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As promised I am on fire with new releases, we've got eight Korean dumps today, seven of them being totally new games on the Master System. This is Christmas all over again. Many are conversions from rare MSX1 games, sometimes original developed in Korea.

Please also note again that many of those games may not work in some emulators. Latest MEKA wip builds (from here or MESS should run them, else please bug your favourite emulator authors for better compatibility with odd Korean releases.

Alibaba and 40 Thieves / Ali Baba (아리바바) for the Samsung Gam*Boy / Sega Master System, an odd variation on Pac-Man where you have to catch thieves and money back, avoiding the more armed thieves.

Block Hole / Sagak-ui Bimil (사각의 비밀) for the Samsung Gam*Boy / Sega Master System, unlicensed adaptation by Zemina of Konami's Quarth / Block Hole. An original puzzle game masquerading as a shooting game. Manoeuvring a ship able to shoot small blocks you able to complete the shape of blocks coming toward you. The game also supports two players.

E.I. - Exa Innova for the Samsung Gam*Boy / Sega Master System, one of the early obscure shooter by none other but Compile, creators of the Aleste / Power Strike series. Lots of enemies, nice background and moving patterns with the Compile flavour, the game is simple but very playable.

King & Balloon / Wang-gwa Pungseon (왕과풍선) for the Samsung Gam*Boy / Sega Master System. My odd favourite of today. Early Namco MSX1 game, King & Balloon is an evolution of the Space Invaders and Galaga recipes in which you control knights protecting your king from being kidnapped by evil.. coloured balloons. The game is technically very low specced but it plays like a charm!

Pooyan (퓨얀) for the Samsung Gam*Boy / Sega Master System, Konami's classic adaptation of a pig and wolves story with a cute setting reminiscent of earlier Game & Watch (so much that a LCD game has been made out of it). The game is rather difficult and unforgiving and build up on our newly cherished "balloon=evil" thematic.

Puznic / Puzzle Game (퍼즐게임) for the Samsung Gam*Boy / Sega Master System, an unlicensed adaptation of Taito's arcade puzzle by the prolific programmers at Zemina. Actually a very good puzzle game relying on the mechanic of assembling blocks of the same shape accounting for gravity and blocks holding each other so success depends on the order of each of our move.

Xyzolog / XY Rogo (XY로고) for the Samsung Gam*Boy / Sega Master System. Taito again! A charming looking dodging game in the vein of Marble Madness, sharp visuals and an uncommon last-resort suicide mechanic.
*EDIT* In our initial update we called this game "Xyxolog" which was a mistake. Thanks to cactushead for pointing this out.

Finally we've got Great Golf [Japan] for the Samsung Gam*Boy / Sega Master System in its Korean version. The naming confusion here is that there's two different games bearing the name Great Golf, one being only released in Japan. This specific Korean cartridge is based on the Japanese version of Great Golf, hence the odd naming.

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alibaba_and_40_thieves-sms-kr.zip (21.74 KB)

block_hole-sms-kr.zip (17.72 KB)

ei_exa_innova-sms-kr.zip (20.76 KB)

great_golf_jp-sms-kr.zip (67.87 KB)

king_and_balloon-sms-kr.zip (23.35 KB)

pooyan-sms-kr.zip (20.91 KB)

puznic-sms-kr.zip (16.35 KB)

xyzolog-sms-kr.zip (18.65 KB)

Wow, lots of new games!

By the way, I believe Block Hole is a port of the Konami arcade game Quarth/Block Hole.

Correct! I'll edit the message and game page accordingly.

I believe the correct name for TAITO's XY Rogo (XY로고) should be Xyzolog
or (ザイゾログ) Zaizorogu in japanese. If you look closely to the first character X and the third character Z you can see the extra lower horizontal bar.

Haven't had any time to poke around, but is the Great Golf game worth anybodies time (i.e. has decent controls, is fun)?

Thanks so much for these -- what a nice expansion to the SMS library they make! Most work in CrabEmu 0.2.0r98, a few don't, so I'll be in touch with BlueCrab unless he's already on the case.

