Japanese fan and press sources

Detailed research notes. Quoted source text may be machine-translated.

Notes on Japanese player diaries, forum posts, fan sites and press reports from the time, with English summaries of the relevant parts.

What this search added

Searching Japanese pages and following their internal links produced evidence that was missing from the initial official-site collection: an actual account of failed registration, a later phone-compatibility change, a player-maintained Isuka record table, early Battle Coliseum purchases, public video-section references, and archived Japanese community boards. Twelve original 2003 show photographs have also been preserved.

These sources improve a recreation's content and behavior. They do not reveal the lost server implementation, every historical tariff, or the precise mobile enrollment screen layout.

Registration as a player experienced it

August 2004: the phone could block enrollment after card purchase

The 5 August entry in Manager's chat describes buying a NEOWAVE card, playing once, attempting mobile enrollment, and receiving an unsupported-phone message. The author then checked the PC site and found that it required an ID issued through mobile access. This independently corroborates the official mobile-first registration instructions. The next day's entry reports contacting support and hoping for additional phone support or direct PC access; it does not establish that PC enrollment was subsequently introduced. Period diary, August 2004 · preserved text

For the recreation, retain a distinction between buying/using a card and successfully subscribing. A played card was not proof of website membership.

March 2005: phone support changed during the service's life

On 14 March 2005, the same author reports discovering that their handset had become supported three days earlier. They contrast this with an earlier support response saying BREW support was not planned. 11 March is an inference from the diary's relative date, not a recovered official announcement. The entry does not identify a model or demonstrate the application's architecture. Period diary, March 2005 · preserved text

The April 2004 official device roster therefore should be presented as a dated list, not the final 2006 compatibility list. The evidence supports changing eligibility; the full sequence of supported devices remains unresolved.

Local card availability could lag a game's release

The author's 31 July 2004 NEOWAVE entry says the machine they visited was not yet card-enabled. By the August entry, card use was available there. This is an observation at an unnamed venue, not a revised nationwide release date. July diary · preserved text

This is useful when interpreting period player reports: game launch, venue installation, card-reader operation, and membership eligibility are separate events.

Original illustrations relevant to registration

GAME Watch's 11 September 2003 announcement report links to full-size photographs of the presentation. The newly saved originals include the card access-code panel, card insertion, mobile shop concept, network diagram, and player-search concept. Original report

View cited image: Original 2003 access-code presentation photograph

The large Japanese label User access code means User access code. The mobile-shop concept shows shared AW points (shared AW points), a proposed 200-point red colour, and starting-level selection. Search-profile registration on the player-search photograph means search-profile registration; it is not the paid-account enrollment form. Full legible-label translations and blur/cropping notes appear in the side-by-side gallery.

Four additional original photographs come from Dengeki's report of the same show. They depict the Isuka cabinet, an AW-NET presentation, and show proceedings. They are separate photographs of the same event, not independent evidence of commercial implementation.

The official instructions, these period photographs, and the firsthand diary should not be assembled into a purported original signup screenshot.

Isuka: a surviving player's data record

KOKUYUME's Isuka's record, marked updated 5 July 2004, transcribes their play information and distinguishes yellow fields available from the card without AW-NET membership. The page preserves a particularly useful field roster: player name, rank, shared points, play total, individual and team results, survival level, winning streak, several national ranking categories, and character usage/win percentages. Original page · preserved text

This is a player-authored HTML table, not a screenshot of the AW-NET member site. Preserve its values only as an attributed historical example. It is evidence of what a player tracked, not proof of the official page's exact labels, layout, denominators, refresh frequency, or database schema. The yellow highlighting can be inspected in the preserved original HTML; text extraction does not retain the colour distinction.

The linked later GGXX-series guide discusses Isuka's web-purchased EX characters and alternate colours, but explicitly refers to the service as already closed. It is corroborating retrospective commentary, not a second contemporary membership screen.

