Army Men: Sarge's Heroes (Nintendo 64)

First release in a trilogy of "Sarge" games in the Army Men series which were ported excessively. Frustrating for its poor collision, slow-as-molasses controls and poorly-functioning radar, and its tendency to kill you near the end of very long levels without extra lives or a way to continue.

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Notes

Debug Menus#

Main Debug Menu#

A debug menu is present in the game, however it is missing several key functions for it to work properly. Firstly, it is missing the controller routines which would allow you to enter the options and scroll through the menu. It also appears to be missing sub-function calls to the sub-menus as well. There are several uncalled functions still in the game that relate to this menu in some way. For those that are curious, you can visit that game's notes page to view these functions.

The below code replaces the mini map in-game with the debug menu.

Cheat Menu#

A cheat menu can be enabled with the GameShark code and pausing during gameplay.

Test Menu#

An unreferenced test menu can be re-enabled with the below code. This replaces the Cheat Menu in the above section.

Level Select Menu#

An unreferenced level select menu can be re-enabled with the below code. This replaces the Cheat Menu in the above section. This was likely going to be used with the unused all levels password.

Debug Display#

Enter THDTST as a cheat. Once entered, the message "Test Info" will be displayed, confirming the code input.

Here's an overview of what these values refer to:

The alternate X/Y/Z positions track certain parts of the player's body, whereas the main set refers to the entire body.

Disabled Passwords#

Present in the ROM are five additional passwords that are dummied out thanks to an inability to enter lowercase characters. To re-enable these, remove the three lowercase Zs. Interestingly, the "All Levels" cheat is displayed after finishing the final level, complete with the three Zs at the beginning. This seems to indicate that either this cheat was intended to be revealed when you beat the game, or that the devs were so bad at coding they didn't bother to bugfix the password list for the last level. The All Levels cheat seems incomplete, and doesn't appear to do anything but take you to the final level. The Continues cheat also seems unfinished and doesn't appear to do anything; you certainly don't resurrect or get another chance when dying or failing in Campaign missions. The "Living Large" cheat has (even worse) serious collision issues and you can actually get completely stuck climbing up ledges.

Alternately, you can apply the following GameShark code to re-enable all of the above cheats. Omit the lower case z's when inputting them.

810989EC 444E
810989EE 5354
810989F0 484D
810989F2 4E00
81098A14 4D4D
81098A16 5254
81098A18 4C00
81098A40 434E
81098A42 544E
80098A44 0000
81098A54 444E
81098A56 4C56
81098A58 5348
81098A5A 5346
80098A5C 0000
81098AF8 4C56
81098AFA 4E47
81098AFC 4C52
81098AFE 4700

Unused Graphics#

Transceiver#

This is an unused icon of what appears to be a radio transceiver in which Sarge is able to use to communicate with Grimm when equipped, but as Sarge is able to use it automatically in some of the cutscenes in the final game, that function is now scrapped and unused.

Build Date#

Unused Weapon Type#

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Present in the game is a weapon named "Binoculars". The Binoculars are used in the Playstation version of the game, functioning as expected and allowing the player to see far away. For whatever reason, (perhaps because of this port's improved draw distance) they weren't carried over to this version of the game, but it seems some data remains. Apply the below code to replace the M16's bullets with Binocular bullets.

Unused Text#

The below text are referencing more cheat menu options that are no longer in the game.

0x800a5b08 SELECT LEVEL
0x800a5b18 NEXT LEVEL
0x800a5ab4 TIN SOLDIER
0x800a5ac0 SUPER SARGE
0x800a5a6c FIRST PERSON
0x800a5b90 TIMING BARS
0x800a5b80 TARGET CURSOR

Reset Position#

Pressing R + L + C-Down during gameplay will reset your position to the last checkpoint. You can also use this in multiplayer.