Originally posted by *67
Split-screen bug is still alive and well in Namco Museum Vol. 1 (1995).
I find this quizzical because even earlier ports of Pac-Man fix this. I know they were fixing it by at least 1984, because the NES version merely loops the last few levels to avoid it. But Namco Museum Volume 1 was made in 1995...
Key differences in comparison to the original arcade version: You can't play this level at all. It kicks you out to Pac-Man's boot-up sequence, then to Pac-Man's title screen. But the game refuses to acknowledge any of your input, meaning an entire reset of your Playstation is in order. Even in 1995, this thing was messing up machines.
Decided to have a look and see how it's stored, and it's just a compiled PSX EXE file for Pac-Man. Interestingly enough, at the start of the data (0x800) there's "Programed by HUGIE/ひゅぎぃ". Fair amount of debug text at 0x178E too.
No programmer credit in Galaga, but it has more debug text. Same with Rally-X, New Rally-X, Pole Position and Toy Pop although that one seems similar to Pac-Man.
Bosconian has "1981 1995 NAMCO LTD. Reprogrammed by Chikara YOSHIDA." at 0x800 and some debug text.
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