Yeah, I figured if they took the middle finger out of Dragon Unit they weren't going to leave this in. Just played this yesterday to see if I could find anything for TCRF and I did see some odd cutscene graphics that I need to research further.

Looks like they also removed the "Fuck You" graffiti that was briefly visible at the start of the final stage.

So the prototype we have is oddly put together. Everything in it comes from a later date than the prototype featured in these screens except for the sprite graphics ROMs, which date from _before_ this prototype. Note the different HUD in those screens compared to the dumped proto; same as final.

Thanks for checking - I don't have access to ACA. From what I've seen, it looks like they set the License dip switch to one of the Seta options and then just hacked the licensor screen and title screen to display the Athena logo and copyright text.

I'm talking about the publisher dip switch. It's labelled "(C) / License" in Mame and has to be set to either "Athena (Japan)" or "Athena / Taito (Japan)" for this to work.

Just in case you were wondering if she has her own ending, unfortunately she does not. Completing the game with 2P solo just gives the standard 2P-only ending slides. They might have run out of room in the FG/BG graphics ROMs.