[Vinesauce] Vinny - Bootleg Games

[@vinesaucefullsauce]

00:00 Intro 00:54 Mario Cart 03:46 Lord of the Rings: Return of the King 13:05 Lord of the Rings IV 17:05 Pokemon Sapphire 31:27 Super Mario DX 34:49 Battle Network Rockman: Crystal 38:37 Shrek 40:26 Fighter Sonic 45:51 Shi Kong Xing Shou (時空星獸) 56:30 Super Sonic 2 59:12 Shengui Diguo Zhi Emo Cheng (神鬼帝國之惡魔城) 01:03:26 Matel Gear II

[@LonelyMarowak]

I think I sent you a few of these Sintax GBA bootlegs a while ago, like Super Mario DX and Fighter Sonic. Cool to see you played a few of them on this stream. Hope all is well with you, Vinny. 🙂

[@soullesspinkamenapinkamena1747]

Lord Of The Ping`s.

[@vittosphonecollection57289]

Imagine is 56:30 was the Sonic Frontiers true final boss lol

[@nindy4368]

Vinny plays the same game four times and goes insane

[@enlongjones2394]

And that’s not even all versions of that

[@youraverageexitsign]

@@enlongjones2394Yeah, there’s like 30 variants of Digimon Adventure. (The original game these are based on.)

[@JadeFoxAlpha]

17:49 Ah yes, the two options: "New game" and "Rejigger"

[@Jack_Woods]

The new N word we're yet to discover

[@drachenpanzer5622]

MY KAJIGGER!

[@arcadium3459]

I just love Vinny's increasing awareness to how Super Mario DX is pretty much a reskin of Lord of the Rings 4, and then when he hits the insurmountable roadblock at 32:14, the music kicks in right when he realizes he was right. Comedic timing at its finest, folks.

[@Jack_Woods]

Vinny: Oh no it's the same thing.... The game: OH YEEAH IT'S THE SAME THING, LET'S GOOOOO!!!!

[@firefox1965]

He became Phoenix Wright

[@SwizzleDrizzl]

Same energy as "GRAND, DAD"

[@FiftyFour54]

Actually, The We're Many Reskins Of Digimon Adventure, Such As Sonic 3 Fighter Sonic, Super Mario DX, Lord Of The Rings 4, Rayman 4 & Etc.

[@DeadwingDork]

Dr. Odd is the key to all this.

[@DatsOdd]

agreed

[@Jack_Woods]

Ah, another Vinesauce enjoyer such as myself

[@nogidoki3325]

Its the degenerate zoophile exposer

[@Glory2Snowstar]

To destroy all the world's love, he first has to destroy copyright.

[@charmandyorton006]

@@Jack_Woods What can be said? DeadwingDork knows quality.

[@Rick586]

We found a real Ninjabreadman situation here.

[@YoWhayuppp]

Maybe Data Design Interactive made these bootlegs after all

[@Gaia_BentosZX5]

22:18 "The monster is energetic..!" has the same threatening energy as "That pizza is aggressive..!"

[@notamobilesprout4175]

_Just another day at the nutrun household_

[@coldramentpm1013]

vinny transitioning from campbell to snake’s voice because he has no god damn clue who’s talking is pretty fun

[@Vaguer_Weevil]

"My name is Odd! People call me Dr. Monster!" Ahh, it's just as I remember it

[@Zulf85]

I mean tbf that's a pretty odd name

[@notamobilesprout4175]

@@Zulf85 P o k e m o n s t e r i s m o n

[@mikotoh]

whoever said that the pokemon sapphire bootleg was just nostalgia with dementia was spot fucking on

[@SuperNintendoChalmers096]

agree, Emerald is the best game

[@labcoatgorilla6784]

It’s been a long time since we seen bootlegs on here.

[@jack_of_ass]

My humanity is restored

[@TehSkullKid]

My favorite part of Lord of the Rings was when Marty and Pinpin rode on Facial Tree Hair to Isen Guarded "Where to, Facial Bush?" "OOOOOOohhh Little Rojins!"

