Yoshi's Safari

Yoshi's Safari is a first-person Super Scope game where you shoot things, as you'd expect.

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Development Info

Unused Graphics#

An animation of Mario running meant to be for a cutscene, but he never runs on his own.

A sprite of Mario looking down while riding Yoshi, also meant for a cutscene.

Regional Differences#

Japan	International

The Japanese logo appears to be made of wooden planks and has a couple of Bullet Bills forming the dots of the ン kana, whereas the international logo has a simpler bamboo-like theme. The sky was also made a bit brighter.

In the Japanese version, each stage has a standard naming scheme and come in two colors, while the names in the American and European versions have a bit more creativity and come in a singular color. The colors used between versions are consistent, with a few deviations:

• The color schemes for Mushroom Land and Ghost Mansion are switched, and the colors for Mushroom Land are inverted, making it a bit out of place with the rest of the names.
• The color schemes for Grand Bridge and Cornice Cave are also switched. The palette used for Cornice Cave's international name is also slightly different from the one used in Grand Bridge's Japanese name.
• Float Castle Ⅰ gets a unique color scheme in the international versions, rather than sharing Float Castle Ⅱ's as in the Japanese version.
• Dark Sea has a unique color scheme in the Japanese version, but shares Crescent Coast's in the international versions.

Note that the final stage is omitted form this list -- it simply doesn't have a dedicated ranking screen, which is the only place in the game where the stages are named.

Error Messages#

Anti-Piracy#

Yoshi's Safari checks to see if any SRAM is present while booting up. If it detects any form of SRAM, it will throw up a warning screen instead of starting the game. It does this by copying the internal ROM name from $00FFC0 to addresses $700000, $701000, $702000, and so on. It then reads back these values; if any of them are equal to the original string, it will throw the error. Since the game normally has no internal save memory, writing to these addresses would result in no changes.

This check is only implemented in the American and European versions of the game; the Japanese version of this game does not have this check.

Region Error#

Attempting to play the North American or Japanese versions of the game on a European console and vise versa hangs the game on this screen.

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