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Hey guys, we promised you a part 2 quickly, and well here it is!
You’ll have some G.B.S. versions of some games (G.B.S. mean Game Best Selection) and some surprises. Let’s continue !

Something you should know before (details added by LuigiBlood) :

-Alloc NG = the bits at xFD0 that can be used for know the game/magazine size and that indicates where the data is in the memory of the Memory Pack are not input properly (or at all).

-Date NG = Date is not good/valid

these informations are just FF bytes, and BS-X then adds them later. When it’s NG, usually it doesn’t.

I know, PrincessBeef already got the G.B.S. version of this one, but believe me, it’s still kinda different from her dump. Precisely, 2 bytes at 0x1C30 are different from the PrincessBeef one.

Space Invaders – G.B.S. Version (Variant)
ＳＰＡＣＥ　ＩＮＶＡＤＥＲＳ
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This memory pack contains the G.B.S. version of Septentrion. It’s identical to the SFC Retail. (However the Alloc & the date are NG, however.)

[Alloc NG + Date NG] Septentrion G.B.S. Version
[Alloc NG + Date NG] セプテントリオン
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This one contains the G.B.S version of Ihatovo Monogatari. Again, it’s identical to the SFC Retail.

Ihatovo Monogatari – G.B.S. Version
イーハトーヴォ物語
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This memory pack contains the G.B.S. version of Super Pinball. It’s identical to the SFC Retail. However, it’s Alloc NG.

[Alloc NG] Super Pinball – G.B.S. Version
[Alloc NG] スーパーピンボール
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It’s the G.B.S version of Super Final Match Tennis. Again like most of G.B.S., it’s identical to the SFC Retail).
We found 2 dumps of theses : one with Alloc NG, but the second one used for thoses screenshots is 100% clean.

[Alloc NG] Super Final Match Tennis – G.B.S. Version (4-24)
[Alloc NG] スーパーファイナルマッチテニス (4-24)
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[Redump] Super Final Match Tennis – G.B.S. Version (3-30)
[Redump] スーパーファイナルマッチテニス (3-30)
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This memory pack contains a redump of the G.B.S. version of Super Mahjong Takai and the G.B.S version of Super Bowling. However, let me tell you its corrupted, but since most of these G.B.S games are 100% identical to the SFC Retail, this is not a problem ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Also, we found another dump of Super Bowling which is Alloc NG, but not corrupted though (Making the corrupted dump definitely fixable).

[Redump] Super Mahjong Takai – G.B.S. Version (9-27) + [Corrupted] Super Bowling – G.B.S. Version (9-27)
[Redump] スーパー麻雀大会 (9-27) + [Corrupted] スーパーボウリング
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[Redump + Alloc NG] Super Bowling – G.B.S. Version (10-10)
[Redump + Alloc NG] スーパーボウリング (10-10)
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Yeah, that wasn’t interesting since these games was identical to the SFC Retail (with minimal bytes difference and 5 limited starts), but the next dumps will be more interesting.

This memory pack contains the premiere variant of BS F-Zero Ace League. There are something like 20-25% of differences with the one we got before (and probably a working advertising screen at the end).

Extra Note : Notice you should use bsnes-plus to play this because in SNES9X, it will softlock after the “Loading program…” screen.

BS F-Zero Grand Prix – Dai-4-shuu – Ace League (Premiere Variant)
ＢＳ Ｆ－ＺＥＲＯ 第４週 – ＡＣＥ ＬＥＡＧＵＥ（本放送版）
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This memory pack contains the premiere variant Excitebike BunBun Mario Stadium 1 from May 11th 1997. The Bass Fishing ad seems to show up correctly in this.

(We have just to find Premiere build of Stadium 4 and July 1997 Reruns Variants of Stadium 1 & 2, and we’ll finish the whole Excitebike BunBun Mario ROM Collection).

Excitebike – Bunbun Mario Battle – Stadium 1 (Premiere Variant)
エキサイトバイク – ぶんぶんマリオバトル – スタジアム１（本放送版）
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This memory pack contains what seems to be the premiere variant of the 2nd week of BS Fire Emblem (it has some differences with the old dump we got which is probably the rerun variant). However, it’s corrupted and sadly we couldn’t find where the exact corruption is.

[Corrupted] BS Fire Emblem – Akaneia Senki Hen – Dai-2-wa – Akai Ryuu Kishi (Premiere Variant)
[Corrupted] ＢＳ ファイアーエムブレム – アカネイア戦記編 – 第２話 – 赤い竜騎士（本放送版）
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This memory pack contains a variant (most likely the premiere one) of week 2 of “BS Marvelous : Camp Arnold Course”. However, as you can see, it’s corrupted and has some sprites issues.

