This is a hint and cheat file for the adult anime DOS/V game 
"Marble" (also known as "Marble Cooking") from "Negative". It is 
usually distributed as 1 ZIP file which just needs to be unzipped 
in its own directory (just for neatness) before play.

The game requires DOS/V or DOSJ to see the Japanese text, and 
some expanded (EMS) memory (512K?) to operate. DOSJ will need 
some extended memory too, and has only a few undefined level 2 
symbols during the game. Run START.BAT or MARBLE.EXE (no sound) 
to start the game. The game has 640 by 480 16-color VGA graphics. 
Although it uses the exact same PMDIBM.COM file as several other 
games, it will usually hang during the PMDIBM load in START.BAT 
if I don't set the Windows 95 shortcut to "Suggest MS-DOS mode as 
necessary". None of the usual fixes seem to help. Just live with 
the annoying popup boxes. Sigh.

Li Sun said: This is sort of arcade/strategy game. If you play 
the story mode, it's about a girl letting loose a demon and has 
to capture him. There are 7 stages to this game. As you progress 
through the 9 scenes in each stage, you get to see pictures of 
girls being, err, played with. This game is being played by 
pressing the Enter key to lay down a summon circle (nothing can 
touch her when she is inside a summon circle), then walk around 
to leave a trail of carrots. After that, press Enter key again to 
summon the rabbit-mouse to eat the carrots and any monster on the 
trail, moving onward after all the monsters are killed. All the 
menu except the continue/give up one is in English.

This game seems to have an opening story about some 
technologically advanced girl summoning some sort of demon (well, 
its got a horn...), and getting a rabbit thing also. Use the "z", 
"x", "Esc", "Enter" or "space" keys to advance the text here. 
After that, you and the rabbit go through 7 stages, with 9 scenes 
each, of a simple near-real-time game, to get to an ending. 6 of 
the stages have pictures of 3 girls that start out clothed and 
quickly end up in various states of undress, with fluids all 
over. The last stage appears to have no pictures between 
completion of any of the 9 scenes, until you get to the end 
(finish Stage 7, Scene 9), where you get some ending sequence 
graphics.

The menu options are almost entirely in English! The only 
Japanese text that you will see is in the "story" screens (press 
almost any key while printing to complete all printing quickly, 
and again to go to next screen), or after you run out of "girls" 
while playing. In that case, the top one lets you try again from 
a zero score, and the bottom one takes you to the main menu. You 
need to turn on the "Story" option to see the ending sequence 
graphics, but it makes it difficult to see the entire picture 
without a text box in the way.

The simple game uses the "Enter" key and the 4 arrow keys. Press 
"Enter" to set a "pentagram" at your current location. After a 
pentagram is created, the girl leaves a trail of carrots when she 
moves. The scenes have obstacles and enemies. Each press of an 
arrow key moves you one box in that direction, except you can't 
walk over carrots, the pentagram, or into obstacles or enemies. 
Without her or the pentagram being touched by an enemy, you want 
to move such that the trail of carrots will include one or more 
enemies that the rabbit (that comes out of the pentagram and runs 
to the girl) will run over when you press "Enter" a second time. 
It sounds more complicated than it looks. There are many 
different kinds of enemies, but they either move in a set 
pattern, or respond in a programmed fashion to the girl's move. 
I didn't play ALL the scenes, so I'm not sure if any enemies 
deliberately go after the girl. If an enemy touches the girl, you 
lose. If the rabbit touches an enemy while running, the enemy 
turns into a "cookie" or something similar. You get bonus points 
for getting multiple enemies with a single rabbit. You get extra 
points for walking the girl over the "cookie" before it 
disappears in about 30 seconds. There is a high score table, but 
who cares! The girl is invulnerable while on the pentagram, but 
is vulnerable to any enemy while moving or waiting for the rabbit 
to finish running.

While I didn't play ALL the scenes, I did a few, and some seem 
impossible! When you get stuck on one, please don't e-mail me for 
help. All I can suggest is to try the cheat/hack below.

I've been informed that some enemies do indeed go after the girl: 
the green snakes go for the girl if they can (the scene I tested, 
they were stuck in one place until the girl got below them), and 
the totem-pole type guys go directly for the pentagram (when 
there is no pentagram, they don't move).

The cheat/hack for this game is to (using a binary file editor) 
change the values in the first and third bytes ($00 and $02) of 
the file MARBLE.SYS to the values $07 and $09. This will signify 
to the game that you can do a "Continue" for any stage and scene, 
and enables the "Graphic Mode", both under "Options" at the main 
menu. The "Graphic Mode" is the game's Photoshop, although it 
doesn't include the pictures from the opening story, or the end 
of the game.

All the other main menu options should be easy to figure out 
yourself. I'm surprised that hacking this game was that easy, 
considering some of the bizarre schemes I've seen before. But 
since I've never heard of "Negative" before, they're probably 
just starting. Good graphics and concept, guys! It's a shame they 
didn't do the entire thing in English as well...


If you have anything to add to this file, let me know.

Pete Karsanow - bishoujo.helper[AT}sbcglobal{DOT)net
http://www.geocities.com/hentaihelper/