[@FoxMan_FF]

As someone who has completed Shi Kong Xing Shou _(and who is still trying to give it a proper translation)_ watching Vinny struggle through the first town, not realizing that he was missing the one NPC he needed to talk to to progress the plot was painful but hilarious. A shame, too. He missed some gratuitous Engrish. *OH, BABY~*

[@noaht2005]

BABY BABY! SKXS is pretty good. I’m in a Discord that has made decent progress with translation, if you think you can help that would be awesome

[@FoxMan_FF]

Oh, that's rad as hell! I'll be honest- I was mostly doing it out of hobby during school and my aim was to do more of a "what if this were actually localized in the states" kind of translation, but I would absolutely love to see what you guys have done!

[@FoxMan_FF]

I'd also have to figure out where the Google Sheet I had all my notes in is. It's been a long time since I've looked into it lmao

[@noaht2005]

@@FoxMan_FF do you have any socials? I want to link the discord so you can check it out. We have a git as well for disassembly, but I can’t link any of it on here because yt blocks links

[@noaht2005]

I commented the link on your latest tweet.

[@obololegal]

18:10 ah yes, the franchise's often forgotten middle name, monsteris

[@DCBiscuit]

The Lord of the Rings bootleg was made in the Pocky and Rocky engine… and as I’m writing this with my extensive bootleg knowledge, someone in live-chat beat me to it.

[@ClaireZhasa]

Yes, my favorite Matel Gear character, Flank Yeager

[@pibbanon1987]

46:02- Beat from the Megaman series, except green and with a parachute is my favorite Pokémon.

[@TheBigDynamo]

I've noticed two things about these bootlegs: 1. I actually liked the music in the bootleg Metal Gear 2 game so much that I decided to give it my own version. 2. These bootleg GBA games usually have this familiar sound chip used within their games. These heavy drum bangs you hear within songs and whenever there's any form of currency you collect, the sound effect is from Pokemon when you choose something.

[@JeskidoYT]

It's like the release of Pokemon exploded the bootleg community

[@JeskidoYT]

It's like the release of Pokemon exploded the bootleg community

[@TheBigDynamo]

@@JeskidoYT Tell me about it, especially the Chinese bootleg market. They adore Pokemon.

[@atlas_rise_]

Role: Granda Joel: *sweating profusely*

[@gestaposantaclaus]

The “half-monster person army corps.” is the greatest thing ever.

[@TedKennedyX]

Remebering how Dr. Odd was the meme name Vinny gave Dr. Strange a few years ago

[@Majoraspersona]

Dr. Strange's lame cousin, Odd Micheal

[@GamayObera]

5:59 From left to right: Bootleg BotW Link, CBT Wizard, Gillius Thunderhead at 30 years, Isaac from Golden Sun & elf Goemon.

[@gryotharian]

Joel sounds different these days

[@TomJakobW]

“GRANDA?“

[@Beelze_Bubbles]

Ah yes, the fellowship of the ring! Rojins, SherdSherd, GrandaGranda, Jali and Alias!

[@SBaby]

6:30 - This reminds me of one of the April Fools Day things I did where I went to a message board that I frequented and Google Translated everything I posted into a bunch of different languages and then back into English for the entire day.

[@Serucipe]

1:06:00 I just have to say, that's kind of an adorable sprite of Snake.

[@commandantcarpenter]

19:22 are you sure about this vinny. ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO ASK THAT. ARE YOU SURE

[@Skul1ManEXE]

M A N S L A V E S

[@sackfu7952]

A good rule of thumb is that anything in a bootleg is at all good, or you can say that there is any kind of good qualities it it what-so-ever, it's probably stolen from something else in one way or another. Whether it be the music, visuals, anything, as long as it is a bootleg and it has any amount of quality to it at all, it's probably a safe bet that the bootleggers had nothing to do with it, at most, they probably copied it from somewhere, or the fact there is anything likable about it was completely accidental on the bootleggers part.

[@busterthejedi8446]

7 Grand Dad showed us that.

[@noaht2005]

You’d be surprised. The first LotR one had a legitimately obtained P&R with Becky engine, and while a few assets are stolen most are original. ZMZX4 is mostly stolen graphically but has an original engine. SKXS is pretty much original, minus the stolen monster designs.

[@powergannon]

Data Design Interactive reskinning the same Wii game five times has nothing on these bootlegs.

