Tiny Toon Adventures

Tiny Toon Adventures
Developer: Konami Publisher: Konami Platform: NES Released in JP: December 20, 1991 Released in US: December 1991 Released in EU: October 22, 1992 This game has hidden development-related text. This game has a hidden level select. This game has regional differences. This game has anti-piracy features. This game has a prerelease article

Tiny Toon Adventures is an NES platformer based on the 1990s cartoon, with gameplay taken from Super Mario Bros. 3. Literally.

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Prerelease Info

Stage Select and Player No Damage

All versions of the game feature a simple stage select cheat, accessed by pressing A, A, A, B, B, B, Select, Select, Select, A, Start at the title screen. Choose a level by pressing Up or Down, then press Start.

However, the Japanese version features two stage select cheats; the second one is accessed with Up, Right, Down, Left, Up, Right, Down, Left, B, A, Select, Select, Select, Start and has an additional "Player No Damage" option, which can be toggled by pressing Select.

Although the US and European versions normally have this option disabled, you can enable it by using the Game Genie code OESGKTPA (US) or OAXKVYPA (Europe).

Build Dates

An ID string listing the build version and date can be found at the end of the PRG ROM:

MAST910809

MAST means it's the "master" version, and the numbers represent the date. As a result, we can tell that this build was compiled on August 9, 1991. The dates are the same in all versions.

Unused Graphics

What appears to be a set of teeth, found in the same sprite bank as the chandeliers of Stage 6. These were likely meant for a trap similar to one in the final stage of the sequel.

What's left of an unknown enemy. The sprites can be found in the background graphics bank of Stage 4-3. The graphics bank of this enemy was probably repurposed into a background graphics bank.

Two unknown blocks, found in the graphics bank of Stage 1-3.

Unknown pillar graphics, found in the graphics bank of Stage 1-3.

Present in the graphics bank for the backgrounds of Stage 2-3 (pirate ship) are tiles for a cannon.

A reconstruction of the cannon. May not be 100% accurate.

Unused background graphics for Stage 5. Probably a reference to "The Persistence of Memory" by Salvador Dali, as the clock(?) seems to be hanging from a tree branch.

Unused slope tiles found in Stage 5's graphics bank. They look like early or alternate graphics for the ramps in the 2nd section of the stage.

Anti-Piracy

As with most games Konami published in the '90s, Tiny Toon Adventures has a copy-protection routine. At the start of the game, the partial CHR ROM checksum is calculated to ensure its consistency (for CHR banks $38-$3B, sum total of four 256-byte blocks at $0000, $0500, $0B80, and $0D00, which contain the graphics for the Konami logo and fonts for the copyright string), and a flag is clear if there's a consistency failure.

If the flag is clear, in the Japanese version when completing Level 3-3 will cause the game to loop back to the first level. In the international versions, completing the final level will cause the game to loop back to the first level instead of playing the ending sequence. However, if the flag is still set at the time of the final check (CHR test has passed or skipped), there is an additional summing of the first protection routine code in the PRG ROM. If this test is passed as well, then the program will continue its normal operation or else do a loop back to the first level as well.

Regional Differences

US	Europe

The Konami logo was redrawn for the European release.

US	Japan/Europe

Plucky appears miscolored in the ending if you defeat the final boss as him. His sprite was edited (removing the outline) and recolored to fix this for the Japanese and European releases.