Estpolis Denki II NTSC-JAP Prototype

Remember, Jackhead made a dump with a floppy drive first. It wasn't correct, but it still might have any corrupted data.

 

I have that dump too.

I can send it to the OP/JLukas if jackhead didnt.

Way I see it, the data is now the ops (rather than jackheads). So I wouldnt upload it here (as thats up to him).

 

Some progress in the game and have level 2 now:







When i want to save in the church it's impossible black screen after speak with him:

So I use Savestate with Zsnes and PAR code are not needed to pass intro.

 

Im not longer the owner of the cart, so i leave it to trevormacro releasing anything so far.

 

Progression :

 

Good stuff! Still no sound?

 

Thank you Jackhead.

No sound yet!
I am going to eat now.
Thanks for the help of JLukas.

 

only thing that comes to mind in this thread

 

The Wild card dump is only eprom 3 again and again and again.... up to 4MB. And the Eprom 3 is OK! So nothing really usefull...

 

Nice to see the progress here - great work!

 

State: the game work without PAR code in Zsnes. Hex changed.

Save work in the game (church) always without sound.

 

So cool to see the prototype survived and came on right hands with great help of users who are helping you.

Good luck getting the sound/music fixed/ripped aswell.. if that survived.

 

Great work, almost thought this was lost. Thanks for your efforts!

 

Progress in game:

 

They sure made the enemy sprites bigger between this beta and final. Very interesting.

Also by seeing this It's pretty much proven that not a single bit of graphic related things got hurt from the "corruption" which is great

 

Log for sound:



Just after that I uncheck CPU.

Here is the Zipped log file.

View attachment LogforSound.zip

 

Hi, I can't help with restoring the proto, but I'll gladly help out in other ways.

From what I can see so far, I think this might be the same proto that EGM used to preview here in this article: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v343/ESTFAN/lufiascan.png
Screenshots show the same different tilesets, also you can see the blue butterfly instead of the lizard monster in the cave to Sundletan.
I don't actually have this magazine, I just grabbed this screenshot from Ebay a long time ago.
I remember it was some special issue from EGM about RPGs coming out in 1995.

Anyway, I've been making screenshots in the final version to compare to trevormacro's screenshots.
Some of the differences seem quite obvious, like the different monster sprites etc, but there are a lot of less obvious differences too.









And these are some animations:

 

It wouldn't surprise me at all if this prototype was the one used by EGM in their preview. Most of DreamTR's prototypes come from his time at Tips N Tricks, or were acquired from people who worked at other game magazines. Quite a few prototypes he has were labelled with the magazine they were given to.

Really, I can't say enough how impressed I am that you got the prototype working as well as you have. I didn't have much faith at first.

 

Another 3 gif comparisons.



Maxim's sprite

 

I have a bug (game crash) when i want to fight mini boss:

Log attached.

@Sinrevi:

Thanks for your fabulous comparaisons.
You are the greatest fan I have never seen before.