i recently took delivery of four undumped, unlicensed gameboy color games, along with something to - in theory - dump them; three of them either didn't dump properly or have some kind of copy protection. (i suspect the latter; i know certain other unlicensed gbc games had to be cracked, which is a bit of a pain in the arse. if you can help with this, please contact me!)
but one - a 12 in 1 multicart - at least yielded a working copy of its first game. which is something! so i hereby present my first rom release:
SHI KONG XING SHOU (時空星獸)
approximately translated, "space-time star beast". also known as 星空神獸, for some reason. also, the multicart menu calls it "spatio monoster", while in the header it's "timer monster", but i doubt it ever had an official english name. it was originally released in 2001 for the game boy color by v.fame of taiwan, generally considered (at least by me, and the two or so other people who consider such things) the best unlicensed developer on the system.
it's an RPG, very similar to pokemon, but somehow spacier. i think the monsters appear after a meteor storm, but maybe they were there all along. hey i don't know! it's in chinese. but it seems pretty cool. and if you've played pokemon it shouldn't be too hard to figure out the gameplay, because it's, y'know, the same. there are a few variations on the concept - you apparently join up with seven other people, each with their own monster with some kind of special skill, but I haven't played very far yet so I'm not sure how (if at all) this ties into the usual six-monster team setup the game employs.
there seems to be a glitch with the "pokedex" (which, by the way, has space for 152 monsters, one more than the original pokemon games. take that, nintendo!) which i can't reproduce on the original cart: after saving in the second town, it fills up with a seemingly random bunch of monsters you haven't actually caught. so i'm not sure if this is an emulation problem, or it's a bad dump. i suspect the former, because it doesn't seem to happen in no$gmb, but if it's the latter, i apologise! i'm also labelling this as a multicart rip because it may or may not be identical to the single cart version (i think the menu code might be buried in it somewhere); hopefully someone will be able to dump that too at some point, and we'll have a "proper" version.
download! Shi Kong Xing Shou (Multicart Rip) (Unl) [C].zip (714k)
(btw, I've made a couple of changes to the site's CSS to accommodate this update, if this has broken it in your browser let me know)
I made it to the fifth town in this game. I got the third character (the green girl's) main critter up to level 31, where it learned a new move. I fought against a boss and tried this new move, but it completely glitched the game and gave BGB an invalid opcode error. After reseting, all my save data was wiped. Dammit...
Well that sucks D:
wonder if my dump was bad, or if its just an emulator bug.. or even something that happens on the actual cart? (other games are broken on that multi so it wouldn't surprise me)
Managed to get stuck at the third village, what do I do to make the guy guarding the gate let me go to the next town?
I saw ending of this game. Well, here's translations of protagonist party :
1st(Red Hair, Protatonist) : Ballot
2nd(Robot Boy) : Buck
3rd(Green-dressed Girl) : Nina
4th(Yellow-clothed Man) : Claude
5th(Blue-dressed Girl) : Helen(Originally her name means 'Great Sea', But names are based on sound that I found similiar-pronounced.)
6th(Flute Player) : Lante
7th(Scientist) : Newton
Last(Painter) : Mit
Too bad that Post-ending play is not available....
Demonlemon // In third town, enter to Northwest home and switch to Buck. Talk to lighting floor to enter. Roam the maze and you'll find trainer much looks like burgler. Defeat him and exit maze. Back to village, and you're now able to enter northern mine.
Haha this game's pretty cool! I've been playing around with it for a few hours today! Kind of killed time I should've spent revising...
Anyway, do you think it would be possible like you did with Harry Potter to make some kind of basic translation? Just menus etc.
I've had a look myself, but I don't know the best way about it due to the vast amount of chinese characters, I have no idea how it's coded! I've done Japanese to English before but this is different! :O Eg each character taking up 4x4 tiles instead of 1!
Yeah I took a look at it, but I ran into the exact same problem. :D Harry Potter was easy to do because it didn't use a proper Chinese font - there wasn't much text so it was just all stored as graphics. But this being an RPG, it does have a real text printing routine, and I have no idea how to hack that to use 8x8 characters instead of 16x16 :(
oh and @Sink Penol - thanks for the translations! :D
does it have any credits?
