WTF. this is weird I was getting stuff to work on the DB with and I found this. Look at the name on the top of the picture. If you’ve played DW1 then you know the opening screen doesn’t look like this normally. Mr. Saturn what is this?
It looks like you don’t have the real ROM, but a hacked version of it. Check zophar.net or donut.parodius.com, they might have more info on it.
I know its not the real version of the rom, thats the point Mr. Saturn (one of our staffers made the hack).
Okay, I was younger, and the final version hack got deleted before any websites hosted it. I was in a class in high school where I had nothing better to do than play with hex code, so I played with one of my favorite games (the fact that it was pretty simplistic helped, too :D).
More information is here:
http://www.geocities.com/mrsaturnindustriesinc/oldpage/Products/msdw1.html
In retrospect, I’m almost embarrased by how incomplete it ended up being. I had this awesome overworld redo that made it, oh, I dunno, a somewhat different game, and I had a friend who is much better with words than I redo the entire script (except for the guy with Tomatoes for sale, that was left in verbatim, though he changed the word “tomatoes” to the word “boobies” for some reason… O_o). The graphics remained the only part unchanged, and I hadn’t yet made an IPS patch of it. I gave it over to a friend to edit the gfx, and he ended up corrupting it so badly that it would never live again. So, you see before you, the IPS patch that never should have been. “Thanks” to my old ties to the emulation community (some time before joining RPGC back in 1999, I hosted an emulation site, and before that, I visited emulation IRC channels and usenet groups when NESticle was new and big), someone found it and included it in the “goodxxx” tools that rename roms, so if you have a DW1 with my IPS patch over it, GoodNES renames it to what you have now.
For some reason, I remember us giving the guy out on the bridge in Brecconary (see images at link above) some great important dialogue, and then having him say “oops, wrong game” at the end of it.
What a great story.
I must download this. :O~~
I’ll save you the trouble. Play Dragon Warrior 1. Now, drink a lot of Bawls. Now, try to remember what DW1 was just like. Yeah, that’s it.