08579: flstory, flstoryj: Rename "The Fairyland Story" and "The Fairyland Story (Japan)" to "The Fairyland Story (new and old)"

ID	Category [?]	Severity [?]	Reproducibility	Date Submitted	Last Update
08579	Misc.	Typo	N/A	Mar 13, 2023, 23:45	Mar 17, 2023, 04:16

Tester	TremiRodomi	View Status	Public	Platform	MAME (Official Binary)
Assigned To	cuavas	Resolution	Fixed	OS	Windows 10/11 (64-bit)
Status [?]	Resolved			Driver	taito/flstory.cpp
Version	0.252	Fixed in Version	0.253	Build	64-bit
		Fixed in Git Commit	6ae5d6b	Github Pull Request #

Summary	08579: flstory, flstoryj: Rename "The Fairyland Story" and "The Fairyland Story (Japan)" to "The Fairyland Story (new and old)"
Description	Self-explanatory. While it should be noted that the game DID get a limited release in the US and potentially other areas (based on several pictures of converted standup cabs that have surfaced in recent years), there's nothing to suggest that either ROM version was changed to accommodate any regional changes. Quite in fact, all either ROM version does is change how the items spawn. From a Japanese fansite ( https://ocn1.net/takebo/fland.html ): "There are two versions of The Fairyland Story: new and old. The old version features a castle lookout on the top left and right sides of the screen, where you can climb up to change items that appear. By using this feature, you can get Star Tiara, Book of Death, etc. in the first half of the game. This makes it easier to accumulate the remaining units in the first half of the game. However, in the older version, the rise and fall in rank is not stable, so there are cases where items must be changed in the second half of the game, and it is relatively more difficult than the new version." I can also vouch for this claim based on my own research and repeated gameplay of the game. To further prove my point, the hidden credits sequence (accessed by holding the magic and jump buttons at a Game Over, or at the continue screen) is still partly in Japanese in both versions. I propose that we change the ROM names to accommodate this.
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No.21160 ICEknight Tester Mar 14, 2023, 02:08	"(Old version)" and "(new version)" as with Rainbow Islands, maybe?
No.21162 TremiRodomi Tester Mar 14, 2023, 02:50	That would work great, yeah!
No.21163 Robbbert Senior Tester Mar 14, 2023, 05:07	Let's see what the devs decide.
No.21165 TremiRodomi Tester Mar 14, 2023, 05:21	Fair, it was always just a little offputting two different versions of the ROM, separated by region when there's almost no difference to them at first glance. Hoping this gets somewhere!
No.21166 Haze Senior Tester Mar 14, 2023, 09:56	given that it's known which one is the new version, and which one is the old version, and they're referred to outside of MAME in such a way, it makes sense to name them as such.
No.21168 TremiRodomi Tester Mar 14, 2023, 21:15	Yeah, I always wondered where the "US" and "Japan" naming came from, as that tripped me up a bit in my research. I always figured it was just dumpers figuring things out as they go, but still...
No.21171 cuavas Administrator Mar 17, 2023, 04:16	Renamed the clone set. It’s just an earlier release. I think they were originally named that way because the earlier version was never found on boards sourced outside Japan.