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Arion (FM-7)

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An adventure game based on the Arion manga and its movie adaptation.

Developer Messages#

Found at Track 0, Sector 1 of each of the game's two disks are developer messages and comments. They seem to refer to a FM-7 release of Thunder Ball, which is currently undumped. For the Disk 1 message, line breaks were added for readability.

These developer messages are written only in katakana.

This game and Thunder Ball are also mentioned in similar messages in Boukenshatachi - Kenja no Yuigon.

Disk 1

Disk 2

<Copyright 1986 by T.Warabikawa>
ﾏﾀｵｱｲｼﾏｼﾀﾈ! Thunder Ball ﾊ ﾄﾞｳﾃﾞｼﾀｶ?
ｱﾘｵﾝｦ ﾄｲﾀﾗ BGMｦ ｷｷﾅｶﾞﾗ ｹﾞﾝｻｸｦ ｲｯｷﾆ ﾖﾐﾏｼｮｳ!
73&88 

<pre lang=ja style='font-family: "MS Gothic", monospace;>┌──────────────┐ │ARION ｺﾞｺｳﾆｭｳ │ │ﾏｺﾄﾆ ｱﾘｶﾞﾄｳ ｺﾞ│ │ｻﾞｲﾏｽ｡ Disk(A)│ │ﾉ IPL ﾆ ｶｲﾀｺﾄｦ│ │ ｼﾞｯｺｳ ｼﾃ ｸﾀﾞｻ│ │ｲﾈ


Translations (The box formatting is different for readability):

Disk 1 (translation)

Disk 2 (translation)

 
<Copyright 1986 by T.Warabikawa>
See you again, I love you!
How was Thunder Ball? While we listen
to the BGM, let's read about the original work.
73&88 <JO1TNQ>

(Source: Torchickens (translations))

References#

  1. Oh!FM7↩︎