Ordering the CHEAPEST Pokemon Game from China!
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- čas přidán 7. 06. 2019
- Hello and Welcome to another Budget Builds Official Video where today we’re going to be doing something very different, in the sense that its not a PC, and its one again part of our cheap tech series ive been doing for a while, so today we’re taking a look at probably the most interesting thing I have ever bought from china, with the cheapest Pokemon Game they have for sale…But this isn’t your standard look at a Chinese product oh no far from it, we take a look at the indepths, and from start to finish to see just how well it worked.
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Fellas a few people have voiced their opinions on how the save file is retained and saved, now there are a lot of sources citing it to either be 'flash' storage or Static RAM as it were, but the chip does have the correct documentation presented here: courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse477/99sp/docs/W24257A.pdf
Now people have vocied their concerns that technically this would mean that in an extreme loss of power your Save Data could be wiped, however upon looking into this further I decided to do some digging into the original creation of the save file, and it seems that this chip has had the save file on it for nearly 2 Years. NOW this would suggest that the save data is being dumped from what I believed to be SRAM to where the ROM is stored...Which would explain:
1. Why the Save Game Data will never be lost.
2. Why the save game glitch refuses to work (As the data is dumped straight to flash after being written to the SRAM)
So ultimately the save files arent going anywhere, and I will leave the cartidge by itself for a few months to verify this, and will edit this with an update to let you know how well this form of retention works...Given how long the current save file had been there (Likely for Q and A Testing) It seems that the company who has taken to making these bootlegs were pretty clever.
Hope this clears up a few areas and this directly relates to around 2:45 .... Then again I have never made a video before like this, so will be sure to stick this in a video rather than just typing out into a wall of text like I just have.
Cheers
Ok
Use wag tail!
In order to make the patching of the ROM easy, the SRAM is still in the cartridge, but not battery backed. The ROM is modified to copy save data from flash to RAM on startup and RAM to flash after saving. Otherwise, the game interacts with the RAM as normal as long as the cartridge is powered by the Gameboy. If you turn off the Gameboy at the right point during saving it *should* still be possible to corrupt it, but this would just erase the save rather than do something useful.
Other things of note: this is likely just an off the shelf ROM hack/translation and not the work of whoever manufactured the cartridge.
The colorization of non-GBC games is done by the boot ROM of the GBC by checking the name and license code in the ROM header. They've likely just copied that data from a Pokémon Green Japanese ROM which is already being colorized by the GBC.
I have an n64 with Pokemon stadium and transfer pack I can get to you if you wanna try it out with this game? And I’m in the uk
Want a copy of the dump to analyze
>Has lvl 20 ivysaur
>fights lvl 10 Geodude
>uses tackle
Mate...
That hurt to watch
Lmfao vine whip doesn't exis~
Ah yes, Pokémon green for my favourite console *_GAME_*
Actually, Pokémon green is a real game for the gameboy color, but was only in japan.
Yes, ***GAME*** is also my favorite console as well. #Wintendoh
It's 2019 so they made it gender neutral lol
@@saibot0 no way
@@_._._._._._._._._._._._._. 😂😂😂😂
"ordered a few more expensive gen 2 ones"
£3.89
To be fair, I have less than that in my bank account...😪
No one seems to have mentioned it, but the reason why a corruption occurs between Japanese and western Pokémon games is due to something along the lines of text pointers and Pokémon pointers being in different locations. As with many games of the era, translated games often had to use all new text routines with all new pointers, so it's reasonable to assume that the Pokémon data from one game goes near where the text data of the other is, since the games expect that particular space to be the 'right one' to go to. This happens in legitimate games, not just this bootleg, and only recently has been made possible to trade between JPN and western games.
The *GAME* was pretty neat, but I prefer *GAME COLOR*
Everyone knows that *GAME ADVANCED* is the best smh
ManicRobot no, GAME ADVANCED SP is the best
can someone at least talk about the *GAME MICRO*
Too bad, there's no GAME DS
Also I'm really bothered over how a obscure company from Japan named Nintendo copied the *GAME* series of consoles.
I’m genuinely surprised how good that bootleg is. They didn’t just grab the crappy translation or some unplayable crap, it’s about as good of an English green version as you can get. Plus it doesn’t need a battery so the save file lasts. Where’s the downside?
