Savage Bees

Savage Bees is Capcom's third shoot 'em up title and their fifth game overall. Shoot bees, then shoot things that are not bees.

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A build date can be found starting at in Memory: 84110  ExedExes

High Score List
The number of characters for a high score name was shortened from 10 to 3. This necessitated a change in the default high score names.

High Score Entry
The Exed Exes logo was replaced with a message unique to Savage Bees.

Additionally, Exed Exes has a feature that's not present in Savage Bees. If the player doesn't enter any characters for a name, a default name is pulled up instead. There are 8 names that cycle, and there are different names depending on the language dip switch.

Notably, seven of the eight default Japanese names appear to be people who worked on the game!

Since Savage Bees reduced the number of characters per name, these default names can't be used. So, rather than make new names, this feature was simply disabled, making it possible to enter a completely blank name in the High Score list.

Round Clear Text
Three of the round clear messages are in Japanese. Rather than translate them, Memetron removed these messages entirely.

Additionally, the message for clearing Round 16 was changed from "CONGRATULATIONS" to "LUCKY SHOT EARTHLING"

Game End Message
Savage Bees, oddly, has three more lines to the 10,000,000 points message than Exed Exes. The shared part of the message (おめでとう) means "congratulations," fittingly enough. Savage Bees also has the line "PCGもよろしく" (Also, take care of your PCG.).

PGC stands for "Play Game Card". A message in Commando -- Japanese version only -- mentions a PGC as well.