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The recently-released Aleste Collection contains a Master System ROM for the credits, and this contains a not-very-secret game (just press a button to start) where you destroy the credits and try to get a high score. There are various other secrets in it which this thread is about.

Note that there are many spoilers here. Don't read if you don't like spoilers.

The secret game shows you a screen at the end based on your score. These screens are stored uncompressed in the ROM, contributing a lot to the size of it.

If you get a score under 30,000 points, you get this:

If it is between 30,000 and 40,000, you get this:

If it is between 40,000 and 70,000 then you get a picture depending on the sum of the thousands and hundreds digits of your score, modulo 10. For example, if your score is 56780 then the sum of the digits 6 and 7 is 13, and you get picture 3.

0:

1:

2:

3:

4:

5:

6:

7:

8:

9:

Scores between 70,000 and 80,000 get just this one picture:

80,000 to 100,000 and you get one of two pictures, depending on if the hundreds digit is even or odd:

Even:

Odd:

Scores over 100,000 get another two pictures, depending if the tens digit of your score is even or odd:

Even:

Odd:

Transcriptions and translations of the text on these is welcome!

below3k.png (3.7 KB)

3k4k.png (4.06 KB)

4k1.png (4.53 KB)

4k0.png (2.62 KB)

4k2.png (3.48 KB)

4k3.png (3.11 KB)

4k4.png (6.73 KB)

4k5.png (5.06 KB)

4k6.png (4.2 KB)

4k7.png (2.61 KB)

4k8.png (4.62 KB)

4k9.png (3.28 KB)

70k80k.png (3.34 KB)

80k100k-evenhundreds.png (5.41 KB)

80k100k-oddhundreds.png (5.93 KB)

over100k-eventens.png (2.6 KB)

over100k-oddtens.png (2.68 KB)

The ROM is padded out with lots of extra information. There is a message encoded using off-by-one ASCII:

Quote

HELLO KONBANHA XIAOZIE NI HAO MA. ASHINO MIZIKAI NECN HA AON-AON TO NAKI, CHATORAHA INU GA KITAKARA KOTATSU NI MOGURU. SINBALAM MIDNIGHT OSUNECO ZYOUHOU-KYOKU NO OZIKAN DE GOZAIMASU. KOYOI MO ZYANZYAN BARIBARI DAIKAIHOU. MAZUHA KOCHIRA WO OKIKI KUDASAI. THREE CATS DE XIAOMOSHOJIAN.

Quote

IKAGA DESHITADE SYOUKA. DEHA OTAYORI GO GOSYOUKAI ITASHIMASU. "Y" KEN NI OSUMAI NO PN "HISZAM" SAN KARA NO OTAYORI DESU. "OSUNECO ZYOUHOU-KYOKU NO MYNASAN KONBANHA.!TOTSUZEN DESUGA MONDAI DESU. TURU TO KAME TO T^MBO GA SOREZORE ITARI INAKATTARI SHIMASU. ATAMA NO KAZU HA 33KO, ASHI NO KAZU HA 1*2 HON, HANE NO MAISU HA 66 MAI DESU. TURUTO KAME TO TOMBONO KAZU HA NANDESYOUKA

There is more text that seems to have a more complex cipher with characters switching between 0, -1 and +1 offset which is harder to decode. I'm not including it here.

Next we find a JPEG photo of Komabayashi, one of the developers...

credits.jpeg (135.17 KB)

Finally we have another textual message. Here I have added some line breaks to make it more readable.

Quote

（=ФｪФ）

My name is Cat Hui. I have planned this game with Fujishima-San. Tokorode kono game niwa seishiki meishou ga arimasen. "DokaFli" toka "Carry-Kun no mini game" tokade yondemasuga, nanika ii onamae wo omoitsukimashitara "Osuneco Jouhou Kyoku" made otayori wo kudasai. Suteki na namae wo kangaeta kataniwa "soshina" wo sashiagemasu. Carry-Kun wa GGA3 no item carrier wo deformer shita chara nanode original character desu. Kesshite GA***S wo P*-*8 ni ishoku shita ano kaisha sama towa kankeiga gozaimasen.
最緊要好玩

(´･ω･`)
Yah, watashi wa G-toniumu Hakase da. Korewo miteiiru kimini "Carry-Kun" no himitsu wo oshieyou.

Carry-Kun SPEC
Pilot:
Hakobi Masuyo
Mechanic:
Un Sawyer
Ookisa:
Forklift gurai
Omosa:
Bulldozer gurai
MAX Power:
1,000,000,000ps
MAX Output:
746,000,000kw
Cost:
Nihontei no
Mkara bentou
Equipment:
P-chip
Taste:
Ichigo flavor

Korede kimimo "Carry-Kun" hakase da! HaHaHa....

This is it describing how the game has different names; the credits game ship is the one giving bonuses in GG Aleste 3; and specs for the ship.

The Chinese text says "the most important thing is fun".

