Hyper Olympic (NES)

Hyper Olympic for the Famicom is a port of the arcade game of the same name (known outside of Japan as Track & Field) which features 4 different athletic games. The game notably requires use of the HyperShot controller in order to play (not to be confused with the light gun by Bandai also named Hyper Shot). A sequel would release a few months later under the name Hyper Sports, and the two games would later be combined for international release as Track & Field.

Build Dates#

At the beginning of the PRG ROM is an ID string that lists the game version and date.

RC800 1,0 850325

RD001 1,0 861220

Unused Code#

The events are programmed with cycle-timed code to split the screen into 5 independently horizontally scrolling areas. Two of those areas however, the audience and back wall, are always written with the same scroll value. The original arcade version of the game does scroll the audience and back wall at different rates.

Revisional Differences#

To do: Document the changes made in the Genteiban release, which has a different sprite for the player character.

A limited edition version of Hyper Olympic was released called Hyper Olympic Genteiban! which changes the playable character to Ken Shimura's character, Baka Tono-sama.

Title Screen#

Original	Genteiban!

The player character was changed to Baka Tono-sama in the Genteiban! version.

Level Select#

Genteiban! adds a menu to select any of the four events when starting a new game, which is not present in the original Hyper Olympic.