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