Mallet Madness

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Hidden-ish Message#

When the game is started up, it will briefly flash this hello world message before displaying the title. Although it's not unused, it's only on screen for two frames and only during boot up sequence. It's unknown who Bazza and Jenko are.

(Source: Ferrox)

Build Date#

A build date can be found at 0xFF10DDBE in memory.

Mon Apr 10 19:53:11 2000

(Source: Ferrox)

Development Text#

Various development related strings and notes can be found loaded into memory.

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START OF CODE

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END OF PCBTEST CODE / DATA

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entry point other than %s specified
entry point symbol %s undefined
_main
findaux %s 
makesym: adding symbol <%s>, numldsyms = %ld
symbol table overflow
internal error: .     Not found-- added : hash = %d
Absolute symbol %s in %s is multiply defined
Symbol %s in %s is multiply defined. First defined in %s.     already found: hash = %d
makeaux: %s (%d) : %08lx %08lx %08lx %08lx
Making aux entry %d for symbol %s out of sequence
aux table overflow
internal error: .Overwriting aux entry %d of symbol %s
internal error:   getsym %8lx 
negative symbol table id
internal error: .invalid symbol table id
internal error:   getaux %8lx 
internal error: .invalid aux table id
internal error: .psymtab: *** file=<%s>   numsyms=%ld
      Symbol: "%s"
fail to read aux entries of %s
fail to skip the aux entry of %s
fail to skip the mem of struct of %s
   --- %ld rel symbols, %ld loc symbols found in %s
loopaux %s 
symbol table overflow
internal error: 
dot%03d
%.1lx is not a power of 2
memory allocation failure
>> .%s., line %d: .: 
warning:  syntax error
%s : scanned line = (%s)
yacc stack overflow
syntax error

0xFF10D7DA

MEMORY specification ignored
bad attribute value in MEMORY directive: %c
bonding excludes alignment
*group*
can not specify an owner for section within a group
can not specify a page for section within a group
section %s not built
bonding excludes alignment
can not bond a section within a group
can not align a section within a group
statement ignored
unexpected EOF
illegal option within SECTIONS
missing filename on -l
bad fill value
semicolon required after expression

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<<NMSG>>
R6000 - stack overflow
R6003 - integer divide by 0
R6008 - not enough space for arguments
R6009 - not enough space for environment
run-time error 
R6002 - floating point not loaded
R6001 - null pointer assignment

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General MIDI Authoring Template

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Copyright '93
Michael Ford

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Composed: John Rickey

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Blown Bottle*recorded
Shakuhachi*recorded
STANDARD Drum*recorded
Grand Piano *merged
GM Device  1

(Source: Ferrox)