Kirby's Dream Land 2

Kirby's biggest adventure yet!*

*Assuming "yet" means 1995

Unused Music
One rather frantic track is unused. It can be accessed from within the game as FGM #94 in the Sound Test.

Tiny room in Stage 6 of Dark Castle


In the second part of Stage 6, Dark Castle, the screen moves to the left. At the end of the long hall, it is possible to see a strange little narrow room with a chain, spikes and a chick emerging from an egg. The chain nor the spikes have any effect.

Stage 3 has a similar place, which is almost the same, but in reverse and it does not close this room off. Did the programmers forget about this?

Title Screen
In addition to a different SGB palette, the international version has a dancing Kirby that doesn't appear in the Japanese game.

Chao
Occasionally, when a friend bag is opened, a different character appears instead of Gooey. In the Japanese version, this is Chao, a character from the game Yūyūki. Since that game was never released overseas, she was replaced with a female version of Gooey. While Gooey restores a piece of your life bar, collecting either special character above gets both an extra life and 1% toward your completion percentage.

The sound test (another reference to Yūyūki) was changed as well. Besides the aforementioned character replacement, Gooey was added to the international build.

Oddly, despite Nintendo of America's policy of the time, none of the bar imagery was censored at all.

SGB Border
In the Japanese version, the game's title appears at the top of the Super Game Boy border. The title was removed completely in the international version.