Sonic Game Boy Bootlegs - But does it work on Real Hardware?

[@redhotsonic]

First BDIWORH in 4K, baby! Also, you may have noticed that at 2:09, I have a disc called ‘Swiss’ instead of the Game Boy Player (GBP) disc. Swiss is used to loading up another software called the ‘Game Boy interface’ (GBi) which is far more superior and rich in features compared to the Game Boy Player’s software. This is to make the display look sharp as possible and in 4K as the GBP is pretty soft. THIS DOES NOT AFFECT THE HARDWARE and it's still using the Game Boy Player hardware; only the software was swapped. And just to be sure, I did quickly try all games using the GBP software off-camera and it resulted in the exact conclusion as the GBi. Also, yet again, thank you all for your incredible patience! The next BDIWORH will be the Sonic port on the commodore 64. Hopefully, within the next 2 months (time still isn’t on my side), I’ll make it worth the wait, I promise! 😊

[@vertz1515]

Neat…

[@PAAF2005]

Good afternoon here from Peru! I'm so sorry to ask this but... Can you do one of the Sonic Debut rom hack?

[@neryderps9713]

So your gonna live stream these games right?

[@Puffspeed99]

NO NOT THAT EAR BLEADING GLITCHING MESSES Buuuuuuuuuuuuut he's still goanna live stream sonic blasting adventure

[@SqweegeeYT]

I knew the wait was worth it, a update for it not being before Christmas was still needed tho.

[@Garrulous64]

I hope you win this redhotlawsuit against that bootleg.

[@Tetopettenson1]

wow its him

[@NewtubeWorldYT]

funny level has increased by +405!

[@luk_143]

Go redhot!

[@bababadibot-712]

The perfect duo, redhotsonic and garrulous64!

[@Nbrother1234]

@@bababadibot-712 they reviewed Sonic Advance 3 once

[@ZingZangZote]

"Sonic 3D Blast 5" That's 5 more 3D Blasts then I'm comfortable with.

[@JONNYSORENSEN_AU]

Bootleggers are blasting Sonic into the 6th dimension and a million Bits

[@starleaf-luna]

it's not even 3D!

[@SonicDoesThingsRebooted]

Well... expect for the sound.

[@superdean9966]

It's 3 more than I'm comfortable with.

[@zacharypierce2970]

With Sonic Adventure 8, the original cartridge should work on real hardware. I know the available ROM was incredibly hard to get dumped, and had to be modified to work on emulators, so that may cause issue with the Flash Carts. There are some videos floating around of it working on Game Boy Players from the past few years.

[@stunnastream11]

2:07 FLEXTAPE CAN'T FIX THAT!!

[@BigHairyMarty314]

And now there's an absolutely miniscule part of me that wonders what would have happened had I chosen to buy that Pokemon Jade bootleg in Benidorm 20 years ago, if only to see if an original bootleg cartridge would have worked on the hardware.

[@neoqwerty]

I can confirm that it works on real hardware... to a point. It crashes at some points because it's REALLY REALLY BADLY translated and the second you save a number, n o p e. (OG GBA, btw, no idea how other consoles might work.) Though it was the one that went with the bootleg "Diamond" version, the Telefang hack and not the Sonichu monster. (the fact there's two different Pokemon Jade bootlegs...)

[@gamingnubs7628]

"Shoot my ears off" has to be my favorite joke in the whole video. Laughed way too hard at the scene of you holding a gun to your ear.

[@Latintendo]

7:52 and OH MY WORDS, KNUCKLES HAS THE MEASLES!

[@MuffledSword]

12:10 Since this issue doesn't exist on the real cart, there's nothing deceitful about fixing it. The original cartridge uses a mapper unsupported by emulators and flash carts, so you've been using a patched ROM to begin with.

[@dustux]

6:58 The chaos emaralds were so powerful that it even shifted me during transformation. Definitely not an error on my editing skills.Nope, not at all! Took almost 15 to 25 minutes to pause at the exact time

[@ZipplyZane]

You can do frame advance on desktop using either the , and . keys, or the < and > keys.

