I worked on that version of Pokemon Yellow, didn't make it, but I did all the music and translated it from chinese along with a few other tweeks to things like level progression and color palettes. It really is an impressive game. Even has more content than the original, like post game content that lets you get the legendaries from the second and third gen games. It's crazy impressive. Been meaning to go back to it and redo all the overworld graphics to look better and have nicer colors. Fun fact, the company that made Final Fantasy VII on the NES, Shenzhen Nanjing, made Pokemon Yellow as well. They run on the same engine. Something that made hacking this game very easy since I am already familiar with how the game works.
@@zachtwilightwindwaker596 It's been a bit so I don't fully remember why I didn't. But it was probably because I didn't have enough space for it. There were a few songs I worked on that ended up not making the cut.
Can we please get a more in depth review of the pokemon yellow nes port? It looks very impressive considering it's a bootleg. Id love to see how it compares to the Gameboy version.
This has been around for quite a while, as well as silver/gold, but this is the first time Ive seen the NES port put on a real cartridge. But its easy to find a real NES port rom, most aren't english though. Harder to find the english versions but I have them!
Pokemon yellow nes is almost certainly a good experience and the entire game from what I've read. The homebrew community for the nes is pretty solid, we even have homebrew ff7 on the nes that is pretty good.
@@YoungMetroid If it's a rom hack, what rom is it hacking? Dragon Quest? Final Fantasy? It looks like a whole new game. It's very obviously not the Gameboy game despite using the Gameboy sprites.
@@LegatoSkyheart It's not a ROM hack. It was developed by Shenzhen Nanjing Technology Company and was translated by people who liked the original game. The original Famicom version is under the name "Lei Dian Huang Bi Ka Qiu Chuan Shuo"
Imagine if Pokémon actually released on the NES back in the day. It’s such a big game compared to so many NES games that you can beat in an hour that it would of been a really great value. Would of been interesting.
I think If I was a Nes collector I would definitely buy it! It looks like Pokemon Gold & Silvers Engine mixed with Fire Red & Leaf Greens Map & Models.
@@davidsomoza Nintendo would’ve definitely come up with some ridiculous contraption that you would put 2 cartridges into the same console to do trades and battle with friends had they actually released it on a home console back then. Just look at the n64 with the game boy game pack. Something along that line
That Pokemon Yellow is surprisingly well put together. I'm surprised no one has ever made a Homebrew SNES pokemon game that looked closer to the Red/Blue remakes.
This version of Pokemon yellow is apparently an English translated romhack of a pirate port of yellow to famicom called "Lei Dian Huang: Bi Ka Qiu Chuan Shuo". This is such a deep rabbit hole.
Pokemon on NES seems like an amazing idea, being able to trade with your own NES seems pretty fun, especially if it had a link cable like the super game boy.
4:20 I can explain what this game is: Super Maruo is curiously the first documented Famicom bootleg game ever released, and it's actually a good thing you didn't catch the princess because the game is... basically just p*rn.
The NES Yellow Version is actually quite interesting. You’d think Nintendo would try to go after the company making this stuff, but it’s probably a bunch of companies at this point.
I got Dragon Ball Kart and it’s such a blast haha. As for Pokémon Yellow, it’s a shame they didn’t have Pikachu following behind like in the GBC version
Pokémon yellow looks like it used sprites from both yellow and crystal, but it looked like it have more details like better roads and more colors for npc.
I have that copy of Pokémon for my NES. It was a Hong Kong or Korean pirated game room that was not quite like the original game. But then somebody else went in and hacked it to bring it closer to the original source material.
In french speaking part of Europe, the Dragon Ball game did also came out, but Goku actually looks like Goku. The game was also censored but the sprite that you shown here has nothing to do with the original Goku Sprite. My guess is, USA discovered Dragon ball reeeaaallyy late, like in early 2000, as us in Europe, grew up with Dragon Ball in the 80s even before DBZ was even a thing. So I assume they totally re skinned the game because Dragon Ball didn't existed at all in the USA at that time..
