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« on: November 16, 2022, 01:06:00 AM »
This is the last batch of games I plan on releasing for a while. 魔法球 and Prince Yeh Rude are raw dumps of Gowin games. Gowin would put an intro segment of some of their games which would be follwed by the actual game segment. In the case of these two the games work in emulators if you trim off the intro segment, which is what I did here. Top Secret is a bit more interesting. If you are aware of the history of Gowin then you may have heard that they purchased the rights to many of their earlier releases from people who later would work at Vast Fame instead of making these games in house. Early builds of these titles appear on some of Vast Fame's multicarts. What is interesting is that these games saw finished versions which were released by different publishers prior to being released by Gowin. Top Secret is the version of Losing Trip (迷途の旅) that Songtly and Jumbo released prior to Gowin releasing their version. Finally there is Binary Monster 2. This one I extracted from a multicart from Thailand that had the ID code HTG-2501. On cart this plays the usual intro sequence the original Gowin release of this features, but the text is altered to say Howin instead of Gowin. The title screen has been modified to say Digimon instead of Binary Monster 2. The multicart manufacturer appears to have used the English version of this game as a base for this hack. Attempting to play it on a monochrome machine such as a Gameboy Pocket causes bugs to occur which disable floor collision. The raw dump of this loses most of its visuals when run as a Gameboy Color game. Running it as a monochrome game restores the visuals and does not cause the floor collision bug seen on cart. A fellow user on this site by the name of yy小龙虾 was able to re-enable the color pallet in the game's code. This gives proper visuals like how this game appears on cart but it also makes the floor collision bug occur if you attempt to run it as a monochrome game. I have decided to include both the color re-enabled version as well as the raw dump