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if it says SD-Snatcher then it's MSX because only on MSX the game has been released.

IIRC SD-Snatcher has been released on PC-88/PC-98 as well. But I agree, the MSX version was the dominant one (as it should have been ).

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IIRC SD-Snatcher has been released on PC-88/PC-98 as well.

You're confused with Snatcher (which is released on numerous platforms). SD Snatcher is a MSX only game.

Yes, I just did some research on the web. I found this:

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[感想] 　全編に渡ってクオリティの高い画像とシナリオが展開するのだが、惜しむべきはシナリオが未完であること。 　物語の結末は後に登場するMSXのSDスナッチャーやPCEngine版のスナッチャーを待たなければならなかった。

Its origin is http://clifford.ojiji.net/games/collection/pc88.html. If anyone would be able to translate it, I'd be happy
I think this deals with MSX, SD Snatcher and PC-Engine, so we can verify it

[edit]Damnit, it's translated into unicode codes! Snout, how can we solve this?[/edit]

[edit2]K, fixed it with a picture of it [/edit2]

[edit3, several days later]According to snout, the system can handle Japanese fonts again , so I put back the original text.[/edit3]

Well our scanner is not connected right now so... Maybe tonight.

About the Japanese: that's what happens when you're not 1337 enough to use UTF-8 for your web site.


~Grauw

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About the Japanese: that's what happens when you're not 1337 enough to use UTF-8 for your web site.

\o/ Nice one, ~Grauw! \o/

"The picture and the scenario whose quality is high [ thought ] over all compilation develop, but should be reluctant scenario is incomplete. Conclusion of the story must wait for SD スナッチャー of MSX which appears afterwards and スナッチャー of PCEngine edition."

just use babelfish, translates most stuff..

the problem is that & gets replaced with &

no worries, it's on the fixlist

Hmmzzz... For as far as I can read and understand it , it simply says 'so that was the story concerning Snatcher, if you want to play more: buy a MSX'

Hmm, just arrived at work, but the paper is not on my desk anymore... I will ask around if somebody still threw it away or something, but it looks like I can't provide you with a scan

Arjan: yes, that is the problem which shows immediately. But writing Japanese will always be hard if the web site's character set it Latin-1, because it can not express Japanese characters. Of course, you could halfheartedly try to solve this using character entities (as you see happening above), but imho it is not a very good solution.

It would be better if the website switched to UTF-8. Also in the light of a possible future Japanese translated version of the MRC. Converting the database should be reasonably easy, there are conversion functions in MySQL, it should basically be a matter of iterating them over every text field in the database.

Anyways, I guess this is off-topic .


~Grauw

SD snatcher is MSX only !!
However the full scenario of the pc engine version of snatcher /pc88-89/Sega is used. (Third act included !)

Of course! Its storyline/plot is just like Snatcher, except for the gameplay. That has been improved radically ^^;.

Somebody scanned the article already:

commodore-gg.hobby.nl/cpics/volks220604.jpg

Nominiee 05: Saskia du Bois
Media: Volkskrant (Dutch Newspaper)
Spotted by: Laurens Holst
Description: In a report on the HCC Commodore-GG Retrogaming event two MSX games: (Zanac and SD-Snatcher) are mentioned.


Evidence