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4fridges
msx lover
Berichten: 112 |  Geplaatst: 25 Maart 2004, 12:38 |
I have bought 2 cartridges at ebay, one circus charlie and one decathlon.
The circus charlie is a bootleg for sure, it has a label on it that says:
Disprosoft - sempre um grande programa
Tropic Informatica Ltda.
adress blablabla
Ind. Brasileirs
Made in Brazil.
And the Decathlon has a Hotbit logo on it with serial number j05.
Can anyone tell me something about this bootlegs?
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Argon
msx professional
Berichten: 842 | Geplaatst: 25 Maart 2004, 12:47 |
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4fridges
msx lover
Berichten: 112 | Geplaatst: 25 Maart 2004, 12:52 |
Yeah, the software of circus charlie is also modified, all brazilian menu, other software company at the start of the cartridge.
And Decathlon is indeed an original, it says activision when it plays.
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Argon
msx professional
Berichten: 842 | Geplaatst: 25 Maart 2004, 12:54 |
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| Yeah, the software of circus charlie is also modified, all brazilian menu, other software company at the start of the cartridge.
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Ah, then you probably do have a bootleg 
I will check my Brasilian clones too, didn't really check when I tried them earlier 
K. |
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GuyveR800
msx guru
Berichten: 3048 | Geplaatst: 25 Maart 2004, 13:25 |
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| HotBit is the same as HitBit, so this is a real sony
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No it's not! Hotbit is the name of the MSX's that Sharp of Brazil made! |
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Argon
msx professional
Berichten: 842 | Geplaatst: 25 Maart 2004, 13:31 |
Oops
Were they Sony licensed or so ?
Or just coincidence ? |
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GuyveR800
msx guru
Berichten: 3048 | Geplaatst: 25 Maart 2004, 13:54 |
Coincidence, the machines look nothing like Sony's...
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vitorleonel
msx friend
Berichten: 7 | Geplaatst: 25 Maart 2004, 15:35 |
Here the programs selled by disprosoft ( cartidges and tapes ) are said to be pirate software, the only diifference is a better appearance. I think the only licensed software here are from grandiente and sharp.
I'm not so sure of that, you'd better check it out with brazilian friends of yours.
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Argon
msx professional
Berichten: 842 | Geplaatst: 25 Maart 2004, 15:56 |
I have a Brasilian Konami Tennis (Tenis), it still has the Konami logo.
I also have 3 Brasilian G.Industrial carts, those are probably bootlegs.
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Jazzy
msx addict
Berichten: 411 | Geplaatst: 25 Maart 2004, 16:00 |
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| The Brazilian bootlegs are legally licensed software as far as I know
I have a couple of those too.
HotBit is the same as HitBit, so this is a real sony
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No way, but I guess you know that. 
Check www.mellema.net to see the both Sharp/Epcom HotBit computers. |
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Argon
msx professional
Berichten: 842 | Geplaatst: 25 Maart 2004, 16:32 |
Yup |
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thinlizzy
msx freak
Berichten: 208 | Geplaatst: 25 Maart 2004, 19:21 |
Moro no sul do Brasil e joguei muito joguinho pirata da Disprosoft. Eles eram muito caras de pau, embora muito bons na pirataria e no hacking: modificavam bem os jogos, inclusive fazendo dumps em fita cassete colocando algumas proteções contra cópia. Eu queria conhecer esses caras.
I live in Southern Brazil and i used to play many Disprosoft games. They were shameless, but very good in piracy and hacking: they altered very well the games, even dumping them at cassete tape, adding some anti-copy protections. I wish I knew these guys.
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Argon
msx professional
Berichten: 842 | Geplaatst: 25 Maart 2004, 22:08 |
Thank you for the information
Kris. |
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thinlizzy
msx freak
Berichten: 208 | Geplaatst: 15 Januari 2007, 17:33 |
hi! does someone have an image with Disprosoft logo?
if yes, post a link here, please
thanks in advance
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SLotman
msx addict
Berichten: 507 | Geplaatst: 15 Januari 2007, 19:22 |
There were no licensed games on Brazil. At all. Even the ones from Gradiente and Sharp were bootlegs. Not even the computers they sold were officially licensed!
(This is one of the reasons Gradiente does not publish any info about MSX on their website even nowadays...)
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