I had gotten Sonic 1 on Steam as a compensation prize for my pre-order of Sonic Mania being delayed, and they basically said "The game [Sonic 1] is worth $5, but with a little ingenuity, you can play a whooooole lot more. Wink wink. Nudge nudge." Sega literally didn't care back then, ha ha.
The normal Angry Birds one is, yeah. But the Star Wars one is a Russian bootleg that was made to be sold and is made by the same guys as a lot of the other Genesis bootlegs like Felix the Cat.
Tec Toy was not limited to Mega Drive and Master System plug n plays, it was the official distributor for SEGA products in Brazil, it released the real hardware for Mega Drive and Master System, along with the Sega Saturn and Dreamcast. It was a also a pioneer of the gaming market in Brazil, bringing the first ever localized videogames to brazilian portuguese, some of wich were japanese exclusive, never coming to the US or Europe. It deserves a lot of respect for what it did in the industry back in the day.
This. I'm tired of people calling tec toy an bootleg pirate. They are the sole reason sega is so beloved in Brasil to this day and they have a massive legacy.
@@My_name_is_Luc yes! the current model is emulation only, but they did sell a lot of cartridge ones based on model III, with a varied number of built-in games
@@frado9194 yeah i wouldn't say it looks good by any means (although it does have its charms) but it's a good thing the game doesn't feature the artists rendition of Misty since the guy was previously an ecchi artist beforehand and some of his drawings are....risque to say the least
The way this video is paced and written evokes the exact same vibes as an old Normal Boots video, and I am loving it. Genuinely awesome stuff here man, great job!
Fun fact: The developer of these russian bootlegs, BMB, is still active to this very day. They're now known as Old Pirate and they release ports of homebrew NES games to the Sega Genesis on their Patreon and Itchio pages (they also announced an update to one of their old bootlegs).
So the Silent Hill fan game is actually a port of a GBA version of the original Silent Hill that was only released in Japan. The GBA version is an officially licensed Konami game.
@@kkinthewheelchair3049 Ever heard of Hummer Team? Maybe not but they released couple of Bootleg Games such as Street Fighter 2, Mortal Kombat 2, Tekken on NES and a few more idk.
@@hakomutaito Hummer Team made the worst Bootleg games the only one I actually enjoyed by them is Donkey Kong Country 4 it's pretty decent but the founder of Hummer Team is still alive and actually knows he made bootlegs.
I'm watching this as I work overnight, barely keeping my eyes open. The moment you said it was either Dobby or an escaped fetus I f*ckin lost it! Now I'm fully awake. You're awesome!
The "Despicable Me 2" hackrom is a hackrom of "Bubble and Squeak" for the Sega Genesis. It's an excellent Platformer that's got elements similar to both Mario and Sonic The Hedgehog and it's got Sh'Mup mini-levels in between the regular levels. Anyone reading this comment, give the game a go. It's fun. As for the "Tekken" Romhack, that's Virtual Fighter 2 which is...decent for what it's trying to do on the Genesis, but I'd recommend just playing the 32X version of Virtua Fighters or just the Arcade Game itself, though the 2D based Virtua Fighter 2 itself isn't too bad (It's just nowhere near as good as the 3D games it's trying to mimic).
16:06 [Flash backs from that Harry Potter isometric bootle- 31:04 Oh here it is!] 18:56 In every video I watched of this prototype, I never saw this level. Or at least, I don't remember seing this one. Also, in those videos, the Dungeon Crawler phases weren't that broken. Maybe it's bugs of the specific emulator, idk. [Becomes 155th sub]
[likes your comment] Thank you! It's great to see people actually experienced these bootlegs before. I checked other footage of the Akira prototype and the dungeon crawler section is not supposed to be pitch black, so that was definitely an emulation issue.
I'm pretty sure this game is a bootleg of an actual JAVA mobile Ben 10 game called Ben 10: Power of the Omnitrix. You even go through the same environments, a city block, a forest, the Forever Knights castle, the Chimeran Hammer, etc. It's obviously missing the aliens, which are Four Arms, Heatblast and Cannonbolt
The Ben 10 game is a bit similar to a Java mobile game, however there were levels were you played as aliens, I guess they took that game, and oversiplified.