LuigiBlood has indicated where is the corruption:

“Block Corruption at 0x694BA-0x6A0B4”

[Corrupted + Date NG] BS Marvelous – Camp Arnold Course – Dai-2-shuu (Premiere Variant)
[Corrupted + Date NG] ＢＳ マーヴェラス – キャンプアーノルドコース – 第２週（本放送版）
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The two last dumps to release are mixes between edited user data, and downloadable data.

This memory pack contains the two first parts of the Sound Novel Tsukuru downloadable game “Zapping Gekijou”, and a new downloadable track for Ongaku Tsukuru named “Sofcon Remake”. However, the Kanaderu Score seems to have been edited because the date is EXACTLY the same as the other Kanaderu user files (precisely 1/1) or maybe the old owner saved a copy/backup of this in another memory pack via Ongaku Tsukuru without edit it in case he would have to delete it in another one which could be the main he used ? Also, it includes a Kanaderu Convert user file.

Let me furnish the official description of Zapping Gekijou :

“サウンドノベルツクール対応「ザッピング劇場・前編」です。第２回コン佳作受賞作品です。”

“サウンドノベルツクール対応「ザッピング劇場・後編」です。第２回コン佳作受賞作品です。”

“サウンドノベルツクール対応「ザッピング劇場・解決編」です。第２回コン佳作受賞作品です。”

“This is “Zapping Gekijou : Part 1” for Sound Novel Maker. This work won an honorable mention in the 2nd contest.”

“This is “Zapping Gekijou : Part 2” for Sound Novel Maker. This work won an honorable mention in the 2nd contest.”

“This is “Zapping Gekijou : Final Part” for Sound Novel Maker. This work won an honorable mention in the 2nd contest.”

Source : BS-X Town Buildings (Early 1998)

These let me think this downloadable game was made for a certain Sound Novel Tsukuru contest but I couldn’t find anything more about it.

Extra note : Notice you should use bsnes plus to play this because SNES9X will consider it as a corrupted ROM (kinda like “クロノトリガー情報５” if it’s standalone).

Zapping Gekijou – Parts 1 & 2 + Sofcon Remake + [User] Kanaderu Convert
ザッピング劇場　前編  & 後編  + ソフコンリメイク + [User] KANADERU CONVERT
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This memory pack contains a redump of Violin Waltz, a downloadable track for Ongaku Tsukuru (it’s identical to the one LuigiBlood released before), and the 3rd Koma Editor for Same Game (we got before this the 4th one). However, as you can see in these screenshots, it seems that it has been edited by the old owner. However, it’s possible to use VHS Recording of someone playing the original aired Koma Editor 3 for restore it, but find this is not very easy and it would take A LOT of time.

Also, this memory pack contains leftovers (in fact 3Mbit) from the trial version of Ongaku Tsukuru (you can’t save your custom score file and that’s all).

Let me furnish the broadcasts list :

1996/03/23～1996/03/28（1 time per day）
1996/03/29～1996/04/06（2 times per day）
1996/04/21～1996/04/30（1 time per day）

Yep. It’s a very short broadcast period.

[Redump] Violin Waltz + [Edited] Koma Editor 3 + [Leftover] Ongaku Tsukuru (Trial Version)
[Redump] ウインナワルツ + [Edited] 駒エディター ３+ [Leftover] 音楽ツクール（トライアル版）
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Nearly all these memory packs published between 2024 and now had been dumped by a anonymous benefactor.

Intro by Cabbusses: So the ol’ SMG4-spread saying goes, “Mama ****er!”

Today, on Mar10, we reveal to you, we finally got one of the volumes of the most infamous comic series on the service.
I’m not entirely sure how much I can explain in regard to just how sought after these are, but I can at least say this much: Much of the reason these are so infamous is their frequent portrayal of Mario characters doing family-unfriendly activities. Especially physical abuse. Lots of physical abuse.

At present, we don’t know of any radio programs that directly tie into the comics.

Oh, and there’s also a little treat for the Squaresoft fans.
Square Magazine was both a radio program and a ROM magazine with information directly supplied by Squaresoft.
The ROM that has been recovered of that is one for an episode that is not on kukun kun’s YouTube channel.

Both of these are recovered from deleted data.

