Crackshot

Crackshot
Developer: Exidy Publisher: Exidy Platforms: Arcade (Exidy 440 hardware) Released internationally: 1985 This game has a hidden developer message. This game has hidden developer credits.

Crackshot is yet another Exidy shooting gallery game, and the first with a customizable stage name. Oh, the times we had at Buttass's Bar & Grill.

Hidden Message

A hidden message can be seen through the following steps.

• Enter and set this cheat in MAME's cracksht.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 cracksht.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. Unlike the previous Exidy games with this feature, the machine will simply restart instead of going to the manual diagnostics screen. 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)