X-Men: Children of the Atom (Arcade)
X-Men: Children of the Atom |
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Developer: Capcom This game has unused graphics. This game has a notes page |
X-Men: Children of the Atom is a fighting game starring everyone's favorite mutants and their enemies, plus a hidden, playable Ryu/Ken head swap master warrior that opened the floodgates for a crossover series.
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Debug Menu
A debug menu is accessible by setting FFEAEB to E5 and entering the test menu.
Option | Function |
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HIT EDITOR | A character editor. Make sure to disable character cheats, or the game will lock up with Wolverine's name on the screen. Controls:
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PARTS EDITOR | Edits hitboxes.
Use EDIT to select a character (you cannot select Akuma), Save to save changes, and Exit to leave. The Save and Exit confirmations are in Japanese only. |
TSUKAMI EDITOR | Shows throw movements. (You will hear Wolverine's grunt when you enter this menu) Controls:
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GAMEMAP TEST | Allows you to view backgrounds used in the endings. Use 1P LP to change the background (space with either Avalon, villains' escape pod, a flying Sentinel, or the Blackbird in it, or an unused screen of a painting with the X-Men team minus Colossus, or a forest as used in Wolverine's and Psylocke's ending) and the 1P arrow keys to move the background. |
ENDING OBJECT TEST | Views objects used in the ending. Change objects with the joypad and animate with MP (one frame) or HP (all frame), and reset to the first frame with HK. You can also move the object by holding MP. |
MESSAGE TEST | Allows you to see messages (win quotes, endings, etc.). Select region/language (Japan, United States/English, Spanish, Italy) and message type (win, ending, or continue).
Akuma's lines exist only in English and Japanese. In Italian and Spanish, win messages 60 and after that are omitted, with the quote 5F consisting only of ellipses. His ending line ("I am the master warrior!") was left untranslated. Furthermore, viewing the continue messages in Italian or Spanish will cause the game to crash to attract mode since they were not translated to these languages. |
SCR PRI TEST | A scroll test (stage viewer). The weak attack buttons correspond to the S1 scroll, the middle ones to the S2 scroll, and the fierce ones to the S3 scroll. By default, Colossus' stage is displayed.
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SCR BLK TEST | A scroll block test used to view objects for a stage. You will be asked to select a scroll before starting. By default, Colossus' scroll blocks are displayed.
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SENSEI | Tests various attack information for every character. Select a character, then press 1P LP. This will take a few seconds.
It's possible that "Test Data" in this mode corresponds to Akuma. |
EXIT | Exactly what it says on the tin. |
Unused Graphics
To do: There's more. |
Two unused frames for Anne-Marie Cortez, the female Acolyte that's seen only in the endings on the 1.00 version of the game. It seems like she would've leaned against Magneto after helping him get up.
Both the Hit Editor and Ending Object Test reveal the sprite of Colossus painting a picture (including an appropriate hat for this task) of the playable X-Men with Professor Xavier in place of Colossus (found in Gamemap Test). These may have been related to the scrapped multiple ending choices referenced by unused text.
Juggernaut and Magneto have unused alternate palettes for mirror matches, which can only be selected by choosing both the first and second players' characters as either Juggernaut or Magneto. The difference is quite mild, only in the brightness of the colors.
Unused Text
To do:
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ID | English | Spanish | Italian |
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8E | Join Magneto. Refuse Magneto. |
(empty) | (empty) |
8F | I have lost too many of my loved ones to Xavier's failed | He perdido a muchos amigos pr el sueňo de Xavier. | Ho perso molti amici per il sogno di Xavier. |
90 | dream. I will try yours. | Probaré contigo. | Combatterõ adesso per il tuo. |
98 | I chose to follow Magneto because I cannot forgive the | Seguiré a Magneto porque no perdonaré a los asesinos de | Volevo seguire Mag-neto, perchẽ gil umani hanno |
99 | humans for killing mother and father. But... | mis padres. Pero... | ammazzato I miei genitori. |
9A | Did I truly make the right choice? | ¿He tomado la decisión correcta? | Perõ, ho preso la giusta decisione? |
These are all references to Colossus' stint as a member of Magneto's Acolytes in the comics' Fatal Attractions storyline (that one where Wolverine gets his adamantium ripped by Magneto), where the game is loosely based upon. An empty box also exists in the Japanese language, ending message ID 98, while Colossus' options to join or reject Magneto can be found in ID C.
ID | Japanese | Other Language ID |
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C | マグニートーに従う マグニートーをこばむ |
8E |
Regional Differences
The Japanese version adds a Capcom logo and a silhouette of Ryu in front of a purple globe between the Q-Sound logo and the attract mode sequence. This logo would later appear for all regions in the next Marvel/Capcom fighting games that ran on the CPS-2 board.
This logo also appears in Marvel vs. Capcom: Fighting Collection even if the game is set to the English version.
