Kirby's Dream Land 2

Kirby's Dream Land 2
Also known as: Hoshi no Kirby 2 (JP) Developer: HAL Laboratory Publisher: Nintendo Platforms: Game Boy, Super Game Boy Released in JP: March 21, 1995 Released in US: May 1, 1995 Released in EU: July 31, 1995 This game has unused music. This game has regional differences.

Kirby's biggest adventure yet!^*

*Assuming "yet" means 1995

Unused Music

One rather frantic track is unused. It can be accessed from within the game as FGM #94 in the Sound Test.

Regional Differences

Title Screen

Japanese	International

In addition to a different, more colorful Super Game Boy palette, the international versions add a dancing Kirby to the screen.

Chao

Japanese	International

Occasionally, when a friend bag is opened, a different character appears instead of Gooey; collecting this character gives you both an extra life and 1% toward your completion percentage. In the Japanese version, this special character is Chao, a character from the 1989 Famicom Disk System adventure game Yūyūki. Since that game was never released overseas, the international versions replace her with a female version of Gooey (named "Girl blob" in an issue of Nintendo Power). Interestingly, ChuChu from Kirby's Dream Land 3 slightly resembles her.

Chao, along with her companion Goku, would later appear in all versions of Dream Land 3, as the character who gives you the Heart Star in Stage 4 of Grass Land.

Japanese	International	The original scene from Yūyūki

The sound test (another reference to Yūyūki) was changed as well. Besides the aforementioned character replacement, Gooey was added to the international version.

Japanese	International

The screens that appear upon completing the Boss Endurance and Bonus sub-games also have Chao replaced with the "Girl blob".

SGB Border

Japanese	International

In the Japanese version, the game's title appears at the top of the Super Game Boy border. Rather than replacing it with the international one, it was completely removed from the international border for some reason.

Oddities

In the second part of Stage 6, Dark Castle, the screen moves to the left. At the end of the long hall, it is possible to see a strange little narrow room with a chain, spikes and a chick emerging from an egg. Neither the chain nor the spikes have any effect.

Stage 3 has a similar place, which is almost the same, but in reverse and it does not close this room off. Why did the level designers add this?