Handmade ROM cartridge in Japan

Not only in Spain but in Japan, the MSX ROM cartridge might revive.

Nishida Radio; a manufacture of Handmade hardware for retro PC in Aichi, Japan, tweets that they release Super Ilevan for MSX(32K) ROM cartridge in 2017. Super Ilevan is a platform action game, original released in 1988 by Koichi Nishida. You can watch gameplay footage by Fukenko at the following link:

Comments (10)

By Manuel

Ascended (13421)

01-03-2017, 23:37

That's great!

Can someone explain the rules of this game a bit more?

By gdx

Paragon (1606)

02-03-2017, 08:17

The goal is to eat all the deserts and take the four green squares. Deserts allow us to shit on the dragon that steals our denture. Without it you can't eat.

Super Ilevan is a program I did not know that was released in the magazine "Popcom" in 1988. I think this handmade ROM cartridge is just an exemplary made by Nishida it self for the pleasure but It's possible that one day a cartridge version will be released if there is demand.

It's a good little game, impressive for a magazine program. Its quality exceeds many games sold in cartridge.

By ghost_jp

Expert (74)

02-03-2017, 08:27

According to Mr. Nishida's additional tweet last night, he was in the writing of manual not only in Japanese but English. The scale is currently unknown, however, he clearly prepares distribution. Nishida Radio also has a good track record in exportation of homemade equipments for APPLE II. Anyway, shall we wait for his official statement about the release of ROM cartridge?

By gdx

Paragon (1606)

02-03-2017, 09:18

If he prepares really a distribution, I hope the game will be a bit improved for the occasion and he will don't use handmade cartridge cases like that.

By gdx

Paragon (1606)

03-03-2017, 16:07

gdx wrote:

The goal is to eat all the deserts and take the four green squares. Deserts allow us to shit on the dragon that steals our denture. Without it you can't eat.

Also, at the beginning of each round the number of Mampukudo you must take is displayed.
If you have less Mampukudo when you clear the round, you can not go to the next round and the same round retry again.
If you no longer has Mampukudo, you die.

By syn

Paragon (1625)