00:00 Intro 00:54 Mario Cart 03:46 Lord of the Rings: Return of the King 13:05 Lord of the Rings IV 17:05 Pokemon Sapphire 31:27 Super Mario DX 34:49 Battle Network Rockman: Crystal 38:37 Shrek 40:26 Fighter Sonic 45:51 Shi Kong Xing Shou (時空星獸) 56:30 Super Sonic 2 59:12 Shengui Diguo Zhi Emo Cheng (神鬼帝國之惡魔城) 01:03:26 Matel Gear II
I think I sent you a few of these Sintax GBA bootlegs a while ago, like Super Mario DX and Fighter Sonic. Cool to see you played a few of them on this stream. Hope all is well with you, Vinny. 🙂
God, as a fan of Space Time Star Beast it was painful not seeing Joel talk to Hayato, the green haired boy. Also, I really like Vast Fame’s music. Clearly so did Sintax, as their GBA games stole some of it
I just love Vinny's increasing awareness to how Super Mario DX is pretty much a reskin of Lord of the Rings 4, and then when he hits the insurmountable roadblock at 32:14, the music kicks in right when he realizes he was right. Comedic timing at its finest, folks.
The Lord of the Rings bootleg was made in the Pocky and Rocky engine… and as I’m writing this with my extensive bootleg knowledge, someone in live-chat beat me to it.
As someone who has completed Shi Kong Xing Shou _(and who is still trying to give it a proper translation)_ watching Vinny struggle through the first town, not realizing that he was missing the one NPC he needed to talk to to progress the plot was painful but hilarious. A shame, too. He missed some gratuitous Engrish. *OH, BABY~*
Oh, that's rad as hell! I'll be honest- I was mostly doing it out of hobby during school and my aim was to do more of a "what if this were actually localized in the states" kind of translation, but I would absolutely love to see what you guys have done!
@@FoxMan_FF do you have any socials? I want to link the discord so you can check it out. We have a git as well for disassembly, but I can’t link any of it on here because yt blocks links
My favorite part of Lord of the Rings was when Marty and Pinpin rode on Facial Tree Hair to Isen Guarded "Where to, Facial Bush?" "OOOOOOohhh Little Rojins!"
None of the gba games sounded any better than the gbc games. That’s sad. I mean I know the gba didn’t have dedicated sound hardware but holy shit (sapphire exempt from comparison for obvious reasons)
6:30 - This reminds me of one of the April Fools Day things I did where I went to a message board that I frequented and Google Translated everything I posted into a bunch of different languages and then back into English for the entire day.
I've noticed two things about these bootlegs: 1. I actually liked the music in the bootleg Metal Gear 2 game so much that I decided to give it my own version. 2. These bootleg GBA games usually have this familiar sound chip used within their games. These heavy drum bangs you hear within songs and whenever there's any form of currency you collect, the sound effect is from Pokemon when you choose something.
A good rule of thumb is that anything in a bootleg is at all good, or you can say that there is any kind of good qualities it it what-so-ever, it's probably stolen from something else in one way or another. Whether it be the music, visuals, anything, as long as it is a bootleg and it has any amount of quality to it at all, it's probably a safe bet that the bootleggers had nothing to do with it, at most, they probably copied it from somewhere, or the fact there is anything likable about it was completely accidental on the bootleggers part.
You’d be surprised. The first LotR one had a legitimately obtained P&R with Becky engine, and while a few assets are stolen most are original. ZMZX4 is mostly stolen graphically but has an original engine. SKXS is pretty much original, minus the stolen monster designs.
For those wondering why the gamecube says "brain games" in that pokemon bootleg If I had to guess, it's because this seems to be using chinese as a base (TianYuan, Chunzi, stuff like that is a good giveaway) In chinese, video games (or, rather, computer games) is "电脑游戏"/"Diànnǎo yóuxì" Since "computer" in chinese uses the characters "diàn" (electric) and "nǎo" (brain), a really sloppy translation would be something like "electric brain games"
@@JeskidoYT All things considered yeah it could be way worse for the kind of hack job it is. Given the notes also said it was specifically to cash in on the fact the JP version was out, I'm willing to bet they did what a lot of Hong Kong/Chinese bootleg TLs do, and machine translated the Japanese to Chinese, then again from Chinese to English, maybe with very minimal oversight from someone who spoke English. If you've seen the old Hong Kong bootleg subtitles for anime like Doraemon (1979), or Mazinger Z, they also were done like this, maybe with even less steps involved.
I know why elf keep translated into spirit in LotR bootlegs: usually, elf is translated as 精灵 in Mandarin, but it's not distinguished enough with spirits.
What’s funny is in Matel gear is when Snake and Colonel are talking to each other in the beginning,the music that plays is Ishtar’s theme from Tower of Druaga.
Hang on, isn't that Pokemon Sapphire bootleg just "Chinese Emerald"? not only did I recognize what vinny was reading from a channel that played the bootleg, but JOEL also played this years ago!
"Mom, mom, I want Mario in the shopping cart!" 'Mario Cart? Ok son, but just this once, it's your early Christmas gift's This was how Mario Cart probably made a kid very sad
Seeing vinny playing pokemon sapphire gives a weird nostalgia to me, considering that my first vinesauce video was the pokemon emerald corruptions, still one of my favorites
@@PaizuruInsanal In case it wasn't a joke, that was a long time ago when Vinesauce was a youtube network and Vinny was essentially the "leader" of it networks stopped being a thing for years
@@rompevuevitos222 I don't think he was even the leader then. Just the guy people knew the most. But, I didn't start watching Vinesauce until they had already moved to Twitch, and some of them had already disappeared, so I could definitely be wrong.
These reskinned bootleg games reminded me of the one spongebob platformer game with same music and level design that Vinny also loved and did not played infinte times
32:40 Now imagine that scenario taking place in the late 90's/early 00's and it's with a Famicom cartridge that lets you pick between "Donkey Kong Country 4" and "The Jungle Book 2". Yep, they actually went there!
The "Fellowship of the Wrong": Rojins the Hobbit SherdSherd Human Warrior GrandaGranda - wizards Jali the Dwarves warriors And archerAlias, spirit absolute being (also "enslave all of living to work properly" coming from a CHINESE bootleg. Oh dear.)
The "weird human eyes" Sonic (on Fighter Sonic) is like that because the game has as animation of Sonic blinking, but it doesn't work. You can see his open eyes for a split second upon entering a stage. Source: tcrf.net/Sonic_3_Fighter_Sonic
Yo that mario cart bootleg's music is pretty great, took me a while to find a download to that bootleg but if you search "Mario Cart(Chinese version)" on twitter you'll find it.
1:04:07 I mean, the fact that they care enough to actually match the portrait with the in game sprite it's remarkable 1:07:13 "all cqc, no stealth" Wait, isn't that how Vinny plays Metal Gear anyway?
The people who created the Lord of the Rings, Super Mario, Shrek, and Sonic bootlegs seem to want to become the bootleg equivalent of Data Design. In fact... dare I say it? These seem even lazier than the Ninjabread Man reskins.
Imagine having the Lord of the Rings, Mario, Shrek, and Sonic games as your only video games when you were a kid, and that is what you think all video games are for your entire childhood.
The GBA was such a powerful system (relative to the time it came out, its size, and its power draw and battery life). It's so sad to see a system that's capable of so much be used to make such god-awful platformers that run so terribly, like these asset-swap bootleg ones that all use the same song.
Vinny encountering bootlegs that are essentially the same game reminds me of joel's stream when the snes bootlegs he played were all made in the same engine.
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