Frogger (Arcade)

Frogger
Developer: Konami Publisher: Sega Platform: Arcade (Konami Z80-based hardware) Released in JP: June 5, 1981 Released in US: October 23, 1981 Released in EU: August 6, 1982 This game has unused graphics. This game has unused music. This game has revisional differences.

The universe abhors a frog.

To do: The Arcade Archives release changed/replaced the main theme due to copyright issues.

Unused Music

In-Game	Fixed

It's impossible to hear the main theme (Taken from the 1977 anime Araiguma Rascal) in full in normal play; The most the player ever gets to hear is about 32 seconds into the track, leaving the last 8 seconds of the track out.

Even then, there's a mistake in the track that accidentally mutes the second voice channel about 25 seconds in. Put the following code in MAME's frogger.xml cheat file (Or in any of the derivative sets) to fix that channel.

  <cheat desc="Patch Main Theme">
    <script state="run">
      <action>audiocpu.mb@1134=CF</action>
    </script>
    <script state="off">
      <action>audiocpu.mb@1134=DF</action>
    </script>
  </cheat>

(Source: Chris Cantrell)

Unused Graphics

An unused "100" bonus graphic. It's possible that either gobbling the fly or taking one of the pink frogs home originally gave 100 points, but in the final game, both give 200 points.

(Source: Original TCRF research)

Version Differences

Konami	Sega (Old)

The older Sega set is almost identical code-wise to the Konami set. The only two changes are the copyright string and correcting "FIYE HOMES" to "FIVE HOMES" in the point table.

The newer Sega set replaces the old screen with a detailed description of the game, and adds an additional screen with a more thorough point table.