Battletoads (NES)

Battletoads
Developer: Rare Publishers: Tradewest (US/EU), Masaya (JP original), Columbus Circle (JP rerelease) Platforms: NES, Unlicensed NES Released in JP: December 20, 1991 (original), 2021 (rerelease) Released in US: June 1, 1991 Released in EU: February 18, 1993 This game has unused music. This game has regional differences. This game has revisional differences. This game has a prerelease article This game has a Data Crystal page

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Battletoads is a super-challenging action game with various styles of gameplay (fighting, platforming, racing, etc.) and excellent graphics. Oh, and there's a massive bug in two-player mode.

Both this game and its arcade sequel were resurrected in Rare Replay for the Xbox One, nearly 25 years later.

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Prerelease Info

Regional Differences Starring a beatable Turbo Tunnel!

Unused Music

Track #8 on the NSF. Unknown purpose, though probably for Level 5 (Surf City) or Level 9 (Terra Tubes) since they're the only two stages that share background music.

(Source: FlyingOmelette)

While not entirely unused, you normally only hear about half (or less) of the post-level theme during normal gameplay. The second half of the song is not present in any other version of the game.

Revisional Differences

In late 2021, a Japanese company named Columbus Circle re-released the Japanese version of Battletoads. Only a couple of things were changed, however.

1991	2021

The Masaya Games logo was updated to match its current design.

1991	2021

A line of copyright text for Extreme (the holding company of Masaya Games) and Columbus Circle was added to the title screen, resulting in the rest of the text (minus the options) being moved up a bit.

To do: Figure out what this is/does?

Lastly, what appears to be an English character map located at $031BC0 was shifted and changed slightly. Characters in red denote the ones changed between versions.

Contents of $031BC0 (hexadecimal numbers)

1991	2021
42 51 50 52 53 54 54 0C 05 3C 00 2C 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 2D 2E 2F 00 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 3A 3B 3C 3D 3E 3F 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 4A 4B 4C 4D 4E 4F 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 50 00 00 0A 03 9E 51 09 06 02 3F 3F 84	42 51 50 52 53 54 54 0C 05 3C 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 2C 2D 2E 00 00 00 00 2F 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 3A 3B 3C 3D 3E 3F 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 4A 4B 4C 4D 4E 4F 00 50 00 51 00 52 00 53 0A 03 9E 54 09 06 02 3F 3F 84

Contents of $031BC0 (ASCII characters)

1991	2021
BQPRSTT..<.,.... ......-./.012345 6789:;<=>?@ABCDE FGHIJKLMNO...... ...P.....Q...??.	BQPRSTT..<...... ......,-...../01 23456789:;<=>?@A BCDEFGHIJKLMNO.P .Q.R.S...T...??.