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Ninja Combat (Neo Geo)

Ninja Combat is the beat-em-up tale of twin ninjas who travel to the Ninja Tower to destroy the evil Kage Ichizoku clan, a task that will be fraught with coin-munching difficulty.

Hidden Developer Credit#

At position 0x70 in 009-m1.m1 is this hidden developer credit and build date for the game's audio system, emoticon included. Note that line breaks have been added for readability.

 Operation System Program for Music & Effective Sound  Ver. 2.2
  (c) Copyright ALPHA DENSHI Co., Ltd.  1990 / June / 18
     by M.Chiba    <^_^> 

"M.Chiba" is Makio Chiba, programmer of the audio system used in all of Alpha Denshi/ADK's Neo Geo titles.

Unused Music#

The game's audio data contains two quick jingles that are not used in any capacity. They also appear on neither The Super Spy / Ninja Combat soundtrack album from 1990 nor the ADK Ontama compilation album from 2013.

ID

Audio

0A

1D