[PSX] Internal Section: REZ forerunner or Tempest copy?

[Aiden1945]

IS: Internal Section (Square, 1999)

The game was released only in Japan and it's quite hard to find. I would like to know what kind of game it is, and if it's really groundbreaking or just average.

Thanks

[Fireproofradiator]

I've got it, and I'd love to be able to play it, thanks largely to hearing it was a bit of a 'Rez/Tempest' thing, but my PS2 isn't having any of it, despite the chip I bought specifically so I could do JPN PS1 releases. Tch. Tried all the usual combos - double taps etc.

Screenshots look lovely though...

[charlesr]

It's like Tempest a bit. Not really much like rez at all. It's a traditional shooter in a tube. Plays a bit like Beamrider on the C64 in a weird sort of way.

The music was superb.

You had lots of different weapons, which were all quite different. I wouldn't pay lots of money for it.

[Aiden1945]

I have a chipped PS1, the first model that came to Europe (SCPH-1002 I think) and it's still working fine I think you can get a working one cheaper than what only the PS2 chip or loading system costs. I have friends with the same problems in other games.

I've been told that Internal Section lets you insert a music CD and then the game changes the stage design according to the music. Is it true?

[Fireproofradiator]

I think it does, Aiden1945 - looks to be instructions to this effect in the instructions, from what I can fathom...

[charlesr]

looks to be instructions to this effect in the instructions

no way man (sorry)

[saturn-gamer]

It was back then a too weird of a game for me but later on I really thought of it being a Rez forerunner.