{"id":1084,"date":"2011-11-22T17:05:35","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T00:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/superfamicom.org\/blog\/?p=1084"},"modified":"2013-11-26T10:29:25","modified_gmt":"2013-11-26T17:29:25","slug":"new-rom-dumps-and-how-a-board-game-can-blow-my-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/superfamicom.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/new-rom-dumps-and-how-a-board-game-can-blow-my-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"New ROM Dumps, and how a board game can blow my mind."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;Sometimes we do awful things in our lives, even if we don&#8217;t know it. Sometimes the only proof that we&#8217;ve made mistakes &#8211; terrible mistakes the UNIVERSE ITSELF punishes us for &#8211; is that we look around and find we&#8217;re playing&#8230;Monopoly.&#8221;<br \/>\n    \u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.qwantz.com\/index.php?comic=1944\">Dinosaur Comics<\/a><br \/>\nThanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/Monopoly\">TVTropes<\/a> for the quote.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zXNcgmrnIwA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; Ok, ok, I&#8217;m sorry, that was harsh. I&#8217;m not gonna turn back on my Satellaview research any time soon, now. \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n<p>But yes, Monopoly! This one&#8230; um&#8230; well, how do I put this? Ikari dumped the ROM, let me have a look, and&#8230; There&#8217;s so many strange things about this that perplex me, I&#8217;ve had to get a lot of help getting information on this. Thanks to Luigiblood and bluesun for all their assistance.<\/p>\n<p>Where do I begin? I&#8217;m not sure, although I have my hunchs. The most significant bit of documentation about Monopoly on the Satellaview is of course on trusty old <a href=\"http:\/\/www.f3.dion.ne.jp\/~kameb\/satella\/satella.htm\">Satellaview History Museum<\/a>, but&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1995\/12\/03<br \/>\n\u301c<br \/>\n1995\/12\/05\t\uff22\uff33\u30e2\u30ce\u30dd\u30ea\u30fc\u8b1b\u5ea7\u301c\u30dc\u30fc\u30c9\u30a6\u30a9\u30fc\u30af\u3078\u306e\u9053<br \/>\n\u7b2c\uff11\u56de<br \/>\n1995\/12\/10<br \/>\n\u301c<br \/>\n1995\/12\/12\t\uff22\uff33\u30e2\u30ce\u30dd\u30ea\u30fc\u8b1b\u5ea7\u301c\u30dc\u30fc\u30c9\u30a6\u30a9\u30fc\u30af\u3078\u306e\u9053<br \/>\n\u7b2c\uff12\u56de<br \/>\n1995\/12\/17<br \/>\n\u301c<br \/>\n1995\/12\/19\t\uff22\uff33\u30e2\u30ce\u30dd\u30ea\u30fc\u8b1b\u5ea7\u301c\u30dc\u30fc\u30c9\u30a6\u30a9\u30fc\u30af\u3078\u306e\u9053<br \/>\n\u7b2c\uff13\u56de<br \/>\n1995\/12\/24<br \/>\n\u301c<br \/>\n1995\/12\/26\t\uff22\uff33\u30e2\u30ce\u30dd\u30ea\u30fc\u8b1b\u5ea7\u301c\u30dc\u30fc\u30c9\u30a6\u30a9\u30fc\u30af\u3078\u306e\u9053<br \/>\n\u7b2c\uff14\u56de\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>With those titles &#8211; the &#8220;BS Monopoly Kouza Boardwalk Heno Michi&#8221; series, to be precise &#8211; it&#8217;d be hard to tell whether these directly correlate to a ROM which header is basically \u30e2\u30ce\u30dd\u30ea\u30fc\u30ec\u30c3\u30c9\u30ab\u30c3\u30d7.<\/p>\n<p>However, Luigiblood pointed out to me that the ROM is marked in it&#8217;s header as the byte ucon64 identifies as &#8220;Full Size + Soundlink&#8221;. This is strange.<br \/>\nEvery other ROM dump prior which was labeled that was a Soundlink game which had no sound. This game, however, has boot-ups and appears to play like a download game.<\/p>\n<p>I asked bluesun for some further help, and he eventually went to translate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncn-t.net\/yulil\/satella\/pot\/closs.htm\">this Japanese &#8220;review&#8221; page.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is what he learned from that;<br \/>\n1) The Soundlink broadcast featured an interview with Ikuo Hyakuta, winner of the 1988 Monopoly World Championships in London, England.<br \/>\n2) The game would play past the schedule, whereupon supposedly BGM would stop.<br \/>\n3) The game allowed three further bootups.<\/p>\n<p>He also told me the order of the broadcasts went like this:<br \/>\n1) Orange Cup<br \/>\n2) Red Cup<br \/>\n3) Yellow Cup<br \/>\n4) Green Cup<\/p>\n<p>Which seemed to suggest that the ROM dumps are from the actual Soundlink series after all!<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Yes, dumps! There&#8217;s more than one!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_mLkSpcPSNQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Beware!<\/p>\n<p>A note on emulation compatibility, BTW: Your emulator better be able to read the currency from BS-X when loading up the Monopolies, otherwise the game won&#8217;t let you play. You will be gambling that money here!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bsx.superfamicom.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/ROMs\/[Ikari]%20Monopoly%202%20BS%20-%20Red%20Cup.zip\">Monopoly 2 BS &#8211; Red Cup | \u30e2\u30ce\u30dd\u30ea\u30fc\u30ec\u30c3\u30c9\u30ab\u30c3\u30d7 ( \uff22\uff33\u30e2\u30ce\u30dd\u30ea\u30fc\u8b1b\u5ea7\u301c\u30dc\u30fc\u30c9\u30a6\u30a9\u30fc\u30af\u3078\u306e\u9053 \u7b2c2\u56de ? )<br \/> ROM Download<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bsx.superfamicom.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/ROMs\/[Ikari]%20Monopoly%202%20BS%20-%20Yellow%20Cup.zip\">Monopoly 2 BS &#8211; Yellow Cup | \u30e2\u30ce\u30dd\u30ea\u30fc\u30a4\u30a8\u30ed\u30fc\u30ab\u30c3\u30d7 ( \uff22\uff33\u30e2\u30ce\u30dd\u30ea\u30fc\u8b1b\u5ea7\u301c\u30dc\u30fc\u30c9\u30a6\u30a9\u30fc\u30af\u3078\u306e\u9053 \u7b2c3\u56de ? )<br \/> ROM Download<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oh, and just to pad this so we have 3 ROMs like the typical pattern&#8230;<br \/>\nIkari also got a redump of a BS Tantei Club, Yuki ni Kieta Kako ROM. It&#8217;s data matches up with the 2nd chapter of the story down to the checksum. It&#8217;s date is marked 6\/20 instead of 6\/14.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bsx.superfamicom.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/ROMs\/[Ikari]%20BS%20Tantei%20Club%20-%20Yuki%20ni%20Kieta%20Kako%20-%20Chuuhen%20(redump).zip\">BS Tantei Club: Yuki Ni Kieta Kako &#8211; Chuuhen | BS\u63a2\u5075\u5036\u697d\u90e8 \u96ea\u306b\u6d88\u3048\u305f\u904e\u53bb \u4e2d\u7de8 <br \/> REDUMP ROM download<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-5308582010420588\";\n\/* Sega Pico (Banner) *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"4040450529\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 468;\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Sometimes we do awful things in our lives, even if we don&#8217;t know it. 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