Earth into utter mayhem and pandemonium, spawning an army of demonic offspring and converting the peaceful planet into a living hell.
Evil King Piccolo is Piccolo's dad.
@@lightbeingpontifex Time to edecate the youngins. King Piccolo is from Dragon Ball and one of the main villains. When he is defeated, he spits out an egg so his son will avenge him. That egg becomes Piccolo from DBZ.
@@RogueXV gotcha
There's a certain charm that comes from finding a good bootleg
It's a similar satisfaction I get from finding an obscure movie that no one seems to talk about
Yep completely agreed :D
Actually, Rolling Thunder on the NES isn’t a bootleg. They did release in Japanese Market officially before Tengen talked to Namco about that deal.
I think that was implied when they said 'launched in the west.' The famicom version is also a bit different.
@@PeperonyChease What was the difference between the Japanese version and Tengen version?
I actually had the Mig-29 cartridge growing up. It was chrome! I absolutely loved that game. None of my friends had ever heard about it. I don't even remember how I got it, lol. The soundtrack is amazing. I still find myself humming it to this day. Codemasters made some bangers on NES.
It's such a cool game! And yeah that euro-style soundtrack is so good
I still have it
@@invisimine That's great. My family was robbed, then my dad left us, then everything fell apart and everything I ever owned was lost. It taught me a valuable lesson about how little stuff is actually worth. It's just stuff. But hey, happy for you.
@@Lost_n_Found_1 Jesus Christ
@@invisimine Is my Lord and savior. Like I said, material possessions mean practically nothing to me now. It's amazing. All those old games I can carry around in my pocket on a cheap Chinese handheld, so what was really lost? Lol, all is well. My apologies for the macabre reply. Caught me at an odd time. I do have many things now, and I wouldn't miss any of them if they disappeared tomorrow. Family and Jesus are all that matters.
Thanks and happy birthday!
Whoa! Thank you so much :D
@@st1ka np ^O^
Whoa! This uses my MIDI "Castle Corridor" theme in Castlevania Reincarnation
@st1ka where is the group that made cv reincarnation?
You can find the translation in this discord server: discord.gg/jKR2yCWg
Yeah, English patch dev here. I used more proper Midis to fix some audio corruption issues on some builds of Kemulator. However, it seems like I never... Posted a midi sources file with the patched file. My apologies. The funniest part is, the original release also just used midis from VGMusic it seems!
It's kinda cool that Piko Interactive have been putting some of these bootlegs on Steam
Yep agreed :D
@@Nirakolov and Qubyte (a Brazilian publisher) is bringing some of those Piko games to the consoles
@@GeovaneSanciniSRcircle of life lol
This is one of my favorite videos that I've ever seen. You have such a wonderful way of expressing how impressive these bootlegs are, and you are specifically the reason for me to keep watching. I've never seen any of these bootlegs, and my man, your energy is perfect. Keep this up bro, you deserve success in this pursuit.
@@funnerfunerals thank you! I try ^^
I love the attention you give to these really neat games. I feel as though I've been conditioned to snub any kind of bootleg as "just another crummy Chinese knock-off", when the reality is that a lot of these are fans lovingly recreating and reassembling their favourite games without a lot of resources at their disposal.
You've completely shifted my perspective!
You have no idea how much that means to me! :)
Much love for Final Fantasy 7 NES Demake
your videos always find their way to me when im not even logged in, just cause its the content i like. keep up the good work
haha I'm glad to hear it :D
Nostalgia kick!!!!! OMG I love Weird Al, so ready for this videooooooooooo!!!!!
Hope you'll enjoy it :D
Hey St1ka, Thanks for another great video! I haven't heard about any of those games, and there are some pretty good games in the list!
In fact, I liked so much your videos that since I first met your youtube channel, I've been watching all your videos by release order. And after watching some of your older videos, I must say you did a great job telling about some of Brazil's videogame history. Considering that you record your videos in english and the fact that our countries histories are intertwined, I guess you're the most qualified person on youtube to understand the context and culture of Brazil, since we have some cultural similarities besides the language we both speak. I also must say I'm pretty surprised by how much similarities our countries share in gaming history and our taste for videogames. And now that I know you're portuguese, maybe I'll start commenting only in portuguese hahaha
Anyway, just wanted to thank and congratulate you for the great work!
Um grande abraço do Brasil!
@@sandroconrado7417 Muito obrigado! Tenho saudades de fazer um video sobre a história do Brasil lol
Great vídeo as usually, I kind of miss your videos talking about one game though, still I will keep on watching and liking them because your channel is pretty great
Honestly I miss making them too.
A little fun fact: There is a BOOTLEG version of Brave Battle Saga on the NES.
Also, is kinda funny that I played at least 80% of these bootlegs on the video.
