Jinsei Game: Zukkoke Salaryman Hen

Jinsei Gekijou: Zukkoke Salaryman Hen
Developer: Act Japan Publisher: Taito Platform: SNES Released in JP: December 29, 1995 This game has hidden development-related text. This game has anti-piracy features.

Developer Text

At 0x8DD6 is a developer string used for the SRAM verification check. If there is a mismatch when the game boots up, all save data is erased.

JINSEI Back Up

(Source: Original TCRF research)

Anti-Piracy

Like many games published by Taito, this game includes an SRAM integrity check: After the Taito logo, the game checks to see that it has exactly 8KB of SRAM by writing the developer string mentioned above at $306000 and then comparing with the value at $316000 to ensure the SRAM mirror is in the correct location. If this check fails, the game restarts and thus endlessly loops on the Taito logo. Cartridge copiers typically contain more than 8KB of SRAM in order to support a wide variety of games, thus tripping the anti-piracy measure.

Game Genie code 991D-DADD will activate the anti-piracy measure.

(Source: Original TCRF research)