BTW there appears to be a big chunk of source code around 0x3480 in Xyxolog (or whatever it should be called). Also some funny bits at 0x27A0 and 0x2B20.

Cactushead wrote

I believe the correct name for TAITO's XY Rogo (XY로고) should be Xyzolog
or (ザイゾログ) Zaizorogu in japanese. If you look closely to the first character X and the third character Z you can see the extra lower horizontal bar.

Correct and sorry for the inconvenience. I will fix that.
*EDIT* The ministry of truth have now established that the game was always called Xyzolog.

Nice!

Is there an estimate how many exclusive South Korean MS games have been made? Much more than JP. It seems endless! :)

There's this old list:
http://www.smspower.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=8863

And for reference I have about ~30 Korean dumps left unsorted/unreleased.

goldenband wrote

Thanks so much for these -- what a nice expansion to the SMS library they make! Most work in CrabEmu 0.2.0r98, a few don't, so I'll be in touch with BlueCrab unless he's already on the case.

Well, now that I know about these, I guess I'm on the case. Looks like three of the games don't work in the code of CrabEmu as it stands right now.

Let me also give my thanks for the dumps. Its always fun to see "new" things to play around with (and even better when I can find bugs in my code because of them).

Ali Baba rely on uninitialized memory patterns left by the Japanese BIOS.
I documented it here: http://www.smspower.org/Development/AlibabaAnd40Thieves-SMS

Bock wrote

There's this old list:
http://www.smspower.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=8863

And for reference I have about ~30 Korean dumps left unsorted/unreleased.

Is one of them Blockade Runner, as mentioned in the "old list"? I'm looking forward to trying that one someday, just for the novelty of playing it on the SMS. I finally beat it on Intellivision recently.

Also, are the contents of that "SMS cartridge with 60 MSX1 games" documented anywhere? Maybe we've already seen some of those dumps here -- just curious, really.

BlueCrab wrote

Well, now that I know about these, I guess I'm on the case. Looks like three of the games don't work in the code of CrabEmu as it stands right now.

Heh, thanks, BlueCrab. :) I've been meaning to check back in on the thread over at DCEmulation, but school's had me a bit tied up. Looking forward very much to building the new version and checking out the CV emulation.

Bock wrote

Ali Baba rely on uninitialized memory patterns left by the Japanese BIOS.

Yes, I had noticed that in the MEKA history.txt file. That indeed fixes the problem in CrabEmu as well (also for Block Hole).

The other fix needed in CrabEmu was a "no mapper" mapper which fixed Xyzolog. So, it looks like all of these are now working in CrabEmu, as of r119.

Nice to see these keep coming :)

I should point out that Ali Baba is an unlicensed port of a Sega arcade game that runs on Pac-Man hardware, so that might explain a lot ;)

Also is that Xyzolog one officially licensed? I'm guessing it's a more bona fide pirate than these others given the "Push Space Key" thing but... I'm surprised Taito's name is still here

I love you Bock! :-*

EDIT: Nice to see you around, BlueCrab! :-)

andlabs wrote

I should point out that Ali Baba is an unlicensed port of a Sega arcade game that runs on Pac-Man hardware, so that might explain a lot ;)

This particular version was originally published by Sony for the MSX.

Just to post a huge thanks to you guys!

I re-converted "Puznic" to MSX, re-named it as Puzznic, and did some improvements!

I'm still working on some changes (just increased the game to 50 stages - the original has only 48 levels) and still thinking about adding one or 2 features :)

I asked Satoshi Fujishima about Xyzolog on Twitter. He said Compile developed it (well, the MSX version at least), based on Taito's game design.

CRV wrote

I asked Satoshi Fujishima about Xyzolog on Twitter. He said Compile developed it (well, the MSX version at least), based on Taito's game design.

Now I understand that Xyzolog was avaliable in one of Disc Station Magazine disks...