[@Imfernolistico]

Brilliant stuff, you actually tested bootlegs. A very strong way to kick-off 2022! Keep rockin'!

[@MikuAppend]

my entire existence has been made horrifying because of this video

[@TheEssem]

I'd imagine that the compatibility issues in this case (especially on Sonic 8/Pokemon Jade) are due to inaccurate/missing mapper emulation. The original cart seems to use custom mappers that were never used in official games (or any known homebrew for that matter), and hhugboy was the only emulator that seemed to run it due to its focus on these broken carts/pirate mappers.

[@ExtremeWreck]

I think it's less that more so terrible programming. Like REALLY BAD programming.

[@TheEssem]

@@ExtremeWreck I'm more so talking about flashcart compatibility, the flashcarts like he used in the video have to reimplement/emulate the mappers as well. Due to the relative obscurity of these pirate games and the fact that these games were the only ones that used these mappers, it's very unlikely that they were implemented on the flashcart. Good or bad programming, if your software relies on an external library/device/chip/etc. that isn't present, it simply won't work.

[@ExtremeWreck]

@@TheEssem And what if said mapper alone is filled to the brim with poor implementation?

[@TheEssem]

@@ExtremeWreck That would be a completely different story, the main issue here is the games barely running at all. The only way we would be able to know for sure is if we obtained an original cartridge of the game.

[@ExtremeWreck]

@@TheEssem People have & it's just as barely playable as they are here as far as I'm aware: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qmLHmKawhK2jn8U

[@VideoGameJNPoop]

Imagine if the makers of these bootlegs are like: Sonic 3D Blast 5: Oh yeah, let’s just skip out 3D Blast 2, 3 and 4. Sonic Adventure 7&8: We’ll not count Heroes, 2006 or even World Adventure (Japanese name for Unleashed) and not have 6, let’s just have 7 then 8 the end. For me, I always thought that Heroes could sort of be Adventure 3, but then it could be Sonic Unleashed that’s Adventure 3 instead (since in Japan it’s known as Sonic World Adventure), it’s a mystery on what’s another Adventure game.

[@MonochromeWench]

confused by everyone calling 2006 Sonic 06 so they just continued counting?

[@normienormie9425]

I feel like sonic 06 is sort of adventure 3 Multiple characters Branching stories Finishing all character stories gives you epilogue like ending. I feel like 06 was meant to be adventure 3 but Sega decided for it to be more of a reboot.

[@IkeorYT]

sonic o6 could be adventure 3, as sonic unleashed (world adventure) could be 4.

[@0n1c420]

SH is SA3 SNG is SA4 SU is SA5 SC is SA6 SG is SA9 SF is SA10 SFr is SA11

[@titaniumex2556]

10:46 Redhotsonic: hold on let me sprinkle a few super emeralds on here... No assistance here apparently. Anyways here's the Super Game Boy 2, or if you're a fancy person like me, the Hyper Game Boy

[@otaking3582]

I wouldn't be surprised if these were made using a modified Super Mario Land 2 engine. It would certainly explain why you can only defeat enemies by jumping on top of them.

[@BinglesP]

Except unlike these bootlegs Super Mario Land 2 is an actual good game

[@ytpmvisfun]

If they used SML2’s engine and modified it, they did a good job making it terrible.

