#dcmk software

ORSEN was a company that created fun software in the late 90s and early 2000s, many of which are desktop characters. This includes a desktop character set based on the Lupin the Third series, with Lupin, Jigen, Goemon, and Fujiko!

If you're interested, more of their desktop characters can be found on Archive.org (searching "ORSEN" and "オルセン" would show results).

ORSEN's website is no longer up but some snapshots have been archived. One snapshot had some images of other characters they've made, although the text is corrupted. I was digging around to see if anything on the Detective Conan Desktop Character was up but couldn't find it. Though, I did find a page promoting their Fujiko desktop character!

Interestingly, Fujiko's CD includes additional features such as a themed internet browser skin, wallpaper, icons, and a screensaver.

Hope you enjoyed reading about this silly CD-ROM, along with the company's other creations~

This was such a spur of the moment project LMAO When I realized there's a large sprite sheet of Conan available I knew I had to turn him into a Shimeji.

It took me about a day to go through the sprites and turn them into the Shimeji image files (and a half of a day to set up everything to be published lol). There were a few image files that I needed to do some edits to, but aside from that and some rescaling, the sprites are all the same.

I've made a replacement for most of the image files. 34-36 doesn't have a replacement because I didn't manage to have that Shimeji action run. Since I can't actually test it, I didn't bother with editing a sprite to fit with it. Though if people really want me to change the image for that set, let me know!

As for 42-46, I couldn't find a set of sprites that would best fit them without any major editing. So instead, I disabled that action in the .xml files. Since there is already an image set for Cone duplication (37-41), I figured it wasn't necessary anyways.

(^ me speedrunning this project for no reason)

Speaking of, I also went ahead and used other assets from the other Detective Conan software I covered! They included a file for the icon they used and I decided to repurpose it for the small Shimeji icon in the corner (The large scale version of the icon can be seen in the top left corner of the demo video. I also used a wallpaper from that same software in this video!). It's nice how this project ended up bringing together a variety of old Detective Conan assets!

Anyways, feel free to let me know if you have any troubles with the Conan Shimeji (though I can only help so much if you're a non-Windows user, sorry about that c':)

These silly projects are always a labor of love so I hope you all enjoy it as much as I did making it!

Here's what the CD jacket and CD look like:

Below are some pictures of the user interface that were included in the digital manual:

Most of the buttons are accompanied with voicelines from the characters.

There's some cute backgrounds used in the album creation and this set of five are my favorite:

There's 50 unique backgrounds in total, each having a portrait and landscape version. Most are plain backgrounds with patterns but there's a few, which I included below, that I thought were interesting:

Apart from album creation, any uploaded photos can also be turned into sliding puzzles. For these puzzles, either Conan, Ran, or Haibara accompany you as you solve them.

In addition, there's three activities (or tricks) you can do with your completed album:

Scratching off an image to reveal your photo underneath.

Getting four gadgets (magnifying glass, tracker, glasses, and shoes) to interact with your photos.

Viewing your album with characters that would speak and run across.

I uploaded the CD-ROM files along with scans of the physical materials to the Internet Archive if you're interested in checking it out yourself!

I was running it on a Windows XP virtual machine and it worked mostly fine there. I had issues getting the photo album creation to work properly on Windows 10.

I also have a video going through the main bits of the program if you don't feel like going through the whole process (which I understand because uh that was a bit time consuming for me lmao). I didn't capture everything in the video, as there's definitely more walking animations I couldn't catch, but I hope it suffices!

Toku-uchi Heroes Detective Conan: THE BRAIN is a typing game. Given that I can't read Japanese at all, it makes it a bit difficult for me to cover a Japanese typing game (again, I'm mostly here to archive things). Though I imagine this could be an interesting software to look into for Detective Conan fans learning Japanese.

There's a map that unlocks more games as you progress (in QWERTY order) that features different locations throughout the series. Each location has an associated game mode with it. There are six different mini games (roughly translated).

Shiritori Typing (しりとりタイビング): Shiritori with Professor Agasa

Mental Math Typing (暗算タイピング): Addition with Ai Haibara

Follow and Type (尾行タイピング): Tail Kogoro Mouri

Focus Typing (タイプでピント): Focus the Telescope and Guess the Item with Heiji

Question and Answer Typing (Q&Aタイピング): Answer Inspector Megure's Questions

Memory Typing (記憶タイピング): Memorize Names in Order with KID

Each game has three levels of difficulty: pre-elementary, elementary, and adult.

There is an additional typing test minigame too that's playable if you can't read Japanese (you can have the crunchiest gif of the soccer typing test as a treat).

For this particular CD, I've only managed to get it running on my Windows XP virtual machine. It also crashes when trying to play half of the games (Agasa, Ran, and Heiji). Now I imagine the cause of this problem could be the same as what I'm dealing with the other CD.

In an awkward turn of events, I couldn't actually run Detective Conan IQ myself, but it feels weird to not talk just a bit about it. Regardless, I still want to upload the files to the Internet Archive since I'm sure it's mostly a troubleshooting problem on my end rather than the CD itself. (I probably don't have the right dependencies installed for my VM and I think it'll be more trouble than it's worth to go through finding them more than I've already have.)

There's still some images in the program files I can grab for Detective Conan IQ so I'll share them here for fun.

ANYWAYS running it myself doesn't really matter! Luckily, unlike last time, there's already full gameplay footage out there for these two games. If you're curious to see more, please check out the videos below!

These two games have been rereleased by SOURCENEXT as part of a larger collection in 2017. That collection, which includes four games, was made to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the first game in the series. In fact, you can actually buy and download the collection from SOURCENEXT's website, and it runs on a modern OS (I think it may just be Windows).

Now upon discovering that, would you imagine this to be maybe a pointless adventure for me? Perhaps! Even so, since the two games have yet to be archived, I figured I might as well.