Proto:Little Magic (SNES)
This page details one or more prototype versions of Little Magic (SNES).
Two sample/demo versions of Little Magic are known to exist. One is a preview of the Japanese version of the game, while the other is a preview of an unreleased European version.
Japanese Sample
The Japanese sample version is nearly identical to the released version, but displays a message after stage 50 informing the player that this is a trial version of the game before displaying the Game Over screen. However, all of the levels from the full game (including extra/unused ones) are fully intact, as well as the ending, and can be accessed using the same passwords as in the full game.
The level select and other debug features from the full game are also present and can be used to access all 127 levels.
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European Sample
The sample version of the unreleased European version has some more notable differences. Besides being fully in English instead of Japanese, the title screen has also been touched up slightly:
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Like the Japanese sample version, the game cuts the player off after a certain number of levels, despite all of them being present and playable. However, in this version, the game ends after 80 levels instead of 50, as if being able to "sample" half of the entire game wasn't generous enough already.
Level Select
The level select is still present and accessed using the same method. However, the level edit and copy options are no longer present, likely due to the fact that the levels themselves were obviously no longer being designed when this version of the game was created. Pressing Select + Start with the debug flag enabled goes directly to the level select option.
The level select itself is also slightly different - it shows a three-digit decimal number instead of a two-digit hexadecimal one. The European level select only lets you move forward or back one level at a time; pressing Left/Right does nothing.
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The numbers in the European level select also go from 001 to 100 instead of 00 to 7F - this means that the numerous unused and duplicate stages, while still present, can't be selected. The Pro Action Replay codes 00995F80 and 00996E7F increases the limit to make the same number of levels selectable as in the Japanese version.
Ending
Just like the introduction and the sample version notice, the game's ending has been fully translated to English. However, since the only available English version of the game ends after 80 stages, the actual ending can't be seen through normal gameplay without using passwords or the level select feature.
