{"id":2840,"date":"2020-12-26T00:28:58","date_gmt":"2020-12-26T07:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/superfamicom.org\/blog\/?p=2840"},"modified":"2021-08-17T16:39:40","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T23:39:40","slug":"2020-was-a-rough-year-but-its-almost-ogre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/superfamicom.org\/blog\/2020\/12\/2020-was-a-rough-year-but-its-almost-ogre\/","title":{"rendered":"2020 Was A Rough Year, But It&#8217;s Almost Ogre."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Yes. I waited that long just for that pun.)<\/p>\n<p>One more release before the year&#8217;s end &#8211; one I was kinda holding back on for a bit while I thought of how to present it.<\/p>\n<p>Back in February, hendersa found an 8M pack of the 8M Pack demo of Tactics Ogre <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tCyhdSikNho\">and put some footage up on this channel.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was ROM dumped fairly shortly afterwards &#8211; I believe hendersa learned how to make a dump himself, which is impressive &#8211; and I spent a bit of time analyzing it.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KYJ1m-6mePY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no issues with the dump, and it emulates well enough on just about anything, so we can get right down to the contents.<\/p>\n<p>The game boots right into a pre-set map with a red team and blue team, each with matching sets of characters from Tactics Ogre&#8217;s minor character\/class pool.<\/p>\n<p>The most interesting thing about this demo is when it clicks in that the player has control over all the characters in the battlefield; regardless of red team or blue team, the 1P controller can check their menus and issue them commands as their turn comes up. If you have a buddy (or group of buddies) around, you can pass the controller to make a sort of multiplayer experience.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s where I give a reminder that Tactics Ogre is normally a completely single-player game. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>The header date of the ROM is 10\/2. Since it&#8217;s not likely for the demo to have been put out long after the retail game&#8217;s availability, this makes the download date almost certainly 10\/2\/1995. That was a Monday, so it&#8217;s possible this may have been the demo&#8217;s earliest availability, but I can neither confirm or deny that (It does not seem to appear in those scanned Famitsu schedules? Then again, neither did the Cho Aniki demo&#8230;)<br \/>\nTactics Ogre would be released 4 days later.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve been checking the Satellaview archival videos on NicoNico and from Kukun kun&#8217;s YouTube Channel, you can tell that Tactics Ogre was frequently promoted &#8211; there&#8217;s potentially <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OvnZWqolceo\">more to ROM dump for Tactics Ogre regarding magazines with promo screenshots<\/a> and potentially more radio programming to recover. However, It doesn&#8217;t seem like any of the archival recording we have directly references the demo. That said, I might be wrong there. Feel free to correct me if that is the case.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bsx.superfamicom.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/ROMs\/BS_Tactics_Ogre.zip\"><br \/>\n\u30bf\u30af\u30c6\u30a3\u30af\u30b9\u30aa\u30a6\u30ac BS\u7248 | Tactics Ogre BS-Ban<br \/>\nROM Download<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Yes. I waited that long just for that pun.) One more release before the year&#8217;s end &#8211; one I was kinda holding back on for a bit while I thought of how to present it. Back in February, hendersa found an 8M pack of the 8M Pack demo of Tactics Ogre and put some footage<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-right\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Continue Reading&#8230; 2020 Was A Rough Year, But It&#8217;s Almost Ogre.<\/span><a class=\"btn btn-secondary continue-reading\" href=\"https:\/\/superfamicom.org\/blog\/2020\/12\/2020-was-a-rough-year-but-its-almost-ogre\/\">Continue Reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[145],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3rnlg-JO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/superfamicom.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2840"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/superfamicom.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/superfamicom.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/superfamicom.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/superfamicom.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2840"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/superfamicom.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2861,"href":"https:\/\/superfamicom.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2840\/revisions\/2861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/superfamicom.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/superfamicom.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/superfamicom.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}