Battle Coliseum: what players actually bought and watched

Purchases immediately after release

The 30 July 2005 diary entry records the author buying Washizuka's Shinsengumi Zero Division colour and a Jin Chonrei palette modeled on Jin Chonshu. This is firsthand evidence of named purchasable colours during launch week, rather than a later generic claim that customisation existed. It does not provide their prices. July 2005 diary · preserved text

Public video section

An @-Nighthead‡JAM guide has an update log recording an AW-NET nonmember-site link added on 3 August 2005. It points to http://www.awnet.jp/snk_nbc/servlet/exe/Index_p and directs readers to Check out the hot battle broadcast!, identifying videos 3 and 5 as showing Mizuchi and Shin Shishioh. This supports a public, numbered video section. It does not establish live broadcasting, automatic arcade replay uploads, or internet fighting-game matches. Period guide · preserved text

The 2006 capture contains news dated August 2005; its capture date is not proof that those announcements were new in 2006. The Flash-dependent area remains incompletely recovered.

Separately, AM-net's 28 July 2005 log links a 540 kbps WMV stream at http://asx.pod.tv/am-sega/free/nbc_01s.asx. Do not assume that this separate promotional stream is one of Nighthead's numbered AW-NET videos. Period news log · preserved text

Planned versus actual character availability

A 31 July 2005 Hatena entry, presented as notes from Monthly Arcadia's September issue, lists Mizuchi three weeks after launch and Shishioh five weeks after launch as planned AW-NET releases. The original magazine pages were not inspected, so this remains the reader's report. Reader's entry

SNK's own notices announce Mizuchi on 25 August, Shishioh on 1 September, and NEO DIO on 15 September 2005. Those are the stronger dated publisher announcements. A newly recovered Mizuchi thread discusses pricing on 19 August and buying on 22 August, before the 25 August notice. The first effective availability date is therefore unresolved; do not silently equate announcement dates, advance schedules and player reports. Publisher notices

The recovered SNK launch press release explicitly gives 27 July 2005, with regional variation possible. Its modern page title misleadingly says “2009”; the document's own header says Heisei 17/2005. It also distinguishes Athena/Mars People becoming selectable upon card insertion from services requiring AW-NET membership. Preserved text

Japanese forums recovered through period links

The Nighthead guide links the old NEOGEO BATTLE COLISEUM BBS, board 18327 on jbbs.livedoor.jp. Its successor host presently shows a suspension message. Following the original link into Wayback recovered a 7 January 2006 index, with 115 listed threads, and supplied exact thread IDs. The thread URLs live under /bbs/read.cgi/game/18327/, a different path from the board index; searching only /game/18327/* misses them. Archived board · preserved index text

The collected thread index contains 325 distinct captured URL variants, not 325 distinct discussions. Variants include full threads, last-50 slices and individual posts. Six targeted responses were retrieved: alternate colours, official updates, beginners, game systems, a video post, and management. A last-50 response is not necessarily the complete history of a thread.

Concrete observations in the recovered posts

For a reconstruction, the strongest new shop clue here is alternate victory messages, alongside palette purchases. The forum even discusses a button gesture to show them, but that instruction needs verification before implementing it as historically exact. Conflicting boss-unlock claims should remain in the evidence log, not silently become a universal operator-setting rule.

The recovered board also links KOF NEOWAVE BBS, board 17755. Its 12 October 2004 archived index lists 96 threads. A separate archive query found 148 captured thread-URL variants. One beginner-thread slice was recovered, but it yielded no substantive AW-NET registration or points evidence in the searched text; four other selected topics lacked matching captures in that query. These are discovery and coverage counts, not 148 complete recovered discussions.

Expanded forum search and new points evidence

The next archive pass identified 97 distinct NeoGeo Battle Coliseum thread IDs and 82 NEOWAVE thread IDs in the recovered URL indexes. These counts differ from URL-variant and board-listing counts. From 173 further selections, 41 responses were preserved: 20 NeoGeo Battle Coliseum and 21 NEOWAVE. Seven additional alternate slices were then recovered, including the NEOWAVE Geese and NeoGeo Battle Coliseum Mizuchi discussions. Many selected captures failed through timeouts, refusal or archive errors; those failures do not prove the historical content was absent. Captures made after closure can still preserve dated 2004–2005 posts.

