Binary Monster III: School Fighter (熱門高校 數碼怪獸III) is an unlicensed Game Boy Color game developed and published by Gowin. It was initially released in Chinese for Chinese-speaking territories, particularly Taiwan, on January 2001 and is the third game in the Binary Monsters series, as well as Gowin's fourth release for the Game Boy Color. The game was released in both Chinese and English, with the English version currently being undumped.
Overview[]
Guagualong fighting enemies in the first stage.
The game is a side-scrolling beat-'em-up/platformer hybrid consisting of 6 stages. There are 3 playable characters to choose from, consisting of 2 human characters, both male and female, and the publisher's mascot, a green dragon, who is named Hotkid in English and Guagualong (瓜瓜龍) in the Chinese version. In the Chinese version, the male human character is named 千鶴童 and the female human character is named 媚兒, while in the English version, they are named Angelo and Smile respectively. The game oddly places its character select screen before the title screen. All three characters have minor differences between their movesets and attacks, but virtually play and behave the exact same. Each character also has unique ending cutscene artwork after the player defeats the final boss. For all characters, tapping the B button will cause them to punch, Up on the D-pad blocks attacks from enemies for a brief period of time, pressing A and B at the same time is used to jump, and quickly tapping Left or Right on the D-pad two times will cause the selected character to dash in the respective direction.
On every screen, the camera will lock in place, and a group of 4 enemies will come from the right side of the screen to attack the player. When an enemy is knocked out, they may drop a food item that will restore health when collected, in the form of fries (restoring 3 hearts) or a small hamburger (which completely restores your health). Once the screen is clear of enemies, the player can move forward and continue fighting more enemies. On occasion, in some stages, the player may need to jump over obstacles or pits to progress, and may have to fight enemies while jumping across pits and avoiding deadly falls. Every few waves of enemies, a screen transition takes place, bringing the player to the next area in the stage. After a few more of these, the player will encounter the end of stage boss.
Whenever the player runs out of health or falls into a deadly pit, they are given the option to continue, accompanied by a 10 second countdown. Pressing Start to continue will refill the characters' health and puts the player back on the same screen which they died on. There is no limit on how much he/she can continue. Letting the timer run out will go to the Game Over screen, where a 4-digit password is displayed on the bottom, which can be written down and inputted on the Password menu at the title screen to return to said stage at a later time.
Movesets[]
All characters[]
On the ground:
- Down+A: Crouching Kick
In the air:
- A: Jumping Kick
- B: Aerial Punch
Hotkid (瓜瓜龍)[]
On the ground:
- A (not attacking enemy): Kick
- A (tap while facing enemy): Downward Kick, Upward Kick, Spin Kick
- B (tap while facing enemy): Right Punch, Left Punch, Uppercut
- B (held, then released): Flying Uppercut
- Down+B: Crouching Punch
Angelo (千鶴童)[]
On the ground:
- A (not attacking enemy): Kick
- A (tap while facing enemy): Downward Kick, Downward Kick, Upward Kick
- B (tap while facing enemy): Downward Punch, Straight Punch, Uppercut
- B (held, then released): Flying Upward Kick
- Down+B: Crouching Punch
Smile (媚兒)[]
On the ground:
- A (not attacking enemy): Crouching Punch
- A (tap while facing enemy): Crouching Punch, Crouching Kick, "Hadouken"
- B (held, then released): Charge attack
- Down+B: Crouching Upper Punch
Stages and Passwords[]
Stage names:
- Stage 1: Baseball
- Stage 2: Volleyball
- Stage 3: Judo
- Stage 4: Boxing
- Stage 5: Kendo
- Stage 6: Taekwon-Do
Passwords:
- Stage 1 - N/A
- Stage 2 - 3510
- Stage 3 - 2885
- Stage 4 - 8429
- Stage 5 - 2851
- Stage 6 - 7820
Bugs[]
- Note: This was observed on a modified version of the ROM that removes the game's copy protection. This might not occur on original hardware.
- Sometimes, dealing rapid, precise damage to a stage boss to deliver a fatal blow when its health is low (2-3 hearts) can result in the game crashing to a colored stripe pattern, instead of taking the player to the next stage or the ending. If preformed on Stage 4, the game will reset to the Gowin copyright screen.
Trivia[]
- The ID assigned to this game by Gowin on their website is GS13.[1]
- An English version of this game was released by Gowin as Binary Monster III: School Fighter. In this version, Guagualong is named Hotkid, the male human character is named Angelo, and the female human character is named Smile. The name "Pachila" is also mentioned on the back of the box, which is possibly meant to refer to Pagila (the small round creature that appears on the front of the box and cart label of the game, and who was previously a playable character in Binary Monster II), but it is unknown if they appear in the English version of the game (in the Chinese version, they only appear as a common enemy). The English version as of writing is currently undumped, and other differences between the English and Chinese versions are unknown.
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See also[]
- Menace Beach
- Evil Stone
- Shui Hu Feng Yun Zhuan
- Final Fantasy X: Fantasy War
- Final Fight 3
- True Three Kingdoms
References[]
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