Rex Soft

Rex Soft
Logo.
Origin	Taiwan
Years	approx. 1995-97
Consoles	Famicom
First Game	Samurai Spirits
Last Game	The King of Fighters '97
Sounds used	NTDEC
Related companies	NTDEC

Rex Soft (雷克斯軟體工作室) was a company that developed a number of pirate originals for the Famicom during the mid-1990s. These games share a sound engine and fonts (the latter taken from Borland BGI) with most of NTDEC/Asder's original games, so were probably created by at least some of the same development team, but it is unknown whether they were produced under Asder.

Rex's two first games Samurai Spirits and Dragon Ball Z 5, were released on a board containing a Huang-1 chip which indicates they were manufactured by Ge De Industry Co. As Asder itself appears to have stopped developing Famicom games after about 1994 to focus on educational software, Rex may have been composed of developers who left around that time.

Games Edit

• Boogerman II (1997) (S.M.I. Co., Ltd, NSM-001)
• Dragon Ball Z 5 (1995) (Ge De Industry)
• The King of Fighters '97 (1997, later hacked to make KoF98 and KoF99) - exists in full and cut-down versions, the latter lacks the final boss and ending and just loops infinitely. (S.M.I. Co., Ltd, NSM-003)
• Samurai Spirits (1995) (Ge De Industry, rereleased in 1996-1997 as Samurai Shodown III by S.M.I. Co., Ltd, NSM-002)

Trivia Edit

• Boogerman II, Samurai Shodown III, and The King of Fighters '97 were released with cartridge labels crediting "S.M.I. Co., Ltd" with a date of 1996, despite the in-game copyright date in all cases being 1997.^{[1] [2]}

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