Twinkle Star Sprites & Viewpoint debug enabled .neo's

There are a few different Neo Geo titles which didn't use debug dips for it's debugging settings, but rather rely on bits of the P ROM to be edited to enable debugging functions. Two of these games are Twinkle Star Sprites and Viewpoint.

Twinkle Star Sprites has a host of debugging features which can be played around with. More info can be found here: https://bit.ly/32zDOEB

Viewpoint is a bit more basic when it comes to debugging functions, but there's still some goodies to find with an object viewer and test stages. More info can be found here: https://bit.ly/3mnaSHC

For TSS, press select at any time to bring up a debug menu with graphics testing options. Hold P2 A+B+C+D upon startup to access a different debug menu titled the "Program Menu". Press C+D on the P1 or P2 controller when playing to access in game debugging functions.

For Viewpoint, press Start+Select at any point and you'll see the word "PAUSE" appear in the top left corner. Press down on the joystick to bring up the debug menu. When done, press B to get out of the menu and then Start+Select again to resume the game.


I wanted to check these out on real hardware, so I edited the .neo files to enable these debugging functions. You can download them here:

Twinkle Star Sprites debug .neo:
https://bit.ly/3kllLI2

Viewpoint debug .neo:
https://bit.ly/32xAREz

Yo Digmac Another great post, my friend. Keep em coming!

Cool. I always found that test level on Viewpoint to be very interesting

NEAT FIND! I'll check these out later. Thanks for the research, as always.

Thanks for sharing Digmac!

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thanks a lot man! cool beans

Cool! I’ll have to look into this!