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Title: Nishimura Kyotaro Mystery: Hokutosei No Onna (PCE CD-ROM, 1990, Naxat)
Post by: esteban on March 16, 2015, 07:40:54 AM: SO, I don't remember anyone posting about this...

http://blog.blockos.org/?p=811

(http://blog.blockos.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Nishimura-0013.png)
(http://blog.blockos.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Nishimura-0004.png)

You GOTTA LOVE the 80's knife-wielding-stalker motif...

BONUS (from the same blog):

MAGIC GRIFFIN
(http://www.blockos.org/releases/pcengine/hardware/Magic Griffin/mugshot.jpg)

http://blog.blockos.org/?p=883
Title: Re: Roger Quartermain and the lost script of the Heisei era
Post by: Punch on March 16, 2015, 07:44:13 AM: King Hudson's Mines
Title: Re: Nishimura Kyotaro Mystery: Hokutosei No Onna (PCE CD-ROM, 1990, Naxat)
Post by: KingDrool on March 16, 2015, 08:00:00 AM: All your shit be broken, yo.

In the meantime:
http://www.pcengine.co.uk/HTML_Games/Nishimura_Kyotaro_Mystery.htm
Title: Re: Nishimura Kyotaro Mystery: Hokutosei No Onna (PCE CD-ROM, 1990, Naxat)
Post by: esteban on March 16, 2015, 08:07:38 AM: Quote from: jlued686 on March 16, 2015, 08:00:00 AM
All your shit be broken, yo.

In the meantime:
http://www.pcengine.co.uk/HTML_Games/Nishimura_Kyotaro_Mystery.htm

LIKE, the images don't show up? I linked from blog, like a fool
Title: Re: Nishimura Kyotaro Mystery: Hokutosei No Onna (PCE CD-ROM, 1990, Naxat)
Post by: Necromancer on March 16, 2015, 08:31:21 AM: Everything works fine for me. It looks like an interesting game; are they actually trying to translate it?
Title: Nishimura Kyotaro Mystery: Hokutosei No Onna (PCE CD-ROM, 1990, Naxat)
Post by: esteban on March 16, 2015, 08:38:48 AM: Quote from: Necromancer on March 16, 2015, 08:31:21 AM
Everything works fine for me. It looks like an interesting game; are they actually trying to translate it?

I'm not sure how far anyone has gotten, from skimming, it seems the fellow was able to quickly locate/identify key parts of the code that reveal:

(1) text is uncompressed (good)
(2) data is not stored in a super-simple array/table (mystery to be solved)
Title: Re: Nishimura Kyotaro Mystery: Hokutosei No Onna (PCE CD-ROM, 1990, Naxat)
Post by: sunteam_paul on March 16, 2015, 10:41:46 AM: As digital comics go, it's not fantastic if you are stumbling around without reading Japanese. I can only guess it might be decent if translated, although it's pretty basic for the genre.