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Following on our work researching educational software, we have today Sekaishi Nenpyou (世界史年表) for the SC-3000, literally "World History Chronology", released in 1983. Proudly dubbed "Conforming to guidelines from the Ministry of Education" this serie of software - released along with Nihonshi Nenpyou, its Japanese History equivalent - offers a listing of important historical dates and quiz you on them! I think we probably just set a new low of excitement level with this release :). But we are done with more than half of those educational software, and I am in the process of getting access to most of the remaining ones within a few months.

Unsurprisingly, those educational software didn't sell very well, and Sega ran a "buy one get one" mail order promotional plan in Japan as they were phasing out the 8-bit era.

Monaco GP [v2] (モナコＧＰ) for the SG-1000 is a third and final build of the early top down scrolling game - a surprinsgly fun game. Based on the 32KB release of the game, this seems to be mainly a bug fixed version, where the timing of those memory accesses have been tweaked. This game has an embarassingly huge amount of variations (7) that were really though to sort out. As it happens, the small boxed versions of the game advertised as "24KB versions" are all in fact 32KB versions. The actual 24KB version only comes from the earlier, big-sized box release of the game in Japan.

Sega Flipper [40k map] (セガフリッパー) for the SG-1000 in an alternate version dump using the cartridge board where ROM data is mapped out accross a range of 40KB of memory space, leading out to a different build. We haven't figured out yet which version came first and what are the actual build differences, if any. Hackers, anyone?

Baku Baku Animal (ばくばくアニマル) for the Game Gear, late 1996 puzzle game, based on the arcade game. This is the Japanese dump of the game that we've just released. In the post-Tetris era, this take on the dropping block genre is refreshing and packed with animal feeding cuteness.

Finally we have Skweek (スクウィーク) for the Game Gear correct and proper dump of the Japanese cartridge. There is an existing dump floating around the net which upon inspection is likely an incorrect dump. The new correct dump has been confirmed from 4 different cartridges and no trace to be found of an alternate version yet.

That's wrapping up our biggest month since many years - 20 new dumps released this month. Happy scary Halloween!

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sekaishi_nenpyou-sc-jp.zip (7.3 KB)

monaco_gp-32k-v2-sg.zip (13.09 KB)

sega_flipper-40kmap-sg.zip (8.32 KB)

baku_baku_animal-gg-jp.zip (145.06 KB)

skweek-gg-jp.zip (52.19 KB)

Is the previous Japanese dump of Baku Baku that's been floating around (http://www.doperoms.com/files/roms/sega_game_gear/Baku+Baku+Animal+-+Sekai+Shiikugakari+Senshu-ken+%28J%29+%5B%21%5D.zip/135902/Baku+Baku+Animal+-+Sekai+Shiikugakari+Senshu-ken+.zip) a bad dump then?

It's actually European, which had a Japanese title screen and English text.
I can only guess they left it in Japanese to preserve the logo animation (the く (ku) characters in the title make chomping motions), while the US version (which has an English title screen) replaced it with a non-animated logo.

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Bock Site Admin Joined: 08 Jul 2001 Posts: 8649 Location: Paris, France	Sekaishi Nenpyou (SC/JP), two SG-1000 variations and 2 GG variations Posted: Sun Oct 31, 2010 8:03 am
	Following on our work researching educational software, we have today Sekaishi Nenpyou (世界史年表) for the SC-3000, literally "World History Chronology", released in 1983. Proudly dubbed "Conforming to guidelines from the Ministry of Education" this serie of software - released along with Nihonshi Nenpyou, its Japanese History equivalent - offers a listing of important historical dates and quiz you on them! I think we probably just set a new low of excitement level with this release :). But we are done with more than half of those educational software, and I am in the process of getting access to most of the remaining ones within a few months. Unsurprisingly, those educational software didn't sell very well, and Sega ran a "buy one get one" mail order promotional plan in Japan as they were phasing out the 8-bit era. Monaco GP [v2] (モナコＧＰ) for the SG-1000 is a third and final build of the early top down scrolling game - a surprinsgly fun game. Based on the 32KB release of the game, this seems to be mainly a bug fixed version, where the timing of those memory accesses have been tweaked. This game has an embarassingly huge amount of variations (7) that were really though to sort out. As it happens, the small boxed versions of the game advertised as "24KB versions" are all in fact 32KB versions. The actual 24KB version only comes from the earlier, big-sized box release of the game in Japan. Sega Flipper [40k map] (セガフリッパー) for the SG-1000 in an alternate version dump using the cartridge board where ROM data is mapped out accross a range of 40KB of memory space, leading out to a different build. We haven't figured out yet which version came first and what are the actual build differences, if any. Hackers, anyone? Baku Baku Animal (ばくばくアニマル) for the Game Gear, late 1996 puzzle game, based on the arcade game. This is the Japanese dump of the game that we've just released. In the post-Tetris era, this take on the dropping block genre is refreshing and packed with animal feeding cuteness. Finally we have Skweek (スクウィーク) for the Game Gear correct and proper dump of the Japanese cartridge. There is an existing dump floating around the net which upon inspection is likely an incorrect dump. The new correct dump has been confirmed from 4 different cartridges and no trace to be found of an alternate version yet. That's wrapping up our biggest month since many years - 20 new dumps released this month. Happy scary Halloween!

Bock Site Admin Joined: 08 Jul 2001 Posts: 8649 Location: Paris, France	Temporary Transitional Attachment Fairy Posted: Sun Oct 31, 2010 8:17 am
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tommy1983 Joined: 18 Dec 2009 Posts: 114 Location: Norway	Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2010 6:18 pm
	Is the previous Japanese dump of Baku Baku that's been floating around (http://www.doperoms.com/files/roms/sega_game_gear/Baku+Baku+Animal+-+Sekai+Shiikugakari+Senshu-ken+%28J%29+%5B%21%5D.zip/135902/Baku+Baku+Animal+-+Sekai+Shiikugakari+Senshu-ken+.zip) a bad dump then?

KingMike Joined: 14 Oct 2008 Posts: 510	Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 3:44 am
KingMike Joined: 14 Oct 2008 Posts: 510	It's actually European, which had a Japanese title screen and English text. I can only guess they left it in Japanese to preserve the logo animation (the く (ku) characters in the title make chomping motions), while the US version (which has an English title screen) replaced it with a non-animated logo.

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