Adventures of Lolo 3
Adventures of Lolo 3 |
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Also known as: Adventures of Lolo 2 (JP)
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Despite the international title, Adventures of Lolo 3 (known as Adventures of Lolo 2 in Japan) is the 8th installment in the Eggerland series. Due to North America and Europe not getting many of the previous releases, it resulted in a situation where the presentation is identical between the Famicom and NES versions but the game content itself is not the same.
Contents
Hidden Passwords
These passwords were found buried in the Lolo 3 ROM. They unlock a few interesting Easter eggs.
NOTE: The vowels in the U.S. version's password screen were replaced with symbols. Use the following key when entering the passwords:
The vowels are present in the Japanese version, but you must replace "LOLO3" in the sound tests with "LOLO2," since their series is numbered differently. Also, make sure you select "END" after entering each password.
Character Tests
Sound Tests
- Music Test: xx00LOLO3BGMTEST (where xx is a number between 00 and 23)
- Sound Effect Test: xx00LOLO3FGMTEST (where xx is a number between 00 and 48)
Regional Differences
Opening Screens
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The Japanese and European versions share the same plain HAL logo as New Ghostbusters II, while the American version's HAI logo is just like the previous Lolo game's but with a new font and darker background color.
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On the title screen, the European version's copyright uses a different uppercase I than the American version, and the American version uses a different comma from the others. In modifying the Roman numeral, the American version leaves a sliver of its red color between the U and R in front of the sky by mistake. The European version corrects this, but it also removes the shadow "ADVENTURES" casts on the numeral, even as "LOLO" still casts a shadow, and it erases one cloud and moves another, seemingly to avoid crowding some white words. The original cloud arrangement still appears in the cutscene that immediately follows!
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The password screens' graphics were totally redone, adding the word "PASSWORD" and generally resembling the previous game's password screen more, except the background has been simplified to a single repeating tile that doesn't look much like brickwork anymore. The replacement of vowels with new symbols seems unnecessary in this case as the game was already coded to never generate passwords containing vowels, X, 0, or 1.
If the Japanese password font looks familiar, that's because the international versions use an unmodified copy of that graphic bank for dialogue with Grandpa, while the Japanese version uses a differently-altered copy containing its hiragana. It also places the blinking cursor at the ends of text boxes on the right side while the other versions have it centered, likely owing to the Japanese text sometimes needing to print on the very bottom of the word balloon as upper lines are reserved for diacritics.
Levels
While all versions work the same in terms of what levels and bosses must be completed to unlock the next level, the Japanese version contains a completely different set of 100 mandatory puzzle rooms from the other two. Levels 5-2, 14-2, 14-3, 14-4, 14-5, 15-4, 17-2, 17-7, 17-8, and 17-9 of the international versions have been identified as being based on puzzles from the previous Japanese Adventures of Lolo title, modified to varying degrees.
Of the 10 tutorial rooms, only 8 are identical across all three versions. The international versions skip the Japanese version's 8th room, presenting its 9th room as their 8th, then use a modified version of its 10th room as their 9th:
Tree 2-5 (Japan) | Tree 2-4 (US/Europe) |
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Apparently devised as a sort of "final exam" room, the international version's removals mean the player is no longer required to perform a quick turn after daringly pushing an egg into a river across from a Medusa, nor is it necessary to block a pair of side-by-side Medusas with a single obstacle. These were both concepts introduced in the original 8th room. The international tutorial ends with a new puzzle about efficiently fleeing a Skull down a narrow path, which adds a third use of the hammer item to the tutorials when there is now only one hammer used in the entire main game!
The status bar's labels were also changed, abbreviating with all consonants rather than the first three letters, widening the V, rounding off the P and W, and "floors" are now known as "room numbers." Oddly the Japanese version uses a slightly different E in "LEV" for the tutorials than for the rest of the game.
Bosses
All the bosses had their hit points halved for the international versions of Adventures of Lolo III, making them less of an endurance test than in the Japanese Adventures of Lolo II. Inanimate targets take the same number of shots to destroy in all versions. (Giant Gol's flames can only be destroyed with a shot midflight. Once they land, they expire on a timer, uninfluenced by Magic Shots.)
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Giant Snakey | 50 | 25 |
Giant Alma | 32 | 16 |
Giant Rocky | 40 | 20 |
Giant Leeper | 40 | 20 |
Giant Skull | 40 | 20 |
Giant Gol | 40 | 20 |
Giant Medusa | 60 | 30 |
Giant Don Medusa | 40 | 20 |
King Egger 1 | Infinite | Infinite |
King Egger 2, phase 1 | 20 | 10 |
King Egger 2, stunned | 10 | 10 |
King Egger 2, phase 2 | 30 | 10 |
Regular boss eggs | 5 | 5 |
King Egger's egg | 10 | 10 |
Destructible projectiles | 1 | 1 |
Final exit | 10 | 10 |
Of possible interest is that the unwinnable King Egger fight writes an unchanging value of 10 to the usual HP memory location in all versions.
Ending
A side effect of the European version's slight tempo correction for PAL framerate is that the ending scene music finishes well before the sun stops setting. Where the NTSC versions have the music cut out for just the one second it takes Lolo and Lala to scoot together before "THE END" appears, the European version leaves players in silence for nearly fourteen seconds.
The Eggerland series
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Famicom Disk System | Eggerland |
NES | Eggerland: Meikyuu no Fukkatsu • Adventures of Lolo 2 • Adventures of Lolo 3 |
Game Boy | Adventures of Lolo |
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