Pokémon Bootleg Box Art

[64smashmaster3ds]

Hello Pokécommunity!
I wasn't sure were to post this or anyone discuss about this topic. I'm pretty sure most of you know about Pokémon bootleg games, right? Some popular ROM hacks get ported to a Game Boy Advance cartridge. For example: Pokémon ShinyGold, Pokémon Naranja and Pokémon Quartz.

Anyways, I made this thread just to ask anyone do they have a high quality image of the original bootleg box art of the games? The box art even on the back of the box with screen shots from other games like Pokémon Diamond and Pearl. If anyone somehow have these box art, please share them here.

Here is what I'm talking about:

Game List

Pokémon Arcoiris Version
Original ROM Maker: SPRIHACK NET

Aquiles

Numus, Ra, and Serg!o
Box Art: Shadow Lugia from Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness
Back: Gardenia, and Shadow Lugia in the background
Screenshots: One from Diamond and Pearl and two from Quartz

Spoiler: Blurb

The pokemon ARCOIRIS VERSION new games, The region where POKEMON first took root and exploded into a major phenomenon,and the latest titles stuff in tons of exciting new features.Great graphics,a brand new setting,The first pokemon games exclusively for the Game Boy Advance.

• Check out more sophisticated graphics,more varied gameplay and more than 200 new characters
• Grab a friend and play with 2-on-2 battle capabilities
• Take on 2 POKEMON simultaneously
• Experience deeper,more strategic gameplay
• Gain knowledge and train your Pokemon

Pokémon BlueSea Edition
Original ROM Maker:

*Neos*

Box Art: Blastoise from the Pokémon Trading Card Game
Back: Brendan and May from Pokémon Emerald
Screenshots:

Spoiler: Blurb

As with previous simultaneously released Pokemon games, FireRed and LeafGreen are essentially identical products whose only differences are precisely which Pokemon creatures they contain. Neither version contains all of the Pokemon, so you'll need to trade with another player in order to catch 'em all. But there's little point in actually getting both versions of the game for yourself.
Basically, you'll run around in the game's fairly vast world of towns interconnected with stretches of wilderness, and as you go, you'll often run into rival trainers as well as wild Pokemon, at which time the game switches to battle mode.

Pokémon Chaos Black Version
Original ROM Maker:

Enix-Zae

Mewthree //Samson
Box Art: Chaos 0 from Sonic Battle
Back: Brendan and May from Pokémon Emerald
Screenshots: Custom from Pokémon Emerald

Spoiler: Blurb

POKEMON CHAOS BLACK VERSION is the final game presented by NINTENDO for Game Boy Advance in the third generation of games for this series.Being touted for adding additional features absent from other Pokemon games in the past, this game begins in Hoenn on a mission to keep Team Magma and Team Aqua from unbalancing Groudon (ground) and Kyogre .
Trainers will want to call on their best strategies ever due to the fact that this one of the most challenging battlefields delivered in a Pokemon game. Pokemon fans are sure to have no problem meeting this challenge and showing off their skills doing so.

Pokémon Crystal Version
Original ROM Maker:???
Box Art: Suicune
Back: Brendan, May, and Treecko from Pokémon Emerald
Screenshots: Custom from Pokémon Emerald
Top: Torchic
Left: Mudkip

Spoiler: Blurb

Pokemon: Crystal Version is the most up-to-date of Nintendo's Pokemon games, but it isn't exactly the sequel that fans have been anticipating. Similar to Pokemon Yellow and its Red/Blue brethren. Crystal is merely an update to the Gold and Silver versions that preceded it. As such, those already knee-deep in the Gold/Silver series won't find much of interest in Pokemon Crystal. However, if you have not already upgraded from the older Red/Blue/Yellow series, or you happen to be a total Pokemon neophyte, now is an excellent time to take the plunge.
Starting out as New Bark Town's latest rookie trainer, you and a single Pokemon (Cyndaqil, Totodile, or Chikorita) will embark on a quest to challenge the Elite Four at the Pokemon League. Before you can realize this destiny though, you'll need gym badges--lots of them. In all, you'll need to earn the badges of 16 different gym leaders throughout the continents of Johto and Kanto--a journey that will eventually take you to 18 different towns and through countless ancient landmarks.
In addition to the helpful residents you'll meet during your travels, there are also approximately 500 other rookie trainers waiting to challenge you as you journey from town to town.

Pokémon DarkCry Version
Original ROM Maker:

mitchel1

Box Art: Mew
Back: Mewtwo, and Lucas from Pokémon Diamond and Pearl
Screenshots: Custom from Pokémon Emerald

Spoiler: Blurb

Pokemon are a pretty weird, inexplicable bunch of creatures. Their origins, even within the game's reality, are purposefully vague, and despite their wildly varied appearances and abilities, all Pokemon have a few basic characteristics in common. Most importantly, all Pokemon love to fight other Pokemon, whether it's in a head-to-head spar or a two-on-two match. As they fight, they gain experience and learn new moves.

