Pachi-Slot Aruze Oukoku Pocket - e-Cup

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Hidden Copyright Text#

Located at 0x01E505 in all versions is some hidden copyright text:

Copyright (C) 2000 ARUZE corp. All Rights Reserved

This copyright text is not identical to the one found on the title screen, as the title screen has 2000 and 2001 as the copyright years, while this one just has 2000.

Development Related Text#

In both versions, there is a collection of development related texts at various different points of the ROM, which are all remnants of Sound Forge 4.5, an audio editing software made by Sonic Foundry for Windows 95 and XP. These texts contain various dates from June 2000, nine months before the game was released. Junk data within these texts have been removed so they can be read more easily.

0x0AB277:

LISTB INFOICRD 2000-06-22 IENG サウンド ISFT Sound Forge 4.5

The Japanese text translates to "Sound". In other entries (below), this field is occupied by names, so this entry could represent one of the other two people listed below, or possibly a third person.

0x0B0945:

cue data @0 data @0 LISTX @& adtlltxt rgn labl Marker 6.496000 labl Record Take 001

0x0B170C, 0x0B296E and 0x0B3F42:

LISTB INFOICRD 2000-06-03 IENG サウンド ISFT Sound Forge 4.5

0x0B4E36 and 0x0CEC1B:

LISTB INFOICRD 2000-06-22 IENG 久徳 貞幸 ISFT Sound Forge 4.5

This Japanese text provides us with the name Sadayuki Kyutoku, who seems to have been one of the people responsible for the game's audio.

0x0CB4C4:

cue data LIST$ adtllabl Marker 00:00:00.933

0x0D4A66:

LISTD INFOICRD 2000-06-27 IENG AKIRA KOGA ISFT Sound Forge 4.5

This entry provides us with another name, that being Akira Koga. Koga was also likely responsible for some of the game's audio.

0x0D6912:

LISTD INFOICRD 2000-06-23 IENG AKIRA KOGA ISFT Sound Forge 4.5

Putting this all together, it seems that at least some of the audio for this game was created and edited using Sound Forge Version 4.5 between the 3rd and 27th of June, 2000, by at least two or potentially three people.

References#