Author Topic: Tokimeki Memorial has a Sidearms/Soldier Blade style minigame.  (Read 2064 times)

Tatsujin

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Re: Tokimeki Memorial has a Sidearms/Soldier Blade style minigame.
« Reply #30 on: May 19, 2008, 05:50:03 PM »
fortunately, i already could tried those states. unfortunately, they do not work on my Magic Engine V1.0. means of, i can't choose them from the load menu. so may be it depends on which version of ME those states were taken.

Dangnabbit!  I'll try 'em out on v0.9.9b5.

To anyone interested, a new version of M.E. (v1.1.2) was recently released.  Get it now!


ok, that those saves can be used, you have to make a new save state and rename the downloaded save state into the same name as the new save state was named by M.E.
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Re: Tokimeki Memorial has a Sidearms/Soldier Blade style minigame.
« Reply #31 on: May 20, 2008, 01:24:23 AM »
wow!! :shock: force gear is amazing!! that would have been a great shooter on our great shooter system!! :cry:
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Re: Tokimeki Memorial has a Sidearms/Soldier Blade style minigame.
« Reply #32 on: May 20, 2008, 03:30:22 AM »
ok, that those saves can be used, you have to make a new save state and rename the downloaded save state into the same name as the new save state was named by M.E.

Woo-hoo!  I didn't get 'em to work, so I'll follow your instructions and try again tonight.
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Re: Tokimeki Memorial has a Sidearms/Soldier Blade style minigame.
« Reply #33 on: May 20, 2008, 04:36:24 AM »
The music is really great! I've just played it a few minutes but that was enough for me to get quite annoyed about the mecha bumping around like a freakin' idiot when you got hit!
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Re: Tokimeki Memorial has a Sidearms/Soldier Blade style minigame.
« Reply #34 on: May 20, 2008, 05:59:13 AM »
Does anyone know how to properly unlock/play these games? I'd rather just play it on real hardware.

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Re: Tokimeki Memorial has a Sidearms/Soldier Blade style minigame.
« Reply #35 on: May 20, 2008, 06:12:39 AM »
Does anyone know how to properly unlock/play these games? I'd rather just play it on real hardware.

Follow Tatsujin's link from the first page; it'll take you to a page that explains the required steps.
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Re: Tokimeki Memorial has a Sidearms/Soldier Blade style minigame.
« Reply #36 on: May 20, 2008, 06:38:17 AM »
Ah, cool. I can do that. And its playable from the title screen once found in-game. Thats good.

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Re: Tokimeki Memorial has a Sidearms/Soldier Blade style minigame.
« Reply #37 on: May 20, 2008, 07:02:40 AM »
If I ever get a hold of this game & get to this point, I'd totally upload the real-hardware usable save game cfg file using nanami's bank.

Actually, can you 1) use load the game up in an emulator using the me save-state file, 2) load up nanami on the emulator, 3) and finally burn the real-hardware usable save file on the iso and transfer it over to the real hardware?

Hm... This could be a little project that I could try out.  :-k

edit: corrected some wording.
« Last Edit: May 20, 2008, 05:38:18 PM by termis »

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Re: Tokimeki Memorial has a Sidearms/Soldier Blade style minigame.
« Reply #38 on: May 20, 2008, 05:01:56 PM »
Whoa, never heard of nanami. That's sweet!
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Re: Tokimeki Memorial has a Sidearms/Soldier Blade style minigame.
« Reply #39 on: May 21, 2008, 03:31:00 PM »
Alright......who's the bastard that keeps outbidding me!  It better not be someone I know, cuz then it's awkward(which is why I don't like the anonymous bidder thing on ebay) but I'm breathfire, just incase you can't see my name.  I thought I owned it, but, it turns out I own the Saturn version.  I want this one, so I can check out Force Gear dag nabbit!  I don't even have a rip of the game ](*,)

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Re: Tokimeki Memorial has a Sidearms/Soldier Blade style minigame.
« Reply #40 on: May 21, 2008, 04:08:17 PM »
Ok, so some good news...  :clap:

After fiddling around with a rip of tokimeki and magic engine for some time, I was able to extract the actual save file that unlocked these shooters, and create an iso image of nanami so you can write this save data to your real PCE backup memory.  (Holy f*ck, manually typing in ~100 lines of hex data -- not so fun!)  So now you can play this thing on the real hardware right away without having to suffer through the whole dating sim & trying to unlock the games.

I must say it's pretty damn impressive.  By far the most impressive mini-game I've seen to date (I know that's not saying _too_ much, but Force Gear really could've been an excellent stand-alone game.)

Here's what you need to do:

1) Download the ISO here -- http://www.savefile.com/files/1566910
2) Burn the ISO.  I used Nero, but I suppose whatever works.
3) Put the disc in your player, and on the menu, select "Restore a file".
4) Select the tokimeki file (disregard the "beast3" file, that's my end save file for KO Beast), and write it to your backup ram.
5) Then boot up the actual game, and on the title menu, select Option (オプション)
6) On the option menu, select Omake (おまけ)
7) And now you're playing on the real hardware, cause emulators are for lamers!  :dance:

I guess I gotta go and get the real copy of the game now.  Never really thought I'd be hunting this game down, as I have the SS version, and didn't really care for it so much. 

BTW, that ISO file will be gone after 30 days of inactivity, so anyone thinks it's important enough, please host it somewhere more permanent.

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Re: Tokimeki Memorial has a Sidearms/Soldier Blade style minigame.
« Reply #41 on: May 21, 2008, 06:35:28 PM »
Nice job! I used Disk Utility in OSX to make the CD and it works perfectly.

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Re: Tokimeki Memorial has a Sidearms/Soldier Blade style minigame.
« Reply #42 on: May 21, 2008, 06:47:36 PM »
I just really, really can't get over the fact it took 15 years for someone to discover these games.

How many other omake games are floating around the PCE library, undiscovered?

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Re: Tokimeki Memorial has a Sidearms/Soldier Blade style minigame.
« Reply #43 on: May 21, 2008, 07:20:58 PM »
It just took 15 years for people here to learn about it. Given that this game was a pretty huge success (enough to be ported to SS, PS, and SFC) I'm sure thousands of people have played it.

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Re: Tokimeki Memorial has a Sidearms/Soldier Blade style minigame.
« Reply #44 on: May 21, 2008, 09:07:52 PM »
yeah..thousands of japanese peopl for sure but nearly non uf us :lol:
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