Pokémon Frigo Returns
Original ROM Maker: Poké4Yu Inc
Box Art: Michael from Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness; and Lucario
Back: Misty (Fan art?), Togepi, and Pikachu
Screenshots: From Pokemon Diamond and Pearl

Spoiler: Blurb

start your adventure on Pokemon Frigo Returns and receive one of 3 basic Pokemon from the professor.Journey through Hoenn gaining knowledge and training your Pokemonand earning badges with the goal of becoming a Pokemon Master through collecting, battling & trading.

Pokémon Lugias Ocean Version
Original ROM Maker: ???
Box Art: Lugia fan art made by "Articuno" on DeviantArt (The Game Boy Advance branding now says "GAME FOR ADVANCE")
Back: Red, Leaf, and Blue from Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen
Screenshots: From Pokemon Emerald

Spoiler: Blurb

The Hoenn region is unstable-Rayquaza has awakened! Your skills as a Trainer will be challenged like they're never been challenged before as you try to maintain the balance between Kyogre & Groudon. Prove your skills by earning badges & gaining access to Battle Frontier- the front line of Pokemon battling that offers a whole new level of competition. Never-before-experienced battles await you!

Features:

• The third adventure with new episodes in the Hoenn region!
• Tons of new features, including surprising plot twists and changes to where and how often you can catch certain Pokemon!

Pokémon Naranja Version
Original ROM Maker:

Sergio--

Box Art: Celebi
Back: Ash from Pokémon Advance, and Suicune
Screenshots: One from Diamond and Pearl, and three from Naranja

Spoiler: Blurb

You can have up to six different Pokemon with you at a time, and each one involved in a battle gains experience points. As Pokemon level up, they gain new abilities, generally get stronger, and sometimes evolve into stronger, more mature versions of themselves. Leveling your characters is a time-honored tradition of role-playing games, and in Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen, there are hundreds of different characters for you to potentially concentrate on building up.

Pokémon Perla Version
Original ROM Maker: EMU LG
Box Art: Lucario
Back: Lucario, Ash, Pikachu, Mew, and part of Sir Aaron from Lucario and the Mystery of Mew; and Weavile
Screenshots: From Pokémon Diamond and Pearl
Top: Munchlax
Left: Buizel

Spoiler: Blurb

Great graphics,a brand new setting, new boy and girl trainers and supourt for two-on-two pokemon battles are just some of the exciting innovations in pok on Perra and pok on Sapphire,hte first pokemon games exclusively for the Game Boy Advance.

Pokémon Quartz Version
Original ROM Maker:

Teh Baro

Box Art: Gyarados from Pokémon Trading Card Game expansion "EX Holon Phantoms"
Back: Game screenshots

Spoiler: Blurb

POK MON QUARTZVERSION - The battle beetween chaos and order Complete hack! WOOT The oldies might know it, the newbs will be glad to know it now. It's POK MON QUARTZ, a hack over Ruby USA I started a year and a half ago, and I've finished so far.
Main features:

• ??386 new pok mon (237 able to catch in this hack. The rest will be in another hack, but they're in the game so yeah). Experience says that people like them.
• ??A new region, the region of CORNA. The scheme is the same as hoenn (no connection edit) but you will find here a complete new, awesome and magical place. There are more places than in the original game, tough.

Pokémon ShinyGold Version
Original ROM Maker:

zel 2.0

Box Art: Light spirit Aska from Tales of Symphonia, but with one of his heads removed
Back: Lucas and Dawn from Pokémon Diamond and Pearl
Screenshots: Five from an early version of ShinyGold, and a banner for the hack?

Spoiler: Blurb

Each unique Pokemon has a clever name and a distinct combination of traits and abilities. In the gameworld, trainers capture these critters out in the wild and then duel them against other trainers and their creatures. It's sort of a violent premise, actually, and therein probably lies part of the allure--yet the world of Pokemon is so lighthearted and charming that even cynical players are liable to get swept into it if they give it so much as a chance.

As in the original Pokemon Shiny Gold and Blue, in FireRed and LeafGreen, you play as a character with aspirations to become the greatest Pokemon trainer in the land. Unlike in the original Pokemon games, though, you can now play as either a boy or a girl.

Either way, you'll be trying to discover every last breed of those mysterious creatures in the process. Along the way, you'll square off against the nefarious Team Rocket, not to mention dozens of the Pokemon trainers. Just getting to the end of the story takes about 25 hours, and you'll have uncovered only a fraction of the Pokemon in the game by that time--so there's tons of lasting value here, especially since you can keep playing once the main quest is over.

Thank you.

 

[64smashmaster3ds]

Anyone have any scans or a exact replica of the bootleg box arts for printing? Including Diamond and Jade.

 

[Fairy]

Aw man, I don't have any of the game boxes but I LOVE coming across bootleg/counterfeit Pokemon cards so I understand your search lol. I hope you're able to find the pics you're looking for!