I think part of the reasons why Pokemon never had a main line game on a Home console until the switch was probably because Pokemon lends itself to the portable nature of the Game Boy DS and switch so having it on a console that you can bring anywhere and pick up and play at any time and make a little progress and then put it down whenever you want is a huge part of Pokemon's appeal not many people probably would have liked Pokemon as much if you couldn't play it wherever and whenever you want because when it came out TV and console time was heavily monitored and restricted by parents.
I genuinely love these videos of you buying games (fake or otherwise) Jon. Makes me want to start collecting or just find older consoles to mess around with. My favourite was Pokemon Yellow. It looked so vibrant and colourful. I'd love to play that one all the way through.
I've seen a ton of bootlegs, and I'm surprised to be seeing that Pokemon Yellow NES one for the first time. I'm curious about its conception because it doesn't seem to be based on another game like most bootlegs.
The guy that did a lot of work on ff7 nes Demarest was responsible for quite a bit of the Pokémon yellow nes. He's currently working on a resident evil demake.
@@HeyItsJonny Both Pokemon Yellow and the Final Fantasy 7 demake were originally games made by the Chinese company Shenzhen Nanjing. The Bio Hazard demake was created by Waixing Technology. All three have received English translations by people like Lugia2009 or Pacansac
I remember these way back in the day, Pokemon Yellow and Gold on NES and I was like what the heck? That's not the right platform... it turns out China made a lot of unlicensed ports to the platforms more of their citizens had at the time so you see a lot of newer games on older platforms there because they had no respect for copyright laws.
That yellow is a completely new game, looking at what you showed it looks very impressive and a labour of love intended to reimagine yellow if it had been a NES game
I see these “reproduction “ games for sale at all the local mom and pop video game stores. The local stores around me have rip off prices on all their games. I might as well just shop on eBay
Fun fact Satoshi Tajiri approached nintendo with his idea for pocket monsters in the early 90s. Got the idea from exploring as a kid and finding different kinds of bugs, hence the bug trainer.
4:30 this is actually a very rare version of super mario that is supposedly rated 18+, and oriented towards adult audiences back in the day- apparently upon "catching" the "princess" mario commits certain "acts" with her lol
Mario doesn't do anything with her, not explicitly anyway. You catch her, it cuts to a 2 frame "animation" of her without a shirt, then the game repeats with recolored sprites. You catch her again, another crappy 2 frame "animation," and so on.
They seemed to imply that the multicart supports saving, and the coin battery would indicate so, but Mario 3, which does have save support, isn't included. It's usually omitted from these things because they're too cheap to include save support, so I wonder why it isn't included in this?
As someone who played the original Pokemon Yellow many times, I'd say that's a well-made fan port. The sprites of the pokemon are from Gold and Silver, the main character's movement is reminiscent of FireRed/LeafGreen, and it kind of surprises me that, given how it was even modded to account for a larger screen size, they somehow couldn't get the jumping animation in there. Or maybe they thought that would be just enough for Nintendo to take them to court, who knows.
The ROM "Super Marou" is one of the earliest nes 18+ game from what I have heard. It's a good thing you didn't touch the woman, i'll just leave it at that.
By the way I would argue we never had Pokemon on a home console, the Gamecube Pokemon games are legitimately amazing and worthy of being called 'main' pokemon games. They sure as hell are better than anything after Pokemon X and Y!
My local game store has a big stock of Gameboy games, but most of them are these. It's too funny to walk into an American game store chain where most of the Gameboy (through GBA games, excluding VB of course) on display are brand new bootlegs.
Pokemon Yellow was on that multi-cart that got first looked at, too. Between that and your introduction to pokemon yellow, it sounds like this is a popular bootleg.
