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Skrybe Staff

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Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 12:58 am Post subject: Requesting info on prize editions of FDS Golf |
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What can you all tell me about the Disk Fax prize versions of Golf Japan Course and Golf US Course for the FDS? I'd welcome any kind of help, like how the games differ from the retail versions, the details of the contests, anything. I've heard so much contradicting information while researching these that I'm starting to doubt even typically reliable sources like |tsr. |
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Deeblite

Joined: 20 Sep 2004 Posts: 43 Location: Philadelphia area
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Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 3:45 am Post subject: Re: Requesting info on prize editions of FDS Golf |
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Skrybe wrote: | What can you all tell me about the Disk Fax prize versions of Golf Japan Course and Golf US Course for the FDS? I'd welcome any kind of help, like how the games differ from the retail versions, the details of the contests, anything. I've heard so much contradicting information while researching these that I'm starting to doubt even typically reliable sources like |tsr. |
Errr.. I've never played the retail version, but I own the US course version. If you have any SPECIFIC questions, I can probably answer them. |
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Skrybe Staff

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Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 5:44 pm Post subject: |
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So, you have the gold Golf US Course FDS disk? Is the player character Mario like on the regular disk? I've heard in some places that he was replaced with a female character on the gold version.
I'd really like to know if the layout of the holes was changed, but I guess you can't answer that without having played the regular version. |
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TheRedEye The Internet's Frank Cifaldi


Joined: 26 Aug 2003 Posts: 4192 Location: Oakland, CA
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Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 7:45 pm Post subject: |
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I also have the regular Golf US Course, it's Mario. |
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Skrybe Staff

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Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 2:34 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah, I know it's Mario on the regular Golf US Course disk, I was wondering if a different character is used on the gold Golf US Course disk. |
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Deeblite

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Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 9:15 am Post subject: |
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Skrybe wrote: | So, you have the gold Golf US Course FDS disk? Is the player character Mario like on the regular disk? I've heard in some places that he was replaced with a female character on the gold version.
I'd really like to know if the layout of the holes was changed, but I guess you can't answer that without having played the regular version. |
Oh, the blue (purple?) one is the common one? Thats the one I have, I didn't know if that was normal or not. Every other FDS game I have is yellow, so I figured it might be unusual |
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Skrybe Staff

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Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 5:11 pm Post subject: |
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Every game that was part of a Disk Fax contest came on a blue disk rather than a yellow one, so yeah, you've got the regular version there. The version given out as a contest prize is on a gold disk. By gold I mean shiny gold, like the Zelda NES cartridge, not plain yellow like most FDS disks. |
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rbudrick not rubrdick
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Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 8:20 pm Post subject: |
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I took some good scans of the disks and the cases if you want me to post them.
-Rob |
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handofg0d

Joined: 13 Jun 2006 Posts: 455 Location: PA
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Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 5:39 pm Post subject: |
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Sorry for the necromancy but I just found this and remembered this thread:
This page shows the differences between the versions of the Japanese Course, while this one shows the differences for the US Course.
You can see clear differences in the title screens, so I hope this helps. |
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Skrybe Staff

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Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 10:47 pm Post subject: |
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Cool, thank you. |
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rbudrick not rubrdick
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Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 6:57 pm Post subject: |
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I got an email from the guy that let me dump his Golf prize cards yesterday. He said the Rom for one of the games stopped working. Gives him Err.27 now. Anybody ever heard of such a thing happening? Any idea why?
-Rob |
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Skrybe Staff

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If the game wrote to the image to, say, save a score, it could have changed something to give him that error now. Did he say which game was giving him the problem? Normally, saving to the image shouldn't corrupt anything, but that copy of US Course was a bad dump to begin with. If that's the one giving him trouble, it doesn't come as much of a surprise. |
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rbudrick not rubrdick
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Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 9:10 am Post subject: |
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Skrybe wrote: | If the game wrote to the image to, say, save a score, it could have changed something to give him that error now. Did he say which game was giving him the problem? Normally, saving to the image shouldn't corrupt anything, but that copy of US Course was a bad dump to begin with. If that's the one giving him trouble, it doesn't come as much of a surprise. |
Yep, That;s the one. If that's what happenned, that sucks...that means the substituted save file wasn't perfect after all.
Well, looks like another source for that disk is needed (if that is indeed the problem). Sucks.
-Rob |
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