There's also a GBC port of Brave Battle Saga I believe. What good bootleg games would you recommend I cover in the future? I'm alwats on the lookout for more games :D
I like how it's on Steam, personally.
@@pyrotictiger9930 I have the steam version, got as a birthday gift a few years ago.
@@pyrotictiger9930 It's WHAT
@@yichlyichl4204 Piko put their release of Brave Battle Saga on to Steam. It uses the existing fan-translation - pulled from RHDN at Piko's insistence - but with any mention of the translator group removed.
Loved this video. Having your volume up on future videos would be helpful. A bit hard to hear you at times.
Subscribed, this chanel is awesome, it has really good quality and the person has a really good way to explain.
Thank you! :D
I like that you put a lot of effort talking about so many games in less than one Hour. keep it up
Another stellar video! Great channel, man!
Another fun video! Always love your content, even if I don't always get to it right away.
@@METR0lD thank you! Glad you liked it :D
All of Hummer Team's NES games are fantastic. Their fighting engine is top notch, perfected at Street Fighter 3 (often called Super Fighter 3), SF2 demake. They also ported Lion King, Aladdin and Earthworm Jim from the snes to the NES, with very playable results
Hummer team deserved better
I still have that one bootleg Genesis game, brave battle saga, I got way back in the day after watching your video on it and it still remains one of my fave RPGs on the genesis. Thanks for this video St1ka
Glad you enjoyed it :D
I've been watching your channel for a long time, but I finally subscribed for this video. This and the previous unlicensed games video are also 2 of only a small handful of videos I've pressed the like button on, so congrats on the good content! 🎉
Haha thank you :D
Excellent episode, these game boy color games are impressive, I will try out
Thanks for the researsh and for share
Sempre às ordens, Pyron! :D
FINALLY FOUND TINY TOONS 6! I tried before when this video came out but I had a hard time finding it and forgot, but I put this vid back on today for fun and it reminded me again! Thank you for making me aware of it!
Water Margin has to mention that the game is just a "re-skin" of the game Knights of the Round by Capcom. The entire game was made by copying Knights of the Round frame by frame. The 3 selectable characters, the moves/movements, enemies, the poses, the gameplay, absolutely everything was copied from Knights of the Round, just the sprites were redesigned.
Even so, it's an impressive bootleg :D
Thank you for your much apreciated love for bootleg stuff
All the "bootleg = bad" reviews were getting boring
Yeah I've gotten really tired of how bootlegs are treated
Great video. I am gonna hunt some of those down tonight. Master of Darkness on the Master System is deffo a great Castlevania rip.
Water Margin is totally Knights of the Round!!!!!!!!! LOVE that game!
Great vid. Some info on a couple of the carts:
The English Zook shown in this video is one of two releases of the game by Winsen, a very old pirate cart company from back in the day when Vast Fame was still in business. Li Cheng is still around though, and they sell their carts new in box, so they come with manuals and everything. Unfortunately they introduced bugs into some of their releases. The Li Cheng Zook dump is not a bad dump, it just comes from a broken release of the game
Fantastic Battle Simulator on the other hand just has emulator issues. The crashes don't happen on the original cart (I've heard, haven't tried it myself)
Thanks man ^^
Water Margin since it's been re-released is now a licensed game, published by Piko Interactive for the Evercade.
Any licensing for the "original" consoles, is as obsolete as the estates of Homer and Richard Strauss coming after 2001 Space Odyssey.
Great video, even though you had to mention my repressed childhood nightmare that was trying to land the plane in Top Gun.
Sorry xD
13:50 about Tiny Toons sound: indeed sounds better, but the sound was taken directly from the original NES game, this team did not compose any of it :)
Nice video as always. Regards.
Aaah makes sense 😅
I'd love a an anime adaption of LotR if they'd take the same ratio of being faithful vs. adaption changes of the Peter Jackson movies. The fight scenes would be epic lol. And no, the Rohan one doesn't count as anime in the English meaning of the word and is no adaption either.
Hello st1ka ignore the negative comments and I hope you will upload more of this bootlegs and homebrews games 😊
@@fantoon670 thank you! I try ^^
Buzz & Waldog seems very familiar to MC Kids for NES. That game is a key collecting game too. MC Kids was absolutely inspired by Mario 3 too.
Yeah it definitely gives an MC kids vibe
so, where do you get dynasy warrior 1? cant find it
Cool Video dude love hearing about stuff like this
These kinds of videos are really nice to watch.
Are you planning maybe one on homebrew games? Homebrew scene - especially on NES - is blooming with all the new Japanese titles, compo productions and more.
