Prerelease:Yume Koujou: Doki Doki Panic

This page details pre-release information and/or media for Yume Koujou: Doki Doki Panic.

To do:

There's much more content in other flyers, commercials, and magazines that need to be found.
Find a high-quality version of the July 31, 1987 Famimaga.

Japanese Commercial

A commercial for the game shows Autobombs firing large Bullet Bill-esque bullets instead of fireballs.

Manual Screenshots

Unused graphics and level designs for Doki Doki Panic are seen in the Japanese commercial and the manual, as well as promotional material for the game.

Early Graphics

Manual	Final

The top part of the key is wider and has no transparency in the hole.

Manual	Final

The mask is shown with red rather than white, with a wider top and different pattern. The final design's color scheme more closely resembles the majority of the actual Mardi Gras masks that were given out at the Yume Koujou festival.

Manual	Final

The Autobomb's "M" is smaller and red rather than white.

Unused Enemies

Mentioned only in the manual, the Gray Shy Guy was cut from the game at some point in development and replaced with Tweeter, as evidenced by its sprite ID falling in between the Red and Pink Shy Guys. The manual refers to it behaving similarly to Flurries but at a slower speed, following the character's position by automatically turning in their direction. (A small remnant of this behavior remains in the final game: if a Tweeter is followed for several screens, it will eventually turn around.)

Also mentioned in the manual, there is a Pink Beezo that was cut from the game and was replaced by the Gray Beezo. The enemy still got a description in the manual which carried over into the Super Mario Bros. 2 manual, where it still remained without even mentioning the Gray Beezo.

(Original Discovery: Rusty)

Level Screenshots

A number of pictures show what are either early iterations of levels from the final game, or levels that were entirely replaced. At this point in development, the background log objects use a brown palette; this was likely changed to red to match the falling log sprites.

Unknown level #1.
Unknown level #2.
Unknown level #3.
Resembles a portion of 1-1. The differing background and sprite log colors can be seen here.
Resembles a portion of 6-3. Notice the unused mask and the vines being green instead of red.
Early 1-1 Birdo fight.

Flyer & Magazine Ads

A flyer and various magazine advertisements promoting the game showed various scrapped level designs.

Flyer

Unknown level #4. This is likely a later version as the logs are using their red palette from the final game.

(Source: pony.velvet.jp)

Magazine Ads

Unknown level #5.
Unknown level #6. Note the Gray Shy Guy.
Resembles a portion of 4-3. Note the Autobomb's bullet projectile.
(A screenshot that appeared in both magazine advertisements and in the flyer mentioned above.)

Gaming Magazines

Famimaga (July 1987)

To do:

Figure out what levels they are.

The July 3, 1987 Famimaga issue contains various pictures of scrapped and early iterations of levels.

Unknown level #7.
Unknown level #8.
Unknown level #9.
Unknown level #10.
Early iteration of 1-2 (#1).
Early iteration of 1-2 (#2). The layout is pretty different, especially in the middle section, where no ladder is present. There are less plants and enemies than the final, and there is an additional stair at the end of a section.
Early iteration of 1-2 (#3). The bonus area has 2 Shy Guys instead of a Tweeter. Also, the original concept didn't involve flying a magic carpet - instead, you had to run through some land and then go through a series of cliffs. This was entirely revamped for the final.
Early iteration of 1-3.
Unknown level #11.
Unknown level #12.
Resembles a portion of 6-3. The vines are still green.
Unknown level #13.
Unknown level #14.
Unknown level #15.
Unknown level #16.
Unknown level #17.
Early iteration of an unknown Birdo boss fight