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Hat Trick Hero 2

A soccer game that was originally intended to be released in the US as Super Soccer Champ 2, but went unreleased. Extensive use of Mode 7 here for rendering the game field.

Anti-Piracy#

Like many games published by Taito, this game includes an SRAM check. The game normally does not contain SRAM, but still attempts to check for it by writing a value at $700100 and compares it with the register $06. If there was SRAM found, this will cause a mismatch and result in the game entering an infinite loop while booting, resulting in the game being unable to boot and stuck on a black screen. This anti-piracy method was also used for Jinsei Game: Ooedo Nikki, another game published by Taito.

(Source: Original TCRF research)

References#


  1. GDRI↩︎