Star Soldier

This page details one or more prototype versions of Star Soldier.

This prototype is documented on Hidden Palace.

This was documented on Forest of Illusion.

A prototype of Star Soldier was released by togemet2 on January 27, 2019. It was likely used for competition purposes at the Hudson Caravan 1986.

Differences#

• The beginning of the ROM contains the version string "Ver1.1". This is "V4/11A" in the retail release.
• All of the built-in cheat codes are inaccessible. However, the associated routines are still present, and contain an extra instruction to enable turbo fire, which is not present in the retail game.
• Secret bonuses (Milon, the whale, etc.) are disabled via an added JMP instruction at $9A5C; the tiles are present, but shots do not collide with them. Disabling the JMP (e.g. via replacing it with EA EA EA) will re-enable them.
• The alternate "horror" tileset is not present, though the routines to enable it are.