Puyo Puyo (Famicom Disk System, NES)

Puyo Puyo
Developer: Compile Publisher: Tokuma Shoten Platforms: Famicom Disk System, NES Released in JP: October 25, 1991 (FDS), July 23, 1993 (Famicom) This game has hidden developer credits. This game has unused modes / minigames. This game has a hidden sound test. This game has revisional differences.

The first game in the Puyo Puyo series. It was released on the same day as the MSX2 version in a disk that came with an issue of Famimaga, a Famicom magazine. A Famicom cartridge version would release two years later, but with a changed color palette, skippable intro, and the ability to change the Puyo caps in 2P. Hooray...?

Build Dates & Hidden Credits

Present at the end of the Famicom Disk System ROM.

1991-03-25      
                
  (C)COMPILE    
                
GAMEDESIGN      
  DOUAN INUKAI  
                
PROGRAM         
  MITSUGI       
                
GRAPHICS        
  SONCHOH SAWA  
                
1991-07-16      
                

Sound Test

At the main menu, hold Up + A + B then press Start. Use the D-Pad to select a sound.

Unused Game Mode

The Game Genie code EAENEYAA re-enables a disabled game mode cheat. Hold Up + A + B + Select + Start, then press Reset. The title screen will change color and the two player mode, limits 42 and 60 will be changed to 50 and 80.

Unused Extra Password

At the password screen, select the fourth password character to edit (do not change the first three!), select a letter, hold Select and press A or Start. To the right of the password a new string ended with "0" will appear. Every time you press A or Start while holding Select at this position, a new letter will be added to this string. You can't return and change previously entered symbols, there are 8 symbols total to enter. When finished, enter the last three characters of the password as usual with the check code (do not change the "?" in the first one!). Now, hold Select and press A or Start. The program will compare the sum of the particular chars in 8-symbol string you entered with check code in place of the password and if they match will display the "PASSWORD OK!" message. However, there is no purpose in this string here at all in the final version of the program. To test this, just enter the secret pass "00000000" as described above, then enter the check code "?000" instead of the password.

Version Differences

Title Screen

FDS	Famicom

When the game was reissued on cartridge, the title screen was modified to update copyright info, re-draw the brick background to give it more detail (at the apparent cost of making all the bricks uniform in size), and re-draw the title logo to match the logo of the Arcade/Mega Drive entry that released the year prior. The copyright info also got a little border added around it to match the border around the title itself, and both were also moved upwards a bit to center them on the screen a bit better.