Super Champion Baseball

Super Champion Baseball
Developer: Alpha Denshi Publisher: SNK Platform: Arcade (Alpha Denshi 68000 hardware) Released in JP: June 1989 Released in US: August 1989 This game has hidden developer credits. This game has debugging material.

Super Champion Baseball is an arcade baseball game. Up to two players can play this arcade baseball game. This game features running, pitching, and hitting a baseball with a bat. It is in full color and has sound effects and music.

Character Monitor

Place this cheat in MAME's sbasebal.xml cheat file to change the standard test mode into a character monitor:

  <cheat desc="Character Debugger">
    <script state="run">
      <action>maincpu.mw@00EBE=052A</action>
      <action>maincpu.mw@00EC8=0520</action>
    </script>
    <script state="off">
      <action>maincpu.mw@00EBE=F89A</action>
      <action>maincpu.mw@00EC8=F890</action>
    </script>
  </cheat>

Controls:

• 1P Left / 1P Right: Increases/decreases BG/FG/Sprite character offset by 1.
• 1P Up / 1P Down: Increases/decreases BG/FG/Sprite character offset by 10.
• 1P Button 1: Switches between "Line" (1x1) and "Block" display modes.
• 1P Button 2: In Block mode, switches between 4x3 and 4x4 block groupings.
• 1P Start: Toggles "Fix" mode. When set on, displays the current HUD graphics bank behind the BG/FG/Sprite graphics bank.
• 2P Left / 2P Right: Increases/decreases BG/FG/Sprite palette by 10.
• 2P Up / 2P Down: Increases/decreases BG/FG/Sprite palette by 1.
• 2P Button 1: Load previous HUD graphics bank.
• 2P Button 2: Increments HUD palette number.
• 2P Button 3: Decrements HUD palette number.
• 2P Start: Load next HUD graphics bank.

(Source: Original TCRF research)

Developer Credits

Satoshi Hagitani's signature hidden message starts at address 0x00070 in the audio CPU:

Sound Board No.62FC01
Music Macro Lungeag & 
Effect Macro Lungeag & 
Adpcm Voice Out Control Program
ALPHA DENSHI CO., LTD.
By Satoshi.Hagitani 

(Source: Original TCRF research)