OverBlood

OverBlood
Developer: Riverhillsoft Publishers: Riverhillsoft (JP), Electronic Arts (US, EU) Platform: PlayStation Released in JP: August 2, 1996 Released in US: May 22, 1997 Released in EU: June 1997 This game has debugging material.

To do: More explaining.

Debugging Functions

Activation Methods

US Release

There are two ways to enable these debugging functions in the US release of the game. The first is to use the following GameShark/Action Replay codes.

800240E4 0000
800240EC 0000
80024118 0000
80024138 0000
8002418C 0000
800241D0 0000
800241D8 0000
80024204 0000

The other is to set the following offsets to 0x00 in SLUS_004.64.

0x000148E4
0x000148EC
0x00014918
0x00014938
0x0001498C
0x000149D0
0x000149D8
0x00014A04

JP Release

Use the following code to enter a debug menu.

800CF4D8 0001

How to Use

Once enabled, hold R2 and press Circle to enable the debug menu. Hold R2 and press Square to see some statistics on the game. Pausing the game and pressing R2 advances the game frame-by-frame.

Debug Menu

• ROOM CHANGE - Exactly what it says. Choose which room the player is in.
• MOVIE - Play back any .STR file on the game's disc.
• BGM - Play back any music track in an .XA file on the game's disc.
• VOICE - Play back any voice track in an .XA file on the game's disc.
• EFFECT - Play back any sound effect in an .SEQ file on the game's disc.
• ITEM GET - Changes what's in the player's inventory.

(Source: MarkGrass)

Debug Display

When enabling debug mode, set page number to RAM address 0x800CF7A8 to display debug text.

EVENT

Page number: 0x01

Display event execute information.

MEMORY

Page number: 0x02

Display some data memory address.

WORK

Page number: 0x03

Display some work value.

SAVE WORK

Page number: 0x04

INFORMATION

Page number: 0x05

DEBUG 1

Page number: 0x06

Display some game system values.

VOICE COUNTER

Page number: 0x07