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Prerelease:Tatakae! Chou Robot Seimeitai Transformers: Convoy no Nazo
This page details prerelease information and/or media for Tatakae! Chou Robot Seimeitai Transformers: Convoy no Nazo.
Starting at 2:55 in the video on the right, this Transformers promo tape includes an early look into Convoy no Nazo.
Contents
General Differences
- The score appears to be continuously increasing at the beginning.
- The music is rather different, and also plays during the bosses.
- The score font is like those of early NES games, rather than using its own (blander) font.
Stages
Stage 1: Wasteland Zone
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The colors are different. The grass patches also look unfinished.
Stage 2: Temple Ruins
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The bricks are a completely different color, and the background is black.
Stages 3 and 6: Time Tunnels I & II
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There's less details on some of the blocks, there's brick blocks that aren't seen in these stages, and the layout seems completely different. There are also no enemies in both levels in the video.
Stage 4: Subspace Zone
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The blocks seem to have different colors.
Stage 5: Floating City
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The volcanos don't spew out fireballs in the video.
Stage 7: Glacier Zone
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As with Stage 1, there are unfinished grass patches. The enemy seen coming out of the ground in the final doesn't appear at all in the video.
Stages 8 and 10: Time Tunnels III & IV
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Some of the blocks look different. As with Time Tunnels I & II, no enemies are present in the video.
Stage 9: Underground Machine City
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Aside from the lack of enemies, the ceiling is completely grey in the video.
Bosses
Bosses 1 and 2: Deathstar/Devilstar/Mecha Planet
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The grey platforms are missing lights in the video. There's also no bottomless pits below the grey platforms in the video.
Bosses 3, 6, and 8: Decepticon Logo
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All the fights with the Decepticon logo have the same color, where all of them have different colors in the final. Plus, there are 4 platforms in the video instead of 3. The bottom half of the logo is wider in the proto.
Boss 4: Nemesis
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Though the fight is the same, like the Decepticon logos, there are 4 platforms in the video instead of 3.
Boss 5: Menasor
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There are no platforms to stand on in the video, as Ultra Magnus seems to be standing in air. Menasor himself also doesn't fire projectiles in the video. He also has a somewhat different head.
Boss 7: Bruticus
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As with Menasor, there are no platforms, and Bruticus doesn't fire projectiles.
Boss 9: Megatron
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Same situation with Menasor and Bruticus. No platforms and no projectiles.
Boss 10: Trypticon
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As with Menasor, Bruticus, and Megatron, there are, yet again, no platforms or projectiles. Also, Trypticon has different colors in the video.
