Guerrilla War (NES)

Guerrilla War
Conosciuto anche come: Guevara (Giappone) Sviluppatore: SNK Publisher: SNK Piattaforma: NES Rilasciato in Giappone: 26 Dicembre 1988 Rilasciato negli Stati Uniti: Giugno 1989 Rilasciato in Europa: 1989 Questo gioco ha un messaggio nascosto dello sviluppatore. Questo gioco ha crediti nascosti degli sviluppatori. Questo gioco ha modalità / minigiochi inutilizzati. Questo gioco ha grafiche inutilizzate. Questo gioco ha un menu di selezione dei livelli nascosto.

Guerrilla War is (more or less) an NES port of the arcade game of the same name. Any similarities to the Cuban Revolution are purely coincidental.

Cough.

Hidden Text

Some messages from the programmers are located at 00F8BD (US version) and 00FB8F (Japanese version) in the ROM:

APO? mess       
DaDi DaDaDa DaDi
ATHENA ikima--su
MARIchan muzukas
hikute wakanna-i
Ganbarima-----su
Ti-----me Girl!!
Fight ! Fight !!
HoHoHoHoHoHoHoHo
Knt mess        
NIKAGETSU DE TSU
KKUTTAN DAZO-   
HOMETE HOMETE   
3/9/88 20:0     
BUG GA DEMASSEN 
YOUNI ....

Original		Translated
ATHENA ikima--su	ATHENA 行きます ATHENA ikimasu!	Athena, ready to go!
MARIchan muzukas hikute wakanna-i	マリちゃん難しくてわかんない。 MARI-chan muzukashikute wakannai.	Mari-chan is tough. I don't understand her!
Ganbarima-----su	がんばります！ Ganbarimasu!	I'll do my best!
NIKAGETSU DE TSU KKUTTAN DAZO- HOMETE HOMETE	二ヶ月でつっくたんだぞ！ほめてほめて。 Nikagetsu de tsukkutan da zo! Homete homete.	I managed to finish this game in 2 months! Let's hear it for me!
BUG GA DEMASSEN YOUNI ....	バグがでまっせんように... BUG ga demassen you ni...	I hope there aren't any bugs...

(Translation: GlitterBerri)

Knt is the main programmer, Yukio Kaneda. APO's identity is unknown.

"Athena, ready to go!" (± some words) is a line from Psycho Soldier, another SNK game.

Level and Difficulty Select

Hold A + B when selecting the number of players for this menu, with a difficulty and stage selection. Note that all stages except the last are accessible here.

Hidden Initials

These hidden powerups in stage 3 are arranged to spell out the developer/publisher name (SNK) and the main programmer's pseudonym (KNT). Note that some of the powerups may fail to spawn due to sprite overload.

Powerups

• K - Kill all enemies on the screen.
• N - +1000 pts.
• S, T - Weapon pickups.

Regional Differences

Sasuke vs. Commander

A minigame based on Sasuke vs. Commander, an early SNK arcade game, is hidden inside the Japanese version. To access it, do the following:

1. At the player selection screen, hold A + B and press Start to trigger the Level and Difficulty Select cheat.
2. Set to stage 5.
3. Now, hold Up + A + B on controllers 1 and 2, and then press Start on controller 1.

The ROM also includes the necessary font and space in the side bar for a score, an alternate screen layout, and multiple frames of animation for Sasuke and the ninjas, but none of it was used. It's likely that the developers had planned a more full-fledged port, but simply ran out of time.

Most of the game's graphics and screen layouts remain in the US ROM, but the program code was either disabled or removed.

To do: explain, maybe it does more

While the game does not display your score, the main game will display it in place of your high score.

Credits

The North American version changed Fly Garuda to Ninja Sasuke, and added Uncle Boo Boo.

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