[@kokorikopi]

can we talk about how the coin sound in the mario bootleg is the selection sound from pokemon

[@toafloast1883]

sounds like a generic 8bit sound made in bfxr.... any1 can do that....

[@NecromancyForKids]

Vinny mentions that during the game, supposedly by a chat member's mention.

[@zacc]

the sound is used in the LotR 4 bootleg, too man sound design is really hard, huh

[@captainjurgh8142]

Nowadays Vinny playing bootleg or pirated games feels like finding a hidden, great pulped gem

[@somedweebfromsaturn9860]

What’s funny is in Matel gear is when Snake and Colonel are talking to each other in the beginning,the music that plays is Ishtar’s theme from Tower of Druaga.

[@vohloo9797]

I was genuinely surprised to see that the Shrek bootleg's backgrounds were from a Dinotopia game for the gba. Got me all nostalgic ngl

[@blackjam_alex]

27:43 My monster is dying

[@sleepyote]

What do you want me to do about it?

[@avroertz3165]

Seeing vinny playing pokemon sapphire gives a weird nostalgia to me, considering that my first vinesauce video was the pokemon emerald corruptions, still one of my favorites

[@akumatsutranslations]

For those wondering why the gamecube says "brain games" in that pokemon bootleg If I had to guess, it's because this seems to be using chinese as a base (TianYuan, Chunzi, stuff like that is a good giveaway) In chinese, video games (or, rather, computer games) is "电脑游戏"/"Diànnǎo yóuxì" Since "computer" in chinese uses the characters "diàn" (electric) and "nǎo" (brain), a really sloppy translation would be something like "electric brain games"

[@JeskidoYT]

Damn I thought they were using brazilian code. Not bad of a translation tbh

[@akumatsutranslations]

@@JeskidoYT All things considered yeah it could be way worse for the kind of hack job it is. Given the notes also said it was specifically to cash in on the fact the JP version was out, I'm willing to bet they did what a lot of Hong Kong/Chinese bootleg TLs do, and machine translated the Japanese to Chinese, then again from Chinese to English, maybe with very minimal oversight from someone who spoke English. If you've seen the old Hong Kong bootleg subtitles for anime like Doraemon (1979), or Mazinger Z, they also were done like this, maybe with even less steps involved.

[@SneakiestChameleon]

32:40 Now imagine that scenario taking place in the late 90's/early 00's and it's with a Famicom cartridge that lets you pick between "Donkey Kong Country 4" and "The Jungle Book 2". Yep, they actually went there!

[@gf41993]

These reskinned bootleg games reminded me of the one spongebob platformer game with same music and level design that Vinny also loved and did not played infinte times

[@demonicloaf2100]

"Flaming Raging Flame Center" Ah yes, we here at the Redundant Department of Redundancy know a lot about Flaming Raging Flame Centers.

[@epitaph8704]

I can't believe 「Karf talked to a buff man and he said "AYAAAA"

[@vissova]

Shitty/shovelware/bootleg showcases are always my favorite streams

[@cobra352]

39:10 Blade yelling NO when the emperor dies in oblivion

[@wutdewut]

None of the gba games sounded any better than the gbc games. That’s sad. I mean I know the gba didn’t have dedicated sound hardware but holy shit (sapphire exempt from comparison for obvious reasons)

[@mslabo102s2]

I know why elf keep translated into spirit in LotR bootlegs: usually, elf is translated as 精灵 in Mandarin, but it's not distinguished enough with spirits.

[@TheBigDynamo]

41:07 Who would've thought this would he an official move Sonic can do in Frontiers

[@imtired4914]

Whenever someone asks me to climb mountains I’m like “I don’t know, my lack of sports recently “

[@HellfireComms]

Role: Granda

[@SabrinaSaysStuff]

LotR, Mario, Shrek, and Sonic all being the same fucking game was simply incredible to see live on stream

[@teecee1827]

The music being the same was glorious.

[@Sandromatic]

Reminds me of that autorun platformer on Android that constantly showed up.

[@光の女神パルテナ-n2x]

Listen, at 6:30, this old man is literally the *CBT Wizard* from Meme House! He's just carrying his staff instead of being unarmed as usual!

