Super Dropzone (SNES)

Super Dropzone
Developer: Eurocom Publisher: Psygnosis Platform: SNES Released in EU: December 1995 This game has unused text. This game has debugging material.

Passwords

In addition to the regular level passwords, there are four other passwords which have some handy effects in game:

• 41693261: cloaking device lasts twice as long
• 00247227: start with 9 lives and bombs
• 88895288: start with full weapons
• 51853435: enable ingame cheat menu

These passwords stay active after resetting the game, so you can enter any combination of multiple passwords in order to combine their effects.

Cheat Menu

After entering the cheat menu password, pause the game and press L+R to bring up the cheat menu.

"Spare cheat 1" probably doesn't do anything; neither does "display next page". There may have been more entries on this menu during development, or the developers may have just wanted the possibility to include more cheats than they ultimately did.

Unused Passwords

Four additional cheat passwords are present, which set the lower four bits of RAM address 7E029D. However, none of these bits seem to be checked anywhere in the game's code. These passwords are 99643311, 56676799, 44390767, and 36104232.

(Source: Original TCRF research)

Unused Text

This text appears at offset 0x078202 in an unheadered ROM. It was likely used in place of the options screen for easier testing during development.

SUPER DROPZONE
@1994 ARCHER MACLEAN
@1994 EUROCOM DEVELOPMENTS LTD[
INITIAL PLANET:
INITIAL WAVE:
NUMBER OF PLAYERS:
NUMBER OF JOYPADS:
BOSS VIEW MODE:
 TEL 0773 748500 FAX 0773 744892
FINGERPRINT 0A56NOJ77R
IO      
CALLISTO
GANYMEDE
EUROPA  
JUPITER

(Source: Original TCRF research)