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Posted on 08-23-10 11:24:52 PM Link | Quote
This game apparently has an extensive debug mode, or at least the remnants of its menu. Here's quick and dirty dump of the text I found (there were a lot of control codes here, hopefully I didn't mistakenly delete some actual text):

 
BANK

PALET

BG TEST

KIKI KAIKAI2

SAMPLE

START

OPTION


1992  NATSUME

TEST MODE

BANK TEST


BANK TEST2

PICTURE TEST

DEMO TEST

PLAYER TEST

MAP TEST


PANEL TEST

END


DEMO T5ST

OPENNING

ST1 CLEAR

ST2 CLEAR

ST3 CLEAR

ST4 CLEAR

ST5 CLEAR

ST6 CLEAR

ENDING


1P

BANK

2P

BANK

OBJ TEST

STAGE 0

STAGE 1

STAGE 2

STAGE 3

STAGE 4

STAGE 5

STAGE 6

STAGE 7


PLAYER SELECT

CONTINUE

Lacking a decent code/data logger, it's really hard to pinpoint where any of the actual code may be located. I found a string of 8 NOPs in the main game loop that might be the original entry point, though. Stay tuned...

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Posted on 08-24-10 02:23:56 AM (last edited by Gunstar Green at 08-23-10 11:31 PM) Link | Quote
CRAP. This text is very likely all that remains of the debug mode.

There's a subroutine at $2B006 that uploads a page of text to layer 3; the game calls this with the desired page number in the accumulator (valid pages are 00-0B). All of the pages contain debugging text, except for 00, which is blank. This routine is called many times during the game, almost always with a page number of 00 (I don't know if this is a debugging leftover or just used as an all-purpose layer 3 clear). The lone exception, page 0A, is loaded right before the player select screen appears, but erased immediately afterwards so you never get to see it.

The following screens were captured by replacing the options screen's page 00 load with values 01-0B and turning off everything but layer 3. Interestingly, Natsume used a similar menu layout and font in some of their NES games (e.g. Shatterhand); the "S" in particular gives it away.

Page 01

Page 02

I have no idea what the crap is at the bottom of the screen, but it appears in a number of these shots.
Page 03

Note the similarity to Shatterhand's debug menu on the right.
Page 04

Page 05

Page 06

Page 07

Page 08

Huh? The final game only has 6 stages!
Page 09

I don't know why the text is flipped around in this one. (Yes, it actually says "DEMO T5ST".)
Page 0A

Page 0B


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Posted on 08-24-10 04:14:16 AM Link | Quote
Or maybe we can luck out and have this be something like Super Castlevania IV and manage to work in a restoration of some kind. It's a start at least, let's not give up too much hope yet?

And Shatterhand has a debug mode? News to me! Get it up on the wiki if it ain't there!

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Posted on 08-24-10 07:18:19 AM (last edited by Gunstar Green at 08-24-10 04:20 AM) Link | Quote
Maybe, but I really don't have much hope. There is no code in the ROM that calls anything but page 00 or 0A of the debugging text, and a few nearby routines aren't referenced at all.

There isn't anything more to Shatterhand's "debug mode" than you see in that screenshot, unfortunately, though I agree that it should be wiki-fied anyway. Interestingly, it's accessed via the same code as Pocky & Rocky's stage select (AAAABBBBABABABAB), though in P&R you have to hold X and Y.

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Posted on 08-24-10 04:43:09 PM Link | Quote
Well that's a load of crap, bummer. So in other words, the only way to activate it is to find whatever thing that was supposed to reference it, if it's even still in there, and force it to load up?

Also, I'll take care of the Shatterhand bit. It's not that hard, I can do a quick vacation wiki update.

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Posted on 10-08-10 11:38:54 AM Link | Quote
It seems one of the object/sprite viewers partially survived. The graphics aren't displayed correctly, though.

Open the Options screen, then activate the following PAR codes:
00915B4F
00915CBA

Turn off layer 1 and 2. The first two sets of numbers are X and Y coords, and the third is an index (range $00-35).

Instructions:
d-pad: move the sprite around the screen
A,B: increase/decrease the index
L,R: crashes the game
Start: exit?
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