The game began in Japan, crossed to the world through Hong Kong, and was made into institutions in the West. All three records are preserved here, side by side, with the same rules: name every source, keep the original words, and mark plainly which claims survive contact with the ROM.
Same method in all three wings: CONFIRMED / OFFICIAL / COMMUNITY CLAIM / DISPUTED, and repetition is not confirmation (the Japanese wing, with no first-party paper of its own, uses no OFFICIAL tag).
The wider preservation story lives at Preservation; claims tested against the ROM at Myths, Tested.
A recovered primary-source set: the 2008 record boards.
日本語によるプロジェクト全体の説明はこちら。
Three communities built this knowledge, and one by one they lost the machines it lived on. The archive exists because someone who came after them, John R Reeves III, decoded the game down to its bytes (the byte-level reverse-engineering behind every CONFIRMED tag on these pages), rebuilt the community's old tools as the browser tools in the Toolbox, and got the game running again: the first full eight-player Derby Owners Club on a laptop (Flycast featured the video on their own site), and a free online multiplayer lobby that anyone can play. The history on these pages belongs to other people; this note only answers who carried it forward. The living version is at play.johnreevesiii.com.
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