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DavidDurica
Joined: 02 Dec 2003 Posts: 166 Location: Boynton Beach, FL
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Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2003 12:13 pm Post subject: Terrifying 911? |
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Anybody ever hear of an origin story for this? Other than the obvious one of "Hong Kong Fred made a knock-off of Metal Slug"? I'm just surprised at how good a port of Metal Slug the game is for being a pirate game on the Game Boy Color. |
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pentarou
Joined: 05 Oct 2003 Posts: 22 Location: England
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Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2003 7:05 pm Post subject: |
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Is it anything like this? |
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TheRedEye The Internet's Frank Cifaldi
Joined: 26 Aug 2003 Posts: 4192 Location: Oakland, CA
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Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2003 7:46 pm Post subject: |
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I haven't heard of this, so please sir, tell me more. |
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DavidDurica
Joined: 02 Dec 2003 Posts: 166 Location: Boynton Beach, FL
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Posted: Thu Dec 25, 2003 11:41 am Post subject: |
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Pentarou: Nope, although that's cool, thanks!
Terrfiying 911 is a port of the original Metal Slug, with a different intro. The opening shows grainy ass-vision of the Twin Towers, they go FOOM!, and then the logo comes on the screen. Upon hitting start, you get some text screens with some Engrishy speeches by Bush and Bin Laden, then an image of a map screen, then standard Metal Slug.
Lan Kwei has it for sale here http://www.lan-kwei.com/gbcsoftE/
although somebody offered me stupid money for my copy, saying that Lan Kwei was sold out.
I bought my copy at a dirt mall in Orlando. The person running the place had no clue what the game was, but let me try it on my GBC. Offensive content, and Metal Slug? How could I not buy it!
The gameplay is pretty good, but there're some differences from the NG version (duh). The sound is the standard blips and bleeps, and the enemy count is lowered. All your picked up weapons have infinite ammo, but grenades are still limited. The level layouts are pretty much the same, and the spirit of the game is still intact. Controls are [a]: Jump, [b]: Shoot, [select]: Grenade, [start]: Pause. Continues are limited, I think to four, but I haven't played it into the ground in a while. I can get past the damn jerk boss with the big chain gun, but not much further. I'd love to find out if the General's sprites were replaced with Osama Bin Laden. I don't know if it works on original Game Boy, I'll check at some point soon. |
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Ballz Staff
Joined: 03 Sep 2003 Posts: 610 Location: st. petersburg, florida
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Posted: Thu Dec 25, 2003 12:05 pm Post subject: |
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Piretes are great. |
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DavidDurica
Joined: 02 Dec 2003 Posts: 166 Location: Boynton Beach, FL
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Posted: Fri Dec 26, 2003 1:12 pm Post subject: |
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Oh, according to the intro, the game is credited to "Hitek (c)".
And the game's title (according to the title screen) is "Terrifying 9.11", whereas the cart label says "Terrifying 911". |
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treeman
Joined: 19 Sep 2003 Posts: 98
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Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2004 8:15 am Post subject: |
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I've had no luck in finding this game. Any possible links as to where to buy one?
DavidDurica, are you bored with yours yet? Let me know. |
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DarthTron
Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 16
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Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2004 9:13 pm Post subject: |
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I've made another stupid post that a mod has had to edit. (The post below has purposely been left intact.)
Last edited by DarthTron on Wed Mar 10, 2004 8:37 pm; edited 2 times in total |
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The Green Meanie
Joined: 01 Mar 2004 Posts: 218 Location: The New Wave
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Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2004 9:19 pm Post subject: |
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DarthTron wrote: | does any1 know where i can find the rom of Terrifying 9.11.
if any1 knows please reply asap please |
Ugh. |
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nateJC
Joined: 08 Nov 2003 Posts: 65 Location: Kansas City
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Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2004 3:36 am Post subject: |
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Treeman, go back to that link from Lan Kwei that David posted. Their site now says "Availability: Immediately", so I guess they got some more of them from who knows where. US$19/EUR 21,70.