Nowadays there always good
It's just a fan translation put on a cart. They do this all the time on multi game bootlegs.
@@graveofmonsters4076: It's not
@@BudgetBuildsOfficial www.romhacking.net/hacks/876/ it looks like it's this patch. There's no other way to do it.
@@graveofmonsters4076: Notice the title screens are different, among other aspects, there is more to this conversion that meets the eye. I explain further in another areas.
A game only released in Japan, rated by ESRB. Seems legit to me
I bought a yellow version “game” for like $2 shipped to the US. My daughters been playing it off and non for over a year now. Still works perfectly and no complains from here.
They just copy the game data to another drives and make game copies there is no problems in the game
You'd be surprised how many of these things are actually made well enough that you can keep and play them for a long time. They're not exactly state of the art technology anymore. Flashing a rom to a blank cart is cheap and easy. Yeah, sometimes the battery can be finnicky if there's one, but aside from that, there's usually no harm in buying a set of Pokemon reproductions or something. They'll probably work just fine.
OR, if you're already going the route of unlicensed, unofficial copies. You could just grab a flash cart. Just got myself an EZ Flash Junior for around $50. I currently have around 330 Game Boy and Game Boy Color games on it, included a handful of rom hacks (Pokemon Red and Blue in full Game Boy Color-like color. Mario Land 1 and 2 in full color. Pokemon Green but English. A couple actual rom hacks of Pokemon that completely re-makes the game with new maps and things. And best of all, a hack of each Gen 1 and 2 game that lets you catch all the pokemon in a single game.) It's great.
@@OmPrakash-pc1ec there usually is a couple problems with the rom
I spent years of my childhood on Pokemon Gold when I got it but then after awhile the battery died and I did lose all my saves. I was so sad and pretty much never touched another Pokemon game since then...
I played Pokémon yellow as a kid. Then fire red as an older kid. Then fire red again on my phone on emulator lol. I think i played emerald too. But past that nope. I tried a newer one but without the fast forward in the emulator it was way too slow lol
If you still have it, replacing the battery is very easy. It won't get your save back but you will be able to play again with a new battery that won't die for a long time.
I had a Halloween pumpkin leak onto my Silver. I was not happy.
You can just replace the battery
>GAME
>GAME COLOR
>GAME ADVANCE
>DOUBLE GAME
>3GAME
>NEW3GAME
better naming than nintendo came up with
And then game switched.
@@MolliOlli182 the GameNX is just a rumour
GameNXMini
best emulators: visual advance, No$GA
The watch and game instead game and watch
Sound - doesn't sound great.
Pokémon fans - sounds amazing. Gets nostalgia goose bumps.
Was more getting at the speaker quality, not the OST
>game boy sound
>Not very pleasant to listen to
I wot m8?
Probably the fact that it was a recording of the Game Boy Color outdoors with background noise
@@Wflash00: My man gets what I was talking about
TL;DR: It works perfectly fine.
arguably better than the original because of flash memory lol
Actually it’s TL:DW? Flash memory incorporated to the original Japanese game so batteries are no longer needed for save file, translated well, allows trades with retail and stadium of US version, and audio is completely identical. Sprites are creepy but that’s due to Japan having a creepy state of sprites of the time
But then again that’s a tl:dr type comment anyhow due to the it being an exact replica except for translation, and I’ve bought this, I’d rather buy this “game” cart than a game boy cart cuz of original content
@@xJustPullTheTriggerx UMM AkkkKTUALLYY YOU neeD a Semicolon. i
Uhm actually youre right 😂
I absolutely love the PMD music it always makes me cry 😢😢😢
Same, theres so much nostalgia and so many memories built up it gets me emotional every time I hear it.
The mystery dungeon series is definitely underrated, so it’s nice hearing it here.
Nostalgia
I used to buy authentic Pokemon Green carts when I lived in Japan for around $5 and resale them online for like $40 a piece. Times have changed.
So you were a douche lol
He was smart * @@GodBroly
I have two dads which are Zezima and Notch. This comment is just as irrelevant as yours and has about as much proof.