I posted this elsewhere, but I'm pretty sure this game is a bootleg of an actual JAVA mobile Ben 10 game called Ben 10: Power of the Omnitrix. You even go through the same environments, a city block, a forest, the Forever Knights castle, the Chimeran Hammer, etc. It's obviously missing the aliens, which are Four Arms, Heatblast, and Cannonbolt, and the enemy variety looks even worse.
Fun fact: I hear the Felix the Cat game's Game Over screen was originally a T-shirt design called "Felix Unmasked" And also I made a silly Pizza Tower version where it's instead Fake Peppino disguised as Felix
An answer to why all these bootlegs sound the same is that they use the GEMS sound driver, which is a MIDI player that allows to bypass the requirement to program the Yamaha YM2612 FM chip directly. And yes, most of the actual music tracks are reused (i.e. stolen) from legitimate games.
I mean they're not "steam" games. They are from sega mega drive workshop, where anybody hypothetically can upload anything and it won't be moderated in any way 80% of the times.
I heard the "OH NO" and laughed out loud. Apparently 20+ years is finally long enough. EDIT: Did I see Mr. "Nintendo S**tcube" in there? I laughed out loud AGAIN.
Proudly own the Naruto 2 cartridge for Sega Genesis since 2013. At the day of purchase, some kid and his mom were going to buy Crash Bandicoot 4 before me, but the game didn't work. A nostalgic revival we deserved, indeed. Thanks for the laughs, you have great sense of humor. Greetings from Russia.
Interestingly, I've known about the Ben 10 Bootleg before because the sprites of Kid Ben were used in probably the most infamous episode of Death Battle, Ben 10 VS Green Lantern. Honestly the sprites aren't that bad, at least once they're touched up well enough.
12:50 - The hack is of a game called Rolo to the Rescue. I recognised the level and enemy design immediately because I played the hell out of this game when I was a kid.
16:26 It's a hack of another bootleg game, that game being based on Harry Potter. Update: I hadn't seen the full vid, he plays said game at 30:45 Fun video, take my subscription. 👍
The enemies that aren’t Pokémon in that first Pokemon bootleg are actually from Game Freak’s Genesis tie in game to the manga Magical Taruruto Kun. Pretty decent platformer.
"If Nintendo can sell roms, then so can WE! What?! That's *_illegal now?!_* Don't worry, I got a plan so smart, my head would explode if I even BEGAN to know what I was talking about..."
5:24 ok so I immediately took to the wiki for this and it turns out there _is_ an unnamed tall one eyed minion seen only in promotional art for the first Despicable Me. Dunno if he’s uh, canon, tho
6:30 that Ben 10 game is originally from the Java version. Used to play it a lot on my keypad phone back in the day. In the original, you could transform into 4-5 aliens and the game was pretty impressive
that final harry potter bootleg game you showed here is actually called "Harry Potter und der Stein der Weisen", which is just the german title for the first HP book and film "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone". (The titular "Stein der Weisen" or "philosopher's stone" is a pre-existing concept from ancient and medieval alchemy and has always been called that in its respective languages, hence the straight usage for the translation from english to german. which makes it doubly weird that they renamed the book to "the sorcerer's stone" for the US market.)
it gets way more worse when you think about the fact that these games got through the "steam verifying filter" and the devs paid 100$ for one game to be published on the platform 💀
OH BOY. russia has insane history of those weird fake games ESPECIALLY sims 2 and 3, (saying this from personal experience AND a lot of random people i cant even recall anymore) its mostly fake dlcs based on russian tv series(turns out it weird mods all the time sold as official dlcs), but im pretty sure i have a disc copy of weird sims 2 texture swap i had no idea this phenomenon is still alive lol
As this video went on the jokes got funnier. I was expecting something a little bit boring but mostly interesting, but I got something that was interesting and funny.
It feels like those weird crappy flash games of the 2000s found a new home on steam. I hope the creators make enough back to cover the $100 steam fee to list their games.
I had gotten Sonic 1 on Steam as a compensation prize for my pre-order of Sonic Mania being delayed, and they basically said "The game [Sonic 1] is worth $5, but with a little ingenuity, you can play a whooooole lot more. Wink wink. Nudge nudge."
Sega literally didn't care back then, ha ha.