[@AHorseThatIsARadish]

*laugh track 09*

[@RhysWilde]

I seriously can't wait until that day I look into the comments and don't see you around anymore

[@gabrielwoj]

The "weird human eyes" Sonic (on Fighter Sonic) is like that because the game has as animation of Sonic blinking, but it doesn't work. You can see his open eyes for a split second upon entering a stage. Source: tcrf.net/Sonic_3_Fighter_Sonic

[@thevoidconqueror]

Gotta say the pokemon sound effects makes an amazing cameo in this installment of bootleg games

[@br-1z_1z]

The re skinned games remind me of the good days when vinny would play android games and it would be the same game at least 6 times

[@ycylchgames]

Remember that time Aragorn hit a huge flying fish with his sword. Good times.

[@xord6286]

I wouldn't mind this becoming a series tbh

[@stankfield9432]

Never thought seeing the word "cart" spelt right would ever bother me, but here we are.

[@littleNorwegians]

M O R T A L C O M B A T !

[@stankfield9432]

@@Bio-Rex yeah I realized that right after I commented this lol, I'm gonna leave my comment up cuz I love how stupid it is.

[@heenalu1992]

14:17 When thing from Castlevania gets its own intro music.

[@tarragon3280]

Imagine having the Lord of the Rings, Mario, Shrek, and Sonic games as your only video games when you were a kid, and that is what you think all video games are for your entire childhood.

[@afeathereddinosaur]

"Mom, mom, I want Mario in the shopping cart!" 'Mario Cart? Ok son, but just this once, it's your early Christmas gift's This was how Mario Cart probably made a kid very sad

[@DasAntiNaziBroetchen]

Did you copy the Pokemon game's English on purpose?

[@afeathereddinosaur]

@@DasAntiNaziBroetchen This is LoTR english, ok? Mind the differences

[@steampunkfox1411]

"I'm ready, you ready?" THESE SHRIMP FRESH???

[@charmandyorton006]

1:14 My man Luigi lookin' like Buzz Lightyear over here

[@Dr0dd]

Feels really weird to have Vinny give you several unintended shout-outs throughout the vid.

[@thatmalteseguy4076]

I left this wishing Vinny would play Emerald version.

[@AlexW58]

SAME

[@kip258]

He would LOVE the battle frontier and would likely spend a lot of time there.

[@RibeiraoYRS]

HOLY SHIT FIRST TIME I SEE BINNY DOING BOOTLEG GAEMS (Insert Thumbnail KZbinr Reaction)

[@bernadettebread]

Yo that Mario Cart music had me vibin

[@YTDeepshock]

Hobbits Rojins, the best companion for all your punitive expeditions of the evil boundary.

[@firstnamelastname1126]

5:30 Discard the magic ring into flaming raging flames center!

[@7carlxx]

Hang on, isn't that Pokemon Sapphire bootleg just "Chinese Emerald"? not only did I recognize what vinny was reading from a channel that played the bootleg, but JOEL also played this years ago!

[@anotheridiot4598]

55:59 i can see Beat from megaman here on top of coffee

[@ChrisLeeW00]

Lord of the Rings: Punitive Expedition Row or Columns

[@chanceForNotBeingRapper]

48:06 of course the sprite is ripped, look at Beat painted green from Mega Man franchise And my favorite franchise Matel Gear, a legend of a toilet toy company

[@iqbalsuraji3921]

Super mario dx " looks like mario in nighmare land,, totally fail clone like ass"

[@shalpp]

Why does the megaman bootleg have sound effects from gradius on it lmao

[@BottledPoe]

i straight up saw a totadile in that spritesheet

[@dimitar4y]

I have a headcanon for the creation of the Coffee pokemon bootleg: You know how in GTA you get missions "You'll find a tape under the phone." - the company that is making the bootlegs is a secret organisation that get their missions in a similar hitman-style, and the tape talked about a pokemon named "koffing", but since it's a tape and it's the 90's, there's no image included, so with the limited research, they couldn't figure out it's the koffing pokemon, but only heard "coffee". So in this 'game of telephone', the pokemons got completely changed up.

[@No0wis]

32:30 honestly the music here like, is pretty good all things considered

[@Nillawafer91]

First game brings up a potential good idea for Mario, Mario ship or something but basically racing but flying idk sounded good in my head.

