A Cartridge for Nintendo's Lost Devkit | Things of Interest

[@Akfamilyhome]

An addendum reply: - As of this video going up, LuigiBlood's code for Game Processor RAM casette support on the Sanni Cart Reader has been officially added! - A more accurate translation for 'Asterisk no Daibouken' should be 'Asterisk's Great Adventure', but I personally feel the alliterative title kinda works too!

[@AllSourceGaming]

Very interesting find and synopsis of Nintendo Dentsu & the Game Processor! This was something I didn't know anything about, so now I've got something new to spend my time researching about. Hopefully, one day, a Game Processor and more Casettes can be found so even more SNES indie-games can be found and maybe even created! Your gaming cubby/hut looked really cozy, but I had a few questions. What model of Sony TV is that and what is a Super Famicom Box? I'm seeing a few videos on people having them, but not any sort of historical video. Just another thing to do research on then. I really enjoyed this video, keep up the great work! - PhantomZ2

[@Akfamilyhome]

@@AllSourceGaming Thanks! To answer your question, that's a Sony Trinitron KV-1484MT TV that I picked up for free a few years ago, and it's the one 'big' CRT I have aside from a 9-inch PVM. As for that Super Famicom Box, good eye! I actually picked that up like two weeks ago, so it just happened to be included in the camera shots here lol. I definitely have plans to talk about that in the future even though there are a few videos out there on it!

[@TrimeshSZ]

How about "Asterisk's Amazing Adventure"? Sure, it's a kind of stretched interpretation of 大, but at least it advances the alliterative aspect.

[@takwu0]

i cant type japanese but did you try to google those 5 students and see if there is any public info on them? not looking for private personal stuff of course but it would be awesome if any of them ended up working in the industry 😂

[@Lou-yf1jo]

wtf is that intro

[@JVeg199X]

Shoutouts to those last “surviving” 0x21’s that were in the SRAM

[@lightyagami3492]

I noticed that to. Maybe it was legit but it also could have just been some bits that flipped.

[@cryotek3624]

Honestly that game looks like something straight out of an old creepypasta where you buy a weird cart online and it's haunted or something

[@Antonne64]

Thats so cool. I was on HAL's open campus day and they still have a close relationship with Nintendo that allows them to have NX devkits for game development on the actual hardware.

[@MaximumAddition]

Wait a second, Unused Song 7 at 9:46 is a cover of Last Battle phase 3 from Final Fantasy 3 (albeit with some parts missing), wasn't expecting that here!

[@Teknoman]

I knew that was familiar!

[@UltimaShadowX]

That’s so crazy how early on the idea of a “Mario Maker” floated around Nintendo. The interface on that concept image looks so similar!

[@jess648]

i believe it was said somewhere Mario Maker was spurred on by Nintendo’s internal software development iirc

[@vedrisnightmare]

@@jess648Probably not true, as Lunar Magic existed since 2000.

[@RetroJack]

@@vedrisnightmare And Nintendo has been making Super Mario since 15 years before that, so their design software easily predates Lunar Magic.

[@siderinc]

Sim city became a game because will Wright had such a blast with the creator engine. So it's very plausible Mario factory inspired Mario maker

[@jess648]

@@siderinc I believe it was said in an interview in the Mario Maker 1 art book with I forgot who that said it had its origins in trying to develop a catch all tool for Nintendo’s level designers

[@logan_cadfgs]

Knowing Nintendo, there’s a fairly good chance they’ve preserved a lot of Game Processor shit themselves. So there’s that, at least, even if it isn’t ideal. Maybe we’ll see Mario Factory assets when another big, juicy gigaleak happens 🤤

[@ChicagoMel23]

No need to swear

[@HammerStudioGames]

​@@ChicagoMel23oh grow up, shit happens

[@jomarcentermjm]

True probably as a basis if they want to hired student/interns and use those works as a basis

[@h8GW]

@@ChicagoMel23 I don't care about swearing on the internet anymore unless a person uses it so much that they appear to be an idiot or if it's being used to denigrate someone -who doesn't deserve it-

[@Its_Charlie_Young]

Everyone's calling this SNES Net Yaroze. We didn't get a cool black SNES, did we?

[@mordo_jedynyoryginał]

Super Famicom Net Yaroze anyone?

[@spoingelerboib]

I wonder what those 5 random developers are doing now

[@TommyDeonauthsArchives]

There's always that one bit of Nintendo history everyone forgets about... but this is not one of them. I never knew this was something Nintendo made back in the SFC days...

[@IshaBoiAlex]

Holy crap, that was so fascinating to learn about. And it’s awesome that you managed to get the game working in the end!

