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Awright.......a very "big-ly" (word salad combo description that derived from two words 'big league' from a particular candidate's campaign speech from last year) shout out to the various contributors for these finds and contributions.

>We dumped the rare Deco Cassette Flashboy, the first ever version of "The Deco Kid"
>game! It took approximately 100 hours of work to get a good dump. You can tell
>already I didn't dump it personally because I don't have anywhere near that much
>patience. When this game was originally released the title for the game was "Flash
>Boy" in Japan and "The Deco Kid" for the export release. Later Data East changed
>the title to "The Deco Kid" for all vertical versions and "Flash Boy" for the
>horizontal versions. This dump is the original/first ever released version of the
>game, a vertical Japan release.

Kudos to the Game Preservation Society folks that also did preservation work with Ocean To Ocean in 2016.

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Flash Boy (vertical) [DECO Cassette MD] (No.12/Ver.0/Set.1,Japan) [Game Preservation Society]

Jean-Francois Del Nero
Omar Cornut
Game Preservation Society
Joseph Redon
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QtQ and I were posting about this in 2012.

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11/18/2012

gregf: I'd like to believe that the DECO game might be emulated in the future.
QtQ: Me too!
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Good to see it finally happen these many years later. Going back to an old thread from years earlier, I hope other DECO cassette titles can be saved while still possible.....at least better documented just in case things are still sketchy at this time.

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DU Update: Deco cassette dumps
02/04/13

We've dumped a bunch of tapes and dongles. It is slightly messy at the moment because of cassette dumps getting their ends padded with blank space in mame but (very) roughly it's looking like:

Lock'n'Chase (Japan original no rev)
Pro Tennis (Japan original no rev + fix for incorrect dongle read)
Graplop (Japan original no rev)
Fishing (Japan original no rev, redump with newer tools)
Hamburger (Japan original no rev, redump with newer tools)
Super Double Tennis (Japan original no rev, redump with newer tools)
Burnin' Rubber (Japan original no rev)
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Juergen B / Al Kossow got things started in 2001 (and earlier) and then on to Dave Widel a few years later and then on to Charles M. and Haze from a few years ago and now to Game Preservation Society. In the meantime, props to everyone involved for working on this hardware platform over the past several years.

Maybe the DECO cassette system will be fully resolved in another ten years.

>dumped Dodge Man, an extremely rare PCB from from Omori in 1983!

Good find. It looks like an interesting game when I first noticed the flyer when Bobby Tribble placed on unMAMEd site years earlier.

>dumped the rare Segasonic Cosmo Fighter Galaxy Patrol

The crazy thing about this, already messaged to Haze a week or two ago, is some company (maybe some tv show producers/production company?) was purging various videoclips of actual gameplay taken from the various Sega kiddie cabs at locations and shops in Japan......probably because of the "Sonic" character image. The emulated game screens/gameplay should still be on Youtube, but anything showing the videogame being played in an actual cab.....most of those have been purged from Youtube.

>A friend of the DU has bought a Strikes & Spares cabinet and is going to get it dumped.
>More info later on that.

Now this is a find. I am not sure if any web sites had info about Strikes & Spares being an actual game product that was made by Mirco games during 1970s. I wonder if Mirco had made the game first and Exidy licensed from them when Exidy's Robot Bowl was marketed or maybe Meadows was involved with their own version Meadows Lanes.

Interesting to see Mirco was marketing their own version of a bowling game.