People have different expectations of the future. Some dream of technological advances we couldn't even dream of, while others fear some sort of distopia for various reasons. And now here it is... the future... brace yourself... microwave food is cool again. That's it. Welcome to the future.
Over 2 months ago I went to a retro gaming market in London, there were 5 Pokemon games for the GBA. The price sounded good (£120 for the entire set), but I don’t know if they were authentic or fakes so I passed it.
@@zerorig There were also Gameboy Color games over there. The Zelda Oracle games were over £200, but I don’t know if they were also authentic or fakes.
One day when i buy an nes im getting that pokemon yellow. Thats amazing! Ive always thought it was a missed opportunity not to do the games like emerald or crystal or yellow on the home consoles. Those are supposed to be the definitive versions of those gens. Or they could have done the super mario all stars collection treatment, remade yellow on the snes.
There are quite a few gameboy and gameboy color "fix up" hacks out there that clean up sprites and menus and whatnot. On top of that, there is a huge industry in China for taking those hacks, translating them to Chinese and releasing them on the NES. Bootleg NESs like the one you used in this video are still one of the most common consoles in China.
6:48 Do not forget, the US really discovered Dragon Ball 10 years after the rest of the world. Dragon Power is really Dragon Ball on NES, it was published as so in Europe. There are other RPG/card games using the licence on Famicom but those were never translated for any market outside Japan. It is hard to remember now but the US market resisted the manga/anime invasion for a long time. For example, most americans don't know what is Captain Tsubasa or Saint Seiya, while the rest of the world (and it is litteral for those 2 licences) love them to death.
I did a little research because I want to play this Pokemon Yellow for NES, I believe this was made for China and someone made an english patch, then someone else applied the patch and put it on a cartridge and then sold you it. I really want to play that it looks WAY better than I thought it would look.
I worked on that version of Pokemon Yellow, didn't make it, but I did all the music and translated it from chinese along with a few other tweeks to things like level progression and color palettes. It really is an impressive game. Even has more content than the original, like post game content that lets you get the legendaries from the second and third gen games. It's crazy impressive.
Been meaning to go back to it and redo all the overworld graphics to look better and have nicer colors.
Fun fact, the company that made Final Fantasy VII on the NES, Shenzhen Nanjing, made Pokemon Yellow as well. They run on the same engine. Something that made hacking this game very easy since I am already familiar with how the game works.
Forgot to say, Lugia2009 on the title screen of both Pokemon Yellow and Final Fantasy VII, that's me.
@@kamonfox1707 great job
You should have used the proper music when you start a new game.
@@zachtwilightwindwaker596 It's been a bit so I don't fully remember why I didn't. But it was probably because I didn't have enough space for it. There were a few songs I worked on that ended up not making the cut.
@@ivanramos8152 Happy to do it ^.^
Can we please get a more in depth review of the pokemon yellow nes port? It looks very impressive considering it's a bootleg. Id love to see how it compares to the Gameboy version.
U do realize people remake gamez all time i play yellow on psp
@@aqwsderxz Isn't that just playing the game boy version on an emulator though? This seems to be a port as it's for the NES.
@@ultgamercw6759 i can play this on my 3ds the nes version
@@ultgamercw6759 I'm interested too. Yellow was my first PKMN game and so it's got it's place in my heart over red and blue.
This has been around for quite a while, as well as silver/gold, but this is the first time Ive seen the NES port put on a real cartridge. But its easy to find a real NES port rom, most aren't english though. Harder to find the english versions but I have them!
Pokemon yellow nes is almost certainly a good experience and the entire game from what I've read. The homebrew community for the nes is pretty solid, we even have homebrew ff7 on the nes that is pretty good.
That Pokémon yellow is actually VERY impressive
Yeah, it might be a rom hack
@@YoungMetroid Or just a homebrew game.
@@YoungMetroid If it's a rom hack, what rom is it hacking? Dragon Quest? Final Fantasy? It looks like a whole new game. It's very obviously not the Gameboy game despite using the Gameboy sprites.
