I was planning something else for Halloween but a life shakeup happened, so here’s a rushed article.

a bit back, a ROM was dumped of BS Tantei Club – Kouhen. This is not exactly the dump that’s been going around before, which was labeled “Saihousou”. This is from the premiere.

While other build differences aren’t known, casual gameplay can access the BS Ihatovo Monogatari advertisement and event postcard screen.

BS Tantei Club – Kouhen (Premiere)
ROM Download

I will go into the dump I intended for later, I guess.

BONS: assorted redumps

Mario Paint BS Ban
Special Tee Shot
Wario no Mori – Futatabi
Yoshi no Panepon – BS Ban

Let me leave off with the text of a tweet I made a bit back, since ChronoMoogle told me it should have gone on the blog:

A lot of Satellaview preservation is thanks to 8M pack dumping. However, it is believed that some media simply can not be obtained this way.

One of them is “R no Shosai”, a series of horror anthology stories. Broadcast in 1997, this would be right up the alley of those who liked the ghost story aspects of the first Famicom Detective Club games. These are simple kinetic stories presented in photos, text and voice acting, with the main hook of the program being the choose-your-own-ending story branchs to the spooky tales.

In a feat that is rare on even the more ambitious Satellaview programs, every branching path is voice acted. How this is done, I do not know, although the heavily compressed voices during these branches suggest they were stored in the game, rather than played over the Soundlink radio.

The subject matter of the stories can get pretty dark as well, which feels un-Nintendo-like, in spite of their being credited as the developer.

Part of the reason it is suspected this can’t be recovered – besides the fact no data of it has been found outside VHS recordings of gameplay – is because there are technical signs in said VHS recordings that the program downloaded directly to PSRAM rather than the 8M memory pack. As such, outside a theoretical huge leak, only Nintendo themselves can save this one.

What a cruel twist of irony, for the game about ghosts to disappear like a ghost in and of itself.

Videos of R no Shosai can be found on kukun kun and halki’s Youtube channels.