Abstracted by Sega

[Captain Wrong]

Does every Sega CD game have a abs.txt file on it that reads "Abstracted by Sega"? What about the blb.txt file reading "Bibliographiced by SEGA"? What do these mean? Why are they there?

[Gapporin]

I believe so. Sometimes they say different things, but 90% of the time, it's the same text as always. They're also present in Dreamcast games.

But as for their purpose? Your guess is as good as mine.

[Ed Oscuro]

Strange...the Ninja Warriors Mega CD game has ABS.TXT, BIB.TXT, and CPY.TXT; the text is...


Abstracted by hhhhhh

※ここには抽象情報を記します。



Bibliographiced by abcdefg

※参照文献の情報を記します。

and

Copyright by SEGA enterprises

※ここには著作権を記します。（上記はsegaを例としています）
Both written January 7th, 1993, 2:29 PM...Interestingly, all the files on the CD-ROM add up to just 7.19 MB, the music takes up all the rest of the space...

[Ed Oscuro]

Translations:

Abstracted by hhhhhh

※ここには抽象情報を記します。


Translation of the text: "* Information of abstraction is recorded here."

Bibliographiced by abcdefg

※参照文献の情報を記します。

"* Information of the reference literature is recorded."
and

Copyright by SEGA enterprises

※ここには著作権を記します。（上記はsegaを例としています）
"* Copyright is recorded here. (Description above has designated sega as example.)"

[Captain Wrong]

What do you know? Neo Geo CD games have the same files (with SNK in place of Sega.)

Weird.

[Kid Ice]

Probably just info for cataloging purposes.

[Elusive]

Or something they hoped to create a standard/follow a standard for, perhaps.

[Spartacus]

Does every Sega CD game have a abs.txt file on it that reads "Abstracted by Sega"? What about the blb.txt file reading "Bibliographiced by SEGA"?

Good Deal Games Sega CD Battle Frenzy does not. It only has a text.txt file that reads...
Bloodshot MegaCD Copyright 1994 Domark Software Ltd All Rights Reserved

Interestingly enough, the only other Good Deal Games Sega CD game I have, Citizen X, has three txt files. Abstract, Biblio and Copyrght.

[Kitsune Sniper]

I don't think Good Deal Games uh, games count. They aren't licensed by Sega, so they have to be different.

My guess is that it was some sort of requirement for their games to have. Copy protection, maybe? The fact that NeoGeo CD games also have it is weird, though.

[ventrra]

I would think that it was probably a requirement in the burning software. The first CD Writer that I ownded (back in the Win 3.11 days) required that there be files for those things. In the modern Nero that I have, there are still settings in it to set those up in the software.

[Captain Wrong]

I would think that it was probably a requirement in the burning software. The first CD Writer that I ownded (back in the Win 3.11 days) required that there be files for those things. In the modern Nero that I have, there are still settings in it to set those up in the software.

This makes sence. (I wasn't buring CDs back in the WIN 3.11 days.)