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Densetsu no Stafy (2002)

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A few weeks ago. Divingkataetheweirdo from The Cutting Room Floor noted that there was debugging text within Densetsu no Starfy. I tried seeing if you could activate it in game, and successfully did so by forcing an invalid option on the select button menu after completion of the game. You can access it by changing the cheat address 030053AB (select menu cursor option) in VisualBoyAdvance. Certain invalid values such as "EE" will bring up the debug menu. You'll have to open the select menu, then change the cursor while activating the code. Unfortunately I'm not too sure to convert that into a Gameshark Advance SP code, so I'll look into finding out how. Similar debug screens also exist in Game & Watch Gallery 4, which was also developed by TOSE.

To make use of this code, you'll need to have completed the game first, but if you haven't completed the game you can also exploit the Demo glitch, which was documented by Tarby on a Japanese glitch website (there's a TAS video of it by Jlun2). It's relatively easy to exploit on a real game, as you just have to exit the Coral Reef demo sequence on the title screen above the Balloon and wait for the Lobber's Cave demo to desync (Starfy will face the wall, then hit Moe/Kyorosuke with a Star Spin, activating a conversation and causing the demo to end). When this happens, you can open the start menu and hold L+R+Start+Select to return to the big map screen.


A lot of the options are adjustable in the debug menu, but many of the seemingly once adjustable options are dummied out as text, so you can't change them. This debug menu may be based on the one shown at Nintendo Space World 2000, when Densetsu no Starfy was still in development for the Game Boy Color.

In this video, I show most of the notable options such as a sound test which also plays sound effects (unlike the Tone of Ocean/Sea Jams option in the final game), a cut-scene player and more. I didn't show much of STR Check because it seems to freeze the game when you choose an option.

For more information about the debug menu, see the article I made about it on The Cutting Room Floor here:
http://tcrf.net/Densetsu_no_Stafy/Debug_menu

For some background information about the Densetsu no Starfy demos, see here:
http://www.starfywiki.org/Nintendo_World

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