Arcade Hits Pack: Gunblade NY & LA Machineguns

Putting aside the unwieldy title and creative use of the word "hit", Arcade Hits Pack: Gunblade NY & LA Machineguns is an enjoyable compilation of two arcade light gun shooters for the Wii.

Main Menu and Shared Files
The following files are either found among the menu directories or don't pertain to either game specifically.

Placeholder Graphics
These two unused images, color_bar.dds and logo_title.dds, are stored in /main/sprite along with the rest of the graphics for the intro, warning and title screen graphics.

Unused Attract Mode Video
Eg2092_QhYs This video, included with the "Sega" logo videos in /movie, appears to be an unused attract mode video for Gunblade NY. Its filename, GB_ADV_HD_4M.sfd, misleadingly suggests that it is in high definition but the same usage elsewhere shows the developers using "SD" and "HD" simply to mean "full-screen 4:3" and "widescreen 16:9", respectively.

File Exclusion Scripts
Throughout the game's files are a number of text files, tag_config.txt, which appear to have been used by some build tool to leave certain files out of the disc image when building, some of which heavily imply that a PC release of the compilation was also planned. Each of these files are identical except for the final line, so only the first example will be included here in full. The first line is a comment explaining that extensions should be comma separated and that these files will not be used.

/movie/winDx [IGNORE_FILES] extention = .fxo,.fx,.bat
 * 1) 　無視するファイルの拡張子を登録していきます、区切りに[,]を使用して追加してください（＊は使えません）

/wiiMenu extention = .csv,.tga,.sctpl

In /wiiMenuSound/pc</tt>, /vm2/sound/PC</tt> (Gunblade NY) and /LA/Sound/PC</tt> (Machineguns LA) are identical tag_config.txt</tt> files which appear to have been used to exclude the Wii audio assets from the PC build. extention = .cpk,.csb

/vm2/PC</tt> extention = .bin

Twin Towers
For the time, Gunblade NY featured a relatively-accurate New York in which the action took place, including the presence of the World Trade Center towers. For the Wii release, the towers were removed due to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks which felled them.

(Note that the color issues in the arcade screenshot are the result of incomplete emulation of the Model 2 hardware, not a change in art style.)

Updated Billboards
In the updated Wii game, the prominent billboards for real/external products and companies at Times Square were replaced with fake or Sega-owned properties like Sonic and the Black Knight.

Internal Name
Several of the file archives within the LA Machineguns portion of the disc begin with headers indicating their purpose, e.g. Gunblade2 _ Collision Bank</tt>, Gunblade2 _ Other Data Bank</tt> and Gunblade2 _ Scroll Bank</tt>, among others. This is only of particular interest because the game is not otherwise referred to as Gunblade 2 (though the arcade version's startup screen does say "GB2"); rather, it is subtitled Rage of the Machines.

PC Textures
Alongside the (used) Wii textures in /LA/vrom_tex</tt> are versions labelled for use in the PC version, tex_pc_0.bin</tt> through tex_pc_7.bin</tt>. These files are roughly double the size of their tex_wii</tt> counterparts, though whether to provide higher fidelity or simply as a result of lesser compression is not yet known.