Tōki Denshō may not be the most refined or serious fighting game in the world, but it’s quirky and has a unique place in Tecmo history. It’s also a miracle that the game even made it to release, suffering during development from an understaffed team, threats and bad ideas from upper management, bad location test results, and the spectre of Dead or Alive that was stealing away the few resources they had.

The details of Tōki Denshō’s development were compiled by the game’s main planner, Jun, as part of the Tōki Gentei dōjinshi. Now, more than six years after I initially promised it, here is a translation and commentary on that development diary.

Good grief, has it really been almost two years since a proper article was posted? Let’s finally correct that by taking a look at Progear no Arashi and the mess of debug tools and code oddities tucked away in its data.

SUDDEN DESU officially turns ten years old in October. My, how time flies…

We’ve looked at secrets of the game’s data in part 1. Now let’s look at what didn’t even make it past the planning stage, at what could have been…

Let’s take a look at a fighting game with a troubled development history, questionable aesthetic choices, cut characters and hidden debug tools. No, we’re not talking about Tōki Denshō this time. It’s Psikyo’s 1998 fighting game, Daraku Tenshi: The Fallen Angels! In part 1, we’ll look at the game’s hidden development tools and other code mysteries, then in Part 2 we’ll discuss the game’s unfortunately wasted storyline.