The AW-NET protest thread provides registration and recovery experiences: post 15, dated 5 October 2004, reports receiving a repaired card with records retained and regaining website access after playing again. Post 27, dated 11 November, complains that an unsupported phone prevented enrollment from the PC. These are anonymous accounts, useful corroboration of the mobile prerequisite and cabinet/account synchronization, not authenticated support policies. Compensation amounts discussed elsewhere in the thread are disputed and should not become a fixed support reward. Archived discussion · preserved text

The newly retrieved Geese thread includes purchases and a 3,500-point valuation on 25 October 2004, independently corroborating the original promotional sheet. Post 248, dated 4 November, preserves four exact Geese palette URLs under kof_neowave/image/shop/40_1.gif through 40_4.gif. The December publisher profile update is therefore clearly later than these reported purchases. Archived discussion · preserved text

The Mizuchi thread, posts 29/41 dated 19 August 2005, discusses a 1,000-point price. Post 123 gives a palette preview URL and claims file numbers 1–12 exist; that is not proof of twelve paid palettes per fighter. Post 162 on 22 August asks whether to buy, earlier than SNK's 25 August purchase notice. This is an unresolved availability-date discrepancy, alongside stronger contemporary price corroboration. Archived discussion · preserved text

The boss thread also supplies exact historical links to snk_nbc/img/shop/secret_s.jpg, secret_n.jpg, and img/game_chara/neodio02.jpg. Archive-index/replay attempts were unsuccessful. These are documented leads, not recovered graphics. Boss discussion

The largest new primary-source finding is the 5 March 2005 official FAQ revision, which provides mode-dependent Isuka awards, Kintaro's start/win awards and NEOWAVE's streak awards. Game features and points translates the table, records its internal NEOWAVE CPU contradiction, inventories all documented game additions and separates AW points from GGX Mobile's reported allowance.

Earlier fallback decoding had garbled portions of the extracted text. The extractor now respects declared encoding with marked replacements, and cached pages have been reprocessed.

Other useful Japanese leads and contradictions

The Gore NEOWAVE guide names Arcadia issues 50, 51, 52 and 54 as references. It describes card-based time attack and purchased characters, while noting operator-unlocked exceptions. The NeoGeo Battle Coliseum guide has similar distinctions. These guides are leads for locating the original magazine pages; their complete revision dates are not established.

The same author's 2005 Tōgeki report points members toward NEOWAVE's overall-results ranking and recognizes tournament participants there. This connects the service to actual competitive players without assuming every tournament result was uploaded automatically.

Bluespace's launch-week diary describes practicing without a card, then inserting one for versus play, and names their Venom card artwork. This is useful evidence of voluntary card use in December 2003; it does not demonstrate membership or a signup procedure. Individual 18, 21, 23 and 25 December entries were preserved.

The Kagurazaka unlock guide gives Isuka EX/colour prices and NeoGeo Battle Coliseum boss-shop prices. It is a later, multi-game guide.

The contemporary AOU 2004 report already describes Kintaro's three-game selection—three-player mahjong, reversi and daifugō. This moves the observed three-game design back to February 2004, earlier than the September show report used in the history overview. It still does not identify the commercial release day.

For Victory Furlong, Tsutti's StarHorse community page contains a player's retrospective account of starting with Victory Furlong and identifies the CAVALO De Ciao community. That is a promising research trail, not a recovered period AW-NET account screen.

Later collectors sometimes describe Kintaro and Victory Furlong as online-only. A firsthand hardware diary entry dated 8 December 2016 says Kintaro can be played with a lever and reports touchscreen-related limitations while testing Victory Furlong. This does not prove full offline commercial functionality, but cautions against saying every offline interaction was impossible. The saved monthly response includes the dated entry. Preserved text

Search method and remaining gaps

Queries combined AW-NET/AWNET/AW card, Japanese game titles, registration, membership, phone compatibility, points, palettes, shop, diary and bulletin-board terms. Domain searches covered Japanese personal hosts, FC2, Hatena, Biglobe, Coocan, Eonet, and forum mirrors. These were supplemented by internal menus, HTML frame references, exact forum IDs and archive indexes. Japanese fan material is not confined to .jp: FC2 and historical Livedoor forums were important.

