Super Kirby 64
The Kirby franchise got started back in 1992 with Kirby's Dream Land on Game Boy. Since then, there have been a plethora of games that star Nintendo's pink puffball, and Kirby has even branched out and partnered with restaurant chains, apparel, toys, and more.
As one of Nintendo's most iconic characters, fans continue to play Kirby games old and new. In playing through 2000's Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards, one fan recently discovered a cheat that seems to have gone unnoticed for over twenty years.
Inspired by MarioMario54321's Real Super Mario 64 Bloopers.Download link For Behind The Mirror and Fish tank rom:http://www.mediafire.com/download/e2os97ryk7. Super Smash Bros Ultimate x Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards is a DLC pack for Super Smash Bros Ultimate that adds content from Kirby 64 into the game. It features a new fighter, a new stage, and 12 new soundtracks. 1.1 Fighter: Adeleine and Ribbon. 1.2 Reveal Trailer: Artistic. 1.3 Fighter Splash Text: Adeleine and Ribbon Collect their Courage! 1.5.1 Animations. Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards is aplatformer Kirby game developed by HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64. It was first released in Japan on March 24, 2000, in North America on June 26, 2000, and in Europe on June 22, 2001. It is considered the fourth and final installment in the Kirby's Dream Land saga, after Kirby's Dream Land 3. Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards was re. If you enjoyed this game and want to play similar fun games then make sure to play Kirby and the Amazing Mirror, Kirby Super Star or Kirby in Sonic. Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards is a high quality game that works in all major modern web browsers. This online game is part of the Adventure, Action, Emulator, and N64 gaming categories. Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards has 199 likes from 222 user ratings. If you enjoy this game then also play games Kirby and the Amazing Mirror and Kirby Super Star.
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Just a few days ago, a Kirby player uploaded a video on Twitter showcasing what seems to be a brand new cheat for Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards. The trick is to have a second controller plugged into the device and reset the second file to empty. The third file will also need to be at 0 percent. The next step is to hold the L button and then do a specific button combination of C up, C up, R, C right, C left, and then start. If done correctly, the third file should now be at 100 percent completion.
earlier today, someone2639 discovered a hidden cheat code in kirby 64. if you plug in a second controller, then hold L and press C up, C up, R, C right, C left, then start, your third file will have 100% completion. https://t.co/KkVybJgfxx
β πΈ grampy πΈ (@Graample) March 23, 2021The trick does not appear to work on the Wii Virtual Console, but does work on any other device that allows C button mapping, and it works in all regions. There are plenty of Kirbyfans out there, but it seems like this may be the first time this specific cheat has been discovered. The fact that Kirby 64: the Crystal Shards has been around for over two decades and new secrets are just now being discovered is quite remarkable.
Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards is available now on Nintendo 64 and Wii U Virtual Console.
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Also known as: Hoshi no Kirby 64 (JP) This game has unused areas. |
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Eating enemies, floating around, fighting disembodied eyeballs... a Kirby game, except this one is in 3D and you can combine powers.
- 2Unused Graphics
- 4Unused Audio
- 7Unseen Geometry
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Unused Graphics
Early Art
Present at 0x9D8CC0 in the US version is some very, very early art.
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A similar set of portraits can be seen in use in early pre-release shots. Most notably, Kirby's animal friends were apparently meant to be in the game. In the final game, they only appear in a small cameo with the Stone and Cutter combination.
The numbers under 'Kirby 64' could be a date. If so, it would be October 30, 1998, nearly a year and a half before the game's Japanese release. This would also align with the developers stating that they started work on the game shortly before Kirby's Dream Land 3 released in 1997.
Unused HUD
Among the graphics of the different HUD displays is this strange HUD of some sort that might be related to debugging.
Early Popstar Forest Bush
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Hidden outside the skybox in Adeleine's introduction cutscenes are several bushes, one of which uses a different texture from the others. The normal bushes are given color through the use of shaders, but the unique bush has a colored texture. This is likely what all of the bushes in Pop Star stage 2 looked like earlier in development.
