I'm starting a completely new topic here. Everyone has probably heard of so-called "bootleg" games. These are games that were released without a license. Many such titles come from China / Taiwan and were or are being published especially for Nintendo handhelds such as the GameBoy Color, GameBoy Advance etc. Most of the time they are total botch because they just took a popular game and changed sprites and music. However, there are also some pretty interesting bootlegs at times. I would like to introduce these here. It starts with "Street Heroes" for the GameBoy Color!
THE GAME:
"Street Heroes" was originally produced for the NES in 1994 by the Taiwanese company "SACHEN" (also known as "Thin Chen Enterprise").
It's a typical 7-man fighting game that is very similar to (and probably based on) Street Fighter. All without a license from Nintendo or Capcom, of course. It is all the more interesting that they also released it for the GameBoy Color. The graphics are very faithful to the NES original in both style and color palette. During the fighting it flickers a bit and this version is a bit worse than the NES version, but it is still good what you conjured up on the GameBoy Color screen.
SCREENSHOTS:
PHYSICAL RELEASE:
In China / Taiwan the game was sold "normally". Here are a few photos:
ROM & EMULATOR: A ROM has been dumped from the game and is relatively easy to find online. I still put it in the appendix here. For everyone who would like to try it out for themselves. Most common emulators could not start it. It has to do with it that all official games follow a Nintendo policy. The bootleg games don't always care.And actually there are toocopy-protected bootlegs . Therefore, you have to use an emulator that does not ad here to the guidelines (ROM sizes, headers, etc.).
One is called "Hhugboy" and you can download it here:https://github.com/tzlion/hhugboy/releases/tag/v1.3.0
And here the ROM: Street Heroes (Unl)_GameBoy Color.zip
QUELLEN:
A website that deals exclusively with such bootlegs is the
"Handheld Underground" -> http://hhug.me
The guy behind the site is also the programmer of the emulator mentioned above. It's very interesting there, so take a look.
And here is another blog that deals with such games: http://qiezei.blogspot.com/201…achen-game-boy-color.html