[@therealrookie531]

That makes sense lol

[@Fenyx_Birb]

Honestly i would believe it would be Super Mario Land 1 instead

[@DamiXGuin]

​@@Fenyx_Birbno Super Mario Land engine is better than this bootlegs

[@megamix5403]

I thought Sonic Heroes was Sonic Adventure 3, especially if we're going by Generations logic. lol In a seriousness though, it's nice to know these bootlegged ROMs work on actual hardware. These have mostly (with the exception of Sonic Adventure 8), been around for ages. I can't wait for when you do Sonic Fighter for the GBA lol

[@NerdGames864]

Tenicaly Heroes is Adventure 3, and i guess Shadow The Hedgehog would be 4 (not compleatly sure about that one) and 2006 would be 5, being the last Adventure Style game with Unleashed starting the Modern Boost Era on consoles

[@gracekim1998]

@@NerdGames864ooo sweet 🥹

[@RobiWanKenobi_567]

0:18 there are 3 versions, Genesis, Saturn, and PC, also I am the one who finished stuff for the Sonic Retro pages on these bootlegs (Yes, I subjected myself to the game)

[@ssxtier]

fun fact there is a gameboy color game that uses fmv (non compressed) but ony to show the THQ logo

[@WiiPhone-ef4hm]

Can you tell me that one game

[@RabbitEarsCh]

Always a wonderful time with these videos, from the extra attention you give for a full test, to lots of sprinkled gags throughout to keep us engaged. I really loved Sonic being yeeted out the door. That's quality.

[@luk_143]

EHHOOH!

[@nikolasbaumgardner8731]

12:16 “GORDON BERNETT! Shoot my ears off already!” LOLOLOL Gets me every time.

[@SneakiestChameleon]

Someone in my daycare had 2 gameboy multicarts, and Sonic 5 was in the Super Color 21-in-1 (right next to Super Mario 4!).

[@Stano_Pano]

Hi redhotsonic, if you’re reading this. I really like your videos, Thank you for reading my comment. You work really hard you need to hit the 200k milestone

[@redhotsonic]

Need to hit 100k first 😝

[@emptyspotlight]

2:45 If I recall Sonic pocket adventure used flying battery act 2 as boss music on the Neo Geo pocket color

[@keithmorrison8373]

Yeah but there it was descent here its like literally designed to hurt the ears and thats saying alot as the choices didint fit the game at all

[@KatelynJewel]

7:52 That music gave me "It came from the Green Hell Zone" vibes. I must be paranoid from Badnik Mechanic's videos. XD

[@JavaMR]

I am in love with how vitriolic he is about mentioning the spike bug

[@JavaMR]

Special Thanks to the guy who liked this comment 2 months after I made it, making me realize I typed "without vitriolic"

[@mavthelad]

No matter what you cover, it's always awesome seeing one of these videos show up in my notification feed. Your stuff has and keeps on getting better and better! Looking forward to your next upload already RHS.

[@BulbaTrainer]

I really respect the fact that you always try to use genuine hardware. I do the same even though I just make commentary videos because it doesn't feel right otherwise

[@littlemacisunderrated412]

Small to small, do you think I should try making shc2023 on real hardware? It would be pretty low quality though but I love rhs and kinda wanna make it

[@BulbaTrainer]

@littlemacisunderrated412 hey, I'm so sorry I didn't see this comment when you first replied! Yes, go for it man! Some of my videos have very bad visual issues at some points and people still enjoy it. Don't let that stop you from making the content you want dude :)

[@mewnani]

The freezes on Sonic Adventure 7 might not be caused by the save states. YuriofWind did a video on this game years ago and he crashed at the same exact area you did... and gave up.

[@BOILKI]

The Spike Big Makes A Return 3:54 😭

[@retroking1982]

Great video RedHotSonic as always. Happy New Year to you both too 😀

[@PatScullionCreative]

As much fun as it would be to watch you play these bootlegs on a live stream, I can't in good conscience ask you to go through with that. *shudders in collision detection*

[@MugTang1]

No wonder it took so long to get this one out 🤣 good effort at trying that bit 100 times over!

[@IvanovIvanAKrutoi]

7:54 Forget the measels, how about the fact that Knuckles is green?

[@JONNYSORENSEN_AU]

I remember mucking about these as roms years ago. Nice to see Sonic sprites on GB, be cool to have a proper sonic game made for original gb.

