Debugging Material

This is a sub-page of Golden Sun.

Several debugging features were left over in the first Golden Sun entry, some more useful than others.

Debug Mode#

Golden Sun contains a debug mode that can be enabled by changing the value at 3001F54 to 01 (for the German version, the address is 3001F64). This enables several hidden features:

In the File Select screen, all saved games display the text "Continue from a Sanctum," and when loaded, the player will start out from the sanctum they last visited before saving the game.
Three new options appear in the Start menu, none of which do anything when selected. All of them have an otherwise-unused trashcan icon. The German and Spanish localisations have text overflow issues.
Holding L allows the player to walk through anything.
Pressing Start + Select pauses the game. In this state, you can press any button to advance frame by frame. Pressing Start returns the game to normal.
Pressing L + R during a cutscene skips all dialogues.

Japanese	English	French

German	Italian	Spanish

Skipping dialogues until a yes/no choice.

Warp Menu#

Press B + Start to open the warp menu, which allows you to warp instantly to any map in the game. Press Up and Down on the D-Pad to switch between selecting the map or the destination point, and Left and Right to increment/decrement the currently-selected one. The menu displays the selected map's name, internal codename, and number. Pressing A warps you to the currently-selected map and destination point, and B closes the menu.

The two debug rooms, "Increase item and level" (id 199) and "Menu test" (id 200) can be reached from this menu.

Flag Menu#

Press B + Select to open the flag editing menu. In this menu, you can use the D-Pad to select a flag, press A to toggle it between 1 and 0, and R and L to move through the different "pages" of flags. Pressing B closes the menu.

Turn on flag 16D in the Flag menu, go in battle, and during the Attack Sequence (or during fleeing) you can do the following:

Press R to destroy the enemy's team.
Press Select + R to destroy your own team.

Palette Debug#

Press L + Start to open the palette editing menu. The menu displays the RGB values of the selected palette. Use the D-Pad to select a value, A and B to increment/decrement it, and R and L to switch palettes. Holding Start makes the currently selected color flash, and pressing Select closes the menu.

Debug Rooms#

Access these debug rooms through the Warp menu, or enter the following master code and one of the debug room codes, then walk through a door to enter the debug room.

Action Replay V1	Action Replay V3	GameShark (Codebreaker)
Must Be On [M]
`72CB4343 F0C15E4F 6F5E501F 7FE05A78`	`D06E067F 8055B26F E0CE785B D8990E3E`	`00009B1A 000A 100036E6 0007`
Room 199: Increase item and level
`DCAC7712 58F48E11 FB09392F 3A30CC7D`	`60FF6450 D96B96FB 4553DE0F 0913E722`	`32000400 00C7 32000408 00C7`
Room 200: Menu test
`32D269FA 3ED79985 19CB68FA 1D7923F2`	`92B5130F 1B7FA51A 0DFA4AD9 3B7A93E7`	`32000400 00C8 32000408 00C8`

Rooms 191 to 198: Test0-Test7#

These are seemingly identical copies of the same empty room. To the right side of the map, there are four Djinn (one of each element), though only two are visible (Venus and Mercury); the other two are outside the bounds of the map, but can be interacted with anyway. Talking to each Djinni will grant the first Djinni of its element (i.e., Flint, Forge, Gust and Fizz).

Room 199: Increase item and level#

Level-up menu, A gives 1 level, Start gives 5.

Consult every Psynergy's data in the game.

The Japanese, Spanish, Italian, and French versions of the game don't have the Psynergy data NPC.

Menardi's feet display a portrait viewer.

The Spanish, Italian, French, and German versions show random texts which distort the screen and even crash the game in the German version.

The English version shows different names for characters, such as calling Jenna by her Japanese name. Some other names don't match the portrait, and this happens in the Japanese version too.

Room 200: Menu test#

In this Debug Room, you control a full party of Adepts, with them all level 30, except for Isaac, who is level 50.

Jenna gives some of the best equipment...

... Including a lot of stat-enhancing items.

Mia on the bottom-left lets you rename Isaac.

Kraden lists your items and their selling price.

Dora gives everyone 7 Djinn, except Ivan who gets 6.

Menardi gives quest items and Psynergy items.

Saturos is evil, he injures your Adepts...

Standard Healer menu, works as intended.

Felix talks a lot. You can stop it by pressing B.