We’re precisely three a long time faraway from the launch of the Sega Saturn in Japan, and one veteran developer is celebrating the milestone by sharing footage of a secret Fighters Megamix stage that’s gone undetected because the sport debuted on the underappreciated console in 1996.
Fighters Megamix, simply as a fast historical past lesson, is a crossover combating sport that includes characters from Sega video games like Virtua Fighter, Combating Vipers, Sonic the Fighters, and Virtua Cop. Most people comprehend it as the sport that allows you to beat up the enduring Sega AM2 palm tree brand as a automobile from Daytona USA. It’s a bizarre if surprisingly competent 3D combating sport that mixed not solely characters from separate franchises however their distinctive mechanics as effectively.
“When it was launched, Fighters Megamix acquired an incredible response and was featured in nearly each gaming journal,” Megamix programmer Yutaka Ito posted to X (previously Twitter) the night of Nov. 21, in line with translations by Automaton West. “However simply as we had been about to publicize details about the hidden stage, we found that breaking a wall within the stage or defeating an enemy with a robust transfer would trigger the sport to freeze.”
With no option to repair the bug — this was earlier than the times of pushing updates to everybody who purchased the sport by means of the web, after all — all of the ready data on tips on how to entry the Fighters Megamix stage was stored from being printed and remained confidential for nearly 30 years.
Ito, who now works at Like a Dragon developer Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio and most just lately acted as technical director on Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, admitted the entire fiasco was his fault and that he fell right into a deep melancholy afterwards, although the assist of the Fighters Megamix group helped him pull by means of.
“It’s the Sega Saturn’s thirtieth anniversary, so I’ve determined to disclose this for the primary time,” Ito mentioned. “The hidden stage of Fighters Megamix, referred to as Ohshima Stage, seems once you meet sure circumstances. Nevertheless, in the event you destroy a wall in it, the sport freezes. I’ll mirror on this for the remainder of my life.”