Super Ninja Boy

Super Ninja Boy is an RPG by Culture Brain. It is part of the Ninja Boy/Little Ninja Brothers series, which is loosely based on the Chinese folk tale, Journey to the West.

Test Modes
Super Ninja Boy has three special passwords that call up various test modes.

NS - This password brings up a Sound Mode for testing all of the game's music and sound effects.

TZ - This password brings up the Messenger Mode. This can be used to cycle through all of the text boxes in the game. These are all the text messages for talking to people that are not connected to any cutscenes.

RS - This password brings up the Information Mode. This is used for testing all of the game's cutscenes.

The game also contains 10 more 2-letter passwords that will start you off in various towns with various experience levels, items, and skills. Note that every password you receive in the game will always begin with one of these 2-letter combinations:

CB - Start in Edo City, Level 10, 2 Auraballs, Arc-De-Travel

FX - Start in Cactus Village, Level 32, 7 Auraballs, Gift of Love, Watch, Ultimate Scroll, Marvel Box, Bigbot

GS - Start in Arcadia Town, Level 20, 5 Auraballs, Gift of Love, Watch, Shark Cruiser

KH - Start in Kingland, Level 16, 4 Auraballs, Gift of Love, Shark Cruiser

KR - Start in Moo, Level 24, 5 Auraballs, Gift of Love, Watch, Bigbot

NR - Start in Athletown, Level 29, 7 Auraballs, Gift of Love, Watch, Ultimate Scroll, Bigbot

RG - Start in Fairy Town, Level 11, 2 Auraballs, Gift of Love, Arc-de-Travel

RZ - Start in Yokan, Level 7, 1 Auraball

SR - Start in Moo, Level 25, 6 Auraballs, Gift of Love, Watch, Ultimate Scroll, Bigbot

XJ - Start in Kingland, Level 15, 2 Auraballs, Gift of Love, Kite Machine

While this system may have made the game easy for the programmers to test, it also made it easy for players to crack.

Unused Cutscene
Number 27 in the Information Mode displays an unused cutscene. This looks similar to all of the cutscenes for finding items inside of treasure chests, and it appears it would have been used for finding Dragon Egg items. However, you never find Dragon Eggs in any treasure chests in the final game. You can only buy them from stores, so there was no need for this scene. The item doesn't even have a normal description. "Tukawanai" means either "unused" or "don't use" in Japanese.

Unused Character
During the game's ending sequence, there is a part where the faces of all the characters you've met throughout the game are briefly flashed on the screen. One of those characters does not appear anywhere in the American version of the game. It looks like a robot with glowing eyes. The Japanese version of the game contained an extra ending scene where this character shows up to steal the Marvel Box with the Auraballs in it. This scene was removed from the American version, but the character's portrait was left in the ending, possibly because it flashes by so quickly it's difficult to notice it.