Bock wrote

Block Hole / Sagak-ui Bimil (사각의 비밀) for the Samsung Gam*Boy / Sega Master System[/url], unlicensed adaptation by Zemina of Konami's Quarth / Block Hole. An original puzzle game masquerading as a shooting game. Manoeuvring a ship able to shoot small blocks you able to complete the shape of blocks coming toward you. The game also supports two players.

Sorry for the gravedigging, but I am wondering why this game is called Sagak-ui Bimil? I know there was a MSX version with this name, but is this version also named liked this on the box or cart?
I can't find any further information on this.

Thanks!

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Bock Site Admin Joined: 08 Jul 2001 Posts: 8703 Location: Paris, France	Sega 8-bit winter of dumps Part 3: Eight Korean games Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2012 12:48 am Last edited by Bock on Tue Feb 07, 2012 5:19 pm; edited 3 times in total
	It started snowing here! As promised I am on fire with new releases, we've got eight Korean dumps today, seven of them being totally new games on the Master System. This is Christmas all over again. Many are conversions from rare MSX1 games, sometimes original developed in Korea. Please also note again that many of those games may not work in some emulators. Latest MEKA wip builds (from here or MESS should run them, else please bug your favourite emulator authors for better compatibility with odd Korean releases. Alibaba and 40 Thieves / Ali Baba (아리바바) for the Samsung GamBoy / Sega Master System, an odd variation on Pac-Man where you have to catch thieves and money back, avoiding the more armed thieves. Block Hole / Sagak-ui Bimil (사각의 비밀)* for the Samsung GamBoy / Sega Master System, unlicensed adaptation by Zemina of Konami's Quarth / Block Hole. An original puzzle game masquerading as a shooting game. Manoeuvring a ship able to shoot small blocks you able to complete the shape of blocks coming toward you. The game also supports two players. E.I. - Exa Innova* for the Samsung GamBoy / Sega Master System, one of the early obscure shooter by none other but Compile, creators of the Aleste / Power Strike series. Lots of enemies, nice background and moving patterns with the Compile flavour, the game is simple but very playable. King & Balloon / Wang-gwa Pungseon (왕과풍선)* for the Samsung GamBoy / Sega Master System. My odd favourite of today. Early Namco MSX1 game, King & Balloon is an evolution of the Space Invaders and Galaga recipes in which you control knights protecting your king from being kidnapped by evil.. coloured balloons. The game is technically very low specced but it plays like a charm! Pooyan (퓨얀)* for the Samsung GamBoy / Sega Master System, Konami's classic adaptation of a pig and wolves story with a cute setting reminiscent of earlier Game & Watch (so much that a LCD game has been made out of it). The game is rather difficult and unforgiving and build up on our newly cherished "balloon=evil" thematic. Puznic / Puzzle Game (퍼즐게임)* for the Samsung GamBoy / Sega Master System, an unlicensed adaptation of Taito's arcade puzzle by the prolific programmers at Zemina. Actually a very good puzzle game relying on the mechanic of assembling blocks of the same shape accounting for gravity and blocks holding each other so success depends on the order of each of our move. Xyzolog / XY Rogo (XY로고)* for the Samsung GamBoy / Sega Master System. Taito again! A charming looking dodging game in the vein of Marble Madness, sharp visuals and an uncommon last-resort suicide mechanic. EDIT* In our initial update we called this game "Xyxolog" which was a mistake. Thanks to cactushead for pointing this out. Finally we've got Great Golf [Japan] for the Samsung Gam*Boy / Sega Master System in its Korean version. The naming confusion here is that there's two different games bearing the name Great Golf, one being only released in Japan. This specific Korean cartridge is based on the Japanese version of Great Golf, hence the odd naming.