Thank you for all this information, didn't know there was so much image to see! Here a little gameplay:

Thanks Revo for the video!

Some precision:
- The game is only inside the Game Gear White Micro, not inside the PS4/Switch Aleste Collection software.
- The main name of the game is "DokaFli" (spelling varies), but one of the hidden text blurb above explain is has other names such as "Carry-Kun no mini game". Carry-kun is the power-up carrying ship in GG Aleste 3.

I renamed the thread title with some those clarification.
And added a simple page for it:
https://www.smspower.org/Games/Dokafli-SMS

There was a score contest on Japanese twitter, with hashtag #dokafli_score, and the 20 best score won the box for GG Aleste 3.

For reference here's the complete ciphered text in ASCII: (pasting here is slightly destructive as some of the bytes are 0x19)

IFMMP!LPOCBOIB!YJBP[JF!OJ!IBP!NB/!BTIJOP!NJ[JLBJ!OFDO!IB!BPO.BPO
!UP!OBLJ-!DIBUPSBIB!JOV!HB!LJUBLBSB!LPUBUTV!OJ!NPHVSV/!TJOCBMBN!
NJEOJHIU!PTVOFDP![ZPVIPV.LZPLV!OP!P[JLBO!EF!HP[BJNBTV/!LPZPJ!NP!
[ZBO[ZBO!CBSJCBSJ!EBJLBJIPV/!NB[VIB!LPDIJSB!XP!PLJLJ!LVEBTBJ/!UI
SFF!DBUT!EF!YJBPNPTIPKJBO/

HJ@F@CDRGHS@CDRXNTJ@-CDG@NS@XNQHFNFNRXNTJ@HHS@RGHL@RT-!
X!JDMMHNRTL@HMNOM!GHRY@L!R@MJ@Q@MNNS@XNQHCDRT-!NRTMD
BNYXNTGNT,JXNJTMNLXM@R@MJNMA@MG@- SNSRTYDMCDR
TF@LNMC@HCDRT-STQTSNJ@LDSNS^LANF@RNQDYNQDHS@QHHM@J@SS@QHRGHL@RT-@
S@L@MNJ@YTG@22JN+@RGHMNJ@YTG@0)1GNM+G@MDMNL@HRTG@
55L@HCDRT-STQTSNJ@LDSNSNLANMNJ@YTG@M@MCDRXNTJ@>!

KPBHJQA!FA!VAL@TTBHJSO!GA!!OTTNEDN [XOVWOV,KZP
KU#MBCE!NTBXOQP WPKVCAT@I/SFMCHBJU!CE!ROTIIO@ WPPQDSFOT!RHJ@
RI!BIO@KBSTBAI!RHIN@SV-

KMOUKNOCMHAKDIEN YNOOM EDTOAR AACNHAATNA.H AA STHIIA NNCOH AMII?Z ISKOARIE TKOAMWOA IBIA INCEHCIO?-?C H A N .

In hexadecimal:

20 48 4A 40 46 40 19 43 44 52 47 48 53 40 43 44 19 52 58 4E 54 4A 40 2D 19 43 44 47 40 19 4E 53 40 58 4E 51 48 19 46 4E 19 46 4E 52 58 4E 54 4A 40 48 19 48 53 40 52 47 48 4C 40 52 54 2D 19 21 58 21 19 4A 44 4D 19 4D 48 19 4E 52 54 4C 40 48 19 4D 4E 19 4F 4D 19 21 47 48 52 59 40 4C 21 19 52 40 4D 19 4A 40 51 40 19 4D 4E 19 4E 53 40 58 4E 51 48 19 43 44 52 54 2D 19 21 4E 52 54 4D 44 42 4E 19 59 58 4E 54 47 4E 54 2C 4A 58 4E 4A 54 19 4D 4E 19 4C 58 4D 40 52 40 4D 19 4A 4E 4D 41 40 4D 47 40 2D 20 53 4E 53 52 54 59 44 4D 19 43 44 52 54 46 40 19 4C 4E 4D 43 40 48 19 43 44 52 54 2D 19 53 54 51 54 19 53 4E 19 4A 40 4C 44 19 53 4E 19 53 5E 4C 41 4E 19 46 40 19 52 4E 51 44 59 4E 51 44 19 48 53 40 51 48 19 48 4D 40 4A 40 53 53 40 51 48 19 52 47 48 4C 40 52 54 2D 19 40 53 40 4C 40 19 4D 4E 19 4A 40 59 54 19 47 40 19 32 32 4A 4E 2B 19 40 52 47 48 19 4D 4E 19 4A 40 59 54 19 47 40 19 30 29 31 19 47 4E 4D 2B 19 47 40 4D 44 19 4D 4E 19 4C 40 48 52 54 19 47 40 19 35 35 19 4C 40 48 19 43 44 52 54 2D 19 53 54 51 54 53 4E 19 4A 40 4C 44 19 53 4E 19 53 4E 4C 41 4E 4D 4E 19 4A 40 59 54 19 47 40 19 4D 40 4D 43 44 52 58 4E 54 4A 40 3E 21 19 19 19 19 19 19 19 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 4B 50 42 48 4A 51 41 21 46 41 21 56 41 4C 40 54 54 42 19 48 4A 53 4F 21 47 41 21 21 4F 54 54 4E 45 44 4E 20 5B 58 4F 56 57 4F 56 2C 4B 5A 50 4B 55 23 19 4D 42 43 45 21 4E 54 42 58 4F 51 50 20 57 50 19 4B 56 43 41 54 40 49 2F 19 53 46 4D 43 48 42 4A 55 21 43 45 21 52 4F 54 49 49 4F 40 20 57 50 19 50 51 44 53 46 4F 54 21 52 48 4A 40 52 49 21 42 49 4F 40 4B 42 53 54 42 41 49 21 52 48 49 4E 40 53 56 2D 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 4B 4D 4F 55 4B 4E 4F 43 4D 48 41 4B 44 49 45 4E 20 20 59 4E 4F 4F 4D 20 45 44 54 4F 41 52 20 41 41 43 4E 48 41 41 54 4E 41 2E 48 20 41 41 20 53 54 48 49 49 41 20 4E 4E 43 4F 48 20 41 4D 49 49 3F 5A 20 49 53 4B 4F 41 52 49 45 20 54 4B 4F 41 4D 57 4F 41 20 49 42 49 41 20 49 4E 43 45 48 43 49 4F 3F 2D 3F 43 20 48 20 41 20 4E 20 2E 20

