Ayako’s

Karaoke

Song

This game was never translated to English, so ganbatte.

I got to experience a rare scene from the Japanese dating game pioneer Tokimeki Memorial: Forever With you.

I want others to experience it as well.

After feigning nervousness, the quirky Katagiri Ayako performs karaoke after being coaxed by the player. She proceeds to rock the mic.

Katagiri Ayako. Chill, she’s in highschool.

Later, I was shocked to see I couldn’t locate this song or scene anywhere. Not youtube, nor anywhere else on the internet. (Update: It is conveniently on a music blog too now)

I knew someone needed to step up to the purētto. Fate had intervened, I HAD to do this.

Though I “have the game”, my version(rom) is quite buggy. I’m not experienced with ripping audio out of psx iso files either. One time, attempting to get my playstation emulator to work, the game crashed so hard the application broke. I had to remove and reinstall it completely. Thus, messing with the innards of these delicate beasts was out of the question.

Koshiki-chan is scared at the haunted house.

Luckily a stream clip existed of the moment. Before completing this project, I was keeping a twitch tab open stuck at the correct time, just for my own listening pleasure. It was time to put an end to this tab.

Seriously, this stuff kicks ass. There’s even a watermelon BBQ flavor.

I wrenched the audio from a stream (off of one computer to another) and looped a meager bit of video I could capture. The sufficiently mangled audio was lacking some oomph so I applied a dab of Captain Curt's Jackpot Famous Boss Sauce to spice it up.

After swiftly *mastering* the art of making karaoke subtitles, I planned to whip them up for the track in a fury. Yet lacking any digital versions of the lyrics, I ended up meticulously typing them in line by line to match up with this apparently forgotten piece of jammin' 90s j-pop.

Proudly, my initial reckoning of the lyrics from listening were quite close. Thus I was blessed with a relic to check against: a dusty .bmp image I scoured from the depths of the internet using said lyrics... a scan of the manual from 1995. Check out the final result:

(Upon finally uploading I noticed an error, of course. The kanji I so egregiously mixed up was 会 and 合, both read as 'ah'... like c'mon gimme a break here Japan im tryin my best)

Zii