Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon (Genesis)

Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon
Developers: Arc System Works, TNS Publisher: Ma-Ba Platform: Genesis Released in JP: July 8, 1994 This game has unused graphics. This game has unused music. This game has unused sounds. This game has a prerelease article This game has a bugs page This game has a Data Crystal page

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Prerelease Info

Bugs

Unused Graphics

To do: look through a ton of unused uncompressed character data. find potentially unused tilemaps.

Eyecatch

An unseen full body model, likely intended for a similar feature to what was scrapped from the SNES game. This sprite features underwear, instead of the SNES game's... rather less modest approach. The final game only has the Sailor Guardian and civilian costumes available.

Usagi	Ami

Curiously, Usagi and Ami's civilian outfits have the shoes separated from the rest of the sprite, most likely for a cheat similar to the SNES game.

Unused Sprites

Sailor Moon	Sailor Mercury	Sailor Mars	Sailor Jupiter

Odd tiles found in the sprites of each Sailor Guardian's sprite, with the exception of Sailor Venus.

A copy of Makoto's arm.

Eyecatch Oversight

Luna/Artemis	Phobos/Deimos

An oversight causes the first frames of Luna, Artemis, Phobos, and Deimos' animations to never be shown.

Placeholder Icons

These obvious placeholder icons are loaded into VRAM.

Font

A hexadecimal font loaded in VRAM.

Numbers

Unmodified HUD number sprites. The used sprites scale the width to 16 pixels.

Unused Character Icons

Sailor Mercury	Sailor Mars	Sailor Jupiter	Sailor Venus

While Sailor Moon's fourth icon is used, the other Guardians have equivalents that just never appear. Notably, Jupiter's icon is flipped, and Mercury's icon has three dark blue pixels in her mouth, likely as her palette has no light pink equivalent.

Stage 3-1

To do: find potentially unused tilemaps or make a mmockup. The closest reference for the car tiles was an S13 Silvia.

Two leftover 64x64 tilesets of a forest background.

An unused set of tires for the truck, most likely used for an animation.

Mockup of the full truck sprite (palette line 2).

Unused tiles of a car (palette line 1), meant to go along with the trucks. They were possibly meant to be overlaid with trees(?) (palette line 2), related to the leftover backgrounds.

Stage 4-1

A simple M grapic.

Hidden Details

Intro

In-Game	Full Tilemap

This graphic of Sailor Moon in the intro has more tiles for her hair than the 320-pixel screen width can display.

Transformation

In-Game	Modified

The palette for the transformation background used to have more shades of pink. The right image is a mockup.

Stage 5

In-Game	Modified

The palette for Stage 5-1 (D-Point) used to have more colors for the reflection tiles. The right image is a mockup.

Unused Sound Effects

Sound	Sound ID	Notes
	$B3	A saw sound.
	$B4	Another saw sound.
	$B5	Ditto.
	$B7	An alternative version of the sound for the coffee shop door in Stage 1-1.
	$B8	Another alternative version of the sound for the coffee shop door in Stage 1-1.
	$BA	The sound of a vehicle passing by. May belong to Stage 3-1.
	$BB
	$BD
	$BE
	$C3	A beep.
	$C7	Another beep.
	Unreferenced (0x2DA32-0x2DA61)	A waterfall sound, also heard in the Sonic the Hedgehog Prototype and Michael Jackson's Moonwalker.
	Unreferenced (0x2DA62-0x2DA8F)	A loop of white noise.
	Unreferenced (0x2DA90-0x2DADB)	A pounding sound, also found in the Sonic the Hedgehog Prototype and Michael Jackson's Moonwalker.

Unused PCM Voices

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Character	Sound	Sound ID	Description
Usagi		$CC	(Unknown) Source unknown.
Usagi		$D2	"Nakayoshi!" Ported from the SNES game.
Usagi		$D3	(Unknown) Ported from the SNES game.
Youma 1		$F2	Most likely used for hitting an enemy. A scream from this set would end up being used.
Youma 2		$F4	Most likely used for defeating an enemy. A scream from this set would end up being used.
Youma 3		$F6	Most likely used for hitting an enemy.
Youma 3		$F7	Most likely used for defeating an enemy.
Youma 4		$F8	Most likely used for hitting an enemy.
Youma 4		$F9	Most likely used for defeating an enemy.

Oddities

Stages seemingly designed without black bars

Some stages seem to be done without the H-Int black bars in mind.

Title Background Error

An odd sprite error seen on the Moon Kingdom, the top of the castle is a seperate sprite and seems to be done differetly and a bit misaligned.

Stray Pixels in character select

In-Game	Sprite

There are a bunch of stray pixels on the portrait border.