Road Fighter (NES)

Road Fighter
Developer: Konami Publishers: Konami (JP), Palcom Software (EU) Platform: NES Released in JP: July 11, 1985 Released in EU: June 18, 1992 This game has hidden development-related text. This game has unused graphics. This game has regional differences.

The NES Road Fighter is a very simple port of the arcade game of the same name.

Unused Graphics

There are a set of unused cars left among other sprite graphics.

Two frames of animation of the truck doors opened.

Two incomplete sprites of barrel animation for more road obstacles. There are no barrels on the road in the final game.

Probably a sewer hatch sprite, but maybe the barrel from the top side as the road obstacle. Both this one and the above obstacles probably appear too small for the game, compared to the used oil puddles and holes.

Various blobs, probably intended to be used at the checkpoints according to results.

Build Dates

Present at the beginning of the PRG ROM in the Japanese version:

RC801.1.0.850328

...and at the end of the PRG ROM in the European version:

MSTR910502

Similar IDs can be found in many other Konami games.

Regional Differences

Japan	Europe

The European version's title screen has a much larger logo and much more copyright info. As a result, the options were moved to a separate screen.

Japan	Europe

In the Japanese version, the car accelerates to 196km/h in first gear. The European version upps this to 224km/h.

Japan	Europe

If the fuel ratio is less than 10%, it becomes dark red in the Japanese version and blue in the European one.