Idol Hotline: Nakayama Miho no Tokimeki High School

Idol Hotline: Nakayama Miho no Tokimeki High School
Developers: Square, Nintendo R&D1 Publisher: Nintendo Platform: Famicom Disk System Released in JP: December 1, 1987 This game has hidden developer credits. This game has unused graphics. This game has unused text. This game has revisional differences. This game has a prerelease article This game has a Lua scripts page

Idol Hotline: Nakayama Miho no Tokimeki High School is a dating sim originally conceived as being centered around a telephone gimmick; the celebrity tie-in and contest came later.

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Prerelease Info

Lua Scripts

Hidden Credits

String

Present at 0x126CD:

SOUND&ANIM PROG BY IMAI TOSHIAKI

Message

Press Select (×164) on the title screen. Then, while holding Down + Left, press Start and select the "Service Data" option. Miho's usual message will be replaced with the following:

Japanese	Translation
こんにちわ、なかやま　みほ　です。 エンディング には　でてこなっかた ひとの　なまえを　しょうかい　します。 　ＰＲＯＧＲＡＭ　Ｈ。ＮＡＫＡＭＵＲＡ 　ＰＲＯＧＲＡＭ　Ｈ。ＹＡＭＡＭＯＴＯ 　ＭＵＳＩＣ　　　Ｔ。ＩＭＡＩ 　ＴＸＴＣＮＶ　　Ｙ。ＦＵＫＡＮＯ 　ＧＲＡＰＨＩＣ　Ｘ。ＴＯＫＩＴＡ	Hello, this is Miho Nakayama. Here's the people not in the credits. Programmer H. Nakamura Programmer H. Yamamoto Music T. Imai Text Converter Y. Fukano Graphics X. Tokita

You can skip having to press Select 164 times by changing the value at RAM address $BF to 0xA4.

(Translation: filler)

Unused Characters

While the game never uses parentheses in the script, they're in the game's font and are supported by the game's script converter code.

   :707A:C9 28     CMP #$28			;（
   :707C:D0 03     BNE $7081
   :707E:A9 94     LDA #$94
   :7080:60        RTS -----------------------------------------
   :7081:C9 29     CMP #$29			; ）
   :7083:D0 03     BNE $7088
   :7085:A9 95     LDA #$95
   :7087:60        RTS -----------------------------------------

To see the first line of dialogue use the characters, change 0xA55E to 0x28 0x29.

(Source: Original TCRF research)

Unused Text

Item Description

Text	Translation
あおいふくろ みほちゃんのロッカーに　はいっていた、あおいかみぶくろです。いったい　なにが　はいって　いるのでしょーか。ワクワクしますね。	BLUE BAG IT'S THE BLUE PAPER BAG FROM MIHO'S LOCKER. WHAT COULD BE INSIDE?!

While the item is used, you cannot view the its description.

(Translation: Filler)

(Discovery: Original TCRF research)

Menu Options

Text	Translation
せーぶ、ろーど	SAVE/LOAD

Text	Translation
おす、ひく	PUSH/PULL

Text	Translation
ほんとは　みほ？	ARE YOU REALLY MIHO?

Text	Translation
じぶんのこと	YOURSELF

(Translation: Filler)

(Discovery: Original TCRF research)

Revisional Differences

The game has a whopping 13 different revisions, though to date only five (DV4, DV6, DV10, DV11, and DV13) have been dumped online.

Phone Numbers

Different revisions display different hotline phone numbers to call. The game stores two sets of phone numbers and randomly selects which to use.

Set #1

DV4/DV10/DV11	DV6/DV13
03 5400000 06 7001000 045 8339000 045 5837000 011 6119600 011 7114000 092 4757878 092 5224900 06 7901099	03 5400000 06 7001000 044 2713500 047224 9999 011 6119600 011 7114000 092 4757878 092 5224900 06 7901099

Set #2

DV4/DV10/DV11	DV6/DV13
03 5400000 06 7002000 045 9520010 045 7845311 011 5124000 011 2226600 092 7819900 092 5853001 06 7901313	03 5400000 06 7002000 044 2713500 047224 9999 011 5124000 011 2226600 092 7819900 092 5853001 06 7901313