Funny / Vinesauce Joel Bootlegs

• The NES Bootleg Armageddon was a stream full of instant classics, as Joel took a deep dive into the world of Shoddy Knockoffs (Part of first)
  • To start, Angry Birds — reimagined as a platform game. He thinks it kind of works. The game was a sprite hack of the Konami's Famicom game Mr. Moai/Moai-Kun.
  • Digi Monster 2, labeled in a multicart's menu as just "Digimon", has a monster on the title screen that Joel thinks looks a little off-kilter, and an opening level at an "Infant School" about to burn down for some arbitrary reason. The game was actually a sprite hack of a Urusei Yatsura game.
  • The Powerful Girl, which has absolutely nothing to do with The Powerpuff Girls, trust us. The game was a sprite hack of the Hudson Soft's NES game: Adventures of Dino Riki.
  • Joel's realization that the Ninja Gaiden bootleg had Ryu changed to Spiderman just because they both climb walls. Then, there's his reaction to the equally bizarre crossover that is Contra Fighter.
  • "DOMKEY KONG?!"
  • He couldn't seem to figure out how to pronounce Happy Biqi World Flghter ("Happy ... Biscuit ... World Flighter? What the shit?!")
    • Said game is also a reskin of a Porting Disaster of Earthworm Jim.
  • Putin's Magical Adventure, a.k.a. a Russian Famiclone with educational games using a keyboard and mouse, such as a dictionary. Joel then takes this opportunity to type out anything Russian that comes to his mind:
    Joel: Vodka.... Cheeki breeki... Putin... Zangief...
  • The Lion King for NES ... which is actually The Jungle Book, but with the sprites of Mowgli edited into a rather anthropomorphic take on Simba. Then Joel realizes he can make Simba twerk, to much amusement.^note JonTron later covered this hack in his Disney Bootlegs video two years later, which Joel both acknowledged and ranted about.
  • The "Mario 7-in-1" ROM features several familiar, and obscure entries in the franchise, such as Super Mario 14 (Kid Niki 3 but Kid Niki with Mario's head), and Super Bros. 10: Kung Fu Mari (Jackie Chan's Action Kung Fu, but with Mario's head sloppily pasted on the player character).
  • Last but not least is the very unsuspecting Mario 7, which led to a moment that would be forever etched in Vinesauce history:
    Joel: Let's check it out ..... (beat) ...GRAND DAD?!
    [The Flintstones theme comes on]
    Joel: FLINTSTONES?! (groans in amazement) Grand Dad! Grand Dad?! What the fuck?! Grand Dad?! Grand Dad?! What the shit?! Grand Dad! (busts up laughing) Grand Dad, the grandest of dads.
  • After calming down, he notices the sprite of "Grand Dad" on the title screen looks like it has bloody gums, and has a picture of Fred Flintstone in a star giving a thumbs up of endorsement for this game ("Yeaaah, I'm in this too!") that is definitely a Super Mario game, and not just a sprite hack of The Flintstones: The Rescue of Dino & Hoppy. Then, he actually plays the game, which features Mario's head pasted on Fred Flintstone's body.
    Joel: Oh dios mio.... Nah, screw it. [jumps in a hole]
  • "Grand Dad, the grandest of dads."
  • The Street Fighter bootlegs feature a Mario with bloody gums (somehow, Joel doesn't visibly pick up on the fact that it's a recolor of the "Grand Dad" sprite), and one with someone in the stage background seemingly doing something a little naughty with his chicken.
  • In a Harry Potter bootleg, Harry has a smug character portrait sprite which Joel thinks "looks like he just disposed of a body and got away with it."
  • "Shenzenshiheng-kay-cha-jo-gong-shi. Dude, I gave it a shot."
  • Joel briefly explores the strange world of dinosaur erotica stories on Amazon. Then, Windows 2000 for NES with working programs.
  • "Chun-Li, Bowser, Goku, Ryu, Sonic, Mario. Okay great, fantastic."
    • "PLAYER SECELT"
• The episode of second kicks off with one of the many DanceDanceRevolution knock-offs ("Wait a minute, is this DEE-DEE-ARRR on fucking NES?"), which features a dancing Jar Jar Binks animation and surprisingly decent audio quality for an NES game.
