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The Legend of the Mystical Ninja
Also known as: Ganbare Goemon: Yukihime Kyuushutsu Emaki (JP) Developer: Konami Publisher: Konami Platform: SNES Released in JP: July 17, 1991 Released in US: June 30, 1992 Released in EU: 1994 This game has debugging material. This game has regional differences.

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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 $0000 in $7E0092), memory address $7E008E is checked for $0080. If true, the menu opens.

Use this Pro Action Replay code: 7E008F80

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?

Region Differences

Items

Japanese (Shop)	North American (Shop)

Japanese (Inventory)	North America (Inventory)

Despite the myriad of untouched Japanese food seen in restaurants, Nintendo of America 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.

Japanese (Shop)	North American (Shop)

Japanese (Inventory)	North America (Inventory)

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

Japanese	North American

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

Japanese	North America

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

Japanese	North America

The inventory icon was modified likewise.

The Ganbare Goemon series
NES	Ganbare Goemon! • Ganbare Goemon Gaiden • Ganbare Goemon Gaiden 2
MSX2	Ganbare Goemon!
Game Boy	Ganbare Goemon: Sarawareta Ebisumaru • Ganbare Goemon: Mononoke Douchuu Tobisuise Nabebugyou
SNES	The Legend of the Mystical Ninja • Ganbare Goemon 2 • Ganbare Goemon 3
PlayStation	Ganbare Goemon: Uchuu Kaizoku Akogingu
Nintendo 64	Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon
Nintendo DS	Ganbare Goemon: Toukai Douchuu Ooedo Tengurigaeshi no Maki