Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2004 5:36 am Post subject: Iron Commando - a case of bad labeling?
In searching for games that are both missing SPC sets on SNESmusic.org and also playable (which many SFC/SNES games are, I have come to find), I stumbled across the game Iron Commando, which looked decent enough, and played okay from the five seconds I sunk into it. I downloaded the "NG-Dump Known" European version as well, and it seemed to run too. Naturally, since I'm not the smartest guy in the world, I thought nothing more of this than "huh", and immediately forgot about the game after playing some horrible other games that I ironically spent much more time on.
Anyway, after hearing how dreadful the music is in Captain Commando (SNES), I decided to return to another Commando that wasn't quite so appalling to the ear. And therein lies what I believe to be the error (on someone else's part, I mean; it's a pretty cool game).
You see, while examining the primary differences between the Japanese and the European "NO GOOD" version, I found that - besides a changed logo at the start and Japanese text for the intro/title (both games use English text in the stage "dialogues") - the European version had a level select that lets you choose every level, even the ending to the game. Not that usual a feature, eh?
This, combined with the fact that I haven't found references to a European version in my (admittedly scant) search for information on the game on Google, leads me to believe this is in fact a beta - intended English-speaking country unknown, but a beta nonetheless. And it's simply been labeled as non-working for God knows what reason, without any apparent pointing-out of the beta-like qualities it contains.
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Not that anyone else cares. Or if they do, it's because it's already common knowledge.
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