Magic Sword (Arcade)

Magic Sword
Developer: Capcom Publisher: Capcom Platform: Arcade (CP System) Released internationally: July 1990 This game has unused graphics. This game has unused music. This game has regional differences. This game has revisional differences.

In Magic Sword, you are a man with a giant sword who must make his way to the top of a 50-floor tower. There's also a second player with a magic axe, but he's not in the title, so who cares?

Unused Music

Track 01 is a short tune that might have been used for an unimplemented game intro. It was used as the Stage Select screen music but only on the SNES version.

Track 15 is a happy tune that would have been used for something happy. This track was subsequently used as the Staff Roll theme for the SNES version.

(Source: Original TCRF research)

Unused Graphics

Three different tiles appear as filler in the graphics ROM. They all say "pu", possibly short for "placeholder". Maybe.

(Source: Original TCRF research)

Version / Revisional Differences

Japan + World (900623)	USA + World (900725)

When a "screen crash" spell is cast, an image flashes on-screen for a few frames. In the Japanese and World 900623 revisions, it's a hexagram: the symbols inside the hexagram are the astrological symbols for Saturn, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, and possibly Jupiter; the symbols on the outer circle are unknown and possibly made up.

The other two revisions (USA and World 900725) use a lightning bolt, which is arguably more effective at representing what the spell does. This change may have also been made so the hexagram wouldn't be mistaken for a Star of David.

(Source: Original TCRF research)