The two first ones are decoded above in Maxim (simple +1/-1 offsets).
The remaining ones I have them partly decoded but couldn't yet find a suitable ruleset to decode them 100%.

Bock wrote

- The game is only inside the Game Gear White Micro, not inside the PS4/Switch Aleste Collection software.

OMG!! While GG Aleste 3 is breathtaking, Doka-fli being GG micro exclusive is heartbreaking... Why...? Why are you so mean, M2? T_T

It seems like we should be able to record the full credits for a credits game... but my Japanese transcription ability is very bad.

They are long credits - credits for the whole GG White Micro & Aleste Collection projects, perhaps all to GG Micros in general.

I've typed the Japanese (MIGHT be some typos) and transcribed what I could. Proof readers would be good.

ゲームギアミクロホワイト
かいはつスタッフ
Game Gear Micro White
Development Staff

ゆうげんがいしゃエムツー
M2, Ltd.

ディレクター
こまばやし　たかゆき
と　スリーキャッツ
Director: Komabayashi Takayuki & Three Cats

リードプログラマー
いしくら　しんたろう
Lead Programmer: Ishikura Shintarou

プログラマー
いがらし　ゆう
Programmer: Igarashi Yuu

プログラマー
かすが　たつひこ
Programmer: Kasuga Tatsuhiko

プログラマー
はらしの　まこと
Programmer: Harashino Makoto

プログラマー
たかはし　ともひろ
Programmer: Takahashi Tomohiro

プログラマー
ふくい　まさゆき
Programmer: Fukui Masayuki

リードデザイナ
みしま　よしみ
トロきかく
Lead Designer: Mishima Yoshimi (Toro Kikaku)

デザイナ
さとう　けいいち
Designer: Satou Keiichi

デザイナ
あしづか　もりを
トロきかく
Designer: Ashizuka Moriwo (Toro Kikaku)

デザイナ
ふじい　あみ
トロきかく
Designer: Fujii Ami
Toro Kikaku

GGA3イラスト
たかやま　きさい
GGA3 Illustration: Takayama Kisai

GGA3ごかくにん
なみき　まなぶ
GGA3 Quality?: Namiki Manabu

サウンド
ミスターFBI
Sound: Mister FBI

サウンド
チビテク
Sound: Chibi-Tech

サウンド
くどう　さくおき
Sound: Kudou Sakuoki

こうかおん
ふじしま　さとし
フューパック
Sound effect: Fujishima Satoshi (Fupac)

きかくサポート
ガーツなかまつ
Planning Support: Gattsu? Nakamatsu

ウシのでてくる
ゲームは
いいゲーム🐄
Games where a cow appears are nice🐄

ミニゲームきかく
Cat Hui
Mini game planning: Cat Hui

ミニゲームうごきとおと
ふじしま　さとし
フューパック
Mini game movement & sound: Fujishima Satoshi (Fupac)

ミニゲームえかき
ぜるた　６８K
Mini game visuals: Zellta 68K

ミニゲームおてつだい
さくらい　まさのり
フューパック
Mini game help: Sakurai Masanori (Fupac)

