We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story (Game Boy)

We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story appears to be a pretty generic prehistoric platformer based on the movie of the same name. In reality, the game is a reskin of Baby T-Rex, the predecessor to Radical Rex whose regional variants rival those of Kemco's Crazy Castle series.

See also Taz-Mania 2, which is also a reskin of the game but adds slightly more content.

Sub-Page#

Prototype Info

Level Select#

Press Select, Up, Up, Select, Left, Left at the title screen.

Regional Differences#

To do: Add further details on the regional differences, do closer analysis on unreleased Edd the Duck. Do a closer look at ModRetro's re-release of the game.

For reasons unfathomable to the human mind, We're Backǃ A Dinosaur's Story was officially modified and re-released three different times (planned to be four), being altered for pretty much country it was released in.

• Baby T-Rex is the original version of the game, released in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
• We're Backǃ was the US version (also released in Italy), based on the 1993 animated film of the same name.
• Agro Soar was for Australia, and stars famous Australian puppet Agro, who appeared mainly in children's shows including one of his own (Agro's Cartoon Connection). If we go by production dates, this version may have been released first.⁵
• Bamse was released in Sweden, starring the titular Swedish short film & comic bear.
• The unreleased Edd the Duck, starring a British puppet, was supposedly going to be the UK's version of the game.

All of these were eventually ditched in favor of the original Baby T-Rex being re-released by ModRetro.

Each version only replaces the main character and alters the storyline, and occasionally swaps the music cues around. We're Back! and Bamse' do change the antagonist, however, while Agro Soar and Edd the Duck still have Sethron from Baby T-Rex as their villain. All other visual elements remain intact, meaning each one inexplicably takes place in the dinosaur age.

Title Screen#

US/Italy	Germany/World (Re-release)	Australia	Sweden

Cheats#

All versions have the same set of 5 cheat codes to enable various features like infinite lives/projectiles/time, invulnerability, and Level Select.

There are at least two more cheats that have different behaviors between each of the regional versions: Up, B, A, Down, B, A and Left, A, Left, B, Left. Both are meant to display the various sets of the game's cutscenes. However, the only version these cheats actually work on is the Australian one.

• Agro Soar has only the first of these two cheats, the second is not present. Upon entering, it will show you most of the in-game cutscenes as well as the cutscenes for the ending, when you press Start at the title screen.
• Bamse has both of these cheats in the data and checks for them. However, due to a dumb RET patch to the handler which should call the actual cutscene displaying routine, both of these cheats cause the game to hang if you press Start at the title screen. Also, the cutscene displaying routine can show only the very last screen of the ending, there is no coding for displaying cutscenes in sequence. Game Genie code 002-7EF-C4D will restore the broken functionality.
• We're Backǃ has a much more complicated cutscenes display routine at 01:7DDF in the ROM, which has different paths for both cheats: the first one should've shown all the cutscenes in sequence just like the Australian version, the second one should show only the last ending screen. Unfortunately, the caller handler for this routine is completely removed and dummied out, returning control to the title screen and not doing anything with the cheat flags, which causes a permanent loop back to the title screen when pressing Start, rendering the game unplayable if cheats are enabled.

Ending#

The ending for all four versions are completely different from one another.

References#