Darius II/Hidden content

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Mega Drive version

Zone select

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On the title screen, press C A C B C A B A B C A C. "ZONE SELECT" will appear at the bottom of the title screen, and the zone select screen itself will appear when starting the game[1][2].

No-hit

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On the title screen, press A B A C B C C B C A B A. "NO-HIT" will appear at the bottom of the title screen, and the player's ship will be invincible.

Free play

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On the title screen, press B B B C A A A B B C C C[3]. "FREE PLAY" will appear at the bottom of the title screen, and the player will have infinite continues.

Special mode

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On the title screen, press C C C C C C C C C C C C[3]. "SPECIAL MODE" will appear at the bottom of the title screen. In this mode, only the middle bosses and bosses are played in order from Zone A in the sequence, and the difficulty level is quite high and continuations are not possible[2].

Play data

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On the title screen, press A B C A B C A B C A B C[3]. "PLAY DATA" will appear at the bottom of the title screen, and a list of records from the last 50 play sessions will be displayed when starting a new game. To navigate through the records, press Up and Down. There doesn't seem to be a way out of the screen, so a reset is necessary[2].

Sound test

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Get a high score of at least 150,000 points, then enter ZTT as initials[2].

Saturn version

Zone select

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Quickly press Z Down L Up on the main menu.

Extra difficulty settings

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Quickly press L Right Down Left on the main menu. A sound will confirm correct entry. This will add two extra difficulty settings, "Very Easy" and "Abnormal", to the Option menu.

No shot limit

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Quickly press B Up L Right on the main menu. A sound will confirm correct entry, and the limit on how many shots the player's ship can fire on screen at one time will be disabled.

5 credits

Quickly press C R Right Down on the main menu. A sound will confirm correct entry, and both players will start with 5 credits each.

PC content

Load the disc into a Windows PC to access a "STAFF.TXT" file containing the names of the developers of the Saturn version.

STAFF.TXT contents 
サターン版 「DARIUSII」 スタッフ


      ◎ プログラム ◎

        金子 道明

        南雲 泰人

        阿部  央

         関  拓志

        赤座 清敬


      ◎ グラフィック ◎

        高須 雄二

        小松崎 成俊

        山田 耕司

        栗原 義昭

        藤原  淳
�

References


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