The Lost Vikings (SNES)

The Lost Vikings
Also known as: Viking no Danmeiwaku (JP) Developers: Silicon & Synapse Publishers: Interplay (US/EU), T&E Soft (JP) Platforms: SNES Released in JP: October 8, 1993 Released in US: April 1993 Released in EU: October 28, 1993 This game has unused text. This game has a hidden level select. This game has regional differences. This game has a prototype article This game has a notes page

One of Blizzard's first original, and most fondly remembered titles, a puzzle-platformer where you must guide three Vikings with unique abilities to the end of the level.

To do: The Blizzard Arcade Collection includes level design documents. Create a development page that includes these.

Sub-Pages

Prototype Info

Notes

Unused Text

WHERE ARE WE? KANSAS?

Unused in both the final and the proto. Appears at the very start of all the text in the ROM. It seems like a placeholder for something and is similar to the banter at the start of Level 26 (start of the "Silly" level set) in the final.

GAME OVER

While it is possible to get a Game Over by selecting "no" when prompted to "Try Again?", the game never displays it using the internal ASCII font.

Regional Differences

To do: Screenshots.

• The copyright splash screens were updated.

English	Japanese

The title was changed to something appropriately silly for the Japanese release.

• Title screen and in-game font for western alphanumeric characters is different.
• The number of players is represented by "1" and "2" instead of "ONE" and "TWO".
• The credits, while in English, do not include the Baleog clone's "WATCH FOR THE LOST VIKINGS II". Also, the "The End" graphic has a horrible palette error because of this, loading the Baleog clone's palette instead of the proper palette.

Passwords

The vowels were restored in the Japanese version, and the numbers excised. For the most part the passwords are the same, but ones that used numerals have obviously been changed.

Text

Level	Eng Versions	JP Version
2	GR8T	GRET
5	LLM0	LLMO
6	FL0T	FLOT
13	PHR0	PHRO
14	C1R0	CIRO
23	H0PP	HOPP
25	V8TR	VATR
26	NFL8	NFLT
28	CMB0	CMBO
29	8BLL	ABLL
36	4RN4	ARNA

Level Skip

The Japanese version also has a level skip function, enabled by entering MOMY as a password, then pressing A + B + X + Y during gameplay. The international version does not seem to have an equivalent password, however the level skip can still be enabled by setting RAM address 7E0202 to a nonzero value (e.g. Pro Action Replay code 7E020201).