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Post by Warlock on Aug 16, 2012 10:44:24 GMT -5
I just recently encountered this wonderful little piece of madness (just the video; I don't have a copy ofthe ROM itself). I have to say, the folks making these pirate carts never cease to impress- its a shame, really, that the mechanics of their games always seem so bad. - HC |
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Post by Kalisiin Kumaki on Aug 16, 2012 13:45:13 GMT -5
I just recently encountered this wonderful little piece of madness (just the video; I don't have a copy ofthe ROM itself). I have to say, the folks making these pirate carts never cease to impress- its a shame, really, that the mechanics of their games always seem so bad. - HC LOL. the funny thing is...the more the companies like Ninty et al try to fight the pirates, the more clever the pirates become. It's an endless battle with no winner. The people like me, who use carts as a matter of convenience, and always buys the legit cart of whatever I download...ends up being the one who gets tripped up - and then turns to the pirates to help them out, lol. The pirates will keep right on pirating, and there is nothing anyone can really do about it. Napster finally figured it out and made it so that you could pay to download songs that you wanted. The game companies need to get on board the same way, and just let people download games for a price and put them on carts. Nintendo went there in a half-assed way with the DS store. They could have gone all the way with it, and been on the cutting edge. |
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Post by Warlock on Aug 16, 2012 17:01:59 GMT -5
Uhh... Okay, that's nice, but what does it have to do with the video I posted?
- HC
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Post by Kalisiin Kumaki on Aug 20, 2012 14:07:25 GMT -5
I don't quite frankly understand the video. The video looks like about a hundred different games all mashed into one and put up on youtube.
What exactly were you wanting someone to GET out of that video?
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Post by Warlock on Aug 20, 2012 21:58:41 GMT -5
The video, as the title implies, is an unliscenced NES port of the Super Nintendo classic Chrono Trigger. This comes on the heels of couple other "ports" of classic games to that platform- EG the famous NES FF7 that went around a while ago.
I think it demonstrates astounding determination and programming skill on the part of the pirates, which is why I repost it here.
Unfortunately, they all seem to suffer from horrible battle mechanics where individual battles take forever to complete and huge amounts of grinding are required to advance at all...
- HC
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Post by Kalisiin Kumaki on Aug 21, 2012 20:44:01 GMT -5
OK, well, it looked to me like there were SEVERAL DIFFERENT games in the video.
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Post by Warlock on Aug 23, 2012 6:48:18 GMT -5
The folks who uploaded the video have an intro with a bunch of different games in it, but that only lasts 20 seconds or so. The actual video is after it.
- HC
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Post by Kalisiin Kumaki on Aug 25, 2012 7:47:58 GMT -5
The folks who uploaded the video have an intro with a bunch of different games in it, but that only lasts 20 seconds or so. The actual video is after it. - HC Oh. OK. I stopped the video quick because it just didn't seem like anything to get excited about...it was just a bunch of different games, like I'd said. I'll have to try watching the whole thing. My apologies, I was rather upset over a death in the family at the time...so my attention wasn't really with it. |
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Post by Kalisiin Kumaki on Aug 26, 2012 7:17:12 GMT -5
Hummm...watched it all again, and I'm not sure how you tell that's even a pirate cart. Just looks like Chrono Trigger to me...but done in Japanese...and with comments added in Spanish.
Needless to say, I could only read the Spanish.
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Post by Warlock on Aug 26, 2012 9:38:18 GMT -5
Chrono Trigger was never released on the NES- this is an unlicensed (aka pirate) port made somewhere in China.
Especially given that it doesnt seem to use an engine hacked directly from another game, it's a pretty impressive accomplishment.
- HC
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Post by Kalisiin Kumaki on Aug 26, 2012 18:55:49 GMT -5
See, now I never knew that Chrono Trigger was not released on NES. Never was a huge fan of the game.
Seeing as you say the above, yeah, pretty impressive accomplishment.
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