That is cool, especially bc Sega removed that version due to the release of Origins
They STILL don’t care.
i dont get it
@@JFenixGGThe video is showing off how the game can be used to play a ton of different games.
😊
@@JFenixGG
I saw earlier today there’s literally a game called “Epstein Island”. It uses 99% of your GPU and mines bitcoin using your PC for the publisher.
To be fair, the type of person who that game would appeal to deserves to have their PC used as a crypto miner
No way
what if you go offline the person mines or not
@@NeopiaCentral yes
@@W77D7 how that even works
Stop snitching
Stop snitching
Frfr
@JustCallMeRaito snithes gets stitches
@@stuffjuststuff6067 snithes
Riley is that you?
The Angry Birds Bootleg is actually made by a huge angry birds fan from china.
Makes sense
Makes even more sense with Rovio taking the games down. These bootlegs/fan games will outlast the actual product somehow
The normal Angry Birds one is, yeah. But the Star Wars one is a Russian bootleg that was made to be sold and is made by the same guys as a lot of the other Genesis bootlegs like Felix the Cat.
Tec Toy was not limited to Mega Drive and Master System plug n plays, it was the official distributor for SEGA products in Brazil, it released the real hardware for Mega Drive and Master System, along with the Sega Saturn and Dreamcast.
It was a also a pioneer of the gaming market in Brazil, bringing the first ever localized videogames to brazilian portuguese, some of wich were japanese exclusive, never coming to the US or Europe. It deserves a lot of respect for what it did in the industry back in the day.
This. I'm tired of people calling tec toy an bootleg pirate. They are the sole reason sega is so beloved in Brasil to this day and they have a massive legacy.
@@kami_97 notice how most people who say that are annoying gringos
Somehow the Master System is still selling in Brazil
@@kami_97 i still got my Master System III Collection (107 games version) to this day and i'm fully convinced i wouldn't be a Sega addict without it 😅
@@My_name_is_Luc yes! the current model is emulation only, but they did sell a lot of cartridge ones based on model III, with a varied number of built-in games
0:02 we are already off to a great start with the recommendations
Don't worry, it says that it is a "card battler".
Exposed himself
Lmao I uploaded some of these to the workshop when I was 14
@@linklickz thank you for your service
@@happytownworld2742 yeah it was pocket monsters and pocket monster 2
FBI : finally
this one right here officer!!
For those curious it was pocket monsters 1 and 2
fun fact about Pikachu at 15:24: the art they used for the title screen is actually official! it's from one of the mangas
I think it's from Electric Tales of Pikachu
Wow it looks like shit
@@frado9194who gaf
@@frado9194 yeah i wouldn't say it looks good by any means (although it does have its charms) but it's a good thing the game doesn't feature the artists rendition of Misty since the guy was previously an ecchi artist beforehand and some of his drawings are....risque to say the least
@@unimportantchannel66There are 2 kinds of artists; those who draw smut, and those who lie about drawing smut.
The way this video is paced and written evokes the exact same vibes as an old Normal Boots video, and I am loving it. Genuinely awesome stuff here man, great job!
“Pokémon 2” MUST be a reskin of Pac-Mania! Took me a second lol.
I actually thought of that before you put Ms. Pac-Man on the screen. It’s actually pretty funny that you thought of Pac-Man and not Pac-Mania. 🤣
The good old Felix jumpscare that made a Swedish man crap himself.
Poor Jolblerness
Swedish fail
H E T
Poor Joebieiwoejehrhl
Joey Joey! Did you hear about Felix the Cat at the Italian Senate???
actually one of the most entertaining videos i‘ve seen in a while
Fun fact: The developer of these russian bootlegs, BMB, is still active to this very day. They're now known as Old Pirate and they release ports of homebrew NES games to the Sega Genesis on their Patreon and Itchio pages (they also announced an update to one of their old bootlegs).
Honestly I can commend them on that. Doing better preservation then Ubisoft.
Still making better games than EA
They call me cory
Cause I’m *lion roar* as *monkey growl*
“Turn that shit up Charles!”
Armenian Cory
Bup
Shoutouts
So the Silent Hill fan game is actually a port of a GBA version of the original Silent Hill that was only released in Japan. The GBA version is an officially licensed Konami game.
