MSX3 specs mentioned in two GBC games

Door Devourer_ITA

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10-05-2023, 18:50

Well, this is contrived.
I was browsing TCRF and I stumbled upon these pages https://tcrf.net/Gremlins:_Unleashed https://tcrf.net/Kirikou_(Game_Boy_Color)

The weird thing is, they mention Mr. Nishi as going to an MSX event (Tilburg, Holland, April 2001) and telling the people there that he was working on a new MSX3, with an ARM9 CPU and the GPU of the Dreamcast.

I'm wondering what happened to this project, or if's real at all and not just made up by the developers, but they are consistent yet different.
Here are the two messages, copy and pasted:

Quote:

I WOULD LIKE TO THANK Mr. NISHI FROM ASCII Corp. JAPAN FOR COMMING TO THE TILBURG (HOLLAND) MSX MEETING TO PRESENT HIS PROJET FOR A NEW MSX COMPATIBLE COMPUTER. A COMPUTER IN ONE CHIP USING: ARM9, VIDEO PROCESSOR OF DREAM CAST, MSX2 HARDWARE EMULATOR, Z80, 4 USB PORT (v2.0 ), WIRELESS NETWORK INTERFACE, ETC... ONCE AGAIN, THANK YOU VERY MUCH Mr. NISHI AND ALSO THANKS TO THE TEAM OF THE MSX REVIVAL PROJECT. MSX POWER RULEZ ! I'VE BEEN KNOW UNDER THE ALIAS OF: SLAYERMAN FROM ABYSS (ABYSS WAS COMPOSED WITH TWO MSX GROUPS: I.O.D and F.U.C) THE GREETINGS FLY TO: Mr MAGOO, SPOOKY, DANDAN, MAVERICK, PHILIPPE BEZON, SQWEEKY, Dr. RAY, MUMBLY, POPOLON (also know as SLOW MOTION), HERVE GERARDIN (RV),JIPE. SEE YA!

Quote:

I'M SLAYERMAN FROM ABYSS GROUP ON MSX AND CODER OF THIS GAME. I WOULD LIKE TO THANK Mr. NISHI FROM ASCII Corp. JAPAN FOR COMMING TO THE TILBURG MSX MEETING APRIL 2001 (HOLLAND) TO PRESENT HIS PROJET FOR A NEW MSX COMPATIBLE COMPUTER. A COMPUTER IN ONE CHIP USING: ARM9, VIDEO PROCESSOR OF DREAM CAST, MSX2 HARDWARE EMULATOR, Z80, 4 USB PORT (v2.0 ), WIRELESS NETWORK INTERFACE, ETC... ONCE AGAIN, THANK YOU VERY MUCH Mr. NISHI AND ALSO THANKS TO THE TEAM OF THE MSX REVIVAL PROJECT. MSX POWER RULEZ ! THE GREETINGS FLY TO: Mr MAGOO, SPOOKY, DANDAN, MAVERICK, PHILIPPE BEZON, SQWEEKY, Dr. RAY, MUMBLY, POPOLON (also know as SLOW MOTION), HERVE GERARDIN (RV),JIPE. AND NOW THE EUROPEAN GREATS: MI-CHI, CLUB SD MESXES (MALLORCA), MOONSOFT (HI REMCO ;-), STEFAN BOER, HENRIK GILVAD,SEE YA ALL MY FREINDS!

I wonder if any of the people mentioned remember this, I'd think that this would be a big deal but it seems like it was quietly cancelled, never to be seen again

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Van Manuel

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11-05-2023, 00:34

That was at least the 1chipMSX, I think. But I don't remember it said Dreamcast video hardware. Do remember ARM9. The slides are out there somewhere...

https://youtu.be/0T4xvM3Abp4
https://youtu.be/b1f5zyjpnQ0