Tomato Adventure

Tomato Adventure
Developers: AlphaDream, Graphic Research Publisher: Nintendo Platform: Game Boy Advance Released in JP: January 25, 2002 This game has unused enemies. This game has unused items. This game has unused text. This game has a prerelease article

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Tomato Adventure was AlphaDream's second and last RPG prior to the release of Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, which would go on to take inspiration from this game's battle system and include two unused tracks based on its title screen music. It's also rather famous for one of its normal enemies being referenced in said game.

The game was also originally being developed for the Game Boy Color as Gimmick Land, with its prototype eventually being found in a leak on September 2020.

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Prerelease Info

Unused Enemies

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• Tomatowalker (トマトウォーカー): This enemy can be seen on the Gimmick Palace, firing StarMato enemies. However, they are always placed outside of the player's reach and cannot be battled vicariously through their spawn. Despite this, battle data for them exists. Not to be confused with its yellow mini-boss counterpart.

It can be accessed anywhere in battle with the encounter modifier with offset $637ED0 (code 030008EC:08637ED0), which seems to be the 73rd enemy pointer in the ROM.

A Tomatowalker

Unused Items

There are a few unused items, all with the description of "Dummy" (Japanese: ダミー). Modifying address 0x030019D5 will change the index number of the first item.

List of unused items:

• 0x01-0x0F - Unnamed items
• 0x23 - Multiple Hit Killer (Japanese: れんだキラー)
• 0x24 - Timing Killer (Japanese: タイミングキラー)
• 0x25 - Speed Killer (Japanese: スピードキラー)
• 0x26 - Heart-Pounding Killer (Japanese: ドキドキキラー)
• 0x2F - Unnamed item
• 0x31 - Unnamed item
• 0x34 - Unnamed item
• 0x36 - Unnamed item

Multiple Hit, Timing, Speed, and Heart-Pounding are the four types of Gimmicks.

Multiple Hit Killer and its description.

Hidden Gimica Cards

Two of the Gimica Cards in the game (Abira and Pasaran) are only available with a series of specific button presses. This secret is hidden away in the Nintendo Official Guidebook for the game on Page 68, published by Shogakukan.

In Oystown's Colosseum, where Gimica battles are held, after unlocking the option to do so, attempt to initiate a communication battle. While waiting, enter the following commands. No Link Cable is required.

• Abira card: Left, Up, B, Down, Up, Down, A + B, Right, A, Down, Up, B
• Pasaran card: Up, Right, A, Down, Right, B, Down, Right, A, Down, B + A, Up

Unused Text

At offset 0x62D380 is the text "GIMMICK LAND VR0", referencing the original name of the game as a Game Boy Color title.

(Source: Otakuto's blog ("Tomato Adventure Hack Rom Project"))