-SNK STG SYSTEM- ... know that it is?

Anyone know what '-SNK STG SYSTEM-' is? Basically some neogeo games test for this text in the memory area above the BIOS region (0xc20010 to 0xc20020). If they find it they then jump to execute code in this region.

I expect only ex SNK employee/programmer may know the answer as it could be something related to a dev kit, would help if we knew what STG stands for.

Raz

I think STG is usually used to indicate a type of game in japanese / chinese, it's a shooting game.. (example, strikers 1945)

Maybe it would help if we knew what games test for this string ?
Perhaps shooters ?

What happens with the games when you fool them into thinking they are running on this 'stg' hardware ?

- Alex

Same idea came in my mind... STG,ACT, etc are verry common 3letters shortcuts ^^ may some sort of scroll sub-program call ?

Raz, may i ask which disassembler/debugger you use for 68000 code ? i d like to play around with it, i only did gfx and some verry simple assembly work on the neo thus far and i have some spare time to explore new areas
btw i don t remember where i got my toolchain in the first place... it was same base as genesis one if i remember i ll check after my lil break

Actually various games check for it, kof97 and 98 for example. Its not related to shooters, its something else. The subroutine that does the check is at 0xa813c in the parent kof98 set used in kawaks for example.

I use the built in kawaks 68000 dissembler to debug my code and an old Antaraid (raine) command line assember.

Raz