Satellablog

Some new 8M Pack dumps today. These aren’t too major in terms of data (I’ll probably be looking for the remaining BS Super Mario Collection portions perpetually…)
But, their notable significance is that these were people-sent contributions, rather than the usual “paid out of pocket” type deal.
Regardless of the quality of these dumps, we appreciate the effort that is taken to obtain them and send them to the blog.

I’ll start with one I purchased myself, yet again! This time it’s Sonic Blastman.

Superfamicom.org info
Sonic Blastman(BS)
ROM download

No pictures, because I’m lazy. Anyone who played the game knows how it looks like anyway, as it’s identical to the JP cart version. On a rather quasi-humorous note, I actually correctly guessed the checksum and inverse checksum that would be in this ROM’s header before it was actually dumped. Kinda scary, huh?

Next;
Table Game Daisyugo Superfamicom.org info.

Callis labeled this one as the pack sent by Chrono Moogle, so you can thank him for this one. He posts in the comments here now and then.
More Asian Table Games. With just how many there are for the Satellaview, these can be rather annoying at times. They’re like the Dial-up internet Pop-up ads of the Satellaview. Raarr!…. Excuse my moping there. I just realized I never finished dumping those SPCs for “Super Mahjong Taikai”…. ….. Ohhh, my life is cruel.
(NOTE: No offense is meant to the contributors for any moment when I writhe in agony from Mahjong Overdose.)

Table Game Daisyugo (BS) | テーブルゲーム大集合！！ (BS)
ROM DOWNLOAD

And finally, a redump Callis labeled “from sweden”. Who from Sweden? Um…. anyway;

Shanghai – Banri no Choujou (BS) (redump)
上海 万里の長城 (BS)

This game was dumped as a Satellaview 8M Pack before, and this redump does not seem much different in my short testing of it.

If anyone else wants to contribute (money or 8M Packs) to Satellablog, please sent stuff to Matthew Callis (Or use the donate button if you want it directed at me specifically.)
As I’ve said before, all is appreciated. Yeah, even if it is Mahjong, in spite of my whining about it.

… inb4 I get sent like 5000 more Mahjong games.

Since I’ve been having a bit of a computer shuffle lately, I figured I should finish up releasing these ROMs before I forget to. Unfortunately, this means they aren’t all entirely researched thoroughly, but it’s better to make sure they’re up now, I guess.

A bit ago, Callis sent me this ROM. While it has the RPG Tsukuru brand, it does not seem to be a RPG Tsukuru 2 add-on, but rather a standalone “RPG Tsukuru SUPER DANTE” product.

“Jewel of Live” is a seemingly simple Dragon Quest-like JRPG. With a focus on grinding and little to nothing in terms of puzzles or exploration, it’s probably not something one would normally consider much fun to play. Perhaps it’s plot is compelling? Unfortunately, I do not believe I know enough Japanese to fan-translate it. It seems a bit complex for the simple gameplay, though.

I’ve tried researching the nature of this – is it an indie-developed product? A fan-made product put up for distribution? Or just something ASCII put up themselves to promote their RPG making tool? Again, hoping someone who has more info can give me some more details.

The game should run in BSNES, SNESGT, or SNES9X.

Jewel of Live (RPG Tsukuru SUPER DANTE) |ＪＥＷＥＬ ＯＦ ＬＩＶＥ (ＲＰＧツクール ＳＵＰＥＲ ＤＡＮＴＥ)
ROM DOWNLOAD

As typical, my next two releases are magazines. First up….

A Magazine about Japanese “Idols”. I do not think I have this specific one’s proper title, but I can clearly make out メディア・ストロベリー (Media Strawberry), so it’s reason for now to call this “Media Strawberry Volume 12″.

Among the pictures you’ll see are a mixture of real-life and… these really crude drawings. I thought people liked Idols because they looked pretty? Indeed, I’m fairly certain these are supposed to be cartoonish interpretations of the actual idols. Aw, well.

I’ve tried googling up the “Media Strawberry” term, but none of the results appear related to this. It’s possible the folks behind this magazine are defunct or changed their identities. In the meantime, here’s the ROM.

Media Strawberry Volume 12 | メディア・ストロベリー VOL. 12
ROM Download

After this last one, I’ll be more or less finished releasing all I’ve gotten up to this point. Here’s hoping the next few months have a slew of new material to work with!

To start, notice how I got a screencap from BSNES this time? It’s because you’ll need it to run this one.
After a while of trying to read the Katakana at the title screen of this, I… gave up, checked Wikipedia, and noticed it matched with ドレミでふぁ～！ (DoReMi DeFa~!)
This appears to be from the original “DoReMi DeFa~!” Line – previous ROM dumps were of “DoReMi DeFa 2~!”, which covered the same material but in a notably different formatting…

COMPARISONS:



“DoReMi DeFa~!” is a music-themed magazine which has things like TOP charts and whatnot. As we can see in this issue, Bob Marley was big in this time, for some reason.

DoReMi DeFa~! Volume 6 5/4 | ドレミでふぁ～！VOL. 6 5/4
ROM Download

Oh, after finding this one, that pun just could not be avoided…

“Puyo Puyo Tsuu BS Ban”.
When Callis first handed me this ROM, neither of us were sure how it was different from the standard game. As it turns out, it appears to be a demo – my gameplay and these translations provided by Sonic Retro forum member Insalubrious support the idea;

Puyo Puyo Tsuu Test Version
Choose how you want to play.
#1: Play alone (right side is computer)
#2: Play with two people

(Header) Please select the rules
(Bottom) Normal rules

(Bottom) Cannot play

(Bottom) Erase 6

Another thing of note is that Callis told me that, with this ROM header date and his info on the release of the cartridge version, that this was likely broadcast on the week of the download in 1995. After all, no sense in waiting a year to release a demo, eh?