Thanks Taiwan and Russia for giving us these Bootlegs.
truly indie games
Whats Taiwan got to do with these
@@kkinthewheelchair3049 Ever heard of Hummer Team? Maybe not but they released couple of Bootleg Games such as Street Fighter 2, Mortal Kombat 2, Tekken on NES and a few more idk.
@@kkinthewheelchair3049 Most bootlegs are made there.
@@hakomutaito Hummer Team made the worst Bootleg games the only one I actually enjoyed by them is Donkey Kong Country 4 it's pretty decent but the founder of Hummer Team is still alive and actually knows he made bootlegs.
09:34 Never did I ever think that I'd get Rick Rolled by Sub Zero.
... And then I got Rick Rolled for real anyway.
Ngl, the Pikachu caught my gaze while I was watching some AVGN.
But the Armenian Stormtropper commanded my full attention.
I was wondering why I saw Corey in the thumbnail. but after seeing the nostalgic Joker. it all makes sense now
I'm watching this as I work overnight, barely keeping my eyes open. The moment you said it was either Dobby or an escaped fetus I f*ckin lost it! Now I'm fully awake. You're awesome!
The "Despicable Me 2" hackrom is a hackrom of "Bubble and Squeak" for the Sega Genesis. It's an excellent Platformer that's got elements similar to both Mario and Sonic The Hedgehog and it's got Sh'Mup mini-levels in between the regular levels. Anyone reading this comment, give the game a go. It's fun. As for the "Tekken" Romhack, that's Virtual Fighter 2 which is...decent for what it's trying to do on the Genesis, but I'd recommend just playing the 32X version of Virtua Fighters or just the Arcade Game itself, though the 2D based Virtua Fighter 2 itself isn't too bad (It's just nowhere near as good as the 3D games it's trying to mimic).
That Open Season game is a romhack of Rolo to the Rescue, in case someone was wondering. It's a pretty decent game!
Thank you! I was a little harsh on it for the sake of comedy.
i thought it was speedy gonzolas gatos bandtios huh looks like the same game
Came here to say the same thing! I had a lot of fun with it as a kid
I played it on the Sega Channel in the 90s. I didn't regret the 30 minutes I spent playing it. That's the nicest thing I can say about it
@@Delaterius HOLY SHIT! ANOTHER SEGA CHANNEL USER!!! THAT THING WAS AWESOME
16:06 [Flash backs from that Harry Potter isometric bootle- 31:04 Oh here it is!]
18:56 In every video I watched of this prototype, I never saw this level. Or at least, I don't remember seing this one. Also, in those videos, the Dungeon Crawler phases weren't that broken. Maybe it's bugs of the specific emulator, idk.
[Becomes 155th sub]
[likes your comment]
Thank you! It's great to see people actually experienced these bootlegs before.
I checked other footage of the Akira prototype and the dungeon crawler section is not supposed to be pitch black, so that was definitely an emulation issue.
Fun fact about Ben 10: SFX are turned off by default LOL
I'm pretty sure this game is a bootleg of an actual JAVA mobile Ben 10 game called Ben 10: Power of the Omnitrix. You even go through the same environments, a city block, a forest, the Forever Knights castle, the Chimeran Hammer, etc. It's obviously missing the aliens, which are Four Arms, Heatblast and Cannonbolt
@@SecretMagician yeah it actually is!
@@SecretMagician A lot of the bootlegs based on more modern properties use art assets ripped from Java mobile games.
This video is so great man. Reminds me of 2010-2015 era UA-cam.
A Ben 10 videogame where you DON'T get to transform into cool aliens?! Outrageous!
Fortunya Jackson Jones broke records!!!!!!!!!!!
seeing Ifunny mentioned outside the app is like randomly seeing your coworker down 12 shots at a bar
20:00 Bootleg Erasure on the Genesis goes hard asf.
Finally. Somebody that tells me the name of the artist/song.
The Ben 10 game is a bit similar to a Java mobile game, however there were levels were you played as aliens, I guess they took that game, and oversiplified.
I posted this elsewhere, but I'm pretty sure this game is a bootleg of an actual JAVA mobile Ben 10 game called Ben 10: Power of the Omnitrix.
You even go through the same environments, a city block, a forest, the Forever Knights castle, the Chimeran Hammer, etc. It's obviously missing the aliens, which are Four Arms, Heatblast, and Cannonbolt, and the enemy variety looks even worse.
