[KGRAMR]

I was browsing Twitter when all of the sudden GDRI posted this…Raizing, best known for Battle Garegga acutally had plans to make another Virtual Boy title. The document dates back from July 1st, 1995. Why do i say another? ‘Cause they were the ones who ported Panic Bomber to the VB 😉
Sources:

Plans for an unreleased (Virtual Boy?) game from Eighting https://t.co/z55hmQxIxg

— GDRI (@gdri) January 18, 2018

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— るら坊 (@rurabou_new) January 18, 2018

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I got a reply from Eighting:

Thank you for your e-mail inquiry

Your community seems to be doing a very unique and interesting effort.

We are game developers and develop games based on requests from clients.
The contents of the request from the client are basically confidential matter.
Therefore, we are not in a position to answer about the inquiry game title.
We can not also answer whether the image and the explanation of movie are true or fake.

The existence of your community that takes care of the old game console is very encouraging for game developers.
Please keep loving the game console.
Thank you.

EIGHTING Co., Ltd.
Public Relations
Yutaka Miyakoshi

So I guess we need the client’s name so we can ask him/her/them…

Well that is big that they answer your mail.

So I guess we need the client’s name so we can ask him/her/them…

I don’t suppose that’s confidential as well. 😛

It could be…

So last option is to ask if they could contact their client and ask if they’d like to contact me.

Who knows who the client is or was… if they’re out of the game we might never get a permission then it’s up to the cart holder if she wants to discreetly share at some time in the future.
Who knows maybe “other sources” will pop up and nobody (client) would now which one of them was dumped… 😉

Well that response was more encouraging than I expected, I suppose. I thought no response or a super generic shutdown was most likely. It’s clear they actually read your email and typed a unique response.

I’m sure the client info is confidential, but maybe you could request that they contact the client on our behalf and that we would be willing to pay the client for releasing the ROM. I’m sure we could whip up some funds in the community if all the interested persons pitched in. Or maybe the client would just release it if they saw the PlanetVB website and what a devoted, rabid fan base we have here.

Otherwise, yea… seems like trying to appeal to the woman is our only hope.

Somebody link 8ing our page so they can see how passionated we are about this system 😀
At the very least, there’s still hope in seeing the game in action someday…

I sent a link to here.
But as they said they’re bound by client confidentiality.

e5frog wrote:
I sent a link to here.
But as they said they’re bound by client confidentiality.

I hope they forward our interest to the client. Maybe if they see how excited we are and dedicated to the system and its preservation, we stand a shot at something happening. Hell, if they wanted to release it and sell copies of it kinda like some of the repro companies do now, I’d be for it. I wanna see it preserved!

It doesn’t say anything on the papers presented in the first post? I’m thinking if there’s a business name other than Eighting.

e5frog wrote:
It doesn’t say anything on the papers presented in the first post? I’m thinking if there’s a business name other than Eighting.

In Post # 4, I translated everything that can be seen on the papers in the first post, so no business name appears there.

Unfortunately, there could be a lot of more interesting and useful information among the other pages of that bundle of papers, but the woman in possession of such has already indicated that she won’t reveal more info among those papers.

retronintendonerd wrote:

e5frog wrote:
I sent a link to here.
But as they said they’re bound by client confidentiality.

I hope they forward our interest to the client. Maybe if they see how excited we are and dedicated to the system and its preservation, we stand a shot at something happening. Hell, if they wanted to release it and sell copies of it kinda like some of the repro companies do now, I’d be for it. I wanna see it preserved!

Didn’t we learn our first details about this game from the would-be composer? The game was cancelled before they got to make any music. The game is not in a state where it can be released commerciallu.

Knightcrawler wrote:

retronintendonerd wrote:

e5frog wrote:
I sent a link to here.
But as they said they’re bound by client confidentiality.

I hope they forward our interest to the client. Maybe if they see how excited we are and dedicated to the system and its preservation, we stand a shot at something happening. Hell, if they wanted to release it and sell copies of it kinda like some of the repro companies do now, I’d be for it. I wanna see it preserved!

Didn’t we learn our first details about this game from the would-be composer? The game was cancelled before they got to make any music. The game is not in a state where it can be released commerciallu.

No reason why it couldn’t be finished if it was given to/sold to the right person. I’ve seen similar things happen (just not with the VB).

New reply from Eighting:

Mr. Fredric Blaholtz

As a premise, we can not answer whether “Invincible Iron Man Gagaga – In” existed or not.
Because we have a duty of confidentiality as a developer.
Therefore, we can not even answer who the client of the game is.

For your reference, the company Hudson has disbanded, and it is unknown who owns the rights of that work.

Best Regards,

EIGHTING Co., Ltd.
Public Relations
Yutaka Miyakoshi

So Hudson was involved, is that news?

I asked to forward my email address if he knew anyone to ask, but if the company who was the client doesn’t exist anymore that would be difficult. So hunt continues for former Hudson employees?

EDIT:
It seems what was Hudson is now “Konami Digital Entertainment”.

Yuuup. Konami acquired Hudson somewhere around 2008-ish, I think? So that… complicates matters, if we’re having to look towards ‘Hudson’ for any answers.

Still nice that we received a response at all, I suppose.

Scooblee wrote:
Yuuup. Konami acquired Hudson somewhere around 2008-ish, I think? So that… complicates matters, if we’re having to look towards ‘Hudson’ for any answers.

Still nice that we received a response at all, I suppose.

It’s better than nothing 🙂

e5frog wrote:
New reply from Eighting:

”
Mr. Fredric Blaholtz

As a premise, we can not answer whether “Invincible Iron Man Gagaga – In” existed or not.
Because we have a duty of confidentiality as a developer.
Therefore, we can not even answer who the client of the game is.

For your reference, the company Hudson has disbanded, and it is unknown who owns the rights of that work.

Best Regards,

EIGHTING Co., Ltd.
Public Relations
Yutaka Miyakoshi
”

If I had to make a bet, I’d bet that nobody who is currently at Eighting even knows anything about the game, let alone who the client may have been. I’m guessing that the only traces of the game lie with person who currently possesses such. Thus, there would also be nobody at Eighting who would even care if such ever got leaked; nevertheless, rules have to be followed, unfortunately…

Yea, it’s unfortunate because it seems unlikely there is anyone around that would actually care in the slightest or be vested at all in it being released or not released. Seems like releasing it would be a tiny risk, but that’s easy for me to say I suppose since I’m not the one taking that tiny risk.

True, someone must have scared her to take it down again though.

e5frog wrote:
New reply from Eighting:

”
Mr. Fredric Blaholtz

As a premise, we can not answer whether “Invincible Iron Man Gagaga – In” existed or not.
Because we have a duty of confidentiality as a developer.
Therefore, we can not even answer who the client of the game is.

For your reference, the company Hudson has disbanded, and it is unknown who owns the rights of that work.

Best Regards,

EIGHTING Co., Ltd.
Public Relations
Yutaka Miyakoshi
”

So Hudson was involved, is that news?

I asked to forward my email address if he knew anyone to ask, but if the company who was the client doesn’t exist anymore that would be difficult. So hunt continues for former Hudson employees?

EDIT:
It seems what was Hudson is now “Konami Digital Entertainment”.

Looks as if they are saying: release the rom already! Hahaha..

astro187 wrote:

I’m sure the client info is confidential, but maybe you could request that they contact the client on our behalf and that we would be willing to pay the client for releasing the ROM. I’m sure we could whip up some funds in the community if all the interested persons pitched in.

You guys are bad negotiators. Lol, don’t need to offer money if they aren’t asking for it. Try all other options first, then bribe them after.