{"id":655,"date":"2009-12-22T21:58:20","date_gmt":"2009-12-23T04:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/superfamicom.org\/blog\/?p=655"},"modified":"2009-12-22T21:59:51","modified_gmt":"2009-12-23T04:59:51","slug":"merry-christmas-your-present-is-some-harvest-mooning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/superfamicom.org\/blog\/2009\/12\/merry-christmas-your-present-is-some-harvest-mooning\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas! Your present is some Harvest Mooning!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For Christmas, my extra-generous gift shall be a ROM release that people might actually have fun with. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve upped some Gameplay of it on Youtube! Wanna see?<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Pzib2MxE6PA&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s Harvest Moon!<br \/>\nWell, to be more specific, the ROM Header identifies it as \u7267\u5834\u7269\u8a9e \u7b2c\uff12\u8a71 (Bokujo Monogatari Dai-2-wa) .<\/p>\n<p>My immediate searching on that lead to the listing of it&#8217;s premiere date in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.f3.dion.ne.jp\/~kameb\/satella\/st_slg.htm\">Kameb&#8217;s<\/a> site;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">1996\/09\/09<br \/>\n\uff5e<br \/>\n1996\/09\/13<\/span><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">\uff22\uff33\u7267\u5834\u7269\u8a9e<br \/>\n\u7b2c\uff12\u8a71\u3000\u5927\u5730\u3068\u5fc3\u306b\u6ea2\u308c\u308b\u5b9f\u308a\uff01<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So this is supposedly a Soundlink series based off the cult hit. So, what&#8217;s peculiar about it? Well, if you see the video you&#8217;ll spot a few of the things &#8211; You start with a slightly pre-formed set of farmland, and you can&#8217;t leave it. You&#8217;re in the summer season, with some pre-plowed land, a gold hammer, a gold axe, a watering can and a seemingly infinite supply of tomato and corn seeds&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8230; and pretty much all you can do is grow tomatos and corn, and destroy things around you. There is no livestock, no point to getting money, no plowing, no women-wooing&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8230; no timer? No game-locking up after an hour? Where&#8217;s some of the quirky ROM behaviors commonly associated with Soundlink ROMs? Sure, there&#8217;s no sound at all, still, but&#8230; huh&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The game even runs on my Super UFO ROM copier, and I&#8217;m betting a SNES Powerpak can run it fine as well henceforth.<\/p>\n<p>That all being said, considering some the strange things that occurs if you keep playing long enough, I do -not- think the game is playing the way it&#8217;s meant to. But for the moment, let me start by posting some of the more normal pictures.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bsx.superfamicom.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/pics\/bokujo\/BS%20Bokujo%20%20Monogatari%20Da-2-wa%20%28Japan%29_000.png\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nYes, it does rain sometimes.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bsx.superfamicom.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/pics\/bokujo\/BS%20Bokujo%20%20Monogatari%20Da-2-wa%20%28Japan%29_002.png\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nOf course, the corn grows A-OK..<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bsx.superfamicom.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/pics\/bokujo\/BS%20Bokujo%20%20Monogatari%20Da-2-wa%20%28Japan%29_004.png\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nAs do tomatos. You can even sell them, although the money is seemingly pointless.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bsx.superfamicom.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/pics\/bokujo\/BS%20Bokujo%20%20Monogatari%20Da-2-wa%20%28Japan%29_005.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now, here&#8217;s where things start to kinda fall apart&#8230; I tried playing all the way through the &#8220;Summer&#8217;s&#8221; end, and got into the fall seasons&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bsx.superfamicom.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/pics\/bokujo\/BS%20Bokujo%20%20Monogatari%20Da-2-wa%20%28Japan%29_008.png\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nWell&#8230; what do I do now?<br \/>\nMy endless seeds do not grow, and I quite literally can&#8217;t do anything more, except&#8230; keep skipping days!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bsx.superfamicom.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/pics\/bokujo\/BS%20Bokujo%20%20Monogatari%20Da-2-wa%20%28Japan%29_009.png\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nHere&#8217;s your humbugging Christmas picture, guys!  Yes, I went into winter, and it&#8217;s even mooreeee pointless.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bsx.superfamicom.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/pics\/bokujo\/BS%20Bokujo%20%20Monogatari%20Da-2-wa%20%28Japan%29_011.png\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nEventually you can skip into spring, and even go back into summer, and seemingly start the process over again. Does it loop endlessly? I don&#8217;t know, I didn&#8217;t play that far, because I already knew when I couldn&#8217;t do anything in the fall that I was going way beyond the point I was supposed to be playing.<\/p>\n<p>I suspect a large chunk of data may be absent from this ROM dump &#8211; Perhaps data that controller most of the Satellaview-specific handling, like a timer, new sound code, or automation of gameplay. Unfortunately I can&#8217;t verify much of that, as besides Kameb&#8217;s site, I can&#8217;t find much information on this entry in the series. Also, it&#8217;s rather weird that the removal of such data keeps the game as playable as it is&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So, ROM downloading time! This one will boot in nearly anything, even real hardware, with seemingly identical results.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bsx.superfamicom.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/ROMs\/BS%20Bokujo%20%20Monogatari%20Da-2-wa%20(Japan).rar\">BS Bokujo Monogatari Dai-2-wa<br \/>\n\uff22\uff33\u7267\u5834\u7269\u8a9e \u7b2c\uff12\u8a71<br \/>\nROM DOWNLOAD<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bsx.superfamicom.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/pics\/bokujo\/BS%20Bokujo%20%20Monogatari%20Da-2-wa%20%28Japan%29_006.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Christmas, my extra-generous gift shall be a ROM release that people might actually have fun with. \ud83d\ude42 I&#8217;ve upped some Gameplay of it on Youtube! Wanna see? It&#8217;s Harvest Moon! Well, to be more specific, the ROM Header identifies it as \u7267\u5834\u7269\u8a9e \u7b2c\uff12\u8a71 (Bokujo Monogatari Dai-2-wa) . My immediate searching on that lead to<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-right\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Continue Reading&#8230; Merry Christmas! Your present is some Harvest Mooning!<\/span><a class=\"btn btn-secondary continue-reading\" href=\"https:\/\/superfamicom.org\/blog\/2009\/12\/merry-christmas-your-present-is-some-harvest-mooning\/\">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":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[147],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3rnlg-az","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/superfamicom.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655"}],"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=655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/superfamicom.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/superfamicom.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/superfamicom.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/superfamicom.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}