Fray: In Magical Adventure (MSX2, MSX turbo-R)

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Developer Message#

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At the first sector for every disk, a small message can be seen.

カズメAＯＳを立ち上げて、努力と根性よ！ ええ！わかったわ。ノリコ。

Launching Kazume AOS, with effort and willpower! OK, I got this! Noriko. 

Following that message is this:

Ｋａｚｕｍｉ．ＤＯＳ　BOOT Loader Ver 1.10 1990.04.20 By Y.Nakatsu

Debug Menu#

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While playing, press Shift to open the game menu. Choose the third option (System), and then highlight the BGM option.

Now, hold C and wait for the text screen to appear completely; once it appears and while still holding C, press Up, Up, Down, Down, Right, Left, Right, Left, X. If done right, the debug menu will appear.

Version Differences#

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Fray was released in two separate versions for the MSX2 and the MSX Turbo R, and there are some differences between the two besides game speed.

Copyright Screen#

Right away the colors used for the copyright screen on both versions are different.

MSX2	MSX turbo-R

Title Screen#

Both versions also use different colors for the subtitle as well.

MSX2	MSX turbo-R

Intro Demo#

The Microcabin intro at the beginning is completely absent from the turbo-R version.

Voice Samples#

The turbo-R version utilizes the PCM function of the system to play back voice samples during specific cutscenes. Unfortunately, after playing each sound clip, the music for each scene restarts instead of resuming from where it left off!

Bonus GOGO Pixie Stage#

There is a special bonus stage available in the MSX2 version, accessible from Disk 3 (Disk 2 in the turbo-R version) by holding down G + O on the keyboard while booting up.

Bonus Pictures#

The Xak games usually have an extra omake section that is shown after beating the game. However, with the MSX2 version of Fray, instead of having to wait after the ending, the omake section can be viewed immediately by holding M while booting from Disk 1.

Note that this will only work in the MSX2 version, and not the turbo-R version.