Clay Pigeon

Clay Pigeon
Developer: Exidy Publisher: Exidy Platforms: Arcade (Exidy 440 hardware) Released internationally: 1986 This game has a hidden developer message. This game has hidden developer credits.

Clay Pigeon blah blah Exidy shooting gallery game. Bring on Beny!

Hidden Message

A hidden message can be seen through the following steps.

• Enter and set this cheat in MAME's claypign.xml cheat file:

  <cheat desc="Hardware Error">
    <script state="on">
      <action>maincpu.pb@6000=01</action>
      <action>maincpu.pb@6028=02</action>
      <action>maincpu.pb@61C2=03</action>
      <action>maincpu.pb@61FF=04</action>
    </script>
  </cheat>

• Reset the game. An error message should appear on the boot screen.
• Put this cheat into claypign.xml and enable it:

  <cheat desc="Bypass Hardware Error">
    <script state="on">
      <action>temp0 =maincpu.mw@8D4E</action>
      <action>temp1 =maincpu.mw@A0C2</action>
    </script>
    <script state="run">
      <action>maincpu.mw@8D4E=1212</action>
      <action>maincpu.mw@A0C2=1212</action>
    </script>
    <script state="off">
      <action>maincpu.mw@8D4E=temp0</action>
      <action>maincpu.mw@A0C2=temp1</action>
    </script>
  </cheat>

• 
  A new message should appear on the screen.

After a few seconds, the E2 PROM will be initialized. As in Crackshot, the machine will reboot afterward. It's likely that Exidy's support crew (And/or Beny) could have done something to the arcade cabinets to bypass the hardware error, prompting this message.

(Source: Original TCRF research)

Audio Credits

This message is in the sound CPU at F361:

COPYRIGHT (C) 1984 EXIDY INC
M VON STRIVER
V TOLOMEI
K NICHOLSON

(Source: Original TCRF research)