Anyway, download time!


Puyo Puyo Tsuu BS Ban | ぷよぷよ通ＢＳ版
ROM Download

And now back to your regularly scheduled magazines…

Oh, yay! Is that some Famitsu I see there?
Dated 4/27, this Famitsu “Karara Ban” issue (whatsits?) covers such things as…

Tamagotchi!
And…

Game Boy Pockets…. I think. It could be Game Boy Light, but… yeah.

A lot of this is vaguely similar to the Famitsu listing that is on the SFC Mania Blog.

BS Famitsu Magazine Karara Ban 4/27 | BS ファミ通マガジン かわら版 4/27号
ROM Download

(PS. Excuse the Famitsu ROM’s name. Callis gave that one and I’m being a lazy bum right now.)

Hey folks. Today I plan to put out a few more ROMs than usual.

Most of these ROMs are apparently Magazines based on the Satellaview’s radio content, but I’ll start with one that’s a game rather than just a magazine..

Tamori no Picross is, from what I can understand, a long series of weekly installments of Picross puzzles. According to the Japanese Wikipedia, it was broadcast to coincide with a radio show called 『サバチーチカレッジ タモロス博士のサンデーゼミナール』 (“Sunday Seminar with Dr. Tamorosu Sabachichikarejji”).
The header has a specific broadcast date of June 13th in the title of the game, whereas the download was, IIRC, just a few days later.

As you can see, the one in this ROM has a lot of resemblance to “Mario no Super Picross”. However, it doesn’t look a thing like the one featured in the ads, which was much closer to the original/first season of the program. Did the game somehow “Change format” at some point? I may never know without finding a premire ROM, but… aw, well.

Tamori no Picross 6/13 | タモリのピクロス 6/13
ROM DL

The second ROM…

When I initially found this, I was hoping it’d be the elusive Soundlink game “Bakusho Mondai no Totsugeki! Star Pirates”. Instead, I seem to have obtained something else with their name tagged on it.

“Bakusho Mondai no Shirikon Chounaikai” is apparently a magazine meant to have articles based on the radio show of the same name which was also on the Satellaview…

Stuff like… Star Wars parodies. Very odd.

Bakusho Mondai apparently described the show themselves on their website.

Bakusho Mondai no Shirikon Chounaikai 6/22 | 爆笑問題のシリコン町内会 6/22
ROM DL

And last one for now…

Yuuki Nae no Ge-mu no Tsubo. Yuuki’s name is one I keep seeing repeatedly throughout the Satellaview’s history. This particular magazine seems to be about… I dunno. But it’s probably also related to her other stuff.

…. It’s got some REALLY FUCKED UP PICTURES.

Yuuki Nae no Ge-mu no Tsubo | 裕木奈江のGE-MUの壷
ROM DL

Expect some more soon!

I posted an upload of these before in various ROM sites, but now I’ve checked them out in slightly more detail than before.

These are some redumps of previous dumps. Although most of these redumps – much like the new dumps – were pure chance dumps (with the exception of the Panel De Pon 98′ Redump, which I bought with my own cash), there’s quite a bit of good and/or interesting to take note of nonetheless.

Due to the nature of these being redumps and many of them being hard to tell from the initial releases, I’ve taken into marking the Month/Day values in the ROM Headers as part of the ROM filename – similar to how GoodTools and No-Intro manage multiple similar-appearing ROM dumps.

Currently these redumps are being hosted elsewhere – chalk it up to mere laziness.

I’ll start with this one. Should be familiar if you checked out the blog just a bit ago -

Gambler Jiko Chuushinsha 2 – Dorapon Quest.
Marked December 20th as opposed to the previous dump’s December 19th. It is otherwise identical down to the checksum.

Let’s Panchinko Nate Gindama 4.
Date is set as November 24th. The dump previously floating around is dated March 21st.

Panel De Pon ’98 Event Version.
Dated December 28th – the previous dump is marked January 11th.

Zelda no Densetsu Kamigami no Triforce.
Dated November 30th. The previous dump was dated May 21st. This dump is “locked” (It was apparently played to it’s 5-bootup limit), so you can’t run it on BSNES, even though the previous dump runs fine on it last I checked. It otherwise appears to be the same game, of course.

Cu On Pa SFC.
This dump is dated June 15th. The previous was dated May 31st. This also has had it’s boot-ups exhausted and is marked as “locked”.

A bad BS F-Zero 2 Practice dump. The title screen graphics are corrupted. It otherwise seems to play fine. Weird…….

Multple Yoshi no Panepon – BS Ban dumps.
Marked January 2nd, June 14th, and July 5th. I think this is ample evidence to say that this data is fairly common and easy to find.

Peculiar Sutte Hakkun BS Version 2 dumps.
These seem to be a similar case as what the “AK Live Hit Gang” dump was – checksum and maker values were zero’d out. Due to this BSNES and SNESGT won’t run them. They are dated October 19th and November 25th, respectively.

Kirby no Omachahako – Hoshi Kuzushi.
Dated Feb. 26th. THIS DUMP WORKS FOLKS. YOU CAN PLAY IT. IT RUNS ON NEARLY ANYTHING. IT’S A KIRBY GAME. C’MON ALREADY.