Kidou Senshi V Gundam

Kidou Senshi V Gundam
Developer: TOSE Publisher: Bandai Platform: SNES Released in JP: March 11, 1994 This game has debugging material. This game has a hidden sound test. This game has a hidden level select. This game has anti-piracy features.

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Anti-Piracy/Region Lockout

On several screen transitions starting from when the second screen shows up on the intro (with the plane), the game does two checks to ensure it isn't a pirated version for several frames: it first writes to SRAM at $700000, and checks if the console region is PAL. An original cartridge does not contain any SRAM, but cartridge copiers tend to include a large amount of SRAM to support a wide variety of games. If the SRAM write was successful or the game detects itself running on a PAL console, the game restarts, preventing the player from actually starting the game.

(Source: Original TCRF research)

Debug Menu

Kidou Senshi V Gundam has a debug mode which can be accessed by starting the game with the Pro Action Replay code 80800091 active, or by changing the first byte of an unheadered rom to 0x91.

Available options:

Atarichan V: object viewer (see below) Test stage: a stage select Demo: a cutscene viewer SE check: makes noise Secret weapon: unknown (it's a secret)

Object viewer

To do: Explain how this works.

Selecting "Atarichan V" from the main debug menu brings up an object viewer with several options.

(Source: Original TCRF research)