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Tokimeki Mahjong Paradise – Dear My Love – this one I really like, considering it’s made by Sonnet who appear to not have really made much else, the music and anime style graphics are really good.\u00a0 The audio isn’t correctly emulated in MAME but the PCB was cheap and just needed a new fan.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n Ron Jan – undumped earlier version, I’ll sort that out this weekend.\u00a0 Nice music, not really much else to say about it, it’s a betting type game.\u00a0 Not really a fan of those.\u00a0 Doesn’t work in MAME enough to play.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Swing Gal – purchased this specifically to dump, it seems to be a modification of a Nichibutsu title I forget the name of – same layout as some of the Nichi PCBs too and similar label style, so presumably actually made by them.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Quiz-Mahjong Hayaku Yatteyo – kind of misleadingly named, you move around on a map according to dice rolls.\u00a0 Typically well presented but I haven’t played it enough yet to say much more.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Otona No Mahjong – another game on Nichi hardware which isn’t by them – this one has the distinction of some pretty lewd animations and some nice girl designs, it’s set in a ‘gentlemans parlour’.\u00a0 Music is really annoying.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Maikobana – actually a Hanafuda game, bought this because it was less than $15 and thought it might be fun learning that game too.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mirage Youjuu Mahjongden – trademark Mitchell weirdness comes to Mahjongland.\u00a0 It’s well produced but also incredibly strange, clearly the same staff as Osman.\u00a0 Don’t use the standard Mahjong pinout on this, it will burn the amplifier and someone like me will have to fix it…<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mahjong Vitamin-C – Homedata make two types of Mahjong game, both are janky.\u00a0 There are the hand drawn cartoon style ones which are strangely endearing, and then crudely digitised ones.\u00a0 This is the latter.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mahjong-Yougo No Kisotairyoku – Homedata again, this one has a sense of humour, Godzilla rolls the dice for example.\u00a0 Digitised again, I actually quite like it though, it’s very Japanese.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mahjong Triple Wars 2 – better sequel to the RPG based original, this time you have a maze to work through instead of a map.\u00a0 Despite me not writing much about it, this is a very good game.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mahjong Shikaku – early Nichibutsu game, really dark theme and audio – in fact a few of their games are focused on murders and so on.\u00a0 This is nominally a who dunnit effort, strangely expensive.\u00a0 You build up a number of ‘burning tiles’ in this, hit start before you press N for the next tile and it will give you a better one – that ‘better’ is calculated on what it thinks you need, and it doesn’t always make the right choice.\u00a0 That said it’s a million times more useful than a tile roulette powerup as seen in Lady Hunter and others.\u00a0 Sadly lacking the license seal.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mahjong The Lady Hunter – otherwise known as Batjong in certain circles.\u00a0 If you’ve always wanted to play a sex pest Batman who bursts through windows, forces women to play Mahjong and then assaults them for gems, until such time as they tire of your bullshit and shoot you, this is your game.\u00a0 It’s pretty special, including the music, amazing Nichibutsu didn’t get sued.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mahjong Satsujin Jiken – another Nichibutsu murder themed game, this one even has a dead girl on the title screen.\u00a0 Unusually vertical aspect, I really like it.\u00a0 Actually after you’ve interrogated and won against a girl, you can pick them again for a bonus scene.\u00a0 A few Nichibutsu games have elements of jumping between opponents.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mahjong Sailor Wars – did they have a license for this?\u00a0 Being a later Nichibutsu game the audio and graphics are top class.\u00a0 This contains exactly what you think\/hope it does.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mahjong Pachinko Monogatari – Mahjong with little Pachinko tables in the top right – certain tiles will cause a ball to shoot into the machine and bounce around scoring bonuses.\u00a0 It’s kind of cute and very cheap.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mahjong Natsu Monogatari – early Video System games have the worst audio section ever, seriously – loads of background noise covering up the otherwise fair sound.\u00a0 Not much to say about it, also known as Mahjong Summer Story.\u00a0 Translations in Mahjongland are confusing, even the PCB label has the English name.\u00a0 Oh yes, the guy selling powerups before rounds is pretty freaky.