Credits? It feels good when given!
Anyway, I'm planning to write walkthrough + translations of this game.
Where can I upload them? Not G******s, please.
I have a problem... I cannot play this game, as it crashed VisualBoyAdvance :( What emulator did you use to run the game, Taizou?
Disregard my previous comment, I used BGB to run this gem and I have to say, it's impressive :)
Oh, hai, taizou. I must say, this is really impressive. I love Poke-clones, and so far I think I'm up to the third town and finished with the northern mine before I was unable to figure out where to go next.
Still wish I could understand Chinese, though. :V
I just started playing the game, but here are some basic translations: Ballot is happy that he did a good job making dinner; he did such a good job that it tasted like his mother's cooking. However, that brings back memories of his mother, my guess is that she died. Ballot then finds out that his dad hasn't returned home and is probably still at the observatory at an unusually late hour. Because he doesn't want the food that he worked so hard to make become cold (and, as a result, not as good), he goes to the observatory to find his dad. Here are the menu options (from top to bottom):
beast(s)
item(s)
companion(s)
basically this game's equivalent to Pokémon's Pokédex
save (是 = yes 否 = no)
As a side note, some of the dialogue in this game might be pretty funny. One of the things Ballot said to his dog was basically "Does Fatty want to eat?"
woowww... this game look good. but i not understand in chinese language. have this game for english language?
romhacking.net might be able to give some advice on translating this-many of its members have experience in translations-, and they have various utilities.
勇者鬥惡龍
Hey guys! I'm hacking this game to make the menu options in English!
Wha- who said that?
Yeah!
星空神獸
포켓몬,디지몬,텔레팡,데블파이터,록맨
Hey guys!! I found GameShark codes for this game!!
This code will give your monster to LEVEL 99!!
014901D2
However if he's at LEVEL 1, won't learn any new moves but there might be other codes to change his moveset!!
GameShark Codes
Level 99 016301D2
Level 71 014901D2
Infinite HP 01FF02D2
Money Cheat!!
0101D7D0
0186D8D0
019FD9D0
This should give you 99999 cash!! If you want to change this value, replace the two last characters of each line by the values you'd like to have in hexadecimal numbers so remember that!!
Don't try to give yourself more money than 99999 though, it could mess things up bad……
More codes for this game!!
Level 99
016301D2
Level 71
014701D2
Level 73
014901D2
Here are the Move Modifier Codes for your monster!! Unfortunately I don't know Chinese so this will take trial-and-error to get what you want…… Anyway, these other codes give you Infinite PP and yes it can be used infinitely as long as the code is on!!
Moves Modifier 1
01xx07D2
Infinite PP Slot 1
016308D2
Moves Modifier 2
01xx0AD2
Infinite PP Slot 2
01630BD2
Moves Modifier 3
01xx0DD2
Infinite PP Slot 3
01630BED2
Moves Modifier 4
01xx10D2
Infinite PP Slot 4
016311D2
Monster Modifier Codes!!
This code changes your monster into someone else!!
Monster Slot 1
01xx00D6
Monster Slot 2
01xx16D6
Monster Slot 3
01xx2CD6
Monster Slot 4
01xx42D6
Monster Slot 5
01xx58D6
Monster Slot 6
01xx6ED6
06 = Mewtwo lookalike
17 = Waninoko
0C = Fire
18 = Gyarados
29 = Kairyuu
32 = Putera
35 = Fungus
51 = Your starter
99 = (glitch) (freeze; Addresses 99 and above will always cause the game to freeze)
Here some examples of what you can do!! I gave myself Mewtwo, Gyarados, Kairyuu, Putera and Fungus!!
Normal Status
010013D2
When I was poisoned during battle I changed it to 00 and I was no longer poisoned so I got Normal Status!!
CORRECTION FOR COMMENT 21 IGNORE MY CODE ERROR ON COMMENT 21!!
Level 99
016301D2
I meant if he was at LEVEL 1 and you change it to LEVEL 99, he won't learn any new moves!! However, there might be other codes to change his moveset!! See comment 24 for moveset changes!!