  • Joel cheesing Hit-mouse ("RATATATATATATAT~")
  • A 120-in-1 ROM doesn't function right in his emulator, but he does get a hoot from one of the game titles ("Alienees?")
  • City Fighter IV, now with sound! Read: rather strained-sounding groans on hits.
  • "Bad Dudes? I love Bad Dudes'" [launches game] "This is not Bad Dudes. This is Double Dribble. You liar. You filthy liar."
  • "Fish War" ends up being a pre-corrupted Milon's Secret Castle.
  • Super Mario Bros. is the same, except with an edited title screen with an odd-looking Mario face on it.
  • "Super Mari- Super Mali Bro Splash Bomb."
    Joel (in a Toad voice): Mario, we're in a fuckin' bootleg! Yahoo! Jesus Christ, Mario! We're gonna have lawsuits up the ass!
  • Super Mario Sonik 2 is a hack of Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers (or as the main title screen renders it, hi 'N al ) that lets you choose between various combinations of Mario, Luigi, Sonic, "original character, Strawberry the Fuck", or Chip and Dale sprites. The Sonic sprites, however, appear to be "high as balls" (especially on the jumping sprites, which Joel explicitly points out).
  • Super Mario World and Sonic & Knuckles for NES. An attempt was made.
  • Kirby's Adventure is hijacked by Wario. With hilarious results.
• Super Mario 7 wasn't the only bootleg to get this sort of reaction from Joel. This happened again when he found how Venonat's name was translated in Pokémon Vietnamese Crystal.
  Joel: "Corn? Corn? CORN? CORN!? Wild corn!?"
• As a follow-up, Joel then decided to see what the 16-bit era would bring in terms of blatant knock-offs; it's time for Super Nintendo bootlegs! (Highlights, full)
  • Joel telling a story about how he accidentally played an unknown ROM of a hentai game.
  • 101 Dalmatas, which is a 101 Dalmatians-themed ROM hack of the Beethoven's 2nd game, except with a dalmatian sprite with a swanky walk cycle, corrupted graphics, and a "Rescue Them!" splash screen that Joel finds somewhat amusing.
    Joel: (on a completely glitched out menu screen) Do I want blubleh, or blublubleu? I guess I'm gonna go with blublubleu.
  • Whilst playing the A Bug's Life game (which has a rather unnecessarily long intro), Joel recalls more stories about the "WHO'S BEEN DRAWING DICKS?!" kid, whom he apparently scolded for kicking a tree because he thought they had feelings.
  • "What?! I can control the Genie?!"
  • Chester Cheetah: Too Cool to Fool becomes a Bananas in Pyjamas game for no apparent reason.
  • When playing Digimon Adventure, Joel comes to the revelation that it's seemingly based on the same engine as the Bug's Life bootleg he played earlier, after noticing they had similar sound effects (indeed, they all utilize the sound engine from an SNES game based on the cartoon Bonkers)
  • Omega Brazil '97: "Huehuahue, gibe moni pls."
  • Pocket Monster is, once again, lifted from the other two bootlegs with Bonkers sounds, and has an enemy that sort of looks like Scraggy if you squint hard enough.
  • Then there's Pokémon Gold and Silver, featuring "Chokorita" (A misspelling of Chikorita, an actual pokemon) and "Waninoko" (Totodile's Japanese name) (whose sprite looks like he's constantly freaking out). And—you guessed it—it's yet another descendent of Digimon Adventure.
  • The irony of Windows declaring he may be a victim of software counterfeiting.
  • Sparkster, except the main character is Sonic the Hedgehog, and one of its sprites has a very smug-looking face. Joel also wonders how someone would react if this was their first exposure to Sonic, but then saw the original Sparkster.
    Joel: That's not Sonic! That's my original the character [beat, normal voice] James.
• Joel finds an NES rom that attempts (and fails) to emulate Windows 98. The "programs" he opens are actually just non-functional still images, as Joel slowly learns the hard way. And yes, he tries to corrupt it like he has the other versions of Windows. The results are equal parts amusing and surreal.
• The NES bootleg showcase that happened right before the Mr. Bones' Wild Ride episode...