I thought at first they were just emulating a Super Gameboy w/ the Yellow cart... then I realized this is the NES (clone system), not the SNES.
@@LegatoSkyheart It's not a ROM hack. It was developed by Shenzhen Nanjing Technology Company and was translated by people who liked the original game. The original Famicom version is under the name "Lei Dian Huang Bi Ka Qiu Chuan Shuo"
Advertising tv dinners like theyre some kind of revolutionary quick meal lol
Imagine if Pokémon actually released on the NES back in the day. It’s such a big game compared to so many NES games that you can beat in an hour that it would of been a really great value. Would of been interesting.
I think If I was a Nes collector I would definitely buy it! It looks like Pokemon Gold & Silvers Engine mixed with Fire Red & Leaf Greens Map & Models.
I dont know, without the portability and the capability to link with another player's game to trade Pokémon its just not the same.
@@davidsomoza Nintendo would’ve definitely come up with some ridiculous contraption that you would put 2 cartridges into the same console to do trades and battle with friends had they actually released it on a home console back then. Just look at the n64 with the game boy game pack. Something along that line
I think it could've worked. The original Final fantasy was pretty huge in my opinion
@@Adam20622 I doubt that.
A Link Cable that uses the second controller port sounds more "nintendoy". What you outlined is a Sega Idea.
I would love to see you do a review of the NES Yellow. Curious how well it runs in it's entirety.
It runs well. The cfw/homebrew community made this happen already
That Pokemon game looked very interesting. They were using Gold and Silver sprites for the Pokemon, that's why it looked better.
The Pokémon sprites from the yellow cartridge are from the Gen 2 games.
Even the town is just a rearranged New Bark Town. The grass assets are the same as well. Just a rom hack on a cart.
and gen 3 for the pokemon center
Really love the aesthetic of pokemon yellow. Design style and changes to buildings/ layout. Really feels like a classic rpg
That Pokemon Yellow is surprisingly well put together. I'm surprised no one has ever made a Homebrew SNES pokemon game that looked closer to the Red/Blue remakes.
well, its not a homebrew port, its a Shanzai Game, a unauthorized unlincesed game from china, they have a team to produce those games for the NES
This version of Pokemon yellow is apparently an English translated romhack of a pirate port of yellow to famicom called "Lei Dian Huang: Bi Ka Qiu Chuan Shuo". This is such a deep rabbit hole.
Now I'm thinking it's surprising they've never done an official dragon ball kart
Sir, that Pokemon Yellow is not fake, I grew up with that. It's Clearly Legit.
Don't be silly.
NES, discontinued in 1995. Pokemon Yellow(GB), released in 1998. Yea, sounds legit...
time traveller...
did Pokemon even exist back in the 80s?
@@samholdsworth420 no 1996
I love these videos they're some of my favorites from you
The battle sprites are the same as yellow version on the Gameboy, as they were updated for that game.
I am SO glad you didn't win at Super Maruo. That's an unlicensed "adult" game with themes of assault.
Loved the Factor Food Sponsor. Makes Hungry Man look Gourmet. Did anyone else notice you don't actually see him eating that disgusting looking sh*t?
Pokemon on NES seems like an amazing idea, being able to trade with your own NES seems pretty fun, especially if it had a link cable like the super game boy.
4:20 I can explain what this game is: Super Maruo is curiously the first documented Famicom bootleg game ever released, and it's actually a good thing you didn't catch the princess because the game is... basically just p*rn.
Lmfao at your reaction to "super Maruo", I think I'd enjoy watching you play random obscure games and recording your reactions to them
😳
The NES Yellow Version is actually quite interesting. You’d think Nintendo would try to go after the company making this stuff, but it’s probably a bunch of companies at this point.
