Project Hacker: Kakusei

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Ace Attorney, like many successful franchises, was shamelessly ripped off many times. While Lifesigns and its Japan-only prequel replaced the trial sequences with awkward surgical sequences, Project Hacker had instead actually good program hacking minigame sequences.

Like countless other excellent visual novels though, notably from Chunsoft, this game wasn't exported outside Japan.

Debug Menu#

This needs some investigation. Discuss ideas and findings on the talk page. Specifically: How many debugging functions do we have in game

There are many, many "scr" files related to the debugging process present in the ROM. Judging from their filenames, some seem to be related to debugging various chapters, while others seem to be related to testing minigames. One file is even labeled test.scr.

There is notably a file named debugMenu.scr, which seems to contain options called "Load Game", "New Game", "Omake" (Bonus Content), "Select Debug Chapter", "CR Debug Mode". The other options seems to be a chapter select of sorts, and more save file management options.

Actually, you can enable the debugging menu with 3 lines of Action Replay code:

94000130 FFFB0000

120CF54A 00000001

D2000000 00000000

Hold Select while booting or resetting the game. The code sets the script flag checked by Menu.scr, causing it to load debugMenu.scr instead of the normal menu.

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