Help with unidentified MSX game? | MSX Resource Center (Page 1/2)

Enlighted (6438)

07-05-2023, 02:49

I think the title is 麻雀パイのピラミッドを崩す麻薬的なゲーム that I translate by something like : An Addictive Game That Crumbles The Pyramids of Mahjong Tiles. (It's in the Japanese title style of the Game Master 2). I have never seen this game.

There is another puzzle game that uses Mahjong tiles. This is: Beautiful Girl Mahjong Puzzle MSX (美少女麻雀パズルMSX) by GameImpact.

https://ascii.jp/elem/000/004/120/4120490/

Par tyr105

Supporter (5)

07-05-2023, 03:50

The label is an introductory article about a BASIC game called "Hong Kong(香港)" published in the March 1988 issue of MSXFAN.
Is the game screen the same as the picture on the label?
It is also included in Disk Station No.7, and the logo of MSXFAN is displayed at startup.

Par Lazzeri

Champion (280)

07-05-2023, 03:53

tyr105 wrote:

The label is an introductory article about a BASIC game called "Hong Kong(香港)" published in the March 1988 issue of MSXFAN.
Is the game screen the same as the picture on the label?
It is also included in Disk Station No.7, and the logo of MSXFAN is displayed at startup.

Excellent! Thank you! :-)

It is indeed the same game pictured. Apparently someone converted it to ROM and burn a cart for it?

Should I try dumping it? Any tips?

Par Lazzeri

Champion (280)

07-05-2023, 04:09

Holy crap! I´ve managed to dump it!

Here´s the ROM inside a ZIP file if anyone´s interested:

lazzeri.online/pub/HONGKONG.zip

Here´s the game screen:

Par cjs

Master (143)

07-05-2023, 04:33

BTW, the images in the original post don't show up for me; Chrome 112.0.5615.139 refuses to load them. I think that the issue is that they're using http: within a page served by https:; Chrome is trying to load them via https: and failing due to the site's HTTPS certificate being invalid (it's for *.prod.iad2.secureserver.net).

Par Takamichi

Hero (651)

07-05-2023, 06:49

I can't see any image either but the rom looks similar to this one, right? A contributor to MSX FAN was awarded with a physical ROM of the contributed game that is labeled with the applicable MSX FAN article entry, in this case #1988-03 page 42. Indeed it's super rare and its previous owner is TAI the original contributor.

The error message you are seeing is probably this one, "This program is MSX2 only." that appears on MSX1 and turboR but not on MSX2+.

この　フ゜ロク゛ラムは、ＭＳＸ２　せんようて゛す。

Par cjs

Master (143)

07-05-2023, 07:39

Takamichi wrote:

I can't see any image either...

Oh, silly of me: I should have put the URLs in my last message; if you open them stand-alone you can view them just fine. (They simply won't embed in this forum.)

And yes, that error message makes sense since the cart label itself does say, "MSX2専用VRAM64K" ("Only for use with MSX2; VRAM 64K.")

Par raymond

Hero (653)

07-05-2023, 09:05

When I click the link for the images, I get a file not found... Perhaps you could upload them to msx.pics

Par Takamichi

Hero (651)

07-05-2023, 11:03

Thank you, this label is exactly from the MSX FAN page, the left part of the top is what Gdx translated, the front says "LOL. However in order to LOL you have to be really familiar with Shanghai we introduced on page 96. Even without knowing that, this is the deeply enjoyable excellent game." it indeed runs on VRAM 64KB MSX2. Aside from Disk Station 7-2 it's in Super Program Collection 1 as HONGKONG.P13.

Par cjs

Master (143)

07-05-2023, 11:35

Ok, on to msx.pics they go.