Play Moon Patrol & Ms. Pac-Man dump without hard reset

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Play Moon Patrol & Ms. Pac-Man dump without hard reset

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Hi, as zimmers says to play a dump copy of Moon Patrol & Ms. Pac-Man cartridges it requires hard reset to start, but says that it requires for Pole Position too, well, looking in other Denial posts i've fixed Pole Position in this mode:

1 ONAGOTO3,4
2 A=1:LOAD"POLEPOSITION60",8,1
3 A=2:LOAD"POLEPOSITIONA0",8,1
4 POKE37166,PEEK(36166)AND127:SYS64802

But using this loader for Moon Patrol & Ms. Pac-Man the games start but the screen go up and down and the arrows doesn't move the screen to center in PAL Position, there is another way to start these cartridges without an hard reset?
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Post by carlsson »

Are you sure you don't mean POKE 37166,PEEK(37166)AND127 ?

That poke disables interrups ($912E), which the game will enable later.

But yes, Ms Pacman scrolls around. I'm not sure what happens when a hard reset is issued, but I suppose the timers get reset in another way than with a soft reset. I'd need to disassemble a bit into the ROMs to check what's going on.
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Post by nbla000 »

opss.... yes the right POKE is:
POKE 37166,PEEK(37166)AND127

and i've tested it with Moon Patrol and Ms. Pacman
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