Super Aleste Strange options

[Yakumo]

Yesterday I put on Super Aleste for the first time in ages only to discover two very strange options at the bottom of the screen.



The options are DEATH and a Round Select. What's even stranger is that these 2 options vanished after playing the game. Does anyone know how they appeared there in the first place and what the DEATH option does?

Yakumo

[moonwhistle]

Just a stab in the dark, but I'd say death could refer to restarting at check points rather than instant respawn. Round could refer to a second loop after finishing the game.

I've played the game loads but I've never noticed those options.

[Yakumo]

That's what I mean. I've also played this game 100's of times but never saw these before then all of a suddern they're up there.

Yakumo

[Leon Retro]

Are you playing the same cart you've always used? ... Some early releases of games( Axelay for example ) ... have easy to access cheat options. Maybe you pressed a quick joypad combo - not realising, and those options came up.

[Yakumo]

yes, this is the cart I've always had. Maybe you are right about the pad combo to access the cheat mode but how on earth did I find this? Crazy. Gamefaqs turns up nothing so I'll check out a few Japanese site. I won't get my hopes up though since japanese sites in general are pretty crap.

yakumo

[Tetsuo]

I always thought it was odd (though pretty useful and unique at the same time) that Super Aleste had a pause assigned to the L-button.

Are there any other games anyone can think of that do this?

[butane bob]

but I'd say death could refer to restarting at check points rather than instant respawn.

I swear my PAL copy has this option somewhere... but it's been a few years since i've had it all set up - methinks i'll have to do that sometime this weekend to find out.

[Yakumo]

If you do find out please post here on how you got it up because I have no idea how I got it on my cartridge.

yakumo

[eastyy]

The Japanese version has more content than the European and American versions, here are some of the differences.

* It has a more advanced options screen.

* Has Super Deformed art on the options and game over screen.

* It has a real ending sequence that brings conclusion to the story. In addition, by pressing the L or R button after the credits, you get an extra piece of art that changes depending on the difficulty.

just wondered was it played on a japanese or a pal snes

[Yakumo]

Played on a Super Famicom.

[stevosowl]

it was odd that you could go into a mode that let you pan and zoom one of the spaceships used in the game.

however, you could never get back to the main menu after looking at it - why not?

[Yakumo]

you could. You had to press something like L&R, Select and Start.

Yakumo