Steel Empire (Game Boy Advance)

Steel Empire is a remake of the cult classic steampunk shmup initially released for the Mega Drive.

Debug Menu#

At any point before the intro story text appears, press Select, Up, Down, A, Left, Start. Start the game, and the debug menu pictured above will appear after choosing a player. The available functions are:

• STAGE NO: Select a stage to play.
• AREA NO: Select an area within the selected stage to play.
• SHIP NO: Seemingly would set the number of ships the player has, but it doesn't seem to work.
• SHIP_HIT: Turn this off and the player will be invincible, and all enemies will die on contact.
• GAME LEVEL: Select the game's difficulty.
• SHOT LV: Adjust the power of the player's shot.
• OPTION: Adjust the player's powerups.
• KEY_TYPE: Choose which of the game's control schemes to use.

Debugging Text#

Miscellaneous debugging text (which may be leftovers from American Bass Challenge) can be found scattered throughout the ROM:

x44C08:

TASK:CAN NOT PAUSE
TASK:CAN NOT CONT
TASK:CAN NOT WAIT
TASK:CAN NOT STOP
TASK:CAN NOT START

DAT_TRS:NOT DMA (FIXED SRC)
DAT_TRS:DMA PARAMETER
DAT_TRS:ALIGNMENT ERR
DAT_TRS:COUNT/BIT SIZE ERR
DAT_TRS:BUFFER OVER
FISH STOP & HIT:WORK NO %X
FISH ANM POS BREAK:CHK POS
FISH NAME/ANM BREAK:CHK POS.%s %X
EASY
NORMAL
HARD
STAGE 1
STAGE 2
STAGE 3
STAGE 4
STAGE 5
STAGE 6
STAGE 7

x45004:

PLAY DEMO

x5D266:

SOUND TEST

SOUND No.

EXIT
A:START SOUND 
B:ALL RESET
L:PITCH DOWN
R:PITCH UP

PLAYER:
PITCH:

A:NOT START IF SAME
SELECT  + A:START OR CHANGE
START   + A:START OR CONTINUE
SELECT+L(R):PITCH CHANGE 

STEP1

MP0 NOT EXIST
MP1 NOT EXIST
MP2 NOT EXIST
MP3 NOT EXIST
MP4 NOT EXIST

TRACK:
SOUND=
PAUSEING     SOUND=

FREE