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MAGICAL DOROPIE
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ENGLISH TRANSLATION VERSION 1.00
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RELEASED 08-05-02
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BY VIDEO SMASH EXCELLENT
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http://www.flammie.net/vse/
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Contents:
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1. About Magical Doropie
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2. Credits
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3. What's Done
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4. Known Issues
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5. Recommended Emulators
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6. How to Apply the Patch
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7. How to Play
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8. The Krion Conquest and Some Ways In Which It Differs From
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Magical Doropie
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9. Contact Info
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10. Special Thanks
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1. About Magical Doropie
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Sometime in the late 80s, Vic Tokai released a really obvious Rockman
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(Megaman) wannabe on the Famicom called Magical Doropie, and it turned
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out not to suck as much as it could have. It was actually a fairly
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decent platformer starring a little witch named Doropie, and it had
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fairly decent between-stage cutscenes to advance the plot. Sometime
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after that, Vic Tokai's American branch decided to release an English
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version, which they called The Krion Conquest. However, in some
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inexplicable random fit of malice, they decided to cut out all plot
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save the intro, as well as make other miscellaneous changes. The
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game's new "ending" was a particular slap in the face. Judging by the
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number of references on the Internet, The Krion Conquest (TKC) was
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apparently played by no one, including me.
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Things remained as such until March 22nd or 23rd or something, when I
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was tired and bored and avoiding real work and happened to click on the
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Magical Doropie (MD) ROM. I recognized the cool intro as being part of
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TKC (briefly a target of my boredom earlier), but the next scene was
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new to me. Once I realized the plot had been gutted, I decided to see
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if I could possibly reinstate it and give MD a second chance in
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English. Through Just Enough Boredom and Just Enough Success, I got
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the whole thing done in about a week, upon which I let it sit for over
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four months until I finally got off my butt and found some web hosting.
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And so here we have MD's second incarnation in English, which I'm sure
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will also be played by no one.
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2. Credits
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Romhacking, translation, editing - Shih Tzu
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Beta testing - Gideon Zhi
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Fonts - toma
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3. What's Done
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Version 1.00 - First and hopefully only release!
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- All cutscenes translated. Everything else already in English.
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- Pre-boss screens slightly adjusted for spelling and grammar,
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because I'm anal. Also so no one would think they were my fault.
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Left alone otherwise.
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4. Known Issues
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- There is one instance of a character's mouth not moving when it
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looks like it should. The original Japanese line didn't require
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the character to open their mouth (it's not as interesting as it
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sounds). I chose a translation that fit the scene over one that
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fit the mouth. Theoretically, I or someone else could possibly
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fix this by locating the cutscene data, but I'm not up to that.
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5. Recommended Emulators
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I tested this mostly in FCEUltra, but that has some graphical glitches
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in the intro. Nester (official and unofficial) plays the intro fine,
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as does NESten. All three do the same weird thing on the pre-boss
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screens, and I think it's actually supposed to look that way. Pretend
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it's cool. (Epileptics beware.)
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6. How to Apply the Patch
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Put the patch (the IPS file) in the same directory as an unpatched
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Japanese Magical Doropie ROM. Use your favorite IPS patcher, such as
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IPS.EXE or SNESTOOL.EXE, to unite the two in feverish ecstasy. If you
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know what you're doing, you don't need these instructions, and if you
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don't know what you're doing, these instructions probably don't help,
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so then go to the excellent patching FAQs at The Whirlpool
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(http://donut.parodius.com/) or J2E (http://www.j2e.org/). If you
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really can't get it to work, email me.
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7. How to Play
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Gameplay controls:
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You control Doropie, the titular witch. That last sentence is very
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serious and please do not laugh at it.
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LEFT and RIGHT - Move left and right.
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DOWN - Duck.
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A - Jump.
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B - Fire.
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HOLD B - Charge the shot.
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UP+B - Fire upwards.
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DOWN+B - Fire while ducking.
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START - Pauses and opens Doropie's spell menu. Scroll up and down
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and push START again to choose the current spell.
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The spells are all available from the beginning and cost nothing to use
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except as noted. They are as follows:
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NORMAL - Normal. Doropie fires weak shots and can charge up to fire
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a powerful one.
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FIRE - Summons a firebird to kill all non-boss enemies on the screen
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at the cost of some life. Be careful not to select this by accident,
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as its effect is immediate. Cannot be charged.
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FREEZE - Identical to NORMAL except the charged shot briefly freezes
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enemies. Frozen enemies thaw very quickly and can't be used as
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platforms a l<> Metroid, so I don't find it all that useful.
