Mohawk & Headphone Jack

Mohawk & Headphone Jack
Also known as: Mo Hawk & Headphone Jack (title screen) Developer: Solid Software Publishers: Black Pearl (US), T·HQ (EU) Platform: SNES Released in US: August 1996 Released in EU: March 27, 1997 This game has unused graphics. This game has unused text. This game has debugging material. This game has a hidden level select. This game has a notes page

Mohawk & Headphone Jack is an omnidirectional Mode 7 action platformer starring a naked yellow man. May cause motion sickness.

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Debug Flags

SNES RAM address 7E00E8 contains several debug flags with some interesting properties. While there doesn't seem to be any code left to enable these flags within the game, the Pro Action Replay (PAR) codes 7E00E8FF + 7E00E981 will enable all of them at once.

Bit	Effect
8000	Causes an anti-piracy message to appear in place of the normal ending. It would have made sense for this to appear if the game detected it was running on a copier or a SNES from the wrong region, but setting this bit is the only apparent way to see the message. If the flag is disabled while the message is already being displayed, it will switch to the actual ending text instead.
0100	Enables a Mode 7 background test. The background for the title screen and credits is replaced with several horizontal and vertical gradient bars. Controllers 1 and 2 can also be used to change the background animation parameters: D-Pad changes the horizontal/vertical offset. A/B/X/Y change the transformation settings. L/R change the rotation speed/direction. L/R on controller 2 cycle the background colors.
0080	Enables a stage select on the title screen. Pressing Left/Right on the D-Pad will increase or decrease the starting level, although the current value is not displayed on-screen.
0040	Causes the spiky ball morph to last for as long as the Y button is held, instead of only lasting for a few seconds as usual.
0020	Gives the player infinite bombs.
0010	Gives the player infinite health.
0008	Gives the player infinite lives.
0004	Causes all music tracks to be unlocked automatically.
0002	Enables a demo recording feature. When starting a new game, hold A to record a new demo or B to play back the last recorded demo.
0001	Enables an in-game level editing feature. During gameplay, press A+Y to enable the editor, which allows you to move freely around the level and place sprites. The controls are: A: Increase selected sprite number. Y: Decrease selected sprite number. L/R: Cycle through available variations of the selected sprite. B: Select whichever sprite was last touched by the cursor. X: Place the selected sprite at the cursor position. A+Y: Return to gameplay. If X is held when starting the game, any sprites placed by the player will still be intact when restarting the level; otherwise, they will disappear after losing a life.

(Source: Original TCRF research)

Special Passwords

These codes will display special messages when entered into the Code menu.

Code	Message	Code	Message	Code	Message
314159	YES, THAT IS PI.	006502	WRONG CPU	062867	LOOSE LIPS SINK SHIPS!
271828	AIEEE! THAT IS E!	008086		062868
299790	C SENOR, SPEED OF LIGHT	068000		071094
667300	GRAVITATIONAL CONSTANT	068010		111468
662600	PLANCK WOULD BE PROUD!	068020		121967
978049	ACCELERATION OF GRAVITY	068030		155282
000042	SECRET OF LIFE	068040		266348
065816	YES THAT IS THE CPU.	080286		274543
		080386		385927
		080486		398656
				389706
				760209
				923676
				983696

(Source: Original TCRF research)

Unused Password Messages

The following text is stored at 0x1A6CE1 with the other special messages, but there's no password to display either of them. Perhaps they got censored out?

YOU'RE SICK!

YOU'RE TWISTED!

(Source: Original TCRF research)