1818: Yosaku \\ Hidden NGP game double episode! Boar tricks! 5430 new YouTube WR! ^ _^
0Me playing Yosaku, the hidden black and white game you get if you put the Neo Geo Pocket Color color game cartridge of SNK's game "The King of Fighters: Battle de Paradise" in a black and white Neo Geo Pocket system! Here I'm using the old emulator NeoPop, running in Windows, to achieve the same effect.
My Neo Geo Pocket playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZO3OPzPjIzMrVsRX667tvV52IbZOtNyU
0:00 - start, palettes
3:20 - choppin'
23:10 - high score run
26:34 - optimized choppin'
28:45 - wrap 1...
39:55 - 2nd session
43:42 - choppin' again
1:07:03 - boar timing
1:09:12 - 2nd place run
1:14:43 - wrap 2!
So I absentmindedly deleted the first recording I made of the game this evening without really noticing, then thought I had forgotten to record it (I did check my computer's Recycle Bin but the video file was so small I thought it was just some short audio check I'd run earlier--forgetting this game records very efficiently! '['), so recorded another session of it, trying to match my new, apparently lost 5430 high score--and failed, getting only 5400. ; ) Then I found the session I'd absentmindedly deleted, so here they both are, bolted together back to back and not repetitive at all. *cough*
Well but I did keep figuring out stuff, particularly about the boars: their timing is consistent, so if I follow my pattern and am prepared at the right time, I'll be ready for the boar attack. Now I just gotta get better at not missing it. = oo
Oh! Between my last Yosaku outing, in 2018, and now, there's been an informative wiki page made:
https://snk.fandom.com/wiki/Yosaku
(I had forgotten my dates, it was '79 for the arcade version, and '81 for the Epoch Cassette Vision version.) Apparently the arcade game was based on a "popular song 'Yosaku' by Saburo Kitajima,"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k2EMozlQIo
(non-embeddable version w/ English translated text: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx2FN49yIsk )
even including the melody in the arcade game. And the Epoch Cassette Vision console version made in '81 was an unlicensed version!
Oh hah the wiki article actually cites a copy and paste--to an old NGP message board I host ^_^--of the speculation I made in the description of my previous Yosaku video, about Yosaku's arcade title screen "OLCA CORPORATION" being a reference to Orca, a Toaplan predecessor; Orca evolved into "Toa-Kikaku Toaplan" ("Far East Project") from Orca and did some work for SNK. Hm wait what did they do?
Okay well all I can find is one game, "Jong Oh" https://toaplan.fandom.com/wiki/Jong_Oh (or Jongo says Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toaplan ), a 1984 arcade mahjong game, developed by Toaplan and published apparently by SNK.
SNK's full name is Shin Nihon Kikaku ("New Japan Project"), and they don't usually spell it out anymore but they did on the Yo-Sa-Ku title screen on NGP, I think as a call-back to Orca and Toa-Kikaku Toaplan and the original arcade Yosaku game.
Jeremy Parish has an extensive video about the Epoch Cassette Vision (biggest Japanese console before Famicom, the video says) bootleg of Yosaku: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdUDvoGFp8s ("Kikori no Yosaku," which translates roughly as "Woodcutter Yosaku," according to https://forums.lostmediawiki.com/thread/12047/yosaku-lost-arcade-game , which also talks about yet another unlicensed console version, for the Sharp X68000, and later remakes/bootlegs--among which you could count this hidden NGP minigame, I suppose! But there's also like this Famicom Mario romhack https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/7071/ version trying to re-create an earlier romhack:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EU-MmxaVdJE
).
3/13/24
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