キャリーくんさくが
たかはし　ごう
Carry-Kun design: Takahashi Gou

キャリーくんげんおん
ナカシマ　カズユキ
Carry-Kun jingle: Nakashima Kazuyuki

イラストもかいた
じぇみに　ひろの
He even drew illustrations(?): Jemini Hirono

グループウェアあらし
かわにし　たかゆき
Groupware Arashi: Wakanishi Takayuki

グループウェアあらし
くぼた　カズキ
チームM2STG
Groupware Arashi: Kubota Kazuki, Team M2STD

グループウェアあらし
こまばやし　たかゆき
Groupware Arashi: Komabayashi Takayuki

てっぱんやき
ふくしま　じゅん
Teppanyaki: Fukushima Jun

つねにだいかんしゃ
あべ　てつや
Always big thanks: Abe Tetsuya

たすけてくれた
しのだ　のぶひさ
Saved us: Shinoda Nobuhisa

おえかき
やまだつお
かおるちゃんP
Hand drawing: Yamada Tatsuo, Kaoru chan P

アドバイスをくれた
さくま　あきら
こいずみ　だいすけ
Give us advices
Sakuma Akira
Koizumi Daisuke

プロデューサー
ほりい　なおき
Producer: Horii Naoki

うえとあいだをねらえば
こうとくてんのちゃんす❢
If you aim in the upper part, you'll have a chance to score high!

ありがとう
かぶしきがいしゃセガ
Thank you for Sega Corp:

まつだ　あいこ
たかはし　みつる
Matsuda Aiko
Takahashi Mitsuru

かじ　ともさ
はっとり　やすゆき
Kaji Tomosa
Hattori Yasuyuki

やすだ　とおる
いまつ　はるお
Yasuda Tooru
Imatsu Haruo

さくた　よしひろ
やまぐち　としき
おおさわ　ひろき
Sakuta Yoshihiro
Yamaguchi Toshiki
Oozawa Hiroki

やまなか　ゆうき
くりもと　けんすけ
Yamanaka Yuuki
Kurimoto Kensuke

いつも　おせわになってます
おくなり　ようすけ
Always grateful to: Okunari Yousuke

（C）SEGA
（C) M2 Co.,Ltd.

See you again
in new Aleste.

Maxim wrote

The ROM is padded out with lots of extra information. There is a message encoded using off-by-one ASCII:

Quote

HELLO KONBANHA XIAOZIE NI HAO MA. ASHINO MIZIKAI NECN HA AON-AON TO NAKI, CHATORAHA INU GA KITAKARA KOTATSU NI MOGURU. SINBALAM MIDNIGHT OSUNECO ZYOUHOU-KYOKU NO OZIKAN DE GOZAIMASU. KOYOI MO ZYANZYAN BARIBARI DAIKAIHOU. MAZUHA KOCHIRA WO OKIKI KUDASAI. THREE CATS DE XIAOMOSHOJIAN.

Hello (English), good evening (Japanese) How are you, Miss? (Chinese). The "NECN" has short legs and is crying. Because the "CHATORAHA" dog came we went to the "kotatsu" (table with a heater under it). Its time for the "SINBALAM" Midnight male cat information radio station. The show is about to start, its going to be exciting. Well, please listen to this song first "3 cats [of] (chinese) xiao mo sho jian (chinese... I dont know that one)".

The closest I can get with my Japanese friend who is not into video games.

XIAOMOSHOJIAN isn’t valid pinyin. I guess it’s a name.

Perhaps it's a slight typo of XIAOMOSHOUJIAN / 小魔兽剑 "little magic beast sword"? There's a manhua with a somewhat similar name...

Also I believe 最緊要好玩 is the name of a song from the 1980's. I have no idea whether this is just coincidence though

This is amazing detective work you have been doing, and I've also been playing and enjoying the mini-game quite a bit

Also it's possible SINBALAM is 신바람 "excitement"

The NECN probably stands for NECO its within the +/- and would make sense given the context. (the cipher may have been manually encoded with +1/-1 and therefore would have a few typos here and there)

Bock wrote

The NECN probably stands for NECO its within the +/- and would make sense given the context. (the cipher may have been manually encoded with +1/-1 and therefore would have a few typos here and there)

Just for information, whan an encoding has + or - some value they are probably encoded using XOR and not + and - ; dunno if this can be of any help.

We tried that... there’s evidence it was manually encoded and thus can have errors.

- The winner of the high-score contest received a custom cartridge from M2 (pictured). Here's the tweet:
https://twitter.com/bantam65535/status/1355793338310426626

ゴールデンカートリッジ、届いてます。ありがとうございます（マークⅢは買いました）　#dokafli_score

- M2 sent me a lossless picture of the label with signing. I have added it to https://www.smspower.org/Games/Dokafli-SMS

- M2 also sent me a cartridge for this (in black casing and signed). Will post pictures soon :)

EtC-2qcVoAg_uWa.jpg (562.11 KB)

dokafli_label.png (694.03 KB)

Would be really interested to pictures of that cartridge if you ever received a copy.

Very interesting thread.

I would also love to see cart scans if possible. I'm guessing hypothetically asking for the rom of this is a no-go, right?

