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Shi Kong Xing Shou - aka. Space Time Star Beast
Topic Started: Feb 5 2011, 12:44 PM (6,778 Views)
KenjutheDenjuu
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A few months ago I came across an interesting Chinese bootleg known as 'Shi Kong Xing Shou' (lit. Space Time Star Beast). It's a monster battling/collecting RPG that clearly pirates monster designs from quite a few games, specifically Pokemon and also Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Children. Knowing bootlegs, it's probably pirated designs from quite a few more games, although i'm not sure which ones. Most of the monsters within it seem to be mash-ups of various ones from other games but the game itself is pretty interesting.

Fuji.drillspirits.net has a webpage about it here. There's also a youtube video of them playing the game here as well.

I'm not sure if the game has ripped designs from Telefang, since the person in the video doesn't get too far into the game to tell and there's also not much information about the bootleg online. Apparently it's also known as 'Spatio Monoster' or 'Timer Monster' and comes on a 12-in-1 GBC multi-cart with other pirated games.
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That bootleg actually seems high quality... at least for a bootleg. It looks playable, even though I can't understand it <_< I didn't see any resemblance to Telefang, although one thing that stuck out to me was at 9:00 in the video, one monster looks very, very similar to Dragonite, except it's blue. And those monsters at the beginning at the game also look like Pokémon, like Mareep and Ho-Oh... Weird.
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...Those graphics look REALLY similar to the bootleg game Digimon 3...
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It could possibly be a bootleg by the same pirates. The website I posted mentioned it's made by a Taiwanese company called V.fame, who's known for bootleg games. Also, it's funny you should mention the bootleg game Digimon 3, as I was watching a video about it earlier today x3

I noticed the blue dragonite too. I'm not sure if there is also a meowth in there somewhere? It's a long time since i've seen the video. Also, they ripped off two monsters from Devil Children, Quicksilver and Mandrake, both of which are seen to be owned by the characters in the introduction to this game (rival trainers, I think?).
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That green bird is totally a redone Beat from Mega Man, too.
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Yay, I wasn't the only one who spotted that. ^^
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I really want to get this all of a sudden.

Anyone here from taiwan or know anyone from taiwan? The original cart for this game can only be found in Ruten as far as I can tell, which doesn't ship overseas.
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KenjutheDenjuu
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The sheep monster is either an edit of Mareep or Kazoe Hitsuji (aka Counting Sheep) from Devil Children. It looks almost like it could be an edit of the GBC (Gameboy Color) sprite for Counting Sheep, although i'm not sure. I also noticed the edited Megaman bird too, although I didn't know which character it was, I just recognised the art style x3

I vaguely remember reading you could only find the cartridge in Taiwan/China...but I wonder if it would turn up on ebay?

EDIT: Found pics of the cartridge and some posters for the game!

A poster for the game
Another poster? (In the second row on the right, you'll need to scroll down)
A single cartridge version for GBC
12-in-1 Cartridge (pic of game is in top left hand corner of the cart)

EDIT2: It seems that you can find the game on other Chinese sites than Ruten, like this one I found here.
Edited by KenjutheDenjuu, Jun 27 2011, 03:13 AM.
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Oh my god this is intriguing. If only it was in engrish...
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As far as I know, it's only available in Chinese. It's an intriguing game though...it appears as though it may have had a commercial release in China/Taiwan too since there are posters for it. I could be wrong though.

EDIT: Oh, also, I think the mermaid monster owned by one of the characters in the intro is possible a rip of Sylph or Undine from Devil Children.
Edited by KenjutheDenjuu, Feb 24 2011, 07:43 AM.
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4 from left, 5 from top, looks like a denjuu to me!
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You're right, it looks a little like Fungus' sprite, but the inverted colours make it harder to tell. Where did you find the sprite sheet by the way?

Also, I spy Totodile, Gyarados, Arbok and Mewtwo xD
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Ripped it myself, the inverted colors are because I cant find the proper pallets for most of them
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I went ahead and recolored the weird-colored ones to make them easier to see:

Spoiler: click to toggle

Now, with that done, I'll go ahead and comment on a few of them. I won't comment on all of them, just a few.

First row, third column: This looks slightly like a Sudowoodo with the tree and the three branches with leaves. Not completely the same, but I see a bit of a resemblance.

Second row, first column: This one looks like a caveman. This made me laugh.
Second row, fourth column: This is clearly a rip-off of Aerodactyl. It just has a different color palette and face.
Second row, sixth column: Has some similarities to Snorlax, including lying down and having a large stomach.

Third row, third column: With its razor claws, this looks like some Denjuu -- closer to Hagumanoki than anything else. It also has some similarities to Scyther.
Third row, fourth column: This also looks like a Denjuu -- this time it looks like Scorpil with its arms out in front.
Third row, fifth column: Haha, I love the skull.

Fourth row, first column: Another one that looks similar to a Denjuu. Looks similar to Vanda, doesn't it?
Fourth row, fourth column: Cross between Magcargo and Muk, perhaps?

Fifth row, fourth column: Yes, this definitely looks like a Fungus. Except poorly drawn. The style of this, like many other sprites here, looks like the typical sprites in Red/Blue.
Fifth row, fifth column: Definitely looks like a Spinarak.

