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Sintax Technology Co., Ltd (新特奇科技有限公司) is a company that produced games mostly for the Game Boy Color and some for the Game Boy Advance. It was founded in Taichung, Taiwan, and originally developed educational PC software, and established operations in China at some point in the early 2000s.

Some of its earliest games are credited to BBD on the title screen, but Sintax appears to have moved to internal development later on. BBD credits are often removed in the non-Chinese releases.

History[]

Sintax is known to have released Game Boy Color games[1]. Some of them are in English, German, and Thai (and possibly Spanish too), most of which are still undumped. All of these games use music stolen from elsewhere, and many are simply graphics hacks of other Sintax titles.

Sintax also released a number of Game Boy Advance games[2]. Around 23 have been discovered so far - most of which use variations on the same glitchy platform engine, originally from a port of Digimon Adventure from the SNES. Some of these games, such as Super Contra 7: Isoleted Force Sortie and Star War 4: Warrior Revenge use a different platformer engine, while Mario Cart and Disney Cart use a racing game engine with characters from said franchises in jet aircrafts. The music in these games originated from games produced by Vast Fame.

List of Games[]

Game Boy Color[]

Game Boy Advance[]

  • Digimon Adventure - also known as Digimon 3 and 数码暴龙3 on the English and Chinese cartridge labels respectively
    • Aladdin 2 (GBA)
    • Crash Advance IV
    • Crash Bandicoot 3 - Warped
    • Digimon Ruby and Sapphire - called Digimon Rudy and Sapphire on the English cartridge's label
    • Donkey Kong 2
    • Harry Potter IV
    • The Hulk 2
    • The Lion King 2 (GBA) - Simba's sprite has been changed slightly for unknown reasons.
    • Lord of the Rings IV
    • Rayman IV
    • Shrek Prezessin (Шрек - мак-самосейка)
    • Sonic 3 Fighter Sonic
    • Spider-Man III
    • Super Mario DX
    • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2
    • Ultraman: Confrontation Between Justice and Evil - Russian version is named YJIbTpamaн: Конфронтация между справедливостью и злом on the title screen, but uses the English name on the cartridge label. The "YJIbTpamaн" in the title is supposedly an approximation of Russian characters into a Latin equivalent and is possibly supposed to say "УЛЬТраман".[3]
    • X-Man - Armor of Might - Chinese version is named X战警 and says "X-man" in English on the title screen. Russian release uses the English title on the cartridge label, but its title screen says X-мен.
  • James Bond 007 - An action platformer that doesn't have much to do with 007 outside of the intro and title screen, level transitions, and the playable character being a sprite resembling James Bond. It is similar in gameplay to Metal Slug in that the player starts with a gun as a weapon and can use different types of weapons by obtaining ammo placed throughout levels. The weapons can be switched with the L and R triggers. The player can also obtain grenades and throw them by pressing the A and B buttons at the same time. Most enemies in the game are taken from the CT Special Forces GBA games. This game and games built off of it use a different platformer engine from the Digimon Adventure-based games that is of significantly better quality compared to them.
    • Metroid Fusion 2 - Crisis once more
    • Star War 4: Warrior Revenge
    • Super Contra 7: Isoleted Force Sortie
  • Disney Cart - Also called Disney Speed. A 2D jet aircraft racing game.
    • Mario Cart - A hack of Disney Cart using graphics from Mario Kart: Super Circuit.

Gallery[4][]

Trivia[]

  • Sintax released an entry in the Zook Hero series called Zook Hero 3 (which was later reskinned into Metal Slug X). Interestingly, Vast Fame released entries known as Zook Hero Z, Zook Hero 2, and Zook Man ZX4 seemingly skipping 3.
  • Sintax's Game Boy Advance games had very strong copy protection, referred to in the ROM header as "YJencrypted". As such, no Sintax GBA titles were dumped and emulated until the encryption was broken in 2020.

Reference[]

  1. ↑ [1]
  2. ↑ [2]
  3. ↑ https://hhug.me/?post=95
  4. ↑ https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:TFJIfb6-hScJ:https://gramho.com/explore-hashtag/gameboybootleg+&cd=13&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

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