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DOOR DOOR Enix Famicom 1985

BTW, if you’d like to see some snazzy photos of Door Door’s outer box and cartridge, check out this old blog post of mine: http://www.thegaygamer.com/2012/12/12-import-games-i-bought-in-2012-but_31.html

acceptable condition: poor condition good condition: poor condition “in case with artwork/in box”: no manual or inserts no grading information: loose stock image: loose “may show wear”: shows wear “may be missing one or more of the following”: missing one or more of the following

in shrink wrap: re-shrinked by seller japan import/US seller: available for a fraction of the cost on yahoo.jp normal wear & tear: significant cosmetic damage printed cover: low resolution insert printed on a 1997 Canon Bubble Jet professionally resurfaced: heavy circular scratches from a $20 SkipDr rare/very rare: uncommon reproduction: bootleg VGA graded: vanity listing

I only started using it two days ago, myself. Consequently, I do not at all understand how pointer scanning is supposed to work, or what stupid hex math I’m supposed to do to find pointers manually. So I cannot just upload a cheat table for anyone to use. But I will explain how to find the addresses on your own. As long as you complete the first few steps of Cheat Engine’s tutorial that teach you the interface and basic functionality, you should understand how to use it well enough to do this. I used PSXjin 2.0.2 and Cheat Engine 6.7.

1. Attach Cheat Engine to PSXjin, and begin the game. Don’t move.

2. Perform a new scan for the value 240, with the scan type “exact value” and the value type “4 byte”. Then move your character forward until the screen scrolls, stop, change the scan type to “increased value”, and scan again. This will whittle down the number of results to the point where you should see a stack of addresses like this, with values in the low hundreds:

These are all of the addresses tied to the screen scrolling. When you do this, the addresses will not be exactly the same, but the last four digits will be, and they should be in the same order. Add the “boss” and “collision” addresses to your list (I recommend renaming them to avoid confusion), and then add the one for “trees” (this is not strictly necessary, but it will make things easier, and is the least likely of the above block of addresses to break anything).

3. Reset PSXjin. Tick the boxes for the “boss” and “collision” addresses in the address list, and begin the game. Keeping these values locked at 0 for the time being will prevent the miniboss from spawning, and also prevent the game from loading background collision while the level scrolls (this is necessary to bypass the rivers, which appear to be broken). When you reach where the miniboss would normally spawn, you should be able to progress beyond that point. Once you pass the far bank of the second river the game wants you to grapple across, stop. The “trees” address should have continued ticking up, and should now have a value of around 4200. Change the values for the “boss” and “collision” addresses to be the same, and then untick the boxes. Proceed forward, and the boss should load in.

Believe me, I did try to create a cheat table to make it a little easier, but it just wasn’t happening. I hope this, at least, will help bring some closure to the one other person on the planet who cares about this game.

Bounty Arms (PlayStation), Unreleased Unknown Composer

Data West’s Bounty Arms appeared as a playable demo on Vol. 5 of Sony’s DemoDemo series for the PlayStation in 1995, but ultimately never came out. It’s a shame, because stretchy-armed protagonists are a pretty easy sell for me. The game is very rough, but kinda reminds me of playing Erin in Arcus Odyssey.

Although footage exists of assets for the entire first level, the demo abruptly cuts to the game over screen upon defeating the miniboss. Sitting still runs up an invisible timer that game overs you after two and a half minutes. That makes it pretty difficult to hear the full song. I managed to disable the timer using Cheat Engine so I could record the music in its entirety.

As the screen scrolls upwards, a value is incremented, which spawns the miniboss when it hits a certain number. Temporarily disabling this and then updating the value once I’d walked past the miniboss arena allowed me to bypass the fight and see the rest of the level, which is normally inaccessible.

The grapple points seen in the promo video are present, and fully functional.

As is the boss. Defeating it also sends you to the game over screen.

There is an invisible wall at a river that I was unable to bypass through normal means, so I also had to disable collision. But the whole level is present and more or less functional. I do not possess the knowledge to do so, but it would hypothetically be possible to hack the game or maybe even create a cheat code that allowed the entire level to be played.

I gotta try this myself, as soon as I can raise my game-hacking literacy above “place offerings before the console to placate whatever demigod controls my copy of Punky Skunk.”

More info on Bounty Arms:

http://www.kidfenris.com/2009/09/bounty-arms-demo.html

(The download link for the demo is in the last paragraph)

https://tcrf.net/Bounty_Arms

(More about the hidden stuff in the demo)

http://kidfenris.com/bountyarms.html

Spring is the season where we start to see the ads with adorable little bunnies in the run up to Easter.  Some people think that a bunny would make a great gift for their child on Easter morning.  Sadly, bunnies tend to be considered as “starter pets” and because they’re cute, they must love being picked up and cuddled like a puppy or kitten would–nothing could be further from the truth.

Bunnies are prey animals and they need to trust you before they’re comfortable being pet or handled (most bunnies never like being picked up because it’s hard-wired into them that being picked up is the last thing that happens before being eaten by a predator).  Little ones don’t understand why the cute bunny doesn’t want to be held and cuddled or why the bunny scratched or bit at them while trying to run away.