Shin Onigashima Series

[Fryguy64]

NinDB: Shin Onigashima Series

The first game in Nintendo's series of text adventures on the Famicom Disk System. Guide Donbe and Hikari, two mysterious children, on an adventure against a terrifying dragon that devours souls.

Games

Series Overview
- A series introduction has been written.

Shin Onigashima
System: Famicom Disk System
Re-releases: Game Boy Advance, Wii (Virtual Console)
- Story and gameplay is written.
- Required: A complete game guide from start to finish, with screenshots along the way. Will include a character guide as well.

BS Shin Onigashima
System: Super Famicom (Satellaview)
- Little info is known so far, aside from being a poster-child for the Satellaview and being the game "Heisei Era" was based on. More information will be hugely welcome!

Heisei Era: Shin Onigashima
System: Super Famicom (NP)
- A completely different game to the first, following your animal friends through the game rather than Donbe & Hikari. This has been written up.
- You can play the first game with Disk System graphics but updated music.
- Game guide required. Will share a character guide with the first game.

Cameos

Kirby's Dream Land 3
At the end of Sand Canyon stage 4 you will find Hikari, the female protagonist of Famicom Disk System game New Onigashima.
To earn her Heart Star you must take the following route in the scrolling underwater section earlier in the level: Bottom, Top, Middle. Enter the door and defeat the Broom miniboss to find Donbe, the hero of New Onigashima.
This time when you reach Hikari, Donbe will have joined her and you are rewarded with a Heart Star.

Super Smash Bros. Melee
Donbe & Hikari are available as a collectable trophy.

Great Concert! Band Brothers ~Request Selection~
The Shin Onigashima track "On the Path to the Mountain" was included on this bonus cart containing fan-picked music.
- Does anyone have recordings of music from the Request Selection? No DS emulators seem to run it.

Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Donbe is a collectable sticker.
A remix of various music tracks (track names to come) from Shin Onigashima is available on the Summit stage.

Captain Rainbow
Hikari is the first character you meet on Mimin Island, and also the last person you save. (more details coming)

Great Concert! Band Brothers DX
When you use an instrument in a song, it is added to your Instrument Dictionary. When you view an instrument in this dictionary, a clip of a song from another Nintendo game will play:
- Shakuhachi plays the "Title" theme from Shin Onigashima
- Koto plays "Chapter 1: On the Path to the Mountain"

Soundtrack
The game is split into two disks, each containing its own tracklist of music. Titles have been translated from the soundtracks:

In-Game Music (Part 1)
1. Title
2. Chapter 1 ~Inside the House~
3. Chapter 1 ~On the Path to the Mountain~
4. Chapter 2 ~Inside the House~
5. Chapter 2 ~Story of the Dragon~
6. Chapter 2 ~Inside the House (Night)~
7. Chapter 3 ~Morning~
8. Chapter 3 ~Oni Fortress~
9. Chapter 3 ~Inside the Fortress~
10. Chapter 4 ~Neighboring Village~
11. Chapter 4 ~Lake~
12. Chapter 4 ~Hineo-sama~
13. Part 1 Staff Roll

In-Game Music (Part 2)
1. Chapter 5 ~Castle Ruins~
2. Chapter 5 ~Oni's Gatekeeper~
3. Chapter 5 ~Hinoe-sama~
4. Chapter 6 ~Forest~
5. Chapter 6 ~Strange Forest~
6. Chapter 6 ~Sparrow's House~
7. Chapter 7 ~Shinohara~
8. Chapter 7 ~Cave~
9. Chapter 7 ~Ohana~
10. Chapter 8 ~Giant Dragon~
11. Chapter 9 ~Conclusion~
12. Ending

OST: Famicom 20th Anniversary Original Soundtracks
A series of 3 albums packed with unaltered Famicom music. Volume 3 opens with the complete soundtrack to Shin Onigashima.
Volume 3

OST: Game Sound Museum ~Famicom Edition~
A mini-CD collection of music taken from Nintendo's Famicom and Disk System games. There were 21 disks in total, some featuring music from multiple games.
14 Shin Onigashima -Part 1-
15 Shin Onigashima -Part 2-

OST: Nintendo Sound Selection
A series of 3 genre-themed albums containing unaltered music from Nintendo games, released through Club Nintendo in Japan. All three albums feature music from Shin Onigashima.
- On the Peach Healing Music album, Track 19 is the title theme from Shin Onigashima. (link)
- On the Koopa Loud Music album, Track 8 is "Oni's Time" (combination of Oni Fortress and Oni's Gatekeeper). Track 23 is a remix of Oni's Time. (link)
- On the Luigi B-Side Music album, Track 23 is "Part 1 Staff Roll". (link)

Remix: Toy Music - Dancing Super Mario Bros.
Akihabara Electric Circus remix album. Track 6 is a remix of Shin Onigashima music.
link

Remix: Game Music Graffiti
A series of remix albums featuring music from Nintendo games. Track 8 is a remix of Shin Onigashima music.
Famicom Disk System Graffiti
Game Music Graffiti (Compilation)

Remix: Famicom 20th Anniversary Arrange Soundtracks
2004 remixes of Famicom music to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Famicom. Track 5 is a remix of Shin Onigashima music.
link

