A cute falling blocks style puzzle game with a spellcasting twist and a surprisingly detailed CPU Player debugging tool.

Witches on their brooms shooting magic missiles is the name of the game, literally: gunhōki translates to “gun broom.” There’s a stage select buried in the code, which is accessible on actual hardware without any code hacks. Neat!

Today we look at Magical Speed, a simple but surprisingly fun Allumer game based on the card game Speed. Turns out there’s a hidden debug menu in the code that’s super simple to re-enable, and lots (LOTS) of unused graphics.

Getting back to our roots of hacking on obscure Japanese quiz/mahjong games that no one else cares about, we’re taking apart Athena no Hatena today!

A fun color-matching puzzle game with colorful graphics and cute animations… and bunches of disabled dev functions and unused data!