Today some curious oldies for our Japanese friends.


Okamoto Ayako no Match Play Golf for the Othello MultiVision (岡本綾子のマッチプレイゴルフ), the Tsukuda system compatible with SG-1000, featuring once's Japan favorite's Ayako Okamoto golf champion.


Uranai Angel Cutie for the SG-1000/SC-3000 (占いエンゼルキューティー), a keyboard software where a naked angel tells you your fortune. Being totally in Japanese, this is practically impossible to use for people who don't understand a little of it. Just inputing your birthdate is enough of a challenge (Showa era is 1926–1989 so you have to subtract 1926 from your birth date and then...). If you used this in 1984 please tell us if the software was right in predicting your future.


Last for today, a Prototype of Doki Doki Penguin Land - Uchuu Daibouken for the Master System (どきどき ペンギンランド 宇宙大冒険), everyone's favorite penguin in a puzzle-action hybrid space adventure, cute and worth playing. And the game also feature a level editor. This is a Japanese cartridge prototype, exact differences yet unknown.

Hi kids !!!
Did you write that letter to request the new roms you wanted this year? Oh oh I see you did not. You kids don't write enough those days I can tell; you should be writing more letters and playing less video games.

Some fancy game I got for you tonight!
Suho Cheonsa for the Samsung Gam*Boy / Sega Master System (수호천사), an original Korean breakout-style game by Open Corp. It is quite an elusive game, although a version of it it was also included in the also elusive 4 Pak All Action compilation released by HES by Australia (which feature other games from Open).
What is this face you're making boy? Sure it's not that new Alex Kidd game, but in my time all we got from santa was a wooden 8x8x8 pixels cube and a blocky orange. Surely this must be real exotic.

And I've got some prototypes from my secret pocket!

Maou Golvellius [Proto] for the Sega Master System (魔王ゴルベリアス), the good old action-adventure classic by Compile. Quite a symbolic thing, as prototype of Japanese games are really hard to come by. Can you tell the difference?

Montezuma's Revenge - Featuring Panama Joe [Proto] for the Sega Master System, also quite a classic but from the west. This unforgiving arcade exploration title created by Robert Jaeger is a really fun play for adventurers - try a bite on the easy levels and enjoy dying and learning the later ones. It is also apparently one of the earliest platforming game (first version was created in 1984)

See you soon!

( Don't forget to keep those ZIP files under the tree and only open them tomorrow morning. )

I've been sorting out through some common country variations which were dumped last year, trying to release them at a decent rate from now. We've got 6 new Game Gear ROMs here. Nothing truly exciting, mainly aiming for completeness.

Cool Spot for the Game Gear, European version (previously released was US version).

Bram Stoker's Dracula for the Game Gear, US version (previously released was European version).

Earthworm Jim for the Game Gear, European version (previously released was US version).

Fatal Fury Special for the Game Gear, European version (previously released was US version).

Out Run for the Game Gear, Export - US/European - version (previously released was Japanese version).

Shanghai II [v1] for the Game Gear (上海II). This is "version 1" extracted from the Meisaku Collection re-release of the game, as opposed to the original "version 0".

As a side note, Maxim has been recently working on a pretty major reoverhaul of the site. We have no date yet, but we hope it'll spawn a new era of collaboratively assembling and organizing the information the community has developed in the past years. Stay tuned!

Tada! Happy new roms to prepare you for end of summer!

1985's Home Basic for the SC-3000 (ホームベージック) is a revamped version of Sega Basic, packaged with three demonstration software: a shooting game, a text-based calculator program and a sprite pattern editor. I am actually unsure about how to save the patterns which makes it of cute dubious use (there is maybe a way, I don't have a manual for this cartridge). Other than that, Basic is your way to freedom and creativity. Maybe try to make something for it ?

1988's Chouon Senshi Borgman [Proto] for the Master System (超音戦士 ボーグマン), in a Japanese prototype version. Known in the west as Cyborg Hunter, this competent and charmful action game with a pinch of adventure, in the vein of Zillion, is quite a classic. This prototype was obtained from an old stash of Mark III prototypes from an unknown source, not sure of the differences with final version.

1992's Alien³ for the Game Gear (エイリアン3), in its Japanese release, an unsuspected decent action game.

Last and least, 1993's Ecco the Dolphin for the Game Gear - why you ask? As it turn out, the version previously available on the internet, circa 1996-ish, has a bit of data wrong that is fixed here. I confirmed this one on both US and European releases. Note however that I'm not 100% sure that isn't a cartridge around with the so-called incorrect bit, if one eventually shows up the information will be corrected, but for now it seems statistically plausible that there is only one US/EU version of the game, and you have it now.

Hello all,

Two new releases today!


The first is a Korean dump that was gracefully donated by Blue/Nights who previously gave us two other Korean dumps (Hwarang-ui Geom and Super Boy 4).
Ttoriui Moheom for the Master System / Samsung Gam*Boy, Korean version of My Hero. This is essentially a simple hack of Seishun Scandal, the original Japanese version, where the Sega Mark III logo has been replaced with Korean text (reading, anyone?). My Hero is always worth playing. Skills required.


Second we have a Wonder Boy in Monster Land [Proto] for the Master System, a prototype for grand Westone classic. This is part of the recently discovered Sega of America stash. I don't know yet exactly what are the difference in this ROM. Because the Japanese version is essentially harder than the Western release, there might be left-over making it an "intermediate" version of the game. Experts please report!

From below mentioned mini stash of treasure, we have new prototypes up today!


First we have good old classic Columns [Proto] for the Master System, in all its austere cuteness, embedding a solid 2-players mode. Note sure what exactly is different in this prototype, but the title screen and menu text are clearly different.


Gain Ground [Proto] for the Master System, a rather overlooked good game. Overhead action of surgical precision, a drop of strategy and 2-players simultaenous mode as well. Read more: Gain Ground on Wikipedia !


Last but least, we have a James "Buster" Douglas Knockout Boxing [Proto] for the Master System. An uncommon US release, reskinned version of the decent Heavy Weight Champ. The only difference with this prototype and the final version are some ROM header settings, meaning there's no actual gameplay difference with final version.

Enjoy!