{"id":3084,"date":"2024-11-04T13:15:37","date_gmt":"2024-11-04T20:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/superfamicom.org\/blog\/?p=3084"},"modified":"2024-11-04T11:31:40","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T18:31:40","slug":"ahh-the-return-of-the-birthday-post-this-is-gonna-be-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/superfamicom.org\/blog\/2024\/11\/ahh-the-return-of-the-birthday-post-this-is-gonna-be-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Ahh, the return of the birthday post! This is gonna be good&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alright, I got to post on my birthday!<\/p>\n<p>So, for this ROM release&#8230; I wanted it to be something special. HOWEVER&#8230; I needed to do a lot of research first.<\/p>\n<p>So let me build up to what I am aware of.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/god-bird.net\/research\/satellaprograms.html\">God-Bird.net<\/a>, a magazine called &#8220;Ranking Magazine&#8221; ran from June 29, 1996 up until a undetermined (but likely 1998) ending date.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u30e9\u30f3\u30ad\u30f3\u30b0\u30de\u30ac\u30b8\u30f3<br \/>\n\u653e\u9001\u671f\u9593\t\uff08\u9045\u304f\u3068\u3082\uff091996\u5e746\u670829\u65e5\uff5e<br \/>\n\u89e3\u8aac\t\u8a73\u7d30\u4e0d\u660e<br \/>\n&#8212;<br \/>\nRanking Magazine<br \/>\nBroadcast period (latest info) 1996\/6\/29 &#8211;<br \/>\nExplanation Details unknown<br \/>\n\u3002<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Although it says this, <a href=\"https:\/\/god-bird.net\/research\/satellaoriginal.html\">there are other sections on the site which seem to have references to other ranking magazines.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>4\u30b9\u30c6\u30fc\u30b8\u3092\u30af\u30ea\u30a2\u3059\u308b\u3068\u6210\u7e3e\u304c\u30d1\u30b9\u30ef\u30fc\u30c9\u3067\u8868\u793a\u3055\u308c\u3001\u305d\u308c\u3092\u30cf\u30ac\u30ad\u3067\u9001\u308b\u3053\u3068\u3067\u5fdc\u52df\u3067\u304d\u308b\u3002\u756a\u7d44\u300c\u30de\u30ea\u30aa\u306e\u68ee\uff5e\u30e9\u30f3\u30ad\u30f3\u30b0\u30de\u30ac\u30b8\u30f3\u300d\u5185\u3067\u9806\u4f4d\u304c\u767a\u8868\u3055\u308c\u3001\u4e0a\u4f4d\u306b\u306f\u8cde\u54c1\u3082\u51fa\u3055\u308c\u305f\u3002\u30e9\u30f3\u30ad\u30f3\u30b0\u30a4\u30d9\u30f3\u30c8\u7b2c\u4e00\u5f3e\u306f5\u670819\u65e5\u3001\u7b2c\u4e8c\u5f3e\u306f7\u670820\u65e5\u304b\u3089\u884c\u308f\u308c\u305f\u3002<br \/>\n&#8212;<br \/>\nAfter clearing the four stages, your score will be displayed with a password, and you can apply by sending it by postcard. The rankings were announced on the program &#8220;Mario no Mori ~ Ranking Magazine&#8221;, and prizes were awarded to the top players. The first ranking event was held on May 19th, and the second on July 20th.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hmm, come to think of it, I think I saw that on kukun kun&#8217;s videos!<br \/>\nYes&#8230; um&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/FfohDpNNwD4?si=Ti0PEMokf4R3CTah&#038;t=4940\">It was about an hour and 22 minutes into this video.<\/a><br \/>\nThis doesn&#8217;t seem to match up exactly with the info supplied by God-Bird but it is nevertheless the evidence of regularly-distributed ranking magazines for various Satellaview Events.<br \/>\nNotably, this mentions not just Wario, but also WaiWai De Q and Panel De Pon. Something about BS Zelda as well.<\/p>\n<p>Man, this is difficult to dig through with the hours of archival video kukun kun has, but nevertheless! It looks like these were regularly distributed.<\/p>\n<p>With that established, let&#8217;s move forward!<\/p>\n<p>Be sure to have the sound ON when watching this!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Fqt39deId3w?si=eY6HRBnhi3th0zEe\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>One of these has been recovered, and&#8230; this particular one is a real doozy!<br \/>\nEven compared to what kukun kun caught on video, it feels SPECIAL.<\/p>\n<p>A few things to go over, but the most important thing is&#8230; the synthesized voice audio! Yes, I mean, I didn&#8217;t even know that was even possible on a Super Famicom before this point! Absolutely mind-blowing! Every person who ranked in BS Super Mario Collection got the honor of having a voiced shoutout long before the days when people paid Twitch streamers for basically the same thing!<\/p>\n<p>Ah, yes, I did say this was for BS Super Mario Collection, right?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bsx.superfamicom.