MAMEWorld Forums - EmuChat - Re: I am convinced a lot of MAME bootlegs clone games were from Kowloon Walled City, isn't it?

> after the dismantling of the Kowloon Walled City, a notorious hong kong based-illegal
> building until its existence in 1994, I figured suddenly reduced many bootlegs
> quantities in MAME.
> There had one notorious index case, some of their SF2 bootlegs written as 'Life is
> too short to be little' to original waring screen, it perhaps says they did a lot of
> code copy crime on Kowloon Walled City for this bootleg, so maybe they might have
> wanted to warn to citizens was must not use these copied versions.
> and these examples too: 'egg hunt', 'hexa', 'system 16 beta bootleg', 'The History of
> Martial Arts', 'Jumping', 'Fit of Fighting', its work was probability with these
> groups in identical located.
> then, I able to fully understand Why data east and capcom have reason to mention as
> "if you try playing on outside Japan into our Japanese version, would be an
> accomplice with their bootlegging crime.'

1994 also coincides with the development of stronger copy protection schemes such as the one found in the CPS2. Neo-Geo bootlegs, however, did not slow down at all. "Life is too short to be little" is part of a quote from Benjamin Disraeli. You seem to be making some big jumps in logic and I don't see how any of this links back to Kowloon Walled City at all.