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Asterix in Egypt - beta
Post Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2012 11:48 pm
I received this message from icecaap:
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Hi and good day!

We are 2 users from Spain, Icecaap and Lamoscato.

We would like to talk about an interesting subject related to the Master System in the forum, but I am recent user in SMS Power (icecaap) and I can not create a topic. We expose the subject to tell us your opinion.

Some time ago, Icecaap know a beta version for Sega Master System from the videogame Asterix (“Asterix in Egypt”).

You can see all about this content here:

http://s15.photobucket.com/albums/a365/talouko/asterix_arvore.jpg
http://s15.photobucket.com/albums/a365/talouko/asterix_flor.jpg
http://s15.photobucket.com/albums/a365/talouko/asterix_12_chefe.jpg
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a365/talouko/asterix_open.jpg
http://img822.imageshack.us/img822/1268/asterixjeferaro.jpg
http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/8895/asterixbombas.jpg


As you can be appreciated, the beta version is very different from the original version:

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a365/talouko/AsterixUE_001.gif
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a365/talouko/AsterixUE_002.gif
http://s15.photobucket.com/albums/a365/talouko/AsterixUE_003.gif


About the information of that beta versión, Icecaap found it from the following sites:

http://passagemsecreta.com/asterix-in-egypt/

And there are some info in the Numbers HS01 and 7 from the Megaforce Magazine:

http://download.abandonware.org/magazines/MEGA%20force/megaforce_numerohs01/MEGA...
http://download.abandonware.org/magazines/MEGA%20force/megaforce_numero07/Mega%2...

We are talking about this on this Spanish forum:

http://www.elotrolado.net/hilo_misterios-de-la-master-system-asterix-beta-o-aste...

Congratulations for the good work!!

Greetings :) and thanks for your time!

Iceecap and Lamoscato.[/code]
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Post Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2012 11:49 pm

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Post Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2012 9:49 pm
So was the game originally meant to have storyline related to Asterix and Cleopatra?

And was Egypt to be last level - logical as it's furthest in the map?
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Post Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2012 11:05 pm
Some more pictures I scanned a while back. They came from the Australian Megazone magazine.
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Post Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2012 1:11 pm
Awesome the last pictures :O thanks S.F :)
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Post Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2012 3:18 pm
You're welcome. Asterix is my favorite Master System game :)
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Post Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2012 8:24 pm
Some time ago, I created a post asking some info about this beta. There's another screenshot in that post.
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Post Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2012 1:31 am
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Some time ago, I created a post asking some info about this beta. There's another screenshot in that post.

well, i'll be damned. anyway, i love seeing new betas/information.
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Post Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2012 1:44 am
olaf wrote
well, i'll be damned. anyway, i love seeing new betas/information.

Well... The most important thing here is to find the beta cartridge to back up the ROM.

Anyway, beta games are always very difficult to find, and this is a case when it's even more difficult to find because this beta is very old!!

I think there's some people around here dreaming to put their hands in this beta... lol
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Post Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2015 3:13 pm
From MegaZone #18 (Oct/Nov 1991);

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Post Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2016 6:49 pm
A compilation of images from various scans...
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Post Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2016 8:28 pm
I want to tell 3 new curiosities that I discovered about this beta...

1. There may be 2 or more beta versions.
In the picture "different-structure.jpg" you can see 2 captures of the same place in the game, but the structure of the wall is different.

2. Discovered a new stage in the beta, the forest stage.
Is very similar to the final version (see "stage-discovered.png"). At the first, I thought it was a capture of the final version forest, but both versions are different.

3. Discovered unused item.
I discovered inside the final version rom at address 0x25ed3 (see "unused-item.png"), is an alternative potion, maybe this was used in the beta version, I don't know.
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