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Topic Started: Apr 8 2008, 09:20 AM (5,167 Views)
Takashi
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I bought pkmn Jade & Diamond on a muslim store LOL! I find it kind of funny.
But I'm curious about this:
1.) Who the hell is the Goat and Snake! XD
2.) Who drew them?
3.) Why them?

Whem I first so them and finished the game I asked myself.. "WHERE'S THE GOAT AND SNAKE?!" XD
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missingno.
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my friend bought pkmn jade in a chinese store. althought I knew it wasn´t a real pokemon game, it looked very funny so I decided to investigate. It took me like ten minutes to notice that it was a hack of keitai denjuu telefang. I downloaded it and I loved it
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Blaze
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I bought it in a shop (They were convinced it was a real game and it was second-hand) and I played it on my brand-new GBC.
After 2 hours of play, I looked on Wikipedia and found out it was a bootleg.

I never gave it away. It's still in my GBC and I play every so often (It so annoying, keep's restarting for some reason.)

I read about the sequel on WikiFang.
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Kimbles
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For the bright future!!
My story's relatively boring... I was looking at the list of GBC games under P on Gamefaqs, and saw a "Pokemon Diamond" listed, which I had never heard of before. I looked at the screenshots and reviews and found out that it was a hack of a different game called Telefang, and that it was apparently really terrible. >_> I tracked down a rom and played it a bit, and thought that it was actually a decent game aside from the translation, but ended up not playing very far because the engrish was kind of depressing. :/

Later when I was browsing a rom site I found that it had a sequel for GBA, and played it for a couple minutes before deciding that the language barrier was too much of a problem, and that it didn't look at cool as the first game anyway. >__>

For a while I was really considering buying the bootlegs on eBay so that my sister and I could play them and link battle/trade (before VBALink existed), but them being $40+ and unable to save kind of broke the deal, plus I had no way of knowing if the link functions would even work at all.

Many years later I was reminded of the game and found RacieB's site, and thought it was really cool that people were finally collecting info on the japanese version, and now here I am. XD I ended up getting copies of all of the Smilesoft games, but I still haven't gotten around to playing Telefang 2... *sigh*
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Blaziken257
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I can't believe I haven't explained my story yet... I first heard of it, or rather the bootlegs, in 2002 where people would occasionally mention it on various message boards I went on. At this time, I only knew a few things about it: That it was fake and sold all over sites like eBay, that it had nothing to do with Pokémon, and that people didn't like it. I didn't know much about the game itself, and I hadn't heard of Telefang yet.

At some point, I saw the boxes for the first time, which looked weird to me, especially since they weren't Pokémon. Then sometime in 2004 I stumbled across these games by accident on GameFAQs, since at the time they were listed there (they were removed since, but searching for them still yields Telefang as a search result). I was curious and read a few reviews (which disappeared since then), hearing about the D-Shot and the "electric monsters" for the first time ever. And of course, the Engrish. I also learned at some point that the games were originally called Telefang, though at the time I, believe it or not, assumed (wrongly) that this was simply an alternate game for the bootlegs, and that these still originated in China as pirates. I didn't find out that Telefang was a licensed game in Japan until a few years later, in about 2006 or so.

When Pokémon Diamond and Pearl were soon to be released and there was much hype about it, it reminded me (just because of the name) of the bootlegs again, and by this time, Wikipedia and YouTube existed. I read the article about it on Wikipedia, found RacieB's site, and also searched for videos of it on YouTube. I found a few videos (one of them was a boss battle against Potzal which still exists today), and was initially unimpressed due to the Engrish, the weird Denjuu designs, and the characters bouncing around everywhere. Also, at this time, I discovered Telefang 2 for the first time ever from RacieB's Diablos battle video.

A few months later, in 2007, I started using emulators, and Pokémon Diamond was one of the first ROMs I downloaded. I wasn't expecting much from it; in fact, I only played it as a joke and thought it would be almost as bad as Action 52. At first, I was unimpressed by it, but I slowly liked it more and more, and eventually I wondered why everybody hated the game in the first place. After a while, I felt that it was one of the most underrated games I've ever played, although today I no longer play the bootlegs and stick to the Japanese originals instead.

