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The third run of Disc Station (1993-2000) can now be found on the Internet Archive.

Disc Station was Compile’s disk magazine, published from 1988 to 2000. Succeeding Disc Station 98 and the original run of Disc Station on the MSX, this incarnation spans the height of their commercial success in the early 1990s to their eventual decline and bankruptcy in the early 2000s. Although Compile is best known for Puyo Puyo (a spinoff of dungeon crawler Madou Monogatari, which got its start in Disc Station), they were a prolific and tirelessly creative company with hundreds of original titles to their name. Everything they did exudes a strong passion for making and playing games. I found that passion irresistibly infectious, and I hope you do, too.

The media on these disks is eclectic. Expect a mix of games, videos, artwork, fan content, offline HTML pages, AIDS prevention advocacy, screensavers, calendars, and myriad other goodies.

Huge, colossal thank you to @fmtownsmarty for helping preserve these, and to ghotik for being so amazingly helpful in making DxWnd more compatible with them.

Click through for an FAQ troubleshooting guide if you’ve having problems running them, or don’t know where to start.

The second run of Disc Station (1990-1992) can now be found on the Internet Archive.

Disc Station 98 was the first appearance of Compile’s disk magazine on the NEC PC-98, marking a shift from the MSX standard to a platform with increased graphical and sonic fidelity. While early issues offered a variety of software from third parties, Compile eventually transitioned to making almost all of the diskmag’s content in-house during its short three year run, and in the process created several series that would endure with Compile staff and Disc Station readers until its dissolution in 2000.

It’s in it! Hidden Palace just released an Illbleed prototype, and Hell’s Insurance is in it. Illbleed had a health insurance mechanic at some point in development, which ended up getting scrapped. In the final game, Hell’s Insurance is replaced with the Visitor Bank. I don’t know yet if those mechanics still exist in this version of the game, but the assets still do. Digging around, I also saw some references to the cut blood transfusion mechanic, but no major revelations apart from that.

The third run of Disc Station (1993-2000) can now be found on the Internet Archive.

Disc Station was Compile’s disk magazine, published from 1988 to 2000. Succeeding Disc Station 98 and the original run of Disc Station on the MSX, this incarnation spans the height of their commercial success in the early 1990s to their eventual decline and bankruptcy in the early 2000s. Although Compile is best known for Puyo Puyo (a spinoff of dungeon crawler Madou Monogatari, which got its start in Disc Station), they were a prolific and tirelessly creative company with hundreds of original titles to their name. Everything they did exudes a strong passion for making and playing games. I found that passion irresistibly infectious, and I hope you do, too.

The media on these disks is eclectic. Expect a mix of games, videos, artwork, fan content, offline HTML pages, AIDS prevention advocacy, screensavers, calendars, and myriad other goodies.

Huge, colossal thank you to @fmtownsmarty for helping preserve these, and to ghotik for being so amazingly helpful in making DxWnd more compatible with them.

Click through for an FAQ troubleshooting guide if you’ve having problems running them, or don’t know where to start.

Vol. 7 and 8 were released as part of the Korean magazine 게임마니아 (Game Mania) as opposed to being released with their own physical Disc Station magazine. I have not been successful in extracting the individual releases of 7 and 8 from the dark crevices of the Korean warez web, but I did find blurry photographs of all of the magazines and discs, as well as blurry photographs of the inside of Vol. 1.

The third run of Disc Station (1993-2000) can now be found on the Internet Archive.

Disc Station was Compile’s disk magazine, published from 1988 to 2000. Succeeding Disc Station 98 and the original run of Disc Station on the MSX, this incarnation spans the height of their commercial success in the early 1990s to their eventual decline and bankruptcy in the early 2000s. Although Compile is best known for Puyo Puyo (a spinoff of dungeon crawler Madou Monogatari, which got its start in Disc Station), they were a prolific and tirelessly creative company with hundreds of original titles to their name. Everything they did exudes a strong passion for making and playing games. I found that passion irresistibly infectious, and I hope you do, too.

The media on these disks is eclectic. Expect a mix of games, videos, artwork, fan content, offline HTML pages, AIDS prevention advocacy, screensavers, calendars, and myriad other goodies.

Huge, colossal thank you to @fmtownsmarty for helping preserve these, and to ghotik for being so amazingly helpful in making DxWnd more compatible with them.

Click through for an FAQ troubleshooting guide if you’ve having problems running them, or don’t know where to start.

- Using WinCDEmu for mounting.

I only started using it two days ago, myself. Consequently, I do not at all understand how pointer scanning is supposed to work, or what stupid hex math I’m supposed to do to find pointers manually. So I cannot just upload a cheat table for anyone to use. But I will explain how to find the addresses on your own. As long as you complete the first few steps of Cheat Engine’s tutorial that teach you the interface and basic functionality, you should understand how to use it well enough to do this. I used PSXjin 2.0.2 and Cheat Engine 6.7.

1. Attach Cheat Engine to PSXjin, and begin the game. Don’t move.

2. Perform a new scan for the value 240, with the scan type “exact value” and the value type “4 byte”. Then move your character forward until the screen scrolls, stop, change the scan type to “increased value”, and scan again. This will whittle down the number of results to the point where you should see a stack of addresses like this, with values in the low hundreds:

These are all of the addresses tied to the screen scrolling. When you do this, the addresses will not be exactly the same, but the last four digits will be, and they should be in the same order. Add the “boss” and “collision” addresses to your list (I recommend renaming them to avoid confusion), and then add the one for “trees” (this is not strictly necessary, but it will make things easier, and is the least likely of the above block of addresses to break anything).

3. Reset PSXjin. Tick the boxes for the “boss” and “collision” addresses in the address list, and begin the game. Keeping these values locked at 0 for the time being will prevent the miniboss from spawning, and also prevent the game from loading background collision while the level scrolls (this is necessary to bypass the rivers, which appear to be broken). When you reach where the miniboss would normally spawn, you should be able to progress beyond that point. Once you pass the far bank of the second river the game wants you to grapple across, stop. The “trees” address should have continued ticking up, and should now have a value of around 4200. Change the values for the “boss” and “collision” addresses to be the same, and then untick the boxes. Proceed forward, and the boss should load in.

Believe me, I did try to create a cheat table to make it a little easier, but it just wasn’t happening. I hope this, at least, will help bring some closure to the one other person on the planet who cares about this game.