interesting easter egg on Japanese Mickey Mania

[bombman]

The only version that's region locked.
Seen a lot of carts glitch out on region change, but this was a pleasant surprise.

http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/2114/mickey2z.jpg
http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/9140/mickey3.jpg

[-_-Nintendo-_-]

I like how even though the game knows something is up, it still boots up anyway :P

[old_skoolin_jim]

What-what-whaaaat?
That's freakin' cool and soooo weird that that's actually in the game's data!
Reminds me of one time I turned on Donkey Kong Country 2 on my (model 2) SNES, and it came up with a screen saying "this game will not run on machines used to illegally copy game cartridges." and wouldn't play. I turned it off and on again, and it was fine, and I haven't seen the message since. Anything like this happen to anybody else?

[Shadow Kisuragi]

Awesome find.

One of my favorites is the easter egg in Super Metroid. If you boot the game with a dead save battery, you start with 0 Energy and die. I would be so pissed off if I didn't know the cause of that.

[Thrillo]

That's one of the most clever easter eggs I've ever seen!

I wonder if the same dev team put that egg into their other games...

[JSoup]

Oh, anti-piracy measures, you so funny.

[vivaeljason]

That is seriously one of the coolest things I've ever seen. I too hope the dev team did that elsewhere as well.

[Baloo]

What-what-whaaaat?
That's freakin' cool and soooo weird that that's actually in the game's data!
Reminds me of one time I turned on Donkey Kong Country 2 on my (model 2) SNES, and it came up with a screen saying "this game will not run on machines used to illegally copy game cartridges." and wouldn't play. I turned it off and on again, and it was fine, and I haven't seen the message since. Anything like this happen to anybody else?

The SNES will do that sometimes if the cart is dirty. I've heard that happening with different games before.

[JLukas]

Yeah, dirty cart contacts will give a bad CRC, resulting in a false alarm. A Game Genie will also bring it up on some games.

bombman: did the message change in real time? It's possible for the game to remember the change even through a power cycle by setting a flag in the battery backed SRAM when the message is displayed.

[HappehLemons]

Cool find!

[bombman]

Yeah, dirty cart contacts will give a bad CRC, resulting in a false alarm. A Game Genie will also bring it up on some games.

bombman: did the message change in real time? It's possible for the game to remember the change even through a power cycle by setting a flag in the battery backed SRAM when the message is displayed.

yeah it did. the game doesnt have sram though

[kedawa]

I imagine this would work on actual hardware with a region switch.

[Sonicwolf]

Thats a pretty bizarre easter egg. I love it when people stick stuff like that into a game.

The question is, without emulation, how would this ever, EVER, show up?

[BetaWolf47]

Thats a pretty bizarre easter egg. I love it when people stick stuff like that into a game.

The question is, without emulation, how would this ever, EVER, show up?

Region switch?

[Cryomancer]

I can only imagine that they has some sort of dev equipment with a region switch on it somewhere. This is hilarious.

[c0ldb33r]

That's awesome, but man... I can't get past the fact that somehow has a space in the middle.

Also, that Super Metroid dead battery thing is terrible!