[@costelinha1867]

The funniest part, is that anyone who follows Sakurai's youtube channel will tell you that this isn't even the first time Nintendo did something like that, such as the FamilyBasic for the original Famicon, which was basically a beginner, super limited devkit for students to make NES games in Basic that Sakurai used to learn how to make games. He even have a unit of those things in his house that works to this day and he demonstrated it on one of his videos.

[@CosmizEve]

awesome video as always! I love seeing videos on random nintendo stuff I've never even heard of lol

[@Akfamilyhome]

I think this is the first ever Super Thanks I've received on here lol. Thank you!

[@Poyostar]

Ah, it's great to see that such an old game has been preserved. Though unlikely, I have faith that more of these lost games will eventually be found.

[@SpinyPuffs]

This is easily the coolest thing of interest you've shown thus far, I'd honestly love to see a video on the Nintendo Dentsu Game Seminar someday. I hope more discoveries with the Game Processor RAM get made in the future.

[@Oretal]

I wonder if the people who made this get found some day. I wanna know what they think. This is a damn interesting bit of history. I’ve never heard of these kinds of cartridges or the dev kit. Here I thought I’ve heard about every obscure SNES peripheral. Great video!!!!

[@glassowlie]

This is like Net Yaroze before Net Yaroze.

[@peterji5109]

Offline Yaroze😂

[@tuff_lover]

@@peterji5109 Offroze.

[@RyanBeardy]

Really cool yall were able to preserve and present a game like this. Cool video!

[@PaehShorts]

That game over screen though..

[@Teknoman]

I like how the last boss was Dark Matter lol

[@Omnishredder]

The last song we heard was a remix of the ff3 final boss theme (cloud of darkness)

[@FatDragonHats]

The last song shown off off the student project kinda sounds like the last boss fight from Famicom Final Fantasy III. It is not 1 for 1 or course, just sounds similar.

[@ugarit5]

You never ran out of new obscure nintendo systems to learn about! Thank for bringing this to my attention!

[@Bubbibjoern]

Anybody else think it was funny the battery was a SONY?

[@IncredibleCactusRoll]

So basically a Net Yaroze for the snes

[@danielmoreira7085]

Came here from Switch Weekly, great channel!

[@RuSrsbro]

Nintendo needs to get their heads out of their butts and start releasing technical info for these unrealized devices so it can be preserved independently and studied

[@matthiaskoterski9491]

If there were credits at the end of the game, wouldn't that be a lead to find them for interviews on the Nintendo game processor?

[@LuigiBlood]

Gotta note that the Satellaview videos are also actual interviews of people who used the Game Processor. One of them outright talks about modifying the Mario Bros. sample game.

[@Akfamilyhome]

Have those been translated somewhere? I'd love to read them!

[@ShB-o8h]

I did not expect this 😮

[@ElVlogdeBob]

I remember reading about this on a magazine looong tme ago. Very interesting video!

[@LayaVulpes]

That's the first time I ever heard about this cartridge, let alone the dev console. Well, there is a chanced to find some games still powered by battery, but as you said its highly unlikely....battery would need to have at least 1v left in them to make any kind of dump that contains almost all of the date intact and with some luck even if it has 0,5v can still be recovered but most of the code would be corrupted for sure. So if anyone would be willing to buy as many of them as possible or some collectors would be willing to dump or borrow them for dumping, would be great...but as this is pretty much a second video documenting about it, I guess there aren't as many people interested with it. I would like to see people trying to preserve everything about that it, but by the time someone would do it, it will be too late for sure, cuz now there is a slim chance there is a cartridge that still contains some data on it, but not for long. Maybe in a year or two we will find something tho. I wish that would be true.

[@snesfan8935]

Thank you for video. I saw only ones one of these cartridges on eBay back in the day and did not knowing what are they.

[@twentysixbit]

If anyone ever finds the NGP, could make SNES homebrew much easier to make!! Looking forward to it

[@MilesTheCreator]

Didn't think I'd be fooled with that fake ending, lol. This was an interesting watch, keep up the great work, and congrats for the 46k subscribers! 😄

[@nintendians]

probably the early snes day of programing, where nintendo was looking for potential programmers.

[@戸沢アヒル]

Very interesting. I've never heard about a Nintendo Game Processor before until recently, but now I'm imagening it as this big grey rectangle shaped box that has Nintendo Game Processor written on it and that just standing around somewhere on the 12th floor. 😂

[@lepterfirefall]

That music....SOOO RPGy

[@AttenBot]

wow if only we got our hands on that game processor at that time. would have been revolutionary kind of like what chat gpt is today

[@riaz8783]

I wonder if they can find the original creator of this game?

