Super Donkey Kong (NES)

Super Donkey Kong
Developer: Ei-How Yang Publisher: Hosenkan Electronics Platform: Unlicensed NES Released in TW: 1997 This game has unused music. This game has debugging material. This game has a hidden level select.

A pirated port of Donkey Kong Land from an 8-bit system to a slightly more colorful 8-bit system.

Debug Menu

Game Genie codes XIXALEXG + GTXEPAGV enable a debug menu by pressing Start at the title screen. Up and Down move the cursor, while Left and Right change the value. B and A increase and decrease the value by 10, respectively.

RUN GAME - Starts the game; changing the value changes the level the player starts on. Change the value to any value higher than 15 simply crashes the game. MUSIC TEST - Plays a music track upon pressing Start. SOUND TEST - Plays a sound effect upon pressing Start. LEVEL MAP TEST - Presumably allowed levels to be viewed at one point, but merely crashes the game now, regardless of the value selected. DEMO LEVEL - Plays one of the game's five demos (from 00-04). Playing any demo beyond 04 will cause the game to glitch and eventually crash. NNN - There are two of these, neither of which function.

Right before the menu opens, a copyright message saying "FC SYSTEM (C) COPYRIGHT" and a blinking string saying "LIBARY READY" (a typo of "LIBRARY READY") will appear for a couple of seconds. There's also "EI-HOW YANG", but it's colored the same as the background.

Functionally, the menu is almost identical to Toy Story and Pocohontos, which were also done by Ei-How Yang.

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Stage Select

At the title screen, press A + B + Select. Use Up / Down to select a stage, and press Start to begin. Because the text uses the wrong palette, you can't actually see it. However, you can only select 5 levels.

(Source: Cah4e3)

Unused Music

This game has an unused music track that was later used in Super Donkey Kong 2. This is strange, since Ei-How Yang didn't(?) make that game, and this is just a port of Donkey Kong Land.