Hissatsu Pachinko Collection 2 (SNES)

Hissatsu Pachinko Collection 2 makes the bold decision of exchanging the gratuitous fanservice of the last game for a male pachinko attendant. Don't worry(?), they'll both be back in full force for the next one.

Unused Music#

This arrangement of "Hotaru no Hikari" only plays if the player is at a pachinko machine at the time of closing (10:00pm), and as the game forces you out of the parlor automatically the song never gets to play for more than a few seconds.

This song can be heard in full in the first game, which simply disables any option other than leaving at closing time. The subsequent two entries in the series are cut short in a similar fashion to this title, however.

Unused Graphics#

On the seventh day of each in-game month, a lucky draw is offered at the pachinko Parlor Fuji. If won, it awards the player with a "freebie" artwork that can be accessed in the bedroom menu. There are 13 such awards, but the last one - this beautiful yet haunting pocketwatch - is unable to be won or viewed due to the fact the game ends after a year passes in-game.

Anti-Piracy#

The game runs a simple SRAM integrity check on bootup. If no SRAM is detected, the game will intentionally glitch and corrupt itself, such as casino names not showing up and most game modes hanging on a black screen when starting, but most notably, the player will always start with 0CR in the main mode. This will result in the game over/bankruptcy screen appearing the instant the player goes to their first pachinko machine, and to make matters worse the game will disable all controller input on the bankruptcy screen once it shows up, requiring the console to be restarted manually.

Altogether, this essentially makes the game completely unplayable while also taunting pirates for playing a pirated copy of the game.

Region Error#

If the game detects that it is running on a PAL region console, it will throw up this message...though the palette chosen for this screen doesn't really make the text all that legible.