Mischief Makers

Mischief Makers is a game that demonstrates very well that the Nintendo 64 needn't be all about 3D, and sidescrollers can still be amazing. As long as there's something to shake, that is.

Sound test


On the title screen, press and hold L, A, C-Left, C-Right and press Start. Use the D-Pad to change the values and A to play your desired sound. Pressing Start again returns to the title screen.

Opening
The international versions show the Nintendo 64 logo before Enix logo, which is absent from the Japanese version.

In the opening sequence for the Japanese version, when the Clancers are thrown away from the screen, the characters in the logo appear as the boulders scatter, arriving one at a time and rotating in place. Rather than recreate this for the English title, the developers simply removed the letters, leaving just the blue background as the boulders fall away.

Title Screen
The Japanese logo has a bit of text being trailed by a projectile, which flies in from the right a moment after the title screen is displayed, accompanied by a sound effect.

Stages
In the Japanese version, the first Clancer in the first stage has a bit of text that pops up over his head when he's waiting for you to follow him. It reads コシチだよ」 ("I'm Koshichi"), which is presumably his name. This was removed from international versions.