@exodus it‘s pretty cool to see a company recognizing their weird/currently unprofitable history like this, even if it’s just as simple as a Tweet.
The person running this account is doing great work for the X-55 community.
https://twitter.com/TaitoCorp/status/1726257018607132775
https://twitter.com/TaitoCorp/status/1726695658932109514
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This person’s twitter account has videos of Cleopatra Fortune and Puzzle Bobble running on the X-55 (and one song). https://x.com/takuyao3o
The version of Puzzle Bobble looks quite involved. It’s 50 rounds rather than 30, new graphics, animation, title screen and credits roll and the soundtrack used is the one that was later used for the Windows 9x port, which solves a longstanding mystery from my childhood about where that music originated (clearly not done by the Windows porting company). I’m not familiar with Cleopatra Fortune, though quote tweets similarly say it has different music and graphics.
Machine translation of their bio says that they “still own several devices that I keep turned on to store data.” I think, based off my understanding of the machine, that this means that they got these from the phone line when the service operated and just keep them stored in RAM since they’d get wiped if the device turned off? Maybe I’m misunderstanding, but that’s absolutely wild if it’s the case and would make them probably the only copies of these not in Taito’s archives.
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