Revisional Differences
To do: Versions 2.10/revisions 941219 and earlier has some other errors in sprites and powers such as in Juggernaut's pre-fight animation. |
Japan-exclusive version 1.00 (revision 941208) has a variety of differences compared to more recent builds:
Attract Mode
- The Capcom screen that appears exclusively on later Japanese versions before the intro sequence (seen above) is not present.
- The demos in the intro are different, featuring less-skilled gameplay that most of the time doesn't match with the headlines that appear on-screen.
- The X-Men logo with a yellow background that briefly appears near the end of the game's intro doesn't appear, though its graphics are in the ROM.
1.00 | 2.00 and later |
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- At the end of the intro, where the mutants face against each other, Storm, Cyclops, Wolverine, Magneto, and Silver Samurai are positioned differently. Also, the background is a simple purple color instead of the purple and pink-mixed background with an X-Men logo, the graphics for this background are present in 1.00's ROM though.
Gameplay
- The procedure to play as Akuma differs between versions.
- If the procedure for version 1.00 is followed in version 2.00 and later (no button presses required), the sound effect is played as expected but nothing else happens.
Side | 1.00 | 2.00 and later |
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Player 1 | Move the cursor over Cyclops and wait at least one second. Then move the cursor in the following order: Right (x2), Down, Right, Up, Left (x2), Right (x2). Then wait at least one second and press LK + HP + HK simultaneously. | Move the cursor over Spiral and wait at least one second. Then move the cursor in the following order: Left (x4), Right, Up, Right (x2), Down. Then wait at least one second and press LK + HP + HK simultaneously. |
Player 2 | Move the cursor over Storm and wait at least one second. Then move the cursor in the following order: Right (x2), Down, Left (x2), Right (x4). Then wait at least one second and press LK + HP + HK simultaneously. | Move the cursor over Storm and wait at least one second. Then move the cursor in the following order: Right, Down, Left (x4), Down, Right (x2). Then wait at least one second and press LK + HP + HK simultaneously. |
- It's not possible to speed up the "You Win/You Lose" sequence as it is in other Capcom fighting games and further versions of this one.
- It is possible to stun the opponent and gain super meter energy during the "beating the dead character" sequence (hit start when a round ends). This was fixed in later versions, but is still possible if the match is won by time over.
- Akuma does not appear as a CPU opponent even if the requirements are met.
Magneto
1.00 | 2.00 and later |
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- When he walks forward and backward, his fists are always covered in animated blue energy. This detail was scrapped in subsequent revisions.
- He does not have his infamous AI difficulty yet. Noticeably, he spams his moves way less, and all of them (including the Magnetic Shockwave) don't do as much damage as in future revisions.
- His EM Pulse only shoots one stream of energy as opposed to later revisions' three.
- His AI doesn't use his flight yet, but if the player uses cheats to play as him and performs the move, it reveals that, unlike newer versions, flying is restricted to the ground-level part of the screen and the only way to fly higher than that is for the other player to perform a jump, but when that player approaches the ground, the flying Magneto player will be sucked into the bottom of the screen again, this was fixed in later releases.
- He doesn't do the second win pose that he has subsequent versions where it recycles his laughing taunt animation.
Sound 1F0: 1.00 | Sound 1F1: 2.00 and later |
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- In 1.00, track 1F0 is used when Magneto is defeated, which is a more laid-back grunt than the 1F1 one that is instead used in later versions.
ID | Audio |
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1FB |
- Magneto has two win quotes, 1FA ("You are beaten.") and 1FB ("Magneto is supreme."), both can be heard in 1.00 but the latter one goes unused in later versions, although it plays in the later versions when you play as him via hacking. It's presumed it was done because the "supreme" sounds like "scream".
Stages
Savage Land
1.00 | 2.00 and later |
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- There are fewer running dinosaurs in the background of Wolverine's stage: In 1.00 there are 5 dinosaurs that go across the screen one at a time, in newer versions, there's a herd of 12 dinosaurs running at the same time that's followed by another herd of 4.
Avalon
- Whenever Magneto uses his Stage Shift move, Avalon's background moves anti-clockwise, this is also the case in 2.00, in other versions, it moves clockwise.
Victory Screen
1.00 | 2.00 and later |
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- In the victory screens, both hero and villain variants, the fonts below the winning characters have different palettes.
Text
1.00 | 2.00 and later |
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- All instances where hyphens and em dashes are used with the Japanese font, they're positioned slightly lower than it is starting in version 2.00.
Continue Screen
- The following characters don't make any sound when choosing to continue: Cyclops, Wolverine, Sentinel, Colossus, Psylocke, Silver Samurai, Spiral, and Akuma.
- Storm doesn't do her throwing grunt but her lightning's sound effect is heard instead.
1.00 | 2.00 and later |
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- For Player 1, Akuma doesn't have his all-black silhouette effect. He also has text boxes with gameplay tips (for Sentinel), something that was removed in later versions. Strangely enough, he doesn't have silhouette effect in Marvel vs. Capcom: Fighting Collection release (based on 3.00), except he has Silver Samurai's grunt when you continue the game instead of Wolverine's grunt.
