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| | | T&E Soft golf game and their last on Super Famicom; they'd already done a Pebble Beach on SFC/SNES--"New 3D Golf Simulation: Pebble Beach no Hatou"/"True Golf Classics: Pebble Beach Golf Links"--but put this one out 4.5 years later--Fall '96, a year after the Saturn Pebble Beach, one non-Pebble PS1 game, and their PS1 Pebble Beach would come out three months later--with the SA1 ("Super Accelerator 1") chip inside: based on the same chip as the SFC CPU, but three times the clock speed and with advanced math & DMA functions, etc. 35 SFC/SNES games would use the chip, although only 6 that came to the US: Dragon Ball Z: Hyper Dimension, Kirby Super Star, Kirby's Dream Land 3, PGA European Tour, PGA Tour '96, Power Rangers Zero: Battle Racers, and Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars. 4 of the 35 were golf games, the other being T&E's second-to-last SFC release, "Masters New: Harukanaru Augusta 3."
I suppose it's the SA1 that accounts for the cart having the side prong pin things? |
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| | | | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Super_NES_enhancement_chips#List_of_Super_NES_games_with_enhancement_chips |
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| | | | Yes the "extension pins" / "side tabs" (Google overview 'p') are for extra chips ( https://wiki.superfamicom.org/schematics-ports-and-pinouts , https://www.reddit.com/r/snes/comments/101f7wa/only_2_of_my_games_have_these_2_extra_parts_on/ ). |
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| | | | "Only **7** that came to the US." 'p' |
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| | | | Both this and Masters Augusta 3, the other T&E Soft SA1 cart, have that metal clip on just the right side below the expansion pins, so I guess(?) no clip on the left is normal. |
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| | | https://nichebarrier.com/ Japan chart sales totals for T&E SFC, SAT, PS2, NDS golf games (none of their MD, 3DO, N64, PS1 or VB golf games charted), chronological release:
New 3D Golf Simulation: Harukanaru Augusta (SFC) 130K
New 3D Golf Simulation: Pebble Beach no Hatou (SFC) 70K
New 3D Golf Simulation: Waialae no Kiseki (SFC) 8K
New 3D Golf Simulation: Devil's Course (SFC) 4K
Masters: Harukanaru Augusta 2 (SFC) 62K
Pebble Beach Golf Links: Stadler ni Chousen (SAT) 16K
Masters: Harukanaru Augusta 3 (SAT) 18K
Masters New: Harukanaru Augusta 3 (SFC) 8K
The Hyper Golf: Devil's Course (SAT) didn't chart
Pebble Beach no Hatou New: Tournament Edition (SFC) didn't chart
Waialae no Kiseki: Extra 36 Holes (SAT) didn't chart
Jun Classic C.C. & Rope Club (SAT) didn't chart
Golf Paradise (PS2) 161K
Golf Paradise DX (PS2) didn't chart
Disney Golf Classic (PS2) 5K
Otona no DS Golf (NDS) 19K |
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| | | | Also Pebble Beach Golf Links (SAT) did 51K in the US - https://vgsales.fandom.com/wiki/Sega_Saturn. Their Genesis & SNES golf games don't appear to have charted. |
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| | | | (And Valora didn't chart.) |
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| | | Thanks to meauxdal for posting a mag chart showing Waialae Country Club: True Golf Classics hitting 7th best selling game for August 1998: https://selectbutton.net/t/videogame-things-you-think-about-a-lot-lot-lot-lot/15363/2047
Oh hey that #7 is mentioned in its Wikipedia article : ) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waialae_Country_Club:_True_Golf_Classics
You know, I completely spaced on checking US N64 sales. Jeepers. Or 3DO. And I can't find one for Virtual Boy. But yep there's N64 Waialae at 404K US sales--and 1M worldwide, woo. Good catch! ; DDD https://vgsales.fandom.com/wiki/Nintendo_64 What a miss by me. ; D Ironically, that one did not come out in Japan. So...in theory the other 600K sales are EU? But it isn't listed there. So uh hm.
Best I could find for 3DO is this forum post https://forums.atariage.com/topic/324535-3do-software-sales-found-platinum-and-gold-best-sellers-as-of-end-of-1995/ , whose link my virus checker insists I do not click. But in the body of the post they note the title with over 100K sold, and guess what's there:
True Golf Classics: Pebble Beach Golf Links (3DO)
So at least 100K for that one. |
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| | | | Ah the mag for that sales chart meauxdal posted was EGM. |
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