Higemaru Makaijima: Nanatsu no Shima Daibouken (NES)

Higemaru Makaijima: Nanatsu no Shima Daibouken
Developer: Capcom Publisher: Capcom Platform: NES Released in JP: May 14, 1987 This game has a hidden developer message. This game has unused enemies. This game has debugging material. This game has a prototype article This game has a bugs page

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Higemaru Makaijima: Nanatsu no Shima Daibouken is the follow-up to Pirate Ship Higemaru, now with a bit of Zelda flavor.

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Prototype Info

Bugs

Unused Graphics

An undead Higemaru skeleton, probably intended to occupy the Ghost Ship seen late in the game, replacing the living Higemarus from previous pirate ships.

Oddly enough, the boss of the Ghost Ship is depicted as undead in the MSX version, even though the undead Higemaru isn't used there either.

Momotaro with outstretched arms, intended for when he holds objects, but he just keeps his normal sprites for whatever reason. The above are mockups based on metasprite data present in the ROM.

Unused Music

The track that plays during the enemy roll lasts 2:18, but the enemy roll itself only lasts 2:00 or so, leaving the last few seconds of the theme unheard.

Debug Leftovers

At the title screen, hold B and press Start on Controller 1 to start a new game and enable some debug leftovers. Basically this disables some collision, so you will be invulnerable at any battle. Unfortunately, this will also lead to garbled game graphics.

More disabled functions are available, but due to code changes they crash the game. Additional debug flags were available, but are now inaccessible. The debug mode flag is found at address $5F.

Hidden Message

Present at the end of the ROM.

BY MASAMITSU.KOBAYASI 87/3/2