Pac-Man 99

Pac-Man 99
Developer: Arika Publisher: Bandai Namco Platform: Nintendo Switch Released internationally: April 7, 2021 This game has hidden development-related text.

This game's online features are no longer supported. While this game's online features were once accessible, they are (as of October 8, 2023) no longer officially supported and online-exclusive features may be documented as now-unseen content.

Pac-Man 99 sees Arika milking the Battle Royale format once again for the Switch, this time utilizing some elements from the Pac-Man Championship Edition series and throwing in paid DLC.

This was basically a replacement for Super Mario Bros. 35, which had been shut down a week earlier. To add insult to injury, not only did Pac-Man 99 last five times longer but its eventual shutdown was only for the online aspects - the offline modes, obtained via paid DLC (all of which were also removed from the eShop), remain accessible if they had been bought.

Development Leftovers

Windows Build Assets

Every single *_rom.*.dat and *_rom_file.*.dat in the Dat folder has similar files ending with .x64, providing identical assets but cooked for Windows.

Empty Theme File

Also present in the Dat folder is dbg_theme. While the name suggests it was used for debugging purposes, it's completely empty.

Internal Project Name

To do: Meaning?

The build path of the game suggests the game was internally called yosso.