RayCrisis: Series Termination

RayCrisis: Series Termination
Also known as: RayCrisis (JP/EU) Developer: Taito Publishers: Taito (JP), Working Designs (US), JVC (EU) Platform: PlayStation Released in JP: April 20, 2000 Released in US: October 25, 2000 Released in EU: October 13, 2000 This game has unused graphics. This game has regional differences. This game has unusual dummy files.

This needs some investigation. Discuss ideas and findings on the talk page. Specifically: Did Working Designs Working Designified this game too? There should be a couple sounds from the Arcade release that are unused here.

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Unused Graphics

Demo Leftovers

The folder TRIAL, only present in the Japanese release, contains leftover images from a demo version.

T_NOTICE.BIN

T_TMESS1.BIN

T_TMESS2.BIN

TITLE/TITLE.BIN

TITLE/TTBAK1.BIN

TITLE/TTBAK2.BIN

TITLE/TTBAK3.BIN

Arcade Leftovers

File T_RATING.TIM in folder TIM is a leftover screen graphic from the original Arcade release.

In the Japanese release, there is also an additional folder in TIM titled TRASH, which contains even more leftovers from the Arcade release.

T_EPA.BIN

T_FBI.BIN

T_NTC_A.BIN

T_NTC_J.BIN

Placeholder Tile

Present with some maps' water textures is a placeholder with a comment:

Text	Translation
アニメする場所 A1	Place to animate A1

(Source: tikal.)

Dummy File

ZZZZZZZZ.ZZZ, at the root of the game's disc image, is a padding file containing the following repeated string:

Text	Translated
雨が雨が するどい 雨がきつい 雨 雨たちの 私たちの ミッ○ィー しかも 半ずれ 雨がすごいよ y=x^2のように	The rain, the rain is nimble, the rain is harsh Rain, our Mi**y of the rain And yet, half-slip The rain is great, like y=x^2

(Source: JacobLenstar)

Regional Differences

Options Menu

• The Japanese release has PocketStation support, used to download a game titled RayPocket. This feature is not present in the game's localizations.
• In the original Japanese release, there is a digital manual accessible by the image gallery which is absent in the localizations. This is also reflected in its menu selection:

Japan	US/Europe

• Additionally, there are three images in the gallery exclusive to the Japanese release:

Gameplay

• The boss of the Emotion Part, known as Sem-Slut in the original Japanese release, had its name changed to Sem-Strut in the localizations.