Author	Message
Maxim Site Admin Joined: 19 Oct 1999 Posts: 14726 Location: London	Dokafli (in Aleste Collection's GG White Micro) credits game information Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2021 8:42 pm
	The recently-released Aleste Collection contains a Master System ROM for the credits, and this contains a not-very-secret game (just press a button to start) where you destroy the credits and try to get a high score. There are various other secrets in it which this thread is about. Note that there are many spoilers here. Don't read if you don't like spoilers.

Maxim Site Admin Joined: 19 Oct 1999 Posts: 14726 Location: London	Ending screens Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2021 9:15 pm
	The secret game shows you a screen at the end based on your score. These screens are stored uncompressed in the ROM, contributing a lot to the size of it. If you get a score under 30,000 points, you get this: If it is between 30,000 and 40,000, you get this: If it is between 40,000 and 70,000 then you get a picture depending on the sum of the thousands and hundreds digits of your score, modulo 10. For example, if your score is 56780 then the sum of the digits 6 and 7 is 13, and you get picture 3. 0: 1: 2: 3: 4: 5: 6: 7: 8: 9: Scores between 70,000 and 80,000 get just this one picture: 80,000 to 100,000 and you get one of two pictures, depending on if the hundreds digit is even or odd: Even: Odd: Scores over 100,000 get another two pictures, depending if the tens digit of your score is even or odd: Even: Odd: Transcriptions and translations of the text on these is welcome! below3k.png (3.7 KB) 3k4k.png (4.06 KB) 4k1.png (4.53 KB) 4k0.png (2.62 KB) 4k2.png (3.48 KB) 4k3.png (3.11 KB) 4k4.png (6.73 KB) 4k5.png (5.06 KB) 4k6.png (4.2 KB) 4k7.png (2.61 KB) 4k8.png (4.62 KB) 4k9.png (3.28 KB) 70k80k.png (3.34 KB) 80k100k-evenhundreds.png (5.41 KB) 80k100k-oddhundreds.png (5.93 KB) over100k-eventens.png (2.6 KB) over100k-oddtens.png (2.68 KB)

Maxim Site Admin Joined: 19 Oct 1999 Posts: 14726 Location: London	Secret ciphered messages Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2021 9:20 pm
	The ROM is padded out with lots of extra information. There is a message encoded using off-by-one ASCII: Quote HELLO KONBANHA XIAOZIE NI HAO MA. ASHINO MIZIKAI NECN HA AON-AON TO NAKI, CHATORAHA INU GA KITAKARA KOTATSU NI MOGURU. SINBALAM MIDNIGHT OSUNECO ZYOUHOU-KYOKU NO OZIKAN DE GOZAIMASU. KOYOI MO ZYANZYAN BARIBARI DAIKAIHOU. MAZUHA KOCHIRA WO OKIKI KUDASAI. THREE CATS DE XIAOMOSHOJIAN. Quote IKAGA DESHITADE SYOUKA. DEHA OTAYORI GO GOSYOUKAI ITASHIMASU. "Y" KEN NI OSUMAI NO PN "HISZAM" SAN KARA NO OTAYORI DESU. "OSUNECO ZYOUHOU-KYOKU NO MYNASAN KONBANHA.!TOTSUZEN DESUGA MONDAI DESU. TURU TO KAME TO T^MBO GA SOREZORE ITARI INAKATTARI SHIMASU. ATAMA NO KAZU HA 33KO, ASHI NO KAZU HA 1*2 HON, HANE NO MAISU HA 66 MAI DESU. TURUTO KAME TO TOMBONO KAZU HA NANDESYOUKA There is more text that seems to have a more complex cipher with characters switching between 0, -1 and +1 offset which is harder to decode. I'm not including it here.

Maxim Site Admin Joined: 19 Oct 1999 Posts: 14726 Location: London	A photo Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2021 9:22 pm
	Next we find a JPEG photo of Komabayashi, one of the developers... credits.jpeg (135.17 KB)

Maxim Site Admin Joined: 19 Oct 1999 Posts: 14726 Location: London	Another secret message Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2021 9:27 pm
	Finally we have another textual message. Here I have added some line breaks to make it more readable. Quote （=ФｪФ） My name is Cat Hui. I have planned this game with Fujishima-San. Tokorode kono game niwa seishiki meishou ga arimasen. "DokaFli" toka "Carry-Kun no mini game" tokade yondemasuga, nanika ii onamae wo omoitsukimashitara "Osuneco Jouhou Kyoku" made otayori wo kudasai. Suteki na namae wo kangaeta kataniwa "soshina" wo sashiagemasu. Carry-Kun wa GGA3 no item carrier wo deformer shita chara nanode original character desu. Kesshite GA**S wo P-*8 ni ishoku shita ano kaisha sama towa kankeiga gozaimasen. 最緊要好玩 (´･ω･`) Yah, watashi wa G-toniumu Hakase da. Korewo miteiiru kimini "Carry-Kun" no himitsu wo oshieyou. Carry-Kun SPEC Pilot: Hakobi Masuyo Mechanic: Un Sawyer Ookisa: Forklift gurai Omosa: Bulldozer gurai MAX Power: 1,000,000,000ps MAX Output: 746,000,000kw Cost: Nihontei no Mkara bentou Equipment: P-chip Taste: Ichigo flavor Korede kimimo "Carry-Kun" hakase da! HaHaHa.... This is it describing how the game has different names; the credits game ship is the one giving bonuses in GG Aleste 3; and specs for the ship. The Chinese text says "the most important thing is fun".

