Gachaga Champ

Gachaga Champ
Developer: Konami AMD Publisher: Konami Platform: Arcade (Konami System 573) Released in JP: February 5, 1999 Released in AS: 1999 This game has unused graphics. This game has unused text.

To do: An Asian English release is known to exist; verify further when it gets dumped

Say, Konami really liked the idea of minigames involving rapidly spinning a joystick. So much that most of this game revolves around two of these, one for each hand. Ouch.

Unused Graphics

Early Title Screen Variant

An early variant of the title screen graphic, which uses different fonts such as Revue and has several coloring differences.

Placeholder Graphics

Inside the game's PC Card memory data lies two unused graphics:

This first is a plain red graphic with the text "だみぃ" [dummy] crudely written on it. It is found twice in the minigame icon assets, labeled as STAGE_MAP_DUMMY0 and STAGE_MAP_DUMMY1 internally.

This second graphic, labeled r_objerror internally, is found near the interface assets.

(Source: tikal. / Special thanks: Coda)

Unused Text

American Warning Screen

Starting from offset 0x4B30 in the game's PC Card memory data is text for a warning screen intended for an unreleased American localization of the game. Note that the lines are in reverse order in the data, and were fixed for readability.

 THIS GAME IS  FOR SALE AND USE IN  
NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA ONLY. THE  
COPYRIGHTED MUSIC/CHARACTERS/ART WORK
IN THIS GAME ARE SEPARATELY OWNED BY
THE AUTHORS. THE PUBLIC PERFORMANCE
OF THIS GAME OUTSIDE THIS TERRITORY 
IS PROHIBITED BY LAW AND VIOLATORS 
ARE SUBJECT TO SEVERE PENALTIES    
UNLESS SPECIALLY AUTHORIZED BY KONAMI.

Location Test Leftover

In the game's PC Card memory data in offset 0x552C is text from a location test prototype.

THIS IS LOCATION TEST VERSION.

(Source: tikal.)