Rise of the Robots (Arcade)

Rise of the Robots
Developer: Mirage Publisher: Bell-Fruit Manufacturing Platform: Arcade (Bell-Fruit/ATD RasterSpeed) Released in EU: May 1995 This game has uncompiled source code. This game has a hidden developer message. This game has hidden developer credits. This game has hidden development-related text. This game has unusual dummy files.

To do: TEST3.RSV is a possibly unused FMV.

An arcade port of the infamous fighting game which for some odd reason was released after the home versions.

Developer Credit

Present at 0x92 in the boot ROM (rasterspeed2.1_bootrom4.u10).

Charset by Simon N. Goodwin

(Source: Original TCRF research)

Development Text

Present at 0x4BCE and 0xE072 in the boot ROM are a couple of odd error messages.

Print menu knackered

hmmmm, I dont think much of your music
Give me data CDs any time!

(Source: Original TCRF research)

Uncompiled Source Code

MAKEDIFF.C contains some leftover source code.

#include <stdio.h>

char buffer[14*12] =
{
	160, 140, 120, 100, 80, 60, 40, 30, 20,15,15,15,15,10,
	144, 126, 108,  90, 72, 54, 36, 27, 20,15,13,10, 8, 6,
	128, 112,  96,  80, 64, 48, 32, 24, 18,13, 9, 6, 5, 4,
	112,  98,  84,  70, 56, 42, 28, 21, 16,12, 7, 5, 4, 3,

	128, 112,  96,  80, 64, 48, 32, 24, 18,13, 9, 6, 5, 4,
	128, 112,  84,  70, 56, 42, 28, 21, 16,12, 7, 5, 4, 3,
	128, 112,  40,  30, 25, 20, 15, 12, 10, 8, 6, 4, 3, 2,
	128, 112,  30,  25, 20, 15, 10,  8,  6, 4, 2, 1, 0, 0,

	112,  98,  22,  18, 10,  8,  7,  6,  5, 4, 2, 1, 0, 0,
	112,  98,  19,  16, 10,  8,  6,  5,  4, 3, 2, 1, 0, 0,
	112,  98,  16,  14,  8,  6,  5,  4,  4, 3, 2, 1, 0, 0,
	  5,   4,   4,   3,  3,  2,  2,  1,  1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0
};

main()
{
	FILE *f;

	f = fopen( "diffcurv.dat", "wb" );
	fwrite( buffer, 1, 12*14, f );
	fclose( f );
}

(Source: Original TCRF research)

Zool Hard Disk

FRECOVER.DAT appears to be the first 100KB of a hard disk image for the unreleased arcade port of Zool. It only contains a file listing though.

(Source: Original TCRF research)