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DU: Thunder Dragon 3
#371298 - 11/23/17 06:42 AM Attachment: td3.jpg 226 KB (0 downloads)


Shoutime dumped Thunder Dragon 3, a Chinese bootleg of Thunder Dragon 2. I don't know what the changes are.

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Re: DU: Thunder Dragon 3 new [Re: Smitdogg]
#371306 - 11/23/17 05:20 PM


There is no Thunder Dragon 3 arcade game at all... ...or Am I missing something ?



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Re: DU: Thunder Dragon 3 new [Re: CTOJAH]
#371307 - 11/23/17 05:44 PM


> There is no Thunder Dragon 3 arcade game at all... ...or Am I missing something ?

it will be a hack of another game, I assume Smit just typo'd the post.

I've seen Battle Garegga hacks with a 'Thunder Dragon' title for example, this one might just be a hack of plain old TD or TD2 tho, haven't looked at it.



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Re: DU: Thunder Dragon 3 new [Re: Haze]
#371308 - 11/23/17 06:17 PM


It was a typo, it's a boot of TD2 where I think they changed the title screen.



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Re: DU: Thunder Dragon 3 new [Re: Smitdogg]
#371338 - 11/25/17 03:01 AM


> It was a typo, it's a boot of TD2 where I think they changed the title screen.

In simple words:

Add a "3" in the title and sell how a new game

Is a cheap trick, but the chinese (and maybe other asian developers) made bootlegs before the 2000



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Re: DU: Thunder Dragon 3 new [Re: fortuna_chan]
#371346 - 11/25/17 07:54 PM


> > It was a typo, it's a boot of TD2 where I think they changed the title screen.
>
> In simple words:
>
> Add a "3" in the title and sell how a new game
>
> Is a cheap trick, but the chinese (and maybe other asian developers) made bootlegs
> before the 2000

So like... people don't remember the pirate FC multicarts and their tendency to add random numbers to game titles?



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Re: DU: Thunder Dragon 3 new [Re: Foxhack]
#371347 - 11/25/17 07:59 PM


It's a dumb as hell plan for an operator. The response immediately goes from "oh cool a new sequel" to "ok this guy duped me out of my money, how hard should I kick the cab".



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Re: DU: Thunder Dragon 3 new [Re: Smitdogg]
#371348 - 11/25/17 08:35 PM


> It's a dumb as hell plan for an operator. The response immediately goes from "oh cool
> a new sequel" to "ok this guy duped me out of my money, how hard should I kick the
> cab".

I don't understand putting those bootlegs and hacks into MAME.

I would split MAME into two. 1. MAMEHB > Hacks and bootlegs. 2. MAMERB > The real releases and betas. That just me.

I still using MAME anyway.



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Re: DU: Thunder Dragon 3 new [Re: Dullaron]
#371350 - 11/25/17 08:40 PM


It's not hard to understand the logic of putting games in mame that were in arcades but yeah we will always have a percentage of people who hate all bootlegs or hate all of some other genre of hardware and don't want it in "their mame".



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Well I'm not gonna worry about this mess. new [Re: Smitdogg]
#371352 - 11/25/17 08:54 PM





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Re: DU: Thunder Dragon 3 new [Re: Smitdogg]
#371353 - 11/25/17 09:58 PM


> It's not hard to understand the logic of putting games in mame that were in arcades
> but yeah we will always have a percentage of people who hate all bootlegs or hate all
> of some other genre of hardware and don't want it in "their mame".

yeah, that's people for you.

anyway, swapping the dswb and soundlatch read gets it booting

title screen is hacked as you'd expect

there's some extra code inserted / data modified, not sure what the purpose is, somebody more familiar with the game might notice the changes, they're not as obvious as some chinese hacks.

Shou didn't dump the mask roms, so we're assuming they match. Was made by 'Conny Co. Ltd' in 1996 according to replaced strings in the ROM, even if the title screen still shows NMK.




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Re: DU: Thunder Dragon 3 new [Re: Haze]
#371354 - 11/25/17 11:46 PM


Sounds like this bootleg of Bombjack twin, but is with different hardware

Bootlegs are a little gem very hidden (in hardware related)



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Re: DU: Thunder Dragon 3 new [Re: Smitdogg]
#371362 - 11/26/17 09:11 AM


> It's a dumb as hell plan for an operator. The response immediately goes from "oh cool
> a new sequel" to "ok this guy duped me out of my money, how hard should I kick the
> cab".

Never underestimate the coin spending power of kids who don't know any better.



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Re: DU: Thunder Dragon 3 new [Re: Smitdogg]
#371366 - 11/26/17 02:24 PM


> It's a dumb as hell plan for an operator. The response immediately goes from "oh cool
> a new sequel" to "ok this guy duped me out of my money, how hard should I kick the
> cab".

Be funny the real 3 machine come out and then both machines confused the people.



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Re: DU: Thunder Dragon 3 new [Re: Smitdogg]
#371410 - 11/27/17 05:26 PM


I saw the title and was excited but... what a let down

no wonder china is now rich... they just keep stealing, don't pay taxes and fuck with the system in general.



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Re: DU: Thunder Dragon 3 new [Re: kevenz]
#371411 - 11/27/17 05:30 PM


> I saw the title and was excited but... what a let down
>
> no wonder china is now rich... they just keep stealing, don't pay taxes and fuck with
> the system in general.

Well the company name is honest 'Conny'


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