Arion (FM-7)

Arion
Publisher: ASCII Platform: FM-7 Released in JP: 1986 This game has a hidden developer message. This game has hidden developer credits.

An adventure game based on the Arion manga and its movie adaptation.

Developer Messages

Found at Track 0, Sector 1 of each of the game's two disks are developer messages and comments. They seem to refer to a FM-7 release of Thunder Ball, which is currently undumped. For the Disk 1 message, line breaks were added for readability.

These developer messages are written only in katakana.

This game and Thunder Ball are also mentioned in similar messages in Boukenshatachi - Kenja no Yuigon.

Disk 1	Disk 2
<Copyright 1986 by T.Warabikawa> ﾏﾀｵｱｲｼﾏｼﾀﾈ! Thunder Ball ﾊ ﾄﾞｳﾃﾞｼﾀｶ? ｱﾘｵﾝｦ ﾄｲﾀﾗ BGMｦ ｷｷﾅｶﾞﾗ ｹﾞﾝｻｸｦ ｲｯｷﾆ ﾖﾐﾏｼｮｳ! 73&88 <JO1TNQ>	┌──────────────┐ │ARION ｺﾞｺｳﾆｭｳ │ │ﾏｺﾄﾆ ｱﾘｶﾞﾄｳ ｺﾞ│ │ｻﾞｲﾏｽ｡ Disk(A)│ │ﾉ IPL ﾆ ｶｲﾀｺﾄｦ│ │ ｼﾞｯｺｳ ｼﾃ ｸﾀﾞｻ│ │ｲﾈ!! ｲｲｺﾄｶﾞｱﾙﾖ│ ├──────────────┤ │Thunder Ball ﾉ│ │ ｾｴｻｸﾄ ｶｻﾅｯﾀ ﾉ│ │ﾃﾞ ｽｺｼ ｵｿｸﾅｯﾃ │ │ｼﾏｲﾏｼﾀｶﾞ FM Us│ │erﾉ ﾐﾅｻﾝ ｺﾞﾒﾝｼ│ │ﾃﾈ! by JO1TNQ│ └──────────────┘

Translations (The box formatting is different for readability):

Disk 1 (translation)	Disk 2 (translation)
<Copyright 1986 by T.Warabikawa> See you again, I love you! How was Thunder Ball? While we listen to the BGM, let's read about the original work. 73&88 <JO1TNQ>	┌──────────────────┐ |Thank you very | |much for ARION. | |Please pay close | |attention to what | |I wrote in the IPL| |of Disk (A). | |You'll find | |something good | |there. | └──────────────────┘ ├──────────────────┤ |Sorry to FM Users.| |Since development | |overlapped with | |Thunder Ball | |this meant that | |the release date | |of this game | |came a little | |late. by JO1TNQ | └──────────────────┘

(Source: Torchickens (translations))