User:Hiccup/Yoshi Sample

Unreleased Nintendo supplied Yoshi Sample with each Game Boy Advance development kit as they started to dole them out shortly after it was first shown in April 2000. It is a scaled-down, one-level version of Yoshi's Story with much simplified gameplay and no ending.

It was created to show off the capabilities of the GBA, featuring colorful pre-rendered sprites and a 2.5D environment. A few of the enemies featured in the demo do not appear in Yoshi's Story.

Video
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BIN and ELF
The ELF file appears to contain more names from the source code, though this does not effect the gameplay.

Enemies
The two unique enemies that don't appear in Yoshi's Story are internally named:

bomb. It has longer legs than most Bob-ombs.

killer (bullet-bill's Japanese name). Has a lot of frames that appear to be badly drawn, and it looks nothing like any Bullet Bill in any released game.

omori5t (weight 5 ton).

Build 1 Mute
This one does not have sound, and has different sound related code and files. It's origin is currently unknown.

Build 2 Sound
This version does have sound, and has different sound related code and files. It was bundled with the 3rd Version of the GBA's SDK.