Fray: In Magical Adventure (MSX2, MSX turbo-R)

Fray: ~In magical adventure~
Developer: Micro Cabin Publisher: Micro Cabin Platforms: MSX2, MSX turbo-R Released in JP: 1990 This game has a hidden developer message. This game has debugging material. This game has revisional differences. This game has hidden bonus content.

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Developer Message

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At the first sector for every disk, a small message can be seen.

Original	Translated
カズメAＯＳを立ち上げて、努力と根性よ！ ええ！わかったわ。ノリコ。	Launching Kazume AOS, with effort and willpower! OK, I got this! Noriko.

Following that message is this:

Ｋａｚｕｍｉ．ＤＯＳ　BOOT Loader Ver 1.10 1990.04.20 By Y.Nakatsu

(Source: 電波放送局)

Debug Menu

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While playing, press Shift to open the game menu. Choose the third option (System), and then highlight the BGM option.

Now, hold C and wait for the text screen to appear completely; once it appears and while still holding C, press Up, Up, Down, Down, Right, Left, Right, Left, X. If done right, the debug menu will appear.

Version Differences

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Fray was released in two separate versions for the MSX2 and the MSX Turbo R, and there are some differences between the two besides game speed.

Copyright Screen

Right away the colors used for the copyright screen on both versions are different.

MSX2	MSX turbo-R

Title Screen

Both versions also use different colors for the subtitle as well.

MSX2	MSX turbo-R

Intro Demo

The Microcabin intro at the beginning is completely absent from the turbo-R version.

Voice Samples

The turbo-R version utilizes the PCM function of the system to play back voice samples during specific cutscenes. Unfortunately, after playing each sound clip, the music for each scene restarts instead of resuming from where it left off!

Bonus GOGO Pixie Stage

There is a special bonus stage available in the MSX2 version, accessible from Disk 3 (Disk 2 in the turbo-R version) by holding down G + O on the keyboard while booting up.

Bonus Pictures

The Xak games usually have an extra omake section that is shown after beating the game. However, with the MSX2 version of Fray, instead of having to wait after the ending, the omake section can be viewed immediately by holding M while booting from Disk 1.

Note that this will only work in the MSX2 version, and not the turbo-R version.