Laser Squad trick
Hi all,
Here's a small "trick" I discovered when porting Laser Squad's extra levels ("The stardrive" & "Laser platoon") to MSX:
- Load level "The stardrive" (you should use menu entry #1 for that).
- After 2nd turn, load another level.
- You should now be able to walk through any obstacle!
Explanation: the "Stardrive" level is hacking the game "core" routine that handle player's move (that's done on first AI turn), but is not restoring it.
Awesome game by the way. Used to play X-COM a lot in 1990, but never noticed that 8bit prequel.
The MSX port was quite buggy by the way (and the original English version was lost for decades before beeing finally restored last week).
Here's a small "trick" I discovered when porting Laser Squad's extra levels ("The stardrive" & "Laser platoon") to MSX:
- Load level "The stardrive" (you should use menu entry #1 for that).
- After 2nd turn, load another level.
- You should now be able to walk through any obstacle!
Explanation: the "Stardrive" level is hacking the game "core" routine that handle player's move (that's done on first AI turn), but is not restoring it.
Awesome game by the way. Used to play X-COM a lot in 1990, but never noticed that 8bit prequel.
The MSX port was quite buggy by the way (and the original English version was lost for decades before beeing finally restored last week).
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