The Sppy: You are BEST SPY

I’ve finished the game. Read my previous posts about this game first if you haven’t yet. Saying the game was “difficult” is too light. I can reverse engineer at least some of the logic for the steps to win, but one moment in particular is so outrageous I don’t think it’s “solvable” in any regular sense. I would say this was created by the author for their own personal play and showing off to friends (yet it ended up in print somehow) but there’s a specific technical aspect I’ll be getting into that made me discard that theory. Since source-diving is going to be involved in all this, I need to talk about the PC-6001 character set. Via the PC-6001 mkII manual. As an example of how the set works, let’s take a piece of the game I already got through: cutting through the cage. The game prompts the player with “オリ ヲ ヌクロ !” (“remove the cage!) at line 2770, while storing input in H$. The game is wanting “kiru”, that is, きる. It checks H$ against the characters 151 and 249. The chart is in…

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