Walkthrough

Phantom 2040 is a big game, especially for 1994 standards. With several chapters, twelve locations filled with hidden areas, dozens of weapons and branching story paths that mean you’ll never see everything in one playthrough, Phantom 2040 offers many hours of gameplay, but it can also be quite tricky to achieve that elusive perfect ending.

With this walkthrough I’m aiming to provide the most comprehensive guide possible to achieve the perfect outcome in the game, unlocking all possible weapons and revealing all the secrets along the way.

Whether you’ve played the game and completed it before or are exploring it for the first time, I hope this guide will help you on your quest to save Metropia. . . and the world.

💀  If you are unfamiliar with how to play this 20+ year old game, be it via original hardware or emulation it is highly recommended you read this How to Play guide.


Contents

Introduction & Notes

Thanks so much for deciding to use this guide. Making a walkthrough guide for Phantom 2040 has been a passion project of mine for several years. I’ve had a few false starts, but I’m hoping that what you see here will be the comprehensive guide to this amazing game!

First Time Players

First time players. . . don’t use this guide.

Yes, I know that sounds counter productive to the whole point of this guide. However, Phantom 2040 is a game that deserves to be played fresh, with no pre-knowledge of what it has in store. Play through the game the way you want to play. Make those all-important decisions for yourself based on what you feel is best and see where they take you. Uncover the games’ secrets on your own. Then, no matter what ending you achieve, come back here and see if you find anything you might have missed.

Truly, Phantom 2040 is a game of choice and consequence and not knowing what is around the corner is half the fun!

Game Variations

There are three versions of the Phantom 2040 game; the Sega Mega Drive/ Genesis release, the Super Nintendo release and the Sega Game Gear release. Of these, the Mega Drive/ Genesis and Super Nintendo versions are almost identical, sharing the same story, level layout and, for the most part, the same items (see notes below for any differences). The Game Gear version, however, is a very different experience although it shares the same basic story line. As such, a guide for that version of the game hasn’t been provided, at least for the moment.

For this guide I will be using the NTSC, or Genesis, release of the game. The reason for this is that for some reason the PAL (Mega Drive) version of 2040 only includes a "summarised" version of the game's story with all cut scenes apart from the opening and ending removed. In the SNES version some of the cutscenes were removed but they remain in the Genesis version.

However, these cutscene changes won’t actually affect what the player will be doing, thus this walkthrough will help you find your way through either the Mega Drive/Genesis releases or SNES version of Phantom 2040.

Mega Drive/ SNES Differences

While the Mega Drive/ Genesis and SNES versions of Phantom 2040 are essentially the same game, there are few subtle differences. Below are brief descriptions of these.

Final Notes

Before we get into the guide proper, I just want to re-iterate a few things;


Walkthrough Chapters

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven