Magical Puzzle Popils (Incomplete prototype)

Magical Puzzle Popils (Incomplete prototype)
Dump status Released Dumped by Frank Cifaldi Released by Video Game History Foundation File dump date December 17, 2025 File release date December 17, 2025 Origin Loose EPROMs Lot VGHF Tengen lot EPROMs 5x Mitsubishi M5L27256K Labels POPIL PRG1 POPIL PRG2 POPIL PRG3 POPIL CHR0 POPIL CHR1 Dump method Xeltek Superpro 6100N Game Magical Puzzle Popils System NES Genre Puzzle-platform Release date Unreleased

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An incomplete prototype of Magical Puzzle Popils for the NES.

Notes

The Cutting Room Floor research

This prototype has a research article on TCRF.

• Because PRG 0 is missing, this ROM contains no audio whatsoever, but miraculously, the rest of the game appears to be present.
• Included are the individual EPROM dumps, as well as a ROM file that's been rigged to run on most emulators by padding out the first 32kb of the rom.
• The game appears to be intended to use the MIMIC-1 mapper, but most emulators do not currently support the MIMIC-1 + 8KB battery save configuration that Popils uses. Because of this, an MMC3 patched version of the ROM that will run on most current emulators and flashcards is also included courtesy of NewRisingSun.
• Developed and was to be published by Tengen, was also ported to the Game Gear and PC Engine as well, but only the Game Gear port ever saw the light of day.

Origin

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Acknowledgments

• Ndiddy from the Hidden Palace discord for creating the ROM file.
• Kak from the Hidden Palace discord for figuring out the cartridge mirroring.
• NewRisingSun for creating the MMC3 initialization patch