Mustache Boy

Mustache Boy
Developer: Seibu Kaihatsu Publisher: March Platforms: Arcade (Custom) Released internationally: 1987 This game has unused graphics. This game has unused text.

Mustache Boy is a game about mustached men and robots walking over tiles. However, it is NOT a game about mustached robots walking over tiles, which is really the only thing keeping it from being a gaming classic.

Copyright Strings

Seibu Kaihatsu	Taito Corporation
ID: 00	ID: 01

ROM address 0xA000 in the main CPU controls the copyright information ID -- this is set to 02 in the final game. There are two alternate messages and accompanying logos for Seibu Kaihatsu (the developer publishing under their own label) and Taito (which published most of Seibu Kaihatsu's games in the late 1980s). There are no records of either company publishing the game, leaving these alternate copyrights unused.

Place this cheat in MAME's mustache.xml file to change the copyright information:

  <cheat desc="Copyright ID">
    <parameter>
      <item value="0x0900">Seibu</item>
      <item value="0x0901">Taito</item>
      <item value="0x0902">March</item>
    </parameter>
    <script state="run">
      <action>maincpu.mw@A000=param</action>
    </script>
  </cheat>

(Source: Original TCRF research)