Revo Guest	Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2021 5:13 pm
Revo Guest	Thank you for all this information, didn't know there was so much image to see! Here a little gameplay:

Bock Site Admin Joined: 08 Jul 2001 Posts: 8648 Location: Paris, France	Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2021 10:56 am
	Thanks Revo for the video! Some precision: - The game is only inside the Game Gear White Micro, not inside the PS4/Switch Aleste Collection software. - The main name of the game is "DokaFli" (spelling varies), but one of the hidden text blurb above explain is has other names such as "Carry-Kun no mini game". Carry-kun is the power-up carrying ship in GG Aleste 3. I renamed the thread title with some those clarification. And added a simple page for it: https://www.smspower.org/Games/Dokafli-SMS There was a score contest on Japanese twitter, with hashtag #dokafli_score, and the 20 best score won the box for GG Aleste 3. For reference here's the complete ciphered text in ASCII: (pasting here is slightly destructive as some of the bytes are 0x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n hexadecimal: 20 48 4A 40 46 40 19 43 44 52 47 48 53 40 43 44 19 52 58 4E 54 4A 40 2D 19 43 44 47 40 19 4E 53 40 58 4E 51 48 19 46 4E 19 46 4E 52 58 4E 54 4A 40 48 19 48 53 40 52 47 48 4C 40 52 54 2D 19 21 58 21 19 4A 44 4D 19 4D 48 19 4E 52 54 4C 40 48 19 4D 4E 19 4F 4D 19 21 47 48 52 59 40 4C 21 19 52 40 4D 19 4A 40 51 40 19 4D 4E 19 4E 53 40 58 4E 51 48 19 43 44 52 54 2D 19 21 4E 52 54 4D 44 42 4E 19 59 58 4E 54 47 4E 54 2C 4A 58 4E 4A 54 19 4D 4E 19 4C 58 4D 40 52 40 4D 19 4A 4E 4D 41 40 4D 47 40 2D 20 53 4E 53 52 54 59 44 4D 19 43 44 52 54 46 40 19 4C 4E 4D 43 40 48 19 43 44 52 54 2D 19 53 54 51 54 19 53 4E 19 4A 40 4C 44 19 53 4E 19 53 5E 4C 41 4E 19 46 40 19 52 4E 51 44 59 4E 51 44 19 48 53 40 51 48 19 48 4D 40 4A 40 53 53 40 51 48 19 52 47 48 4C 40 52 54 2D 19 40 53 40 4C 40 19 4D 4E 19 4A 40 59 54 19 47 40 19 32 32 4A 4E 2B 19 40 52 47 48 19 4D 4E 19 4A 40 59 54 19 47 40 19 30 29 31 19 47 4E 4D 2B 19 47 40 4D 44 19 4D 4E 19 4C 40 48 52 54 19 47 40 19 35 35 19 4C 40 48 19 43 44 52 54 2D 19 53 54 51 54 53 4E 19 4A 40 4C 44 19 53 4E 19 53 4E 4C 41 4E 4D 4E 19 4A 40 59 54 19 47 40 19 4D 40 4D 43 44 52 58 4E 54 4A 40 3E 21 19 19 19 19 19 19 19 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 4B 50 42 48 4A 51 41 21 46 41 21 56 41 4C 40 54 54 42 19 48 4A 53 4F 21 47 41 21 21 4F 54 54 4E 45 44 4E 20 5B 58 4F 56 57 4F 56 2C 4B 5A 50 4B 55 23 19 4D 42 43 45 21 4E 54 42 58 4F 51 50 20 57 50 19 4B 56 43 41 54 40 49 2F 19 53 46 4D 43 48 42 4A 55 21 43 45 21 52 4F 54 49 49 4F 40 20 57 50 19 50 51 44 53 46 4F 54 21 52 48 4A 40 52 49 21 42 49 4F 40 4B 42 53 54 42 41 49 21 52 48 49 4E 40 53 56 2D 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 4B 4D 4F 55 4B 4E 4F 43 4D 48 41 4B 44 49 45 4E 20 20 59 4E 4F 4F 4D 20 45 44 54 4F 41 52 20 41 41 43 4E 48 41 41 54 4E 41 2E 48 20 41 41 20 53 54 48 49 49 41 20 4E 4E 43 4F 48 20 41 4D 49 49 3F 5A 20 49 53 4B 4F 41 52 49 45 20 54 4B 4F 41 4D 57 4F 41 20 49 42 49 41 20 49 4E 43 45 48 43 49 4F 3F 2D 3F 43 20 48 20 41 20 4E 20 2E 20 The two first ones are decoded above in Maxim (simple +1/-1 offsets). The remaining ones I have them partly decoded but couldn't yet find a suitable ruleset to decode them 100%.

