Kou Dai Bao Shi: Lan is a bootleg port of Pokémon Sapphire for the Famicom made by Shenzhen Nanjing.
Overview[]
In the game, May or Brendan can go across several towns or cities in the Hoenn region. Professor Birch talks to May or Brendan about Pokémon laboratory studies, Pokémon baggage that contains Pokémon laboratory books with Pokéballs, and Pokémon that roam or move around on the Hoenn region. There is a Pokémon league area in the game that has several Pokémon trainers in it.
Gameplay[]
The gameplay itself features very basic game mechanics. There's only two types of attacks in the game: one which freezes the opponent for a turn along with minimal damage, and another that's a stronger regular attack (the freezing attack can only stun the opponent once if used repeatedly, while the opponent can use it several times in a row and freeze the player each time.) Damage calculation is also very primitive; aside from the move's strength (which there's only about three or four levels of) it is otherwise calculated by the level difference between the two Pokemon, since typing, stats and critical hits don't exist in this game. Evolution also doesn't exist, so your starter will stay the same the entire game and you can find evolved Pokemon out in the wild.
The game is ridden with glitches, like how attempting to use PCs inside Pokemon Centers will corrupt the player's own Pokemon data.
In addition, wild Pokemon and trainer battles are essentially the same, since wild battles also have a "trainer" that sends out Pokemon and yield gold when beaten.
It features many inaccuracies as compared to the original game. For instance, the introduction replaces Professor Birch with Professor Elm, Marril replaces Azurrill and you can find wild Pokémon in Littleroot Town. As for the soundtrack, it only features two songs in the entire game, both being different 8-bit renditions of Oh Susanna. Unlike the original game, losing to a trainer makes the game go back to the title screen.
Wild Pokémon[]
The Pokemon that can be found in this game aren't the full Gen. 3 roster, and oddly use some that can only be obtained by trading with a later released game (such as Metapod and Forretress.) Many of them have either an incorrect color palette, badly edited/custom sprites taken from other Pokemon or of the front sprites, or in the case of Hoothoot, a glitched sprite.
Hacks[]
This game received some variants made by Nanjing themselves, which are named after other, official Pokemon games. They feature minimal differences from this game like a new title screen, the player's back and front sprites, the Chinese characters used for the main character's name (which is by default 牛牛 Niu Niu), and the "trainer" used for wild Pokemon. These are:
- (NJ002) Kou Dai Bao Shi: Hong - Pokemon Ruby
- (NJ003) Kou Dai Bao Shi: Jin - Pokemon Gold
- (NJ004) Kou Dai Bao Shi: Yin - Pokemon Silver
- (NJ009) Kou Dai Shui Jin - Pokemon Crystal
- (NJ010) Kou Dai Zuan Shi - Pokemon Emerald
Kou Dai Bao Shi Hong[]
Kou Dai Bao Shi Hong's title screen
Kou Dai Bao Shi: Hong (口袋宝石-银) is a variant made to look like Pokemon Ruby. Its title screen features a Groudon, which is the new wild Pokemon trainer. Aside from renaming the character to "Mary" (玛丽), it also replaces Brendan's front and back sprites with May, but doesn't replace the rival's sprites, making it possible to face a doppleganger battle. It also keeps Brendan's overworld sprites intact.
Kou Dai Bao Shi Jin[]
Kou Dai Bao Shi: Jin's title screen.
Kou Dai Bao Shi: Jin (口袋宝石-金) is yet another variant, this time as Pokemon Gold. This hack is unique, because it features new graphics for the overworld towns. The male player model here is named "Jack" (杰克), and the wild trainer is a Rhyhorn.
Kou Dai Bao Shi Yin[]
Kou Dai Bao Shi: Yin's tite screen.
Kou Dai Bao Shi: Yin (口袋宝石-银) features the female player from Hong model as the main character, changing her name to "Lanlan" (兰兰) and the updated overworld graphics from Jin. Salamence aappears as the wild trainer.
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- The Pokémon sprites are pulled from Pokémon Gold and Silver, Pokémon Crystal, Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire, as well as Pokémon Emerald.
- For some reason, May's overworld sprite appears to be based on the character Little Lulu.