Yes, it is true. I played this game to death on Playstation on it's launch. I Could have never imagined such a thing. Enjoy the pics http://home.arcor.de/steveb32/ewj/
As something of a massive fan when it comes to the Battle Arena Toshinden series, this is one piece of information I don't feel ashamed to know - well, not too much! The developer/publisher of the first game's PC edition (whose name I have forgotten - was it perhaps Interplay?) also had the rights to Earthworm Jim, and so included him as a bonus character. While it's possible some hacker could have ported this feature over to the PlayStation original, I doubt this was even remotely official. Besides, there are few secrets that would take nearly a decade to surface... On the subject of Toshinden, does anybody know why later titles were console exclusives? Was this the work of Sony and its infamous PSOne-era contracts, or could the reason have been similar to why Sega abandoned conversions of its Virtua Fighter for the platform after its second incarnation? At the end of the day, has there ever been a 3D fighting game that has worked on the PC? Coming back to Sega for a second, I guess their involvement with Battle Arena Toshinden Remix and Ultimate Revenge Attack may explain their absense on the PC, though I suppose they could always have been released under the Sega PC brand.
There was a Tohshinden arcade game by Capcom or maybe by Takara but published by Capcom. Don't forget Takara's other Saturn 3D figters, Tohshinden URA an D-Xird which actually has real 3D areas, transparent polygons and lighting unlike every other Saturn 3d Fighter. (ok, Fighting Vipers and Fighters Megamix have lighting but the areas are not real 3D. Yakumo
While there's no denying the graphical brilliance of D X-hird, it wasn't exactly the best Saturn fighter to actually play - that honour would certainly go to whatever title from Sega's own library of AM conversions is your personal favourite, or maybe Anarchy In The Nippon at a push. P.S. Following a quick search over at system16.com I have found out that Capcom was responsible for the distribution of B.A. Toshinden 2 in its arcade guise, which used Sony's own PlayStation based ZN-1 arcade board.
