{"id":1977,"date":"2016-06-25T22:30:58","date_gmt":"2016-06-25T22:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.system11.org\/?p=1977"},"modified":"2016-06-25T22:30:58","modified_gmt":"2016-06-25T22:30:58","slug":"mahjong-joshi-pro-wres-give-up-5-byou-mae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/?p=1977","title":{"rendered":"Mahjong Joshi Pro-wres -Give up 5 byou mae-"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mahjong games in MAME aren’t very popular with a lot of people, but recently some of those I hang around with on Twitch have started getting into them – myself included.\u00a0 Of course being the idiot collector that I am, I needed to get real hardware – and since they’re very cheap I went away and bought a bunch.<\/p>\n

While I was hunting around, I found an undumped one – Mahjong Joshi Pro-wres -Give up 5 byou mae- (which is the best looking translation I’ve found).\u00a0 This was made in 1988 by Home Data – one of the ‘less good’ companies.\u00a0 The theme is female wrestling, and it failed location testing in Japan and never went on full release.\u00a0 A lewd mahjong game with female wrestlers, which was so bad it never got released, undumped?\u00a0 I had to have it.<\/p>\n

\"giveup5_pcb\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Well it arrived and the sound is broken (bad volume control), but I’ve dumped it and with a little help from Kale, you can all enjoy this … wonderful thing.<\/p>\n

\"mjjoship1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

That’s you, that is.<\/p>\n

\"mjjoship2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

You can tell we’re in serious territory here.<\/p>\n

\"mjjoship3\"<\/a><\/p>\n

It doesn’t seem to ‘cheat’ too much (they all do to a degree), possibly because it’s just a location test version.\u00a0 The screens look a bit stretched as the game uses two different odd resolutions.<\/p>\n

\"mjjoship4\"<\/a><\/p>\n

When you win, you’re treated to…..<\/p>\n

\"mjjoship5\"<\/a><\/p>\n

And eventually….<\/p>\n

\"mjjoship6\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I am proud to be responsible for bringing this new depth to your kusoge experiences.<\/p>\n

Honestly though, it’s not that bad really – there’s a cartoon announcer between rounds, the hand start sound is a bell, I suspect the theme just didn’t appeal too much.\u00a0 I like it.\u00a0 You can play it in the next release of MAME.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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