RoboCop 2 (NES)

RoboCop 2
Developer: Painting by Numbers Publishers: Data East (US,Japan), Ocean (EU) Platform: NES Released in JP: February 4, 1991 Released in US: April 1991 Released in EU: 1991 This game has a hidden developer message. This game has hidden developer credits. This game has hidden development-related text. This game has a hidden level select.

A very hard platformer that's a port of the Commodore 64 version and is also based on the movie of the same name.

Level Select

At the title screen, press and hold Up + Right on Controller 2 and Down + Left on Controller 1 at the same time. Now, by pressing B on Controller 1, the player can cycle through levels 0 to 14. Press A to reset the level index back to 0. A sound will confirm code triggering after each time A or B is pressed. Select the "CONTINUE" option to start from the selected level.

Hidden Text

This game shares the same music driver library that many other NES Ocean Software games used. As a result, there is a hidden version and copyright string:

MUSIC DRIVER V1.0 (C)JONATHAN DUNN & OCEAN SOFTWARE

Additionally, a small bit of placeholder text is at offset 0x01b256, at the end of BANK 6:

hello this is a bit of text