DIGITAL HOLMES
OFFICIAL TITLE  Digital Holmes
COMMON TITLE  Digital Holmes
SERIAL NUMBER(S)  SLPS-20138
REGION  NTSC-J
GENRE / STYLE  Adventure.

DEVELOPER  Arc System Works.
PUBLISHER  Arc System Works.
DATE RELEASED  20 December 2001
DISC NUMBER &
PRINTED SERIAL NUMBER
DISC 1

SLPS-20138
SERIAL NUMBER IN DISC SLPS-20138
MEDIA CD
NUMBER OF TRACKS 1
( 1 Data Track )
BARCODE NUMBER(S)
( UPC / EAN )

From the back cover.
  •  4510772011013  - 
     

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Japanese
Menus and gameplay are in Japanese.

Digital Holmes is classified as a Tactical Talk Strategy game. It's set in modern day London, with your taking control of Hugh Ibuka Holmes, descendant of the great Sherlock Holmes. Watson is also in the game, in case you were wondering with the name of Aleph H. Watson.

The game starts at night of the 31-May-2000 in New Scotland Yard when Aleph H. Watson & Thomas Simpson go out and they find a suspicious woman in a roof (Emilia Cartwright) and when they arrive there they find a kid that suddenly run away from them, when they follow him they find the corpse of Jack Holmes, and they discover that the kid is Jack's nephew, Hugh Ibuka Holmes and they will have to work together to solve the case.

The player has 48 hours to solve a particular case, and you do so in classic Japanese adventure game form. The game is set up as an adventure, so you can move freely around the town as you would in an RPG.

Only this time, conversations come about in the form of battles where the opponent characters have gauges for such things as tension and trustworthiness, basically you try and get information or confessions out of people by using your superior wit in conversation. There are also on-screen gauges that show each character's tension levels, trustworthiness and how far they can go until they "snap," thereby ending the conversation.

CHARACTERS:
- Aleph H. Watson: The main character of the game. (28 years old)
- Hugh Ibuka Holmes (14 years old)
- Irene Hudson: Police firearms Division
- Christopher Musgrave: Police Scotland Yard Prosecutors Identification Department.
- Brian Wolf: Police counter-terrorism Division
- Salah Stamford: The Police doctor (52 years old)
- John Lestrade: Police Chief
- Thomas Simpson: Scotland Yard Prosecutors IT Department. Hacker specialist
- Dick Mao Lee: FBI special agent
- Yufa Lee: The cousin of Mao Lee, she is the assistant of Mao in the case (15 years old)
- Jack Holmes: He is a a criminologist and the uncle of Ibuka
- Emilia Cartwright: Girl working in a pub nearby Scotland Yard (17 years old)
- M: A mysterious person that behind the scenes. Its identity is apparent at the end of the game.

  MANUFACTURER'S DESCRIPTION:

Adventure game descendant of Holmes plays an active part. Equipped to get the new information by adopting the multiple endings, to increase the reliability and "system reliability", to convince the boss and criminal conversation and "Tactical Talk". And descendants Hugh Ibuka Holmes Holmes, two offspring of al-Watson of Watson solve the mystery of the murder!

  FEATURES:
  • First & Third person perspectives.
  • 2D graphics
  • Cartoon graphics
  • Detectives, Mystery & Anime themes.
NUMBER OF PLAYERS  1 Player
NUMBER OF MEMORY CARD BLOCKS  122 KB Minimum
COMPATIBLE CONTROLLERS TESTED
( OFFICIAL GAMEPADS ONLY )
 Standard Controller ( Analog Controller compatible )
COMPATIBLE LIGHT GUNS
( OFFICIAL LIGHT GUNS ONLY )
 None
OTHER COMPATIBLE CONTROLLERS
( OFFICIAL CONTROLLERS ONLY )
 None
SPECIAL CONTROLLERS INCLUDED OR
SUPPORTED ( OFFICIAL ONLY )
 None
VIBRATION FUNCTION COMPATIBLE  No
VIDEO MODES  50 Hz = No / 60 Hz = Yes / Progressive Scan = No / 16:9 Option = No
AUDIO MODES  Stereo = Yes / Mono = No / Dolby Surround = No / Dolby Digital = No; Dolby Pro logic II = No
MULTI-TAP FUNCTION COMPATIBLE  No
LANGUAGE SELECTOR  No
NETWORK ADAPTOR (ETHERNET) COMPATIBLE  No
EMULATOR  PCSX 2 v.0.1.2.1 (Software)
SPEED HACKS USED  EE Cyclerate = 1; VU Cycle Stealing = 0; Enable INTC Spin detection = Yes; Enable Wait Loop Detection = Yes; Enable fast CDVD = Yes; mVU Flag Hack = Yes; MTVU (Multi-Threaded Micro VU1) = Yes
SPECIAL GAME FIXES USED  None
VIDEO PLUGIN  GSDX r5681 ( Allow 8-bit textures = Yes; Alpha Hack = No; Offset Hack = No; Skipdraw Hack = 0 )
AUDIO PLUGIN  SPU2-X r5545 ( Interpolation = 4; Disable Effects Processing = No; Use the de-alias filter = No; Enable Dubug options = No; Module = 1; Synchronizing Mode = TimeStretch Mix; Audio Expansion Mode = Stereo )
CD-ROM PLUGIN  CDVDolio Cdrom plugin v.0.1.0
GAME PAD PLUGIN  LilyPad svn (r3993) 0.10.0
VIBRATION COMPATIBLE  The game doesn't have it.

  NOTE:   This is not the only possible combination of plugins. There are others that will work (better or worse) for your particular hardware. We provide you with one working set-up so that you may get the game up and running, hassle-free. Testing other emulators/plugins is up to you.
 

 BASIC CONTROLS:
 Move character / Move between actions or answers -  D-Pad
Select action or answer -  Circle Button
Run / Cancel action in menus -  X Button
System menu -  Start Button

 

RAW CODES:

Infinite tension gauge -  
202C074C 001F001F
202C0784 001F001F
 

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Res. - 300 dpi
File Size - 115 KB
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File Size - 228 KB
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 KOREAN:
  • Digital Holmes [SLPM-64532]   
     

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