Rolypolys no Nanakorobi Yaoki

Rolypolys no Nanakorobi Yaoki
Developer: OutSide Directors Company Publisher: Shinko Music Platforms: Windows, Mac OS Classic Released in JP: March 14, 1997 This game has unused animations. This game has unused graphics. This game has unused cinematics. This game has unused sounds. This game has a notes page

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Rolypolys' Seven-Downs Eight-Ups is a children's edutainment game by the people behind titles such as Eastern Mind: The Lost Souls of Tong-Nou and LSD: Dream Emulator.

It gets as weird as you would expect.

To do: Search the letters.

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Notes

Intro Assets

Alternate OutSide Intro

Present in the game's directory are two intro videos for OutSide. One, remixed from Eastern Mind, is used. This version, copied from Chu-teng (the sequel to Eastern Mind), is not.

Early Shinko Logo Sound

sinko logo is an early sound for Shinko's logo that uses the same synthesizer as the final file (ShinkoLogoNew).

Shooting Game

To do: Is the alternate mode actually used, and the method for triggering it is just very obscure?

In the shooting game from the letter A, the player must move the cursor and click to shoot a virtual Cho who flies around the screen.

Japanese Text

A handwritten message occupying slot 61. "マウスで連打するんだ!" translates to "Hit repeatedly with the mouse!"

Split Bullet

At the end of the file, there are frames for a bullet being shot, which then splits to travel past two virtual Chos that are jumping on either side of the screen.

Letter Titles

F Walking

The letter F falling and walking with four legs, This animation is presumably used for when Fire was originally "Foot",

Early Fire title

The aforementioned early title image for fire, Where it's instead called foot

Early Eyes title

An early title image for the letter E, Where it's instead called Earned

Earned Alphabet

The entire alphabet, Another version of this exists with every letter separated

Highlighted E

Part of the alphabet highlighted, The one highlighted is E,

V variants

Twenty four variants of the letter V, All of these go unused, It's not clear what these would have been used for,

Leftovers

Flipped Bu Animation

A flipped version of the walking animation for Bu exists in both the explanations for U and V, This sprite originated from the short movie for "Ventured"