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<div align="right">[[User:CRV|CRV]] 07:50, 22 June 2009 (CDT)</div>
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===The LJN Mysteries: X-Men Part 2 and Some Other News===
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*According to [http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/ボーステック Japanese Wikipedia], software company Bothtec merged with Quest in 1990. It separated from Quest in 1997, "but it is merged in the B B M F that performed a capital tie-up on May 1, 2009, and the company will become extinct."
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*In [http://ton.2ch.net/retro/kako/983/983720642.html this old 2ch thread], post 832 says Dungeon Kid (FC RPG from Quest and [[Company:Pixel|Pixel]]) shares a piece of music with the FDS version of Relics (published by Bothtec). Post 856 suggests Pixel and Bothtec may have been in the same building.
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*We know Pixel did stuff for Quest, but what about Bothtec?
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*I previously pointed out a cheat in FDS Topple Zip which involves entering "PIXEL" as a player name to become invincible.
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*The shared music between Dungeon Kid and Relics is not a solid piece of evidence. Composer Masaharu Iwata, who went on to work on several Pixel games, would have been a Bothtec employee when he was working on Relics, going by [http://iwata.cocoebiz.com/index.shtml his profile]. He was probably still with Quest when he did Dungeon Kid. He worked for Quest (post-Bothtec merger) for a year before becoming a freelancer.
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*Relics does have a X-Men vibe to it...maybe.
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*It's possible I read [http://nesdev.parodius.com/bbs/viewtopic.php?p=18325#18325 this old post from ArnoldRimmer83] long before he contacted me a couple days ago.
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*The Hitoshi Akashi interview is slowly coming along. I keep procrastinating editing it, and I still have more questions.
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*Thanks to PingvinBlueJeans for sharing his research of "pre-Crash" developers with us.
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*[http://www.isc.meiji.ac.jp/~sumwel_h/doc/juris/odsbcj-h2-3-29.htm Judgment handed down by Judge Hashimoto from the Osaka District Court regarding the Ikegami/Nintendo/Donkey Kong case]. Of course, it's all in Japanese.
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How'd They Test Power Pad Games?

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I'm not sure what's going to happen with my informative interview with Beyond Interactive CEO Hitoshi Akashi. I haven't heard from him in about two months now. In lieu of said interview, I bring you this mockup he sent me of the debugging interface used while developing Famicom/NES Family Trainer/Power Pad/Family Fun Fitness games at Sonata (or SoNaTa, which may or may not be the proper way of writing the name). Instead of running on a Family Trainer and tiring yourself out while working, you just let your fingers do the walking. An actual Family Trainer was used during the final stage of development. Sonata was the resulting company of a 1987 merger between TRY (pronounced alphabetically) Corporation and Communicate, Inc. that later became Human. Yes, that Human. Sonata (and likely its predecessor TRY) was responsible for most of the Power Pad games.

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