graphics stored in u151 to u158, same 4BPP linear variable-width format as Pigout
graphic files have data at consistent intervals (2000, A000, 12000, 1A000)
each row ends with FF FF FF FF
byte 07 is WIDTH? (in half, multiply x2 to get desired result)
byte 08 is HEIGHT
this data applies to the graphics that came BEFORE it
(the trouble is this means the 'chunks' are misaligned -- u152 begins with the bottom half of a sprite, but where's the top half?)



7B53 - 7B5E big wanted poster



Hold 1P Start and press F2 (MAME default for Service Mode) to enter Service Mode

Holding F2 and pressing 1P Start will complete stage

Press F2, then 1P Start to get 3 extra lives
Press F2, then 1P Punch to refill health?





	2026-06-06
so how would i find the tilemap data...? it'd save me trouble on the unused stuff!
u146 at 1C542 has "642B", which pertains to part of the "bruticus maximus" high score logo (according to MAME map viewer)
but the data presumably doesn't ahve full 2-byte addresses for every 8x8 tile, surely...?



level address
00		newswatch UNUSED
1	city hub
2	subway
3	cave
4	sewer
5	subway w/ train
6	cinema			
7	sewer tunnel
8	final area
09	attract mode - title screen
0A	attract mode - "brutus maximus"
0b	attract mode - "da moves"
0c		character portraits?
0d	"most wanted"
0e	attract mode - "da moves" 2P VARIANT UNUSED?	
0F	attract mode - "da stuff"
10		subway
















	u151
2000	326
A000	n/a
12000	
1A000	
barrels, items, flaming man?
1FCCD	to get, item flame etc




	u152
94ad	weapon?

95AD coin? manhole?
10004	barrel?
13685	weapons




	u153
0	items, etc
7952	item, tire
e976	item
17d36	item
1e9e3	item




	u154
2000	TO GET -- guns?
71DD		UNUSED -- lTV10 cindy summers logo


	u155
1ADF7	TO GET -- weapons

	u156
16668	to get? weapon??
17fcd	to get, barel
18a8e	to get, wrapon
1E4F3


	u157
7FFC	weapon?
ef4a
157a5	boxes
1760b	molotov weapon

	u158
6AAF	bricks
e832
1540c	items
1f093	mask?











	u65
	unused text?
---C547
TV HEADLINE NEWS, I'M CINDY SUMMERS. OUR TOP STORY OF THE HOUR: SKINHEADS RIOT AT CAT THEATER...
OUR TOP STORY OF THE HOUR: SKINHEADS STAMPED OUT! IN OTHER NEWS: CHUCO GANGS CLASH AT CITY PARK...
OUR TOP STORY OF THE HOUR: CHUCOS STAMPED OUT! IN OTHER NEWS: SUBWAY VANDALISM RAGES OUT OF CONTROL...
OUR TOP STORY OF THE HOUR: VANDALS STAMPED OUT! IN OTHER NEWS: TERRORISTS WAGE WAR FROM ROOFTOP STRONGHOLD...
OUR TOP STORY OF THE HOUR: TERRORISTS STAMPED OUT! IN OTHER NEWS: COLUMBIAN ROCKHOUSE THREATENS NEIGHBORHOOD...
OUR TOP STORY OF THE HOUR: ROCKHOUSE STAMPED OUT! IN OTHER NEWS: HOODLUMS COMMANDEER SUBWAY TRAIN...
OUR TOP STORY OF THE HOUR: HOODLUMS STAMPED OUT! IN OTHER NEWS: CITY SEWER TARGET OF NINJA SABOTAGE...
...LTV NEWSFLASH! CINDY SUMMERS HAS BEEN KIDNAPPED!...  

---C9A1
YO! LELAND RAPS
JOIN me FRIENDS, we be watchin' the TUBE
When CINDY calls the SHOTS we make our MOVE
We're the FORCE in the PARK or UNDERGROUND
DON'T stop KICKIN' till the KING goes DOWN!


---14FE6
bookkeeping, dipswitch, and debug menu stuff
relevant to my interests are "VIEW BACKGROUND SCREENS" and "SPRITE TEST"


	unused background tiles
120D is whips visible as the "Mom & Pop's Adult Books" windows break. in-game they just spawn as sprite objects

2C5E is the destruction of the rooftop hideout above the theater. There's no means of getting up there, and it's shown as already destroyed after level 4 (if you can even see it before then without a map viewer)

6553 sprite man at counter with gun rack and "SURPLUS" banner, possible interior for Mad Abdul's Surplus?

