Rainbow Islands Extra (Genesis)

A subtly modified Mega Drive port of the arcade Rainbow Islands Extra, which is Rainbow Islands featuring Darius enemies and music. Your friends are dragons again, and clearly the only way to save them is by use of rainbows.

Infinite Continues

 * Note: I haven't found a cheat code on the Internet for this, so I'm assuming I was the first to find this... If you have any information, please discuss it on this page's talk page. - Andlabs

If bit 6 of byte $FFE036 is set, the game will register infinite continues, indicated by CREDITS A on the title screen.

Currently, there is no known way to trigger this bit flip in the game itself.

Unused Text
Two sets of seemingly unused strings are buried among the title/continue/configuration screens's text:

ROM:00004624                dc.b   7 ROM:00004625                dc.b   6 ROM:00004626 aSelectAndPushS:dc.b 'SELECT AND PUSH START BUTTON',0 ROM:00004643                dc.b   0 ROM:00004644                dc.b  $C ROM:00004645                dc.b   8 ROM:00004646 aContinue:     dc.b '     CONTINUE',0 ROM:00004654                dc.b  $F ROM:00004655                dc.b   8 ROM:00004656 aStart:        dc.b '     START   ',0 ROM:0000466E                dc.b  $C ROM:0000466F                dc.b   8 ROM:00004670                dc.b '             ',0 ROM:0000467E                dc.b  $F ROM:0000467F                dc.b   8 ROM:00004680                dc.b '             ',0 The game reads the two bytes before the null-terminated string.) The only string that separates these two is the string "CREDIT" used on the continue screen.