Expert: Octane - 12/22/2008

Question
It is said that the first Harvest Moon game was made for the SNES, or Super Nintendo.  However, while surfing rombay.com, a site containing ROMs (games) for video game console emulators, I came across a game claiming to be the Chinese Harvest Moon for the original Nintendo Entertainment System, or NES.  You can find this game at this link:

http://www.rombay.com/rom_view/nintendo/H/4/index.html

It is third from the bottom.  Here is a screenshot of the title screen:

http://i44.tinypic.com/25hpe1h.jpg

Here is a screenshot from the game:

http://i43.tinypic.com/261m6ox.jpg

Can you/anyone you know translate all the language in both the title screen and the game screenshot?  And can you tell me what game this really is?  

Thanks so much!  I really appreciate it.

Answer
Gday Emma,

My Chinese is fairly much non-existent.  You would be almost better to consult someone in the language part of all expert.  I did try a and translate from English to Chinese words like Farm Story, Ranch Story which is basically what the Japanese characters for Harvest moon are translated too and nothing was looking familiar.

From the screen shots it definitely a bootleg/pirate of some other game (I don't remember Giraffes in Harvest Moon).  The internal house looks fine.  Goodness knows what it is as the Chinese and Russians hacked/pirated/bootlegged everything.  Sometimes it a dump and recompilation of a Gameboy cart although this is not HM for the Gameboy.  I would guess it is probably some other game that has had the graphics and text altered and just called Harvest Moon.

Best way would be to run it and see what it plays like.   It could be a hack of a number of games.

Sorry I am not being much help.

Octane