[@Gameboy_1992]

Hello redhotsonic, My gba sp (PAL) runs Sonic 8 on my EZ-FLASH JR. Perfectly fine!

[@Rib_]

Pokémon Jade certainly should work on real hardware, the cart is just built with custom mapper hardware that flashcarts and most emulators aren't able to handle, but an actual physical card should "work" (though I believe it still crashes after level 1).

[@redhotsonic]

Quite possibly. But if it still crashes after level 1, does it really still "work"?

[@Atlas_System01]

The answer would be yes but the hardware was so disgusted by the fact that you wanted to play a bootleg and not an official game or a romhack that it refused to continue to run the game and as such the game crashed before the console yelled at you and told you to play a better game/j

[@paddy844]

Maybe the game only has one level?

[@sonikkyo]

But why would they release that god awful game, but then not work? (That’s probably for the best.)

[@CharaDreemurrrr]

Imagine if there were other levels in Pokémon jade that weren't Sonic 3d blast 5 levels and we'll never know

[@Cyber_Horse_Studios87]

Just as a suggestion, you should give the EZ Flash series a try! The EZ-Flash Jr is an excellent little gameboy rom cart that I use for many of my classic gameboy consoles.

[@gamerlunayt]

Well done, RHS! You played through EVERY Sonic bootleg by Yong Yong on the Game Boy, so that *we* don't have to! Big round of applause for RHS!

[@awesomechad7716]

These bootlegs definitely deserve to be chucked into the fire to burn 😌

[@GerbilSoft]

You didn't answer the most important question: But does Vegas work on Real Hardware?

[@LoneWindtheWolf]

i'd say *PARTIA-[Vegas Pro has stopped working]*

[@lucianothewindowsfan]

Depends on the CPU.

[@CharaDreemurrrr]

No

[@oshabot1646]

6:52 that was clever lol 10:47 clever the sequel!

[@fabriciofabriposting2889]

I know I'm one year late, but I think it's still cool to share this detail (although someone probably already shared this) There is one more bootleg just like those 3 Sonic games and the Pokemon Jade: Special Pikachu Edition (that is the one that you reviewed). This one is called Pokemon Adventure, and it actually have different levels (but all the other problems still persists) There is also an bootleg called Pokémon Diamond: Special Pikachu Edition that is an rom hack of an bootleg called Super Mario 3 Special, both also for the GBC And one last detail that you probably know already, but both the Pokémon Jade that you've reviewed and the Pokémon Diamond that I've just talked about aren't the only bootlegs with that name. There is another Pokémon Diamond/Jade that is an romhack just like every other pokemon bootleg. The difference however is that this one is an bootleg of an game called Keitai Denjuu Telefang that is an official game for the GBC and basically plays like an Pokemon game. Also, the two versions is basically an rom hack of each Telefang version (Diamond is the Power version and Jade is the Speed version)

[@nackless2771]

See you're using the X-treme ost. Good this (unofficial) soundtrack is gold. Keep up the great work

[@JohnGames-gz7ue]

“Live Stream Time” RHS “Hell To The No, Absolutely Not”

[@PLAYER42_ready]

Great vid! Vid idea: BDIWORH for rayman redemption (a remake of the original rayman for PS1) Also I would love to see blasting adventure

[@enochliu8316]

That wouldn't be suitable, as Rayman redemption is only rated to work on modern systems.

[@brandyross3912]

Uhh, as long as you don't have a PC from the 90s....yes?

[@zacharypierce2970]

Oh hey! I just bought a multicart with 3D Blast 5! Fun stuff.

[@NinjaCacodemon_IsSus]

RHS the crashes on the hour and a half death trap zone you mentioned I think is because you went off screen because every time ( except for the one where you die and sonic got hurt again ) you went off screen when the game crashed.

[@CardboardSliver]

8:28 I swear I've heard this music before but can't place my finger in it.

