Metamorphic Force

Metamorphic Force
Developer: Konami Publisher: Konami Platform: Arcade (Konami Mystic Warriors hardware) Released internationally: August 1993 This game has hidden development-related text. This game has unused graphics. This game has regional differences.

Unused Graphics

A bunch of filler tiles that can be found throughout the graphics ROMs.

Hexadecimal numbers.

(Source: Ferrox)

Development Text

Present at 0x198D0 in the main CPU is text for a crash handler that never shows up since the game automatically reboots whenever it crashes.

BUS ERROR
ADRESS ERROR
ZERO DEVIDED ERROR
LINE 1010 EMULATOR ERROR
LINE 1111 EMULATOR ERROR

Starting at 0x12918A in the main CPU is text for a debug mode.

GET

0x12962C:

TYPE
MODE
STEP
ZOOM H   V
PAL
BODY WID H   V
ATCK POS H   V
     WID H   V
FOOT POS H   V
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
PL0
PL1
ST

0x12B440:

CHAR CODE
FILE PAGE
PALLET

0x12B664:

OBJ CHECKER 1P MODE
OBJ CHECKER 2P MODE
OBJ CHECKER FILE DISPLAY
VRAM CHECKER
LVC CHECKER
EXIT
RANKING
NAME ENTRY

0x12B99C:

CHAR CODE
FILE PAGE
PALLET
0123456789ABCDEF

(Source: Ferrox)

Regional Differences

The Japanese version of the game uses a bar to represent health and the international versions use numbers instead.