Night Mission

This is a sub-page of Proto:Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg (GameCube).

The night mission takes place on Pirates Island and is the default mission, accessed by simply pressing start on the demo's title screen. This level is most similar to Mission 1 Save Chicken Elder Uri-Uri! in the final.

While the level takes place at night, it plays an early version of the music the final uses for some day missions in Pirates Island.

Level Differences#

Prototype	Final

Instead of defeating enemies to unlock Uri-Uri's cage like in the final, the prototype has you simply touch an egg pad.

Unseen Details#

The demo doesn't let you explore most of the upper areas due to the second gate remaining closed and there being an invisible wall (as well as no way up) past it. However, using exploits and memory editing, you can reach normally inaccessible areas and explore more of the level.

Interestingly, there's an enemy and egg spawn above where the second gate is. It's also right by a bridge.

There's oddly an invisible rail in the ocean that loops around the level. Once you get on it, there's no way off, since you can't jump off rails and the rail never ends.

There's an enemy spawn in Skull Cave, but there are no eggs.

There's another enemy spawn on the island that leads to the Dark Gate in the final. No eggs are here either.

Perhaps the most interesting detail: a pink Egg Ring! It's found on the faraway skull island, and these don't exist at all in the final. It acts just like the static orange ones in that it doesn't move at all. When you jump with it, it doesn't even give you enough height to get on the platform above (there's nothing up there anyway). Also on this island are eggs that spawn without nests, which act identical to the ones in Mission 2 of Sand Ruin in the final.

Prototype	Final

The exit to Skull Cave is slightly larger and has no wooden frame in the prototype. The lanterns are also further apart.

When you enter through here in the prototype and look back into the cave, there's a wall instead of an entrance on the other side. You can still walk through it, indicating that the exit to the cave wasn't complete yet.

Text Differences#

Menie-Funie's text at the start of the level is a lot different in the prototype. The red font color is different, and there's an additional textbox in the prototype.

Said by the chick in the red cap. There are several grammatical errors in the prototype, and the prototype mentions only a single pirate instead of multiple.

Said by the chick with the white egg shell over its head, who exists in this level only in the prototype.

The chick in the red shirt, who exists in this level only in the prototype, says how to hatch an egg. There's a slip-up in the last text box, as it repeats most of what was just said.

Said by Menie-Funie when touching the Elder's egg. Since this is the second world in the final game, the text is much shorter. Uri-Uri is referenced in a blue font color, which doesn't happen in the final. Funnily enough, the prototype assumes you will read this text in time and will still trigger the cutscene for the first gate opening if you wait long enough, which allows you to move around while the text is still up.

Said by Chicken Elder Uri-Uri when speaking to him after hatching his egg. The prototype mentions he's one of the six elders in Pirate Island, rather than Morning Land as a whole.