@@GodBroly I am one of your likes; has some capitalistic truth to it for sure. It was always interesting to see the actual price-gouging going on in online shops compared to what the raw prices were in all the recycle shops dotted around the suburban landscape over there. The record for me was stumbling upon pallets of old Sega Saturn games for $5 for each large box; it was a repeating story of if these old games weren't already snapped up by expensive Tokyo/Osaka electronics shops that were targeting tourists, there was commonly no sense of value to what they were sitting on. Just kind of cool to have a chance to play through all those old games I'd only read about in EGM and stuff as a little shit.
@@ashleygoode9346 It's true, it is irrelevant. The video just made me think back to my experiences when I was living there and how prices decreases dramatically; no more or less really. If you want an interesting feedback comment from a Spanish-speaking buyer from years ago, scroll down to the Pokemon Green here: feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback2&ftab=FeedbackAsSeller&userid=akqj10please&iid=-1&de=off&items=25&interval=0&searchInterval=30&mPg=35&page=25
PMD music is the background?
Good narrative?
A funny review?
Niiice.
One thing I was wondering that didn't get covered: Did they remember to change the Super Game Boy border for this release?
KTDFox i bought one of these and yes it has the pokeball border when you use a super gameboy, and this also worked on my gba sp and my gameboy player for the gamecube
Got this game off eBay. It never arrived!
Luckily for you.
Try the 1st Gen and 2nd gen set on Amazon all 7 re produced and then they have the 3rd gen GBA reproductions
@@vulgervulcan6345 I got the sets on amazon have you tried those ?
Damn the cheapest one I ordered was 3 years ago and I’m still waiting
Did you get it yet?
I really liked this change in style for the episode, hope you make more dude :D
dude this was a really cool video I didn't know I needed this but awesome bro awesome
Pokémon Green + Pokémon Blue = .....
Pokémon Teal?
No brown
@@SirAarthur probably for the best, really!
Very professional video quality, subscribed for more. Good work!
The Mystery Dungeon music playing through this video is giving me nostalgia and feels.
Love this video, I enjoy this content as well as your normal content!
When I was a child, I was in Iran and I saw a copy of what I assume was the same as this, but boxed. Really regret not picking it up, would be a neat little thing to display. Also saw some odd "Pokémon Diamond", that had an eel or something on the front.
It might have been this
bootleggames.fandom.com/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_Diamond_and_Jade
Keitai denju telefang bootleg copy?
Its engrish is very strong
@@WheatPasta That was it! Yeah! Dang, had I had the foresight to know I'd be really into obscure junk when I was older I would have grabbed that.
@@norahsnewgroove i had that game and played thru it 3 times. its like pokemon using phone numbers instead of pokeballs. u get phone call from your friends telling you what they like. you can buy the item from shop and infuse them to gain xp. by the second town, it is possible to have a max level that can beat the game. there are evolutions. after you finish the game, its actually 50% complete. you can continue with new game + and revisit every town for a second fight with higher difficulty. but not a problem with your max level you got in early game
For someone that usually doesn't do gameboy tech related stuff, you did an amazing job on this video!
Everything was really accurate and well researched, thank you! :)
Love that Red Rescue Team main theme music. Classic.
Great video man, absolutely love this.
Yo, hella respect for playing the mystery dungeon music, that was a nostalgic blast from the past
Fantastic video, editing felt really professional. Great job!
Wow great video! We can tell that you spent a lot of time on it!
Knockoff copies are my go-to, the versatility is insane
Holy crap I freaking love Pokemon Mystery Dungeon thank you for using it as your background music
Wow, this actually seems like a pretty good deal. It's a version of Pokémon green with everlasting saves! That sounds pretty awesome actually.
I wonder if they implement some kind of clock chip into the gen 2 games since they actually took advantage of the real time clock. Definitely looking forward to more!
you should make this a series but its like computer components you got from china for cheap
Already thing by quiet a few people
FD The Gaming Animator I know but budget builds has his own feel on his videos that no other CZcams has
A game released in Japan only?
For cheap?
_Whaaaaaaa?_
I paid $6.50 for Japanese Tetris. Ebay does wonders
I paid £2 each for my boxed copy of Pokemon Gold and Pokemon Silver (the Japanese copies).... car boot sales do wonders, lol :P
@@LucasSaturn The Japanese copies of Pokemon games are actually fairly cheap at least compare to there international releases, especially complete.
Not a very good joke honestly, plenty of undesirable Japanese shovelware
Should a just released it over here when it all came out.
I was _this_ close to buy the cart :D
At that time, I didn't care about authenticity n all...i just needed the game!
