The Legend of the Mystical Ninja

The Legend of the Mystical Ninja is a weird, comical action/adventure game featuring both overhead and side scrolling segments. This series lasted a fair while... and this was one of the only games in it released in the west.

Location Menu


When entering your house (location value ), memory address is checked for. If true, the menu opens.

Use this Pro Action Replay code:

Instructions
 * A: change page (4 total)
 * B: move cursor down list
 * X: exit your house
 * Y: warp to location selected

While the warp works, leaving the location warped to gets you stuck on another map. It seems some initialization code is missing?

Shop


Three unused items loaded into memory inside shops. Scrolls and weapon-upgrading "Lucky Cats" are only dropped by enemies or found in pots, but apparently at some point you were supposed to be able to buy them. The full single scroll graphic only appears in the Japanese version; the American version oddly moved it (leaving only a blank space where it once was), then deleted the top half.

Inventory
A bag with a question mark on it, located with the other inventory items. No idea what this could've been intended for, but it was modified in the American version for some reason.

Also located with the inventory items is this... thing. Again, no idea what it was intended for, but again, it was modified in the American version. The Japanese character is "Cow", though the American modification certainly doesn't resemble a cow.

Items
Despite the myriad of untouched Japanese food seen in restaurants, Konami saw it fit to "Americanize" only the two that could be stored in your inventory. The typical Japanese rice ball became a slice of pizza in the west.

Another type of rice ball was changed to a whole pizza.

The little field sprite used if the food is stolen by the weird robots in area 6 was also modified accordingly.

The 1ups found in the Secret Maze minigame had its Japanese characters changed to a question mark.

The inventory icon was modified likewise.