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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. | 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== | ==Notes== | ||
*Subtle functionality differences, such as menu selection, prompts, gameplay scripts, bugs/glitches, performance, missing logos and screens. | *Subtle functionality differences, such as menu selection, prompts, gameplay scripts, bugs/glitches, performance, missing logos and screens. | ||
*Various text differences. | *Various text differences. | ||
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==Screenshots== | ==Screenshots== | ||
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File:Contra-advance-the-alien-wars-ex-prototype2.png | |||
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==See also== | |||
[https://datomatic.no-intro.org/index.php?page=show_record&s=23&n=x119 No-intro entry] | |||
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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