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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

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.

"I'm playnig FF7 Demastered" "You mean REmastered." "I know what I said."

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 😂

thank you for praising games instead of bashing hard work, we need more positivity for gaming and game devs

damn, was not expecting evil king piccolo to make an appearance in rolling thunder

Whenever Java games are mentioned you got 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.

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

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.

It's kinda cool that Piko Interactive have been putting some of these bootlegs on Steam

Water Margin got all them Knights of the Round sprites edited, ya'll ain't slick, lol.

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.

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.

Water Margin is totally Knights of the Round!!!!!!!!! LOVE that game!

Those dynasty warrior games look incredibly playable for a gbc game. Ridiculously smooth in a way ive never seen on gameboy

Whoa! This uses my MIDI "Castle Corridor" theme in Castlevania Reincarnation

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.

The Zook gameboy advance reaction was hilarious 😂

Nostalgia kick!!!!! OMG I love Weird Al, so ready for this videooooooooooo!!!!!

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 video, even though you had to mention my repressed childhood nightmare that was trying to land the plane in Top Gun.

"Bubble bath babes is not great. . ." Bro, it's amazing for before the time of easily available internet.

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.

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.

Man. I would LOVE to see FF7 on the SNES. It would look SO GOOD!!

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!

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 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

Fun fact: the Konami JRPG series Suikoden is also (VERY loosely) inspired by The Water Margin!

I like Zook's "Abadox" type explosion sound.

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.

So many games I would like to had the chance to play when I was a child

Mal… Malkovitch?! YOU’RE ALIVE?!

Great video. I am gonna hunt some of those down tonight. Master of Darkness on the Master System is deffo a great Castlevania rip.

Bubble Bath Babes actually got a censored reskin as "Mermaids of Atlantis" which *was* licensed for sale by Nintendo.

I like that you put a lot of effort talking about so many games in less than one Hour. keep it up

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.

That ffVII bootleg was a labour of frickin love!

I will not stand for st1ka disrespecting Hampton J. Pig like that.

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'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!

So happy that the Swedish baker from Family Guy is making A+ KZfaq content.

A trailer with Weird Al? Win, lol

i love these good old MIDI-Sounds

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.

Excellent episode, these game boy color games are impressive, I will try out Thanks for the researsh and for share

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!

guy sounds like Jontron's "Malkovich's Gaming Guilty Pleasures"

How would Zook not be awesome when it combined Mega Man and Robocop? The second game looks cool too. It's like Super Mario Word mixed with Adventure Island.

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)

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.

45:28 got to love the 8-Bit sound for this game

pov you skipped to the end and thought it was still running on nes

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

Evil Stones graphics are very appealing it looks awesome.

Interestingly, Langrisser I was the only game released into the U.S. by Japan. It was renamed Warsong and was distributed by Treco for the Sega Genesis. Langrisser II came out for the Japanese Sega. If you download the ROM, there is a patch that translates everything to English. The second game plays like the first but has more things to do.

Thank you for your much apreciated love for bootleg stuff All the "bootleg = bad" reviews were getting boring

The Water Margin game gives off Knights of the Round/King of Dragons Beat 'em UP vibes with how the enemies look too Now I REALLY want to play Brave Battle Saga as well...

"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 =)

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

47:40 well awesome video man. First time I've seen your Channel definitely going to check out more

Mig 29 reminds me a lot of Raptor Call of the Shadows, which can only be a good thing.

For Evil Stone: If you'd like a more simple version, it seems like Star Tropics with the jumping mechanism. Beware though, it's a hard AF game

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😂

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

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.

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.

Loved this video. Having your volume up on future videos would be helpful. A bit hard to hear you at times.

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!

that Buzz and Waldog game also looks like it was took some Bonks adventure gameplay.

Pokemon Diamond and Jade had a way more compelling storyline than any other Pokemon game

I don't know if you've covered it already but Hyper Pacman is another good bootleg arcade game. It plays like standard Pac-Man but there's power ups for speeding up, jumping like Pac-Mania, shields and lasers like Raimais, there's boss fights like Raimais, the music's good, it's a bit easy and short at only 30 levels and 3 bosses but it's pretty fun.

Played the improved version of the FF7 demake last month and it's pretty good! The biggest problem is you see the same enemies throughout the whole game. Doesn't matter if you're in the Northern Creator or first Mako reactor. It's an FF3 Romhack btw :]

lmao. I had that exact same TinyToon game. I didn't even realize it was a bootleg😂

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.

Much love for Final Fantasy 7 NES Demake

12:24 Tiny Toon 6. I remember a Tiny Toons game but I did not know they made six of them. I believe I played it either on a Sega or Super Nintendo

WAIT WAIT WAIT! That portrait isnt Barret Wallace, that's Bian Zoldark from Super Robot Wars!

I love how scuffed Zook Hero Z's box art looks. It _almost_ looks right, but all the artwork is mismatched, and Bright Man and Dust Man are duplicated for some reason.

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

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

About Castlevania Reincarnation, the original being called prince of qin reincarnation makes it also an unofficial spin-off in the "Qin" universe, as "Object Software Limited" made all their games in said universe, with titles like: "prince of Qin" and "World of Qin", so I guess it's a bootleg Castlevania turned into unofficial spin-off Prince of Qin game

Haven't seen improved version for Final Fantasy VII until now.

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! 🎉

Rolling Thunder is basically a Codename: Viper clone

Wow Mig 29 premisse is incredible.

This video was great. I obtained most of the GBC games only to discover they need a special emulator in most cases. You can't drag/drop to FPGA cores or most portable emulators and expect them to work.

Wow, was not expecting to see gameplay from Fantasy World Dizzy on the Speccy in this video, one of my favourite games as a kid.

Water Margin "it's no streets of rage" no it's 3 Knights of the Round in a trenchcoat!

Hello st1ka ignore the negative comments and I hope you will upload more of this bootlegs and homebrews games 😊

The Tiny Toons 6 game is a hack of the Konami made TIny Toon Adventures for NES. The Soundtrack, the sound effects, and the sprites are taken from it. That's why the music rivals a Konami title...because it's Konami music ;)

The girl in Water Margin has exactly the same move sprites of Lancelot in Knights of the Round. Wish you showcased the other 2 characters a bit too, to check if they matched Arthur and Percival moves lol.

We used to play a nes game called dead fox that was similar to rolling thunder. Afterwards we saw a bit of rolling thunder on a gaming tv show and were really curious about it.

47:08 in my opinion just owning a Final Fantasy VII Nintendo ROM is pretty freaking cool

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.

Another stellar video! Great channel, man!

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.

The song was enough to win me over