Judgement Silversword: Rebirth Edition

Judgement Silversword: Rebirth Edition is one of the rarest and most expensive games on the WonderSwan Color, which came to prominence when it was submitted (minus the Rebirth Edition) to and ultimately won the 2001 WonderWitch Grand Prix, a coding compo which ran from 2001 to 2003. Following this success, it was picked up by Qute for an extremely limited commercial release, alongside 2002 winner Dicing Knight.

Lv50 Unlock Command
Both versions of the game have a code to unlock all of the bonuses usually obtained through gameplay, including sound test, stage select, god mode and debug-shot.
 * Start (8 times), Y3, Y2, B, Y1, Y4, Y3, Y4, A, B, Y2

This code was implemented as a failsafe in case of the cartridge's battery-backed SRAM dying. As such, it was removed from the Xbox 360 port of the game included as a bonus feature in Eschatos.

Revision Differences
The 2005 reprint of the game adds an additional "Happy Field Project" splash screen, makes some tweaks to the copyright dates, adds an additional gameplay mode and introduces a minor bug.

Broken Debug-Shot
The bug noted above is with the DEBUG-SHOT function of the SET UP MODE screen. In Rev. 4321, this adds an additional (very large, very strong) shot mode for the player's ship on the X3 button, as seen at right. In SC21, this cheat is simply nonfunctional, with no change in available weaponry whether enabled or not.

WonderWitch Leftovers
Strings in the Judgement Silversword ROMs show the extent to which its hardware seems to have been based on the WonderWitch homebrew cart, on which the game originated. Due to the overwhelming number of such strings, only the (marginally) more interesting are noted here. This means errors and some file transfer dialogues are not shown. Where the offsets differ, the Rev. 4321 locations are shown first, with their location in Rev. SC21 shown below.