Sixth row, first column: Looks much like a Mewtwo.
Sixth row, second column: Looks like a poorly drawn Qwilfish. Or maybe it's just something original.
Sixth row, third column: Looks like a Ledyba to me. Except more rigid and made out of stone.
Sixth row, fifth column: Looks a bit like some enemy from Yoshi's Island.

Seventh row, second column: Clearly inspired from Totodile. Do I need to explain this?
Seventh row, fourth column: Looks like a mutated Geodude, especially with the face and arms. It's not exactly the same though.

Eighth row, second column: Yes this looks a lot like Gyarados from Gold. With a mutated face.
Eighth row, third column: This looks familiar to me, but I don't know why.
Eighth row, fourth column: Very much like Onix. With gravel on the ground.

Ninth row, third column: Very clearly inspired from Dragonite, but with a weird face and horn on top. And it's blue.

Eleventh row, eighth column: Has a few loose similarities to Charizard with its dragon-like body and wings.

Twelfth row, first column: Very similar to Moltres with few modifications.
Twelfth row, third column: Looks like the Denjuu Rhodanthe.
Twelfth row, sixth column: Looks somewhat like Cortos, especially with its bird-like body with flames coming out the back.
Twelfth row, seventh column: Looks like Mareep in Red/Blue style.

Thirteenth row, first column: OK, now I am convinced that they were copying some Denjuu designs. This looks undoubtedly like Shellsterra. Just look at it. It has the cone-like shell on bottom, with spikes protruding from it. Don't tell me that's a coincidence. OK, the head isn't the same, but still.

Fourteenth row, first column: Looks like a Pokémon again, but I can't figure out what this is supposed to be.

Fifteenth row, third column: With the wings, it looks a bit like Funmachine.

Well, I commented on more of these than I planned. But those sprites sure are interesting. I wonder why they copied some from Telefang and Pokémon. It's also funny that many of the original sprites are so poorly drawn that they remind me of the style of Pokémon Red/Blue.
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None of them are pixel-for-pixel perfect (though Shellstra comes close), seems like they redrew them by hand.
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I guess this pretty much confirms they stole from Telefang, as well as Pokemon, Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Children and Megaman. Telefang is showing itself to be popular pirating material for Chinese bootleggers too. The series not being very well known outside of Japan probably doesn't help either, so it makes it harder to tell it's a bootleg for those that don't know about the original Japanese game first. That's why Diamond and Jade got a lot of negative reviews...

I'm so glad it's finally confirmed there are denjuu in there. I had a feeling there might be, but I wasn't sure if they really would have pirated Telefang or not.

Maybe this info could be added to the page about Telefang bootlegs on the wiki? I know it's not a pirated Telefang game as such, but it does pirate some of the denjuu from Telefang. I don't know whether that would count or not as bootleg info?

EDIT: Found some more monsters I recognised, plus one more denjuu.

9 right, 7 down: Okitsune from Devil Children
4 right, 3 down: Scorpil (Telefang)
9 right (top row): Baku from Devil Children.
3 right, 6 down: Ledyba

EDIT2: It appears that the company who made Shi Kong Xing Shou, made even more bootlegs of their own game. Here are a few alternate 'monster catching' games in their repetoire:

Unknown Game 1 (Poster)
Unknown Game 2 (Poster)
Also, here's a larger poster for Shi Kong Xing Shou.

The posters came from this site, which I found through this blog on bootleg games.
Edited by KenjutheDenjuu, Jun 27 2011, 03:15 AM.
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lol,funny game
too bad I don't know chinese
Btw,how did you ripped sprites from it?My tile layer pro shows them messed...
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Found another one: the one with the mushroom-like thing on his head looks like Vileplume.
3 right, 7 down.
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First row, ninth column looks a lot like Hypno to me...

Second row, eighth column looks like Jumpluff, while the one in the ninth clumn looks like that one Denjuu whose name I can't remember ATM.

Fifteenth row, seventh column looks like something that could be in a Bistro Recipe game. Not sure if there was a coffee monster or not, but still.

Too tired to spot anything else right now.
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Wow, if they did really steal something from Bistro Recipe I guess it's another game to add to the list of games they've pirated from so far, although this sort of thing isn't uncommon for pirates. They love taking from multiple games and mixing things up.

Also, ErrorPwnage, I don't think that's Vileplume since it doesn't resemble any of the sprites used for it. It's most probably based off some random mushroom monster from another game.

EDIT: NusuttoSan on Youtube has two videos with new footage of Shi Kong Xing Shou. They also have some of the music from the game.

Shi Kong Xing Shou Part 1 (skip to 14:32 for new footage)
Shi Kong Xing Shou Part 2 (shows dungeons and a couple of new towns)
Battle Theme 1
Song that plays in dark areas?
Disco sounding battle theme

EDIT2: NusuttoSan on youtube has posted a video of the first 19 music tracks in Shi Kong Xing Shou: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbNXRjcEo6M

EDIT3: I think it's likely that Shi Kong Xing Shou had a commercial release as a GBC game in China/Taiwan and was originally released on a blue cartridge like this one. I haven't been able to find any pictures of the box and manual online so far, but i'm sure they exist. There's even an official guidebook for the game that also covers another one of V.Fame's bootlegs as well (Sheng Shou Wu Yu). Apparently, the games are very rare and hard to find even in Taiwan/China.
Edited by KenjutheDenjuu, Jun 27 2011, 03:25 AM.
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