Prerelease:Pilotwings/Internal Material

This is a sub-page of Prerelease:Pilotwings.

This article is a work in progress. ...Well, all the articles here are, in a way. But this one moreso, and the article may contain incomplete information and editor's notes.

To do: There is so, so much more.

Almost all the assets, including the sprites and animations, are stored in three major folders:

• other\NEWS\テープリストア\NEWS_04\NEWS_04.tar\home\sugiyama\mori
• other\NEWS\テープリストア\NEWS_04\NEWS_04.tar\home\sugiyama\fly
• other\NEWS\テープリストア\NEWS_04\NEWS_04.tar\home\sugiyama\flyman

Sprites

MYSHIP.cgx

BOSS.cgx

BOSS-1.cgx

BOSS-3.CGX

UFO-0.cgx

CORE-2.CGX

ROGO.cgx

Maps

Test Map

A gigantic map consisting of a whopping 64 tilemaps (TEST-1X.scr - TEST-16X.scr) featuring a big isle with landing fields, ships, houses, and... a message from a ticked developer in the middle of the isle. It's dated February 28, 1989, according to the metastamp found in the .scr files (NAK1989 S-CG-CADVer1.00 890228).

Filepath: other\NEWS\テープリストア\NEWS_04\home\sugiyama\fly\TEST-1A.SCR - TEST-16D.SCR

Map 1

A map consisting of a big main island, with a smaller one at the top-left. Made up of four .scr files (MAP1-1.SCR - MAP1-4.SCR). The latest "metastamp" among the .scr files is "NAK1989 S-CG-CADVer1.10 891115" (November 15, 1989), while the earliest one is "NAK1989 S-CG-CADVer1.10 891017" (October 17, 1989).

It seems the developers loved this map design, as a modified version is present in the final game as the Lesson 3 map.

Filepath: other\NEWS\テープリストア\NEWS_04\home\sugiyama\flyman\MAP1-1.SCR - MAP1-4.SCR

Map 2

A map which has what seems to be a "harbor" area attached to an island. Palette seems to be modified: the backup of it (M7-NIGHT.COL.BAK) is the most accurate to prerelease screenshots of the map, but the ground tiles seem a bit off. Made up of four .scr files (MAP2-1.SCR - MAP2-4.SCR). The internal "metastamp" of the files show the last modified date, the metastamps for these .scr files are "NAK1989 S-CG-CADVer1.10 891115" (November 15, 1989).

Filepath: other\NEWS\テープリストア\NEWS_04\home\sugiyama\flyman\MAP2-1.SCR - MAP2-4.SCR

Map 4

A map which has two main islands that seem to be captured by the enemy, there is a facility on the big island, and a landing pad on the other island. There seemed to be missing assets in the .cgx file (M7-BG-C00.CGX), but copying the ground tiles and pasting them on the bottom right quadrant of the .cgx file filled the blanks on those particular .scr files.

Made up of 16 .scr files (MAP4-1.SCR - MAP4-16.SCR). The latest "metastamp" among the .scr files is "NAK1989 S-CG-CADVer1.10 891115" (November 15, 1989), while the earliest one is "NAK1989 S-CG-CADVer1.01 890426" (April 26, 1989).

Filepath: other\NEWS\テープリストア\NEWS_04\home\sugiyama\flyman\MAP4-1.SCR - MAP4-16.SCR

Map 8 (Fortress Map)

A flying fortress map that is seen in some Dragonfly prerelease screenshots, it's made up of eight tilemaps (MAP8-1.SCR - MAP8-8.SCR). Dated October 13, 1989 as the file's last modified date, there are no metastamps in any of the .scr files for it.

Filepath: other\NEWS\テープリストア\NEWS_04\home\sugiyama\flyman\MAP8-1.SCR - MAP8-8.SCR

Race

A strange map that uses graphics similar to the "Secret Command" stages seen in the final game, but this is way smaller, with only four .scr files (RACE1-1.SCR - RACE1-4.SCR). Its purpose is unknown, but the metastamp of the files (NAK1989 S-CG-CADVer1.11 900223) show that it was last edited on February 23, 1990.

Filepath: other\NEWS\テープリストア\NEWS_04\home\sugiyama\flyman\RACE1-1.SCR - RACE1-4.SCR

Island

An early beta map featuring four islands. Dated April 26, 1989, according to the metastamp in the .scr file (NAK1989 S-CG-CADVer1.01 890426).

Filepath: other\NEWS\テープリストア\NEWS_04\home\sugiyama\flyman\ISLAND.SCR