Then I tried Telefang 2 with a barely complete English patch, and loved that too right from the start. It felt like that Telefang, being the first game in the series, had some problems (like pressing B to heal your HP) which Smilesoft was able to improve with Telefang 2. Telefang 2 has some frustrating mazes though.

The rest is history. By the end of 2007, I made this forum, and by 2008, Milnivri made Wikifang, and now Telefang fans from all over the world get to discuss the games together.
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bassgs 435
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well. I was 8 (i think) and went to a friend's house there he showed his pokemon diamond cartridge he bought on the local fair wen i told him about the ds games diamond and pearl (they weren't released at the time) and I borrowed it . I didn't make any progress since I din't know english very well at the time and well some years after I decided to investigate more about the game and learned about it being a bootleg and of course telefang . that's pretty much my story (what I can remember)
Edited by bassgs 435, Sep 2 2010, 09:23 AM.
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Zain Snowpaw
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Hey Guys. I came across this amazing game when I was in China for my uncles wedding. My mother gave me 75 Hong Kong dollars for two GBC games and i chose pokemon Crystal and Pokemon Jade. This was 7 or so years ago. It was only today that i found out it was Telefang... ^_^

I only found out because i was looking to sequels for "pokemon Jade" and came across this site...

Cool huh... B)

I'm just waiting for a English Telefang 2. Because though im half Chinese I dont understand a single word of it... :ermm:
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Sherkel
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ガガガガガガッ!
It was now about 5 years ago, so frankly...I don't remember the beginning.
I surfed the web a lot back then, mainly looking at various Pokémon fansites. I was really into the undiscovered and mysterious aspects of Pokémon (as I am now--I'm staff on the leading Pokémon glitch site,) so it was inevitable that I'd find "Pokémon Diamond." I played it, unbiased, and my main feeling was intrigue. I quite enjoyed it, and quickly caught on that for some reason, it wasn't Pokémon. I held quite a strong fascination for a while, at one point taking screenshots of EVERY SINGLE LINE OF DIALOGUE (including Musa's optional monologue on the Denjuu world, which ended with a satisfying "Get it?") I reached "Alice Coast," and got stuck. I didn't know that there was probably a guide somewhere, so I left it at that and eventually lost interest. I found out somehow that it was actually Telefang later. A couple years after that, I decided to search Telefang on YouTube, and found some results showing the true length and depth of the game (such as seeing high-leveled Denjuu in evolved forms, and fighting characters unmentioned in my time playing.) I only spent about a day on that, however, and didn't think to dig out the ROM again. A few days ago, however...it somehow popped into my head (like many random things do with ADD.) I decided I'd try to really play it. I found this forum, downloaded a Power Version ROM and the latest English patch, and began my new journey. Eventually, after the translated dialogue was over, I switched over to full Japanese, as well as no lockup when a dude doesn't arrive on time. 3 days and I just beat Gypsophi. Making my way to the end...then I might try Telefang 2!
Whoa, I went on a bit there.
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Dan Marino
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I too found out about it on TRrocking. I personally found the screenshots of the Engrish to be hilarious, so every so often I would check ebay for a copy of Jade. One day I got lucky, and spent $40 on a copy. It was well worth the money.

I remember the author on TRsRocking was pretty harsh on the game, though. I don't really think she gave it a chance.
Shit! Remember it!
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moviemovies1
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I think I discovered it about 2-3 years ago when I was browsing for GBC ROMs to play, and then I saw Pokemon Diamond. I didn't know it was a fake then, I thought it was an unreleased one. I enjoyed the game, but deleted it almost instantly because I couldn't save. Then in 2010, It just popped into my head again, and I went to search for it on YouTube, found a video and watched it. I read trough the comments and one said ''This is a hack of a game called Telefang.'' or something like that. Then I went to google and read about it on wikipedia, found out that Diamond was a bootleg, that it had a sequel, and then I went to find the japanese versions, then I play them.

