unknown Japanese Saturn game

Anyone know what this says?

Not even sure if I need a red or a black disk to test it as I don't know what it says. I just put all my Saturn testing items away too and buried them deep. Ahh I won't be needing these for along time I said

 

Pretty wow! It says "VM Hardware Manual" and below "for Yoshii" (family name).

 

I tried to boot it and got a message saying the disc was incompatible. Is that because its Japanese? Anyone know if I should be able to boot Japanese discs using a US system and the sega red&black system discs?

 

So its just a text manual huh?

No wonder it wouldn't load. I think this came from a stack of discs I got from a Sega employee. Does the Yoshii name mean anything to any of you?

 

Just put the disc on your PC Cd-drive and check the content. also, use my SRP program (under winxp) to scan the header of the disc then you will know if it is a saturn disc or just a pc disc.

 

Looks like a PC disc. 2 file which I can't make heads or tales of either I don;t have the correct file to read them or its all Japanese text and appears like a jumbled mess on my Microsoft Word.

Any value to this amoung Japanese collectors?

 

Does the name "Johnson" mean anything to you?

 

My thoughts exactly.

Interesting find btw.

 

:lol:

 

Quote:
Does the Yoshii name mean anything to any of you?

I now have an image of Johnson from the Halo series riding on Yoshi through Super Mario World picking off Brutes..

 

Funny... I have an image of Yoshii riding my Johnson.

 

My cd drive is out so I had to wait till Sunday to get to a computer with a working cd drive. I tried to view it previously on my old lap top.

Turn out it wasn't gibberish but 2 zip files and they are in english.

First one VM_Harware_E opens up to several word documents.
Visual Memory System Hardware Manual Revision 1.00
looks like 241 pages.

Second one VM_Hardware_J has 5 main files or folders. HTML folder IMG folder Index folder Index HTML file and TOP HTML file.

here are a few from the IMG folder

 

haha !
they used a saturn cdr to burn "confidential" informations for the sega dreamcast.
that's funny !

 

I guess thats what you'd use if you worked at Sega. You have a stack of unused Saturn discs might as well put them to use.

 

*Had second thoughts about this post, which was in the 'grey' area. *

Long story short; the contents of this disc could be very worthwile for VMS (homebrew)developers.

 

Don't know if anyone's noticed lately, but the pic has been changed to Bionic Commando.

 

Hehe yeah i've noticed that. Alot pics Adam puts up change from time to time, tad confusing.

 

why reviving this, tough?

 

Well, I was thinking about giving some more info (got the disc here now) but reconsidered as it seems it's all info regarded as confidential. Like said, a bit in the grey area. Apologies, might as well lock this topic. I'll see if I can ''do some more" with the contents.