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Spot Goes to Hollywood (Sega Saturn)

The Saturn port of a PlayStation remake of a Genesis sequel to a multi-platform mascot platformer. This one is pretty much identical to the PlayStation version, the biggest difference being the lack of any transparent sprites.

Level Select#

Press Z, Up, Right, Down, Left, Z, Left, Down, Right, Up, Z on the main menu. This should cause a "COOL" option to appear, which if followed will allow you to "open all levels".

Having done so, go to "continue game" and press A to skip past the password screen. This should take you to the level selection screen with everything unlocked.

(Source: Sega Retro)

Unused Text#

The following are all in 0.bin.

Debugging Leftovers#

This needs some investigation.
Discuss ideas and findings on the talk page.
Specifically: See if it's possible to enable it in-game.

0x2E5B0 has text strings for a memory allocation statistics debug function.

PlayStation Leftovers#

0x3DF70 has a leftover text string from the PlayStation version:

\SPOT3\PLAYABLE\PSX\

Build Date#

0x3AB34 has a build date for the tool that makes VQA files on the disc:

VQASAT 2.41 (Oct 20 1996 16:26:55)

Unreferenced File#

0x3E5A8 references the file PLZAFONT.DAT, which is curiously not on the disc.

(Source: DarthDub)