Morita Shogi (NES)

Morita Shogi for the Famicom is the first entry in the shogi series of the same name.

It is also notable for being the very first Nintendo manufactured cartridge to contain a coin cell battery, predating its use in Mirai Shinwa Jarvas and The Legend of Zelda.

Development Text#

There is hidden copyright text at 0x16.

MORITA SHOUGI (C)1987  RANDOM HOUSE

There is also text that contains a build version at 0x1930.

MORITA SHOUGI Ver 1.0

Additionally, there are various .obj files listed in groups at various points in the ROM (null characters have been removed to allow for easy reading):

0x36C2 to 0x3C73

rst.obj
ban.obj
obj.obj
nmi.obj
time.obj
hyoji.obj
hyoji2.obj
hyoji3.obj
hyoji4.obj
banhyj.obj
curn.obj
cur2.obj
sound.obj
sdat1.obj
sdat2.obj
bank2.obj
main.obj
tai.obj
man.obj
inp.obj
dsp.obj
check.obj
tmove.obj
saigen.obj
settei.obj
tume.obj
comp.obj
crcdat.obj
theend.obj
bank1.obj

0xBB72 to 0xBD3C

ab2.obj
ab3.obj
tumi1.obj
tumi2.obj
cut.obj
tcheck.obj
mhyo.obj
math.obj
theend.obj
bank1.obj

'''0x136C9 to 0x13AB2

common.obj
hyo.obj
bdata.obj
nihustat.obj
ostat3.obj
ostat4.obj
hinit.obj
kiki5.obj
kiki3.obj
kiki4.obj
func0.obj
func1.obj
func2.obj
bank2.obj
func3.obj
func4.obj
func5.obj
fcsb.obj
divdat.obj
theend.obj
bank1.obj

0x1B6C2 to 0x1B760

joseki.obj
theend.obj
bank2.obj
bank1.obj

Finally, "MORITA SHOUGI" is present at regular intervals in the ROM, outside the first two examples. The string can be found at 0x3FF4, 0x7FF4, 0xBFF4, 0xFFF4, 0x13FF4, 0x17FF4, 0x1BFF4 and 0x1FFF4