Pocky & Rocky: Twin Stick, High Scores
Kiki Kaikai: Nazo no Kuro Manto · 奇々怪界 謎の黒マント
Lets you run in one direction while shooting in another, Smash TV style, and adds a proper high score table to Pocky & Rocky.
What's new
dejp1993's hack gives Pocky & Rocky twin-stick style controls: movement and firing direction are separate, so you can retreat while shooting at what is chasing you. It builds on Fred's twin-stick controls hack, works with either character, and includes kandowontu's FastROM patch.
The game also gets the high score table it never had. It appears during the attract loop and records the score, the level reached and a Pocky or Rocky portrait; a star marks a cleared game and "1CC" a clear without continues. In two-player games each player types initials on their own controller. In OPTIONS, HIGH SCORES replaces KEY CONFIG, and the difficulty and stereo/mono choices are now saved as well (battery save memory is used).
Playing it
Apply the patch to your own copy of Pocky & Rocky (USA), following the instructions on its romhacking.net page. The author tested it on Snes9x, bsnes and Mesen-S but not on real hardware.