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Posted on 07-20-11 09:30:38 AM (last edited by Cool Timpani at 07-20-11 06:39 AM) Link | Quote
I found some weird stuff in Super Bombliss. I don't know what it is since the graphics are partially messed up and it's seemingly not possible to navigate from the individual screens back to the menu, or from the menu back into the game.

PAR code 80809004:



"block" is apparently just something to view the different block graphics



Pressing B and A cycles through all the block formations and their rotations (including the 45 degree in-betweens). Pressing X changes where the bomb is placed on the block.

The two characters to the left are a hex number representing the frame being viewed, but the letters Q through Z appear in place of the digits 0-9 for some reason. Also, sometimes a smaller, yellow block appears at the bottom of the screen. Pressing B and A also cycles through these, but it goes straight to the next block instead of showing each rotation.

"map" is what appears to be a map/puzzle viewer, but nothing is visible except for another hexadecimal number. Pressing buttons still increments/decrements the number, but nothing seems to appear for any of them.



I don't know what "speed" does. It has 3 numbers labeled "a", "b", and "c", which all start at 00. The background is also messed up.



Maybe there's a way to access this from a bigger debug menu or something so that it's not completely useless, but I haven't found any such thing and there's no way to actually exit this menu to get to something else.

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Posted on 07-20-11 06:33:42 PM Link | Quote
Check a savestate and see if the tiles are blanked out or if there's really nothing there.

Interesting find, in any case. The smaller yellow block is probably used for the Next Piece feature, which is why it doesn't have rotations.
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Posted on 07-21-11 01:03:25 AM Link | Quote
Is it possible to hardcode it?
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Posted on 07-21-11 02:43:53 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Xkeeper
Check a savestate and see if the tiles are blanked out or if there's really nothing there.

There are some appropriate (?) graphics loaded for "block" and "map", but not for anything else. The only other graphics loaded into VRAM for any of the screens are standard letter/number tiles and the BPS logo.



"Speed" is the only screen where any of the layers are even enabled, the rest use only sprites for the text/blocks. All of the other tile maps are basically just uninitialized garbage.
Originally posted by Phugolz
Is it possible to hardcode it?

You can change offset 0x90 in the ROM file to 04 if you want it to always show up, but it's kind of useless since there's nothing you can even do with it at this point and no way to get to the actual game.

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Posted on 07-22-11 03:26:50 AM Link | Quote
That's fine, I understand. I'm jut interested in having a collection of games with debug tools active. It's a nice way of showcasing the tricks of the trade for this era of gaming. It'll be exciting years down the line to show these types of things, and to be able to distribute them to others so that they can appreciate the ways developers ahd to work around limitations.
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Posted on 07-22-11 06:04:43 AM (last edited by Phugolz at 07-22-11 03:15 AM) Link | Quote
removed. sorry.
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Posted on 07-22-11 10:35:58 PM Link | Quote
I think PAR codes are better for little things like this (<= 4 byte changes), but above that could probably be better done with a patch or ROM.
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