DoDonPachi

DoDonPachi
Developer: Cave Publisher: Atlus Platform: Arcade (CAVE 1st Gen) Released in JP: February 5, 1997 Released in US: 1997 This game has unused graphics. This game has unused music. This game has unused sounds. This game has regional differences.

To do: Debugging, Level Select, and Dev Text stuff.

You're approaching the target of attack; your mission starts now, are you ready?

Unused Graphics

This run-of-the-mill anti-drug message would seem to imply that a US-specific version was planned at one point.

In-Game	Banner

This image is an absolute mess when viewed in-game, but it seems that it was supposed to be added to the game only to be abandoned before it could be properly compressed in the game. A variant of each possible ship pair is available, meaning that they might be planned to be used during the score screen.

No palette suitable for the image is available in-game, unfortunately.

Unused Sounds

Unused Shot SFX
Unused Laser SFX

These two sounds were presumably to be used for the shot and laser sounds exclusively for the blue ship, similar to how all ships have their own firing sounds in DonPachi. The implementation of the Shot-Type and Laser-Type modifiers render it unused.

These sounds were later reused in DoDonPachi II for the blue ship and Dodonpachi Dai-Ou-Jou whenever Hyper Mode is activated.

Unused Music

This song is unused either, possibly for an alternate ending.

Regional Differences

Japan	International

The memetic copyright disclaimer screen seems to carry over from DonPachi. It was mercifully fixed in the International versions, which also includes some small changes in the beginning and the inclusion of Atlus' company name.