Lady Stalker: Kako kara no Chousen

Lady Stalker is a more RPG-oriented spinoff of Landstalker, targeted toward female gamers.

Debug Mode#

This needs some investigation. Discuss ideas and findings on the talk page. Specifically: What do the characters on the bottom of the file select mean?

Press Start on Controller 2 at any time during the game's attract mode. Start the game and choose Save File 1, which will have a name consisting of the background graphics. Lady will start on the map that was on-screen when Start was pressed during the attract mode, and the following debugging functions will be enabled on Controller 2:

• Start - Save the debug mode file, which will allow it to be used during normal gameplay.
• Up/Down - Cycle between all of the game's maps.
• B - View the staff roll.
• Y - Sound Test.
• L - Maxes out all stats.
• R - Freezes gameplay.

Developer Text#

At 0x294 is a string that is written to RAM on startup.

CLIMAX

At 0xAF64 is a developer text that is used as an SRAM verification measure. It writes this value to SRAM at $306080 and if there is a mismatch, all save data is erased.

CLIMAX SPECIALS

Anti-Piracy#

As with most of the later released Taito published SNES games, the game runs a simple copy protection check when the main menu is loaded up to ensure it has exactly 8KB of SRAM. This is done by writing two bytes of values at $307FFC and then a different set of values at $317FFC to ensure the SRAM mirror is in the correct location. If this check fails due to a mismatch, the game gets stuck in an infinite loop and the save menu will not pop up, disallowing the player from being able to start a game.

References#