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Pachicom

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Pachicom

Nov 21, 1985

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Pachinko-themed game released in Japan for the MSX, PC-88, Family Computer, and Famicom Disk System. Pachicom is an early pachinko simulator for various Japanese home computers along with Nintendo's Famicom and Famicom Disk System. It gives players the opportunity to play a pachinko table with several hundred small variations, with the goal to earn a high score in the time allotted. Hidden Sounds A programmer of this game hid inside the ROM a separate series of sound effects which apparently the management did not like and forced him to change. In protest, the programmer left the following message to ROM … More
Pachinko-themed game released in Japan for the MSX, PC-88, Family Computer, and Famicom Disk System. Pachicom is an early pachinko simulator for various Japanese home computers along with Nintendo's Famicom and Famicom Disk System. It gives players the opportunity to play a pachinko table with several hundred small variations, with the goal to earn a high score in the time allotted. Hidden Sounds A programmer of this game hid inside the ROM a separate series of sound effects which apparently the management did not like and forced him to change. In protest, the programmer left the following message to ROM hackers inside the code teaching them how to enable the other sounds effects. You RETARDS say one thing, then something else later all the time. You're a sound company; quit ignoring pachinko sounds and trying to put these weird sounds in instead! Do you WANT it ti be this hard to hear the balls?! I've left the PREVIOUS sounds, so edit this if you want to hear it. Set hex address AFFC to 1FAF and AFC4 to E0EE to get decent sounds. Less
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Platforms
Family Computer, Family Computer Disk System, MSX, PC-8800 Series
Genres
Sport
Release Dates
Nov 21, 1985 (Japan)
Family Computer
1985 (Japan)
MSX
1987 (Japan)
PC-8800 Series
Nov 04, 1988 (Japan)
Family Computer Disk System
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scoopings updated their status Jun 18, 2023
scoopings updated their status Jun 18, 2023

Interesting: There is a hidden message in the Famicom version that can be found in any hex editor. Almost five percent of the entire ROM (2.05 kilobytes out of the 41 kilobyte ROM image) is taken up by this otherwise inaccessible message. The message, written in romaji,[4] features a lengthy rant towards the game's executives, harshly criticizing them for forcing changes on the fly, particularly the sound effects and even showing how to replace them with the initially intended sounds. A much shorter rant, presumably written by the same person and also in romaji and accessed via a hex editor, was included in the MSX release (per the wikipedia)