A fighting game on the Neo Geo?
The world of retro video games still holds a great many secrets. Just the other day on our Facebook page we showed off the newly discovered secret to the NES classic Mike Tyson’s Punch Out.
While these secrets tend to be spaced out by months, or even years, today we got another big discovery. It seems that a development board has been found with some flash cards to an unreleased Neo-Geo fighting game.
I’ll let the Neo-Geo forums and user NeoTurfMasta explain the details:
Once that came up, I was pretty excited and realized that this may actually be something more than I had previously thought. I still wasnt able to see what the game was. I started looking at the C rom files again and thought I’d try putting them in different slots. The card labeled “No. 3” really looked like it contained the C1 data. So I put “No. 3” in slot 1, and “No. 4” in slot 2.
Game booted. I think I sat there staring at the screen in complete shock as to what I was seeing. Woke my wife up, she said “cool” and went back to sleep. It was pretty late when I got it working. I spent the next few hours playing it and I didnt sleep at all that night. Or the next night.
And depending on what class you pick your character’s speed, stance, special moves, and special bar change. Even the character’s win screen sprite changes depending on the class. Two characters have animal companions who can be used in attacks. The bosses are not selectable, but I managed to get their win poses a few times and (kind of) pulled out their sprites while I was messing with the C roms. I’m sure someone will be able to get good rips of them, that’s just beyond my knowledge.
The artists spent a lot of time on character and level design. I am sure someone from the team is still out there and can claim credit for their fantastic work. It is so sad to think these artists (and programmers) worked so hard on this for it to be lost.
Check out the video below:
Via: (Neo-Geo Forums)
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