Tempo

Tempo
Developers: Sega, Red Company Publishers: Sega (JP/US), Tec Toy (BR) Platform: 32X Released in JP: March 24, 1995 Released in US: 1995 Released in BR: 1995 This game has unused graphics. This game has debugging material. This game has a prototype article This game has a prerelease article

Tempo is a cutesy 2D musical platformer crafted by the masterminds behind the Bonk games. Unfortunately, not only was it released on the ill-fated 32X, the US version also had horrendous cover art.

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Prototype Info

Prerelease Info

Debug Menu

The debug menu remains in the final, but was dummied-out. It can be accessed by modifying the address $07D578:4E71 or by using Game Genie code RHLT-R6X2 in the Gens emulator (it won't work on real hardware).

To toggle it on/off, hold A + B + C and press Right. To change between CG mode (patterns) and CL mode (colors), hold Start and press any direction on the D-Pad.

To change the select mode, hold A and press a direction. When in "cell edit" mode, press B to overwrite a pixel with the current color (selected in CL mode).

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  The text/palette viewer.

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  The text editor... thing.

Hard-To-Get Endings

Depending on your final score, the show's host will give you a prize which will determine the image you see during the credits. There are six distinct images, one for each prize. Unfortunately, even when playing in Hard Mode (with 10× bonuses), skimming through the levels flawlessly and having a perfect performance at Bonus Levels, half the endings are still inaccessible due to some obscenely-high score requirements. It is possible (but extremely hard) to get them normally without any cheats by abusing continues and grinding in the last level for about six hours.

An early prototype had enemies giving more points when defeated, so it seems the programmers forgot to lower the score requirements as development progressed.

Here are the approximate score requirements needed to trigger the ending prizes:

Points	Prize
121,000 or Less	Pants
122,000 - 273,000	Pan
274,000 - 449,000	Guitar
450,000 - 666,000	Plane
667,000 - 1,004,000	Car
1,005,000 or More	House