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Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap (Game Gear)

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The Game Gear Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap is the second Wonder Boy game for Sega's 8-bit portable and the fourth game overall in the series. (Numbers have always been Wonder Boy's greatest weakness.)

The screen resolution is severely reduced, but on the positive side the charisma stones have been removed.

Present at address $BFF0, and reoccuring every 16KiB until $20000.

(c) 1989 WESTONE

Regional Differences#

In Japan the game was released as Monster World II: Dragon no Wana, making it the second entry in the Monster World sub-series rather than the fourth Wonder Boy game, and the title screen reflects that.

Japan

Europe

Debug Password#

Similar to the Master System version, the Game Gear release contains a hardcoded password alias at $3B2F that lets players enter the unique password WE5T 0NE 0000 000 to start the game at the final level with all equipment and transformations unlocked.

References#


  1. Game Gear Cartridge (Sega release) - Sega Hard Encyclopedia↩︎
  2. The Release Schedule - Computer Trade Weekly, Issue 392, July 20, 1992↩︎