Enemy Modifier Codes
Fight Any Monster
01xx77D8
06 = Mewtwo
17 = Waninoko
0C = Fire
18 = Gyarados
29 = Kairyuu
32 = Putera
35 = Fungus
51 = Your starter
99 = (glitch) (freeze; Addresses 99 and above will always cause the game to freeze)
Enemies Level
010177D8
Enemies HP
010178D8
Damn!! I need to make my own website where I can put up cheats for games if I could!! People were just too damn lazy to look for cheats nowadays!! English written sites and walkthroughs didn't help either!! Some cheats were only found in Japanese websites!! I know some programs and even emulators have Memory Editor and Cheat Searchers that can help find cheats!! Anyway, thank God for me because I found codes for this badass game!!
ITEM MODIFIER CODES
Change Item in 1st Slot
01xx00D3
Addresses 5A and above will make the item go blank!!
Amount of Item in 1st Slot
016301D3
You only need this code so you'll have 99 of the same items by arranging the items to a different slot!!
Damn!! I really wish I would've done that few years ago when I played this game but didn't have time…… What's wrong with me!? This decade is a JOKE and is NOT our future……!! Wasted my time for nothing……!!
CODE UPDATE!!
Normal Status
014013D2
Normal Status but don't get EXP
010013D2
Wanna level up faster!? Here is the EXP code so you can level up faster!!
EXP Modifier Code
013F04D2
014205D2
010F06D2
As long as this code is on you INSTANTLY gain a level each time you win the battle and can learn new moves!!
Infinite PP Slot 3
01630ED2
fixed for comment 24
YATTA!!! Just finished Shi Kong Xing Shou today!!
I beat the game with the blue dressed woman with her mermaid at LEVEL 82!!
I think I'm pretty much done with this game for a very LONG time just like I did with Pokemon…… I don't play Pokemon anymore because I just lost interest in it and I don't think I'll ever play these games ever again…… No I don't play Western games (EXAMPLE: Mortal Kombat Call of Duty Battlefield Series and the likes) anymore because they are a pile of shit!! My real name is Gold and I am gonna go play other games that will keep me busy!!
How many gamers out there still hate Pokemon!?
RIP Pokemon
1996 - 2002
