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| Contra Advance (Review Prototype)
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| Dump status |
Released
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| Dumped by |
Prototector
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| Released by |
Prototector
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| File release date |
Jun 21, 2016
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| Origin
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Flash cartridge
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| Dump method |
DS+Acekard 2i+GBA Backup Tool
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| Ownership |
DreamTR (?), qixmaster (?-2014, Prototector (2014-2015), Jaxsbox (2015-current)
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| Game
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Contra Advance: The Alien Wars EX
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| System |
Game Boy Advance
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| Genre |
run-n-gun
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A surprisingly early/different prototype version of Contra Advance: The Alien Wars EX for being a review copy. The subtitle was not even added yet at this point, the initial title being chosen as early as the E3 preview video.
Notes
- Subtle functionality differences, such as menu selection, prompts, gameplay scripts, bugs/glitches, performance, missing logos and screens.
- Various text differences.
- Stage select for 1 player mode (possibly retained in final version).
- Graphical differences, such as simpler animations/sequences; same with audio.
- Bosses and enemies are much weaker and generally easier to defeat on the easy mode compared to normal here than in the final; they're also generally easier to defeat overall (with one exception, explained below).
- 2 player mode works at this point, but with bugs and missing messages.
- At least one difference per stage, ranging from audio/visuals to stage elements to gameplay elements. The most interesting is how close stage 5 is to its source material, being a stage from Contra: Hard Corps. In the final, enemies and bosses are functionally simplified to reduce their difficulty to balance the game. In this prototype, this is not the case; they behave like their source counterparts, making the stage much more difficult.
- Graphics/sprites from Contra: Hard Corps are present in this version that might not be in the final. One example is the appearance of Dr. Geo Mandrake in the fifth level, which occurs in a rare and seemingly random glitch that hangs the game. He's not at all part of the (essentially nonexistent) plot to the game.
- Incomplete endings in all scenarios; the endings themselves are glitched and/or simpler.
Screenshots
See also
No-intro entry
Contra Advance: The Alien Wars EX prototypes
