The Software Toolworks' Star Wars Chess is one of the many chess games that came out in the 90's, but with obligatory FMVs, digitized sounds straight from the movies, the most sadistic portrayal of Yoda yet (seriously he tricks a Stormtrooper into blowing his own head off and sets Boba Fett on fire!) and the world's most unnecessarily long title.
ABS.TXT#
This file contains a rather interesting version history of the team's frustrated attempts to complete the game.
Abstracted by SoftWare Toolworks for SEGA
- BETA rev L (skip I/J/K) for lucas approval- missing credits & pink
- STARWAR0 is release rev 0 - no flicker, 1.2, still ejects though
- STARWAR3 has far fewer glitches and attempts a music disk slowdown
- STARWAR4 caught the 3D-board cursor-mode bug and MAYBE FINAL!!
(didn't lockup!)
- STARWAR5 has a restart-2player bug fix plus some.
- STARWAR6 should have ALL the fixes. I found a possible explaination
for the lockup.
- STARWAR7 found similar bug in SLIDE pieces
- .. debug version ..
- STARWAR8 tries comm bulletproofing
- STARWAR9 removed the trap and fixed? the commSymbols Files#
 |
Download Star Wars Chess Symbols Files File: Star Wars Chess Symbols Files.rar (135 KB) (info) |
A few symbol files are left on the disc for whatever reason.
References#
- Short ProShots: Star Wars Chess - GamePro, Volume 5, Number 12, December 1993↩︎
- Tec Toy: Games em lançamento - Ação Games, Issue 72, December 1994↩︎
- Tec Toy também promete novidades "Tec Toy also promises new features" - O Estado de S. Paulo, December 5, 1994↩︎
- Work in Progress: Star Wars Chess - Computer and Video Games, Issue 154, September 1994↩︎