Knight Move

A chess-like puzzle game designed by Alexey Pajitnov, taking inspiration from the knight's tour sequence. It remained in Japan for several years until a PC adaptation was released in the US in 1995, now called Knight Moves.

FMC Data Monitor Leftovers#

For some reason this game contains leftover text from a thing called FMC Data Monitor inside the KN2P_PRG file.

These leftovers can be found inside a FDS dump at offsets 0x1C87-0x1DB1, only in the first revision of the game:

RD
CHECK AND LOAD NOW
FMC DATA MONITOR  VER 3]2
DISK CARD INFORMATION
MAKER CODE]   SIDE]]]]]]]]
GAME NAME]]   VOLUME]]]]]]
RESERVE]]]]]
COLD START]]
GAME VER]]]   DEBUG VER]]]
BLOCK FILE]]]]
CRC SUM]]]]]
TOTAL BYTE]]
ERROR NUMBER]]
                     DISK CARD INFORMATION

Non-printable characters have been removed for better readability, but this leftover matches the one found in Breeder, apart from being truncated a bit at the beginning. Even in this case, the version number reported by FMC Data Monitor in this leftover matches the one contained in the only known dump of the FMC Disk Card Checker (displays information about the Famicom Disk System game that was checked), but the actual data not, neither from the disk nor from RAM, so the actual source of this leftover text is unknown.

The lonely PLEASE SET DISK CARD text can be found too at offsets 0x33F9-0x340C.

Revisional Differences#

Title Screen#

Original release	Disk Writer (Rev 1)

In the original retail release of the game the name of Alexey Pajitnov was incorrectly spelled as A. Pazhitonov with an extra vowel. This was fixed in the game build distributed through Disk Writer kiosks, spelled there as A. Pazhitnov.

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