Played a little with debug tricks on the other game...identified that isn't actually Sonic Dragon but Super Taiwanese Baseball League

[Linked Image from mamedev.emulab.it]

[Linked Image from mamedev.emulab.it]

Sprites are missing/wrong because it uploads a G. Clinton-esque scatter-gather DMA list at e90030, weird because it does:
ff637c src f00010 dst 2f size b900 param

f00010 is the video DMA, and here's the title screen list:

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I've told you it was funky, no?