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[-^Cro§Bow^-]

Yeah yeah...I know we have Cosmic Ark already but I hadn't seen this one yet avail on the web.

Basically while doing the usual Thrift hunting today to actually shop for another member of this board I came across a couple of interesting things.

The first being a cool Pirate of Defender...basically it has the Defender Label and end label..but has the "P" to designate it as PAL format..but it isnt'...also the cart case is similar to an Activision case in that is has grips on the sides...but the bottom of the case has small rectangulare area on it with ridges for grabbing the cart easier..either way it works and looks different.

The other item was an accident. One of the items on the "Please pick up..." list was Cosmic Ark. I grabbed the first one I saw with a good label. When I came home to test them all out I started with many...but ended up playing Cosmic Ark last. As I was reaching over to turn off my 7800 from which I was playing it...I hit the pause button by accident...and guess what happened?

Yeap..I found me a copy where the stars can be turned off! So without further adieu...I present to you:

Cosmic Ark Star disable option Binary for use in Emulation...

I tested it under Z26 and it worked just fine.

Enjoy and have fun rom hacking to see the differences between this one and the other normal released copy.

BTW...there is Zero difference between the labels on either of mine...so that whole smaller text thing is a Myth as I see it.



hehe..cool..this was my 555 post!



[ 12-13-2001: Message edited by: -^Cro§Bow^- ]

[Scott Stilphen]

Thanks Crossbow. Another one down

[NE146]

aah now I see what you were talking about on irc... it all makes sense now

[ubersaurus]

Heh, interesting. Gotta start getting all the alternate style ROMs, like Demon Attack, and Asteroids.

[Ze_ro]

So is there any reliable way to know which cartridges have this option without actually testing them? I thought I remembered reading somewhere that this only happened in text label cartridges, but my pic label seems to let me do it...

--Zero

[-^Cro§Bow^-]

I don't think there is a reliable way to tell. Both times I have had a copy that could do this they were both Picture labels. I also compared the labels between this one and the other that doesn't shut off the star field and they don't appear different at all..same label pic...same size lettering...same copyright info...and even the same rev level is stated...as being Rev A.

So in short...it is probably a shot in the dark guess as to which ones can and cannot do this...

[Ze_ro]

Perhaps the circuit boards inside the cartridges may be different... but I guess that wouldn't be terribly helpful if you had to crack open the game to find out!

--Zero