Pokemond Jade?

Pokemon Jade is not an actual Pokemon game. It's actually a game called Telefang with boxart (and, I believe, the title screen) altered to have the Pokemon name. Complete fakes. And, unless you can find the right buyer, completely worthless.
 
The translation is very bad. The original is only in japanese so there is no official english verison. At least I don't think there is.
 
I've played that before. I was super confused when I was a kid since I kept saying "Where's Bulbasaur and Pikachu?" :p
 
Te-em said:
The translation is very bad. The original is only in japanese so there is no official english verison. At least I don't think there is.
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There are fan translations floating around. Probably not that much better, but likely to be a little less Engrish on the whole.
 
I remember my mate getting hold of an English translation when were were about 10-11. I was amazed at the time, but in time we learnt what a crock of shit it was.
 
The original Japanese "Telefang Speed and Power Versions": Great game. matches with Pokémon even if it is a ripoff.

Bootleg "Pokémon Diamond and Jade Versions": Funny.
 
XD375 said:
Bootleg "Pokémon Diamond and Jade Versions": Funny.
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"Some points of 15 lost."
"You are the selected one." ROFL

But really, the original Japanese Ketai Denjuu Telefang game was pretty good. In fact, I think it was a lot better than Pokemon.
 
The battle system is better than pokemon, but over all I think pokemon is better. But I'm not sure, since I haven't played the original Telefang.
 
Get this -- apparently the company that origianlly made the games went bankrupt after the company president was arrested. I can't find any links that back this claim up thou...
 
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Ha - I still remember the confusion those bootleg games caused inside me when I first heard of them - I was wondering how they would have seemingly released yet another series of Pokémon games so soon after Gold and Silver was then released, and why I heard nothing about those two games. Later I was to learn that those were bootlegs.

I still remember about 5-7 years ago, some child was telling me how he got this and that version of Pokémon games, and then he mentioned that his brother or cousin (can't remember exactly) has one of those two games.

And while we are on the topic of fake Pokémon games - I was taking a look at this page, and among the bootlegged games I saw, there was a mention of a fake Pokémon Crystal - which sounds suspiciously like the fake Pokémon Crystal I had around 4 to 5 years back, and which I mentioned before elsewhere on these forums. The fake version I had had no sprite animations, and the quality of the English was terrible, which included profanity - a dead giveaway; there was even a half-complete Trainer's Booklet included in the game case, but practically nothing in there matched what I found in the game itself. I was planning to return the game to the shop where my mother bought it from, but by then I lost the Trainer's Booklet, which made it unreturnable. I finally got to play a bona-fide version of Crystal - but as a downloaded ROM, which was still a kind of piracy if you ask me. Till today, I don't feel right about the whole event, and learning from that page I linked to that there are even more Pokémon bootlegs around just disgust me; I know I'm guilty myself of buying fake Pokémon merchandise in the long past, when I didn't knew better (those who have followed my posts will know my fanatical relationship with Pokémon was in two phases; I got nearly all of my fake merchandise in the earlier phase, when I was younger, immature, and "noobish").

Nowadays, I'm more careful about the Pokémon merchandise I buy, including the games. My sister kept pestering me to buy those R4s and download the ROMs of Pokémon Diamond and Pearl, but I flat-out refused and bought a genuine copy from a reliable shop (which, ironically, was introduced to me by my sister), even though I ended up blowing almost 60 dollars (local currency - that's about 40 U.S. dollars) on it. The whole thing about bootlegged and pirated Pokémon still scares me - I made triply sure the copy of Pokémon Diamond (of Diamond and Pearl, not the fake counterpart to what we are talking about here) I was buying was real before I put down the cash, and I finally own a real Pokémon game. Even then, I still have a lingering fear of having bought a fake, but I have not found edvidence that I had.
 
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There is a Telefang2 to GBA. I don't know if there are any pirate copies of that one.
 
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