If you’ve always thought that SD Snatcher was just a remake of Snatcher with cutesy characters, you’re wrong. Well okay, SD Snatcher IS a remake of Snatcher with cutesy characters, but there’s a lot more to it than that. The battle system has been completely changed to more of an RPG interface, and you can use different weapons that inflict more damage, and you even level up! It’s super total crazy, is what it is! And it’s really amazingly fun, too! The graphics are really nice, and the music, while not impressive (though I didn’t get far), is done really well with the special SCC sound cartridge that’s included in the game. A definite must-play game for any MSX user that, um, speaks Japanese.

This patch fills out parts of the introductions in SD-Snatcher by using DTE and pointers. The base used for this hack was the Oasis translation of SD-Snatcher.

This game was originally released in 1990 in Japan for the MSX. In 1993 a Dutch group named Oasis translated it into English. This is a cyberpunk adventure that takes place in futuristic Neo Kobe city. The background story is found in the introductions before the game starts.

To apply this patch, patch the Japanese versions of the disks. There are 3 patches in total, one for each disk.

• ZZZ-UNK-SD SNATCHER JAPANESE FOR SCC+[DISK 1].dsk
• CRC32: 74DF1878
• MD5: EC0BE7766B5DA5A1848D7B5A7D4FD6AE
• SHA-1: 4CEF12AE13334ED4F3F890311B641C1AD2BDC408
• SHA-256: AC1610AE782B706554A6D7034D49FEB1B7451C41B3A42DFEACC69075777140E3
• ZZZ-UNK-SD SNATCHER JAPANESE FOR SCC+[DISK 2].dsk
• CRC32: 930E06B3
• MD5: AB9290F7FB6063A2F0356876124BF049
• SHA-1: 1156F6C4D9332FDC6CDA05558AC3E3102A2764FE
• SHA-256: C1C406DEB1217C202F2A450CBD76A5B1EA06FAEAD381A2B160A647CC5CC4890D
• ZZZ-UNK-SD SNATCHER JAPANESE FOR SCC+[DISK 3].dsk
• CRC32: 0547BB3A
• MD5: 585CAF83583815CDAF6FA11578879674
• SHA-1: E4B1B5F8B7EA4532551C103164860C8802151131
• SHA-256: 7DF3804C957879886567F68312AF08625E5BAD3F9BA84B66E452771EA7D71F9C