SimCity (NES)

SimCity
Developer: Nintendo EAD Platform: NES This game has unused animations. This game has unused graphics. This game has unused sounds. This game has debugging material. This game has a Data Crystal page

This game was never completed and/or given a public release. As a result of this, keep in mind that the developers might have used or deleted some of the content featured here, had the game actually been released.

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The NES SimCity was in development alongside the SNES version, with the idea being that they would be exclusive releases for the US and Japan respectively.

The NES version, planned for release in May 1991, was shown off in playable form at the Winter Consumer Electronics Show in January (and notably featured on Video Power during its coverage of that WCES), only to be cancelled soon afterward in favor of focusing on the SNES version (which would now be released internationally).

In 2017, two prototype cartridges surfaced at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo, with a comparison revealing that both carts contained the same byte-for-byte identical build (dated December 20, 1990 according to a label on one of the carts). The ROM was dumped a year later.

To do: More unused graphics, sounds, and other things. Sources: 1, 2, 3

Debug Mode

A small debug mode can be activated by performing the following steps during gameplay:

1. Open any message window (disasters, hints, information, etc.).
2. Press and hold any combination of all four D-Pad buttons on Controllers 1 and 2 (e.g. Up + Left on Controller 1 and Down + Right on Controller 2) as well as A + B on Controller 2.
3. Release all of the above buttons.
4. Press and hold the same D-Pad buttons on Controllers 1 and 2 (e.g. Right on Controller 1 and Right on Controller 2).
5. Press any other D-Pad button on Controller 1.
6. Press A or B on Controller 1 to exit the window.

If done correctly, the message "I AM GODI WISH YOU HAPPY" will scroll across the top of the screen, and the following effects will be available:

• All construction is free.
• All buildings and zones can be built on top of each other.

(Source: SimCity NES Prototype Archive)

Unused Animations

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Four unused animations of Dr. Wright exist in the ROM. All four are used in the SNES version.

(Source: GameHistory.org)