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ParanoiaScape

ParanoiaScape is an absolutely bizarre horror-pinball game featuring grotesque visuals designed by special effects and make-up artist Joji Tano aka Screaming Mad George.

Unused Graphics#

SUB_MAP.BIN in the OBJECT folder contains some placeholder graphics.

TITLE.BIN in the same folder has assets for a different title screen.

Unused Audio#

Screaming Mad George makes an appearance in stage 3-2, guiding the player along the level. English lines of dialogue by him are present even though the game was never released outside of Japan.

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Transcription

Get them!

Right there!

Right there!

That's not it!

I'll give you this!

That's it, that's it!

That's good!

It's the bonus!

Here's an event!

You're so awful!

I'm not sure.

Destroy!

Okay, shall we go?

What the hell are you doing?

Somethings gonna happen!

No!

Go, go, go, go, go!

Yeah, feels good!

How many times do I have to say this?

Nah, see?

Let's go! Let's go! Go!

Go forward, man! Come on, go, straight ahead! Come on, go!

Unused Text#

This needs some investigation.
Discuss ideas and findings on the talk page.
Specifically: Can it be enabled?

Text for a debug menu is present in the executable.

%d/%d/%d 
%d/%d/%d
(SELECT)VIEW %d
TRAP %d
LIFE %d
(R-DOWN)GRAD %d
(R-UP)  SPD  %d
 Roach %d
 SE NO %d
 LIGHT VX/VY/VZ %d/%d/%d
VPX/VRX %d/%d
VPY/VRY %d/%d
VPZ/VRZ %d/%d
UPpress_cnt= %d
-SLOW MODE- 
                           
PAUSE (PRESS START BUTTON) 
|(BATU)   LX%d %d|
|(SIKAKU) LY%d %d|
|(SANKAKU)LZ%d %d|
(BATU)   LX%d %d
(SIKAKU) LY%d %d
(SANKAKU)LZ%d %d
  CD-DATE 
%d / %d 
STAGE %d - %d