gng / makaimura - Completed Loop Counter

[kranser]

I've heard that if you keep looping in Ghosts 'n Goblins / Makaimura, the play gets harder.
Does anyone have a cheat to set the Number of Loops completed value so that I can test the raised difficulity in later loops of the game?

Thanks,
Kranser

[jman]

Address $7F is loop counter. If you set 0x01 in this address, you can see true ending.
But it doesn't manage difficulty. Perhaps $9A is objective address (max 0x3F).

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    <cheat desc="Select Difficulty (Test)">
        <parameter min="0x00" max="0x3F" step="0x01" />
        <script state="run">
            <action>maincpu.pb@009A = param</action>
        </script>
    </cheat>

The value of difficulty at game start is the following.

• Easy : 0x00
• Normal : 0x06
• Hard : 0x18
• Very Hard : 0x20

[kranser]

Many thanks for your reply.

I have tested this and discovered that I could not get the difficulty to increase when playing through without the cheat - so the version I saw on youtube where the ememies sped up on subsequent loops must have been a bootleg or hack version!

I'm assuming the difficulty memory location is the same as changing the dip switch setting.

Thanks again for your time,
Kranser