A couple questions for ya:
1. Any idea how many games had multiple pressings?
2. If they did get a second pressing (or more), did they always get new volume number, different toc, and/or some other easily recognized difference?
Yeah, I can answer this by looking at the NEC TOC data I have from Squaresoft74. When he started to build his website with PCE/TG-16 data, he didn't ask the person with the original CD to fetch the catalog number, but after discovering multiple pressings, that's how he started differentiating - via the catalog number. So because of that, only games he discovered multiple pressings for have catalog numbers, while the rest don't and then when he got to PC-FX, he always had the provider read off the catalog number and include it in the name.
So anyway, looking at the folder where I store the data, I gathered the following:
- Stats: 2, with differing TOCs
Ys IV - The Dawn of Ys {HCD3051-4-1108-R1F} (J)
Ys IV - The Dawn of Ys {HCD3051-5-1116-R1P} (J)
- Stats: 6, TOCs ALL identical, no changes!
Tokimeki Memorial {HRKM70217-4FAAT} (J)
Tokimeki Memorial {HRKM70414-1FAAT} (J)
Tokimeki Memorial {HRKM70414-1FABT} (J)
Tokimeki Memorial {HRKM70701-2FAAT} (J)
Tokimeki Memorial {HRKM71014-3FAAT} (J)
Tokimeki Memorial {HRKM71014-3FABT} (J)
- Stats: 2, TOCs differ because the the 1st has a 28th audio track, the 2nd only goes to 27!
(Since this is when he started collecting catalog #s, he didn't get one for the first)
Linda ³ (J)
Linda ³ {HLHLF HE230908-2 V9V4} (J)
- Stats: 2, TOCs differ because track 1, the warning message, is smaller for HCD4066!
Lodoss Tousenki II - Record of Lodoss War II {HCD4066} (J)
Lodoss Tousenki II - Record of Lodoss War II {HMD-003} (J)
- Stats: Not sure about these, 1st is likely the prototype, the last 2 [ver 5] have the same TOC.
Mahou no Shoujo Silky Lip [Ver 3.1] (J)
Mahou no Shoujo Silky Lip [Ver 5.0] (J)
Mahou no Shoujo Silky Lip [Ver 5.0] alt (J)
- Stats: 3, TOCs match for first 2, but last one, the audio tracks are bigger by a few bytes.
Last Armageddon {BRCD0001-6-0625-R1F} (J)
Last Armageddon {BRCD0001-6-0625-R3D} (J)
Last Armageddon {BRCD0001-7-0904-R1D} (J)
- Stats: 3, TOCs match for first 2, but last one, *slightly* shorter last audio track before hitting the Leadout
Galaxy Fraulein Yuna {HRH310827-3FAAT} (J)
Galaxy Fraulein Yuna {HRH310827-3FABT} (J)
Galaxy Fraulein Yuna {HRH310827-3FAFT} (J)
That's about it. It's possible more exist, just that Squaresoft74 never encountered them (with the help of the public who own originals), but that's as thorough an answer as you're ever gonna get from anyone.
Tyoushin Heiki Zeroigar [FXNHE624] (J)
I've always meant to ask ... does anyone know where did the "Tyoushin" comes from?
Yep, multiple places.
Team: Bt Garner and David Shadoff:
http://pcecp.com/?mode=catalog&action=info&gameid=927Squaresoft74's TOC+CUE collection of NEC discs.
http://www.necstasy.net/http://www.necstasy.net/tocpcfx/Tyoushin%20Heiki%20ZeroigarI can easily change it for the local copy of the data (storied in text files) I use to compile TurboRip right now if Sam is confident he's right and there's a chance to correct a mistranslation that spread.
To fix it elsewhere, an email will have to be fired off to Squaresoft74 and others and then it's up to them when/if they feel like fixing it.
