After playing around with Arkanoid in MAME, eventually I got to about level 35 or something like that, I decided to cheat the way out but I don't think that was the intended goal with that round (Update: The game has an ending so NO it was not suppose to continue.) Afterwards I was greeted with a crazy looking level, when you press the ball release button, the ball goes CRAZY! it kills you in a second. Knowing the issues. I kept cheating through the glitched levels, however at about round 38, the game plays the credit sound 2 times, but the second time midway through the sound, the screen freezes and the sound glitches and the blocks glitch, eventually the game resets. is this considered a kill screen? what are your thoughts?
Note I was playing the Japanese old version of the game.
Last image is Round 35
Note that there are 3 images of round 38, 1 appears differently, this means every time the round starts on a different game, the game is drawing garbage to random addresses.