Mazin Saga: Mutant Fighter

Mazin Saga: Mutant Fighter
Also known as: Mazin Saga (JP), Mazin Wars (EU) Developer: Almanic Publishers: Sega (JP/EU), Vic Tokai (US) Platform: Genesis Released in JP: February 26, 1993 Released in US: February 25, 1993 Released in EU: 1993 This game has hidden development-related text. This game has debugging material.

Debug text

Exception text starting at $00040A:

BUS ERROR     
ADDRESS ERROR 
NO OPECODE    
DIVIDED BY 0  
CHECK ERROR   
OVER FLOW     
USER MODE     
TRACE MODE    
A LINE        
F LINE        
UN INITIALIZE 
SPRIUS ERROR  
UNKNOWN ERROR 
AUTOVECT 1    
AUTOVECT 2    
AUTOVECT 3    
AUTOVECT 5    
AUTOVECT 7    

User Mode

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For the User Mode exception, above, the programming goes from $000022 to $000392 to $0073BA. There, it runs some kind of debug programming that checks controller 2 buttons and also loads text strings RECORD and PLAY.

Unknown debugging

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This possibly connects to the previous section. A routine starting at $0072F4 loads debug text pointers. The strings start at $0E1D7A and includes text STAGE, JOYMODE :, JOYREC :, and more.