and another two:

Densha Daishuugou! (Japan):


Tanoshiku Asonde Nouryoku Up!! Tanoshii Youchien '95-nendoban (Japan):

Sega Pico #2

another two games...

B-Fighter Kabuto (Japan):



Do Re Mi Fa Animals no Tanoshii Ensoukai (Japan):

Sega Pico....

new stuff....


Doraemon - Youchien wa Tanoshii na (Japan):

we already had that one...but without booklet- & pcb-scans...

Drive Pico with Go Go! Car Navi Touring! (Japan):


Gakken Pico de Gakushuu 1-nensei (Japan):

Sega Pico

5 new games preserved...

Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon S (Japan):


Sanou Kaihatsu Series 1 Zukei Ninshiki (Japan):


Sanou Kaihatsu Series 4 - Suiri - Kousei (Japan):


Sanou Kaihatsu Series 6 - Ouyou Mondai (Japan):


Sylvanian Families Mori no Nakama to Tanoshii o-Tanjoubikai (Japan):

Spiel-Master (Yeno)

some weeks ago i got another children's system, called SPIEL-MASTER.

the german speech-cartridge and one german game-cartridge (Alphabet Salat) was also included:


the english equivalent is called "Learning Window system (VTECH)". The system itself is from 1986.
you can see it running here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kN6mTd1Xv9s

as the system, game-cartridge and speech-cartridge only had "SPR128A-???" chips inside, it was impossible for me to dump here anything. so i sent the components to Kevtris, who had the equipment to dump that stuff. what he did!

here are some notes from him:

The -081 on the 'speech' cart board had that mystery sp0256 next to it with its markings ground off.
The chip with the marking ground off is the most common SP0256 chip, the SP0256-AL2 chip (it was common enough to be sold by electronic stores like Radio Shack in the USA) and used on the currah speech cart for c64 and many many other places.
In case you are pedantic, the rom for this exists in MAME and MESS as

ROM_LOAD( "sp0256-al2.bin", 0x1000, 0x0800, CRC(b504ac15) SHA1(e60fcb5fa16ff3f3b69d36c7a6e955744d3feafc) )

On this type of v-tech/yeno speech cart, it had its internal rom disabled by tying one of the pins high on the board.

Readme for the SPR128A chips:
Chip Label - filename Address UndersideMark Type
SPR128A-080 - sp128_80.bin 0000-3FFF 27-0643 L.window self-mapped
SPR128A-081 - sp128_81.bin 0000-3FFF 27-0644 L.window self-mapped
SPR128A-093 - sp128_93.bin 0000-3FFF 27-0754-00 L.window self-mapped

Chip Label - Product
SPR128A-080 - Learning Window system (German)
SPR128A-081 - Learning Window speech cart (German)
SPR128A-093 - Learning Window cart Alphabet Salat (German)

Hopefully someone will take on the task and add this MESS!

Pico Updates....

Licca-chan ni Naritai! (Japan):


Pooh-san no Ichi Nichi (Japan) (Rev 0):


Doraemon - Nobita to Maigo no Kyouryuu (Japan) (Rev 2):


Hataraku Kuruma Diapet Daishuugou (Japan):

new stuff from japan

Kikansha Thomas ni Notte (Japan):


Jidou Eiken Taiou Soft Moomin to Eigo Tanjoubi no Okurimono (Japan) (Rev 2):

so much luck

three months ago, i dumped the bios of PROF. WEISS-ALLES

after i dumped it, i found this youtube-video

the interesting thing, on the youtube-video the Copyright on the titlescreen shows 1989, while the console i dumped shows 1988 on the title-screen. so we knew that another revision of the console exist. this was also written into the source of MESS,so nobody forgets it.

i always thought about this, the last three months and how hard it will be to get the other revision..as most sellers only show the console itself on auctions, but no titlescreen of the running system...

now to the interesting part of this article.
i didn't write the complete story about the yesterdays dump. as i wrote i bought "Game Wizard" cheap on ebay. which is true, but it also included a complete "prof. weiss-alles" console and a second cartridge. today i just checked this console, if it's working...and guess what...it worked! it even showed "1989" on the titlescreen!

ten minutes later i had dumped the bios...runs perfectly in MESS...

after that, i was interested what was changed in this revision. i didn't see any visual differences between the two dumped german roms, while running in MESS.
if you compare the two rom files, it shows up about 5000 differences...so they didn't just change the copyright year...it has to be more. maybe someone will find out later.

here's a shot of the internal pcb:


should get included to MESS soon...

Game Wizard / Magische Spiele

today i have something very special...it's maybe the last game which got ever produced for the SOCRATES/PROF. WEISS-ALLES console.

the cartridge is called "GAME WIZARD" / "MAGISCHE SPIELE" and got released in 1990 by V-Tech/YENO. even the wikipedia-page shows "Game Wizard" was delayed for over a year and was eventually canceled."

i got it really cheap from ebay, also the german manual was included. which will get scanned in the next couple of days.

PCB/CARTRIDGE (FRONT & BACK):


some IN-GAME SHOTS:

with SOCRATES:


with PROF. WEISS-ALLES:


as you can see, it fits perfectly in the current MESS driver! so it will get added soon.

Memory Mania vs. Gedächtnis-Training

today i dumped my "Gedächtnis-Training" cartridge for the "Prof. Weiss-Alles" console.

as expected it was completely the same as the already existing dump of "Memory Mania (Rev B)"...personally i don't think that a "REV B" exists of this game... my cartridge looks like a standard-cartridge...no stickers or "B"s anywhere on the cartridge or PCB.
on my QC-Sticker is a litte "T12" handwritten, so i think it's just the initials of the guy who checked the cartridge...

as long as there's no real proof that another revision of this game exist, the words "REV B" should get removed from the MESS-Softwarelist...my opinion.

and here are some shots of the games running...

started with Prof. Weiss-Alles:
started with Socrates:

btw. shouldn't the games, as they are Multi-Language (German & English), also get the "German" Name included into the Software-List?