Re: Chinese SMT: Devil Children bootlegs + guidebooks
Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2012 12:52 pm
Through searching Taobao, I managed to find a couple of bootlegs of Devil Children out there.
There's a bootleg of Red Book, with a different chunky font for the 'Gameboy' text on the left side. The boxart also looks poorly printed from the official Japanese one: http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=11029f*x.3-iLz8.h-4josD&id=5814262221&
There's a bootleg of Black Book, also with poorly printed boxart, but this time the logo has been translated into Chinese and fills up the bottom half of the box. There's also added Chinese text in the top right corner of the box: http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=11029f*x.3-iLz8.h-4josD&id=5814189535&
At first, this particular bootleg's boxart makes it look like it would be a hack of a Pokemon game, namely Pokemon Gold, but it turns out it's a hack of Devil Children Black Book from the screenshots on the back, and it's been translated into Chinese: http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=11029f*x.3-iLz8.h-4josD&id=2024119741&
There's also a Chinese bootleg of White Book (Shiro no Sho) out there too, but unfortunately I don't have the link.
Some unnofficially (i'm assuming) translated guidebooks for the games exist too and appear to be based on the Japanese guidebooks:
Red/Black Book guide: http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=6757508948
Demikids/Light/Dark guide: http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=6285564174
Fire/Ice guide: http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=13274049116
There's a bootleg of Red Book, with a different chunky font for the 'Gameboy' text on the left side. The boxart also looks poorly printed from the official Japanese one: http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=11029f*x.3-iLz8.h-4josD&id=5814262221&
There's a bootleg of Black Book, also with poorly printed boxart, but this time the logo has been translated into Chinese and fills up the bottom half of the box. There's also added Chinese text in the top right corner of the box: http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=11029f*x.3-iLz8.h-4josD&id=5814189535&
At first, this particular bootleg's boxart makes it look like it would be a hack of a Pokemon game, namely Pokemon Gold, but it turns out it's a hack of Devil Children Black Book from the screenshots on the back, and it's been translated into Chinese: http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=11029f*x.3-iLz8.h-4josD&id=2024119741&
There's also a Chinese bootleg of White Book (Shiro no Sho) out there too, but unfortunately I don't have the link.
Some unnofficially (i'm assuming) translated guidebooks for the games exist too and appear to be based on the Japanese guidebooks:
Red/Black Book guide: http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=6757508948
Demikids/Light/Dark guide: http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=6285564174
Fire/Ice guide: http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=13274049116