Do note that for both of these series, this is just one of many, so please continue to support us if you want more of them recovered!

I’ll let Danyl take it from here:

This memory pack includes an Square Magazine about Square news AND a F#CKING episode of Lily Franky Theater ! (Precisely the 34th one from December 4th 1995)

Before to talk about the plot of this volume I am going to give some context :

let me tell you that there were 2 versions of Lily Franky Theater between April 24, 1995 and March 30, 1996 :
a Manga version (まんが) which had begun the April 27th 1995 was called until July 1995: “人として” in this version, Lily Franky in person makes surreal gags about human life.
Also there is a Live-action version (実写版) which has begun April 24th 1995 and will be called by fans “下町人情劇場” which is rather close to the truth because it was first called “下町人情物語” the content of which I do not know and history the only proof I have of its existence is a mention in May 1995 Satellaview Tsushin. It got a 2nd version called “下町人情劇場 親方っ” which tells a love story between Mario and Peach.
During the summer there were 2 summer programs for the 2 versions : リリー夏休み作品 特集! (Manga version) Lily Franky shows comics created by random fans and マリとピノ公の美女評論 (Live-action version) here Mario and Toad criticize random women according to fans suggestions.
but after August 1995 the Live-action version returned with “下町人情劇場 親方っ ２”  (which continue the Mario & Toad plot) and the Manga version with “週間ＢＵＳＳ” (which was called “週間ＢＵＳＵ” during its first broadcast) in addition to “２００１年宇宙の人として”, “リリー・フランキー劇場 ＴＵＲＢＯ” etc. there was a Manga called “Cinco Show” by Rie Fujiwara which we learned in the broadcast of September 6, 1995 that it is a sister for Lily Franky. and the drawing part of the last episode of Shitamachi Ninjo Gekijo is actually the last episode of “週間ＢＵＳＳ”.

Also there was new episodes each week

There are 49 episodes for the Live-Action Version & 49 volumes for the Manga one

here some pictures footage than I found + the complete broadcasts list :

Live-Action Version :

1995/04/24～1995/04/26、04/30～05/03、05/07～05/10、05/14～05/17、05/21～05/24、05/28～05/31、06/04（3～6 times per day）
1995/06/05～1996/03/30（2 times per day）

Manga Version :

1995/04/27～04/30、05/04～05/07、05/11～05/14、05/18～05/21、05/25～05/28、06/01～06/04（3～6 times per day）
1995/06/05～1995/07/16（2 times per day）
1995/07/18、07/25、08/01、08/08、08/15、08/22、08/29、09/05、09/12、09/19、09/26、10/03、10/10、10/17、10/24、10/31、11/07、11/14、11/21、11/28、12/06、12/13、12/20、12/27、01/03、01/10、01/17、01/24、01/31、02/07、02/14、02/21、02/28、03/06、03/13、03/20、03/27（2 times per day）

Now, here’s the plot of this:
After escaping the jail, Mario & Toad have ended up in Brazil and are trying to go back home… by building an pipe ? (I am surprised by the ability of this program to always take an unexpected direction.)

Thanks to techknight for this.

Square Magazine (1995-12-5) + Lily Franky Theater – Live Action Version (1995-12-4) / スクウェアまがじん (1995-12-5) + リリーフランキー劇場／実写版 (1995-12-4) ROM Download

(Now back to Cabbusses to add some stuff)

Now let’s move on to some less amazing, but nevertheless Mario-themed (?) dumps.

First, some new “builds” for Wario’s Woods.
Here’s an alternative build of “Event Version 1”. How is it different?

It starts out with the same Sava Data manager screen that the Event Version 2 ROM dumped prior does.

Oh! KureKure Mou Race 1996-4 Tsuki-Gou is also included!

Some additional notes by Danyl :

It’s a rerun variant of the Event Ver.1 2nd Revision (our dump which had been aired during July 1995)

So that’s mean than our Event Ver.2 dump is the rerun variant and than we should still find the premiere one

I furnish here the broadcasts list of the Ver.1 rerun variant :

1995/09/06～1995/09/30（1～2 times per day）
1995/10/16, 18, 21（1 time per day）
1995/11/02～1995/11/05（1 time per day）
1995/11/13～1995/11/29（1 time per day）
1995/12/11～1995/12/17（2 times per day）
1995/12/25～1995/12/31（2 times per day）
1996/01/08～1996/01/09（2 times per day）

It’s had been also aired during the very begin of the weekly (or the 2nd broadcast) period :

1996/03/31～1996/04/13（1～2 times per day）

Wario no Mori – Event Version 1 (3/31) + BS KureKure Mou Race – 3-tsuki-gou (4/9)
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Here’s another Event Version 1. This one was recovered from deletion.
ワリオの森 イベント バージョン Ver 1 9/6 | Wario no Mori – Event Version 1 (9/6)
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And we’re not out of the woods yet! (Haaaaaaaaa…..)

