Trivia / Twinkle Star Sprites

• Acting for Two: Masami Kato voices Load Ran, Dark Ran, and Queen Memory.
• Bonus Material: The Japan-exclusive Sega Saturn version came with a bonus disc full of fan-made and official artwork, Concept Art, karaoke, music, and messages from the characters.
• Development Gag: The first game's final battle in Story Mode is "Sprites vs. Memory". While modern 3D systems can calculate animations from armature data, on purely 2D consoles such as the Neo-Geo every frame of every animation had to be hand drawn and stored; so often there was a hard trade-off between the amount of sprite animation and the amount of memory devoted to sprite frames. Making this worse was the fact that, as a cart-based system, a larger game required more physical RAM chips in each cartridge and drove up the cost of production.
  • "Linker", "Load Run" and "Mevious" (as in Neo Geo MVS) could all also refer to development terms.
• No Export for You: The console versions were only released in Japan. The Dreamcast version should work on American Dreamcasts, though.
  • A PlayStation 2 sequel, Twinkle Star Sprites: La Petite Princesse, was featured at E3 in 2005, but SNK decided not to localize it because of a perceived lack of marketability.
  • And of course, the previously Japan-only ADK collection for PS2, which includes this game, reached the US Playstation Network, though it's untranslated like the rest of the games, being a straight port.
  • The ACA Neo Geo port averts this, and it's even got English options.

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