Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters

Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters is the second Yu-Gi-Oh! video game.

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Prerelease Info

Erase Save File#

Press Down, Up, B, Down, Down, Right, Up (×4), B + Down at the title screen. A sound effect will confirm correct entry. Reset your game and everything will be gone.

Disable SGB 2 Handling#

Press Left, B (×3), Up, B, B, B + Right at the title screen. A sound effect will confirm the password input. The message preventing you from accessing Versus Mode on Super Game Boy 2 will disappear, and the sound effects specific to the Super Game Boy will not play anymore.

Card Password#

Press Up, Down, B, Down, Down, B + Up, B at the title screen. The B + Up input must be performed frame-perfectly for the game to count it (both buttons must be pressed on the same frame). A new screen will appear, where Yami Yugi will ask you to enter a valid password. The following passwords give you cards that can only be obtained this way:

Event-Exclusive Cards#

The game contains 365 cards, 350 of which are obtainable through normal gameplay. Nine of the remaining cards can be obtained via the above passwords, but the other six were only available in Japan during February 1999 as Duel Monsters National Tournament prize cards:

Yamadron and Millennium Shield can be traded back from Duel Monsters II: Dark Duel Stories, while the remaining four can be traded back from Duel Monsters III: Tri-Holy God Advent or Duel Monsters 4: Battle of Great Duelists.

Build Date#

Present at 0x1065C.

« 98 10 10 KONAMI »

This string is written to the save file upon creation. When loading a save file, the game looks for the string to determine if save data exists.

Early Days Collection#

Splash screens#

The third splash screen at game startup has been disabled.

Card Password#

The Password screen is now reached by pressing Select, and the button password from the original release to access this screen has been disabled. The new English passwords are as follows:

For the passwords with a space character, you need to delete a character after typing out the password with any character replacing the space.

At some point after initial release, a version update to the Early Days Collection broke these passwords, and even the ones without spaces no longer work, although the Collection's 'enhancement' function to obtain all cards still works. It is unconfirmed if the Japanese password is still work. please note that Whilst the current Japanese Version's It is still the case that different passwords work in English and Japanese, but, As with changes to other language versions, this feature means that the English Password is No Longer available in Other Languages, Including French.

Please elaborate. Having more detail is always a good thing. Specifically: expand on this, which version?

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