References
Nintendo.co.jp - Heisei Era Shin Onigashima
Nintendo.co.jp - Famicom Mini Shin Onigashima
Nintendo.co.jp - Shin Onigashima on Virtual Console
Adventure Island - Shin Onigashima game guide (Japanese)
Wikipedia - Shin Onigashima
Wikipedia Japan - Shin Onigashima

[Manspeed]

Just one question (or two rather):

1. How come you started with Shin Onigashima?

2. Do you want any of us to play through the SNES titles or did you already do that?

[parrothead]

Here are the songs used in the SSBB remix, with official names:

[Fryguy64]

Mar 11, 2010 12:45:12 GMT -5 Manspeed said:

1. How come you started with Shin Onigashima?

1. It's a short series with a load of cameos.
2. It's an unfamiliar series, which is what NinDB excels at.
3. For some reason every time I work on NinDB I start on the text adventures. I used it as an example above, and figured I might as well make it the first test case

Mar 11, 2010 12:45:12 GMT -5 Manspeed said:

2. Do you want any of us to play through the SNES titles or did you already do that?

I haven't played all the way through any of the games, but I do know of a Japanese website, Adventure Island, that has walkthroughs for pretty much all the adventure games released on consoles/handhelds in Japan.

Problem 1? They're both in Japanese, so it's not always clear what's going on. Problem 2? The website uses kanji for the instructions, whereas the game uses Hiragana, so you can't even just copy the instructions exactly, but need a translation tool to hand as well.

What I want is to put up the resources that make someone really want to play them. And if they don't? Then to put up the resources so they can understand the game and story (hence game guides). So at some point I'd love game guides to all these adventure games

NinDB was an epic Nintendo fansite, and now it's been overtaken. I'm taking it back!!

[Grandy02]

I'm eager to learn more about those Japan-only adventure games, it would be great to find more information about them in English. As it is very unlikely that they will ever officially get localised...

But a short question: I'm a bit confused about the naming policy. First all Japanese titles were translated to English (including "New Onigashima") and now this particular series has been reverted to Japanese?

[Fryguy64]

The naming thing shouldn't bother everyone as much as it does. Don't think about it too hard. I might still put it on the website as Shin or New... It's immaterial compared to the amount of information we still need to gather ;D

[Prince~Of~Light]

MAN. I soo wanted to clear this, but no walkthrough made this unplayable. (-l_l-)
Wish luck for ya for getting information, more luck for getting the guide done! (-lvl-)b

Shouldn't it be then "New Oni Island" if we were to translate the title? (-''-)

[Fryguy64]

Mar 12, 2010 10:34:12 GMT -5 Prince~Of~Light said:

Shouldn't it be then "New Oni Island" if we were to translate the title? (-''-)

"Onigashima" is a place name, so translating it would be as inaccurate as retitling Mt. Fuji as "Mt. Wealth".

[Manspeed]

Everybody knows it as "Shin Onigashima" thanks to Smash Bros. and everything. It's probably best to just leave the title as it is.

[Prince~Of~Light]

I think your right.

No Starfying. (-lvl-)

[Wildcat]

This looks quite promising, that it does. It'll be great to have all of this information up - so many new avenues of Nintendo to discover!

[Shrikeswind]

Actually, Tsu, if you translate it fully it'd be "New Ogre's Island." I'd prefer a nontranslated name like Shin Onigashima or a (good) rename better, but even calling it New Ogre's Island would be better than changing the story to a Western audience. It was a kind move on Nintendo's part to keep this Japanese simply because, had it gone global, we'd probably have a bastardized story, which ruins the legend. Still, as the world shrank, the story may have gathered some steam. It's a question of reason that if European folklore gathered such acceptance as it had, shouldn't the same apply to other legends? You have to wonder how far Shin Onigashima might have gone into the world if it had went global intact.

[Fryguy64]

Actually, it's more likely it didn't come to the US because it was on two disks, which hadn't been released in the US at all. While some games (Zelda, Metroid, Kid Icarus) had been successfully transcribed to cart format, it's not clear if there was anything that couldn't be transcribed due to technical limitations.

Even if it was possible, it's a very Japanese game - not just in terms of content, but also the way the text is presented. It wouldn't have worked, and they'd have had to swap the locations of the text and menu.

Also, why is it given that NoA would have bastardized the story? The main issue is that their translation team doesn't appear to have been set up until later - most of them up till that point were translated in Japan, and something as text heavy as an adventure game or RPG couldn't have been done by Japan or Dan Owsen alone. If we were to receive a translated version, it wouldn't have arrived until 1990-odd, by which point it was 3 years old.

[Manspeed]

You'd think at this point they'd do a revamp of the game for the DS or Wii or something and then release it globally. It'd fit pretty nicely alongside their other text adventures.

[Prince~Of~Light]

Mar 14, 2010 14:58:43 GMT -5 Manspeed said:

You'd think at this point they'd do a revamp of the game for the DS or Wii or something and then release it globally. It'd fit pretty nicely alongside their other text adventures.

Goody goody, I'd soo like to see that done.

Or maybe they might make a "westernly" game like EBA = Ouendan, as NOA's answer for those text adventures.