[@kacperciesowski3344]

1:02:48 isn't a game over screen taken from Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Prophecy on GBA?

[@Dekomata]

Vinny encountering bootlegs that are essentially the same game reminds me of joel's stream when the snes bootlegs he played were all made in the same engine.

[@smellthel]

I would have actually loved these games growing up!

[@CondemnedGuy]

Miller with a goatee was the highlight of this segment.

[@GameDevYal]

9:22 The game looks a lot like Natsume's "Pocky & Rocky" series (the attack animation sending things flying and the player having an infinite-use ranged attack), but it's so janky and limited (no powerups, for instance) I'm pretty sure it has to be a bootleg. ...oh wait chat already caught that, nvm

[@kevinm5940]

11:45 no...

[@Forever_Zero]

1:04:07 I mean, the fact that they care enough to actually match the portrait with the in game sprite it's remarkable 1:07:13 "all cqc, no stealth" Wait, isn't that how Vinny plays Metal Gear anyway?

[@Hearttoons2003.]

What's song name at 45:51

[@CebolaBros]

The songs in Shi Kong Xing Shou are all original, AFAIK. There should be an OST upload somewhere

[@CebolaBros]

Not sure if that specific song is here, but here's a playlist with the soundtrack kzbin.info/aero/PL_7SZhTmUFWkf8oAQB4CsK5_VuOhG0Tos

[@dededethesuperstarwarrior]

31:36 Who is the Blue Luigi?

[@Vaguer_Weevil]

It's their cousin, Bluigi

[@NecromancyForKids]

Pikablu

[@nunmcnun]

I follow vine sauce exclusively for bad games and bootlegs! I respect all the other stuff Vinny does it all great but this is the good shit for me right here

[@user-wk6tp1og3l]

56:22 seems more like a earthbound enemy dont you think?

[@ardenharan2201]

I love how the Pokemon knockoff translated "configure" as "rejigger." It's technically not *wrong*, but it's oh so funny.

[@frannielmartinez]

11:43 Oh my god, the BGM... Is the funny sussy BGM music!

[@LaidbackLost]

The real MVP of this segment were the 2 moving platforms

[@jessesmith7147]

18:44 thank goodness it's Tianyan, not Tiananmen

[@Rhymelie]

If we can find some co-op bootleg games, can we get a Vinny vs Joel bootleg fight stream?

[@wantedwario2621]

This is some old-school streaming

[@Murrlin27]

6:06 How does he shot web??

[@CaptainZaimon]

32:40 Getting a little bit too real about what makes bootlegs (both ones of videogames and other things) so sad to look at for me

[@toadboydude5015]

Oh my god i Actually couldn't stop laughing at """pokemon sapphire"""

[@toadboydude5015]

Wmon will fight Pidog

[@thisisasupersayin376]

That's what happens when you have translation without localization

[@toadboydude5015]

Yep "Oblige me with the benefit of your!"

[@sleepyote]

My monster is dying. 😞

[@Z64sports]

The way Mario Kart is going with the anti gravity thing Mario Cart probably isn't that far away

[@Halofreaks9524]

The music from lord of the rings 4 was so god damn good for no reason WAIT ITS THE SAME AS MARIO DX

[@JomasterTheSecond]

Never thought I'd see a Kiki Kaikai ripoff with Lord of the Rings characters in.

[@fakenamegraham8713]

You stealing Joel’s job!!!!!!

[@Vaguer_Weevil]

You fool! This *IS* Joel!

[@Duskool]

HE TOOK HIS JEWB!

[@rompevuevitos222]

@@SilverlineXZero In case it wasn't a joke, that was a long time ago when Vinesauce was a youtube network and Vinny was essentially the "leader" of it networks stopped being a thing for years

[@NecromancyForKids]

@@rompevuevitos222 I don't think he was even the leader then. Just the guy people knew the most. But, I didn't start watching Vinesauce until they had already moved to Twitch, and some of them had already disappeared, so I could definitely be wrong.

[@rompevuevitos222]

@@NecromancyForKids Which is why i said "leader" Networks needed a leading channel to exist, but i don't think Vinny really gave any orders to anyone