Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (Game Boy Color)

Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
Developer: Titus Interactive Studio Publisher: Titus Platform: Game Boy Color Released in EU: September 14, 2001 This game has a hidden developer message. This game has unused text. This game has debugging material.

Hercules: The Legendary Journeys is the companion game to Xena: Warrior Princess, the two of them can link up together allowing you to transfer equipment between games and even play as Hercules in Xena and vice versa. Unfortunately for American players though, Hercules was only released in Europe.

Cheat Code Menu

A cheat menu can be accessed by entering :) :) as a file name, then pressing Select while in the inn at the start of the game.

Missions

This screen allows the games 5 missions to be toggled on and off. Press A to toggle a mission on and B to toggle a mission off. Note that toggling a mission on also toggles on all earlier missions and toggling off a mission also toggles off all later missions.

The Inventory

This screen toggles the items that are/aren't in Hercules' inventory.

More Fun

This screen contains five self-explanatory cheat options.

(Source: Original TCRF research)

File Name Cheats

This needs some investigation. Discuss ideas and findings on the talk page. Specifically: What do all the nicknames do?

A set of developer nicknames can be found at 0x8F51A. They seem to trigger special effects when used as the filename, for example, STUFFY starts the player with 99 coins.

STUFFY
CRYCAT
OKARIO
DYLAN$
BRIAN>
CARLA:
:) :) 

Stuffy, Crycat, and Okario refer to programmers Raphaël Grouchetzky, Emmanuel Faria, and Frédéric Lasseret, respectively.

Developer Message

Found at 0x7E76C, right after the credits text.

Original	(Rough) translation
JE DEDIE CE JEUX A MES FILS, POUR QUE LA MAGIE LES GUIDES SUR LES CHEMINS DE L'IMAGINAIRE, LA OU LEUR REVES EN FERONT UN MONDE QUI LEUR APPARTIENDRA.	I DEDICATE THIS GAME TO MY SONS, SO THAT MAGIC GUIDES THEM ON THE PATHS OF IMAGINATION, WHERE THEIR DREAMS WILL MAKE A WORLD THAT WILL BELONGS TO THEM.

Hidden Text

The save file contains the following string.

YES
TITUSNEW