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/pics\/Ranking%20Magazine%20-%203%20Tsuki-gou%20%5BRestored%5D017.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Besides the winner announcements, there&#8217;s also articles with art from the game that is higher-res than what would come from dumping the actual game ROMs!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bsx.superfamicom.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/pics\/Ranking%20Magazine%20-%203%20Tsuki-gou%20%5BRestored%5D018.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is also one of the first magazines we got which has many user-submitted fanart pieces!<br \/>\n&#8230;. WHY IS CARBUNCLE FROM PUYO PUYO THERE?<\/p>\n<p>Besides BS Super Mario Collection, there are also sections for Satella-Q and Zenkoku baken \u014dja kettei-sen 2 (To newbies: Satella-Q was the regular quiz game series. The latter thing was a Soundlink Derby Stallion 96 event w<a href=\"https:\/\/superfamicom.org\/blog\/2023\/06\/the-biggest-batch-so-far-part-1\/\">hich a ROM dump for one episode was obtained of way back<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bsx.superfamicom.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/pics\/Ranking%20Magazine%20-%203%20Tsuki-gou%20%5BRestored%5D020.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Adding to the distinctness of this program are these idle animations for the bottom box, with Satebo and Parabo!<\/p>\n<p>Do note that since this was recovered from a 8M with deleted data, the ROM may not be pure. There are no obvious bugs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bsx.superfamicom.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/ROMs\/Ranking%20Magazine%20-%203%20Tsuki-gou.zip\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bsx.superfamicom.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/pics\/Ranking%20Magazine%20-%203%20Tsuki-gou%20%5BRestored%5D015.png\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n\u30e9\u30f3\u30de\u30ac\uff13\u6708\u53f7<br \/>\n\u3089\u3093\u304d\u3093\u3050 \u307e\u304c\u3058\u3093 \uff13\u6708\u53f7<br \/>\nRanking Magazine &#8211; 3 Tsuki-gou<br \/>\nRanking Magazine &#8211; March Issue<br \/>\nROM download<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The reason I tried to get all this research down on this before releasing is because I had some concerns about the theoretical privacy risk of a computerized voice shouting the aliases of names.<br \/>\nThat said, my policy so far &#8211; and I intend to stick by it &#8211; has been &#8220;If it was broadcast publicly, it&#8217;s fair game.&#8221;<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s no signs that this was a personalized copy (And I doubt the owner would have deleted the ROM like it was trash if there was a strong connection there!)<br \/>\nTherefore, as soon as I cross-checked and verified that similar types of magazines were on kukun kun&#8217;s videoes, I decided to post it here.<br \/>\nI hope you all enjoy the findings!<br \/>\nI&#8217;d LOVE to see the voice generation reverse-engineered and used in homebrew games!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alright, I got to post on my birthday! So, for this ROM release&#8230; I wanted it to be something special. HOWEVER&#8230; I needed to do a lot of research first. So let me build up to what I am aware of. According to God-Bird.net, a magazine called &#8220;Ranking Magazine&#8221; ran from June 29, 1996 up<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-right\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Continue Reading&#8230; Ahh, the return of the birthday post! This is gonna be good&#8230;<\/span><a class=\"btn btn-secondary continue-reading\" href=\"https:\/\/superfamicom.org\/blog\/2024\/11\/ahh-the-return-of-the-birthday-post-this-is-gonna-be-good\/\">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-NK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/superfamicom.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3084"}],"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=3084"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/superfamicom.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3095,"href":"https:\/\/superfamicom.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3084\/revisions\/3095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/superfamicom.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/superfamicom.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/superfamicom.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}