Paca Paca Passion Special (Arcade)

Paca Paca Passion Special
Developer: Produce Publisher: Namco Platform: Arcade (Namco System 12) Released in JP: December 1999 This game has hidden development-related text. This game has unused graphics.

Unused Graphics

The game's third graphics bank, pks1rom2.ic9, contains two unused ending graphics; one of them is a leftover from a location test build, while the other is from Paca Paca Passion 2.

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Also, Paca Paca Passion 2‍ '​s title screen background can also be found within the third graphics bank, at offset 0x44C008.

Development-Related Text

This needs some investigation. Discuss ideas and findings on the talk page. Specifically: Is it possible to access these screens?

Upon merging both of the program ROMs (pks1vera.2l and pks1vera.2p), it's possible to find several text strings from debug functionalities and from unseen screens meant to be accessed via the operator menu:

0x281AC	BAIRITU = %d FRAME = %d SCEN NO = %d TARGET = %d ACTIVE = %d TARGET = %d MOTO %4d %4d %4d SAKI %4d %4d %4d ROT X Y = %4d %4d
0x286C8	1P VS 2P 1P VS COM COM VS 2P COM VS COM TEST MODE PLAY PER PLAY PIA PLAY GUI PLAY BRA TEST PER TEST PIA TEST GUI TEST BRA
0x294D5	FLAG = ON FLAG = OFF
0x29BF4	TEST MODE - SPECIAL COMPUTER EXIT : P1-BUTTON3 OR P1-BUTTON4 TEST MODE - VOLUME STAGE MAIN : STAGE BGM-A : STAGE BGM-B : STAGE BGM-C : STAGE BGM-D : TEST MODE - COMPUTER EASY P 1/4 EASY P 2/4 EASY P 3/4 EASY P 4/4 EASY GOOD MEDIUM P 1/4 MEDIUM P 2/4 MEDIUM P 3/4 MEDIUM P 4/4 MEDIUM GOOD HARD P 1/4 HARD P 2/4 HARD P 3/4 HARD P 4/4 HARD GOOD COUNTER UP : P1-B3/4 P2-B1/2/3/4 COUNTER DOWN : P1-S AND COUNTER UP TEST MODE - ETC BAR TYPE : LANGUAGE : JAPANESE