 

[64smashmaster3ds]

Aw man, I don't have any of the game boxes but I LOVE coming across bootleg/counterfeit Pokemon cards so I understand your search lol. I hope you're able to find the pics you're looking for!

Thanks, I did find some online but there not an exact replica of the box.

 

[Saиdmaи]

Here in Belgium it was quite hard to get a copy of Platinum and Black 2 last year. I managed to get both but without box. This irks me.. Love the bootleg designs by the way! Especially the Mew and Gyarados ones.

 

[64smashmaster3ds]

Here in Belgium it was quite hard to get a copy of Platinum and Black 2 last year. I managed to get both but without box. This irks me.. Love the bootleg designs by the way! Especially the Mew and Gyarados ones.

Yeah it can be annoying to get a game without the original box or case. I would buy a empty case of the game online.
I agree the designs look really cool. The picture of Gyarados was taken from the Pokémon TCG expansion EX Holon Phantoms and the Chaos Black box is a picture of Chaos from the Sonic series. I really hope someone have renders of the covers for printing, it would be somewhat interesting to have for a collection.

 

[64smashmaster3ds]

I know this thread hasn't had any interactions in a long while, but I want to expand on this topic. I was thinking about listing sources, videos, and more here.

In the past, people on YouTube have done unboxing videos of them opening and playing a bootleg game. If it's alright, I was thinking if anyone finds an old video, they can post links here and tell us what game(s) they've unboxed and played. Even a video of someone showing their official Pokémon collection, and they show that they own a bootleg copy of a game. Hopefully, anyone would be interested.

I originally created this thread to ask anyone if they have any high-quality scans or copies of bootleg box art. This is still the case. A lot of the covers obviously stole official art. For example, the cover for Pokémon Quartz used a picture of Gyarados from the Pokémon Trading Card Game expansion "EX Holon Phantoms". I was wondering if anyone knew the original source of the cover art. Like who made the box art and the booklets for the bootleg games. If anyone is great at making custom box art, it would be nice if you could make a recreation of the original box art. Make it as it was made for an original Game Boy Advance, not for a Nintendo DS cover, and post it here. It would be nice if you could make the box all glittery and shiny like the original box. I'm not trying to encourage piracy. I'll update this post later, when I have time.

 

[giradialkia]

I'll have to go digging at my parents' house.

Years ago, my friends went on holiday to Turkey, where they brought me and my brother back Pokémon Arcoiris and Chaos Black. I'm 90% sure I could get the box for Arcoiris and scan it, but it'll be a while before I'm back there…

At any rate, as you've said yourself, all of these box arts use official artwork cobbled together to form their box art (although some have some actual holographic qualities, which is surprising). But with enough time and effort you could recreate them in Photoshop pretty handily, if you're looking to print your own boxes.

 

[64smashmaster3ds]

I'll have to go digging at my parents' house.

Years ago, my friends went on holiday to Turkey, where they brought me and my brother back Pokémon Arcoiris and Chaos Black. I'm 90% sure I could get the box for Arcoiris and scan it, but it'll be a while before I'm back there…

At any rate, as you've said yourself, all of these box arts use official artwork cobbled together to form their box art (although some have some actual holographic qualities, which is surprising). But with enough time and effort you could recreate them in Photoshop pretty handily, if you're looking to print your own boxes.

That's cool that you had some of the games. Good luck on your search.

I would print my own boxes if I could find the perfect holographic paper material and a working printer.
But if we're lucky, we could find high-quality pictures of the art online. I remember seeing digital pictures of Naranja's front art, but they're pretty low quality, and one for Frigo Returns, which seems like a recreation.

 

[64smashmaster3ds]

I updated the thread to include details on the bootleg games, such as blurbs. It's pretty difficult to find pictures of the backs of the boxes. I had saved some before, but unfortunately, they got lost and deleted. Some may even be lost online for good. I'm sort of treating this as a lost media.

Edit 1: I'm almost finished listing the blurbs for the games. Some were pretty bizarre. I just took a deep search through Google Images and surprisingly found some, especially Crystal. The last one is Lugia's Ocean, and I can't find pictures of the back of the box at the moment.

Edit 2: Alright, I found a picture of the back of Lugia's Ocean's box, so now I have all the blurbs for all of the current games listed. It seems like the bootleggers also used fan art for some of those boxes. The picture of Misty on the back of Frigo Returns looks like fan art, and the picture of Lugia for Lugia's Ocean is also fan art. I wonder if the pictures of Celebi for Naranja and Blastoise for BlueSea are fan art also. I can't find the original images for them. Any help would be nice. I will try to add more stuff to this thread. I may even add some links to some old unboxing videos from YouTube here.

Edit 3: I think I've found the original image of the Celebi for the Naranja box art! It looks like an official wallpaper from Game Freak. The one I found seems pretty low quality, and I don't know if there's a higher-quality image.