Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Heroes of the Lance

Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Heroes of the Lance
Also known as: Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Dragon Lance: Heroes of the Lance (title screen) Developer: Natsume Publishers: FCI (US), Pony Canyon (JP) Platform: NES Released in JP: March 8, 1991 Released in US: January 1991 This game has unused music. This game has debugging material. This game has a hidden level select. This game has regional differences.

Heroes of the Lance is a dungeon crawler of sorts (a port of the Atari ST original) that seems to have been very sloppily and hastily put together. Though the concept is interesting, the execution was poor.

Disabled Debug

Game Genie code AESNNYPA re-enables a simple debug mode.

Map Select

Hold Down on Controller 2 at the title screen, and the text "MAP No. 00" will appear with a hex map number. While still holding Down, press A to increase the map number by 0x01 or B to increase the map number by 0x10.

Map Number Display

During the game, press A on Controller 2 to display the current map number and some other variables.

Unused Music

Track 8 on the NSF is a very short, unused piece of music that seems like it was intended for the "Game Over" and/or "Bad Ending" scenes, both of which are curiously silent.

(Source: Zophar.net)

Regional Differences

Menu

In the North American version, the locations of the "Take" and "Score" options were swapped due to text limitations.

Japan	US

Below is a translation of the Famicom version text:

Hero Select        Give
Magic User Spells  Drop
Cleric Spells      Score
Use                Save
Take               Load