Japanese mini-marathon

[myloch]

In the same style of previous korean, chinese and taiwanese marathon topics by Derboo, here is one for japanese games for discussion and sharing. NO WAREZ, NO HENTAI, NO JAPANESE RELEASES OF WESTERN GAMES. Old and rare japan only titles are very appreciated, doujin are tolerated but not encouraged. Thanks for your cooperation, let's keep the thing interesting!

Some japan only pc releases I discovered (all already dumped titles will be removed):

3x3 Eyes ~Sanjiyan Henjyo~ (nihon create)
3x3 Eyes ~Tenrin Oh Genmu~ (nihon create)
Aero Subaru エアロスバル (aqua system)
Age of Discovery 3 Late Edition (大航海時代 3 後期版)
Air Force Grand Strategy (空軍大戦略) (systemsoft)
Akari and match (あかりと勝負!!) (aic) <--- more infos needed, online only?
apathy アパシー 流行り神 (adventure'rpg ?)
Armored division 2 (機甲師団 2) (artdink)
Banabana No.1: Roly Polys World Adventure (バナバナ1号 ローリーポーリーズの世界大冒険) (Shinko Music)
Bishi Bashi Champ mini / mini2 (ビシバシチャンプmini - mini2) (konami)
Classic virtual mahjong (定番バーチャー麻雀)
Defense Battle (防衛大作戦) (Gamebank)
fanshia (ファンシア) (aic) <--- more infos needed, online only?
Future Zero (フューチャーゼロ) (Osis)
Fuzzy Navel (ファジーネーブル) (splush wave)
Geo Conflict 4 The end of reincarnation
Grand strategy V DX (大戦略 5 DX 新品)
gunslinger girl*
hired explorer (ハイアード・エクスプローラー) (studio van)
Hissatsu pachinko collection (必殺パチンココレクション) (sunsoft)**
Idol Mahjong Final Romance R (アイドル麻雀 ファイナルロマンス R) Needs better dump
josei journalist satsujin jiken
Kindaichi Case Files (金田一少年の事件簿) (systemsoft 21)
Legend of the Galactic Heroes 3 SP (銀河英雄伝説 3 SP) (bothtec)
Legend of the Galactic Heroes VS (銀河英雄伝説 VS 新品) (Bothtec)
Mahjong mad age SM edition (麻雀狂時代SM編)
Mahjong mania era Young Gals after school ed. (麻雀狂時代 コギャル放課後編)
Mahoromatic Automatic Maiden (gainax)
master combat (systemsoft)
master of monsters 3 (systemsoft)
Mobilesuit Gundam White Base The 13th independent force (機動戦士ガンダム 第13独立部隊 WHITE BASE) (Bandai Digital)
noah's ark (ノアズ・アーク) (Nec)
Nobunaga's Ambition Tensho Symbol WITH Power-Up Kit (信長の野望 天翔記WITHパワーアップキット) (Koei)
Pacific Ocean Senki (太平洋戦記)**
Pee Pee Bon Bon (ピーピーボンボン) (Nippon Columbia)
power climb (k.s.s)
Psychometrer Eiji (サイコメトラーEIJI) (kodansha)*
Regional Power 2 (レジオナルパワー 2) (Bothtec)
Regional Power III & III SP (レジオナルパワー III & IIISP) (Bothtec)
royal blood (ロイヤルブラッド) (Koei)
the convenience**
THE 野球拳**
Tokio Tokyo 24 wards (トキオ 東京都第24区) (Artdink)
Ultraman Quiz King (ウルトラマン クイズ王) (Bandai)
Virtua Memorial (バチャめも) (Gaea)
zombie the world (kuki) <--- more infos needed, I have no idea what it might be.
竜機伝承 2 (kss)
竜機伝承 PLUS (kss)
すすめ！ベンチャー企業 (gamebank)
サウンドアイ 第１弾!! 真怨霊戦記 (fujicom)
サウンドアイ 第２弾!! ジュリアン (fujicom)
めざせ キャバクラ王
戦闘国家 AIR LAND BATTLE (Locus)
Shuppoppo (しゅっぽっぽ)** (witty wolf)
現代大戰略**
ねこまた探偵社 (tate/interfair lab)
天楼都市 -傀儡達の静宴- (kss)
川のぬし釣り2 (victor)

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* Not games, but desktop themes, utilities, video players...
** Game series (various titles)

[Kubo Caskett]

I know RapeLay is definitely off limits, for obvious reasons; can't really blame you for prohibiting that.