Here’s some dumps of Futatabi that are labeled as early broadcasts. I’m not entirely sure how they’re different from the present dumps, mind, but nevertheless!

Some additional notes by Danyl :

It’s the original event version of Wario no Mori Futatabi which include password & event presentation screens.

In the code itself however, there are 15% – 20% of differences

I furnish here the broadcasts list :

1997/09/28～1997/11/01（3 times per day）
ワリオの森 再び 10/6 | Wario no Mori – Futatabi (Early Broadcast) (10-6)
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ワリオの森 再び 10/10 | Wario no Mori – Futatabi (Early Broadcast) (10-10) (Corrupted)
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A dump of Stadium 4 of Excitebike. This has an interesting header title….

Like other alternative builds, this has a different set of text here.

エキサイトバイク　ぶんぶんマリオバトル　スタジアム4 1/18 | Excitebike – Bunbun Mario Battle – Stadium 4 (Rerun) (1-18)
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We have a dump that on the surface, looks the same as Mario Paint BS Ban. But it turns out, a picture loads when you select “load” like in Yuushou Naizou Ban.
Except, this one clearly isn’t winning any contests.

At present, we believe this is user data, and the ROM is thus marked as such. If you happen to be the author of this picture, feel free to let us know! We can keep it a secret….

This is mostly of interest for being the first Mario Paint BS Ban ROM we found of this kind. Before this point, I didn’t even realize this was a feature…

User Mario Paint Data
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For a slightly less Mario-y dump, here’s the Game Tora no Ooana Special that goes with this broadcast archived by kukun kun.
This is for the first half of the broadcast. The second half has a Part 2 magazine that is not recovered yet.

ゲーム虎の大穴スペシャル 1　1995年9月16日 | Game Tora no Ooana Special 1 (1995-9-16) (Deleted)
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This dump also has leftovers from Hameln no Violin Haki (Trial Version). Not runnable in it’s current state, but it may be of interest to dataminers.

And now, a wave of redumps! There’s a BIG release coming so we’re gonna ACCELERATE through these. Keeping with today’s theme, here’s 16 redumps of games with Mario characters!

Yoshi no Panepon 6/11
Yoshi no Panepon 10/30
Yoshi no Panepon 6/28
Yoshi no Panepon 5/30
Yoshi no Panepon 11/3
another corrupted Yoshi no Panepon

Wario no Mori Futatabi 7/28
Wario no Mori Futatabi 6/30
Wario no Mori Futatabi 4/9
Wario no Mori Futatabi 6/14
Incomplete Wario no Mori Futatabi

Incomplete Excitebike Bunbun Mario Battle Stadium 1

Dr. Mario 10/2
Dr. Mario 11/9
Corrupted Dr. Mario
Deleted Dr. Mario 6/29

For a while now, something perplexed me.

We had several dumps of BS Zelda ROMs. However, when trying to load them up into a Satellaview environment like with Satellawave software with SatData, many of them would refuse to read save data.

With the help of a few more additional ROM dumps, the answer is starting to click.

Let me start with the dump release in question. This way, it will be separated from some modified ROMs I will put up afterward.

BSゼルダの伝説 MAP2 第2話
BS Zelda no Densetsu – Map 2 – Dai-2-wa
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Since we got this one, an episode 1 one, and an episode 3 one, I noticed that for some reason, all our Map 2 ROMs carried the save data over successfully, unlike the Map 1 ROMs. Then, I checked the broadcast dates.

The map 2 ones are in sequence: 3/3, 3/10. Now, 3/17 I admit is recovered, but since it managed to work in this set fine, that can go here too.

Now, I go back and check the Map 1 ROMs. There are problems here because we have a rerun of ep. 1, ep. 2 and 3’s premiere, and a rerun of ep. 4. But on top of that, the ep.1 and ep. 4 are from different rebroadcast periods.

