Soul of the Samurai

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At least three prototypes are known to be preserved
Regional differences. At the very least, the title screen is different due to name changes.

Dummy File#

The Japanese release contains a file titled DMY, which, when read as signed 16-bit PCM audio, reveals itself to be an audio track from Diver's Dream. While the file still exists in the American and European versions, its contents were blanked out.

(Source: tikal.)

Development-Related Text#

Scattered through many of the game's .BIN files is text data from some sort of development application.

LSI C-86 Run-Time Library
Division by 0
 
not enough memory

 >StgMake DirectoryName
 
Can not open this file!

  File Name:%s
 
Can not this Directory!

  Directory Name:%s
  Memory Over!

  
 >stgmake [option] DirectoryName
  ------------------------------------------------------------
 [-n ]          
 [-l ]          
 rb  STAGE_DATA %s_DATA [] = {
    {   0x%l08x,  0x%l08x   },      /* %21s */
    {   0x00000000, 0x00000000 },       /* %21s */
 NULL   {   0x%l08x,  0x%l08x   },      /* %21s */
    { 0x00000000, 0x00000000 }      /*                Stoper */
  };
 
short %s_FILE_DATA [] = {
    %8s,
    NO_SCENE,
    %8s,
    SCENE_NO_MAX
  };
 Ulong %s_DATA [] = {
  0x%l08x,      /* %21s */
  0x00000000,       /* %21s */
 NULL   0x%l08x,        /* %21s */
  0x00000000
  };
 %s\%s #define  %s  0x%04x
  LIB   BAT   MAP   %s\%s\*.* %s\%s\*.* %s_%s %s  %s%s%x  %s.BIN  %s.LIB  %s.H  
stgmake version 1.0
 -n  -l  rt  wt  ab  wt  
   Start     Stop      Length   Section name
    %l08x   %l08x   %l08x   %s  0x%04x  新規  既存 
 %s を削除しました
     
Illegal escape  Unmached quote  out of memory   r w w w+b wb  
NULL pointer assignment
 ・z%*.* . ..  .  

 infinity    (NULL)              (((((

Dummy File#

Development-Related Text#

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