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Johnny Undaunted
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 Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2010 2:36 am Post subject: Ares no Tsubasa (Famicom version of Legendary Wings) |
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How much info is there available on the unreleased Famicom version of Legendary Wings (Ares no Tsubasa). All I know is that the "Ares no Tsubasa" title screen is hidden in the graphic data of the NES version and that an actual prototype of the game was discovered at some point, but other than that nothing.
For example: was the Famicom version going to include the characters of Michelle Heart and Kevin Walker from the Japanese arcade release or did it had the generic male characters from the US version? |
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BMF54123
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| Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2010 9:37 am Post subject: Re: Ares no Tsubasa (Famicom version of Legendary Wings) |
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| Johnny Undaunted wrote: | | All I know is that the "Ares no Tsubasa" title screen is hidden in the graphic data of the NES version |
It is? I just looked through the ROM and didn't see it anywhere. |
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dragon2snow
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| Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2010 2:37 pm Post subject: |
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this is hack |
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Skrybe
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| Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2010 10:43 pm Post subject: Re: Ares no Tsubasa (Famicom version of Legendary Wings) |
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| Johnny Undaunted wrote: | | an actual prototype of the game was discovered at some point, |
DreamTR still owns that, as far as I know. It's been dumped, and is identical to the US version, title screen and all. |
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Johnny Undaunted
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| Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2010 4:18 am Post subject: |
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| Damn! So no prototype of the Famicom version has been found yet? Were there at least magazine previews or ads published for it like the Famicom Strider? |
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ArnoldRimmer83
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| Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2010 9:32 am Post subject: |
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Chris Covell has a couple of scans of magazine previews for Strider.
http://disgruntleddesigner.com/chrisc/secret/FC__1988Q2.html#strider
As he mentioned in the article, a proto did turn up on Yahoo Japan some time ago, but unsurprisingly it ended up going for a hefty amount. I have no idea who won it. There is actual video footage of the game in action from some commercial Famicom tape.
http://www.archive.org/details/strider-famicom
The most interesting change I've noticed, is when Strider talks to someone in the Famicom version it does not go to a separate screen to display the text. Instead some text displays next to Hiryuu, although its written vertically. Seems the localization team didn't know how to reprogram this to be horizontal for an English script, so they went with the black screen method. (Or they were just lazy.) The exact same thing was done with Makai Island. |
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Skrybe
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| Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2010 3:10 pm Post subject: |
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| Johnny Undaunted wrote: | | Were there at least magazine previews or ads published for it |
I've never seen any, personally, but I haven't done much looking. |
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Johnny Undaunted
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| Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2010 5:07 pm Post subject: |
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| ArnoldRimmer83 wrote: | Chris Covell has a couple of scans of magazine previews for Strider.
http://disgruntleddesigner.com/chrisc/secret/FC__1988Q2.html#strider
As he mentioned in the article, a proto did turn up on Yahoo Japan some time ago, but unsurprisingly it ended up going for a hefty amount. I have no idea who won it. There is actual video footage of the game in action from some commercial Famicom tape.
http://www.archive.org/details/strider-famicom
The most interesting change I've noticed, is when Strider talks to someone in the Famicom version it does not go to a separate screen to display the text. Instead some text displays next to Hiryuu, although its written vertically. Seems the localization team didn't know how to reprogram this to be horizontal for an English script, so they went with the black screen method. (Or they were just lazy.) The exact same thing was done with Makai Island. |
Yeah. I was already well-aware of the Famicom Strider and Chris Covell's scans. In fact, I was the first person who made a thread about it here almost four years ago.
The most interesting thing about the Famicom Strider is that it was supposed to have lyrics which you would sing-along with the game's opening theme. I remember reading in some Japanese Strider Hiryu fansite that Moto Kikaku released a mail-order album for the manga that used the same music from the NES game, including vocal versions of the game's opening and ending theme. I found at least one Nicodouga video featuring the NES game's theme with the lyrics played below.
The main theme was apparently titled 青き野を馳せる者 (Aokino o Haseru Mono or "The Blue Wild Rider")
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/video/niconico/sm1647570[/url] |
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KingMike
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| ArnoldRimmer83 wrote: |
http://www.archive.org/details/strider-famicom
The most interesting change I've noticed, is when Strider talks to someone in the Famicom version it does not go to a separate screen to display the text. Instead some text displays next to Hiryuu, although its written vertically. Seems the localization team didn't know how to reprogram this to be horizontal for an English script, so they went with the black screen method. (Or they were just lazy.) The exact same thing was done with Makai Island. |
It looks like Makai Island, which means the text routine is sprite-based, which means it's limited to the NES' hardware limit of 8 characters per line, which is an unsuitable limit for English text. |
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