Monster Rancher 2

Monster Rancher 2
Also known as: Monster Farm 2 (JP), Monster Rancher (EU, original release) Developer: Tecmo Publishers: Tecmo (JP/US), SCEE (EU) Platform: PlayStation Released in JP: February 25, 1999 Released in US: August 31, 1999 Released in EU: October 20, 2000 This game has hidden development-related text. This game has a prerelease article

To do: Regional Differences

Monster Rancher 2 goes a less linear route and even requires the player to have certain discs of varying rarity to unlock certain parts of the game.

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Prerelease Info

Unused Moo superboss fight

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There's an item you can pick up during the Kawrea expedition called the God Slate, and it's actually the entire reason why you take the expedition in the first place. While in-game it does absolutely nothing, there's remnants in the game's data for it to cause an invitational tournament to appear that pits you against an incredibly powerful Moo. Unfortunately, other than the battle itself, the rest of the event remains nonfunctional.

While the fight is programmed into the Japanese version, it was taken out of the international releases. It was brought back in all versions of Monster Rancher 1+2 DX, and the Moo was even given the nickname "Muu" when fought, since it's based on the original Japanese PSX release, but the battle still goes unused even there.

Debug Text

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Inside SLUS_009.17 at 0x1434 are some strings for a debug display.

version 0x%x
flag    0x%x
SPR_GP  %d   
SEQ     %d   
AN2TBL  %d
f_map   %d
anmdat  
AN2
AN3
??2
??3
???
SEQ_P   0x%x
SPRTGP  0x%x
NUMBER  %d
ATTR       0x%x
TIME       %d
SPR_GP_NO  %d
X          %d
Y          %d