Bock Site Admin Joined: 08 Jul 2001 Posts: 8703 Location: Paris, France	Temporary Transitional Attachment Fairy Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2012 12:50 am Last edited by Bock on Sun Feb 05, 2012 10:31 pm; edited 1 time in total
	This message will auto destruct itself someday. alibaba_and_40_thieves-sms-kr.zip (21.74 KB) block_hole-sms-kr.zip (17.72 KB) ei_exa_innova-sms-kr.zip (20.76 KB) great_golf_jp-sms-kr.zip (67.87 KB) king_and_balloon-sms-kr.zip (23.35 KB) pooyan-sms-kr.zip (20.91 KB) puznic-sms-kr.zip (16.35 KB) xyzolog-sms-kr.zip (18.65 KB)

Raccoon Lad Joined: 16 Dec 2004 Posts: 501 Location: El Cerrito, CA	Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2012 1:23 am
	Wow, lots of new games! By the way, I believe Block Hole is a port of the Konami arcade game Quarth/Block Hole.

Bock Site Admin Joined: 08 Jul 2001 Posts: 8703 Location: Paris, France	Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2012 2:05 am
	Correct! I'll edit the message and game page accordingly.

Cactushead Joined: 05 Feb 2012 Posts: 10 Location: Amsterdam	Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2012 1:52 pm
	I believe the correct name for TAITO's XY Rogo (XY로고) should be Xyzolog or (ザイゾログ) Zaizorogu in japanese. If you look closely to the first character X and the third character Z you can see the extra lower horizontal bar.

Maraakate Joined: 05 Jun 2010 Posts: 760 Location: Pennsylvania, USA	Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2012 6:52 pm
	Haven't had any time to poke around, but is the Great Golf game worth anybodies time (i.e. has decent controls, is fun)?

goldenband Joined: 24 May 2010 Posts: 127 Location: New York	Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2012 7:03 pm
	Thanks so much for these -- what a nice expansion to the SMS library they make! Most work in CrabEmu 0.2.0r98, a few don't, so I'll be in touch with BlueCrab unless he's already on the case. BTW there appears to be a big chunk of source code around 0x3480 in Xyxolog (or whatever it should be called). Also some funny bits at 0x27A0 and 0x2B20.

Bock Site Admin Joined: 08 Jul 2001 Posts: 8703 Location: Paris, France	Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2012 7:46 pm
	Cactushead wrote I believe the correct name for TAITO's XY Rogo (XY로고) should be Xyzolog or (ザイゾログ) Zaizorogu in japanese. If you look closely to the first character X and the third character Z you can see the extra lower horizontal bar. Correct and sorry for the inconvenience. I will fix that. EDIT The ministry of truth have now established that the game was always called Xyzolog.

Tycho Joined: 16 Dec 2009 Posts: 240	Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2012 3:23 am
Tycho Joined: 16 Dec 2009 Posts: 240	Nice! Is there an estimate how many exclusive South Korean MS games have been made? Much more than JP. It seems endless! :)

Bock Site Admin Joined: 08 Jul 2001 Posts: 8703 Location: Paris, France	Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2012 10:31 am
	There's this old list: http://www.smspower.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=8863 And for reference I have about ~30 Korean dumps left unsorted/unreleased.

BlueCrab Joined: 16 Jan 2008 Posts: 4 Location: South of the Mason-Dixon Line	Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2012 2:01 pm
	goldenband wrote Thanks so much for these -- what a nice expansion to the SMS library they make! Most work in CrabEmu 0.2.0r98, a few don't, so I'll be in touch with BlueCrab unless he's already on the case. Well, now that I know about these, I guess I'm on the case. Looks like three of the games don't work in the code of CrabEmu as it stands right now. Let me also give my thanks for the dumps. Its always fun to see "new" things to play around with (and even better when I can find bugs in my code because of them).