6849 alternate HUD for 2-player dipswitch, with Buzz as P1 and Snake as P2, with the logo in the middle

6BCC animated mouth flaps for Cindy Summers on the unused Newswatch screen.

729E banners for the various gangs, presumably part of Newswatch

7464 large mugshots for the gangs, also likely part of Newswatch

7E1E "Select Crime" banner that fits on between-level posters screen. Was the game meant to have a level select?

also some miscellaneous things I attempted to fix in my sprite sheets, like tiles for the subway port-a-potties that don't have bits of banner behind them. the ones in-game use the banner-adjacent tiles even when they're not next to one










	cheat engine table for MAME
	easiest way of recalculating addresses is finding the 1-byte credit value

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<CheatTable>
  <CheatEntries>
    <CheatEntry>
      <ID>38</ID>
      <Description>"camera pos"</Description>
      <ShowAsHex>1</ShowAsHex>
      <VariableType>4 Bytes</VariableType>
      <Address>1AB7F962164</Address>
    </CheatEntry>
    <CheatEntry>
      <ID>72</ID>
      <Description>"LEVEL WARP"</Description>
      <VariableType>Byte</VariableType>
      <Address>1AB7F962059</Address>
    </CheatEntry>
    <CheatEntry>
      <ID>42</ID>
      <Description>"LEVEL WARP? (backgrounds only)"</Description>
      <ShowAsHex>1</ShowAsHex>
      <ShowAsSigned>0</ShowAsSigned>
      <VariableType>Byte</VariableType>
      <Address>1AB7F96215D</Address>
    </CheatEntry>
    <CheatEntry>
      <ID>35</ID>
      <Description>"p1 lives"</Description>
      <VariableType>Byte</VariableType>
      <Address>1AB7F9616C8</Address>
    </CheatEntry>
    <CheatEntry>
      <ID>0</ID>
      <Description>"p1 credits"</Description>
      <VariableType>Byte</VariableType>
      <Address>1AB7F9616D4</Address>
    </CheatEntry>
    <CheatEntry>
      <ID>33</ID>
      <Description>"p1 score"</Description>
      <VariableType>4 Bytes</VariableType>
      <Address>1AB7F9616DC</Address>
    </CheatEntry>
    <CheatEntry>
      <ID>30</ID>
      <Description>"p1 animation"</Description>
      <ShowAsSigned>0</ShowAsSigned>
      <VariableType>Byte</VariableType>
      <Address>1AB7F9616E8</Address>
    </CheatEntry>
    <CheatEntry>
      <ID>31</ID>
      <Description>"p1 anim frame"</Description>
      <ShowAsSigned>0</ShowAsSigned>
      <VariableType>Byte</VariableType>
      <Address>1AB7F9616E9</Address>
    </CheatEntry>
    <CheatEntry>
      <ID>29</ID>
      <Description>"p1 x-pos"</Description>
      <ShowAsSigned>0</ShowAsSigned>
      <VariableType>2 Bytes</VariableType>
      <Address>1AB7F9616F8</Address>
    </CheatEntry>
    <CheatEntry>
      <ID>28</ID>
      <Description>"p1 y-pos"</Description>
      <VariableType>2 Bytes</VariableType>
      <Address>1AB7F9616FC</Address>
    </CheatEntry>
    <CheatEntry>
      <ID>45</ID>
      <Description>"p1 jump pos"</Description>
      <ShowAsSigned>0</ShowAsSigned>
      <VariableType>Byte</VariableType>
      <Address>1AB7F9616FA</Address>
    </CheatEntry>
    <CheatEntry>
      <ID>43</ID>
      <Description>"p1 obj id?"</Description>
      <ShowAsSigned>0</ShowAsSigned>
      <VariableType>2 Bytes</VariableType>
      <Address>1AB7F9616EE</Address>
    </CheatEntry>
    <CheatEntry>
      <ID>44</ID>
      <Description>"p1 direction"</Description>
      <ShowAsSigned>0</ShowAsSigned>
      <VariableType>Byte</VariableType>
      <Address>1AB7F9616F0</Address>
    </CheatEntry>
