Magic Castle - Forgotten PS1 Net Yaruze game released

[Deleted User]

Magic Castle is a game made on the Net Yaroze platform by a handful of Japanese developers back in 1997 for the Sony Playstation.
Net Yaroze was a Sony dev kit environment available for $1,119 for hobby developer.
One of the game designers, PIROWO, found the source code of this game and decided to finish the project for everyone to play.
The only missing features are the four player support and Japanese translation.
Keiichi Matsunami, the other designer who now works at Sega, said in an interview with netyaroze-europe that Magic Castle was created in just eight months as a pitch to a game production company.
Sony expressed interest, but asked the developers to work on another project at the company instead.
They turned down the proposal from Sony.
Eventually the team ran into financial problems and disbanded the project.
You can dowload the game on archive.org.​

 

[fresnorob]

Great game. Converted eboot on my Vita has some intermittent slowdown, but otherwise fine.

 

[Deleted member 534570]

If anybody wants to use a cover for the game, here's one that I cooked up: https://imgur.com/gallery/oeVxxhP

 

[AmandaRose]

If anybody wants to use a cover for the game, here's one that I cooked up: https://i.imgur.com/3jHALQp.png

Thank you looks good and I now no longer have one game missing a cover.

 

[Deleted member 534570]

Thank you looks good and I now no longer have one game missing a cover.

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Thanks. I just updated the art again to add a proper code.