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{{infobox company
  
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| location = china
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| location = Taiwan
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| years = 1970 - 2004
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| consoles = Famicom, Game Boy Color (they did make games but these may have been published by other companies.
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| consoles = Famicom, Game Boy Color?
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| firstgame =the titanic (hummer team) [nes]
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| firstgame =
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| lastgame = play dice (sachen) [game boy]
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| sounds = Sachen
  
| sounds = Sachen
 
| engines = Ei-How Yang's FC platform engine, others
  
| engines = Ei-How Yang's FC platform engine, others
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| publishedby = [[Taiwan Shin-Shin]], [[NT]], [[Hosenkan Electronics]], [[JY Company]], Ramar Int., Fortune Power/Jichang. Any of the rest they are probably simple hacks of their stuff.
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| publishedby = [[Taiwan Shin-Shin]], [[NT]], [[Hosenkan Electronics]], [[JY Company]], Ramar Int., Fortune Power/Jichang. more?
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| connected = [[Sachen]], [[Yong Yong]], hummer team, rinco}}
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| connected = [[Sachen]], [[Yong Yong]]?}}
   
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'''Ex-Sachen developers''' refers to an unknown development team, believed to mostly consist of ex-[[Sachen]] staff, who worked on a number of pirate platform games and other unlicensed games for the Famicom in the mid to late 90s. They are often credited for using yong yong's sound effects in their own game boy games.
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'''Ex-Sachen developers''' refers to an unknown development team, believed to mostly consist of ex-[[Sachen]] staff, who worked on a number of pirate platform games and other unlicensed games for the Famicom in the mid to late 90s.
   
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Several such games were programmed by ''Ei-How Yang'' (also known as E.H.Y. and variations such as Yi-How Yang), who mostly worked on Game Boy titles for Sachen. He is often the only person credited (although the credit is usually hidden), but he presumably worked as part of a larger development team. Also rinco is credited for using yong yong's sound effects as well.
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Several such games were programmed by ''Ei-How Yang'' (also known as E.H.Y. and variations such as Yi-How Yang), who mostly worked on Game Boy titles for Sachen. He is often the only person credited (although the credit is usually hidden), but he presumably worked as part of a larger development team.
   
 
Other games, although credited to a number of different companies (most likely publishers/distributors) share certain features with Yang's and each other, such as fonts, sound and graphics storage methods, however they do not appear to be programmed by Yang himself. They may have been produced by the same development team that worked with Yang, but with a different lead programmer(s). This may be Wu Zhenhong (吳振宏), who is credited in Bao Qing Tian.
  
Other games, although credited to a number of different companies (most likely publishers/distributors) share certain features with Yang's and each other, such as fonts, sound and graphics storage methods, however they do not appear to be programmed by Yang himself. They may have been produced by the same development team that worked with Yang, but with a different lead programmer(s). This may be Wu Zhenhong (吳振宏), who is credited in Bao Qing Tian.
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* [[Earthworm Jim 2 (Shin-Shin)|Earthworm Jim 2]] (published by [[Ka Sheng]]/Taiwan Shin-Shin)
  
* [[Earthworm Jim 2 (Shin-Shin)|Earthworm Jim 2]] (published by [[Ka Sheng]]/Taiwan Shin-Shin)
 
* [[Panda Prince]] / Super Lion King 2 (published by [[Ka Sheng]])
  
* [[Panda Prince]] / Super Lion King 2 (published by [[Ka Sheng]])
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* [[Super Donkey Kong 2]] (published by Family/Gold Leopard). Since this was published by family. This may mean there is a graphics hack of this game.
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* [[Super Donkey Kong 2]] (published by Family/Gold Leopard)
 
* [[The Dragon]] - (published by Ramar International (Rinco)/Tony Tech)
  
* [[The Dragon]] - (published by Ramar International (Rinco)/Tony Tech)
   
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*'''''Lair's Secret '''''- A hack of [[Rockball]] by Sachen, using music from Panda Prince.
  
*'''''Lair's Secret '''''- A hack of [[Rockball]] by Sachen, using music from Panda Prince.
 
*'''''Magic Block''''' - A Tetris clone, not known to be a hack of any previously released game, but using the same sound engine as these games and a text font seen in many Sachen games.
  