I got drunk once and ordered 5 Pokémon GBA games from China. They all arrived, they all worked (could save, could trade etc, only thing that didn't work was dual slot gameplay with 4th gen). Still obvious fakes, of course. Then one day when I was sober I ordered two DS games from China... they didn't arrive... soooo the takeaway is to never order anything from China while sober.
Edit: Oh and I've had these for a few years and no issue with the saves.
I received a DS Pokémon game randomly from China, Pokémon Diamond or Maybe pearl I believe. I did not order it at all, It just came. I wonder if it was yours 😂😂 or someone else that ordered on one of those sites & the sellers typed the address in wrong, this was about 2 years ago.
What are you going on about lad
My like button is broken... I can only like this video 1 time!!! :) Awesome video, I am not a huge Pokemon fan myself but I loved the opening of the cart and exploring it. I have been seeing these fake carts for years now and was always curious about them. Thank you for the video!
oh my god that cup "I mous-tache you a question" i love it
Never played any pokemon game or wasn't even born when these were out but I still enjoyed the video, you're a perfect narrator
Awesome video. I ordered a Pokemon Green a few days ago, haha. Hope to see a gen 2 vid!
This is not a translation it is just a skinned version of Pokemon blue because if you look at the end credits it says “Pokemon blue end credits”
Once again it really does help to watch the video, because I cover all of this, and how they have gone about it.
Thanks for the video!
If you get your hands on a Super GameBoy I'd like to see if it has a Pokémon Green themed border and if it gives an extended color pallet.
The screwdriver used to open the cartridge is called a "tri-wing" screwdriver for anyone interested in picking one up. They're pretty cheap on eBay and a bit more on Amazon. They also open up the Joycons for the Switch, and other Nintendo hardware.
Pokemon red rescue team ost in the background, brings back memories
Very Interesting Indeed, as for these sprites I remember seeing them in 3rd party strategy guides here in the U.S. but never knew why they went with those.
Time and budget constraints most likely. Its something a lot of people don't know about, but Game Freak actually struggled to get the original Red and Green finished, at one point they even faced bankruptcy and couldn't afford to pay their employees.
I wouldn't be surprised if they wanted to change them, but just really had to get them out the door. They later remade them for the Japanese blue, which was the basis for our red and blue versions.
For the next pc you build, plz benchmark total war warhammer (1 or 2), if it can run modern games.
8:54 worth seeing how it sounds, Fast Fourier Transform please.
Loving the Videos :)
I love that you used the mystery dungeon music in the background.
But did the *Missingno.* glitch work?? Great vid, man.
And don't forget the Mew glitch, the best of them all
@Legend 27 yeah it does, caught mew only a couple of weeks ago in blue
Another amazing video by my favorite youtuber :D
Music to my hears, it is very much so pleasant to hear!
In 2017 I got mine for 5 dollars free shipping including extra battery pack. I enjoyed it 👍.
Like this, it's a change from usual content, but it's great
This is actually super cool! The sounds is pretty accurate IMO, based on my US Red Cart, and it is a pretty ingenious reproduction. Heck, my friends would finally have an excuse to get a GameBoy if I bought this thing since it's so usable yet so cheap.
I could imagine the battery bay was for games that used an internal clock to track the time (like the gen 2 games) but it's great, that you might just slide a fresh battery in to make it work again.
Man that mystery dungeon sound at 1:53 is sooooo nostalgic
Didn't know these were a thing, but then again in China everything is possible. In any case, a very neat find and a great video :)
Very cool. Nice video!
Based on your description of the game bring a modified version of blue using greens assets I believe that the rom itself is actually a fan translation patch that can be found on the website "romhacking" which was completed a few years ago
Oh boy I loved the Nintendo game color.
I have the same cartridge, but it was bought a little over one year ago. It doesn't use flash memory, but SRAM and a battery, like the original, so that's why there's still a battery holder, they didn't redesigned the motherboard.
The game is perfectly playable, but some sprites are corrupted, like the ghosts of Lavender Town (they appears like Missingno, a least on my version) and the Hall of Fame is broken. Other than that, it's just Pokémon Blue with Pokémon Green sprite and color palette, pretty interesting, but nothing really fancy.
They seem to have fixed these issues from what I have been able to find
Hi,
What do you use to dump the ROM, and can you use it to backup/restore the save file?