[@keithmorrison8373]

It the sonic 3 carnival night zone prototype and pc version music sorta

[@FoxMan_FF]

Having to subject yourself to _three_ of Makon Soft's awful Sonic bootlegs? That's a big oof from me, friend. What a hell of a way to start the new year! On bright side, at least you didn't have to play Pokémon Adventure with its unkillable enemies. _(also I totally saw that Pokémon Jade in that homebrew cart list, very nice)_ EDIT: didn't finish watching the video, you mentioned that at the end. Was honestly hoping it was the Telefang bootleg.

[@randoncourter4923]

10:55 Mario goes to the fridge to get a glass of milk

[@loganalves3231k]

Hello, my name is Logan and really everything you say is just pure truth, I have also suffered with these games, I also produce content for KZbin and I have made videos of these three games, BLAST 5 even had part two and the rest was just a part. I really struggled to record it and I also had to abuse the savestate because getting through this in just one game is impossible but I always thought about the case but I never had the courage to play again because I would have to play several game overs and my mental condition would be ruined. I have the videos. on my channel and I'm a Brazilian KZbinr and I liked your content, good videos man.

[@jackcarter9081]

ah yes iconic Sonic bootleg played these monsterof games on bootleg 20 in 1 carts

[@spriteearthworm6463]

I love this vid great job Redhotsonic

[@retrokoh]

Awesome to see you doing Game Boy content. I took up hacking the Game Boy recently

[@Chyna_Doll]

This is everything I imagined Sonic the Hedgehog by LJN would be.

[@thepirategamerboy12]

Trust me, it's *far* worse than that would be.

[@juanzapata1354]

redhotsonic, Sonic blasted adventure are the same 4 bootlegs but with improvements that means the level you died over 100 times will now be easy to pass!

[@retroboi128thegamedev]

I think I know what he's gonna do with that c64 equipment ;)

[@geos-music-corner]

neat also, the server invite you linked I refuse to agree to because I’m not getting my IP logged by some random site

[@redhotsonic]

This is a temporary measure because we've been raided once or twice. All it does is checks it against known spam and VPNs so spammers who got banned stays banned. Either wait until we eventually go back to normal or don't join 🙂

[@geos-music-corner]

@@redhotsonic ah I still don’t like my actual ip getting logged but eh

[@geos-music-corner]

@@redhotsonic why would people even raid your server anyways

[@Deryckkesmam]

3:54 3:55 The spike bug! (It's a feature!)

[@Adrian.R850]

Shadowcat's interactions are always pure gold.

[@polocatfan]

maybe not as gold anymore...

[@Adrian.R850]

@@polocatfan Yeah, I'm aware of how poorly all these comments about Shadowcat have aged. Very unfortunate.

[@PieStudios]

God, that widescreen CRT is so cool

[@boscorner]

Yep! It's a pvm (professional video monitor) or bvm (broadcast video monitor) if you wanna look more into them

[@ivanelvroxd7508]

in the part u showed the music of sonic adventure 7 my head started to hurt

[@toadmushead]

"HA You Wish Yours Was That Big" RHS: My Disappointment Is Immeasurable And My Day Is Ruined.

[@ritaandrunt5767]

Ooh cool nice job covering these sonic game boy bootleg games on real hardware

[@BMN_Prime]

3:59 seems like Bungie played some of this game because I can’t collect things sometimes when I walk over them either

[@rgchannelelicline]

I also did a video on sonic bootlegs on real hardware, and found out the Sonic Adventure 7 will actually run on the original Gameboy and Gameboy Pocket

[@littlemacisunderrated412]

Interesting

[@syedfahim2973]

RHS: What's that you want me to live stream these games from beginning to end? (Laughing) No! Me: Reasonable response.

[@SonicTheDutchHedgehog]

Yeahhh time is enjoy an video! Edit: yeah you should do blasting adventure and also woah that's alot of pain you had to go through

[@yourlocalidiot-n1s]

Can't expect it to be good. After all, it was made back in the day.

