How to allow continue on a Japanese Progear (CPS2)

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I have recently acquired a Japanese Progear. As all of the settings in the SERVICE MENU are in Japanese, I looked through the USA version in MAME and come to this very weird conclusion:

There is no way of enabling continue in the Japanese version. Unless you lower the difficulty from 4 down to 2 (USA default difficulty). Now all of a sudden, continues work.

Here is my SERVICE MENU findings (WIP):

PROGEAR NO ARASHI (JAPAN):

(RED=WHEN THE VALUES BELOW ARE SET, THEY TURN RED IN THE GAME SETTINGS)


1. INPUT
2. OUTPUT
3. SOUND TEST
4. COLOR
5. CROSS HATCH
6. GAME DATA

7. CONFIGURATION

..........1.SYSTEM
....................1. COIN MODE - (FREE PLAY) // IF YOU SET THIS TO "2 COINS TO PLAY, 1 COIN TO CONTINUE" THE BELOW OPTION WILL BE SKIPPED
....................2. CONTINUE - (OFF) // DOES NOTHING UNLESS YOU HAVE THE DIFFICULTY SET TO "2"
....................3. SCREEN FLIP
....................4. DEMO SOUND - (½=HALF VOLUME, OFF)
....................5. SOUND MODE - (JAMMA, DIGITAL)
....................6. CHUTE TYPE
....................7. SAVE & CLOSE

..........2.GAME
....................1.DIFFICULTY
....................2.EXTEND
....................3.LIFE STOCK
....................4.BUTTON 3 FULL AUTO (ON)

....................SAVE & CLOSE

3.DEFAULT SETTINGS // HOLD P1 FIRE1 AND PRESS START TO INITIALIZE A FULL RESET

4. SAVE & EXIT

8. MEMORY CHECK

9. SAVE & EXIT

Sorry if the color codes are confusing. I'll make some changes that make things more clear soon.

[Sumez]

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