Earthworm Jim (Genesis)

A Lumbricus terrestris in a robotic suit faces off against the likes of a mad scientist with a simian fused into his crown, an alien made of snot and a hideous queen with a gigantic gastropod mollusc for buttocks.

It could only be Earthworm Jim, or perhaps one of its sequels...

GROOVY!

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Prototype Info Great Earthworm Jim RaceA short but even more difficult revision made for a Sega Channel contest.

Unused Music#

This short upbeat jingle is supposed to play during the game over screen, just like in the other versions. Amusingly, this jingle was used in the Sega CD port during loading screens.

In this version, as well the Sega CD port, the game over screen uses the somber jingle played when you choose NO in the continue screen or lose against Psycrow in any Andy Asteroids level, along with Jim complaining instead.

Cheats#

Function 0x24b88e compares joypad input against a table of cheat codes at offset 0xc372. Each table entry consists of an 1-byte id followed by 8-bytes, where each byte maps to a button combination.

David Perry's Private Cheat Mode#

A debug mode still exists in Earthworm Jim. It displays information about how much memory is used by the game, as well as its build date. During game play, pause the game and enter the following code: Left + A, B, B, A, Right + A, B, B, A.

A screen showing the Shiny Entertainment staff will appear as Jim called the player "Cheater!", followed by the debug menu.

North America	Europe

The European version of the game was built three days after its North American counterpart.

Fake Cheat#

Exclusive to the European version is a screen that mocks the player and then resets the game. During game play, pause the game and enter the following code: A, C, A, A, C, C, A, B.

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