Side note: Pokémon Blue was released in Japan with the updated sprites and bug fixes and the Red and Blue released in America is based on that version.
This was interesting to watch. It's made me want to buy one of those repo carts. May as well really since they are so cheap
Aaah those sounds brought me back to simpler times.
I sure do love playing on my GAME! It's such a great video game console.
You should buy and open Pokémon Ruby, Fire Red...
You can found it in aliexpress.
Bootleg Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald carts have issues due to the lack of a real time clock. Fire Red and Leaf Green bootlegs will work fine though.
Dude this was really good I always wondered how good those repo carts where and they seem worth it if the game works fine its jus like the real thing and getting old working carts can be expensive so cheap 100% working carts seem like they way of the future
Ahh Pokemon Mystery Dungeon music...
Sometimes i wish i could go back to those days ^^
Yeah i instantly recognized the music
Red/Green came out in Japan 27/2/96. 1995 is just the copyright date.
Yeeees! More handheld content!
Thanks for the video on fake green I wasn't sure about getting it but seems ok if nothing else to get as an illusion of a complete set
I love it how he put PMD Red Rescue Team Music on this video
Wouldn't I happen to have a legit copy of Pocket Monsters Midori Version complete with packaging and manuals, I think I'd give that bootleg a try.
Especially since it is in English and gets me rid of dying batteries.
FYI it has a battery slot because they're doing these in bulk and not just pokemon games. It's an all in one solution essentially that they can throw any game on there, needing of memory, battery, etc.
I liked the video! Thank you for the interesting watch.
Professor Oak “ choose your 1st Pokémon! Would you like Fire GAME, water GAME, or leaf GAME??”
Was thinking it was something based on the original Pocket Monsters Green, or some kind of dodgy English version of it.
Nice video! I find game boy videos usually pretty interesting.
This video was surprisingly fantastic. It was a breath of fresh air!
Let me correct
*GAME*
Modern VBA-M should be able to emulate link cables, or at least it does for for GBA games, though it can be somewhat finicky. As for Stadium, you can emulate that in Project64. You just have to use the N-Rage controller plugin, head to its Controller Pak tab, select Transfer Pak, and point it to your GameBoy ROM and save files. Also, the color palette is optional on these games. You can select what palette to use by pressing combinations of directions, A and B at the GameBoy Color's logo screen. Later games that actually used colors properly like Yellow and onward didn't allow this, but these older games just apply one palette across the entire game so you can choose.
very interesting, subscribed
Rescue team theme, nice touch!
This is high level old school game content
I have the Red and Silver Chinese cartridges, I bought them on ebay two years ago. As you show on this video, Red version runs perfectly and even is compatible with Super Game Boy. However, althought Silver runs pretty well, it lacks of the internal clock functionallity, so the time ingame is always freezed.
I don't wanna look that I want views, but there is a video on my channel where I show my carts.
Lavandia music original or the patched version?
The sound is actually not bad :o
Excellent video Hamish! Keep up the amazing work and content like this is always appreciated. Also I thought the audio was excellent and from the real hardware was quite charming even though I've never owned one!
I also got green from China, however I received a really good copy. It has the original "Nintendo Gameboy" at the top instead of "game", the label look a lot better than in this video and the green is a lighter colour. I guess you have to research your sellers by the picture reviews, always ask them for a case without "game" on as well and they'll probably be able to do it, from my experience.
I actually have a few of these. Depending on where you get them, you can get some pretty good ones. All of mine actually say Nintendo Gameboy on the top, and everything works great. Not sure what your listing says, but if you want the good ones, you should actually search for “Reproduction” carts. The only issue i have with my gen2 games is that due to the lack of a battery, the clock had some issues, but it was nothing major and i still played through the entire game.
That music from mystery dungeon... Memories are coming back...
I just found my copy of Pokemon Stadium and the Transfer Pack the other day. Need to lay hands on a 64. Still got my original red cartridge kicking around as well
Fascinating. I wonder how this compairs to a translated rom... this one may actually function better then a traditional modded rom for green.
For lunch money's worth, it's a really good cheap alternative since it can communicate with authentic games. Since flash is used, there's also no battery fuss. I might actually buy this. lol
So it's a Blue rom hack that's playable on a physical Gameboy. Neat.