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BALL - Fires a ball at an angle that will bounce off three walls
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before disappearing. Invaluable for killing enemies in hard-to-reach
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spots (the second screen is a good example). Also note that you can
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slightly adjust the trajectory by firing up. Cannot be charged.
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SHIELD - Identical to NORMAL except the charged shot briefly throws
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up a shield against enemy shots in front of Doropie. I find it too
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brief to be more than occasionally useful, but you can always throw
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it up anyway and pretend you're playing Out Of This World instead.
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BROOM - Fire to summon Doropie's broom, a tricky-to-use but
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all-important vehicle. Hop on before it disappears, then fire in the
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direction you want to go. The broom will disappear if it touches a
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wall. You can safely jump if it's moving up, but if it's moving left
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or right it will zoom away. Note that since Doropie cannot fire
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down, the broom cannot move in that direction. Cannot be charged.
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Cutscene controls:
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A - Speed up the text.
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START - Skip the current cutscene.
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8. The Krion Conquest and Some Ways In Which It Differs From
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Word on the street is that the original plans for MD's North American
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release would have left it pretty much intact, with the name changed to
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Francesca's Wand. Why they dropped these plans is anyone's guess;
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perhaps this is around the time Vic Tokai decided to get out of games
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and the project's funding was cut. Thanks for Skrybe for the info!
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Anyway, as far as TKC goes, there don't seem to be any core gameplay
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changes between it and MD, but nearly everything outside gameplay is
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different or (usually) gone. To wit:
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- TKC has all cutscenes save the intro completely excised. The
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pretty screens introducing each round are also gone.
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- The intro is actually pretty much fully translated (the content is
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actually closer to the original than mine--I had to fit it all in
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twenty lines). The Akudama Empire has become the Krion Empire,
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and Doropie has become Francesca. The background in the witch-
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summoning scene has been lightened for some reason, and even more
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bizarre is the new rendition of Doropie/Francesca. It's not bad,
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but what on earth was objectionable about the original?
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- TKC has been given a standard ugly-NES-game title screen. The
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name is changed to The Krion Conquest, and the music has been
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adjusted to something more likely to appeal to 10-year-old boys
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(I guess). The witch with the bare shoulders is of course out,
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even though that has an even greater chance of appealing to
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10-year-old boys.
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- The hexagram or whatever that announces the end of each sublevel
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is absent, of course. I like the image of parents walking in on
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that one.
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- TKC lacks MD's continue feature. You die, you die. But that's
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okay, as it just makes it more satisfying to finally reach the
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ending, right?
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- TKC's ending is HORRID. I'll spoil it for you right now (without
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spoiling MD) so that you don't have to wonder about it. The
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final boss goes down, and without even the decency to fade the
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screen out, the words "YOU WIN!!" scroll up, followed by
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"CONGRATULATIONS!", an abbreviated MD credits list, and then "THE
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END". I notice in particular they took out the part where they
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thank you for playing. I think they hate us.
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9. Contact Info
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The Magical Doropie Translation - http://www.flammie.net/vse/
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Shih Tzu's email address - intrabot@hotmail.com
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Please feel free to send any comments, suggestions, critiques, and
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(heaven forbid) bug reports. I will not reply to ROM requests. Sorry.
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Magical Doropie can be located in about four seconds using Google. I
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probably can't help with any translation requests or romhacking
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questions, as I suck. I'll try to respond to emails promptly, but I'm
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really terribly unforgivably bad at that, so if I don't reply and it's
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not a ROM request, try sending a follow-up guilt-trip email. That
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works most of the time. Ask my parents.
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If you understand the above, feel free to change "intra" to "inter" to
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get the correct email address.
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10. Special Thanks
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- Vic Tokai for making the original game, as well as for dropping
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the ball on the English release so I could come along and fix it
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- toma for the excellent intro (SomeCrazyWackedOutFontBrotha) and
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cutscene (HappyFroggies) fonts
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- Mathonwy for hosting
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- Gideon Zhi for beta testing
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- SnowBro for Tile Layer, Tile Layer Pro, and Hexpose
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- Januschan for Translhextion
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- The Magical Kid's Doropie ImPerfect Guide
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(http://www5c.biglobe.ne.jp/~SNAKE/doropie/doropieindex.htm)
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for the kanji in a character's name
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(side note: A number of Japanese sites refer to the game as
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"Magical Kid's Doropie" for reasons I have yet to understand.
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The odd thing is that there are even graphics for a title screen
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that says "Magical Kid's Doropie" in the ROM, but they're unused,
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unless there's some secret way to unlock them.)
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- Skrybe for the info on Francesca's Wand
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- Drahktar for giving me that one CD, without which this honestly
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would not be happening
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- AND YOU
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...except she IS titular! I mean, check it out,
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they gave her sprite cleavage! |