rouken Joined: 13 Apr 2005 Posts: 248 Location: Aracruz - ES, Brazil	Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2021 12:22 pm
	Bock wrote - The game is only inside the Game Gear White Micro, not inside the PS4/Switch Aleste Collection software. OMG!! While GG Aleste 3 is breathtaking, Doka-fli being GG micro exclusive is heartbreaking... Why...? Why are you so mean, M2? T_T

Maxim Site Admin Joined: 19 Oct 1999 Posts: 14726 Location: London	Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2021 1:08 pm
	It seems like we should be able to record the full credits for a credits game... but my Japanese transcription ability is very bad.

Bock Site Admin Joined: 08 Jul 2001 Posts: 8648 Location: Paris, France	Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2021 10:34 pm Last edited by Bock on Mon Jan 11, 2021 12:48 pm; edited 1 time in total
	They are long credits - credits for the whole GG White Micro & Aleste Collection projects, perhaps all to GG Micros in general. I've typed the Japanese (MIGHT be some typos) and transcribed what I could. Proof readers would be good. ゲームギアミクロホワイトかいはつスタッフ Game Gear Micro White Development Staff ゆうげんがいしゃエムツー M2, Ltd. ディレクターこまばやし　たかゆきと　スリーキャッツ Director: Komabayashi Takayuki & Three Cats リードプログラマーいしくら　しんたろう Lead Programmer: Ishikura Shintarou プログラマーいがらし　ゆう Programmer: Igarashi Yuu プログラマーかすが　たつひこ Programmer: Kasuga Tatsuhiko プログラマーはらしの　まこと Programmer: Harashino Makoto プログラマーたかはし　ともひろ Programmer: Takahashi Tomohiro プログラマーふくい　まさゆき Programmer: Fukui Masayuki リードデザイナみしま　よしみトロきかく Lead Designer: Mishima Yoshimi (Toro Kikaku) デザイナさとう　けいいち Designer: Satou Keiichi デザイナあしづか　もりをトロきかく Designer: Ashizuka Moriwo (Toro Kikaku) デザイナふじい　あみトロきかく Designer: Fujii Ami Toro Kikaku GGA3イラストたかやま　きさい GGA3 Illustration: Takayama Kisai GGA3ごかくにんなみき　まなぶ GGA3 Quality?: Namiki Manabu サウンドミスターFBI Sound: Mister FBI サウンドチビテク Sound: Chibi-Tech サウンドくどう　さくおき Sound: Kudou Sakuoki こうかおんふじしま　さとしフューパック Sound effect: Fujishima Satoshi (Fupac) きかくサポートガーツなかまつ Planning Support: Gattsu? Nakamatsu ウシのでてくるゲームはいいゲーム🐄 Games where a cow appears are nice🐄 ミニゲームきかく Cat Hui Mini game planning: Cat Hui ミニゲームうごきとおとふじしま　さとしフューパック Mini game movement & sound: Fujishima Satoshi (Fupac) ミニゲームえかきぜるた　６８K Mini game visuals: Zellta 68K ミニゲームおてつだいさくらい　まさのりフューパック Mini game help: Sakurai Masanori (Fupac) キャリーくんさくがたかはし　ごう Carry-Kun design: Takahashi Gou キャリーくんげんおんナカシマ　カズユキ Carry-Kun jingle: Nakashima Kazuyuki イラストもかいたじぇみに　ひろの He even drew illustrations(?): Jemini Hirono グループウェアあらしかわにし　たかゆき Groupware Arashi: Wakanishi Takayuki グループウェアあらしくぼた　カズキチームM2STG Groupware Arashi: Kubota Kazuki, Team M2STD グループウェアあらしこまばやし　たかゆき Groupware Arashi: Komabayashi Takayuki てっぱんやきふくしま　じゅん Teppanyaki: Fukushima Jun つねにだいかんしゃあべ　てつや Always big thanks: Abe Tetsuya たすけてくれたしのだ　のぶひさ Saved us: Shinoda Nobuhisa おえかきやまだつおかおるちゃんP Hand drawing: Yamada Tatsuo, Kaoru chan P アドバイスをくれたさくま　あきらこいずみ　だいすけ Give us advices Sakuma Akira Koizumi Daisuke プロデューサーほりい　なおき Producer: Horii Naoki うえとあいだをねらえばこうとくてんのちゃんす❢ If you aim in the upper part, you'll have a chance to score high! ありがとうかぶしきがいしゃセガ Thank you for Sega Corp: まつだ　あいこたかはし　みつる Matsuda Aiko Takahashi Mitsuru かじ　ともさはっとり　やすゆき Kaji Tomosa Hattori Yasuyuki やすだ　とおるいまつ　はるお Yasuda Tooru Imatsu Haruo さくた　よしひろやまぐち　としきおおさわ　ひろき Sakuta Yoshihiro Yamaguchi Toshiki Oozawa Hiroki やまなか　ゆうきくりもと　けんすけ Yamanaka Yuuki Kurimoto Kensuke いつも　おせわになってますおくなり　ようすけ Always grateful to: Okunari Yousuke （C）SEGA （C) M2 Co.,Ltd. See you again in new Aleste.

