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Part 8 - Los Angeles
I'd look like that too if I had clay faeces...
Did you ever wonder why Los Angeles shows up twice in the NES version? (Try
pressing L or R on the NES and you'll see it has two LAs before going on to
the next spot on the map...)
Well, it's because the FC proto has another location, "Strider Headquarters",
that got removed from the NES version!
But, don't get too excited. In the proto, Los Angeles takes you to the usual
place...
With lots of enemies over the NES version.
Enemies in really awkward places!
As you can see.
In both versions, LA is disappointingly short. Just 1 screen down and you
take a warp to...
Strider Headquarters! Yeah, this is where the FC version takes you directly
if you choose the HQ from the map. Not too special. Going by the map, Strider
HQ is in Iraq or Turkey...
Again, neither Sheena nor her dialogue is programmed into the proto. Instead,
you get confronted by an Egyptian guard.
This mound of glitches is Faceas Clay. You can get the key directly with no
dialogue whatsoever in the proto. In the NES version, you have to break through
the glass first, of course:
Uhh... the Japanese version doesn't register that key as moving on to the
next chapter, then.
Part 9 - Pick up the Scraps
Australia (again, criminally short) has birds constantly coming at you in
the proto.
And more brambles to deal with.
The proto lets me run away here, which I gladly do.
One more page and it's on to the Red Dragon!
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