Thread by @frankcifaldi

Looking at a giant pile of mystery EPROMs tonight that are all cryptically labeled and mismatched, with few clues as to anything, including their platforms. It's a really hard puzzle game basically.

So far it's mostly stuff like "...I think that's SNES?" but we did recently have OUR FIRST SIGN OF LIFE, FOLKS.

We also have what appears to be tiles for a janky, early version of Ufouria on the NES, one of my favorite games on the system! And it appears we're missing 1/2 of the game's program data, so it will never run.

This appears to be SNES data, our only clues are the initials "DK" and the year 1994. No, this isn't Donkey Kong Country. Any ideas?

Looking at the data, @PixelatedWah suspects Super Drakkhan, a game I had no idea existed until this moment. They're seeing if we have a full game here or just some random pieces.

Unexpected! It's the final ROM, so nothing interesting here, but still neat to see.

It's the Japanese version of Spanky's Quest SNES! It's just the retail game, but with a four-byte watermark.

Oh, here's a great find! A localization of Quintent/Ancient's Slap Stick, before it got rebranded here as Robotrek. Also has some debug cheats enabled.

I don't think anyone's gonna be sore if I go ahead and share a file link, right? filebin.net/51uj44pqbotkpr…

lol they already deleted it, where do I throw this?

Okay, I doubt the internet archive is going to delete this, here you go folks archive.org/details/slap-s…

Okay, I did all the "easy" stuff, now I have a big pile of vaguely numbered chips (that I did my best to piece together) that ALL have to have pins rewired to dump. I don't have the parts for that yet, let's reconvene once I do.

Final tally:

- NES Tetris (final)
- Super Drakkhen English prototype
- Slap Stick English prototype
- QBillion
- Tarzan (GB, final)
- Half of Batman: Return of the Joker (NES, final)
- Spanky's Quest (JP, final)
- Part of an unknown SNES game