Kirby's Dream Land 2

Kirby's Dream Land 2
Also known as: Hoshi no Kirby 2 (JP) Developer: HAL Laboratory Publisher: Nintendo Platforms: Game Boy, Super Game Boy Released in JP: March 21, 1995 Released in US: May 1, 1995 Released in EU: July 31, 1995 This game has unused music. This game has regional differences.

Kirby's biggest adventure yet!^*

*Assuming "yet" means 1995

Unused Music

One rather frantic track is unused. It can be accessed from within the game as FGM #94 in the Sound Test. This theme would be remade and inserted into Kirby: Triple Deluxe 20 years later, under the name "The Cave in the Sky," used for Fine Fields Stage 2.

Regional Differences

Title Screen

Japanese	International

In addition to a different SGB palette, the international versions has a dancing Kirby that doesn't appear in the Japanese game.

Chao

Japanese	International

Occasionally, when a friend bag is opened, a different character appears instead of Gooey. In the Japanese version, this is Chao, a character from the game Yūyūki. Since that game was never released overseas, she was replaced with a female version of Gooey. Oddly, Chao would later appear in all versions of Kirby's Dream Land 3. While Gooey restores a piece of your life bar, collecting either special character above gets both an extra life and 1% toward your completion percentage.

Japanese	International	The original scene from Yūyūki

The sound test (another reference to Yūyūki) was changed as well. Besides the aforementioned character replacement, Gooey was added to the international builds.

Japanese	International

The screens that appear upon completing the Boss Endurance and Bonus sub-games also have Chao replaced with the female Gooey.

SGB Border

Japanese	International

In the Japanese version, the game's title appears at the top of the Super Game Boy border. The title was removed completely in the international versions.

Oddities

In the second part of Stage 6, Dark Castle, the screen moves to the left. At the end of the long hall, it is possible to see a strange little narrow room with a chain, spikes and a chick emerging from an egg. Neither the chain nor the spikes have any effect.

Stage 3 has a similar place, which is almost the same, but in reverse and it does not close this room off. Did the programmers forget about this?