That is basically my story.
Edited by moviemovies1, Feb 19 2011, 09:14 AM.
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Demonlemon
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sesquipedalian loquaciousness
Punched "pokemon clones" into google and it was part of a list
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andwhyisit
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Demonlemon
Feb 27 2011, 07:57 PM
Punched "pokemon clones" into google and it was part of a list
Now that's just depressing.
If I say that I am going to do something and I don't get around to it then please remind me.
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Demonlemon
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Indeed
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dreamquest
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I was searching for Pokemon hacks 5-6 years ago and I randomly found the so-called Pokemon Diamond.
Even if I noticed the game was different, I continued to play it. For all that day.
Also, since I'm not a native english speaker (and maybe you've noticed it) I completely overlooked the engrish stuff. :P
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Wario Bros.
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So, so many years ago, I was looking up Pokemon on Google (I think fake Pokemon) and I saw some stuff on Pokemon Diamond and Jade. Seeing this I wanted to own a copy of Pokemon Diamond and/or Jade (I knew they were not official Pokemon games at the time). I saw a 2-in-1 cartridge of Diamond/Jade on eBay up for bid. With my mom's okay, I won the bid... ...not knowing the game was priced in British Pounds which 1 pound was about $2 in America, making me feel I paid double than I wanted to (don't worry, it was still under $100.)

When I got it, I felt really good and was showing off that game to friends and family. The game is fun despite the Engrish (which made the game more interesting) and bugs (I thought the stuff like Gun item and profanity were big problems back then and I giggled at it.) Then I got lost in the game, not knowing what to do next. When I decided to go back and replaying it, the save battery was dead (I still have that cartridge today)

And now that I'm older, I know much more and the game is still interesting today.
Edited by Wario Bros., Apr 10 2011, 02:50 PM.
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Diamond
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The first time I played telefang was when I was 8 years old,
I had a emulator pack with lots of roms, in there was this strange game "Pokemon Diamond"
I played it and loved it so much !

Then I lost the rom and never found it !

4 years later I found it again and this time I won the game !

At first I thought it was the first pokemon game ever made but the autors remade a new game called red and blue
(but that's impossible ! red and blue are on GB !).

Then I thought it was a chinese pirate who wanted to become popular by creating a game then selling it with a pokemon name.
I thought that was stupid, "He would have had so much popularity if he didn't do that" was what I was saying to myself all the time.

Then I thought he renamed "Telefang" for nintendo right problems.

And then I found out at 14 years old that Telefang was a real game !
And there was telefang 2 !!!!

And there is Racieb's fansite !!!
And this forum.

I am now 17,
I've just created an acount but I've been here for like two years.
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Jade
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Pokemon diamond 2001 online.
Formerly known as Shiny Magnamon, the fella who did walkthru back in 2001/02.
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Jdbye
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Two words:
Pokemon Diamond.
I found it on some geocities Pokemon fansite as a kid. Excited at the thought of a new Pokemon game I hadn't played yet, I downloaded it.
Biggest mistake of my life :P
Nah, I liked the game. I just hated the script. It constantly made me get stuck in the game because nothing made sense. Yet I still managed to get pretty far. But it was the most frustrating game I have ever played and took up a good portion of my childhood.
I still haven't beat it, and probably won't until the translation is finished.
Edited by Jdbye, Oct 5 2013, 02:11 AM.
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SonicZ16
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It was only about 2 years ago now... I was on a site called Romhacking.net, And in the GB/GBC ROM editors, I saw one for “Denjuu Editor SP”. The screenshot of the editor in action showed some some Denjuu sprites up top. I thought they looked very interesting, but what the description said is what really caught my eye. As it said “Also edits the bootleg, Pokemon Diamond.” I was obviously confused. I wanted to know more about the game, so I searched the game the editor originally edited, Keitai Denjuu Telefang. I found RacieB's fansite right away, and spent a good amount time there until I found this forum. I was reading the T1 translation topic when I decided I would actually play it. I loved it, and I told my brother about it the next day and we still love it to this day. I actually didn't make an account here until a bit later.

But yeah. That's my story.
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Sir Allan Newlight
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My story with being T-Fanger sadly start with POKEMON DIAMOND GBC. I first known that as real Pokemon. To time when I searching on COOLROMS for games to my emulator. I've seen Keitai Denjuu Telefang title which mean for me very intresting. When I load it I was shocked. THAT SAME GAME. My real gameplay on REAL KTD was start with one of English patch for it. On KTD2 i start play early.
My Denjuu Team.
Funguwar - Posted Image Gyuun(N2) - Posted Image Saiguriga - Posted Image
Team of my Pokemon's.
Zoroark - Posted Image Empoleon - Posted Image Blaziken - Posted Image Hawlucha - Posted Image Yveltal - Posted Image Zygarde - Posted Image
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