*'''''Magic Block''''' - A Tetris clone, not known to be a hack of any previously released game, but using the same sound engine as these games and a text font seen in many Sachen games.
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Also it may be connected to waixing's closed office. Especially their tetris clone called square.
  
   
 
==Other connections==
  
==Other connections==
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*Fonts used in games by these developers have appeared in [[Yong Yong]]'s Game Boy games, as well as [[Sachen]]'s GBC ports of their NES games. But this may mean they drew the font from scratch instead of copying and pasting.
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*Fonts used in games by these developers have appeared in [[Yong Yong]]'s Game Boy games, as well as [[Sachen]]'s GBC ports of their NES games.
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*Sachen itself did not release any original games from about 1995 until 1999, when they released Game Boy Color ports of [[Jurassic Boy 2]], [[Rocman X]] and [[Street Heroes]]. While Rocman X appears to have been developed by Yong Yong, the other two are higher quality than Yong Yong's games, and two other GBC fighting games - Street Fighter Zero 4 and Capcom vs SNK: Millennium Fight 2001 - share certain similarities with Street Heroes, so these may have been developed by the same or a related group of ex-Sachen staff. Or they might have been put on hold until around 1970. (Aka 2000)
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*Sachen itself did not release any original games from about 1995 until 1999, when they released Game Boy Color port of [[Jurassic Boy 2]], [[Rocman X]] and [[Street Heroes]]. While Rocman X appears to have been developed by Yong Yong, the other two are higher quality than Yong Yong's games, and two other GBC fighting games - Street Fighter Zero 4 and Capcom vs SNK: Millennium Fight 2001 - share certain similarities with Street Heroes, so these may have been developed by the same or a related group of ex-Sachen staff.
 
[[Category:Developers]]
  
[[Category:Developers]]
 
[[Category:Companies from Taiwan]]
  
[[Category:Companies from Taiwan]]

Revision as of 12:42, 4 October 2015


Ex-Sachen developers refers to an unknown development team, believed to mostly consist of ex-Sachen staff, who worked on a number of pirate platform games and other unlicensed games for the Famicom in the mid to late 90s.

Several such games were programmed by Ei-How Yang (also known as E.H.Y. and variations such as Yi-How Yang), who mostly worked on Game Boy titles for Sachen. He is often the only person credited (although the credit is usually hidden), but he presumably worked as part of a larger development team.

Other games, although credited to a number of different companies (most likely publishers/distributors) share certain features with Yang's and each other, such as fonts, sound and graphics storage methods, however they do not appear to be programmed by Yang himself. They may have been produced by the same development team that worked with Yang, but with a different lead programmer(s). This may be Wu Zhenhong (吳振宏), who is credited in Bao Qing Tian.

Many of these games have very similar music and sound effects to Sachen's later TC-series games. Wang Yueli (王樂禮) is credited for music in Bao Qing Tian; he is usually credited as Amadeus Wang in Sachen games. Others, including most of Yang's own, seem to use the a similar sound engine with a different musician.

Games

Ei-How Yang's

Others

Famiclone games

Several games have appeared built into Famiclones dating from around the mid-late 2000s, such as the handheld D-Cat 8 and AtGames' Millennium Super Arcade (a hybrid Firecore/Famiclone system, albeit with only a Mega Drive cartridge slot) which appear to exhibit connections with Sachen and its former developers:

  • Jungle Adventure - An extremely glitchy hack of Panda Prince containing only the boss fights from that game (including the unused wasp). Each boss can take many more hits than in the original, but from the second stage onwards it is prone to crashing, slowdown and glitchy music.
  • Lair's Secret - A hack of Rockball by Sachen, using music from Panda Prince.
  • Magic Block - A Tetris clone, not known to be a hack of any previously released game, but using the same sound engine as these games and a text font seen in many Sachen games.

Other connections

  • Fonts used in games by these developers have appeared in Yong Yong's Game Boy games, as well as Sachen's GBC ports of their NES games.
  • Sachen itself did not release any original games from about 1995 until 1999, when they released Game Boy Color port of Jurassic Boy 2, Rocman X and Street Heroes. While Rocman X appears to have been developed by Yong Yong, the other two are higher quality than Yong Yong's games, and two other GBC fighting games - Street Fighter Zero 4 and Capcom vs SNK: Millennium Fight 2001 - share certain similarities with Street Heroes, so these may have been developed by the same or a related group of ex-Sachen staff.
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