Debug mode on World & All Stars ROM?

[avengah]

I downloaded a SMW & All Stars ROM. During levels, you can select suits by pressing SELECT, and if you hold a button and press SELECT it gives or removes the Kuribo Shoe. Why is this? Is the ROM hacked or does it do this because it detects that it's not a real SNES being used to play it? I'm using ZSNES as the emulator.

Cheers,

Matt

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[Chupperson Weird]

That's a testing feature that they forgot to take out of the game. It's also present in Super Mario All-Stars (without SMW).

Darn. Just another mess o’ Chocolate Pan Dowdy.

[Quasar]

What's most odd is that it's not in ALL versions of the original Super Mario All-Stars. The debug cheat for SMB3 does *NOT* work on my real SMAS cartridge. However, I also have the ROMs of both SMAS and SMAS-SMW, and it works on both of them.

The only plausible explanation is that Nintendo fixed the issue in a second run of SMAS, but that when SMAS-SMW was developed, it neglected to use the appropriate patched source code for the game, and therefore reintroduced the debug cheat.

[Chupperson Weird]

That, and the single copy of the ROM circulating about the 'net is of the first version of SMAS.

Darn. Just another mess o’ Chocolate Pan Dowdy.

[Forest Guy]

Yes. I believe it was present in the very first early version of the game. I'm lucky. I have it. I believe it was in the ones given out by Nintendo for free for some sorta promotion.

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