Taito Legends

Taito Legends
Developers: Taito, Empire Oxford, Atomic Planet Entertainment, Razorworks Publishers: Sega (US), Empire Interactive (EU) Platform: PlayStation 2 Released in US: October 25, 2005 Released in EU: October 14, 2005 This game has a hidden developer message. This game has hidden development-related text. This game has unused text.

A collection of 29 Taito arcade games.

Cut Games

Text entries for a few games that aren't included in the collection exist.

These ones were later included in Taito Legends 2, but only for the Xbox and Windows versions, with Gunlock included under its Japanese name RayForce.

Bubble Symphony (Europe) 

Taito Corporation
1997
Pop 'N Pop (World)

Taito Corporation Japan
1993
Gunlock (World)

These were included in all versions of Taito Legends 2.

Dungeon Magic (World) 

1994
Darius Gaiden - Silver Hawk (World)

One game that didn't make the cut, even in Taito Legends 2.

1990
Aqua Jack (World)

Development-Related Text

Present in the SLES file are the following.

Build date and version number:

0.87 (Aug 26 2005)
Build 1.0

Some placeholder text:

THIS LOCATION
Text to go here

This odd warning:

Warning: Game was saved with sound off, but sound 
is on.  Result may be interesting.
Warning: Game was saved with sound on, but sound 
is off.  Result may be interesting.

Developer Notes

Present in FILES.DAT are some developer notes.

0xFA9F938

// Gladiator (Taito America 1986)
// Railugh - 11th Sep 2002
// Image taken from Ebay

0xFC3C9EB

// we use an overlay here to change the bright white color used by
// the game down to a more pleasing blue-tinted light gray
// this has the side effect of making the game graphics appear a bit
// transluscent over the backdrop

0xFD5F13E

// thanks to Nathan Strum for the backdrop graphics

0x1221B13E

// 09/13/02 [your friendly neighborhood webslinger]
// image borrowed from mamefans' museum section.
// This bezel is the best I could do with the low res image, but it's better
// than nothing. Thanks to mamefans or the original bezel image.

(Source: Ferrox)