| Flying Omelette Member Green-handled, pearl-encrusted abelnuski Level: 35 ![]() Posts: 84/257 EXP: 271956 For next: 7980 Since: 05-19-10 From: Ohio Since last post: 11.2 years Last activity: 10.9 years |
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I found some strange stuff in SNES HyperZone:![]() An unused Halken logo stored with the ending graphics. The big "HAL" on the left is used, but the "HALKEN" on the right with the logo above it is not. I wonder if it was in the Japanese version. I should probably play it to find out. ![]() A Lolo sprite hidden with the ship upgrade graphics! ![]() I'm not clear on what those square eyeball-like things are above him, though. But I don't know much about Lolo. ![]() This is REALLY weird! During one particular part of the ending sequence, you're shown a background made of microchips. This is stored with the background data for that part - A part of the game's title in a font that isn't used anywhere, along with what looks like text for an Option menu! As far as I know, no such option menu exists unless it's hidden in the code. That option menu font is also different from any other font used in the game, even for the hidden Sound Test. Someone with more hacking skills than I might want to check into this. There may be a way to activate that Option Menu... Edit: Solved some of the mysteries... ![]() Japanese opening demo vs. American opening demo. That's why that Halken logo was in there. ![]() It's used in the ending, too. ![]() Japanese title screen vs. American title screen. That explains where that crazy font came from and why it's stored on the microchip background... because the Japanese title used that font and the microchip background was seen through the letters. No word on that Option Menu yet, though. I could not find it on the Japanese version, although the same exact text for it is stored in the same exact spot. Also, the American version lets you access a sound test by holding L & R and pressing start at the title screen, but the Japanese version does not. |


















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ECD appears to be a type of monitor (all these years, and why haven't I heard of an ECD monitor?
) So, maybe having the monitor connected allowed you to switch into a different aspect ratio, possibly higher resolution... and the blur effect would probably look different between a CRT and a monitor, right?