So with this knowledge in tow, I then figured out where episode-modifier data is in each ROM (I’m working with rebroadcast builds, so they should all be the complete game, unlike the premiere builds)

I wrote some notes down here in a text file as I was working through this. One nice thing is that between Map 1 and Map 2, these notes both apply. This is for checking these in a hex editor:

Week’s Objective: 1BA00-1BCDF

Time Event Week: 5BC9B

Overworld Map is in the 90000s area, 9E5C0-9EFFF for Overworld Map differences between episodes

Thus, you can replicate undumped episodes by changing this data to match that corresponding episode’s data.

And since we very conveniently now have a “rerun” BS Zelda dump for every episode….

I attempted to make new modified ROMs with this knowledge.

This includes an attempt at an episode 4 for Map 2 and an eps. 2-4 for the BS Zelda Map 1 Ep. 1 rerun which is dated 1/1. (these are currently not considered “theoretical mockup replicas” in the off chance any theory here is proven wrong with a new Map 1 dump. Also the hacking WAS a bit sloppy, so I might have minor errors.)
There is also a modified ROM for the 9/28 BS Zelda Map 1 Ep. 4 build, and an attempt to make a Map 2 ep. 2 without referencing the actual confirmed dump.

Very pleasantly, I did a run of Map 1 where I played all 3 modified ROMs after the initial dump, and they played start to end with save RAM carrying the whole way through.

So what exactly is going on?

That’s still hard to say. But between the 1/1 BS Zelda Map 1 Ep. 1’s build and the 9/28 BS Zelda Map 1 Ep. 3’s build, here appear to be differences besides the ones in my notes above, including both large chunks of certain banks in the beginning, middle and end of the ROM and some seemingly random scattered bytes. There may actually be even more post-release build revisions than I initially anticipated. Perhaps one of them addressed the abnormally large amounts of in-game slowdown?

But, thinking about it more, it would make just as much sense that there’d be code to intentionally wipe out SRAM from a previous time period if it was there. After all, if you held on to a save from January to load it in September, you could in theory cheat to win a coveted event prize. Of course there’d be code to check for that!… I just wish I knew exactly what or where that code was.

Ah, speaking of new dumps in a series, here’s some more:

Another Satespo DX magazine. This time it’s the first volume. Did you not see the prior dump? Well, now you don’t have to, because conveniently the data for that one is in the same memory pack. In fact, I’ve been told this dump here is better anyway.

Refresher: Satesupo DX is a magazine made to track the results of Satellaview Derby Stallion 96 competitions. Like Ranking Magazine, you may see the winners and runner-ups of certain events in these.

Satesupo DX Dai-1-gou + Satesupo_DX Dai-4-gou
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Also:

Woah, woah, woah, that’s a LOT of data. RPG Tsukuru 2 data, in fact. What’s here? There’s a Kurekure Mou Race 4 Tsuki Gou… No, wait, LuigiBlood’s got me corrected there, it’s the April 1996 edition of Kurekure Mou Race. Aaaaah, this is gonna confuse me….

Jewel of Live 3 is probably one I should play, since I played 1 and 2. It’s interesting that it moved from Super Dante into 2. How many in this series are left?

Also in here is “Arf to Hakase no Daibouken”. But that isn’t even the entirety of what’s in there, so do check it out if you’re into these!

Not that many screenshots here, since I can’t exactly tell where custom assets were used yet.

RPG Tsukuru 2 Collection
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And after that:

This magazine is for another Houkago no Ousama radio program! To be more specific, it goes with this one on kukun kun’s channel.

You might recognize the voice of Rica Matsumoto ( 松本梨香 ) if you’re even the slightest bit familiar with the Pokemon anime. Yes, Ash Ketchum Satoshi’s voice; She had her own radio show here! Tagging alongside her is Hitomi Mien ( 三重野瞳 ) who has a detailed Wikipedia article about her prior music and screenwriting work.

But, uh, wait, there’s something else in this ROM too… it was deleted, but recoverable!

Another Tamori no Picross! This is a 3/27 rerun of a 8/1 broadcast.

松本梨香と三重野瞳の放課後の王様　1996年03月29日(金) + タモリのピクロス03月27日
Rika & Hitomi (3-29) + [Deleted]Tamori no Picross (8-1, 3-27)
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And lastly, a bit of leftover data recovered from another 8M. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem like we can easily transplant this into a prior dump (I tried transplanting data from other Silicon Chounaikai dumps, but this just results in corrupted or crashed ROMs). Thus, I can’t say much about it. But I have been told it corresponds with this kukun kun video.

爆笑問題のシリコン町内会　1996年10月12日
Bakusho Mondai no Silicon Chounaikai 10/12 (leftover)
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