SUDDEN DESU

Happy New Year!

2016 turned out to be an amazing year for me personally.

It’s been a while, hasn’t it?

Originally written November 2013 Eight years ago (!)

So it looks like after the Waku Waku Patrol Car and the Popcorn Machine dumps, we may have another rare Sonic arcade game on our hands.

Here we are at part two of our dissection of Burning Force.

Another game with too much stuff to cram into one post!

Whoa!

If there’s one constant we can rely on, it’s STGs having leftover menus.

Still alive, just been busy with life and other hobbies in the meantime.

Almost two years after its release, we have an update to the Chrono Trigger unpointed text document!

I took a look at Tinkle Pit a few months back, and recently I’ve tried tackling it again to see if I can’t get that wonky Level Select working.

Rezon is a fun little shooter with a couple interesting leftovers (maybe one is an easter egg?).

Normally I’d save this to post on a rainy day, but I was so amused when I saw it that I really wanted to share it right away: it looks like those wacky 3DO firmware devs left some messages for us to find!

I seem to be running into this a lot lately, where standard test mode options are disabled or missing from test menus.

Oh, you disabled your debugging options in the test mode menu?

Oh man, I am EXCITED!

I want to believe…

I’m still alive!

Life is finally returning to normalcy (whatever that is) after moving into my new house.

In Part 1 we examined the disabled Tool Menu, and now we’ll look at the variety of debugging tools left in, plus a couple mysteries.

Kyukyoku Sentai Dadandarn, meaning Ultimate Battle Squad Dadandarn and called Monster Maulers in the West, is Konami’s homage to/parody of the sentai genre of TV shows, movies and comics.

Yet another adult arcade quiz game, this time with some pretty well-drawn and amusing artwork by eromanga artist Miyasu Nonki!

I’m pretty burnt out on tackling Super Gem Fighter / Pocket Fighter right now.

The Atari File Management Subsystem (FMS) is the filesystem on an Atari 810 floppy disk.

I noticed this menu a while back in Magical Error wo Sagase, a puzzle game where you search for differences between two images.

I was pretty unhappy that Land Maker, one of my favorite arcade puzzle games, was one of the few Taito F3 games that did not have the Taito code implemented.

Around 1988, Taito began implementing a standard level select code into many of their arcade games.

Well, that’s enough mahjong for now… Let’s try something a little more exciting!

More Mahjong Menus!

Still hacking around with MAME games, and I’m having a blast!

There’s a request on mamecheat for Pocket Gal Deluxe, and I figured I’d give it a go.

The MAME hacking continues!

I’ve been playing around with the MAME debugger recently.

News was posted today of the finding and dumping of an unreleased vertical shooter by Sega and Santos for the System 18 arcade hardware, called Hammer Away.

This is a fascinating older post made by the NYC Resistor group detailing the technical data behind the images left behind in the Apple Mac SE ROM<.

2014 is beginning to come to a close.