Rakugakids

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Rakugakids is a kids-oriented fighting game where six kids (Andy, DDJ, Nola, Jerry, Clione and Roy) find magic crayons and use them to make their drawings come to life in order to stop Val and George. Think of it as Konami's take on Pocket Fighter.

Unused Character#

Unused Character ID#

In memory, each character is assigned a value from 00 to 09.

Forcing the game to load one of these values will cause you to spawn as them regardless of who you pick on the character select screen.

04 isn't assigned to any character in the retail game however, and the game crashes when attempting to load it.

Unused Character Tile#

On the loading screens between matches, tiles of the characters faces will fill the screen depending on who you're playing as.

Conveniently placed between Marsa and C.H.O's tile textures in memory (the two characters surrounding ID 04) lies something very interesting:

Huh, they look familiar... It's that teased skateboarding character that appears after the credits!

Looks like he was intended to be playable at one point but was ultimately scrapped for unknown reasons.

Unused Voice Clips#

Astronots#

An alternate take of Astronots getting hurt.

Captain.Cat.Kit#

Partially unused, as Cat.Kit's voice clip for when he gets defeated is cut off in-game.

Cat.Kit saying "Hey Ho". Watch your language!

Marsa#

An alternate take of Marsa getting hurt.

Regional Differences#

Controller Pak Screen#

Japan	Europe

Title Screen#

Japan	Europe