[@Elgi72]

Nintendo probably has all these games in their office. So maybe we will get to play these in the far future.

[@Tolbat]

The game seminar still exists as the game seminar? wow who would have thought/

[@trinhlamtuong]

AK, When does You Receive Super nintendo cartdge "lost" Devkit ? 6:06

[@Sonictheoofhog4]

We need to find that Mario Bros remake

[@MotownBatman]

Really Cool Video Sir!, Dont recall this one in the past. New Sub; Detroit, Michigan, US

[@DayzeeHeartwin]

Why have you cursed me with this knowledge now I wanna fool around with something no one as of now owns ... goddamnit

[@Vulpas]

We gotta find this stuff, I wanna make games using it specifically for some reason.

[@WizardClipAudio]

What do you mean? Those tunes kind of slap. 😮

[@Nbrother1607]

Ah yes, another thing I didn't know existed

[@floortjetjeertes3898]

actually your card has not been Zerod out it is actually the oposite. FF meana 255 or 11111111 . thus either 1 1 is thw default value or the previous owner filled the ram whit 255 for fun

[@Gold_Yoshi]

So technically it may not have been erased due to time, and it may just be what the last person to write to it put there? Interesting…

[@floortjetjeertes3898]

@@Gold_Yoshi indeed. though i have no idea what part of the rom whas shown. maybe it is a way of formatting the ram? or just some graphics data that whas suposed to be a solid colour. i guess we have to see if ak still has that dump

[@LuigiBlood]

Most of the time, erased content becomes 11111111.

[@floortjetjeertes3898]

@@LuigiBlood oh thanks for the info

[@tkayube]

Reminds me of stuff like SmileBasic

[@taru6342]

SB is awesome, I'm planning to make a fun little puzzle game on it same day soon.

[@xProErax]

5:40 it always does (Read bottom)

[@adrianveidt8056]

What happens when you put the cartridge without a rom inside in the game console?

[@JaxRetroGamer]

The SNES has no soundfonts though.

[@johnbillings5260]

Reply if you're a dev on this!

[@jessechavez5602]

How the heck do you have these legendary items

[@IncredibleCactusRoll]

Interesting...

[@cauto84]

Googling the name of the first Asterisk's developer, results shows a python developer. It could be him.

[@jessechavez5602]

Make games at our own homes? Oh how Nintendo has changed

[@SullySadface]

Didn't I recently hear some such about being able to dump a BS game from video footage alone or was that a special case with F-Zero?

[@imclearingit4149]

Program ROM on ram is prog-ram lol. Just a joke I thought up some days or weeks ago when I was looking into making my own ram backed Famicom dev cart that also has 2x GB cart edge connectors to individually write the prog/char ROMs to their "deditated wam"

[@lowstaar]

lmao those small skulls are cute

[@A2Adam]

Only minor nitpick is that SAMPLES would be the correct terminology, instead of soundfont. Great video, otherwise!

[@LethalBubbles]

You're gonna release this stuff publicly right?

[@Akfamilyhome]

The dump of Asterisk's Great Adventure is public! Check LuigiBlood's page for more info.

[@kitterbug]

9:06 erm... actually 🤓... im sure you meant it in a generic way, but the snes doesn't use soundfonts. proper word here would just be samples

[@NEStalgia1985]

Kyoto tech college is where Nintendo sucked most big timers from. Atleast that's where they dragged my uncle out of in 1986. Still working there till this day. Best salary man job he ever had he tells me. Also the satellaview one became real because gunpei Yokois grandfather was on board of director and saw what he did with the Gameboy and figures he missed a big opportunity. The cart should say intelligent systems onit

[@brandonwaters4955]

very interesting!!

[@PixelReality1]

Groovy

[@panteirra84]

Akfamilyhome I started watching plainrock124 in August 27 2018

[@Boogie_the_cat]

You pronounced Snoopy Tendo wrong. It's pronounced Snoopy Tendo, FYI.

[@Christian-tj2jo]

comment for algorithm (love your video)

[@JarppaGuru]

funny its just ram not actual game prosessor that you make it LOLbasically its piracy cartridge LOL basically its for devs and not lost. peepoöl whho had then not know they lost would be funny someone sell it 1 million than peepol wake up 10000 pcs come sell 800000 lol rapidly only in worth come worthless. when it was allready worthless just ram board not actually game prosessor that never was in that thing

[@ChicagoMel23]

*people

[@glombomklibblegorf]

I have an NGP. Ligmablood will never get to see it. Cope seethe mald

[@twentysixbit]

Bait used to be believable man 😢