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Category: SD Gundam G-NEXT | ＳＤガンダム　ＧＮＥＸＴ

A strategy/action game by Bandai featuring their trademark mini-mechas.
As far as I’ve noted, this seems to be the only major Bandai work associated with the Satellaview.

Final dumps and redumps of the year

This is my final Satellaview dump post of the year, from LuigiBlood 🙂

I’ve accumulated a bunch of dumps and redumps in the past few months, and it’s way overdue again to give the updates, so I’ll seperate it the post in three parts, from three different dumpers.

 

From j4m13c0, we got a Memory Pack dump of two things:

This memory pack contains Kanaderu Score, and is ACTUALLY DOWNLOADED as it is dated, and it actually contains a song from Ryoma de Yuku, one of the RPG Tsukuru 2 games!
So you could edit and see the composition of it, which is a nice bonus.

Then there’s a magazine called Yusuke Akamatsu Theater, it seems to be a story written by Yusuke Akamatsu, and ends with an advertisement of an album by the same person, published by Shinko Music Entertainment.

The download includes a seperate version of the magazine, and the full Memory Pack dump with the Ongaku Tsukuru content. Both were originally deleted, but were recovered, so we cannot confirm if the data is actually good, but it seems to be alright.

Yusuke Akamatsu Theater (5/7) | 赤松裕介劇場 (5/7)
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From PsyKo, we got an interesting dump:

This is a demo of Harvest Moon, which was previously dumped, but the data was originally considered bad, this one however has not been deleted, and its integrity is confirmed intact. It is slightly different from the other dump, but 99% of the data is identical.

This is worth it just to have some confirmed intact dump of this demo.

Harvest Moon (Demo) | 牧場物語 (Demo)
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Then, the rest of this post are all dumps from PrincessBeef, who has been really busy buying a bunch of these Memory Packs, and we cannot thank her enough.

First of all, let’s begin with a bunch of games that came from retail builds:

This is Air Management II, aka Aerobiz Supersonic in the US, this is 100% identical to the japanese retail Super Famicom build except for the header, of course.

Aerobiz Supersonic | エアーマネジメントII 航空王をめざせ
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This is self explanatory, this is Space Invaders – The Original Game, the remake for Super Famicom, also known for having a smaller version inside the Game Boy version for the Super Game Boy.

This is also 100% identical to the japanese retail Super Famicom version, except for the header again.

Space Invaders – The Original Game
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Next, some magazines with some extras:

First, another magazine of Yuuki Nae no GE-MU no Tsubo (Yuuki Nae’s Game Jar in english) was dumped from a different date, with different funny drawings based on games, a profile of a game developer, in this case, it’s Hideki Konno, as well as a presentation of Konae-chan no Dokidoki Penguin Kazoku, which is actually the game where Yuuki Nae stars in!

And then includes another dump of Konae-chan no Dokidoki Penguin Kazoku in it, which was already recently dumped and released by Forest of Illusion, it’s a different version of the game that isn’t an Event version!

There’s also some leftover data of what looks like graphics but I couldn’t figure out more about, but I left it in the full Memory Pack dump included.

Yuuki Nae’s Game Jar + KONAE-chan’s Pounding Penguin Family (12/22) | 裕木奈江のGE-MUの壺 + ＫＯＮＡＥチャンのどきどきペンギン家族 (12/22)
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Now this magazine has confused me a lot. I’ve just shown… all of it in these 3 images.

This is apparently Lily Franky Theater (which was origniall, titled Manga here, but… there’s nothing? It just says “Discarded”. I cannot seem to find anything more about this…
Maybe it was something that was promised and then it didn’t happen and made the most useless content data ever?

It also contains a lot of leftover data in the full Memory Pack dump of what looks like Wario’s Woods, but it’s not placed the same way, so this might be something undumped…?

Lily Franky Theater / Manga (5/13) | リリーフランキー劇場／まんが (5/13)
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Cheap de Gorgeous Vol. 5! What was previously dumped was Volume 1, this is a cooking magazine, with a bunch of recipes and sometimes people talking with each other, it was unfortunately “deleted,” but we fixed it.

