EarthBound Battle Debug Menu Found

Omygosh! New things discovered all the time. I love Earthbound 8)

Awesome. This is just awesome. I hope they find out how to duplicate whatever triggered the debug menu without hacking again.

and how long scince the original debug menu was this battle debug mode hidden. rediculous if you ask me 🙂

This is really cool, and I think your idea about the SNES games glitching out due to age is probably right. It’s either that, or the console is going bad. I’ve had some weird glitchy stuff happen with my SNES games, from minor graphical glitches, to more advanced graphical glitches that make the game unplayable. I wish there was a known way to prevent it, because it may mean that sometime down the line cartridge-based games will cease to function. 🙁

I effectively know nothing of game programming so forgive me if this sounds naive but I am constantly surprised how much material is left in some of these old retro games. Especially considering that cart space is so notoriously limited that you’d think the devs would take out every last bit of extraneous information. With this in mind what are the chances that a hidden “room” or strange un-used character will be discovered somewhere in the deep bowels of the EB or MOTHER 2 ROM?

zedrien: I am guessing three reasons for extra content found in old games. 1. It is easier to disable access than it would have been to remove the debugging menus. 2. Since cartridges come in several fixed sizes, there probably is extra space for things like this. 3. Programmers/game designers are human too and like to throw in extra things, as long as they don’t get in the way (like the hidden Mr. Saturn in a Brawl texture and the secret rice ball in Onett).

Earthbound needed a larger cart size than initially anticipated because more was going into it than originally expected, so there probably was several kilobytes left over.

Mother 3’s cart is HUGE (the biggest possible for a GBA cart; 256 megabit or 32 MB), so it easily fits extra graphical data. (talking about extra graphical data, I recall one GBA game having a few JPEGs on it as filler, can’t remember the name though)

E-Mug packaging: LEAKED 😀

In most cases it’s the whole “No one has the ability to find these, so…”

wow it seems there is still secrets in the darkist deepist parts of the game. intersating

I just love stuff like this! 🙂

Maybe it’s because of the names used? I doubt it, but it’s worth a try.

I have to say, this was pretty awesome. And that’s an understatement.

Looks like the Video Relaxant is not only one removed item.

Probably cartidge tilting

Didnt know it worked with SNES tho

Get infinite ROCK CANDYS!

The part when it all glitches out makes me think: Are some of those “glitch-outs” be unused PSI animations?
PSI Hack Alpha?

3 words, THIS IS AWESOME!