Tha_Ape Joined: 22 Feb 2020 Posts: 51 Location: Washington, DC	Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2021 2:42 am
	Maxim wrote The ROM is padded out with lots of extra information. There is a message encoded using off-by-one ASCII: Quote HELLO KONBANHA XIAOZIE NI HAO MA. ASHINO MIZIKAI NECN HA AON-AON TO NAKI, CHATORAHA INU GA KITAKARA KOTATSU NI MOGURU. SINBALAM MIDNIGHT OSUNECO ZYOUHOU-KYOKU NO OZIKAN DE GOZAIMASU. KOYOI MO ZYANZYAN BARIBARI DAIKAIHOU. MAZUHA KOCHIRA WO OKIKI KUDASAI. THREE CATS DE XIAOMOSHOJIAN. Hello (English), good evening (Japanese) How are you, Miss? (Chinese). The "NECN" has short legs and is crying. Because the "CHATORAHA" dog came we went to the "kotatsu" (table with a heater under it). Its time for the "SINBALAM" Midnight male cat information radio station. The show is about to start, its going to be exciting. Well, please listen to this song first "3 cats [of] (chinese) xiao mo sho jian (chinese... I dont know that one)". The closest I can get with my Japanese friend who is not into video games.

Maxim Site Admin Joined: 19 Oct 1999 Posts: 14726 Location: London	Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2021 11:58 am
	XIAOMOSHOJIAN isn’t valid pinyin. I guess it’s a name.

bsittler Joined: 22 Apr 2018 Posts: 530	Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2021 5:58 pm
bsittler Joined: 22 Apr 2018 Posts: 530	Perhaps it's a slight typo of XIAOMOSHOUJIAN / 小魔兽剑 "little magic beast sword"? There's a manhua with a somewhat similar name... Also I believe 最緊要好玩 is the name of a song from the 1980's. I have no idea whether this is just coincidence though This is amazing detective work you have been doing, and I've also been playing and enjoying the mini-game quite a bit

bsittler Joined: 22 Apr 2018 Posts: 530	Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2021 6:08 pm
bsittler Joined: 22 Apr 2018 Posts: 530	Also it's possible SINBALAM is 신바람 "excitement"

Bock Site Admin Joined: 08 Jul 2001 Posts: 8648 Location: Paris, France	Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2021 6:52 pm
	The NECN probably stands for NECO its within the +/- and would make sense given the context. (the cipher may have been manually encoded with +1/-1 and therefore would have a few typos here and there)

asper Joined: 25 Nov 2015 Posts: 143	Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2021 2:44 pm
asper Joined: 25 Nov 2015 Posts: 143	Bock wrote The NECN probably stands for NECO its within the +/- and would make sense given the context. (the cipher may have been manually encoded with +1/-1 and therefore would have a few typos here and there) Just for information, whan an encoding has + or - some value they are probably encoded using XOR and not + and - ; dunno if this can be of any help.

Maxim Site Admin Joined: 19 Oct 1999 Posts: 14726 Location: London	Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2021 4:36 pm
	We tried that... there’s evidence it was manually encoded and thus can have errors.

Bock Site Admin Joined: 08 Jul 2001 Posts: 8648 Location: Paris, France	Cartridge and label Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2021 10:26 am
	- The winner of the high-score contest received a custom cartridge from M2 (pictured). Here's the tweet: https://twitter.com/bantam65535/status/1355793338310426626 ゴールデンカートリッジ、届いてます。ありがとうございます（マークⅢは買いました）　#dokafli_score - M2 sent me a lossless picture of the label with signing. I have added it to https://www.smspower.org/Games/Dokafli-SMS - M2 also sent me a cartridge for this (in black casing and signed). Will post pictures soon :) EtC-2qcVoAg_uWa.jpg (562.11 KB) dokafli_label.png (694.03 KB)

8BitBoy Joined: 15 Aug 2019 Posts: 260 Location: Lancashire UK	Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2023 10:14 am
	Would be really interested to pictures of that cartridge if you ever received a copy. Very interesting thread.

eisnerguy1 Joined: 06 Jul 2009 Posts: 3	Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2023 8:54 pm
eisnerguy1 Joined: 06 Jul 2009 Posts: 3	I would also love to see cart scans if possible. I'm guessing hypothetically asking for the rom of this is a no-go, right?

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