Bock Site Admin Joined: 08 Jul 2001 Posts: 8703 Location: Paris, France	Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2012 2:18 pm
	Ali Baba rely on uninitialized memory patterns left by the Japanese BIOS. I documented it here: http://www.smspower.org/Development/AlibabaAnd40Thieves-SMS

goldenband Joined: 24 May 2010 Posts: 127 Location: New York	Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2012 3:42 pm
	Bock wrote There's this old list: http://www.smspower.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=8863 And for reference I have about ~30 Korean dumps left unsorted/unreleased. Is one of them Blockade Runner, as mentioned in the "old list"? I'm looking forward to trying that one someday, just for the novelty of playing it on the SMS. I finally beat it on Intellivision recently. Also, are the contents of that "SMS cartridge with 60 MSX1 games" documented anywhere? Maybe we've already seen some of those dumps here -- just curious, really. BlueCrab wrote Well, now that I know about these, I guess I'm on the case. Looks like three of the games don't work in the code of CrabEmu as it stands right now. Heh, thanks, BlueCrab. :) I've been meaning to check back in on the thread over at DCEmulation, but school's had me a bit tied up. Looking forward very much to building the new version and checking out the CV emulation.

BlueCrab Joined: 16 Jan 2008 Posts: 4 Location: South of the Mason-Dixon Line	Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2012 3:59 pm
	Bock wrote Ali Baba rely on uninitialized memory patterns left by the Japanese BIOS. Yes, I had noticed that in the MEKA history.txt file. That indeed fixes the problem in CrabEmu as well (also for Block Hole). The other fix needed in CrabEmu was a "no mapper" mapper which fixed Xyzolog. So, it looks like all of these are now working in CrabEmu, as of r119.

andlabs Joined: 03 Sep 2010 Posts: 7	Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2012 9:49 pm
andlabs Joined: 03 Sep 2010 Posts: 7	Nice to see these keep coming :) I should point out that Ali Baba is an unlicensed port of a Sega arcade game that runs on Pac-Man hardware, so that might explain a lot ;) Also is that Xyzolog one officially licensed? I'm guessing it's a more bona fide pirate than these others given the "Push Space Key" thing but... I'm surprised Taito's name is still here

Christuserloeser Joined: 26 Dec 2004 Posts: 295 Location: Pangea	Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 11:16 am
	I love you Bock! :-* EDIT: Nice to see you around, BlueCrab! :-)

CRV Joined: 02 Jan 2005 Posts: 669	Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 12:04 pm
CRV Joined: 02 Jan 2005 Posts: 669	andlabs wrote I should point out that Ali Baba is an unlicensed port of a Sega arcade game that runs on Pac-Man hardware, so that might explain a lot ;) This particular version was originally published by Sony for the MSX.

SLotman Joined: 30 Jul 2008 Posts: 41 Location: Brazil	Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 10:28 pm
SLotman Joined: 30 Jul 2008 Posts: 41 Location: Brazil	Just to post a huge thanks to you guys! I re-converted "Puznic" to MSX, re-named it as Puzznic, and did some improvements! I'm still working on some changes (just increased the game to 50 stages - the original has only 48 levels) and still thinking about adding one or 2 features :)

CRV Joined: 02 Jan 2005 Posts: 669	Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2012 9:55 pm
CRV Joined: 02 Jan 2005 Posts: 669	I asked Satoshi Fujishima about Xyzolog on Twitter. He said Compile developed it (well, the MSX version at least), based on Taito's game design.

Sonic of 8! Joined: 21 Jun 2010 Posts: 200 Location: Earth Planet	Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2012 10:39 pm
	CRV wrote I asked Satoshi Fujishima about Xyzolog on Twitter. He said Compile developed it (well, the MSX version at least), based on Taito's game design. Now I understand that Xyzolog was avaliable in one of Disc Station Magazine disks...

alcoatjez Joined: 11 Apr 2020 Posts: 3 Location: Netherlands	Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2020 9:50 pm
	Bock wrote Block Hole / Sagak-ui Bimil (사각의 비밀) for the Samsung Gam*Boy / Sega Master System[/url], unlicensed adaptation by Zemina of Konami's Quarth / Block Hole. An original puzzle game masquerading as a shooting game. Manoeuvring a ship able to shoot small blocks you able to complete the shape of blocks coming toward you. The game also supports two players. Sorry for the gravedigging, but I am wondering why this game is called Sagak-ui Bimil? I know there was a MSX version with this name, but is this version also named liked this on the box or cart? I can't find any further information on this. Thanks!

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