Blue Sabers Series Questions

[Furry Fox Jet Pilot]

I have several questions about Blue and White's Blue Sabers games, but I haven't been able to find much information. If anyone could answer my questions I would really appreciate it.

1) If Blue Sabers is the second game in the series, then what is the first? It has the subtitle of Blue Wings Part 3, but I couldn't find anything on a game with that name. That doesn't make sense either, because that subtitle would imply that there are 2 games that come before Blue Sabers. Does anyone know what they are?

2) According to this link there is a 4th support plane in Operation Orbital Hammer, as well as other planes aside from the original 3. How come they are nowhere to be seen on the plane select screen when I start the game?: http://wiki.komica.org/wiki3/?Blue%20Sa ... %20Hammer-

[Gespenst]

1) If Blue Sabers is the second game in the series, then what is the first? It has the subtitle of Blue Wings Part 3, but I couldn't find anything on a game with that name. That doesn't make sense either, because that subtitle would imply that there are 2 games that come before Blue Sabers. Does anyone know what they are?

The previous game (Blue Wings 2: Blue Knights) was released for X68000, can't remember where the first game was released though.

2) According to this link there is a 4th support plane in Operation Orbital Hammer, as well as other planes aside from the original 3. How come they are nowhere to be seen on the plane select screen when I start the game?: http://wiki.komica.org/wiki3/?Blue%20Sa ... %20Hammer-

The unlockable planes are

Spoiler

the 3 planes with red color instead of blue (Red Lancers) all of them have swapped loadout from the original Blue Sabers counterparts, 3 planes from the X68000 game Blue Wings 2; Beta Original and Beta Custom, Gamma Custom and Epsilon with 3 different variants with green color (Green Wizards) and 3 variants of the final boss plane "Sardyne". Therefore according to the game files there are 16 planes in total.

FYI, the game files with .sp format can be opened with image viewer utility like IrfanView or Xnview, including manual/specification of all playable planes and support crafts in-game. The wiki said you need to clear the all 11-stage SP mode with the corresponding plane to unlock a new plane. The SP mode itself can be unlocked by 1CC-ing all routes in normal mode. The new support craft will be unlocked once clearing SP mode with each support craft.

[Furry Fox Jet Pilot]

1) If Blue Sabers is the second game in the series, then what is the first? It has the subtitle of Blue Wings Part 3, but I couldn't find anything on a game with that name. That doesn't make sense either, because that subtitle would imply that there are 2 games that come before Blue Sabers. Does anyone know what they are?

The previous game (Blue Wings 2: Blue Knights) was released for X68000, can't remember where the first game was released though.

2) According to this link there is a 4th support plane in Operation Orbital Hammer, as well as other planes aside from the original 3. How come they are nowhere to be seen on the plane select screen when I start the game?: http://wiki.komica.org/wiki3/?Blue%20Sa ... %20Hammer-

The unlockable planes are

Spoiler

the 3 planes with red color instead of blue (Red Lancers) all of them have swapped loadout from the original Blue Sabers counterparts, 3 planes from the X68000 game Blue Wings 2; Beta Original and Beta Custom, Gamma Custom and Epsilon with 3 different variants with green color (Green Wizards) and 3 variants of the final boss plane "Sardyne". Therefore according to the game files there are 16 planes in total.

FYI, the game files with .sp format can be opened with image viewer utility like IrfanView or Xnview, including manual/specification of all playable planes and support crafts in-game. The wiki said you need to clear the all 11-stage SP mode with the corresponding plane to unlock a new plane. The SP mode itself can be unlocked by 1CC-ing all routes in normal mode. The new support craft will be unlocked once clearing SP mode with each support craft.

Thanks for all the info! Now if only the game wouldn't crash after stage 4, I could attempt to unlock everything , seriously what is up with that and is there any way to fix it?

[Gespenst]

Thanks for all the info! Now if only the game wouldn't crash after stage 4, I could attempt to unlock everything , seriously what is up with that and is there any way to fix it?

Have you installed the latest/v1.1c patch?

Spoiler

installing the patch may also glitches the game in which it will unlock all locked plane & support plane from start. The only way to fix it is by running the ooh_flag_init.exe from the download page

Funny you mention that, for me it was Tails Gears that keeps crashing at certain point.

Anyway, the same wiki mentions the first game was also released for X68000 but I still haven't found any other infos about it yet.

[Gespenst]

update: turns out simply 1CC-ing with any plane on normal mode is enough to unlock a new plane

[SuperDeadite]

The original game in the series was ''Blue Wings: The Special Airforce'' for X68000
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZZ0CQxj0Sc

[Furry Fox Jet Pilot]

Thanks for all the info! Now if only the game wouldn't crash after stage 4, I could attempt to unlock everything , seriously what is up with that and is there any way to fix it?

Have you installed the latest/v1.1c patch?

Spoiler

installing the patch may also glitches the game in which it will unlock all locked plane & support plane from start. The only way to fix it is by running the ooh_flag_init.exe from the download page

I just tried that, but the game won't boot and it gives an error message