MAMEWorld Forums - News - Re: Dodonpachi III, a version of DOJ between white and black labels

> Someone on the neo-geo.com forum has discovered a Dodonpachi III pcb. No word yet on
> if we will get a dump. According to a developer interview with Cave, it was an
> export/overseas version of DOJ that includes many of the updates that were later used
> in black label. It has been called (by Cave) a prototype for the black label version.

This might be even more interesting actually..

One of my Chinese contacts says this is just a 'hack version from China' and that it could be found there.

Of course, I'm not ruling out it being original because in a market like that, where you have so many hacked versions of games it's easy to identify something as a hack when it is not, especially if it looks a bit 'cheap' in the way it was modified. Seeing the code if it gets dumped will be interesting, and we've seen weird Cave things before like the international version of Mushihime-Sama Futari Black Label.

The whole China situation is weird anyway tho, because you have hacks like that Kof 10th Anniversary game trying to pass itself off as an original game (even using some original art stolen from SNKs webpage at the time) and then the various Knights of Valour hacks (including the one with KOF characters) that are clearly built from (leaked?) sources, completely illegitimate, but not based on any known original revision.