@ChipJockey oh I've already made 3 videos on homebrews :D
One for the NES, one for the Gameboy and one for the Mega Drive / Sega Genesis
Found this channel scrolling, so far I like the Content, even found a few new games to play from a. Few of the vids. Mind you I have to emulate most of them, but still. Thanks
I'm not gonna lie, when you mentioned Tiny Toon Adventures 6 I legitimately thought it's some funny Chinese/Taiwanese sprite swap. I wouldn't expect it to be an unofficial port of a GameBoy game!
Right?! Even I was shocked the first time I played it
47:40 well awesome video man. First time I've seen your Channel definitely going to check out more
I saw the bootleg FFVII one at a store and I thought it was a joke. Really cool to see that it is a complete game. A lot of love poured into it for sure
Those dynasty warrior games look incredibly playable for a gbc game. Ridiculously smooth in a way ive never seen on gameboy
Damn this is a great video. Well done.
Thank you so much :D
St1ka never disappoints with the thumbnails
haha thanky ou
I am struggling to find where to play those dynasty warrior gameboy color games. I would love to play them
Try San Goku Shi - Act C on Google :)
thank you for posting this video...
the only ones I'm really familiar with are Final Fantasy7, Castlevania one and the Queen Fighter 2000.
I was very happy to see Zook Hero, Water Margin and Brave Battle Saga, looking forward to see play these three.
Can't wait! 💪🏻
Thank you! I hope you'll enjoy it :D
Jali the Dwarf's Bio: He is a coarseness man but utterly loyal, He is always ready to smile to also love angry
You know. "Wipes Tear" i couldn't have said it better, myself.
@@Polygonlin haha
The first Dynasty Warriors bootleg is actually Tenchi wo Kurau (based on the title card), which does use the same material as Dynasty Warriors (Romance of the Three Kingdoms) but is a different series entirely but a lot of people probably won't notice that.
Ótimo vídeo, St1ka! O conteúdo que você traz sempre vlw a espera.
Muito obrigado! :D
Great vid! I love learning about these weird hidden gems. Def wanna try that breath of fire like game. And I'm kinda shocked about that castlevania one.
Hope you enjoy them :)
The Zook gameboy advance reaction was hilarious 😂
To the unfamiliar, the Dragon Ball brawler at 0:03 is called Dragon Bowl, by the Korean studio Nics. On top of being an unlicensed Dragon Ball game, it uses the engine of the Ninja Gaiden arcade game without Tecmo's permission.
Thanks for digging through the bizarre world of questionably sourced games.
I try my best xD
I wonder what you would consider Final Fight LNS Ultimate to be. It is basically a fan-made Final Fight at its core, but has a LOT added to it.
The first thing that popped into my mind was crazy Kong from the arcades. It was Donkey Kong but you played all four stages in a row every time.
Buzz & Waldog looks fun.
Tiny Toon Advetures 6 also looks fun!
Water Margin also also looks fun!!
Lord of the Rings: Return of the King looks really fun!
I do feel king of ring is the weakest game, it's a little too janky for its own good xD
Dang, I think I might actually check out water margin. That looks really solid.
@@WrestlingWithGaming it's a really fun game imo :D
Man. I would LOVE to see FF7 on the SNES. It would look SO GOOD!!
17:03 No, what are you talking about? I immediately recognize Knight of the Round and Warrior of Fate bootleg sprites, those games were pretty popular back then.
Ever since I have watched VInesauce and Rerez covering bootleg/unofficial games and consoles, they do have a well deserved stigma for being knockoff products in hopes that some fool will give them money. This ideology still stands to this day with countries that have little to no copyright laws enacting or affecting them. Case in point, Zook, Fire Emblem, and Castlevania
What I do end up seeing here is definitely an improvement of that stigma; an unofficial port of Tiny Toons that is able to compete with the real product, an ambitious shoot 'em up that went under the radar, an original arcade game, and an unofficial demake of FF7. Those things take skill, and some of them might be even made for love, like the demake. You rarely can say that about unofficial games with less budget than Action 52.
For once I like seeing that positive side of this (and heck, I did not even know it existed). I'm already planning on adding some of these to my collection. Gread video!
43:22 LOL somehow I have Mortal Kombat 1 2 and 3 on the NES I have no idea how I acquired them
Queen Fighter 2000 was so difficult to find; this was a great list because i like to collect bootlegs to try out, but i have only played QF2000 and FF7. Great video as always 🎉
Thank you! I try :D
35:21 I was looking in your description and I thought that this was going to be like a Bubble Bobble game too bad you can't get enough of those games
Man this is one of my fave channels. Where do you find the tine to play all these games?
My life is basically just my day job and youtube 😅
Bubble Bath Babes actually got a censored reskin as "Mermaids of Atlantis" which *was* licensed for sale by Nintendo.
