MAMEWorld Forums - EmuChat - Re: Anyone able to translate this?

> > "You have beaten Gaplus. In commemoration, we send you this message. Send a letter
> to
> > Kojima at Namco, and he'll give something to the first 10 respondents. Sorry, but
> > turn off the power now."
>
> Interesting. That implies that there's a way to beat the game, assuming that this
> isn't an artifact from earlier on in the development process of something that was
> later removed. Paging Don Hodges...
>
> Thanks for that. Most definitely appreciated.

I found a Japanese web page which has tons of information about Gaplus. The downside is that is almost entirely in Japanese, although google translate does a decent job with it.

http://kani.ninpou.jp/gaplus/gaplus.htm

From the page, near the bottom, we learn that entering a certain name, age, and blood type in the high score entry will give this message. Another special named entry will give 8 ships per game on all future games until the machine is power cycled.

These only work on the Japanese ROM as the US ROM only allows for 3 character entries and does not have age nor blood type.

Code:


 NAME     AGE  BLOOD   Effect  
 JHIMYJ   00   OO      In all games until the power is turned off from the next play, it will start with 8 machine ship. 
 
 JNIWAR   28   OO      Message appears on the screen.  It is not possible the next game if you do not power-cycled.

Don Hodges
www.donhodges.com