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Toki no Senshi: Chrono Soldier

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Chrono Soldier is a very obscure Commando-style shoot-'em-up, though here there's less shooting and more bomb launching and punching.

Lots of punching, actually.

Maybe too much punching.

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Developer Text#

Both of these are present in the audio CPU.

At 0x0010:

SOUND CONTROL PROGRAM  VER 2.0 86.12.24
FOR DEE ON SYSTEM-2

At 0x0080:

SOUND DATA Ver 2.0  86.12.24

(Source: Original TCRF research)

Unused Graphics#

There's an early copy of the title screen/HUD graphics in the graphics ROM. Most of the tiles are the same, but a coue of things aren't.

Early

Final

The Sega logo is definitely different. The final version is a unique, smaller design.

Early

Final

The early bomb HUD graphic is a bit too large, resulting in the orange outline not covering the whole bomb. The final bomb graphic is shrunk a bit to fix the issue, plus a bit of color was added at the base.

(Source: Original TCRF research)

References#


  1. Mega Drive Fan - May 1992↩︎