-n |
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treeman
Joined: 19 Sep 2003 Posts: 98
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Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2004 6:43 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks, I'll give it a shot |
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treeman
Joined: 19 Sep 2003 Posts: 98
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Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2004 3:09 pm Post subject: |
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This is their response "I am sorry to tell you that this item is temporarily sold out until further notice, and we have not been given any confirmed restocking date."
As a fan of the Metal Slug series (I even have a Neo Geo Arcade MVS with Metal Slug 3), I'm dying to find out more about it, even just to see some screen shots of it. |
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DavidDurica
Joined: 02 Dec 2003 Posts: 166 Location: Boynton Beach, FL
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Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 12:44 pm Post subject: |
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Quote: | DavidDurica, are you bored with yours yet? Let me know. |
No, sorry. I get such great reactions from gamers when I show it to them. I would be willing to lend the cart out to be dumped, though. This game is so wonderful that the world must play it.
Quote: | I'm dying to find out more about it, even just to see some screen shots of it.
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I'll take some pics of it on my GBASP in a day or so. I'll throw them on my website. Hrm... I know I've got a video capture doodad around here somewhere. If digital camera + GBASP doesn't work, I'll dig that up and hook it into my Gamecube. |
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DarthTron
Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 16
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Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 4:22 pm Post subject: |
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DavidDurica wrote: | Quote: | DavidDurica, are you bored with yours yet? Let me know. |
No, sorry. I get such GRATE reactions from gamers when I show it to them. I would be willing to lend the cart out to be dumped, though. This game is so wonderful that the world must play it.
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amen to that!!!!!!! |
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DavidDurica
Joined: 02 Dec 2003 Posts: 166 Location: Boynton Beach, FL
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Kitsune FURRY
Joined: 20 Nov 2003 Posts: 318 Location: Mexico
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Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2004 2:51 am Post subject: |
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Holy crap, those screens look amazing.
... They almost look like a real SNKP product. O_o;;;
Edit:
Is it just me, or does that game use... the KitsuneFont (tm)?! |
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DavidDurica
Joined: 02 Dec 2003 Posts: 166 Location: Boynton Beach, FL
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Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2004 5:06 am Post subject: |
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Quote: | Holy crap, those screens look amazing.
... They almost look like a real SNKP product. O_o;;; |
And those pics of the twin tower blowing up are actually an FMV not quite on par with GBA Dragons Lair, but not too shabby. The game is well-enough done that I wonder if it was some form of proto that got leaked. The sprites do flicker a bit much, though. |
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ICEknight
Joined: 15 Dec 2003 Posts: 569
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Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2004 5:26 am Post subject: |
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DavidDurica wrote: | The game is well-enough done that I wonder if it was some form of proto that got leaked. |
That's exactly what I was thinking... When it gets dumped somebody should look inside the ROM for any SNK logos and such, this might have been one of their last projects before they went bankrupt. |
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Kitsune FURRY
Joined: 20 Nov 2003 Posts: 318 Location: Mexico
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Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2004 6:06 am Post subject: |
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It couldn't possibly have been started before the bankruptcy.
SNK ceased to produce stuff for Nintendo consoles years before they vanished. Takara ported those few games, and craptacularly for the most part (The GBC versions don't count, those were pretty damn good). I doubt that they were actually working on a GBC port of the games, since they had their own portable console at the time. Why develop stuff for the competition?
And goddamnit, CRYSTALIS doesn't count.
There's a Metal Slug Advance version currently in development by SNK Playmore. Few pictures have been released, but what has been shown looks strikingly similar to the shots that David posted. The quality isn't as good, but they are damn similar. I guess that the programmers got ahold of an early build, maybe? Then again, people have been ripping apart NeoGeo games for years now, so maybe someone just ported the code to the GBC or something. I dunno. |
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treeman
Joined: 19 Sep 2003 Posts: 98
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Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2004 2:06 pm Post subject: |
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To say that I'm impressed is the understatement of the year. Thanks David. Most people would give 1 or 2 screen shots and you went all the way. |
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