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Prerelease:Pac-Man Championship Edition (NES)

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This page details prerelease information and/or media for Pac-Man Championship Edition (NES).

The Famicom/NES Pac-Man Championship Edition was originally a demake port by Japanese homebrew developer coke774. When Bandai Namco got ahold of it for the officially-licensed Namcot Collection (and Namco Museum Archives Vol. 1), development was shifted to M2, who altered a number of aspects from coke774's original. The initial homebrew version was never released to the public, though a handful of emulator-recorded screenshots and videos have surfaced, giving an incomplete look at the alterations M2 made.

Title Screen

coke774 M2
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Alongside various slight color and title placement changes, the title screen originally had "FC VER." (short for "Famicom Version") at the top, which M2 removed. The copyright info was also changed. Along with that, the ghost was slightly altered to have more sweat drops, Pac-Man was also changed to look slightly more round.

Oddly, the A in "PRESS START BUTTON" uses an incorrect tile in the M2 version.

Gameplay

coke774 M2
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The maze and scoreboard were shifted up a few pixels. All of the ghosts originally used colors closer to the ones they used in the NES Pac-Man before they were edited to be more accurate to their arcade colors. Inky and Clyde are the most notable of these color swaps, changing from sky blue and brown to cyan and orange respectively.

coke774 M2
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The results screen abbreviated the large number counts on the sides, along with some minor visual changes.

Other Differences

  • The music of coke774's original, save for custom renditions of the Famicom Disk Writer for the results screen and Hopping Mappy for the high score table, was lifted from various other sources (mainly the NES port of Pac-Mania). M2's version replaced the soundtrack with original remixes. The original's Pac-Mania sound effects were also replaced with more arcade-accurate equivalents.
  • Related to the above, coke774's version reportedly ran on MMC3 (mapper 4) hardware, while M2's uses Namco 163 (mapper 19). Because of this, it adds the N163's expansion audio; the added channels are used primarily for the sound effects, though they are used in the music as well.
  • Numerous slight graphical changes, such as enlarging the maze walls and making Pac-Man a bit rounder. There are several text and font changes as well. The most notable alteration is the "wiping" effect when switching to a new maze, changing from a white line in coke774's version to a column of tiny Pac-Men and Ghosts in M2's version.
  • The original only had the 8 fruits from the arcade version of Pac-Man, stopping at the Key (though the score continues to raise). The M2 version adds in the rest of the fruits seen in Championship Edition, bringing the total up to 22.
  • The credits option was replaced with a sound test.
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