Battle Garegga Rank-o-meter

mjclark · Post by **mjclark** » Sat Apr 02, 2011 10:07 am

After getting justifiably excited about austere's DOJ+ I was looking through the DOJ strategy sections and found this post suggesting there was a ROM hack for Battle Garegga that displayed rank onscreen.
Does anyone know any more about this?

spl · Post by **spl** » Sat Apr 02, 2011 10:18 am

If you use GareMAME then you can enable the rank display as a cheat.

mjclark · Post by **mjclark** » Sat Apr 02, 2011 11:52 am

spl wrote:If you use GareMAME then you can enable the rank display as a cheat.

OMFG! It's an emulator dedicated to Battle Garegga!!! Never knew such a thing existed.
Thanks for this- will investigate that crazy GareMAME further

Post by **Dave_K.** » Sat Apr 02, 2011 4:49 pm

I was going to post this in that other thread, but seems appropriate to post here.

So yeah, GareMAME and Mame cheats are one thing, but a true rom hack like what austere did requires modifying/adding x68k assembler routines. And I happen to know of a guy (keigox68000) that has done exactly this for Garegga rather recently. Below are his blog post entries, from conceiving the hack, though apparently finishing it, assembler code included. So now pressing P2 start button during play brings up the rank display underneath your extra ships. Rank counts down in hex, the closer to 0 the higher the rank. He added a visual element to quickly gauge rank via colored hex numbers (brilliant)! He also modified the Garegga title screen with "Ver. K01" to indicate the hacked rom.

I would really like Zakk to pick this up and apply to his existing Garegga rom hack (which resets rank upon every new game). Would also be nice if he included the item count reset as well so we get consistent item drops from the beginning of each game.

March 3 blog post
March 6 blog post
March 7 blog post
March 8 blog post
March 9 blog post
March 10 blog post
March 15 blog post

Post by **Icarus** » Sat Apr 02, 2011 5:02 pm

There was this as well, as posted by fl0w in the Garegga ST: http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.ph ... 71#p129971

TonK · Post by **TonK** » Sat Apr 02, 2011 6:24 pm

Just installed the Zakk ROMS yesterday.

As a beginner - I'd like to be able to see how my playing habits raise/lower rank.

I didn't know about the item drop reset.

I'm usually close to full power/options by the first boss, even after every credit - so I'm unsure how the item drop frequency works.

First day of playing yesterday...

Gonna head back in a few...

Never_Scurred · Post by **Never_Scurred** » Sun Apr 03, 2011 12:19 am

Fascinating....I'm gonna have to snatch up this new Garegga hack. Always wondered about the mechanics of the rank system in Raizing shooters.

Deca · Post by **Deca** » Sun Apr 03, 2011 3:47 am

Is there a translation guide to the garemame cheat menu? The extent of my Japanese reading skills tells me that it says RANK a whole lot and that's about it.

captpain · Post by **captpain** » Sun Apr 03, 2011 4:26 am

TonK wrote: I'm usually close to full power/options by the first boss, even after every credit - so I'm unsure how the item drop frequency works.

Why? How?

Post by **BulletMagnet** » Sun Apr 03, 2011 3:09 pm

Never_Scurred wrote:Always wondered about the mechanics of the rank system in Raizing shooters.

Well, we have managed to get at least one down.

Not sure if anyone's ever published ROMhack results for any of the others though.

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