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Cleopatra Fortune (PlayStation)

A puzzler which involves surrounding gems and mummies with blocks. It is more or less a port of the original arcade game with some additional content.

Unused Graphics#

Early HUD#

PCMBG00L.TIM and PCMBG00R.TIM, found within GRAPHIC\BG in the Japanese release, form a very early version of the game's HUD, dated November 21, 2000.

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Early Title Screen#

PCTAIL2.TIM and PCTAIR2.TIM, found within GRAPHIC\TITLE in all releases, form a different version of the title screen graphic, without crediting Altron.

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Company Logos#

In the American and European localizations, several company logos can be found in the ELF executable, which are loaded before the title screen. However, there's at least one logo which is unused for each region: a logo for Phoenix Games in the American version, and a logo for Syscom in the European version. It should be noted that there is a considerable overlap between games that were published by Midas and Phoenix in Europe.

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(Source: tikal.)

Dummy Track#

In the Japanese version only, there is a file in the root of the disc titled DUMMY.BIN, dated February 8, 2000. When played as Redbook audio, it is revealed to be the title screen theme from Colorful Logic, which was also developed by Altron. While there is a dummy file in the localizations, it is made up of copied data from the main executable.

(Source: tikal.)

References#


  1. GDR プレイステーション ソフト一覧 2001年 - PlayStation Software List 2001↩︎
  2. U.S. Game Releases - PlayStation - Digital Press Collector's Guide Advance Edition↩︎
  3. MiDAS Interactive Entertainment - Release Schedule December 2002 - April 2003 (archived)↩︎
  4. Cleopatra's Fortune - PlayStation - IGN (archived)↩︎