Dusty Diamond's All-Star Softball

Dusty Diamond's All-Star Softball
Also known as: Softball Tengoku (JP) Developer: TOSE Publishers: Tonkin House (JP) Brøderbund (US) Platform: NES Released in JP: October 27, 1989 Released in US: July 1990 This game has hidden developer credits. This game has debugging material. This game has regional differences.

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Dusty Diamond's All-Star Softball is a softball game for the NES. It originally released for the Famicom in Japan as Softball Tengoku notably featuring cartoony animals and creatures.

Hidden Credits

When you finish the game and the players are doing the V-formation celebration, hold Up on Controller 2 and press A 3 times, then hold Down and press B 6 times, then on controller 1, press Select. If done right, an untranslated and graphically glitched credits screen will appear.

Map View

At the title screen, hold Up on Controller 2 and press A 6 times, then hold Down and press B 4 times, then on controller 1, press Select 2 times and press Start to begin the game. While playing, anytime the field is in view, hold Start and use the crosspad to move the camera anywhere you want.

Regional Differences

Title Screen

Japan	US

Softball Tengoku has a drawing of a softball game being played under the logo, while Dusty Diamond's All-Star Softball only has a logo on a black background. The font was also changed, and the menu options were moved four lines up to fit in the lengthier copyright information.

Rules Screen

Japan	US

The area beneath the sign was completely redrawn to replace the cartoon animals with humans. The sign was also made taller to fit the translated text and the background was given a yellowish tinge.

Player Screen

Japan	US

All of the selectable cartoon animals and other non-humans were replaced with human characters. The human graphics retained from Softball Tengoku were also given edits ranging from added accessories to simple palette changes. The font was recolored a darker orange, and the softballs separating the player names and character portraits were not only recolored but redrawn to be larger.

Credits

Japan	US

The hidden credits screen in Softball Tengoku originally credited the Japanese publisher Tonkin House, which was edited for All-Star Softball to credit the US publisher Brøderbund. It has none of the graphical glitches from All-Star Softball, which appear to result from incorrect tile mapping. That said, "Naonao" (なおなお) gains some detail in her hair in All-Star Softball compared to the Japanese version, and the captions for "Yuriyuri" (ゆりゆり) and "Sanosano" (さのさの) are shifted around to prevent possible confusion.