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Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord (NES)

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Title Screen

Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord

Developer: Game Studio
Publishers: ASCII (JP), Nexoft (US)
Platform: NES
Released in JP: December 22, 1987
Released in US: July 1990


CopyrightIcon.png This game has hidden developer credits.
RegionIcon.png This game has regional differences.


Developer Credits

The following string is present at 0x187D5 in the Japanese version and at 0x18769 in the US version and is used as a SRAM signature to test the save memory integrity.

H.YAJIMAK.CROSS

Regional Differences

Support for Turbo File Devices

Wizardry1TurboFile.png

The Japanese version of the game has support for ASCII Turbo File devices, which allows players to save their current game state and return to it later, much like savestates. This feature was removed in the US version.

Language Switches

Japan US
Wizardry1JapanSwitches.png Wizardry1USswitch.png

The Japanese version of the game has language switches for various aspects of the game, which were removed in the US.

Different Class Names

Japan US
Wizardry1PriestBishop.png Wizardry1ClericWizard.png

The Priest and Bishop classes were respectively changed to Cleric and Wizard in the US version, possibly due to the religious reference.