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References to Street Fighter characters Ryu and Ken have been discovered in the Sega Saturn exclusive Fighters Megamix.
The discovery was made by @memory_fallen, who specialises in reverse-engineering Saturn games and coming up with cool hacks and patches to unlock hidden features.
Here's @memory_fallen to explain:
The strings
RYU
andKEN
each appear twice in the game data. At first I thought they were just initials for a high score screen, but upon further inspection, they are referenced by the Book Keep function.
Look who else is in the same neighborhood: Aoi from Virtua Fighter 3! Janet uses some of Aoi’s moves, so maybe she replaced Aoi?
I’m reasonably certain that these characters aren’t present on the disc and playable. But it’s interesting that they seem to have been considered!
Previously unknown cheat codes have also been found which allow you to unlock bonus features within the game (this process normally takes around 500 rounds), and there's also a hidden "BACKUP DEBUGGER", just like the one seen in the Saturn port of Fighting Vipers. You can also play as the game's training dummy.
You can read a full write-up of the findings here.
[source 32bits.substack.com]
Comments 5
Could Fighters Megamix have been a Sega experiment to see if VF3 was viable for the Saturn?
Correction: the article says 500 rounds, not hours. I imagine this would take more like 10 hours, assuming there aren't other criteria for unlocking everything!
@smoreon It's been a long day (thanks for the save!)
@mashk
Pretty sure it was alluded too.
Sega Saturn Magazine at least seemed to think so.
@mashk it definitely was.
On the other hand, I see those Ryu and Ken indicators as placeholders for debug purposes. There's very little chance they were going to get expensive external licenses for a game that was essentially an internal test with SEGA-based fanservice sprinkled in.
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