Yu-Gi-Oh! Dungeon Dice Monsters

Yu-Gi-Oh! Dungeon Dice Monsters is a video game adaptation of the failed attempt to make Yu-Gi-Oh about something other than card games... by making it about dice games instead.

While its western release date was two years removed from its Japanese release (where it was a GBA launch title), it would not receive the extra layer of polish other GBA games in the franchise got in return for such delay.

Unused Monsters#

78 unused monsters are present in the game's code but cannot be accessed through normal play. These monsters have no graphics aside from placeholder images, but some have unique abilities. They cannot be put into the player's inventory, but when selecting dice to roll, changing the value at RAM address 0x03001885 to the decimal value of the monster you want will modify the second die selected, allowing you to roll that monster's die. Any monster can then be summoned as usual. The Die Master can also be rolled and has stats, but cannot be summoned. In battle, these monsters show only a glitched Blue-Eyes White Dragon animation.

Regional Differences#

Language Select#

US	Europe

• The USA flag is used to represent English in the North American version. In the European version, the United Kingdom flag is used instead.
• There are more language options in the European version than in the North American version.
• The Japanese version is only playable in Japanese, so there is no language select.

Intro & Title Screen#

Intro (Dark Magician)#

Japan	US/Europe

In the Japanese version, the text behind Yugi says "BLACK MAGIC". In the international versions, it is changed to "Dark Magician". The font is also changed.

Intro (Dark Magician Girl)#

Japan	US/Europe

(After obtaining Dark Magician Girl, she appears in the intro sequence instead of Dark Magician.)

In the Japanese version, the text behind Yugi says "BLACK BURNING". In the international versions, it is changed to "DARK MAGIC" with similar font changes.

Obscured Words#

To do: Check if any of the Japanese words have a special meaning. Confirm that nothing else was removed during this sequence between versions.

Near the end of the Intro, a variety of words in both Japanese and English appear on screen both in-front of and behind a screen full of monsters showing off their dice portraits. Due to the nature of how they appear, in addition to the words only appearing in groups for a few frames before they disappear and a new group appears, most of the words are hard to read in real time. Some of the words appear to not be related to the game at all:

• fetish
• miniskirt
• comicmarket
• DATE
• 1974-5-12.
• ver.GOLD-SILVER
• usr01607_RD1:FF27

Of these, the word fetish was removed from the US and European releases.

Title Screen#

Japan	US	Europe

• In the European version, the Yu-Gi-Oh! logo has been recolored to #FF0000 (red).
• The North American version removes the katakana text from the ribbon. The European version ousts the ribbon entirely.
• "PUSH START BUTTON!" is changed to "PUSH START" in the international versions.
• The copyright info in the Japanese version is different than the international versions.

Name#

Japan	US/Europe

The katakana and hiragana keyboards have been removed.

Revisional Differences#

As noted above, the original US version supports English and Spanish. The Yu-Gi-Oh! Double Pack 2 re-release adds the European version's additional French, German, and Italian translations.