Lady Stalker: Kako kara no Chousen

Lady Stalker: Kako kara no Chousen
Also known as: Lady Stalker: The Apocalypse Engine Developer: Climax Entertainment Publisher: Taito Platform: SNES Released in JP: April 1, 1995 This game has debugging material. This game has a hidden sound test. This game has a hidden level select. This game has anti-piracy features.

Lady Stalker is a more RPG-oriented spinoff of Landstalker, targeted toward female gamers.

Debug Mode

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Press Start on Controller 2 at any time during the game's attract mode. Start the game and choose Save File 1, which will have a name consisting of the background graphics. Lady will start on the map that was on-screen when Start was pressed during the attract mode, and the following debugging functions will be enabled on Controller 2:

• Start - Save the debug mode file, which will allow it to be used during normal gameplay.
• Up/Down - Cycle between all of the game's maps.
• B - View the staff roll.
• Y - Sound Test.
• L - Maxes out all stats.
• R - Freezes gameplay.

(Source: Yamada_Arthur)

Anti-Piracy

As with most of the later released Taito published SNES games, the game includes a simple copy protection to ensure it has exactly 8KB of SRAM. If this check fails, the save menu will not pop up, disallowing the player from being able to start a game.