TnF/Hyper Sports initial entry Easter Eggs

cmonkey

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I was browsing through the TnF code and found an Easter Egg in the initial entry section of the game.

Make sure all switches on both dip switch banks are set to the ON position before you start this (it's only activated this way)

Start a 4 player game and enter initials as follows :-

P1 - ISI

P2 - HAR

P3 - A.L

P4 - ABO

ISIHARA.LABO (maybe the lead programmer on the game?)

This gives you a ©KONAMI 1983 message above P1 initials for a couple of seconds before the game reboots.

track_and_field_easter_egg.png


Figuring that it was probably the same dev team that made Hyper Sports I had look through that code for an Easter Egg in the initial entry screen and found a very similar one. The dip switch settings are irrelevant for this one but there's a little more work needed to activate it.

Start a 4 player game and enter initials as follows :-

P1 - ISH

P2 - IHA

P3 - RAL

P4 - AB.

ISHIHARALAB.

hypersports_initials_easter_egg.png


Then after you've selected END for the 4th player quickly press and hold the following buttons :-

both P1 run buttons + P1 jump button + both P2 run buttons (but NOT P2 jump button)

This gives you a developer credits screen and then goes into an infinite loop requiring a reboot of the game.

hypersports_easter_egg.png


Does anyone know who Ishihara Labo. is as I can't seem to find any info on the development team behind these two games?
 

ataritoobin

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I love find like this! Very cool.

If I'm not mistaken LABO in Japanese means laboratory, and that it's abbreviated LAB. in Hyper Sports that would make sense.

Maybe it was a development house or development team?
 

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After a bit of googling it appears there was music composer called Shokichi Ishihara who worked on the games.

http://www.vgmpf.com/Wiki/index.php?title=Shokichi_Ishihara

Not the most conclusive of evidence but it's something
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Shinydaz

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Hajime Ishihara ?

Ishihara is a color perception test designed by Dr Shinobu Ishihara. Probably has nothing to do with it but I thought I'd just throw it in there ?
 
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