[@jasonpeter8165]

I love this video you had me laughing the entire time keep up the good work I'm Jason by the way

[@ryanr27]

It looks so clean in 4k!

[@gemeosnosgames]

That remake was made by an Brazilian...

[@Marcel42-TV]

Those screenshots on sonic 3d blast 5 at 3:01 is impressive for the game boy

[@Turbulation1]

Nah it doesn't take much effort to take stills from something and convert it to a monochrome palette suitable for the gameboy.

[@Marcel42-TV]

@@Turbulation1 oh

[@therealrookie531]

👏KEEP THE GOOD WORK👏 BUT WHERES BLUECOLDKNUCKLES

[@Switchwall]

BlueColdKnuckles channel got terminated for no reason

[@ZonicMirage]

Greatly appreciate this; been having a rough month.

[@sonicsynthwave]

'That what she said' Never gets old

[@ameerashourdraws]

When the world needed him the most!

[@idkany293]

He never left

[@Mr_Gamer-Random]

13:12 don't worry I did

[@joe_laddo]

Thiss really looks exhausting to play. Please play something good to relax yourself after all this self punishment XD Excellent video as always

[@redhotsonic]

Hopefully, Sonic on the Commodore 64 will be the cure 😛

[@CharaDreemurrrr]

@@redhotsonic Plot twist:it's sonic 3d blast 5,sonic adventure 7 and sonic adventure 8 but with different graphics

[@Rouge_Gems]

Fun fact: Makon soft studios (Yong Yong) also made a bootleg game called Pokémon Jade edition, for the GBC in 2001.

[@trancethehedgehog7552]

I loved my ears getting blown off my head! Great review!

[@GameMistress]

Awesome video. I had no clue these bootlegs existed until today.

[@Creeper_ofDoom]

I actually played sonic adventure 7 for hours on an emulator on a ds a few years ago.

[@ryanwalters8486]

When he started the music at the start I sounded like he made a joke that is crashed a lot but the video just started loading again lol 😂

[@mistashadow]

3D Blast 5 honestly makes me wonder how these games are put together... Though I must say - it is rather disappointing to see that all the games are just... pretty much the same thing.

[@MaverickTsuki]

Ah yes, who doesnt remember the protagonists of the first season of the pokemon anime: Jin, ShNy and Gun?

[@brawlfan]

The error said "unknown opcode" and I remember something about a 3DS's gameboy emulation ignoring those and carrying on as normal

[@yousefslimani99]

Cool a New Real Hardware Video discover!!

[@bigceelos]

Cant wait for the Commodore video!

[@thesegadreamcast9864]

I applaud your dedication my dear friend May the dream cast lords bless you ;)

[@bencox5994]

Just found your channel, cool video dude

[@v1nag3r]

Oh yeah baby, a new redhotsonic dropped!

[@stunnastream11]

I feel so sorry that you had to go through such a broken game

[@pchound5962]

8:53 I literally screamed.

[@WiiPhone-ef4hm]

True

[@graymondgt1397]

I mean, if pokemon jade crashed on emulator, as well as real console, it should count as working on real hardware because it's doing the same thing on both.

[@THENAMEISMEGAMAN]

I would love to see you play through Blasting Adventure.

[@jaylenbutler899]

See, I knew it was Sonic Adventure 7, 8, & Sonic 3D Blast 5!

[@carlaparker4482]

6:54-when he dumps the master emerald on his gamecube

[@westinbridges7321]

Sonic 3D Blast 5, Sonic Adventure 7, and Sonic Adventure 8.... THESE GAMES ARE SO LOUD RHS HAD TO TURN THE VOLUME DOWN TO -26 DECEBALS.

[@Latoshajsinspiration]

Sonic 3D Blast 5 Sonic Adventure 7 Sonic Adevnture 8

[@stoopidmansidiot]

"You'd laugh, but I would rather play this three times over than these bootlegs again." then do a live stream of you actually playing sonic genesis 3 times over to prove your point :P