Arcus Spirits

Arcus Spirits
Developer: Wolf Team Publisher: Sammy Platform: SNES Released in JP: October 22, 1993 This game has hidden developer credits. This game has unused graphics. This game has a hidden level select. This game has a prototype article

Arcus Spirits is the Super Famicom port of Arcus Odyssey for the Sega Genesis and Sharp X68000. A North American release was planned, but canceled after Wolf Team's American publisher was bought out by Sega. However, a nearly-complete prototype of the American version of the game has been dumped.

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Prototype Info

Unused Graphics

The original Odyssey name is included with the title screen graphics.

Stage Select

Arcus Spirits contains code for a stage select menu, but it is unreachable in both the JP and US versions of the game. To access it, start the game with the following Pro Action Replay (PAR) codes enabled:

JP version	US prototype
80811320 80811400 8081159E	80814320 80814444 8081459D

The menu will appear after selecting a character.

(Source: MCA / Elitendo (trainer))

Developer Message

This text appears at the very beginning of the Japanese ROM:

   ARCUS SPLITS by WOLF TEAM    
   PROGRAMED by S.Horishita     

The message was moved to offset 0x42 in the US prototype and padded with two extra blank lines.