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Post by Sketcz-1000 on Aug 2, 2012 4:50:19 GMT -5
As requested, here is a complete article prior to it going live on the front page (it's a small piece, so will probably be added when we're short). Mainly I'm pleased to have the full Chinese characters for the name, along with the pronunciation. Huang Di : Zhuolu zhi Zhan 黃帝 : 涿鹿之戰 Yellow Emperor : Battle of Zhuolu Otherwise it's a fun bootleg platformer for the Famicom. www.hardcoregaming101.net/huangdi/huangdi.htm |
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Post by apachacha on Aug 2, 2012 9:15:13 GMT -5
Pretty awesome game. And yes I used the jumping glitch later in the game, but that wolf just refused to die otherwise.
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Post by Narushima on Aug 2, 2012 9:24:51 GMT -5
Do we know who we're playing as in the game? Because it's quite possible that that "flying" ability is a trademark of a hero of the time in Chinese mythology, and is therefore justified.
The game does look gorgeous for the Famicom.
Apart from that, I think "it's damned interest" should be "interesting" and the phrase "if you died fighting Bowser in level 2-4 it didn't then send you back to 2-1 to go through the subsequent four levels." seems a bit weird to me. Maybe you should add "again" or something similar at the end of it.
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Post by derboo on Aug 2, 2012 9:45:35 GMT -5
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Post by nickz on Aug 2, 2012 9:56:37 GMT -5
It looks like there have been a lot of more serious looking platform games on this site lately (Oniken, Gunlord, and Vice Project Doom), Huang Di being the lateset one. I think it's kind of cool. It means I can show people that not all platformers have mascots and copied Mario. One guy I know actually thinks this.
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Post by apachacha on Aug 2, 2012 13:22:58 GMT -5
My favourite boss is the huge headed woman that peeks out at you. That's realy some gorgeous detail right there.
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Post by apachacha on Aug 4, 2012 6:28:57 GMT -5
Also, excuse me for the double post, but I've just relocated another seemingly original Chinese pirate game of a similar nature, called Zhen Jia Hou Wang. While not as polished as Huang Di, I think it should merrit some investigation.
Edit: about the other NTDEC games, do we have any information if there is any difference between the games listen and the ones that came out in Caltron 6-in-1 ?
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Post by ghegs on Aug 28, 2012 13:02:16 GMT -5
Thanks for the article, it inspired me to try 'n find the cartridge myself. And find it I did! I can confirm that the infinite jumping is NOT present when the game's played on a real Famicom. It plays just like you'd expect it to. If you have any other questions, lemme know.
One thing that is kind of weird...the secondary weapons activate if you jump and attack on the way up, but if attack after you start coming down the character does the normal attack. That feels really unnatural at first.
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Post by derboo on Aug 28, 2012 13:43:23 GMT -5
I can confirm that the infinite jumping is NOT present when the game's played on a real Famicom. It's also possible that there are different versions around, though. |
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Post by ghegs on Aug 28, 2012 14:50:29 GMT -5
That's true. I don't have any way of dumping these to make sure, though I might know somebody who could help me with that.
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Post by Sketcz-1000 on Aug 28, 2012 15:23:44 GMT -5
This is fantastic news - thanks for confirming! I had thought this would be the case. The infinite jumping may even be the result of romdumpers dumping a cheat-hacked version. For example I once owned a hacked cart of SMB with wonky zero gravity jumping, called Moon Mario, obviously added by the pirates.
It's a little sad to consider that maybe such a thing happened with this, and the only dump of the ROM is a bad one.
The only person I know of who dumps ROMs is Frank Cifaldi, contactable via LostLevels.
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Post by apachacha on Aug 29, 2012 5:53:52 GMT -5
This is fantastic news - thanks for confirming! I had thought this would be the case. The infinite jumping may even be the result of romdumpers dumping a cheat-hacked version. For example I once owned a hacked cart of SMB with wonky zero gravity jumping, called Moon Mario, obviously added by the pirates. It's a little sad to consider that maybe such a thing happened with this, and the only dump of the ROM is a bad one. The only person I know of who dumps ROMs is Frank Cifaldi, contactable via LostLevels. I'll be honest I didn't complain I had it at certain sections. Still the wolf boss and how you're supposed to not die repeatedly still confuses me. I got past it eventualy but several bit the dust. |
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Post by Sketcz-1000 on Nov 16, 2012 16:03:56 GMT -5
I received my NES powerpak cartridge today and tested the rom of this - the jumping is fine! It's obviously an emulator glitch. Running it on normal hardware it works just fine. Meaning the rom that's out there is correct, and it's just that no emulator can emulate it 100%.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2012 9:46:41 GMT -5
I was gonna ask ghegs where he got his cart, but I just noticed his post on Famicomworld. Lucky bastard...  . I really would like to get a copy of this though. |
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Post by Sketcz-1000 on Nov 17, 2012 10:06:30 GMT -5
Get a Powerpak! They're excellent. ;D
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