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Psychic World (Game Gear)

A Game Gear port of Hertz's 1988 MSX2 action platformer Psycho World, reduced to only 4 levels compared to the original's 8.

Hidden Menu#

At the title screen, hold Up + Left + 1 + 2 and press Start. The menu will start off on the Sound Test, and selecting ED will switch over to the Level Select. Starting the game from here will also give you all ESP powers and a maxed weapon.

(Source: GameFAQs (Bahn))

Regional Differences#

English Text#

Booting the Japanese version of the game on a non-Japanese console will display the game's text in English. However, the text was slightly rewritten for the actual English release.

Introduction

Japan

International

IN A SCIENCE LAB IN 
THE  MIDDLE OF NO- 
WHERE,DR.KNAVIK DOES 
HIS RESEARCH ON ESP.
IN AN ISOLATED
SCIENCE LAB, DR.
KNAVIK DOES HIS
RESEARCH ON ESP.
THE TWIN SISTERS,
LUCIA AND CECILE
WORK AS HIS ASSIST-
ANTS. 
LUCIA AND CECILE,
TWIN SISTERS,
ASSIST THE DOCTOR
WITH HIS RESEARCH.
ONE DAY A SECTION 
OF THE LAB BLEW UP.
ONE DAY,THERE WAS
AN EXPLOSION AT
THE LAB.
WOW! WHAT WAS THAT?
HOPE CECILE AND DR.
KNAVIK ARE OK.
WOW! WHAT WAS THAT?
I HOPE CECILE AND
DR.KNAVIK ARE OK.
THE MONSTERS THAT WE
KEEP FOR EXPERIMENTS
ESCAPED AND TOOK
CECILE WITH THEM!
THE CREATURES WE
USE FOR EXPERIMENTS
ESCAPED AND TOOK
CECILE WITH THEM!

A large chunk of the intro was rewritten to be more eloquent, though the gist of it all is still the same.

Climax

Japan

International

CECILE!CECILE!
CECILE! CECILE!
DR.KNAVIK WAS USING
US.HE'S GOING TO
USE ESP TO CONQUER
THE WORLD.
DR.KNAVIK WAS USING
US. HE'S GOING TO
USE ESP TO CONQUER
THE WORLD.

Just a couple spaces added between punctuation.

Ending

Japan

International

I STILL CAN'T BE-
LIEVE THAT DR.KNAVIK
WAS AN EXTRA-
TERRESTRIAL.
I STILL CAN'T
BELIEVE THAT DR.
KNAVIK WAS AN EXTRA-
TERRESTRIAL.

ARE YOU ALL RIGHT
CECILE?

YES. HOW ABOUT YOU?

I FEEL LIKE A MIL-
LION DOLLARS.
I FEEL LIKE A
MILLION DOLLARS.

The formatting was slightly adjusted to avoid unnecessary word hyphenation on line breaks.

References#


  1. https://gdri.smspower.org/wiki/index.php/Sanritsu Game Developer Research Institute↩︎