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Chack'n Pop (NES)

Possibly the only case where the SG-1000 port of a game was better than the Famicom release.

Unused Graphics#

The Famicom Chack'n Pop was quite a bit downgraded from the arcade original, simplifying many sprites and removing all of the cutscenes. However, virtually all of this content - save for the marriage cutscene - is present in the game's CHR data. These graphics are most likely unused due to lack of PRG space (or something similar), though the true reasoning is unknown.

Mighta, who appears incredibly tiny in-game, has much larger, unused sprites resembling those in the arcade version. The first graphic has been partially overwritten with the smaller Mighta sprites, which also seemingly overwrote another large Mighta sprite entirely.

Unused sprites of Chack'n facing forward.

Graphics of Miss Chack'n who, due to being a cutscene character only, isn't present in the Famicom port at all.

A giant Chack'n from the cutscenes.

A giant Monsta from the cutscenes, along with a chewed-up Chack'n that is way more disturbing than it has any right to be.

Some backwards-facing Monstas from the balloon cutscene.