#bootleg game

[samo64]

While i was looking up reference images of bready i found this diva

[beepsparks]

Slowly going insane because I remember playing some kind of bootleg Kirby mobile game once in the early 2010s as a kid but every single time I’ve tried looking it up not a single hint of it comes up. To the point I’m questioning if it even existed

Maybe I’ll doodle what the protagonist looked like at some point as well as a level I recall seeing but not rn.

For now I’ll provide a description of the game (mainly visuals):

The game was a 2D platformer.

The protagonist was shaped exactly like Kirby, with a white body and blue feet (and possibly blue hands), with a Kirby-like smug face and a tiny tuft of hair on their head. They wielded a sword (the color im guessing was yellow) and they were 2D animated.

The environment was a basic grassland with an underground, one level I vaguely recall there being a platformer challenge underground where there were pits with wooden spikes in them that you had to jump over?

The UI had a D-Pad on the left, with two red and blue buttons on the right. The red button was used for the sword, and the blue button was used to jump. I think they had tiny graphics in the buttons too? Idk.

That’s all I remember idk

[ddddd-pixels]

Posted on my DA for the first time in a while:

[NGPC] Kim Dong Hwan - Kusaijin by ddddd-pixels on DeviantArt

It's a small animation ripped from a GBC bootleg of Garou: Mark of the Wolves... I've been ripping a lot of sprites from it recently, especially of Dong Hwan.

(It does also have Jae Hoon and Wild Wolf Terry... And Rock Howard, but Chamat's Rock looks better so I haven't bothered with him.)

[cosmicwitchgod]

Idk who might be interested, but I thought I'd share my experience with a bootleg german version of Pokémon Firered.

Here a look at the front and the back.

It is a pretty well done fake. And I know it's a fake because the guy who sold it to me was super upfront about it. He has a secondhand game store in my town and I told him that I was looking for firered (I know I have leafgreen somewhere, but oh well). He also did have originals but was selling the knock offs for half the prize. I mostly wanted Firered for trading and he did not know if it was possible to trade from a fake to a legit game. But he said I could bring it back if it didn't worked. No biggie.

That was unfortunately before I found out that you have to BEAT Firered and do some postgame shit to actually trade with Hoenn games. Also found out that the trading cable I had didn't work. Yay. So I ordered a new cable and started Firered. Fast forward 30+ in game hours and I'm FINALLY done. Maybe I should've looked up speed running strategies...

And trading with Hoenn games is 100% possible! Migrating to Gen 4 does not work however. The last question would be if I can connect to Pokémon Colosseum. But I have to beat that one first too.

Oh boy.

I wonder If Pokémon Bank would somehow flag Pokémon from the knock off as non legit. I'll figure it out.

(And I let the guy from the shop know that trading indeed does work. He's basically stuck with the fakes, because he didn't know himself when he bought them that they we're fake. If he's as upfront about it as he was with me I see no problem.)

[thewiletouhoubro]

1990

[arconinternet]

Gaegujangi Kkachi (Sega Master System, Hicom Entertainment, 1993)

Unlicensed Korean bootleg SMS game, unusually not based on an MSX game. You can play it in your browser here, and read the manual here.

Controls: arrows, Ctrl, Alt, 1

[weirdandobscuregames]

Weird VG 16 - Somari by Somari Team

[wariofranchisefanblog]

There exists a bootleg Wario Land 3, for the SEGA Genesis/Mega Drive, which is just a game called Puggsy, with Wario replacing the main character.