Prehistorik Man (SNES)

A fairly mediocre platformer that unusually gives the player a huge amount of continues (a whopping 16) to beat the game.

Level Select#

Japan	US/Europe

In the Options menu, highlight Exit, hold L, and press Start. Next, at the title screen, highlight Game Start, hold R, and press Start. Finally, during gameplay, press Select to skip to the next level or pause and press Select to access the level select screen. The international versions adds the title screen background to the level select.

Error Messages#

These error messages have slightly different spacing between lines in the Japanese version.

Anti-Piracy#

Japan	US/Europe

At bootup, the game will attempt to write two bytes of values to SRAM at $70007B and if the write is successful, this will result in a mismatch that leads to the game hanging on the above message. An official cartridge contains no SRAM, so this write will do nothing but cartridge copiers always have SRAM present.

Region Error#

Japan	US/Europe

Attempting to run the North American version on a European console and vice versa will display the above message on boot.