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Post by derboo on Jun 24, 2015 16:09:14 GMT -5
Thanks, got your corrections about the Toema Jeonseol titles down for the next update of the article (whenever that will be).
Chaos is a demo that was distributed with Toema Jeonseol 2 and possibly also some magazine. I'd have a look at it if you can upload the disc image.
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Post by Delacroix on Jun 24, 2015 16:38:36 GMT -5
Chaos image. Also, I agree that this may be a demo however it's kinda strange that it has audio tracks, wouldn't you agree? Usually demos don't have that, nor do their installers have serial key protection.
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Post by derboo on Jun 25, 2015 0:16:03 GMT -5
I suppose the serial is for online identification, as it's a multiplayer demo. I've managed to run the game, but the controls are all messed up in Windows 7, so I can't actually play it. Won't run on my Windows 98 VM.  |
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Post by Delacroix on Jun 25, 2015 2:00:42 GMT -5
Well at least you can make some screenshots by starting up the available maps and somehow fill in the article further with it. I couldn't do even that.
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Post by cj iwakura on Jul 26, 2015 17:25:04 GMT -5
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Post by macaw on Oct 3, 2015 15:39:38 GMT -5
I just noticed the freeware section of the database: www.hardcoregaming101.net/korea/gameindex-freeware-etitle.htmMaybe I ask how you came across a lot of this stuff Derboo? I still cant find anythign about a lot of these even when searching the korean titles. Also do you know if the Korean community did shareware releases at all like in the west? |
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Post by dswizzy on Oct 3, 2015 15:45:03 GMT -5
I just noticed the freeware section of the database: www.hardcoregaming101.net/korea/gameindex-freeware-etitle.htmMaybe I ask how you came across a lot of this stuff Derboo? I still cant find anythign about a lot of these even when searching the korean titles. Also do you know if the Korean community did shareware releases at all like in the west? You can usually find a few of those only in certain blog sites like Naver or so, but i am also curious as if any korean company released a couple of shareware cds contains tons of their games pack-in or exclusive downloadable titles in BBS broadcasts. |
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Post by derboo on Oct 3, 2015 20:09:06 GMT -5
About half of them were from that half-evil Naver cafe that was eventually shut down and might not be available anywhere else. I might have recovered a few (very few) of the smaller ones from my crashed HD, but I haven't gotten around to sort out the files yet. Others can be found on various blogs like dswizzy said. A few, like Bbunman, Black Magic and Eye Shadow I've never seen around, only some guy posting screenshots half a decade ago (on tistory, so there was no easy way of contacting him)
Pretty much all the early 80s ones are scanned from magazines.
There was no shareware model per se, but since most of the commercial industry during the mid-90s was on a shareware budget anyway, I guess there wasn't a place on the market for that. There were some compilation CDs, Mirinae Software had a CD with full versions of their old games and demos of the new ones (and their game creation tool), I think both Mirinae Software and Family Production eventually posted the games they made for TV broadcasts on their home pages. The donging (=doujin) scene would eventually put out commercial CDs, but that's all post-2000.
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Post by starlord on Oct 6, 2015 13:25:22 GMT -5
Hi derboo.
Out of curiosity, might you still be in contact with mirinae elements?
Would be interesting to see if armageddon and into the storm made it into those cd compilations and if some people in mirinae have access to them.
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Post by dswizzy on Oct 12, 2015 12:23:43 GMT -5
Good news everyone!! I have a copy of Last Laibers on my computer downloaded and stuff already if anyone wants to try it out! Here's a download link i've made if you want to try it out: mega.nz/#!YQxBQKZb!kt8Ec897bf6PP7NfmT4sAEXh1SmTtQikkxe7FcdNauk |
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Post by Maciej Miszczyk on Oct 31, 2015 15:17:15 GMT -5
I actually have a legit CD copy of My Friend Koo my aunt bought me when I was a kid. I played this a lot, then forgot most of it. I assumed it was a budget title that I misremembered as being better and more ambitious than it really was due to having problems with getting it to run on modern OSes and the fact that when I remembered the title, there was almost nothing on the internet about it but it seems that the game is actually quite cool. I'd like to play it again but IIRC it requires some old version of QuickTime. getting it to run when I first got it was a hassle, now it's probably worse.
