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Dragon Ball Z: The Legacy of Goku
Dragon Ball Z: The Legacy of Goku |
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Developer:
Webfoot Technologies
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Dragon Ball Z: The Legacy of Goku is Webfoot's first foray into the Dragon Ball series, which did not go as well as expected. However, it was one of the first GBA games to have full-motion video. It later got a rerelease as part of a double pack with Dragon Ball Z: The Legacy of Goku II.
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Contents
Unused Items
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Repair Kit
Various text strings refer to this item as a "Repair Kit". Editing address 03000062 (USA version) will add this item to your inventory, although you cannot use it.
Item name at 1C62D3 (USA version) | Repair Kit |
Item plural name at 1C62DE (USA version) | Repair Kits |
Item receive text at 5C30F7 (USA version) | You receive a repair kit! |
Alternate Stones
A side quest has Goku gathering stones to build a bridge, but since there are six stones and you need only three these go unused and can never be collected. Each stone has a unique graphic but acts like every other kind of stone item.
Fruit
You can edit address 03000060 (USA version) to give yourself a Fruit item, although you cannot use it. Perhaps you were once supposed to select Yemma's Fruit through your inventory.
Unused NPC Text
Throughout the game, you have to escort NPCs as part of tasks that you are given. If you are escorting one NPC and try to escort another, they will tell you to come back later. Since it isn't possible to bring an NPC along and then talk to the missing kid in the forest, his text goes unused.
Waaah! I'm stuck, and I'll be grounded by mom for sure! Mister, can you come back and get me?
Error Messages
A sequence of error message strings can be found in the ROM at 12142 (USA version) or 122F4 (European version).
Abnormal termination Arithmetic exception: Illegal instruction Interrupt received Illegal address Termination request Stack overflow Redirect: can't open: Out of heap memory User-defined signal 1 User-defined signal 2 Pure virtual fn called C++ library exception
Unused Splash Screens
These are splash screens that have gone unused. They can be accessed using the game's debug menu.
Misplaced Warp
On the map where you fight the Ginyu Force there's a misplaced warp at the northwest corner of the map that allows you to bypass that section altogether.
Invincibility Code
There is a hidden invincibility code. To activate it, press Up, Down, Left, Right, B and A during the intro movie. The invincibility will not work when walking over spikes of the Snake Way.
Debug Mode
To access the game's debug mode go to the options menu, and hold L + R+ Up at the same time "Exit" is highlighted. Then press A. If done correctly you'll enter the debug menu.
Debug Menu
From the debug menu you can visit any map, view sprites, play sounds, play music, or display the various splash screen images that are shown throughout the game.
Controls:
- Up: Move the cursor up.
- Down: Move the cursor down.
- Left: Decrease an option.
- Right: Increase an option.
- A: Make a selection.
- B: Go back.
Sprite Viewer
To do: There is a LOT of unused sprites (i.e. SSJ Goku holding Raditz!, surprised expressions for many NPCs, etc.) in the Sprite Viewer that you don't see in-game. Rip the sprites and make a sub-page. |
The sprite viewer allows you to see sprites, animations, character portraits, and hitboxes.
Sprite mode controls:
- Up: Move the cursor up.
- Down: Move the cursor down.
- Left: Move the cursor up quickly.
- Right: Move the cursor down quickly.
- A: Go to animation mode.
Animation mode controls:
- Up: Move the cursor up.
- Down: Move the cursor down.
- A: Go to direction mode.
Direction mode controls:
- D-Pad: Select the sprite's direction.
- A: Restart the current animation.
All modes controls:
- L: Toggle sprite hitboxes (hold).
- Select: Toggle sprite hitboxes (press).
- B: Go back.
Regional Differences
There are two versions of the game: US and European. On the latter, you can select a different language besides English (German, French, Italian, Spanish).
The European version also fixed a crash that can happen when going to the title screen's options menu, highlighting "Exit" and then pressing A + B at the same time. A similar crash that happens in the debug menu when "Go to Map" is highlighted and pressing A + Start was not fixed, however.
The European version fixed that you could essentially turn invincible when hit by a ki blast in flying mode. In the US version, the ki blast would hit you and you would exit flying mode although the game believes you are still flying - thus enemies don't attack you but you can attack them. In the European version ki blasts don't hit you at all when flying.
Anti-Piracy
If the game detects you are running it on a cartridge with the incorrect save type or hardware, it will display the following message.
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- Games with debugging functions
- Games with hidden sound tests
- Games with hidden level selects
- Games with regional differences
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