Kaminari no Gotoku: Choukousoku Igo

This game was never completed and/or given a public release. As a result of this, keep in mind that the developers might have used or deleted some of the content featured here, had the game actually been released.

Kaminari no Gotoku: Choukousoku Igo is one of the many video game adaptations of the board game Go, this one however didn't see the light of day. An archived version of Seta's website from July 1997 shows the game as upcoming, but it would disappear from the lineup by October 1997.¹ A prototype cartridge containing a near final build of the game was put up for auction in August 2026² and a dump was uploaded on September 22nd courtesy of Team Carrot.³

Unused Text#

What appears to be leftover text from a version of The Many Faces of Go. Seta licensed the Go algorithm from the creator of that game, which explains its appearance here.

Starting at 0xBDEE0:

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Def
Atk
Bad update in evalgroupeye
pass
NO  
BAD 
%c%d 
Failure
Likely Failure
Unknown
Likely Success
Success
Solution:
 %s: %d%%.  Looked at %d positions.
%s: %d%% chance of success.  %d moves in this tree.
Final position, %s: %d%% probability of success.
Black
White
Out of armies, can't continue
@(#) Copyright 1984-1995 David Fotland.  All rights reserved.
@(#) Rev 9.6
Many Faces of Go, Release 3
New group
Unconditionally alive - has two eyes, or enough territory to make two eyes, or several ways to make second eye
Alive with barely 2 eyes in territory
Exactly two ways to make two eyes
Alive.  At least a seki
Alive since can win fight against adjacent group
Can live or run away
Can run easily, no eyes
Unsettled.  Can live in one move or maybe run away
Unsettled, but likely will win fight against adjacent group
Need to fill ko to live
Running fight between this group and adjacent group
Lives or dies in one move, surrounded
Unsettled, in fight with enemy group, one will likely die
Need to run away to live
Need to take ko and connect to live
Weak, almost surrounded
Unsettled, likely will lose fight against adjacent group
Surrounded, probably dead, but might get two eyes
Surrounded, probably dead, but has some eye potential
Dead, loses fight to adjacent group
Dead, surrounded, slight eye potential
Dead, surrounded, no eyes
bad value
Unused
Tactically captured, even if move first
Not a group!
Group not active!
Group can be captured by move at C.
Group can be saved by move at S.
Failed to init pattern database
%2d
   a b c d e f g h j k l m n o p q r s t  
prisoners of black: %d, white: %d
String not found
String not found
ERR
mark %d with %s. 
lookmove at %d. 
take back move at %d. 
backup move at %d. 
comment: %s

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