  • One of the multicarts has a game labeled as "DONGKEY KONG".
  • One of the multicarts Joel loads has a Gangnam Style-themed intro screen, but the emulator breaks it, resulting in non-functioning, glitchy "music" and graphical tearing (switching to a different emulator makes it work)
    Joel: There's Gangnam Style, and there's a fucking earthquake going on. In fact, they're dancing so erotically that it's breaking the world.
  • Fruit Pig. Joel refers to Fruit Pig as Peppa, and is so charmed by her little victory dance at the end of the level, that he adds the Kirby Dance and a pink DUANE to dance with her.
  • The bizarre Dream Fighter game. He speculates that all of the characters are secretly cereal mascots, and player character Tony is Tony The Tiger.
  • "Dear bootlegger, I want you to chew on cotton. Your Swedish pal, Joel. p.s. Eat dildos."
  • Joel's reaction to Super Maruo, a bizarre Mario bootleg in which the player (who sort of looks like Mario) has to avoid the dog and chase down a female character. Once you do, it plays an animation of this character exposing her breasts. Then, in subsequent levels, the sprites are naked.
    • What's even worse is that Super Maruo is actually a porn game. If Joel played it even further, he'd get a nasty surprise and a possible Twitch ban.
      Joel: [zooms in on the sprite of the dog] This game is a, big ol' metaphor for "doggy style", huh?
• Joel playing real cartridges full of real bootlegs on real hardware!
  • "MORTAL COLBAT 4"
    • "And the classic, 'Where Dad Wentto'" (which is just Adventure Island 2)
  • Police vs. Thief Violent Chasing has almost no sound whatsoever. Joel fixes it by playing a mashup of the Gourmet Race song with "Fuck tha Police" over it.
  • Joel noticing the "Ootototel" in Super Contra 7 (where one can take a na-na-na-na-nap)
  • Milk Nuts.
  • Going full circle, he plays Dian Shi Ma Li, featuring Grand Dad's "distant cousin"
  • Joel showing off other odd plug and play consoles, such as a Fantastic Four one hooked to a toy vehicle, and Taffy, which features an inflatable pony and would apparently be a good gift for bronies.
    Joel: You got, uh, Twilight Cupcake right there!
  • Buff Chicken.
  • Tunny, a bizarre hack of SonSon with helicopters, Donkey Kong in a spacesuit, and a very trippy glitch.
  • Joel finds the unhacked version of the Jungle Book NES game, resulting in a callback to the Lion King version from the Insane Mario Bootlegs stream. He also goes on a brief tirade accusing JonTron of "stealing" his jokes about the "twerking" Simba in said bootleg.
    Joel: (reading chat) "JonTron flashback"- oh, yeah, I remember when JonTron stole my meme. how fucking dare he
  • Joel trying to play Bokosuka Wars, quickly resulting in its rather interesting (and actually in the game) Game Over ("WOW! YOU LOSE!")
• During his first Sega Genesis Madness stream, Joel stumbles across some bootleg fighting games. One such game is Top Fighter 2000, starring Muhammad Ali versus such memorable opponents as Michael Jordan (or Michael Joden, as the game calls him), Cyclops (or Cycl), and Goku. Joel loses his shit when he sees Goku in the game's intro and continues yelling for almost a full minute while going through the character selection screen. He dubs it "M.U.G.E.N before Mugen".
  Joel: (upon defeating Goku as Joden) I did it. I have defeated anime once and for all.
• And now, game clones on the MSX
  • By far one of the funnier moments came when Joel demonstrated a Pac-Man clone that is titled Oh Shit! It has digitized voices, which amuses Joel — and is also the reason for the game's title ... cause it plays a digitized sound clip of someone yelling out "OHHHHHHHH SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT!" if you lose a life.
    Game: THIS IS JOEY, PAUL, WILLIE, AND FRANKIE.
