Beetlejuice (NES)

Beetlejuice
Developer: Rare Publisher: LJN Platform: NES Released in US: May 1991 This game has hidden developer credits. This game has unused graphics. This game has unused text. This game has a prototype article

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Prototype Info

Unused Graphics

This snake enemy was found in memory alongside other enemies, but no such opponent is ever used in any stage.

Final	Full

On the continue screen Beetlejuice moves his head to the proper "body" to either continue or end. The image on the left is the one used in the final; however, a look at the tiles in memory seem to indicate this sprite is cobbled together from a larger, more awkward-looking sprite.

Unused Text

To do: More text which may not have been used.

 THE SPOOK
SCROLL
 PASSWORD

The game uses a special type of compression for its text that assigns specific strings to certain bytes. The above, found at address 108BB, are never used.

These may be leftovers from the prototype, where instead of the Book for the Recently Deceased you had to find the Spook Scroll, which contained a password. The end result (allowing you to access the shops) is the same.

Hidden Credit

There is a hidden programmer credit in the ROM at 0x1FEA5 that says:

* Written by Paul Machacek *