Elemental Master is a vertical shoot-'em-up where you control a human instead of a spaceship. The English manual of the game bafflingly mixes up the screenshots of "Ultimate Elements", switching the ones for Fire and Wind with the ones on the facing page for Earth and Water.
Unused Text#
Controller Configuration Types#
ROM:00007A5E aType@1: dc.b 'TYPE@1',0 ; DATA XREF: sub_79A0+18↑o
ROM:00007A65 aType@2: dc.b 'TYPE@2',0
ROM:00007A6C aType@3: dc.b 'TYPE@3',0
ROM:00007A73 aType@4: dc.b 'TYPE@4',0
ROM:00007A7A aType@5: dc.b 'TYPE@5',0
ROM:00007A81 aType@6: dc.b 'TYPE@6',0
ROM:00007A88 aType@x: dc.b 'TYPE@X',0
ROM:00007A8F aType@x_0: dc.b 'TYPE@X',0
The last two types are unused; if you force them (FFF39C:000[67] active before entering Configuration Mode) they will have all buttons shown as "BACK" and when you exit the menu the controller will revert to Type 1. This is present in both versions of the game.
Build Version and Date#
Located at 0x590F1 in both versions is text which states the version number of the game and when it dates from:
Ver 1.21 90.02.24 (C)T.SENDThe text is identical in both versions.
(Source: Original TCRF research)
Regional Differences#
Credits#
The Japanese original has two extra frames of credits text at the end; the American version stops at "Producer: T.O" and holds the ending image with no text until the song ends.
This one credits "other" to "ETC."
After that, this copyright message shows up, and stays still until the song ends.