    <CheatEntry>
      <ID>41</ID>
      <Description>"p3 animation"</Description>
      <VariableType>Byte</VariableType>
      <Address>1AB7F9617E8</Address>
    </CheatEntry>
    <CheatEntry>
      <ID>46</ID>
      <Description>"p1 bounce 'em in the air"</Description>
      <ShowAsSigned>0</ShowAsSigned>
      <VariableType>Byte</VariableType>
      <Address>1AB7F961709</Address>
    </CheatEntry>
    <CheatEntry>
      <ID>47</ID>
      <Description>"diagnostics selection"</Description>
      <VariableType>Byte</VariableType>
      <Address>1AB7F962668</Address>
    </CheatEntry>
    <CheatEntry>
      <ID>48</ID>
      <Description>"game setup - coins to join"</Description>
      <VariableType>Byte</VariableType>
      <Address>1AB7F961413</Address>
    </CheatEntry>
    <CheatEntry>
      <ID>49</ID>
      <Description>"game setup - coins to continue"</Description>
      <ShowAsSigned>0</ShowAsSigned>
      <VariableType>Byte</VariableType>
      <Address>1AB7F961415</Address>
    </CheatEntry>
    <CheatEntry>
      <ID>50</ID>
      <Description>"game setup - attract mode sound"</Description>
      <ShowAsSigned>0</ShowAsSigned>
      <VariableType>Byte</VariableType>
      <Address>1AB7F96141F</Address>
    </CheatEntry>
    <CheatEntry>
      <ID>51</ID>
      <Description>"game setup - coin mech type"</Description>
      <ShowAsSigned>0</ShowAsSigned>
      <VariableType>Byte</VariableType>
      <Address>1AB7F961412</Address>
    </CheatEntry>
    <CheatEntry>
      <ID>52</ID>
      <Description>"camera move timer"</Description>
      <ShowAsSigned>0</ShowAsSigned>
      <VariableType>Byte</VariableType>
      <Address>1AB7F96215A</Address>
    </CheatEntry>
    <CheatEntry>
      <ID>53</ID>
      <Description>"camera stall timer"</Description>
      <ShowAsSigned>0</ShowAsSigned>
      <VariableType>Byte</VariableType>
      <Address>1AB7F96215B</Address>
    </CheatEntry>
    <CheatEntry>
      <ID>78</ID>
      <Description>"attract mode transition timer"</Description>
      <ShowAsSigned>0</ShowAsSigned>
      <VariableType>2 Bytes</VariableType>
      <Address>1AB7F96235A</Address>
    </CheatEntry>
    <CheatEntry>
      <ID>80</ID>
      <Description>"palette?"</Description>
      <ShowAsSigned>0</ShowAsSigned>
      <VariableType>2 Bytes</VariableType>
      <Address>1AB7F96215E</Address>
    </CheatEntry>
    <CheatEntry>
      <ID>81</ID>
      <Description>"palette?"</Description>
      <ShowAsSigned>0</ShowAsSigned>
      <VariableType>2 Bytes</VariableType>
      <Address>1AB7F962160</Address>
    </CheatEntry>
    <CheatEntry>
      <ID>70</ID>
      <Description>"set to 0 to blank sprites"</Description>
      <VariableType>2 Bytes</VariableType>
      <Address>1AB7F961AAC</Address>
    </CheatEntry>
    <CheatEntry>
      <ID>83</ID>
      <Description>"explosion animation frame (bizhawk savestate 6)"</Description>
      <VariableType>Byte</VariableType>
      <Address>1AB7F961C69</Address>
    </CheatEntry>
    <CheatEntry>
      <ID>84</ID>
      <Description>"set to 50hex to freeze gameplay?"</Description>
      <ShowAsSigned>0</ShowAsSigned>
      <VariableType>Byte</VariableType>
      <Address>1AB7F961C64</Address>
    </CheatEntry>
    <CheatEntry>
      <ID>85</ID>
      <Description>"explosion animation? between grenade + expl"</Description>
      <ShowAsSigned>0</ShowAsSigned>
      <VariableType>Byte</VariableType>
      <Address>1AB7F961C68</Address>
    </CheatEntry>
  </CheatEntries>
</CheatTable>