Tintin in Tibet (SNES)

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Debug Mode#

Press and hold Down, R, L, X, A, Select one at a time at the first screen that appears upon starting the game, or use the Pro Action Replay (PAR) code 7E020602 to activate a debug mode which can be accessed during gameplay by pressing the Select button.

Compteur anim (anim counter) is a running counter that increments once every frame when the game isn't paused.
Tableau lets you select a new level using the D-Pad and warp there with B.
Visu VRAM lets you view the currently loaded sprite graphics.
Type de sol (ground type) shows which type of terrain Tintin is standing on (the most common being 000A for standard floors and 0000 for midair).
Immortalite, when toggled on (marche) and off (arrêt), grants invincibility and unlimited time.
Niveau de difficulte (difficulty level) switches between easy (facile), medium (moyen), and hard (dur) difficulty.

Selecting Reglage couleurs (color adjustment) and then exiting the menu will enable a palette editor.

Left/right: select color to edit.
B + Left/Right: select previous/next palette group (out of 16).
A + Left/Right: adjust current color's red component.
Y + Left/Right: adjust current color's green component.
X + Left/Right: adjust current color's blue component.

Pressing L or R returns to the game.

Affichage (display) collisions, when enabled, adds an in-game collision display. Points are drawn around each sprite to indicate the size and position of its bounding box.

Enabling invincibility also enables this CPU usage meter, which dims a portion of the screen to reflect how much CPU time is currently being used by the game.

(Source: Original TCRF research)

The remaining text is a build date (31 July 1995) and "Fred", referring to programmer Frederic Jay. A similar credit appears in Spirou.

Region Lockout#

If the game detects it is running on a North American or Japanese console, it will lock up on this screen, set to the game over background music.

(Source: Original TCRF research)

Cartridge Header#

Starting at file offset 0x017FC0 is an almost fully-intact cartridge header and vector table from the Super Bomberman 2 ROM. It's not known why it's actually there, or if there is any other leftover data from that game in there.

(Source: Original TCRF research)

v · t · e The Tintin series
SNES	Tintin in Tibet • Prisoners of the Sun
Game Boy	Tintin in Tibet (GB) • Tintin in Tibet (GBC) • Prisoners of the Sun
Genesis	Tintin in Tibet
Game Gear	Tintin in Tibet
PlayStation	Destination Adventure