I got Dragon Ball Kart and it’s such a blast haha. As for Pokémon Yellow, it’s a shame they didn’t have Pikachu following behind like in the GBC version
Pokémon yellow looks like it used sprites from both yellow and crystal, but it looked like it have more details like better roads and more colors for npc.
I have that copy of Pokémon for my NES. It was a Hong Kong or Korean pirated game room that was not quite like the original game. But then somebody else went in and hacked it to bring it closer to the original source material.
What is up with all these scammers on UA-cam nowadays?
LOL at Vegeta running over Krillin in the title screen.
In french speaking part of Europe, the Dragon Ball game did also came out, but Goku actually looks like Goku. The game was also censored but the sprite that you shown here has nothing to do with the original Goku Sprite. My guess is, USA discovered Dragon ball reeeaaallyy late, like in early 2000, as us in Europe, grew up with Dragon Ball in the 80s even before DBZ was even a thing. So I assume they totally re skinned the game because Dragon Ball didn't existed at all in the USA at that time..
Gotta love the weekend content
Now I wish they did a Kamehameha Wave Race, I mean the Kame House is already an awesome stage one idea.
1:22 SpawnWave holding his fork like a barbarian and working mad hard on cutting that thing 😂😂
"So, you got your channel back, what are you going to do next?"
"I'm going to give positive reviews to straw-market knockoffs"
It’s hilarious watching spawnwave poke at that food do anything to not have to it eat
I think part of the reasons why Pokemon never had a main line game on a Home console until the switch was probably because Pokemon lends itself to the portable nature of the Game Boy DS and switch so having it on a console that you can bring anywhere and pick up and play at any time and make a little progress and then put it down whenever you want is a huge part of Pokemon's appeal not many people probably would have liked Pokemon as much if you couldn't play it wherever and whenever you want because when it came out TV and console time was heavily monitored and restricted by parents.
The Pokémon Sprites in that Yellow Game are from Gold and Silver.
Pokemon Yellow on the NES or SNES would be awesome if it was officially done by Nintendo.
I genuinely love these videos of you buying games (fake or otherwise) Jon. Makes me want to start collecting or just find older consoles to mess around with.
My favourite was Pokemon Yellow. It looked so vibrant and colourful. I'd love to play that one all the way through.
I've seen a ton of bootlegs, and I'm surprised to be seeing that Pokemon Yellow NES one for the first time. I'm curious about its conception because it doesn't seem to be based on another game like most bootlegs.
The guy that did a lot of work on ff7 nes Demarest was responsible for quite a bit of the Pokémon yellow nes.
He's currently working on a resident evil demake.
@@HeyItsJonny Both Pokemon Yellow and the Final Fantasy 7 demake were originally games made by the Chinese company Shenzhen Nanjing. The Bio Hazard demake was created by Waixing Technology. All three have received English translations by people like Lugia2009 or Pacansac
@@zacharypierce2970 this
I remember these way back in the day, Pokemon Yellow and Gold on NES and I was like what the heck? That's not the right platform... it turns out China made a lot of unlicensed ports to the platforms more of their citizens had at the time so you see a lot of newer games on older platforms there because they had no respect for copyright laws.
Also, i just saw and read about that. A lot of companies took advantage because normal consoles are were extremely expensive because of tariffs
Good. Fuck copyright laws.
That yellow is a completely new game, looking at what you showed it looks very impressive and a labour of love intended to reimagine yellow if it had been a NES game
I see these “reproduction “ games for sale at all the local mom and pop video game stores. The local stores around me have rip off prices on all their games. I might as well just shop on eBay
I would like a deeper comparison between the NES and GB versions and the differences.
You had Pokémon Yellow on the multi cart too. I wonder if it was the same game or a different romhack entirely.
That pokemon yellow would be a way better experience than the gameboy version cause its in full color.
No Teardown of the NES System and the Multi Cart?? :( :(
"We didn't have a Pokemon game on a home Console, well, until the Switch." Pokemon Colosseum and XD: Gale of Darkness would like to have a word.
