Mickey Mania: The Timeless Adventures of Mickey Mouse (SNES)

Mickey Mania: The Timeless Adventures of Mickey Mouse
Developer: Traveller's Tales Publishers: Capcom (JP), Sony Imagesoft (US/EU) Platform: SNES Released in JP: March 31, 1995 Released in US: October 1994 Released in EU: April 1, 1995 This game has unused music. This game has debugging material. This game has a hidden level select. This game has a prototype article

Mickey Mania: The Timeless Adventures of Mickey Mouse is a platform game where you control Mickey through over 20 levels based on seven Mickey cartoons from 1928-90, while throwing marbles at enemies and stuff. It's fairly watered-down compared to all other versions of the game, lacking "The Band Concert" among other things. One of the weirder quirks of this particular version is the fact that it has loading times, a rarity for a cartridge-based game, partially because of the game's DMA-intensive nature.

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Prototype Info

Unused Songs

Oddly, the SNES version does not use three songs from the Genesis version despite being present in the game's data.

"EOL Boss 3". Used in the burning tower section in the Genesis version; the SNES version uses a different song.

"Get Ready". The level intro of the Genesis version. Conspicuously, there is no level intro music in the SNES one.

The Game Over theme of the Genesis version; the title fanfare plays instead in the SNES one.

Level Select

Similar to the Genesis version, go to the sound test and select "Beanstalk1" for music, "Extra Try" for SFX and highlight the "Exit" option holding L for more than 5 seconds. Start the game as normal, and the level select screen will appear.

Cleverly-Disguised Crash Handler

To do: It seems the timing behind this is a bit more involved. Investigate? There are also multiple more warps throughout the game.

This game has a fairly difficult to trigger "Level Warp" that appears to be displayed when the game crashes, similarly to Sonic 3D Blast from the same developer. It has you test your luck to select one of two options, "Forward" and "Backward", warping you to the following/preceding sub-stage, or to the beginning of the same stage in the case of selecting "Backwards" when in Steamboat Willie.

You can trigger it in the following places, among others:

• Steamboat Willie: Go to the first stage and jump on the cat when he is walking to the far left and drop on the spot triggering Steamboat Willie Mickey freakout just before a drop of rain touches something. This video and the pictures below demonstrate the exact timing required.

• Mad Doctor: In the trolley stage, after the first few jumps, throw a marble at the row of buzz-saws as pictured below.

• The Prince and the Pauper: It has been reported that in some of the final sprite-intensive sub-stages, the crash handler can be accidentally triggered, but specific details are unknown.