GENERATION 6 STILL SUCKS!!!
POKEMON XY STILL SUCKS!!!
I am gonna go play other games that will keep me busy!!
When I say Western games I'm talking about those from this decade because they suck!! Hell, modern games were never that great!!
時空星獸
Ａｖｏｉｄ Ｒａｎｄｏｍ Ｂａｔｔｌｅｓ
01FFEBD9
Does anyone know the code to fight any monster or catch any monster using a specific code?
Ｈｅｒｅ ｉｓ ｔｈｉｓ ｃｏｒｒｅｃｔ ｃｏｄｅ：
01xx76D8
Ｔｈｉｓ ｃｏｄｅ ａｌｌｏｗｓ ｙｏｕ ｔｏ ｆｉｇｈｔ ａｎｙ ｍｏｎｓｔｅｒ！！
010178D8
Ｔｈｉｓ ｃｏｄｅ ｍａｋｅｓ ｔｈｅ ｅｎｅｍｙ ａｐｐｅａｒ ｗｉｔｈ ｏｎｌｙ １ＨＰ ａｎｄ ｙｏｕ ｍｉｇｈｔ ｈａｖｅ ｂｅｔｔｅｒ ｃｈａｎｃｅｓ ｏｆ ｃａｔｃｈｉｎｇ ｉｔ！！
Ｓｈｉ Ｋｏｎｇ Ｘｉｎｇ Ｓｈｏｕ Ａｃｔｉｏｎ Ｒｅｐｌａｙ Ｃｏｄｅｓ
Ｔｈｉｓ ｉｓ ａｎ ｕｐｄａｔｅ ｆｏｒ Ｓｈｉ Ｋｏｎｇ Ｘｉｎｇ Ｓｈｏｕ！！ Ｉ ａｍ ｍａｋｉｎｇ ｔｈｉｓ ｃｏｍｍｅｎｔ ｕｐ ｔｏ ｄａｔｅ ｂｙ ｇｉｖｉｎｇ ｍｏｓｔ ｏｆ ｔｈｅｓｅ ｃｈｅａｔｓ ｆｏｒ ｔｈｉｓ ｇａｍｅ！！
Ｈｏｐｅｆｕｌｌｙ ｔｈｉｓ ｗｉｌｌ ｍａｋｅ ｍｙ ｃｏｍｍｅｎｔｓ ｏｂｓｏｌｅｔｅ ｓｉｎｃｅ ｔｈｅｒｅ ｗｅｒｅ ｆｕｌｌ ｏｆ ｅｒｒｏｒｓ ｓｏ Ｉ ｍａｋｅ ｓｕｒｅ ａｌｌ ｔｈｅｓｅ ｃｏｄｅｓ ｗｏｒｋ！！
Ｙｏｕ ｍｉｇｈｔ ａｓ ｗｅｌｌ ｔｈｉｎｋ ｏｆ ｍｙ ｃｈｅａｔｓ ｇｕｉｄｅ ａ １．５ ｏｒ ｅｖｅｎ ａ ２．０！！
Ｉ ｌｅｆｔ ｍｏｓｔ ｏｆ ｔｈｅ ｎａｍｅｓ ｏｆ ｔｈｅ ａｔｔａｃｋｓ， ｉｔｅｍｓ ａｎｄ ｍｏｎｓｔｅｒｓ ｏｕｔ ｂｅｃａｕｓｅ
１）Ｉ ｎｅｅｄ ｍｏｒｅ ｔｉｍｅ
２）Ｉ’ｍ ｎｏｔ Ｔａｉｗａｎｅｓｅ ｓｏ Ｉ ｎｅｅｄ ｔｏ ｋｎｏｗ ｔｈｅ ａｃｔｕａｌ Ｃｈｉｎｅｓｅ ｎａｍｅｓ ｏｆ ｔｈｅ ｍｏｎｓｔｅｒｓ ａｎｄ ｓｔｕｆｆ
ＭＯＮＥＹ ＣＨＥＡＴ
Infinite Money
0101D7D0
0186D8D0
019FD9D0
Ｔｈｉｓ ｓｈｏｕｌｄ ｇｉｖｅ ９９９９９ ｃａｓｈ！！
ＩＴＥＭＳ
Change Item in 1st Slot
01xx00D3
Addresses 5A and above will make items go blank!!
Amount of Item in 1st Slot
016301D3
You only need this code so you'll have 99 of the same items by arranging different items to a different slot!!
ＭＯＮＳＴＥＲＳ
ＡＬＬＩＥＳ
ＦＩＲＳＴ ＭＯＮＳＴＥＲ
Monster Slot 1 (NOTE: If you enable any of these monster modifier codes and start a new game, it will appear at Level 0 without any moves!! Use the Level Modifier code to change his level to 1 and get him healed so he'll have full health!!)
01xx00D2
ＮＯＴＥ：Ａｄｄｒｅｓｓｅｓ ９９ ａｎｄ ａｂｏｖｅ １００ ｗｉｌｌ ｃａｕｓｅ ｔｈｉｓ ｇａｍｅ ｔｏ ｃｒａｓｈ！！
06 = Mewtwo
17 = Waninoko
0C = Fire
18 = Gyarados
29 = Kairyuu
32 = Putera
35 = Fungus
51 = Your starter
Ａｓ ａｎ ｅｘａｍｐｌｅ， Ｉ ｃａｎ ｇｉｖｅ ｍｙｓｅｌｆ Ｍｅｗｔｗｏ， Ｆｉｒｅ， Ｇｙａｒａｄｏｓ， Ｋａｉｒｙｕｕ ａｎｄ Ｆｕｎｇｕｓ！！
Level Modifier
01xx01D2
Infinite HP
01FF02D2
EXP Modifier
013F04D2
014205D2
010F06D2
Moves Modifier 1 (NOTE: Somehow if your monster doesn't have any moves, you can change this value from 00 to any value so he learns any move!!)