Test Menu
- The bookkeeping feature (Game Data in test menu) does not work properly—the coin, service credit, and free play counters all report 967295 and the average operating time is always one second. This also happens in version 2.00.
Endings
- The sequence where Avalon starts exploding after defeating Magneto is way shorter in 1.00
- Many of the dialogue boxes have different timing, resulting in them staying either seconds longer or less than they do in 2.00 and later.
1.00 | 2.00 and later |
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- A fifth, female Acolyte, Anne-Marie Cortez, appears in everyone's endings; she restrains Magneto by grabbing his crotch. For whatever reason, her sprites were left unused in newer versions.
- The music during the Avalon scenes is different: when the Acolytes fall down, it plays track 17, followed by track 18 when the character leaves Magneto. All other versions use the more appropriate track 02 during both Avalon scenes, and when Avalon explodes, it goes silent. Track 02 can't be heard anywhere in 1.00, not even in the sound test, as its slot is empty.
1.00 | 2.00 and later |
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- Just after Avalon explodes and the characters are returning to Earth, the text boxes for this scene are placed at the top of the screen. In all other versions, they're placed at the bottom instead.
- At the end of all the endings, 1.00 lacks the later-added fadeout effect, as a result, the endings finish more abruptly.
- The special ending that shows if the player completes the game without using any continues isn't shown in this build, but the song that plays in it (track 19) is present in the sound test.
Cyclops
- After Cyclops met Jean Grey, Professor X warns the X-Men that Omega Red is attacking the city. In later revisions, this similar dialogue was given to Colossus instead. In other hand, Colossus' hand does not overlap Jean Grey's hair, but in later revision, his fist overlaps her hair.
1.00 | 2.00 and later |
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Storm
- The Sentinel that approaches Storm doesn't say its "Destroy!" quote before it appears on-screen, and when it gets destroyed by Storm, a different sound effect plays.
1.00 | 2.00 and later |
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- Forge positions himself besides Storm slightly higher than he does in other versions, causing his head to get completely covered when the text boxes appear.
Wolverine
- Starting from the scene where Cyclops and Wolverine arrive at the Danger Room, there's no music for the remainder of the ending.
1.00 | 2.00 and later |
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- The effects that appear when the screen goes black and Wolverine attacks Silver Samurai are yellow instead of light green.
Sentinel
- This specific quote from Sentinel, which is the last piece of text on the "Avalon escape" part, is not present in 1.00...
- ...on the other hand, present only in 1.00 is this message from Sentinel identifying Storm while approaching her. Despite this quote being removed from future Japanese versions, it was localized and is used in the international versions of the game.
Psylocke
- Like in Wolverine's ending, the hit effects that appear during the black screen of Psylocke hitting Cyclops are yellow instead of light green.
Silver Samurai
- Again, just like in Wolverine's and Psylocke's endings, the effects on the black background during Silver Samurai's attacks on Wolverine are yellow.
Spiral
- Track 1D, which plays in subsequent builds during the first part of the conversation between Mojo and Spiral is unused in this build, although it can be heard in the sound test. Here the whole Mojo World sequence plays track 15, which plays in other builds during the middle of the scene.
1.00 | 2.00 and later |
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- Spiral's very last text box is messed up, being empty and half of it going off-screen upward.
Akuma
- This single text box that comes from Akuma in versions 2.00 and beyond doesn't appear, instead, the characters stare at each other before the screen goes white.
- When the Game Over screen appears, the letters spelling it are missing. Seeing as this is not the case in versions starting 2.00, it was probably unintended.
The Marvel vs. Capcom series
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Arcade | X-Men: Children of the Atom • Marvel Super Heroes • X-Men vs. Street Fighter • Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes • Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes |
DOS | X-Men: Children of the Atom |
PlayStation | Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes |
Dreamcast | Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes |
PlayStation 2 | Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes |
PlayStation 3 | Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 |
Windows, Xbox One, PlayStation 4 | Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 |
See also | |
Marvel • Capcom • X-Men • Street Fighter |
The X-Men series
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Arcade | X-Men • Children of the Atom • X-Men vs. Street Fighter |
DOS | Children of the Atom |
NES | X-Men |
SNES | Mutant Apocalypse • Spider-Man and the X-Men in Arcade's Revenge |
Genesis | X-Men • X-Men 2: Clone Wars (Prototypes) • Wolverine: Adamantium Rage • Spider-Man and the X-Men in Arcade's Revenge |
32X | X-Men |
Game Boy Color | Wolverine's Rage • Mutant Wars |
Game Boy Advance | Reign of Apocalypse • X2: Wolverine's Revenge • The Official Game |
Nintendo DS | The Official Game |
PlayStation 2 | Next Dimension • X2: Wolverine's Revenge • X-Men Legends |
GameCube, Xbox | X-Men Legends |
J2ME | X-Men 3: The Last Stand |
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