Cheap de Gorgeous Vol. 5 (5/7) | チープdeゴージャス Vol. 5 (5/7)
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Cheap de Gorgeous Vol. 5 (5/7) | チープdeゴージャス Vol. 5 (5/7)
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Next, some redumps, these next two are identical to previous dumps except the dates so I won’t bother writing much about them.

Wario no Mori Futatabi (Redump, 6/16) | ワリオの森 再び (6/16)
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SD Gundam G-NEXT Unit & Map Collection (Redump, 02/09) | ＳＤガンダムＧＮＥＸＴ ユニット＆マップコレクション (2月9日)
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And I kept what I feel is the best for last:

We got another RPG Tsukuru 2 game, BS KureKure Mou Race! A game that you have to finish to then get a password to send via post card and receive prizes on a first-come, first-served basis.

This seems to be the February version, as the name might suggest, but seems also to be the second one.

BS KureKure Mou Race – 2 Tsuki-Gou | BSくれくれ猛レース 2月号
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And that’s all of them!

Thanks again to j4m13c0, PsyKo and PrincessBeef for their time to bring these dumps to the public!

SD 2 Gundam with a redump

LuigiBlood here, bringing now a redump of SD Gundam G-Next’s GNEXT MAP DATA with a different date: 2/25.

This redump was done by techknight! However if I was just going to bring this dump and that would be it, that wouldn’t be fun isn’t it?

Because there’s little to no instructions on how to actually make use of this extra content for SD Gundam G-NEXT, it gets really confusing and fast, I have done my research.

First of all, load SD Gundam G-NEXT with the Memory Pack with this extra content with the emulator of your choice. The game will absolutely NOT tell you the data has been loaded, making it extra confusing to figure out.

In the main menu, there’s a Scenario mode, a Campaign mode, and what’s called ConfigMap mode. The Satellaview content can only be accessible via the ConfigMap mode where you can set up a custom single player or multi player match with the map and units of your choice, so select that mode.

You can now select maps, and you will need to select three types of maps: a Earth map, a Space map, and a Moon map. All three types are required to start.
The main game contains 7 maps of each type, the extra content brings 3 new Earth maps and 3 new Space maps, here’s a list of them:


Once you selected one of each type, press Start, you will now see the Rule Configuration screen.

The rule config is comprised of 3 pages, you can go to the next page with Select, watch out that the B Button will go back to the Map Select!

I will actually try to explain to the best of my abilities, everything:

  • Page 1:
    • COMMAND: The amount of orders you can give to units in a single turn.
    • TURN: The amount of turns in a match.
    • 軍モード (Army Mode): The amount of army organizations that can be selected (explained later).
    • 勝利条件 (Victory Conditions): Switch conditions that defines a victory.
    • PLAYER: Defines up to 4 players if they’re either Human, Computer or None (NOT)
    • 生産モード (Production Mode): It seems to be related to unit production but I haven’t fully understood it I apologize…
  • Page 2:
    • ORGANIZATION: You can select army organizations here per player, I will explain what’s going on about it after this list.
    • CAPITAL: The starting military funds of each player can be defined here.
    • TEC: Unit Production Technology, it can be set between 1 to 20.
  • Page 3:
    • CAPTAIN MS: You can select a Mobile Suit captain… but I don’t understand how it works.
    • SOUND: You can select between Mono (モノラル) and Stereo (ステレオ) here. For some reason, Mono is the default.
    • 補給 (Supply): You can select between Manual (マニュアル) and Auto (オート)
    • BGM: You can select music for a specific player’s turn.
    • CONTROL: You can select a controller for a specific player’s turn.

Press START once you’re done, to start playing.

Now, a word about the Organizations: Army mode in the base game can be either 6 or 12, here’s what can be selected per player:

  • Army Mode 6:
  • Army Mode 12:

When you have the extra content enabled, Army Mode will change to either 7 or 13, here’s the flags available in that case:

  • Army Mode 7:
  • Army Mode 13:

This flag is the new military organization available.

Hopefully this will clear up a lot of things, I also tried to look up differences between the retail Memory Pack release and the Satellaview download release, but I couldn’t find anything really different.

Now here’s the redump from techknight that you can use:

SD Gundam G-NEXT Unit & Map Collection (Redump, 02/25) | ＳＤガンダムＧＮＥＸＴ ユニット＆マップコレクション (2月25日)
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This dump is no different from all of the others except the date.