The complete linked 2003–2006 monthly diary sequence on the Gore site was preserved and searched with normalized fullwidth characters and several hyphen variants. This is one site's coverage, not a census of all Japanese players. Broad quoted “AW-NET” searches also produced unrelated shopping pages and technical documents; those were discarded.

A subsequent search recovered an atwiki mirror of SNK WORLD-i thread 3, posts 501–1000. Posts 514–518 dated 27 July 2006 discuss the lack of new AW-NET games, Samurai Spirits Tenka being unsupported, possible cancellation and disappearing card-reader installations. The original 2ch response has not been independently authenticated; attribute this to the preserved mirror. Mirror · preserved Japanese text The Shitaraba/Livedoor discoveries show why browsing links and querying exact archive paths matters more than assuming general search has exhausted the subject.

A modern page portraying Kintaro as a quiz game was excluded because it conflicts with period primary descriptions. Collector memory, wiki summaries and anonymous posts remain attributed rather than promoted to confirmed rules.

Preservation notes

Current-site responses are not Wayback snapshots; a diary's entry date and a retrieval/capture date are different fields. Archived forum responses record their original URLs separately so relative links resolve to the historical host. The gallery is a modern browsing aid; it does not recreate the historical site's appearance.

Use this supplement to choose the content and behavior of a specific year/version, then consult original dated documents for implementation. Preserve gaps visibly when an original screen is missing.

Original distributor notice recovered

The previously quoted September 2004 NEOWAVE ROM-replacement bulletin is now recovered from Able Corp’s own archived homepage. It describes on-site replacement from 21 September through early October for rare data-read errors when a card is inserted during network operation. English notice and date-resolution analysis. This upgrades that specific notice to primary evidence; it does not independently substantiate every player’s corruption complaint.

Additional contemporary phone-compatibility testimony

A personal diary entry dated 11 August 2004 says the writer could not register for AW-NET because their phone was unsupported. English reading: “As for AW-NET, my phone isn’t supported, so I’m stuck unable to register.” The month’s original HTML and separate Japanese text extraction are preserved. No carrier or model is identified, and the entry contains no signup screenshot or phone-reward file. Its nearby “40 points” remark about another person is ambiguous; it is not evidence of a shared-point tariff. The rest of the personal diary is not fully translated.

Additional arcade-writer blog

Fourteen preserved responses with scoped English readings cover Aoi’s Rakuten arcade blog and one further Ishikawa retrospective. All five literal diary-index pages were preserved and keyword-screened, covering 212 entries from August 29, 2005 through December 18, 2006. Relevant literal article follow-ups include a November 8, 2005 NEOWAVE operator-unlock report, a September 14, 2006 AM Show album-upload notice and September 1, 2005 show reports.

The NEOWAVE paragraph corroborates operator-enabled exceptions and records a player’s criticism of point costs, without supplying the command sequence or an exact first-unlock date. The current AM Show album says AW-NET had ended, but the dated upload notice does not establish when that sentence was written or edited; it cannot move the verified November 30, 2006 shutdown earlier. Modern Rakuten login and reward adverts, home-console networking, other arcade cards and CAVE photographs remain separately attributed. No new paid AW-NET signup screenshot or authenticated phone reward file was recovered.

May 2005 printed Japanese fan-directory expansion

19 scoped English readings follow17 Last Blade/NeoGeo Battle Coliseum fan URLs printed in ARCADIA page 168. Eight period entrances and eight literal menus/diaries survive, alongside three unrelated modern replacements; archive capture dates and internal publication dates are distinguished. The August 6, 2005 member diary provides firsthand NeoGeo Battle Coliseum palette, victory-line and title purchases. Fan MIDI attribution, personal publishing credentials, web-ring joining and home KOFMI2 survival-shop points retain separate identities. Sixty literal month/frame requests failed in the next pass and remain recorded research leads. URL transcriptions/outcomes.

