Shantae TV

This is a sub-page of Proto:Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution.

At the 2003 New York Toy Fair, Jakks Pacific showed off several plug & play demos, Including Shantae TV. Shantae TV was eventually released to the public in the 2024 Wayforward lot, though is currently not emulatable.

"Shantae TV: Plug in and Play!

Shantae makes an appearance at Toy Fair!

Although not a fully green-lit project, Shantae TV was on display at the 2003 Toy Fair running on SunPlus technology. Developed by WayForward, the game fits into a stand-alone controller that plugs directly into a TV through AV cables. The game is for the most part indistinguishable from its GBA counterpart, other than the extra vertical screen space (TV screen is slightly larger than the Game Boy Advance). Whether or not a full project is developed is yet to be seen. The final project would likely be a linear arcade game, and share similarities with the TV Games game/joysticks released by Jakks Pacific this past year. And for the last time, no...there was not a girl dressed up like Shantae at the convention. "

- Official Shantae website, 2004

General Differences#

To do: document everything in the files... or get the game to run

• While both versions of Shantae Advance run at 240x160, Shantae TV would have ran at a resolution of 320x240.
• Compared to the demo, Shantae TV only contains one level.
• There are only 2 background layers instead of 4.

Text#

Credits#

There are credits at 0x9c94.

THE WAYFORWARD STAFF

ANGELICA DANAN 

BRIN & (?)BOZON

EMMA AND TIMMY BECK

NICOLE SLAMER

MICHAEL MORSE

DEBBI CONE

PORAZIK FAMILY

STEVE ANGELES

AND MARIO CLUB!


*THANKS FOR PLAYING!

Unused Text#

There are 2 text lines that are presumably unused at 0xAF1C.

EXAMPLE TEXT LINE1
EXAMPLE TEXT LINE2

Welcome Message#

There is text welcoming the player to the demo, along with telling them how to access the scene menu. This was displayed at the start of the demo, likely via a sign. Located at 0xB012.

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WELCOME TO THE SUNPLUS

SHANTAE ADVANCE DEMO!

PLEASE LOOK AROUND!

PRESS SELECT AND START TO SEE THE SCENE MENU.

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Scene menu#

Scene menu text is located at 0xB976.

WAYFORWARD

TITLE

CREDITS

FOREST

Ripped Graphics#

To do: reverse engineer the sprite format.

While Shantae TV is not emulatable, there have been efforts to extract graphics from it.

Advance	TV

• Same graphic, bigger screen size.

Advance	TV

• Both demos use a large 256 color bitmap for their title screen.
• Battle mode is not in this demo.
• There is no menu cursor for this title screen. Instead, the player is simply requested to press any button to begin.
• Different stock art for Shantae is used. This is notably the same art used in the GBA demo's pause menu and Features screen.

Level Differences#

The only level in this demo is the FOREST level from the original GBA demo, though slightly modified.

Advance	TV

• Only the first layer is included here.
• Shantae TV stores levels as metatile maps, rather than actual proprietary layouts. The map is cleaner cut as a result.
• The level itself is larger, to accommodate the screen size.

Advance	TV

• The forest background is darker. This can also be seen in one of the GBA mockup screenshots.

Music#

Shantae TV contains a remix of "Bandit Town" from the first Shantae game in IMA ADPCM format starting at 0x189E6.