Space Shuttle Exploration

Space Shuttle Exploration
Also known as: Space Destroyer Exploration Developer: Hummer Team Publisher: Trump Grand Manufacturing Platform: Unlicensed NES This game has hidden developer credits. This game has unused graphics. This game has unused music.

Space Shuttle Exploration is a completely original shmup by Hummer Team that has co-op and is hard as hell in single player.

Rinco Copyright Screen

To do: Since the graphics still seem to exist, can we fix the screen?

Similar to Panda Adventure, this was supposed to be released by Rinco but no copies published by them have been found. Unlike Panda Adventure however, this game does contain a copyright screen. While playing, changing the value in 0004 to 06 will trigger it. All the palettes and animations play correctly and it even has Rinco's fanfare, but the pointers must've changed as it loads the incorrect graphics. Even then, there appears to be graphics for a bigger Rinco logo (similar to the one in The Dragon's intro) but none exist in any cart this game has appeared on. You can't exit the screen, which may indicate signs of unfinished programming.

Unused Graphics

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Not only do the graphics remain for the Rinco logo but also some Arabic text. Rinco's only known games The Dragon and Os Cavaleiros do Zodíaco did include an option for the language, but given where these graphics are stored and the non-Arabic ones also being present in their copyright screens, it's possible this was supposed to be for the one in the game.

Some letters on the title screen go unused as well as a copyright symbol. Given the unused letters, it's possible the title screen would've mentioned "Ramar Int'l Co., LTD" (Ramar International Corporation, Limited which is Rinco's full name) similar to The Dragon's title screen. The "96" might imply this game was originally made in 1996.

Unused Music

In address 0701, there's two unused tracks:

22 - Mortal Kombat II Special Vs. Screen

For some reason, the Mortal Kombat II Special track used on the Vs. screen is in the ROM and not used anywhere else.

23 - Rinco Fanfare

The Rinco fanfare plays when you access the copyright screen above. Unlike Panda Adventure, this variation actually uses percussion.

Revisions

Space Destroyer Exploration

An alternate version of this game exists on some Famiclone systems which replaces part of the logo. Strangely, this version loads the font from Bucky O'Hare into the PPU on the title screen, but it's never actually used.

Oddly, Space Destroyer Exploration is compiled with double the amount of CHR data as Space Shuttle Exploration. The first half of this data, however, is merely copied graphics from Finger DDR, specifically the sprites of Pikachu and Hello Kitty that are unused in that game.