Bubsy in Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind (SNES)

Bubsy in Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind
Also known as: Yamaneko Bubsy no Daibouken (JP) Developers: Accolade, Solid Software Publishers: Accolade (US), Nintendo (EU), Poppo (JP) Platform: SNES Released in JP: June 17, 1994 Released in US: May 1993 Released in EU: October 28, 1993 This game has hidden developer credits. This game has unused music. This game has debugging material. This game has a hidden sound test. This game has a hidden level select. This game has regional differences. This game has a prerelease article

Ha! Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind. Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Get it?

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Prerelease Info

Unused Music

Stages 4-6

Strangely enough, while the village chapters have an exact snippet of the debug fanfare that goes unused, the Fair chapters have it too, despite not having the right instruments. It's present and still unused in Super Bubsy.

The Fair chapters also have their own variation of the "Dry-clean Only" music you hear in the village, river, and some sliding underground platforms in western chapters. Note that the last four chapters also have unused variations, but are replicas of village for the jungle chapters, and western for the last chapter, A Farewell to Wollies.

Stages 7-9

The western chapters have a unique track heard nowhere throughout that area of the game. It's re-used in Super Bubsy as a Tunnel Vision track.

Stage Select and Debug Mode

At the title screen, enter the following button sequence on controller 1 or 2, B, Down, Down, Left, A, Right, Up, B, Right, Right, A, Right, Down, B, A, Down. A long fanfare will confirm you entered correctly. Now enter the following button sequences in the following order on controller 1 or 2 (controller 1 is recommended):

The fanfare.

1. B, Right, Right, Left, Y, Up, A, Up, Down, Down, Down, Left (possibly meant to be "BERLYN AND DSW" - i.e., developers Mike Berlyn and D. Scott Williamson) - Unknown.
2. Down, A, Y, B, Up, B, Down, Y ("SAY BUBSY") - Unknown + Stage select.
3. Down, Right, A, Down ("DEAD") - Unknown + Stage select + Debug mode.

The music will restart after each sequence if entered correctly. If you mess up or press any button on the other controller, you will have to restart from the very first sequence.

Unknown

This code doesn't appear to do anything special.

Stage Select

This allows you to choose your stage and such by pressing buttons on controller 2 at the title screen (Note that using these before completing the third sequence will force you to re-enter all three if you want Debug Mode):

• Up: Increase starting stage by one. (Do not go beyond stage '21'. It will crash the game!)
• Down: Decrease starting stage by one. (Do not go below stage 1. It will crash the game!)
• Right: Increase starting stage by three. (Do not go beyond stage '21'. It will crash the game!)
• Left: Decrease starting stage by three. (Do not go below stage 1. It will crash the game!)
• B: Enable and disable "demo mode". (The computer will play the selected stage. Pressing any button while in demo mode will reset back to the title screen.)
• A: Unknown. (Constantly plays annoying sound effects in the selected stage. Using this button will not restart the music, like the others do.)

Debug Mode

Debug mode allows you to do many different things while in a stage:

While Playing the Game

• Select + R: Enables and disables debug mode.
• D-Pad: Move around stage.
• Hold Select: Pixel-precise movement + slows time.
• Hold R: Tile-precise movement.
• L: Delete objects.
• A: Increase selected item by one.
• Y: Decrease selected item by one.
• X: Place selected item.
• B: Unknown (reset select item?)
• Select + L: Enable and disable sound test & VRAM viewer mode.

Sound Test/VRAM Viewer Mode

• Up: Increase music track by one.
• Down: Decrease music track by one.
• Right: Increase sound effect by one.
• Left: Decrease sound effect by one.
• B or X: Play selected music track.
• A or Y: Play selected sound effect.
• A (Controller 2): Increase Bubsy's sprite spacing.
• B (Controller 2): Decrease Bubsy's sprite spacing.

(Source: Parasyte)

Oddities

Debug Mode

When the map loads the boss level, the boss sprite trigger is a bubsy life counter icon.

Hidden Credit

At 0x0C09E2 in the ROM is the following string:

(C) 1992 Basement Boys Software

Basement Boys Software was a group that made hacking tools for the Commodore 64 in the mid-to-late 80s. Some of its members later moved on to Chip Level Designs, who provided sound programming in several SNES games. This credit also appears in Cool Spot. That's pretty neat.

Regional Differences

Title Screen

US/Europe	Japan

Password Changes

US/Europe	Japan

For some odd reason, the U.S. and European versions have their passwords using consonants while the Japanese version uses numbers for its passwords. Note that the passwords in the Japanese version are the first 114 digits of pi. (3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209
7494459230781640628620899862803482534211706798214808651328)

Level	US/Europe	Japan
Level 1	JSSCTS	314159
Level 2	CKBGMM	265358
Level 3	SCTWMN	979323
Level 4	MKBRLN	846264
Level 5	LBLNRD	338327
Level 6	JMDKRK	950288
Level 7	STGRTN	419716
Level 7X	N/A	939937
Level 8	SBBSHC	510582
Level 8X	N/A	097494
Level 9	DBKRRB	459230
Level 9X	N/A	781640
Level 10	MSFCTS	628620
Level 11	KMGRBS	899862
Level 12	SLJMBG	803482
Level 13	TGRTVN	534211
Level 14	CCLDSL	706798
Level 15	BTCLMB	214808
Level 16	STCJDH	651328

It should be noted that 7X, 8X, and 9X are all the canyon stages for Levels 7, 8, and 9.