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Pocohontos

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In case you couldn't tell by the name alone, Pocohontos is an unlicensed game based on the Disney movie Pocahontas.

Debug Menu#

Game Genie codes ZAXEPEXY OAXEZAEA EPXEIAEO YLXAIAZS enable a debug menu after reset. Up and Down move the cursor, while Left and Right change the value. B and A increase and decrease the value by 10, respectively.

  • RUN GAME - Starts the game; changing the value changes the level the player starts on. Values beyond 05 will show the ending screen.
  • MUSIC TEST - Plays a music track upon pressing Start.
  • SOUND EFFECT - Plays a sound effect upon pressing Start.
  • LEVEL MAP TEST - Presumably allows levels to be viewed, but only shows garbage if accessed from this menu. An almost-complete level viewer can be accessed by entering a level and changing the System RAM address 021 to the value 03; the coordinates HUD is scrambled, but can be fixed by freezing RAM address 072 to 05.
  • DEMO LEVEL - Plays one of the game's five demos (from 00-04). Values beyond 04 will always play the 1st demo.
  • NNN - There are two of these, neither of which function.

Right before the menu opens, the above copyright message will appear for a couple of seconds. "EI-HOW YANG" is also present here, but it's colored the same as the background.

Functionally, the menu is almost identical to Toy Story and Super Donkey Kong, which were also done by Ei-How Yang.

(Source: Cah4e3)

Demo Record#

Game Genie code GAXEZEGK will re-enable a partially working demo recording menu. Unfortunately, you can't record anything now.

Unused Graphics#

To do:
There might be more.

Stored within the CHR bank for the title screen is, funnily enough, a partially-corrupted Nintendo logo.

Game Genie codes ZLNZKEYZ GESZXOGK will re-enable a "Diesny Interactive" logo at startup. Why it wasn't used is unknown, but it might have been too provocative.

The CHR data for this logo contains a few tiles with the correct "Disney" name, but they aren't used in this tilemap at all. Furthermore, the tiles appear to be misaligned, making them no longer fit with the "Diesny" name.

Stage Select#

Press A + B + Select + Start before the title screen appears. Use Up / Down to select a stage, and press Start to begin.

(Source: Cah4e3)