October 10 KOF-directory and public wallpaper

All21current URLs printed in the August 2005 KOF fan directory have now been attempted; seven responses were read and fourteen requests failed. The English follow-up gallery distinguishes period pages, modern replacement/hosting pages and selected literal children. Nine Fantasia monthly logs have selected relevant passages translated, including December 2003 local Isuka card/play testimony, June 2004 temporary NEOWAVE network-test cards and April 2004 wishes for alternative artwork. Wishes and ambiguous communication-battle wording are not promoted to delivered purchases or remote fighting.

The O-Ryo branch preserves36literal monthly front listings for December 2003–November 2006, keyword-screening695dated titles/short previews with no selected AW-service matches. Full posts and complete monthly pagination were not reviewed. Scope and preview screen. The LAB frame requests resolve to the same later2012hosting404body; these are two retrieved response IDs but one distinct byte hash, not recovered2005frames. Rate-limited/time-out archive queries remain retryable.

Following Fantasia's literal Rumble Fish link recovered Sammy's June 2,2004promise of a Garnet premium wallpaper to every survey respondent, and the questionnaire itself. Primary announcement and scoped reading, English field translation. It is a public development-feedback survey, without AW account/card/point fields. The public desktop download page, physical guides/soundtracks and separate SNK WORLD mobile products remain distinct from AW-NET rewards. Selected publisher ZIP/graphic requests returned404; the survey reward binary and confirmation page remain unrecovered.

The completed printed-directory branch now contains 55 scoped response readings. A 20-row cap was reached for KOF no Oni, so that inventory is explicitly partial. Index outcome history and latest summaries.

Two period Endless Fluctuation entrances and its KOF 2001/2002 strategy/April 2005 personal diary were recovered; neither establishes an AW purchase. KOF no Oni’s September 2004 authored match counts and November 2005 independent opinion poll are distinct from AW national rankings and Guilty Gong. The Destiny 2005 frame wrapper survives, but both interiors redirect to an identical 2012 Infoseek/Rakuten portal. Later portal registration/points are excluded from AW evidence.

Ricky’s author blog resolves to July 2006 personal entries and provides 13 literal sidebar month links. Its blog-lottery spam/comments are unrelated to AW rewards. Literal month selection, only returned prefix row. Current Japanese-source catalogue: 951 preserved response IDs /574 unresolved document URLs /229 original image responses.

SNK music and separately named phone services

The new comparison gallery preserves New World Musical Acrobatic Troupe No.5, an archived Japanese SNK-music thread whose normal posts run August 15–December 2, 2004. DOM extraction yields1,001 sequential posts, including the final overflow marker. Eight selected posts were actually read and translated; the remaining thread has a machine-derived index, not a complete manual reading.

Posts76–79 discuss Playmore’s EZweb mobile site, four points for one chaku-combo, ringtone/voice audio and standby images. Posts365/369 discuss phone arrangements;763/773 concern the NEOWAVE soundtrack. None names AW-NET, so these do not establish AW tariffs or reward files. The literal mimizun archive follow-up returned403 and remains logged as failure. A publisher release dated August 1, 2008 explicitly names SNK WORLD-i and SNK Character Sound; the current wrapper’s2009 heading differs from the body date. This post-closure source is comparison context, not2004 AW evidence. Selected English notes and attribution.

The Japanese catalogue now contains 953 preserved response IDs /575 unresolved URLs /229 original image responses. Four additional exact Japanese reward/signup searches selected only known show reports, the already preserved SNK WORLD-i mirror, and unrelated modern results; the raw search response is preserved. Earlier attempts remain in history; failed indexes do not prove absent historical pages.