I got hit by Nostalgia by that one😅
Someone should let Cory de la Minguez know he has a bootleg on Steam.
Honestly thanks for educating me on this, i had no clue ...., i feel so dumb, im gonna get the genesis collection asap.... because of the mods....
I just want to say thank you for shouting out my brother Pjorn.
Fun fact: I hear the Felix the Cat game's Game Over screen was originally a T-shirt design called "Felix Unmasked"
And also I made a silly Pizza Tower version where it's instead Fake Peppino disguised as Felix
An answer to why all these bootlegs sound the same is that they use the GEMS sound driver, which is a MIDI player that allows to bypass the requirement to program the Yamaha YM2612 FM chip directly. And yes, most of the actual music tracks are reused (i.e. stolen) from legitimate games.
There is no way these games made it to steam I cannot believe this.
and that means Felix is back.
Awwwww crap.
HET
I mean they're not "steam" games. They are from sega mega drive workshop, where anybody hypothetically can upload anything and it won't be moderated in any way 80% of the times.
The NES game was also rereleased on steam lol
@@JRPGLOVER I had a feeling someone would eventually add genesis bootleg games
This is an amazing video lmao, so glad it came across my recommended! Just subbed, looking forward to seeing more :D
I hope you catch a groove in the algorithm. This was great! Keep this quality up and you'll be all set!
I heard the "OH NO" and laughed out loud. Apparently 20+ years is finally long enough. EDIT: Did I see Mr. "Nintendo S**tcube" in there? I laughed out loud AGAIN.
Proudly own the Naruto 2 cartridge for Sega Genesis since 2013. At the day of purchase, some kid and his mom were going to buy Crash Bandicoot 4 before me, but the game didn't work.
A nostalgic revival we deserved, indeed. Thanks for the laughs, you have great sense of humor. Greetings from Russia.
This is the quality stuff I come to UA-cam for.
…the Minions have names?
Yeah. Otto, Twister, and Squid.
@@happytownworld2742 My favorite is Hastur, the King in Yellow.
Bob
you are sleeping on this master piece of a franchise they have too 50 minute shorts to them selves
@@happytownworld2742DAWG WHAT
3:49 him saying that's Chinese is probably the most personally offended I've ever fealt from anything
Shhhhhh, this is supposed to be a secret!
Interestingly, I've known about the Ben 10 Bootleg before because the sprites of Kid Ben were used in probably the most infamous episode of Death Battle, Ben 10 VS Green Lantern. Honestly the sprites aren't that bad, at least once they're touched up well enough.
Fun Facts with Octo!!
the Russian Crazy Dave literally offers you to go fish in a toilet with him. i'd accept, if i were you
Great vid and you ended with my favorite GI Joe PSA, subbed. “I’M A COMPUTER!”
Holy crap another small creator appearing on my feed, subscribed
Epic video. Deserves a million views.
I like this guy, he's like discount Reverend, which is still very good. The Thailand bit had me doubled over laughing.
13:21 is DEFINITELY a JonTron reference and it makes perfect sense in context.
12:49 Hack of Lolo to the rescue.
69:420 garbanzo sauce
Oh man the quality on these are great! Here I was thinking you had thousands of subscribers already 😮 Very cool
10:42 I deadass thought that was Future Trunks lmao
12:50 - The hack is of a game called Rolo to the Rescue. I recognised the level and enemy design immediately because I played the hell out of this game when I was a kid.
Great vid man! Hope you get more subs!
An actually funny youtuber in this day and age? I give it 2 weeks before they crack down on you, godspeed.
16:26 It's a hack of another bootleg game, that game being based on Harry Potter.
Update: I hadn't seen the full vid, he plays said game at 30:45
Fun video, take my subscription. 👍
15:08 that's the sound jumping on an enemy in The Lion King Genesis makes lol
This is Clickbait, BUT I AM GLAD to have clicked on it.
Thank you.
「Subscribed」
The enemies that aren’t Pokémon in that first Pokemon bootleg are actually from Game Freak’s Genesis tie in game to the manga Magical Taruruto Kun. Pretty decent platformer.
bro has the most out of pocket humor its amazing.
The Sega Genesis does not use Soundfonts.
My mistake. Thanks for clarifying.
