Hydlide (NES)

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Hydlide
Also known as: Hydlide Special (JP) Developer: T&E Soft Publishers: FCI (US), Toshiba EMI (JP) Platform: NES Released in JP: March 18, 1986 Released in US: June 1989 This game has hidden development-related text. This game has regional differences.

Hydlide is a game where you find fairies and die to bees. Oh yeah, and the music is ripped straight from Indiana Jones.

Hidden Text

The reset routine in this game uses the following text to check if the game was soft or hard reset.

Japan	US
HYDLIDE SPECIAL (C)1986 T&E SOFT Programed by EIJI KATO '85.11.13 - 1.10 Produced by TOEMI LAND	HYDLIDE (C)1986 T&E SOFT Programed by EIJI KATO '85.11.13 - 1.10 V1.0D '89. 1.12

Regional Differences

Title Screen

Japan	North America

• In Japan, the game was titled Hydlide Special.
• The PUSH BUTTON ! text was moved up in the North American version for more copyright text. Yay.
• The TOSHIBA EMI credit was removed.
• The T&ESOFT credit was changed to T&ESOFT INC, and moved a few blocks to the left.
• The North American version actually adds a ™ symbol that was not present in the Japanese version.

Password

The Japanese version uses 14 characters while the North American version uses 16 characters. Also, the word Password was changed to Input in the password entry field.