[myloch]

I'll obviously add content to the first post over time, like Derboo originally did in korean/chinese/taiwanese dedicated topics. I have nothing against hentai, and I know I'm precluding a lot of japanese PC titles but I prefer if we discuss and share "clean" titles. If a game is still sold as new on market websites, I'll notify it to moderators and they'll remove that

[1983parrothead]

Ake-Bre and Tobi Tsukihime have excellent soundtracks.

[myloch]

I recently missed asuka 120% burning fest return used for sale at a good price aaaargh!!!

[1983parrothead]

Feb 8, 2016 5:33:13 GMT -5 myloch said:

I recently missed asuka 120% burning fest return used for sale at a good price aaaargh!!!

I still have it with the enclosed soundtrack. But unfortunately, it's difficult to fully install and run it.

[myloch]

If you've got original cdrom, any idea if the game uses audio (redbook) tracks?


You can check this with windows media player, if there are audio tracks, it can play it as audiocd.
Or you can use a software like Isobuster to visualize cdrom structure. If it's a mixed mode type, you'll see multitracks, where the first one is data track and the others are redbook (audio) tracks.


I obviously don't want to force you but if you want to share a proper cdrom image publicly, it would be really appreciated by a lot of forumers (well...most probably!).

[saturatedvoid]

This is not my copy.

The Saboten Man (1995):
mega.nz/#!0poFERBC!yIumyaYwZN9oXr2xziCmD6TnS_55OcXc9Ce9ePda4yk

The intro sequence:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJjiVqeHeYA

Have fun!

[myloch]

Nice contribution! Thanks for help keeping the thread alive

[wannabe]

Well, I can add to the list Yellow Brick Road II and Zeddas 3: Labyrinthe.

By the way, does anybody know about any point'n'click 2D adventure game made in Japan in 90s? Any attempts to repeat success of King's Quest, Monkey Island, Broken Sword, etc.? From what I know of the local industry, the genre was unpopular...

[saturatedvoid]

Mar 20, 2016 11:12:53 GMT -5 wannabe said:

Well, I can add to the list Yellow Brick Road II and Zeddas 3: Labyrinthe.

By the way, does anybody know about any point'n'click 2D adventure game made in Japan in 90s? Any attempts to repeat success of King's Quest, Monkey Island, Broken Sword, etc.? From what I know of the local industry, the genre was unpopular...

Why Yellow Brick Road II more than every other Synergy games?

It's a really good question about 2D Point'N'Click... Of course there's 2D Point'N'Click that are First Person, but I can't think of anything Third Person and now I'm really wondering about an obscure Japanese version of Darkseed or Maniac Mansion!

[myloch]

Mar 20, 2016 11:12:53 GMT -5 wannabe said:

By the way, does anybody know about any point'n'click 2D adventure game made in Japan in 90s? Any attempts to repeat success of King's Quest, Monkey Island, Broken Sword, etc.? From what I know of the local industry, the genre was unpopular...

Humm...clocktower? I know it's not properly a 2d point'n'click adventure title but it's worth mentioning.

*edit*
a little game on sharing for you guys

www.sendspace.com/file/2izga2
Arabian kid

[saturatedvoid]

Apr 4, 2016 14:08:42 GMT -5 myloch said:

clocktower?
&
Arabian kid
www.sendspace.com/file/2izga2

True about clocktower.

And you shouldn't use sendspace. Use Megaupload, dropbox or Google Drive instead.
Because sendspace's links die eventually. And it's sad.

[myloch]

If someone is interested, a user recently uploaded obscure games Biohazard and Revolte on <edit> (powervr only!)
Catch 'em if you can!

Black magic:
www.sendspace.com/file/yz24au

[myloch]

Added 2 new puyopuyo style games to japanese list:

サザンでパイ牌 ban2 (sazan de paipai ban2)
もうぢや (mojiya)

More infos/downloads for them are welcome