Paca Paca Passion (PlayStation)

Paca Paca Passion is a port of Produce's same-titled 1998 arcade rhythm game, which involves four members of a band playing songs and avoiding having towers of blocks that pierce the screen below them.

Fullchip Mode#

After selecting a character, when the song title appears on-screen, press the buttons in the following order: Yellow, Red, Blue, Green, Green, Blue, Red, Yellow. You'll hear a confirmation sound after inputting the code correctly. This'll enable Fullchip mode where it'll make all the notes in a song appear, ramping up the difficulty and being able to score more points than before.

Debug Menu#

Use the following GameShark code and enter the key configurations screen to access a debug menu:

30046300 0000

IC#

Warps to the title screen.

GAME#

Warps to the character selection screen; changing the value using 1P Left and 1P Right changes the song that will play. This also affects the FLAG parameter; trying to change it also changes the value in this function.

0 - Cool Dancing
1 - Escape
2 - Sun-J99Mix
3 - Lips XTC
4 - Blue Noise
5 - XL TECHNO
6 - in a merry mood
7 - Camel
8 - KEY WORD
9 - FLOATED CALM
10 - Cool Dancing
11 - Escape
12 - Sun-J99Mix
13 - Lips XTC
14 - Blue Noise
15 - XL TECHNO

STAGE SEL#

Warps to the song selection screen.

SOUND TEST#

Warps to a debug sound test menu.

STAGE changes the track being played, with IDs ranging from 0 to 9, while MAIN VOL, FILLA VOL, FILLB VOL, FILLC VOL and FILLD VOL changes the volume of the main track and of the four separate instrument tracks. It is not known what the other parameters do.

ANIM VIEW#

Warps to what would be an animation viewer, but nothing seems to work anymore. It's also not possible to exit this screen outside of resetting the game.

OPTION#

Warps to the game's main sound test menu.

TRY#

Warps to the "Try the Next Stage" screen seen after completing Practice mode.

TEST#

Warps to the Standard mode end screen for the character Coke.

NAME#

Warps to the Name Entry screen. Coke is the selected character.

TAIKEN EXIT#

Freezes the game.

Unused Music#

This needs some investigation. Discuss ideas and findings on the talk page. Specifically: Some sources suggest that these songs can be heard at in-game sound test by getting 80% or more perfects on the corresponding song.

Eight unused variations of the game's music tracks can be found unused within GAME.MXA.

Blue Noise

Cool Dancing

Escape

in a merry mood

Lips XTC

Low Visibility (Credits)
The only difference seems to be that the unused variation is much quieter and has a much weaker bass.

Sun-J99Mix
Notable for being almost eight minutes long; almost three times more than the average length of the playable songs.

XL TECHNO

Dummy File#

DUMMY.DAT, present in the root of the game's disc, is actually an earlier version of the main data file from Mystic Ark: Maboroshi Gekijou, containing many different textures. More information can be found in the respective game's page.

References#