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Loretta no Shouzou: Sherlock Holmes

System(s): SG-1000

Publisher: Sega

Developer: Sega

Genre: Adventure^[1]

Number of players: 1

Release	Date	RRP	Code
JP	1987-02-18	¥5,0005,000^[1]	G-1315

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Loretta no Shouzou: Sherlock Holmes (ロレッタの肖像 Sherlock Holmes) or The Portrait of Loretta is an adventure game developed and published by Sega exclusively in Japan in 1987. Before release it was known as Holmes no Jikenbo (ホームズの事件簿).

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Loretta no Shouzou is notable for being not only the final cartridge release for the SG-1000 (with The Black Onyx released a month later serving as the final My Card release and final SG-1000 game in general), but also the largest SG-1000 game ever, with a ROM size of 128kB or 1-Megabit. As a result, it was released under the Gold Cartridge branding usually reserved for Sega Mark III cartridges (which were meant for games exceeding 1-Megabit size) instead of the Sega Cartridge branding used for The Castle (the last SG-1000 cartridge release prior to this). Sega's hardware archive list Loretta no Shouzou as both, an SG/SC Cartridge and a Gold Cartridge.

The game's packaging follows the same template as other Gold Cartridge releases, but has a blue 1M logo and a blue manual, instead of the red theme usually associated with Mark III releases.

Photo gallery

Physical scans

SG-1000, JP
Cover
Cart Manual

Technical information

ROM dump status

System

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Size

Build Date

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Comments

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CRC32	323f357f
MD5	8dcdd83e58be634a3735911a1af05bb3
SHA-1	0ddd7448f5bd437d0d33b85a44f2bcc2bf2ea05e

128kB

Cartridge (JP)

References

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-| genre=Adventure
+| genre=Adventure{{ref|https://web.archive.org/web/20200928023407/https://sega.jp/history/hard/sc3000/software.html}}
 | releases={{releasesSG
 | sg_date_jp=1987-02-18
-| sg_rrp_jp=5,000
+| sg_rrp_jp=5,000{{ref|https://web.archive.org/web/20200928023407/https://sega.jp/history/hard/sc3000/software.html}}
 | sg_code_jp=G-1315
 }}
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-{{sub-stub}}'''''Loretta no Shouzou: Sherlock Holmes''''' (ロレッタの肖像 Sherlock Holmes) is an adventure game developed and published by [[Sega]] exclusively in Japan in 1987.
+{{sub-stub}}'''''{{PAGENAME}}''''' (ロレッタの肖像 Sherlock Holmes) or '''''The Portrait of Loretta''''' is an adventure game developed and published by [[Sega]] exclusively in Japan in 1987. Before release it was known as '''''Holmes no Jikenbo''''' (ホームズの事件簿).{{magref|micombasic|1987-03|page=244}}
-At its core, ''Loretta no Shouzou'' is an [[SG-1000]] game (making it the last official Japanese release of its kind), however its late release in 1987 meant it was packaged and advertised as a [[Sega Mark III]] game (the Mark III being backwards compatible with the SG-1000). At 128kB in size, it would be the biggest SG-1000 game, and its packaging design, paired with the fact Sega of Japan's [http://sega.jp/fb/segahard/ hardware archive] lists the game for both consoles, has led to much confusion as to whether it should be classed as either an SG-1000 release, a Mark III/Master System one, or both.
+''Loretta no Shouzou'' is notable for being not only the final cartridge release for the [[SG-1000]] (with ''[[The Black Onyx]]'' released a month later serving as the final [[Sega Card|My Card]] release and final SG-1000 game in general), but also the largest SG-1000 game ever, with a ROM size of 128kB or 1-Megabit. As a result, it was released under the Gold Cartridge branding usually reserved for [[Sega Mark III]] cartridges (which were meant for games exceeding 1-Megabit size) instead of the Sega Cartridge branding used for ''[[The Castle]]'' (the last SG-1000 cartridge release prior to this). Sega's [https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://sega.jp/fb/segahard/ hardware archive] list ''Loretta no Shouzou'' as both, an SG/SC Cartridge and a Gold Cartridge.
-Subtle differences in the packaging (the use of a blue "1Mb" logo and manual (a colour often associated with the the SG-1000, [[SG-1000 II]] and [[SC-3000]]) as opposed to red (Mark III)) and the specific mentioning of older Sega consoles has led Sega Retro to class this as an SG-1000 release. Its product code, however, lies in the G-13XX series, usually associated with Mark III games.
+The game's packaging follows the same template as other Gold Cartridge releases, but has a blue 1M logo and a blue manual, instead of the red theme usually associated with Mark III releases.
-==Physical Scans==
+==Photo gallery==
+<gallery>
+Loretta No Shouzou SG1000 JP Photo1.jpg
+Loretta no Shouzou SG1000 JP Photo.jpg
+</gallery>
+==Physical scans==
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 | console=SG-1000
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 }}
-==Photos==
+==Technical information==
-<gallery>
+===ROM dump status===
-File:Loretta No Shouzou SG1000 JP Photo1.jpg
+{{romtable|
-File:Loretta no Shouzou SG1000 JP Photo.jpg
+{{rom|SG|sha1=0ddd7448f5bd437d0d33b85a44f2bcc2bf2ea05e|md5=8dcdd83e58be634a3735911a1af05bb3|crc32=323f357f|size=128kB|date=|source=Cartridge (JP)|comments=|quality=good|prototype=}}
-</gallery>
+}}
+==References==
+<references/>