Lunar Ball (MSX)

Lunar Ball
Developer: Compile Publisher: Pony Canyon Platform: MSX Released in JP: 1985 This game has a hidden developer message. This game has hidden developer credits. This game has debugging material.

Lunar Ball is a cuh-razy billiards game. It's like the more well-known NES version, but there are only 32 tables and it was only released in Japan.

Debug Commands

Hold the Select button and press one of the following keys:

• B: Go to the previous stage.
• N: Go to the next stage.
• F5: Toggles music.
• Stop: Reset game.

(Source: ReyVGM)

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Lunar Ball - MSX
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  by K.Shintani 
COMPILE Corp.   
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(Source: Original TCRF research)

Unused Graphics

Graphics for a currently undiscovered Test Mode. Possibly similar to the test mode in Gulkave, another Compile game.

Graphics start at 3AAF in the ROM.