The July reward-term recheck preserves four Japanese queries concerning AW-NET ringtone points, standby images, incoming-call content and Guilty Gong. Results overlap the existing launch/prelaunch articles, SNK WORLD-i thread and AM-net/digest coverage; unrelated Android mailing-list and yoga retail hits were excluded. This search established no new authenticated reward file or paid enrollment screen. The Japanese source catalogue remains 953 preserved response IDs /575 unresolved document URLs /229 image responses; repeated search hits are not new independent witnesses.

Account terms and physical-card lead

Further late-service account and privacy/packet/authentication searches retained results and boundaries. Known SNK WORLD-i/Kagurazaka sources were rediscovered; modern ALLNet rules were excluded. The Jimoty folded AW leaflet was already preserved with ten images and was not counted again. No new AW billing terms or confirmation form was recovered.

A current Mercari Geese AW-card listing has attributed English notes. The seller calls it an unused NEOWAVE ID card and mentions vending scuffs; this is modern seller evidence. The unchanged downloadedHTML contains metadata/title but omits the description, so a separate web-tool response preserves the reading source. Both photograph requests returnedHTTP403; no image pixels were recovered or translated. Japanese catalogue:954 preserved responseIDs /575 unresolved documentURLs /229 unchanged images.

Launch-era magazine follow-up and external storage

August–November 2003 interiors are now actually screened:706 leaves/120 sheets. Together with the completed2004–2006 issues and December 2003, interior/appendix visual discovery totals 7,094 leaves/1,199 sheets,41 monthly issues plus the July 2004 appendix. June/July's340 reduced source responses and58 contact sheets are preserved but have not yet been viewed. Selected source preservation now totals7,434 leaves across43 monthlies plus one appendix. A discovery screen is not a full translation of every small-type or unrelated article.

August 2003 Playmore interview readings add two unchanged full-resolution images. Katsunori Fujimoto's interview is expressly dated June 2003 in Esaka: network games were contemplated without concrete progress; at that time Playmore reported no plans for other makers' arcade hardware, and no concrete NeoGeo2 project. Neither AW-NET nor Atomiswave is named in that Q&A. This is dated pre-partnership context, not a description of the later service. SNKWORLD's free community/art/chat/minigame functions retain separate attribution. September's GGX preview and November's already-preserved AM Show report are not counted as new service discoveries.

Eight additional BatoCulture/phone/manual/alias queries rediscovered known Japanese news/forum sources or unrelated modern matches. No authenticated enrollment confirmation or original phone reward binary was recovered. The three guidebooks' remaining visual screen, January–July 2003 interiors, selected failed archive inventories and literal fan-site leads still require work. No global or private-collection exhaustion is claimed.

January, June and July 2003 reviewed

January, June and July 2003 add 510 actually viewed interior leaves /87 contact sheets. Interior/appendix discovery now covers 7,604 viewed leaves /1,286 sheets,44 monthly issues plus the July 2004 appendix. All 8,312 selected reduced source responses are preserved, with1,406 contact sheets built.

The selected Sammy manufacturer comments for January, June and July now have unchanged full-resolution JPEGs and separate, explicitly scoped English readings. January announces the home PS2 GGXX release; June and July contain staff/personal anecdotes. None supplies AW-NET enrollment or an additional service entitlement. Neighboring Cave phone rewards and Arika/Konami/Sega network functions retain separate attribution. The coarse discovery survey does not translate every small-print article.

Paid carrier enrollment confirmation, authenticated phone reward files, BatoCulture contents, Japanese network installer/manual interiors, remaining guidebook visual screening and selected literal Japanese fan-site/archive leads remain open. No global research exhaustion is claimed.

All selected monthly interiors screened

February–May 2003 add 708 actually screened leaves / 120 contact sheets. The selected 2003–2006 monthly interior survey and July 2004 appendix now have 8,312 preserved and visually screened leaves / 1,406 viewed sheets, covering all 48 monthly issues plus one appendix. This completes coarse visual discovery for this selection; it is not a full translation of every article or proof that all relevant small text was detected.

