Valtric

Valtric is an interesting shoot 'em up that removes the autoscrolling associated with the genre and adds a (limited) jumping feature.

Hidden Message#

One rather goofy message can be found in the main CPU at 0x16E70:

Message

Translation

MAIDO ARIGATOH  
GOZAIMASHITA    
KONO VALTRIC WA 
TENKABUTSUNO    
ISSAI HAITTEINAI
OKOSAMANIMO     
ANSHINSHITE     
DASERU          
OKASHI DESU.... 
      CHAN CHAN.

Thank you for your
continued support.
Valtric is a      
candy that can    
be safely given   
to children       
and contains      
absolutely        
no additives....  
      CHAN CHAN.

(Translation: Divingkataetheweirdo, Bast)

(Source: Original TCRF research)

Developers Credits#

Main CPU#

There are six different credits strings in the main CPU. Here are the first three:

Address	Message	Address	Message	Address	Message
0x00E40	`PROGRAMMED BY TOMMY NAKASATO`	0x12390	`created by Tamichan`	0x131C1	`(KK) NMK ALL RIGHT RESERVED 1986 PRESENTED BY JALECO`

The second set of strings are all data block labels by Satoshi Nakamura.

Address

Message

Address

Message

Address

Message

0x16E00

MOVING ENEMY'S  
DATA BLOCK      
COPYWRITE 1986  
BY S.NAKAMURA   
19TH SEP

0x19020

8603--VALTRIC   
ROM DATA OF     
ENEMY BASE      
COPYWRITE 1986  
SATOSHI NAKAMURA
19 SEP

0x2C150

8603-VALTRIC    
FLYING ENEMY'S  
SALLY DATA      
COPYWRITE 1986  
S.NAKAMURA      
14TH AUG

Audio CPU#

Two messages from Cheabow are in the sound CPU. The first is near the start of the CPU at 0x0069:

***This Sound Monitor Made By Cheabow.***
***Sound Effect Software Logic Design by Cheabow.***
***Music Data Transfer Logic Design by Cheabow.***
<<<<CAUTION: NOT A MANNER .... to be continue.>>>>

Continued at 0x152E:

All Music Compose by Cheabow.
All Music Arrange by Cheabow.
All Music Produce by Cheabow.
All Music Voicing by Cheabow.
All Sound Effect  by Cheabow.
Time Keeper by Cheabow.
All Sound Effect & Music Data key in by Cheabow.
(C) 1986 Nihon Maicom Kaihatsu LTD.
to be continue.

Turns out it ends on a cliffhanger.

Unused Graphics#

	These Kanji tiles, found in the background and font graphics ROMs respectively, translate to "Yamaguchi" and "Origami", the surnames of the game's tile artists. (Translation: Divingkataetheweirdo)
	This NMK logo should have been put on the title screen, but nope. There's just a big Jaleco logo taking up real estate. (Source: Original TCRF research)

References#

Domestic and Overseas Arcade Game List 1971-2005 ↩︎