Wtd: List of Xevious Secrets

[Dan Schwarz]

I've got a Xevious game, and I remember that there were a lot of hidden
secret targets ... so far I've only been able to find one. Anyone got a
list of the secrets and where to find them? Much appreciated.

-Dan

[Chris Bright]

They are everywhere.... Towers can be found easily, just pay attention to your
bomb sights , when they flash red your are over a tower, for free ship flags,
shoot along rivers, on the far side of the ocean at the same level as to long
dock, and at the top of the eagle on the landing strip. (I haven't play this
game in a few years so I might be a bit missleading on some of the
descriptions.
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[Simon Cornwell]

For general game secrets there's a file available on the wiretap (140.174.164.191)
in /game_archive/cheatsInfo called arcade_cheats.txt.

For XEVIOUS it contains the following :

>Xevious
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>(Contributor : George Dolbier)

>First special:
> in the first cross screen river after three tanks that don't move.
> it's usually in the lower part of the river on the far left or far
> right. it's position moves around so you need to bomb the whole river.

>Hint on second mothership:
> just before the escort you are swarmed by ships and 1 anti air craft
> gun, there are 4 missels silos in a small clearing. They are layed
> out in a diagonal going up from left to right. If you leave them alone
> you will have an easiser time getting to the second mother ship.

> Hit the second mother ship as it is comming down!! don't let it start
> moving with you!!

>Xevious Name Trick (Contributor : Tad Perry) :

>Xevious includes a hidden name trick. The display
>can be brought up by bombing at the extreme
>right of the screen at the very beginning of
>the game before any enemies have appeared.
>The exact spot is marked by a slightly larger
>than normal dark shadow in the trees. Even
>if you don't know the exact spot you can usually
>get it out by bombing all over the place over
>there on the right side. You also score 1000 points
>for pulling this off.

Whilst on the subject, does anyone know what the crystal is for? This object shoots
out of the back of the Andor Genesis mother ship as it explodes and is also
annotated on the machine's list of enemies.

Regards,
Simon
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In article <4akatg$4...@hettar.cv.com>,

Simon Cornwell <sim...@Medusa.CV.COM> wrote:
>For general game secrets there's a file available on the wiretap (140.174.164.191)
>in /game_archive/cheatsInfo called arcade_cheats.txt.
>

>> [Xevious cheats]

>
>Whilst on the subject, does anyone know what the crystal is for? This object shoots
>out of the back of the Andor Genesis mother ship as it explodes and is also
>annotated on the machine's list of enemies.
>

My guess is that this is left over from an incomplete/unimplemented part of
the design. The crystal was suppose to do something...maybe a sort of
intermission that was popular at that time. But the designers never completed
that section of the code leaving us with just questions about what it was for...

[Chris Bright]

>Whilst on the subject, does anyone know what the crystal is for? This object
>shoots out of the back of the Andor Genesis mother ship as it explodes and is
>also annotated on the machine's list of enemies.

I always thought it was just an escape pod and nothing more.

[John Brassil]

I have a Japanese manual that details all the Sol popups and Special
Flags for the game, but not any of the Easter eggs, of which I know two:

The EVEZOO programmer name, which has been described in the previous few
posts, but is worth 10 points, I believe, not 1000. Also, in Area 7,
the word "Namco" can be found in the forest if you look closely enough.
I don't think you have to do anything for this one except pay attention.

The interesting thing about the manual is that it shows the 4 Special
Flags as showing up in certain locations, but the only the first one is
the same for my game. There are 1 each in Area 1, 3, 5 and 7, but only
the one in Area 1 is the same in both versions. I just found the
"alternate" 7 on my game a few weeks ago, so I now know where they all
are for sure. The machine at the Vandy arcade has the other version,
which I discovered this past weekend by bringing up the popup between
the two north/south peninsulas toward the end of the flying shields
(Bakula). My version has it at the back edge of the airfield near the
end of the level.

I can give you more details if you like, but a lot of the fun is finding
them yourself!
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