\u00a0 Video System draw terrifying male faces.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mahjong Joshi Pro-Wres -Give Up 5 Byou- – ultimate Homedata jank.\u00a0 Female pro wrestling themed, this game didn’t actually get a full release and I dumped the board for MAME so everyone can enjoy its unique charms!\u00a0 It’s so amazingly awful it’s like staring into the sun, but interestingly is quite fair to play, easy even.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mahjong Kakumei – bought this thinking the sparse sound must be an emulation error.\u00a0 It isn’t.\u00a0 Jaleco really didn’t put much effort in here.\u00a0 Art style is different to everyone else at least.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mahjong Hourouki Part 1: Seisyun Hen – bought for completeness, the Hourouki series are excellently scummy themes from Homedata.\u00a0 This seems to be factory workers illegally gambling, as far as I can tell from my understanding of the intro.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mahjong Hourouki Gaiden – the second, this one has you taking advantage of homeless women, the smaller character faces in-game are quite cute.\u00a0 Also features the famous ‘smoke chan’.\u00a0 Bonus points for the intro where a girl throws a tile at the screen.\u00a0 I played this quite a lot when I found it, and through savestating can confirm the tiles are fixed once you start, and outcomes within a game only vary based on player actions putting them onto a different sequence.\u00a0 Of course it makes the game next to impossible even with savestates but it’s very interesting to study it actually doing this.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mahjong Hourouki Okite – the third and final Hourouki game from Homedata.\u00a0 This one is the darkest by far.\u00a0 As a man with a gambling debts, the mob come and take your sister away and you have to play Mahjong to strip other mens sisters\/wives while using your own sisters innocence as collateral.\u00a0 Nothing says ‘you fucked up at life’ like that game over screen.\u00a0 It’s also got sad music and an animation showing her being taken away.\u00a0 I must admit to loving this game for its uncompromisingly miserable subject matter.\u00a0 I think this might be a location test board, one ROM is hand written, many are EPROMs with correct labels which have been adapted to fit mask sized sockets.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mahjong Gal No Kokuhaku – honestly I just like the face of one of the women and the music is really cool.\u00a0 The sort of unique feature in this game is that some tiles release fruits – you have 4 sets of slot machine style ones to collect, they’re your bonuses \/ power ups.\u00a0 It’s a very cheap game too, not bad but there are so many better ones.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mahjong G-Men ’89 – it’s late 80s Nichibutsu and yet again someone has been murdered.\u00a0 This one allows you to set up sets of tiles at the start, sometimes you’re allowed to pick one in a reach situation (they get jumbled) giving you a 1 in 5 chance of the right tile.\u00a0 Not sure how much it cheats on that as unlike some of the other games with this feature, it did actually give me the right tile once.\u00a0 Some of the others never have.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mahjong Fun Club – Idol Saizensen – again bad Video System early audio, notable for the hilarious guy in the suit offering you a menu of power ups before the round, but little else.\u00a0 This is about the cheapest MJ PCB you can buy, seriously they must have made thousands of this game.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mahjong Gakuen – Capcom PCB but the game is actually by Yuga.\u00a0 Very well produced and with the most epic TSUMO! sample in all of Mahjong.\u00a0 This game is very fair, has scoring (rare!), very common and very cheap to obtain, but it’s also pretty graphic – Yuga games are not shy.\u00a0 It’s up there with the best beginner games in my opinion.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mahjong Fantasic Love – Nakanihon had a go at Mahjong too.\u00a0 They’d already put girls in pool (Real Break) and Shanghai (Rong Rong) so why not this?\u00a0 I actually highly rate this as I do their other games.\u00a0 These aren’t ambitious genres but the sound and graphics are of the highest quality.\u00a0 This one is also very tame in terms of lewdness and quite fair to play against.\u00a0 Unfortunately it’s not that common from what I’ve seen.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mahjong Erotica Golf – oh boy.\u00a0 This is from Fujic and AV Japan while being on Nichibutsu hardware.\u00a0 I do wonder if that like ‘Sphinx’, Fujic was another trading name for Nichibutsu when they didn’t want to associate their main brand with a product.\u00a0 The ‘AV Japan’ part should tell you exactly what’s in this one.\u00a0 Winning means having to make a timed golf shot.\u00a0 Succeed and you’ll be treated to some crude digitised video of the actual adult models used.