That's pretty hilarious haha
sheesh. why even bother
The Game Water Margin did have an official release. It's called Knights of the Round, and it was made by Capcom. Water Margin is just a reskin of that game. You should totally play Knights of the Round. It's one of the most fun arcade hack n slashes ever made.
I like the concept of Evil Stone(6:39). With a little bit of work, I can see this being a successful game on the App Store.
I love your coverage of good bootleg games. On youtube, it's hard to learn about good bootlegs bc all too many videos end up being some american guy playing the cheapest and most broken pokemon-themed sonic romhack in the world while spewing sinophobic bile for 40 minutes. It's always a pleasure to see someone give the subject the time of day
As someone who grew up playing bootlegs, it often bothered me how all bootleg coverage on UA-cam was always done in bad faith
@@st1ka i feel like it's because those said reviewers feel like they need to make what's being reviewed the most shameless as possible
the concept of bootleg is when you either steal assets from already existing games or make a game that advertises itself to be a game that uses a certain property that doesn't belong to you
and bootlegs are also generally sold
so then you have something that takes stuff from other places, and is sold
it also has to be bad in order to the review to work, or else people would talk about how it's a hidden gem and all
What Is The Name Of The Dinasty Warriors Games In Taiwan?
I remember an earlier video in this series had underperformed, but I was a big fan, since I really like hidden gems. I'm glad you revisited the subject; hopefully this video will do a little better.
Oh I was actually able to turn that video around. But more importantly, thank you for your support ^^
@@st1ka Incidentally, I just noticed a lot of the enemies in MiG-29 are actually aircraft from the United States and western Europe; I'm pretty sure I recognized F-4 Phantom IIs (American), Hawker Siddeley Harriers (British) and Dassault Mirage IIIs (French). Gives a whole new meaning to "Red Team," no?
haha
A trailer with Weird Al? Win, lol
Heck yeah:D
The LOTR shooter, I used to have it. Where you got the rom of it?
Handheld underground
A lot of these games
Brave Battle Saga
Water Margin etc
Have all been officially licensed and Sold by PIKO on the Evercade
Yep. Ironically those licensed versions also scrubbed the games clean of a lot of their stolen assets
Good sir, you're like the gorgeous lovechild of Larry Bundy 'n Game Sack (I'm just gonna assume his name is John Game Sack). Love the channel.
its Joe Game Sack, and his semi retired friend Dave Game Sack
@@arcadianlhadattshirotsughW33Z I MISS DAVE. Joe does work, tho. Joe Game Sack, I shoulda remembered.
Haha
That FF7 NES game was such faithful a port it even gave you the "disc 2 unplayable" bug of the first batch of FF7 games.
Haha
Bom Diaz ;)
Very interesting selection. I kinda think romhacks+fan games deserve their own videos and are very different from bootlegs as bootlegs are for profit.
The song was enough to win me over
Hehe thank you ^^
Can I get some help finding that zook hero Z rom? And the final fantasy 7 improved one too please.
For the zook one, try a website called handheld underground. It dumped several zook games but you want the first game in the series
Final fantasy 7 should be relatively easy to find in rom websites I think? At least, Google gave me the original and patched versions fairly quickly
@@st1ka I was looking for the patched one under the title it was listed in the game's chapter so that threw me off at first. But thanks for the reply. I'll check for zook now.
Hope you enjoy it :)
King of Ring should be a Tolkien-inspired boxing game where Tom Bombadil is your trainer
great review
EDITED COMMENT: You called out Morrigan from Darkstalkers and Rinoa from Final Fantasy 8 appearing in that Queen Fighter 2000 game, but there's another: Tesse from the Sunsoft fighting game Waku Waku 7 (in the maid outfit with hair covering her eyes).
whoops! my bad!
I wonder if anybody made a drinking game where they take a shot after every single time he said try it out if you can😂
Very cool video.
I'm not sure if this was mentioned in the comments, but some of the music used in Brave Battle Saga was also used for some stages in Top Fighter 2000! Guess that means the games were made by the same company, I assume.
What's the game called at 0:03 seconds?
Someone already commented it's Dragon Bowl by Nics. Korean bootleg.
Nifty assortment---interesting to think about which genres tend to see the most action and how liable efforts are to exceed expectations depending.
very true! :D
W Trailer Mr. St1ka
Thank you xD
"Brave Battle Saga" is a great game, I played it to the end, it's a quality, full-fledged and very long JRPG on SEGA. I had a cartridge when I was a kid, but it was probably defective, it had a battery slot, and I changed the battery, but the save still didn't work, and this version was also called "Final Fantasy" (probably the pirates decided that with such a name the game would be easier to sell). But recently I managed to play this game from start to finish on an emulator =)
"Bubble bath babes is not great. . ."
Bro, it's amazing for before the time of easily available internet.