As an original Pokemon yellow player you're allowed to say it's a better experience, it looks like it.
I just replayed it for the first time since I was a kid and got the game in 2000... Gen 2 was so much nicer to play, no move deleter was rough
I wouldn't say so.
Lol. He was just beating around the bush lol. Probably because he hadn't spent enough time to make a definite call on it and didn't want to offend.
Dude Yellow Version on NES is actually awesome
(7:29) That 'pre-installed' thing was because that art was ripped from the box for the translucent yellow Nintendo 2DS!
I love the filler episode of Goku and Piccolo trying to get their license lmao it was even referenced sort of in the new movie
Bootleg feels like such a broad term that people unjustifiably use on many games that don't deserve the label.
I'm shocked Spawn Wave hasnt reveived a cease and desist...
That vegan sponsor lol john aint even eating it… faker chewing than weird al yankovich on Hot Ones lol
They have vegan options but that's just microwaved meat my dude.
@@zerorig you didnt seem to understand my comment at all, all good though lol
They turned Yoshi into Piccalo. LOL! 😆
Props for the skate or die shout out. Those games aren't remembered enough
I bought 30 used real Nintendo games today for 12.000¥ at a sale. ^o^
Fun fact Satoshi Tajiri approached nintendo with his idea for pocket monsters in the early 90s. Got the idea from exploring as a kid and finding different kinds of bugs, hence the bug trainer.
Damn, a SW video without a clickbait title? That's rarer than finding a unicorn.
I’ll give the Number 1 click bait title reward to RGT.
John cuts his food like a savage
ME WANT FOOD!
4:30 this is actually a very rare version of super mario that is supposedly rated 18+, and oriented towards adult audiences back in the day- apparently upon "catching" the "princess" mario commits certain "acts" with her lol
Mario doesn't do anything with her, not explicitly anyway. You catch her, it cuts to a 2 frame "animation" of her without a shirt, then the game repeats with recolored sprites. You catch her again, another crappy 2 frame "animation," and so on.
Lol u weren't even really eating 😂
Shoutout to Dragonpower, I actually had that as a kid 😂
They seemed to imply that the multicart supports saving, and the coin battery would indicate so, but Mario 3, which does have save support, isn't included. It's usually omitted from these things because they're too cheap to include save support, so I wonder why it isn't included in this?
As someone who played the original Pokemon Yellow many times, I'd say that's a well-made fan port. The sprites of the pokemon are from Gold and Silver, the main character's movement is reminiscent of FireRed/LeafGreen, and it kind of surprises me that, given how it was even modded to account for a larger screen size, they somehow couldn't get the jumping animation in there. Or maybe they thought that would be just enough for Nintendo to take them to court, who knows.
The ROM "Super Marou" is one of the earliest nes 18+ game from what I have heard. It's a good thing you didn't touch the woman, i'll just leave it at that.
The pokemon yellow is awesome, and the effort of whoever made DragonBall Kart is nice
I believe that "super maruo" was a pervy game where you try to tear off her clothing. Don't remember where I saw it originally
@7:51 Did he just call Yellow Ash? The random insults...
Bro that Pokemon yellow one looks cute. And one the NES makes it look like a traditional (J)RPG. Kinda like FF.
I always love when people are like 5 years late to something.
By the way I would argue we never had Pokemon on a home console, the Gamecube Pokemon games are legitimately amazing and worthy of being called 'main' pokemon games. They sure as hell are better than anything after Pokemon X and Y!
I find it hilarious that on the title screen for Dragonball Kart, it looks like Vegeta is running Krillin over.
You don't know what Super Maruo is? It's one of those pirate porn games. Spawn Wave really doesn't know much about the retro scene does he?
We're going to' need a full Super Maruo playthrough Sir.
My local game store has a big stock of Gameboy games, but most of them are these. It's too funny to walk into an American game store chain where most of the Gameboy (through GBA games, excluding VB of course) on display are brand new bootlegs.