\u00a0 Great music, this one is fixed in recent MAME versions, the inputs were scrambled.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mahjong Daiyogen – creepy clairvoyant themed game from Video System, again with the bad audio.\u00a0 Has some unusual power up features by way of the cards chosen at the start but it feels like it was otherwise put together from leftovers of other projects.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Jangou Lady – vintage early 80s Nichibutsu game so don’t expect too much in the audio\/visuals department, but this one has a unique 3 player method of play.\u00a0 There are actually two CPU opponents and a much bigger stock of tiles than in a normal game, it’s definitely worth a few credits because the actual game itself is a lot of fun.\u00a0 The PCB looks like the ‘old’ Mahjong pinout, but it isn’t and needs a special adapter.\u00a0 Remove the death battery too, they leak.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Lady Maker – undumped BET version of Mahjong Jikken Love Story, in which you are a scientist creating women – the power ups are all vials and so on.\u00a0 Really cool sounds in the game, very strange.\u00a0 Once this is dumped I will probably convert it to the standard rev, looks as simple as removing the riser and wire (actually leaving it on probably won’t matter) and burning a couple of ROMs.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Idol Janshi Su-Chi-Pie II – while Jaleco kind of phoned in earlier titles, they put a lot of effort into the later ones.\u00a0 Everything is far, far better here than in Kakumei – proper in-game music, full animation, game cheats like hell though.\u00a0 Another game where wrong wiring will cook the amp, I’ll write a separate post on this problem over the weekend.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mahjong Hyper Reaction 2 – this is the gateway drug.\u00a0 This is the game that ruins people and puts them onto a road of ‘lewd jong randomiser’ streams.\u00a0 It’s the game Nani (otherwise known as Shark Chan) comes from.\u00a0 Amazing graphics and setting, brilliant audio bar a few pops from the sample endings, but it’s one of the more difficult games and not the best entry point for beginners.\u00a0 PCB has recently started selling for comparatively silly money.\u00a0 I have no idea why and I’m happy I bought this a month or two ago.\u00a0 Might be something to do with it being one of the few with a detachable adapter and a joystick mode so you can play it in a JAMMA cab with sticks.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mahjong Hyper Reaction – the game that came first.\u00a0 It’s not bad, the scene is pretty cool with the girls all being band members.\u00a0 It’s just not as good as the second game really.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Taisen Hot Gimmick – the Hot Gimmick games are really good ones, they’re very fair, they’re well produced and they’re agreeaby naughty with the multiple win animations.\u00a0 Graphics are some of the best in Mahjong.\u00a0 Along with Mahjong Gakuen and G-Taste (I’ve owned that for years), this is one of the best places to start learning to play the 2p arcade style of Mahjong.\u00a0 The first three games in this series are the best.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Taisen Hot Gimmick 3 Digital Surfing – web browsing themed second sequel to the above.\u00a0 I think the first and this one are the strongest in the series, the second isn’t bad.\u00a0 You really can’t go wrong here.\u00a0 Later titles tried to cram too many rounds in, and sacrificed animations to give them the data space to do so.\u00a0 Integral is the worst in that respect.\u00a0 I should mention these boards all have amps that will cook if you don’t modify your adapter – you’ll get almost no volume, lots of hiss and a burning smell.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mahjong Dial Q2 – there were actually a couple of adult Mahjong games on the Megadrive, and one of them was called Dial Q – it had really great box art and decent music.\u00a0 I don’t know if this is related at all in terms of who made it, but the concept is the same and obviously the name too.\u00a0 This is the place you go, if you want to see bunny girls tell you about their fucked up dreams.\u00a0 Do you want to see the rabbit from Alice in Wonderland motorboating a bunnygirl?\u00a0 Well if that’s something on your bucket list, this game can help you.\u00a0 It’s certainly a thing.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Taisen Idol-Mahjong Final Romance 2 – Video Systems later series of games are the Final Romance ones.\u00a0 These actually got home system ports and the graphics and audio are by far superior to early efforts, essentially these are like an alternative series to Hot Gimmick, if you want games that cheat so brutally that they’ll hit you with a winning hand at the start of the round sometimes.\u00a0 The animations are great if you can actually get to see them.\u00a0 The second is my favourite, it’s another one with tricky sound 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