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. Their newer games such as Super Contra 7: Isoleted Force Sortie and Star War 4: Warrior Revenge use a new platform 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 Vast Fame.
List of Games[]
Game Boy Color[]
- Metal Slug 3
- Super Robot War X
- Pocket Monster Saphire
- Pokémon Leaf Green
- Pokémon Platinum
- The Incredibles
- Spiderman 3
- Donkey Kong 2
- Donkey Kong 5: The Journey of Over Time and Space
- 2003 Digitmon Sapphire (DK5 hack)
- Harry Boy and The Chamber Of Secrets (DK5 hack)
- Super Marrio Sunshine (DK5 hack)
- Digimon Crystal Version II
- Rock Hero Legend 3 (later hacked into Metal Slug X.)
- Star Wars: Episode II
- Metal Gear Solid II
- Harry Potter and The Spirit Of Dobby
- Unknown Harry Potter Game (Simple hack of Harry Potter and The Spirit Of Dobby)
- Shin Sangoku Musou (also known as "True Three Kingdoms", "Fantastic Shaolin Kungfu", and "Shaolin Legend~Hero, The Saver")
- Space Baby
- Super II Sonik
- Castlevania DX
- Crash II Advance
- King of Ring (Lord of the Rings the Fellowship of the Ring\Zhi Huan Wang - Shou Bu Qu)
Game Boy Advance[]
- Digimon Adventure
- Aladdin 2 (GBA)
- Crash Advance IV
- Crash Bandicoot 3 - Warped
- Digimon Ruby and Sapphire
- Donkey Kong 2
- Harry Potter IV
- Lord of the Rings IV
- Super Mario DX
- Rayman IV
- Shrek Prezessin
- Sonic 3 Fighter Sonic
- Spider-Man III
- Super Contra 7: Isoleted Force Sortie
- Star War 4: Warrior Revenge
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2
- The Hulk 2
- The Lion King 2 (GBA) - Simba's sprite has been changed slightly for unknown reasons.
- Ultraman: Confrontation Between Justice and Evil
- X-Man - Armor of Might
- Disney Cart - Also called disney speed. A 2D jet aircraft racing game.
- James Bond 007
- Mario Cart - A hack of Disney Cart using graphics from Mario Kart: Super Circuit.
- Metroid Fusion 2 - Crisis once more
- Shrek Prezessin (Шрек - мак-самосейка)
Gallery[3][]
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.
- This same protection system was applied to unofficial English and Chinese translations, including an English translation of Pokémon Sapphire released in advance of the official version.
Reference[]
External link[]
- Sintax's 2014 Website (Wayback Machine)
- Sintax's Older Website (Wayback Machine)
- Sintax's (Barely Archived) Flash Website (Wayback Machine)
- Another Sintax Website (Wayback Machine)
- Sintax's Alibaba (Wayback Machine)
- Sintax's Made in China Page