I stay away from non-offical stuff, but interesting, especially the Dragonball one.
Seeing the DB Kart reminded me of another ROM hack I saw called Vegeta Kart 64. It was basically the same thing with Vegeta plastered on everything
Pokemon Yellow was on that multi-cart that got first looked at, too. Between that and your introduction to pokemon yellow, it sounds like this is a popular bootleg.
Pokémon debuted on home console during GameCube days. XD Gale of Darkness is a stand alone adventure RPG.
That yellow version feel like they ran yellow under the silver/gold engine which would be more than enough of a reason to play yellow again lol
I want the alternate universe where we actually got DragonBall Kart and Mario Kart was the bootleg
Nintendo got rid of the quality seal when they knew they were making the Joy-Con's
That Pokémon Yellow... Bro, very very impressive
People have different expectations of the future. Some dream of technological advances we couldn't even dream of, while others fear some sort of distopia for various reasons. And now here it is... the future... brace yourself... microwave food is cool again. That's it. Welcome to the future.
that nes yellow is very good looking with graphics updates. thats pretty neat whoever made that took some time.
The plastic fork, microwave, and grey sauce and meat really made me want to subscribe to FACTOR.
Over 2 months ago I went to a retro gaming market in London, there were 5 Pokemon games for the GBA. The price sounded good (£120 for the entire set), but I don’t know if they were authentic or fakes so I passed it.
It's good to be suspicious - some of the fakes I've had take a real sharp eye to distinguish. The only way to be sure sometimes is to open it up.
@@zerorig There were also Gameboy Color games over there. The Zelda Oracle games were over £200, but I don’t know if they were also authentic or fakes.
@@georgem2768 color*
Are u crazy my 3ds have all games gba nes ds 3ds modded dont buy it fool
@@georgem2768 i have over 200 gamea on my 3ds
The sprites in Yellow look fantastic
One thing to note, Pikachu's tail is backward/upside down in battle..lol.
7:53
Don't you dare call Red 'Ash' again.
That Pokemon Yellow for NES.. looks AMAZING!
One day when i buy an nes im getting that pokemon yellow. Thats amazing! Ive always thought it was a missed opportunity not to do the games like emerald or crystal or yellow on the home consoles. Those are supposed to be the definitive versions of those gens. Or they could have done the super mario all stars collection treatment, remade yellow on the snes.
There are quite a few gameboy and gameboy color "fix up" hacks out there that clean up sprites and menus and whatnot. On top of that, there is a huge industry in China for taking those hacks, translating them to Chinese and releasing them on the NES. Bootleg NESs like the one you used in this video are still one of the most common consoles in China.
6:48 Do not forget, the US really discovered Dragon Ball 10 years after the rest of the world. Dragon Power is really Dragon Ball on NES, it was published as so in Europe. There are other RPG/card games using the licence on Famicom but those were never translated for any market outside Japan. It is hard to remember now but the US market resisted the manga/anime invasion for a long time. For example, most americans don't know what is Captain Tsubasa or Saint Seiya, while the rest of the world (and it is litteral for those 2 licences) love them to death.
I did a little research because I want to play this Pokemon Yellow for NES, I believe this was made for China and someone made an english patch, then someone else applied the patch and put it on a cartridge and then sold you it. I really want to play that it looks WAY better than I thought it would look.
5:31 on the 800 game cart, Pokemon Yellow is also on there as well.
I've never seen a multicart with Maniac Mansion on it. Wild
Watching him tap the food in that factor commercial drove me insane...
Great to learn that you’re a Startropics fan!! Wish they would release Zoda’s Revenge on NSO. Or maybe even reboot the IP.
4:48 this is like a skit from the Amanda show
Those Pokémon sprites seem to be taken from the Firered and Leafgreen versions of Gen 1, all in all that is pretty neat.