Talk:Thexder

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

	This article is part of WikiProject Computer and video games, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to video games on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.	CVG Portal
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the assessment scale.
CVG To-do: edit  Gaming Collaboration of the week: X-Men vs. Street Fighter Expand: New CVG Articles, List of Nintendo trademarks, Normality, Pac-Man World 2, Operation Flashpoint: Elite, Call of Juarez, Galactic Civilizations II: Dark Avatar, Ford Street Racing, Betrayal at Krondor CVG Peer Review: Super Transformation, Wikipedia:WikiProject Computer and video games, Yoshi, Turok: Dinosaur Hunter, Black Isle's Torn, Rise of Nations, Kirby (Nintendo), PlayStation 3, Mega Man Zero 4, Luigi Cleanup: Shiny Entertainment, Age of Mythology, Serious Sam II, Mario Kart: Double Dash!!, Ted Price, Betrayal at Krondor, Little Fighter 2 Merge: Current Events (Update needed!) / Deletions / Essential articles / Workshop / Magazines Assess and Prioritise articles (Log)

[edit] Repeating Levels?

Is it true that - at least in the MS-DOS version - the levels would repeat once the last one had been completed? I recall using a cheat program to gain unlimited health and experiencing a never-ending loop of levels, but a friend swears he beat the game and that there was an ending.

My guess is that my friend was thinking of Firehawk, as I also cheated to beat the MS-DOS version of that game and remember an ending.

Some other trivia I've gathered over the years:

• The PC version of Thexder supports only PC Speaker or Tandy sound. Tandy sound is superior, but the graphics are inferior to the hi-res EGA mode.
• Sierra seems to have re-arranged the music from the MS-DOS version of Firehawk, as the music sounds different from the original MSX versions that I've heard. This was probably a side-effect of having to port to different sound hardware (e.g. from whatever the MSX uses, to the Yamaha OPL3 in the Adlib/Soundblaster, as well as the Roland MT-32 MIDI synth).
• The MSX version of Firehawk has an intro story sequence which is not present in the MS-DOS port. However, I recall that Sierra made up for this by including a comic book (or perhaps it was in the manual?) version of the intro story with the MS-DOS version. I don't know if the story is the same, but the comic book version ties the two games (Thexder and Firehawk) together and provides a back-story for both.

Thexder was the first Sierra game I ever owned :) Firehawk was the first game I played on my first sound card, an 8-bit ISA SoundBlaster 2.0. --HunterZ 22:43, 17 May 2006 (UTC)