@@happytownworld2742 to make it more specific, it uses the YM2612 chip for its FM Audio.
That iron man skull goes so hard also I remember seeing a tattoo thing at a toys r us
You said "by accident instead of on accident" instant subscribe!
If steam gets a dmca I can and will blame you
Also the bootlegs are probably Russian because most companies won’t do business with the Russians
17:46 actually the the silent hill Vidal novel was original a japense exclusive gba game that was translated by fans
And it had dlc installable by hooking up the gba to a mobile phone that is currently lost media.
The pocket monsters one has to be one of the very first games I've ever player in my life 😭 I can't bear how it looks compared to how much I loved it
17:40 looks pretty raw though
Ominous!
oh dude i recognize that ben 10 game, it used to be on the old nokia phones, symbian operating system if i recall correctly
Sega Genesis collection is such a nostalgic part of my childhood.
"If Nintendo can sell roms, then so can WE! What?! That's *_illegal now?!_* Don't worry, I got a plan so smart, my head would explode if I even BEGAN to know what I was talking about..."
5:00 Its 'Bubble & Squeak'... I can't believe they've done this... Amazing...
the minions game is a reskin of bubble and squeak, open season is rolo to the rescue, and the shrek game is toy story(?)...
5:24 ok so I immediately took to the wiki for this and it turns out there _is_ an unnamed tall one eyed minion seen only in promotional art for the first Despicable Me. Dunno if he’s uh, canon, tho
This is good content. Subscribed
I was not expecting to get hit with Always by Erasure in this video but I’m here for it.
6:30 that Ben 10 game is originally from the Java version. Used to play it a lot on my keypad phone back in the day. In the original, you could transform into 4-5 aliens and the game was pretty impressive
you are so close to 1k hell yeah
"Harry Potter and the SKINE OF WELSEN!!" had me rolling
I'm a simple person, I see Pierre Bernard, I subscribe.
"If Sega was going to do anything they would have done it by now." Bro does not know about the Nintendo Gmod situation. 💀
that final harry potter bootleg game you showed here is actually called "Harry Potter und der Stein der Weisen", which is just the german title for the first HP book and film "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone".
(The titular "Stein der Weisen" or "philosopher's stone" is a pre-existing concept from ancient and medieval alchemy and has always been called that in its respective languages, hence the straight usage for the translation from english to german. which makes it doubly weird that they renamed the book to "the sorcerer's stone" for the US market.)
FYI the Minion game is a hack of Bubble and Squeak for genesis
Imagine snitching on the Genesis games workshop for youtube views.
MAN i remember playing that MK5 on my genesis when i was little
I never knew it was a bootleg
Subbed, fun video.
Fun fact: Both the Ben 10 game and the minions are hacks of open-source Genesis homebrews that originally didn't infringe at all.
17:02
Correction: the Pokeball is actually just a moving power pellet.
Collecting all the balls completes the level.
it gets way more worse when you think about the fact that these games got through the "steam verifying filter" and the devs paid 100$ for one game to be published on the platform 💀
@23:36 "...you can also play this -ship- **shit* minigame."
YW I fixed it lol 😉👍
Half through watching these videos, I forgot about the fact that all of that is on Steam.
OH BOY. russia has insane history of those weird fake games ESPECIALLY sims 2 and 3, (saying this from personal experience AND a lot of random people i cant even recall anymore) its mostly fake dlcs based on russian tv series(turns out it weird mods all the time sold as official dlcs), but im pretty sure i have a disc copy of weird sims 2 texture swap
i had no idea this phenomenon is still alive lol
As this video went on the jokes got funnier. I was expecting something a little bit boring but mostly interesting, but I got something that was interesting and funny.
29:33 Everyone's favorite Genesis game...Scramblor Bamblor
24:30 to save your eyes
24:00 for HET
As a south american, the 9999-in-1 NES bootlegs will always have a special place in my heart ❤️.
I remember the bootleg Pocket Monster. Found it on one of the famiclone carts we used to get back in the day.
the silent hill genesis game is actually a fanmade port of "silent hill play novel", a japan-only exclusive game on the gba iirc
It feels like those weird crappy flash games of the 2000s found a new home on steam. I hope the creators make enough back to cover the $100 steam fee to list their games.
Fortuna jackson jones with banzo beans
good video bro keep up the work