the cutting room mirror

Junction (Genesis)

Junction is a home conversion/adaptation of Konami's arcade game Cue Brick. It's like Pipe Dream meets a sliding puzzle.

Hidden Text#

This string is located at 0x5066. The names refer to directors/programmers/designers Isao Nakasugi (aka "Shaka") and Takahashi Tomoyuki.

Junction (c)1990 Micronet. (Nakasugi)(Takahashi)

Various error messages at 0x77E28:

RESETssp
RESETpc 
BUS ERR 
ADDRESS 
INSTRUCT
ZERO DIV
CHK     
TRAPV   
CCR ERR 
TRACE   
L1010   
L1111   
RV 12   
RV 13   
RV 14   
UN INIT 

Unused Graphics#

Background 1#

In-game

"Corrected"

There are eight frames of the "base" of the bubble pool. The third one is used twice, seemingly intentionally. The second one is also used twice, seemingly unintentionally. The animation is eight frames long, leaving the last two "base" graphics unused.

Configuration background#

In-game

"Corrected"

While not necessarily unused, the background of the configuration screen has more detail than the palette provides.

Results background#

In-game

"Corrected"

Ditto.