  • When he shows off the box arts for it, he jokes that the game was originally called Oh No!, but was renamed Oh Shit! when the original didn't sell well enough. In reality, it was a Market-Based Title; Oh Shit! in Europe, Shit in Japan, and Oh No! in the UK, with the voice clips changed appropriately. Joel is also greatly amused by the subtitle on the Japanese cover for "Shit" (which also inexplicably has a scary dark red face with white fangs on the cover that has little to do with Pac-Man at all. In comparison the Oh Shit!/Oh No! cover does get the point across better), "A Classic MSX 64K Game" (which he truncates as "A Classic Game")
    Joel: The title is funny in itself, but it's the word that's above it, "A Classic Game". What is the classic game? It's SHIT!!, from Eurosoft! The classic. The classic makers of Shit.
  • And after demonstrating it, he also points out that the back of the Japanese box outright claims that some of its levels are "impossible" — which he doesn't think is the best sales pitch.
• Joel plays pirated GTA games with very little effort put into them. The crowner is his reaction to a misspelling on a Wolverine-themed version.
  HUGE JACKMAN?!
  • There's also his reaction to a RoboCop (2014)-themed one where the cover confused the human name of the titular character to another Murphy, misspelled as "EDY MURPHIE".
  • He players one pirated game with Vegeta modded in. The model is horribly rendered in during the cutscenes and there's also Joel's shock at Vegeta's "flying".
  • When he plays the game with Wolverine modded in, he's shocked when the game opens with a clip from The Wolverine, thinking the film is in the video.
  • He tries to give the poorly modded CJ as Wolverine an afro, only to end up with CJ's dark-skinned face and afro on Wolverine's body as if Logan stripped the flesh off of Carl's head and is wearing it like a mask. Joel worries that it might be racist.
• Joel holds a "funeral" for his bootlegged, red, PlayStation 2 controller. Yes, seriously. Watch it in its full, hammy glory here. The shenanigans that happen include Joel singing "My Heart Will Go On" with a shitty MIDI as backup music, making a "trash man" joke, writing the controller's "grave marker" in Comic Sans, and proceeding to buy a new controller.
• In one part of his playthrough of Pokémon Vietnamese Crystal, he fights a Trainer in the Goldenrod Underground who he notices is quite short. It reminds him of his beloved Danny DeVito, so he proceeds to put DeVito's face on this Trainer. He then places his face on the Pokémon he uses, a Growlithe and a Koffing; for the latter he even dyed DeVito's face purple.
  • He later fights a Rocket Grunt with a Weezing. He puts two DeVitos on Weezing's two faces and dyes them both purple.
• In the Pokémon Chinese Emerald bootleg, Professor Birch is named "Dr. Mon" in the opening prologue, which he immediately compares to Dr. Mantis Toboggan. Later, Birch is referred to as "Dr. Odd". Joel quickly points out that the name sounds like one that would be used for a Saturday-Morning Cartoon antagonist, imagining that "Dr. Odd" wants to build a "Moon Destroyer" by stealing the "Moon Crystals", and that he wants to steal "ALL THE WORLD'S LOVE!!" with said destroyer.
  • Additionally, he encountered a wild Ralts which is called "Perce" in this bootleg and proceeds to put Pierce Brosnan's face on it.
• In one Chinese Game Boy bootleg stream Joel played a bootleg Pokémon game and noticed that Brock was called "Gun". He placed a hand with a gun next to Brock's face and manipulated his mouth to give him a more aggressive expression but then realized he accidentally created Duke Nukem. He proceeded to put sunglasses on Brock and played with his mouth as he imitated Nukem's voice.
  My name is Brukie Nukie! (laughs)
• Joel's playthrough of a Brazilian Mario bootleg made on the Wii is about as hilariously bad as one would expect, attempting to adapt every game before New Super Mario Bros. Wii using said game's engine - key word being attempted. Special mention goes to a chat member who pointed out that there's a fan-made Brazilian dub of the Hotel Mario intro, and his reaction to it is glorious. The original can be found here, which has an English translation and Meme Acknowledgement from the video's creator.
  Brazilian!Mario: "We have to save the Princess!"
  (a ClipArt turtle representing Bowser appears on screen)
  Joel: PFFFFFFFFfffffhfhfhfhfh...
  Brazilian!Luigi: WATCH OUT, IT'S BOWSER!
  Brazilian!Mario: (takes a deep breath) WOOOOOO!!
  (Joel laughing to the point of audibly running out of breath)

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