I am posting the following a second time now that bt has let old
subscribers know of the new list and there are far more people on here
than a month and a half ago.
Here goes...
I was just wondering if anybody knows what the menu options are in
Rainbow Islands? I cannot read Japanese so I have no idea what the
menu is. First, you are presented with two options. Pressing "RUN"
on the option that the game defaults to seems to continue play from
the beginning of the last "Island" you were playing.
Switching to the other option and pressing "RUN" presents you with a
list of yet more options, two of which seem to toggle between
something and something else. Trial and error has not revealed
anything to me about what these options do. Everything seems the same
no matter what I set on this screen.
Perhaps somebody who knows Japanese might help me here? :)
Also, has anyone else experienced problems playing Rainbow Islands
with a System 3.0 card instead of a System 2.0 card? Ever since I
have owned the game, up until a few months ago, for some reason I
always thought Rainbow Islands was a SuperCD game and thus played it
with the System 3.0 card. The game is very buggy with quite a few
glitches if you play it with this card. Half the time the enemy
sprites show up as garbled graphics under System 3.0, sometimes dying
on a level will cause the game to go into an endless "Fade-out" loop
and occasionally the game will insert you into Island 5 (the
"Arkanoid" island), but again
the game will go into the "Fade-out" loop immediately so you can't
actually play the level. Sometimes the music would start jumping to
random points in the song in the middle of play. The only remedy for
any of these is just to restart the system and hope all is well.
I have owned the game for a few years now and this behavior was
present ever since day 1 playing with the "Super System" 3.0 card.
A few months ago I was looking through the game manual, and I noticed
it just said "CD-ROM^2" and not "SuperCD". So I have been playing it
with my System 2.0 card ever since, and all these glitches have
disappeared completely.
FWIW, I know my System 3.0 card is not faulty because I have other
actual SuperCD games that run great w/o any trace of problems using
this card. Even other regular CD-ROM^2 games seem to work fine with
the 3.0 card (e.g. Darius). And yes, the Rainbow Islands CD is
completely and totally free of any scratches whatsoever. I think that
the person I bought the game from had actually never even played it.
To be honest, I always just thought that poor programming was at fault
in the case of Rainbow Islands.
I am simply curious because I have heard some of the older games don't
work with the newer System cards. Doesn't Altered Beast need System
1.0? I just don't remember hearing anything to this effect about
Rainbow Islands.
-Nat