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Post by derboo on Dec 2, 2015 3:57:21 GMT -5
This is awesome: Korean gaming site GameMeca just started uploading full scans of three old Korean magazines, starting with the first issue of Game Champ, from which I could only take bad photos under suboptimal conditions five years ago: www.gamemeca.com/magazine/Their tweet suggested that later magazines might require a (free) registration, but the current issue can be viewed without. I also just noticed that they did the "virtual magazine cover" thing we introduced recently since 2009.  |
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Post by fergzilla on Mar 13, 2016 12:24:52 GMT -5
So I've noticed something strange and been wondering about ever since I saw Joel of Vinesauce stream some MAME arcade games and joking about the many pr0n games on the emulator, and then I decided to look at things out of morbid curiosity.... Some of the Korean company Comad's pr0n-y arcade games on MAME (like New Fantasia and Best 50 Fantasia, which seems to be elaborate and extensive Gals Panic 1 hacks/clones with graphical "enhancements" but with some assets/soundbites left in anyway) have also been credited to a mysterious company called "New Japan System" as well as Comad themselves. In the title screens of those games (which I can't post here due to highly NSFW material), there are kanji written just above the Comad and New Japan System copyright credits as well consisting of "新日本企劃" Curious, I decided to look the kanji up, and it's pronounced "shin ni(pp/h)on kikaku" in Japanese. This struck me as strange, as there is one other (rather famous) company whose name is pronounced exactly like that too (with similar meanings, although the last word can more mean "planning/project" rather than "system"), and it's SNK (currently SNK Playmore), whose Japanese kanji name is "新日本企 画", as opposed to New Japan System's "新日本企 劃". The part pronounced "kaku" got "画" swapped for "劃". And according to Wiktionary, "劃" is a legitimate yet uncommon pre-war alternate form for "画" and 企劃 is still the current Chinese and Korean equal for modern Japanese 企画 in the encompassing Sino-Xenic vocabulary. Not only that, but "新日本企劃" can also be passed off as Korean hanja (old Chinese character forms) too. It would be written as "신 일본 기획" (pronounced "sin ilbon gihoeg") in modern Korean hangul, and all three words are legitimate readable Korean words that also have the same meanings as discussed above, and can also refer to the SNK company in Korean (if Google is any indication). I knew that Comad was somewhat of a shady Korean company with little info on them, but what is going on here? Was New Japan System some actually- Korean company (similar to the way that US Gold was actually a European company) who tried to pretend to be SNK using a similarly spelled and pronounced name for (shady) business purposes? Is "New Japan System" actually a fake short-lived pseudonym for a specific team within Comad themselves (whom, again, were pretending to be SNK)? What's going on with the already bootleg-y Comad company and games? This series of all-Japanese Twitter posts from Gotoh Juan (pronounced with an English "j" sound rather than Spanish "h" as expected. Japanese romanization is weird) is pretty suspicious on the matter as well: 1 2 3 4 (according to Japanese Wikipedia, Gotoh Juan is a Japanese artist specializing in R18+ manga for a long time, so even though there's no NSFW images on these particular tweets, might want to tread with caution anyway). Anyone willing to try to make these tweets clearer than what Google Translate could? Anyone got any answers or theories? |
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Post by Kubo Caskett on Mar 13, 2016 13:51:49 GMT -5
So I've noticed something strange and been wondering about ever since I saw Joel of Vinesauce stream some MAME arcade games and joking about the many pr0n games on the emulator, and then I decided to look at things out of morbid curiosity.... Some of the Korean company Comad's pr0n-y arcade games on MAME (like New Fantasia and Best 50 Fantasia, which seems to be elaborate and extensive Gals Panic 1 hacks/clones with graphical "enhancements" but with some assets/soundbites left in anyway) have also been credited to a mysterious company called "New Japan System" as well as Comad themselves. In the title screens of those games (which I can't post here due to highly NSFW material), there are kanji written just above the Comad and New Japan System copyright credits as well consisting of "新日本企劃" Curious, I decided to look the kanji up, and it's pronounced "shin ni(pp/h)on kikaku" in Japanese. This struck me as strange, as there is one other (rather famous) company whose name is pronounced exactly like that too (with similar meanings, although the last word can more mean "planning/project" rather than "system"), and it's SNK (currently SNK Playmore), whose Japanese kanji name is "新日本企 画", as opposed to New Japan System's "新日本企 劃". The part pronounced "kaku" got "画" swapped for "劃". And according to Wiktionary, "劃" is a legitimate yet uncommon pre-war alternate form for "画" and 企劃 is still the current Chinese and Korean equal for Japanese 企画 in the encompassing Sino-Xenic vocabulary. Not only that, but "新日本企劃" can also be passed off as Korean hanja (old Chinese character forms) too. It would be written as "신 일본 기획" (pronounced "sin ilbon gihoeg") in modern Korean hangul, and all three words are legitimate readable Korean words that also have the same meanings as discussed above, and can also refer to the SNK company in Korean. I knew that Comad was somewhat of a shady Korean company with little info on them, but what is going on here? Was New Japan System some actually- Korean company (similar to the way that US Gold was actually a European company) who tried to pretend to be SNK using a similarly spelled and pronounced name for (shady) business purposes? Is "New Japan System" actually a fake short-lived pseudonym for a specific team within Comad themselves (whom, again, were pretending to be SNK)? What's going on with the already bootleg-y Comad company and games? This series of all-Japanese Twitter posts from Gotoh Juan (pronounced with an English "j" sound rather than Spanish "h" as expected. Japanese romanization is weird) is pretty suspicious on the matter as well: 1 2 3 4 (according to Japanese Wikipedia, Gotoh Juan is a Japanese artist specializing in R18+ manga for a long time, so even though there's no NSFW images on these particular tweets, might want to tread with caution anyway). Anyone got any answers or theories? If those "games" were made before 1998 then it might have something to with the ban on Japanese media at the time (and maybe a sense of jealously towards Japanese companies as well). |
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Post by derboo on Mar 13, 2016 18:15:07 GMT -5
No one knows! It's thinkable that Comad used it as an overseas trademark to appear like a Japanese company in Taiwan, Hong Kong or whereever. (If the name only appeared in export releases it could also have been an export partner in one of those countries that mainly imported Japanese games or pretended to import Japanese games, but that wouldn't explain why the name also appears on domestic releases.) Korean wikis speculate that it was a scheme to avoid rigorous content inspection because the inspection standards for imported arcade machines was infamously low for a few years (there are sources that complain about the loose requirements for arcade imports vs console game imports, but there is no indicator if it was any different for domestic arcade games) but their domestic releases are tame enough that they should have easily gotten a +18 permission anyway, so that explanation doesn't sound 100% convincing, either. In other words, it remains a mystery. If those "games" were made before 1998 then it might have something to with the ban on Japanese media at the time (and maybe a sense of jealously towards Japanese companies as well). That doesn't fit the situation in Korea. If anything it would have caused companies to hide Japanese names (but even that wasn't an issue at all ever. The ban was solely on media in Japanese language.) |
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