Smash Ping Pong

Smash Ping Pong is the classic outing of Konami's Ping-Pong, now with Nintendo characters!

Konami's Ping-Pong Leftovers#

This needs some investigation. Discuss ideas and findings on the talk page. Specifically: Does programming for the missing title screen effects still exist?

There is ample evidence that this port was salvaged from a cancelled attempt to release the game on cartridge.

• Beyond mere cosmetic changes, the port is straight up 1:1 with the MSX release of the game (which, like the arcade counterpart, had been released two years beforehand).
  • The gameplay is also particularly sorted into "A" and "B" modes, which would be dropped around this time.
• The sprite bank still has the graphics for the spinning disk used in the original game's title screen, along with the respective palettes.
• Lastly, the program file in the disk's table of contents has the name of "RC805P_0.PRG". RC805 happens to be one of three codes missing from the first ten serial numbers of Konami's Famicom lineup, alongside RC803 and RC808.

FIle List	Sprite Bank
KYODAKU-.NT PINPOCHA.CHR RC805P_0.PRG

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