The magazine register now has 307 review records / 299 standalone JPEG responses, all standalone JPEGs actually viewed. The count difference includes earlier PDF-based readings. February readings preserve Sammy's New Year promise of more Atomiswave games; March confirms Atomiswave at its forthcoming AOU booth. April hints at undisclosed news without naming AW-NET or Atomiswave. May preserves the AOU show report and Sammy's venue comment.

The May AOU report, scan leaf 146 / printed page 145, says six Atomiswave titles were exhibited and describes four pictured games: Dolphin Blue, Guilty Gear X Ver.1.5, Demolish Fist and Toretore! Sushi. It does not establish AW-NET support for these games. Sammy's original announcement, recovered from a February 8, 2003 archive capture, confirms the six-title list and also names Sports Shooting USA and Maximum Speed; the new search record retains the failed live-URL attempt and successful archive recovery.

The remaining meaningful avenues include a complete visual screen of the three guidebooks' 660 scan leaves, literal Japanese fan/venue links in printed directories, selected failed archive inventories, paid carrier enrollment confirmation, original phone reward binaries, Bato Culture contents and Japanese network installer/manual interiors. The guidebooks' 59 OCR candidates and 134 selected page images are already reviewed, but the remaining leaves have not had a complete visual pass. Research remains active; global exhaustion is not claimed.

A new AOU 2003 publisher/press gallery preserves Sammy's archived announcement, the contemporary press response, separate English readings and three original GGX Ver.1.5 gameplay GIFs. This addition is Atomiswave launch context, with no AW-NET enrollment or phone reward claim.

The current Japanese-source catalogue contains 956 preserved response IDs / 575 unresolved document URLs / 232 unchanged image responses.

Complete guidebook visual discovery

All 660 scan leaves /111 contact sheets across the Isuka Outlive Encyclopedia (182), NeoGeo Battle Coliseum Master Guide (196) and PS2 Isuka Complete Guide (282) were actually visually screened. The new discovery gallery links unchanged source PDFs, 660 separately labeled modern previews and per-sheet English screen notes. Coarse discovery is not a full translation of every page or proof of small-text absence.

Arcade Isuka's survival-level/points page, Bridget member-only reader-prize card and NeoGeo Battle Coliseum paid victory-message context were compared with the already preserved full-page readings. The console book's local modes, unlocks and wallpaper remain explicitly distinct from arcade AW-NET and phone redemption.

The complete monthly Arcadia discovery pass and complete selected guidebook discovery pass are now finished. Meaningful remaining work includes explicit historical Japanese operator/fan links, newly established aliases for failed archives, the identified missing magazine articles, Japanese multiplayer/network installer-manual interiors, Bato Culture, successful carrier enrollment/billing screens and authentic phone reward binaries. Global exhaustion is not claimed.

Early 2003 printed operator URLs

The February–April 2003 WWW directory pages supplied nine literal arcade-operator URLs. Two additional unchanged full-resolution pages were preserved and actually viewed; the February page was already preserved. Selected Japanese headings/operator descriptions and URLs now have separate English readings. The unrelated fan-art/fiction portions are summarized rather than fully translated.

The operator reading gallery has 36 actually read response records: four modern responses and32 historical responses, including prelaunch wrappers. Twenty-two exact URLs were queried, including explicit frame/venue children and the NeoGeo Battle Coliseum image/inventory leads. A selection of dated landing/inner pages was preserved; the191 indexed revisions were not all retrieved. This is not a full crawl of the operators.

POWER STICK's September 8, 2005 page links NeoGeo Battle Coliseum and says the promoted SNK title is running at the venue. Its explicitly linked bcolo1.jpg graphic has zero exact successful index rows and returned404 at the containing page's replay date; no new graphic was preserved. Venue game listings do not establish AW-NET connectivity. Local tournament points, arcade mobile pages, Nihon Unica's mobile/Edy payment systems and other-game card functions are translated/scoped separately and do not fill AW-NET's missing paid registration flow.

The remaining explicit-link register retains seven deeper frame children, the UCO operator alias and a player-site link. These are meaningful next leads with relevance still to establish.