Ganbare Goemon Gaiden

Ganbare Goemon Gaiden: Kieta Ougon Kiseru (which roughly translates as The Missing Golden Pipe) is the Goemon series' first foray into the turn-based RPG genre.

Build Date#

At the end of the PRG ROM is the ID:

MSTR891012

MSTR means it's the "master" version of the game, and the numbers are the date, so this version was finished on October 12, 1989.

Unused Text#

This page or section needs more images. There's a whole lotta words here, but not enough pictures. Please fix this. Specifically: Get comparison screenshots of all the bugged credits names.

Please elaborate. Having more detail is always a good thing. Specifically: Some more detail on how the "Original game incorrectly writes to the chr register" would also be good.

The game's credits sequence is supposed to show the staff names stylized as calligraphy, but an incorrect write to the CHR registers causes the wrong graphic bank to be loaded and renders the names completely illegible and thus unused.

A ROM hack that fixes the bug exists. As an example, this is the credit for Programmer Kazuhiro Aoyama:

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