Saturn Ultraman Hack Bypasses Proprietary ROM Cart Via 4MB Cart

ROMhacker YZB has released another Sega Saturn hack, following up their recent release of the Castlevania: Symphony of the Night 4MB RAM Cart Hack. This one is for Ultraman [Ultraman: Hikari no Kyojin Densetsu], a 2D fighter that is one of two Saturn titles requiring its own proprietary ROM cart, along with King of Fighters ’95. That requirement however is a thing of the past, because YZB’s approach utilizes the much more common 4MB RAM carts. Files are also compressed and probably yield faster loading times than the original.

Below are the translated release notes:

## Ultraman-Hikari no Kyojin Densetsu (Japan)

## Sega Saturn Ultraman RAM Accelerator Hack Edition by yzb

### Modify the description:
* No need to use official ROM cassette, use 4MB RAM card instead

* After the Sega Logo will be filled with 2MB of RAM card content, so the waiting time is longer, about 7 seconds with the SD card optical drive board

* Compress some files, slightly optimized, probably a little faster than the original version

### Cheats!

1. When [PRESS START BUTTON] appears on the title screen of the game, use 1P to input the ↑, ↑, ↓, ↓ keys in succession, and an effect sound will sound, then press START to open the menu screen (original 1P input ↑, ↓, A, B , C, →, ← keys)

– Hold down the Y key to select options other than OPTION, the game background will be composed of pure polygons without texture mapping;
– Press and hold the Z key to play in the mode with no time and energy display, only the remaining time can be judged by the sound;
– In battle mode, hold down the X key to decide that the battlefield will be randomly selected.

2. Continue to use the 1P input ←, →, ←→ keys on the game title screen, the effect sound will be sounded (original 2P input ↑, ↑, A, A, C, C, ↓, ↓, B, ←, B, → , ←, →, B, B keys)

– At present, the test is to choose the level in the battle mode, whether there are other effects is unknown

3. Continue to enter the B, A, B, and A keys with 1P on the game title screen, and the effect sound will sound successfully (original 2P input C, B, A, B, C, ↓, ←, ↑, →, ↓, A, B, C, B, A keys)

– No effect tested

4. On the OPTION interface, press and hold the 1P L+R key, the effect sounds successfully, and the MOVIE ROOM mode can be called up (displayed on the main interface)

* Remarks: The above 4 items can only be successfully entered once. After the success, continue to input invalid and there is no effect sound.

### Acknowledgements

* Thanks to the following people for their help (in no particular order)
Ken, megavolt85, SONIC3D

* Thanks to saturnboy for scanning the production and translation of the game manual (exquisite production, translation in place!)

* Thanks to Saturn Brother for the NOW LOADING screen

* Thanks to the following people for their hard work on the actual test (in no particular order)
chie, dtxyy, SONIC3D, TZM, WALL-E 52Hz, dragon, Saturn brother, happiness,

### Remarks

* It is recommended to use ssf when playing in the simulator. In program 4 of the setting interface, it will be better to turn on the grid translucent effect

* If you find a crash or black screen during the game, please leave a message at any of the following website addresses
http://bbs.chinaemu.org/read-htm-tid-128707.html

by yzb

2020.05.29 08:00

Source: http://bbs.chinaemu.org/read-htm-tid-128709.html
Thanks to Sentient6 and Pezz82 for the heads up