01xx07D2
Infinite PP Slot 1
016308D2
Moves Modifier 2
01xx0AD2
Infinite PP Slot 2
01630BD2
Moves Modifier 3
01xx0DD2
Infinite PP Slot 3
01630ED2
Moves Modifier 4
01xx10D2
Infinite PP Slot 4
016311D2
Normal Status
014013D2
ＳＥＣＯＮＤ ＭＯＮＳＴＥＲ
Monster Slot 2
01xx16D2
Level Modifier
01xx17D2
Infinite HP
01FF18D2
EXP Modifier
013F1AD2
01421BD2
010F1CD2
Moves Modifier 1
01xx1DD2
Infinite PP Slot 1
01631ED2
Moves Modifier 2
01xx20D2
Infinite PP Slot 2
016321D2
Moves Modifier 3
01xx23D2
Infinite PP Slot 3
016324D2
Moves Modifier 4
01xx26D2
Infinite PP Slot 4
016327D2
Normal Status
014029D2
ＴＨＩＲＤ ＭＯＮＳＴＥＲ
Monster Slot 3
01xx2CD2
Level Modifier
01xx2DD2
Infinite HP
01FF2ED2
EXP Modifier
013F30D2
014231D2
010F32D2
Moves Modifier 1
01xx33D2
Infinite PP Slot 1
016334D2
Moves Modifier 2
01xx36D2
Infinite PP Slot 2
016337D2
Moves Modifier 3
01xx39D2
Infinite PP Slot 3
01633AD2
Moves Modifier 4
01xx3CD2
Infinite PP Slot 4
01633DD2
Normal Status
01403FD2
ＦＯＵＲＴＨ ＭＯＮＳＴＥＲ
Monster Slot 4
01xx42D2
Level Modifier
01xx43D2
Infinite HP
01FF44D2
EXP Modifier
013F46D2
014247D2
010F48D2
Moves Modifier 1
01xx49D2
Infinite PP Slot 1
01634AD2
Moves Modifier 2
01xx4CD2
Infinite PP Slot 2
01634DD2
Moves Modifier 3
01xx4FD2
Infinite PP Slot 3
016350D2
Moves Modifier 4
01xx52D2
Infinite PP Slot 4
016353D2
Normal Status
014055D2
ＦＩＦＴＨ ＭＯＮＳＴＥＲ
Monster Slot 5
01xx58D2
Level Modifier
01xx59D2
Infinite HP
01FF5AD2
EXP Modifier
013F5CD2
01425DD2
010F5ED2
Moves Modifier 1
01xx5FD2
Infinite PP Slot 1
016360D2
Moves Modifier 2
01xx62D2
Infinite PP Slot 2
016363D2
Moves Modifier 3
01xx65D2
Infinite PP Slot 3
016366D2
Moves Modifier 4
01xx68D2
Infinite PP Slot 4
016369D2
Normal Status
01406BD2
ＳＩＸＴＨ ＭＯＮＳＴＥＲ
Monster Slot 6
01xx6ED2
Level Modifier
01xx6FD2
Infinite HP
01FF70D2
EXP Modifier
013F72D2
014273D2
010F74D2
Moves Modifier 1
01xx75D2
Infinite PP Slot 1
016376D2
Moves Modifier 2
01xx78D2
Infinite PP Slot 2
016379D2
Moves Modifier 3
01xx7BD2
Infinite PP Slot 3
01637CD2
Moves Modifier 4
01xx7ED2
Infinite PP Slot 4
01637FD2
Normal Status
014081D2
ＥＮＥＭＩＥＳ
Fight Any Monster
01xx76D8
Enemies Level
010177D8
Enemies HP
010178D8
ＯＴＨＥＲＳ
Ａｖｏｉｄ Ｒａｎｄｏｍ Ｂａｔｔｌｅｓ
01FFEBD9
Change HOLD Item in 1st Slot
01xxB0DD
Addresses 16 and above will make items go blank!!
Amount of Item in 1st Slot
0163B1DD
You only need this code so you'll have 99 of the same items by arranging different items to a different slot!!
You know I like to discover cheats using BGB's debugger for unlicensed games like Shi Kong Xing Shou and Zook Hero 2 with the help of cheat searcher function for BGB!! The reason why I put cheats on this site because I never saw those secrets in any other site so I decided to post them here so eveybody could have access to them!!