Unused Texture Transparency
Two of the textures in King Dedede's castle have transparency data that is not used by the game. The square wave pattern texture, used on multiple walls in the castle, could have doubled as battlements by hiding the top half of the pattern. The stained glass window texture has transparency for all of the black parts, which would allow it to be used as a light effect or allow more detailed wall textures to show through from behind. Early footage of the game shows the textures being used without transparency, suggesting that the change was made early on.
Unused Rock Star Boss Platform Design
The texture used by the ring-shaped platform in the Rock Star boss stage is designed to depict two different materials. However, the model only ever uses the bottom-right half of the texture, leaving the upper-left half unused. The shading suggests that this half may have been intended for the larger portions of the platform. The appearance of the material does not resemble any of the other materials used in any Rock Star stage.
Unused Test Rooms
Enter the GameShark code 810D1F9A ????, where '????' is one of the below. This will replace Pop Star's first level.
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| 1E30 | ABE200 | A plain green room with Adeleine. That's it. |
| 1E54 | ABE100 | A wide open area for testing different kinds of terrain. Each colored square uses a different material, and is labeled in Japanese. There are some occasional blocks. The materials are, from left to right: Ice (γ³γͺγͺ), Snow (γ¦γ), Sand (γΉγ), Wood (γ), Cloud (γ―γ’), Grass (γ―γ΅), Iron (γγ), Mud (γγ), Slippery (γΉγγͺ). |
| 1EE4 | ENETEST1 | Completely empty, so Kirby falls forever in a grey void. The name indicates that it may have been used to test enemy behavior. |
| 1F08 | ENETEST2 | A large room with a high ceiling and a painfully colorful grid on the back wall. The name indicates that it may have been used to test enemy behavior. |
| 1F2C | ITEM01 | A very wide room that contains a lot of food and some Invincibility Candies, Yellow Stars, and Blue Stars. There are blocks and pools of water, but they have no collision. |
| 1F50 | BREAKTEST1 | A basic room with some blocks to jump on. Some kind of broken background effect is used here, causing a white wavy texture to be overlaid in front of everything. |
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On a side note, 1E9C (EXERCISE0) contains the How to Play demo. Interestingly, all the demos are in one room!
Unused Audio
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The Sound Check, available after beating the game, contains a handful of unused tracks. It also lists the game's songs in a different order than the official soundtrack, likely the order they were implemented into the game.
Unused Music
A remix of the first animal friends theme in Kirby's Dream Land 3! It can be accessed as Music 002 in the Sound Check. Given its early placement in the game's files and the presence of the two other animal friends themes as Music 003 and 004 (both used; 003 is used for the Theater menu and 004 is used as a stage theme), they may have been used to test the game's sound format.
The classic victory dance theme of the series. Present as Music 061 in the Sound Check.
A shorter victory dance. Present as Music 062 in the Sound Check, the last entry.
Unused Sounds
γγγ―γ«γ»γΈγ¨ γ‘γγ¬γγ (Iro ha nihoheto Chirinuru wo)
This is present in the Sound Test. It's the first two phrases of the traditional Japanese poem Iroha, the Japanese equivalent to the ABC song, repeated over and over in a sped-up voice. Due to how it ends, it was likely intended for the TVs in Stage 3 of Shiver Star. Present as Sound Effects 395 in the Sound Check.
Crash Debugger
This game has a crash debugger. To open it, crash the game in some way, then enter this button code:
- Z + R + L
- D-Up + C-Up
- A + D-Left
- B + D-Right
- D-Down + C-Down
The crash debugger consists of three pages. Press Z + R + L to scroll through them. The first page displays the type of crash and the registers, the second page displays a stack trace, and the third page displays different contents depending on the type of crash.
The same crash debugger can also be found in Super Smash Bros. and PokΓ©mon Snap, both of which were also developed by HAL.
Debug Save Code
There is a cheat code that will set File 3 to 100% completion, presumably for debug purposes. In order to activate it, make it so the save files are in the following state:
- File 1 - doesn't matter
- File 2 - empty
- File 3 - initialized but not started
Super Kirby 64 Rom
Reset the game, and when the HAL Laboratory and Nintendo logos appear, hold L on the second controller and enter the following button combo: C-Up, C-Up, R, C-Right, C-Left, and Start. The 1-up sound will play, and when you go to the save file screen, File 3 will be set to 100%. This code works on all the known original N64 versions of the game: Japan Rev. 0 through 3, USA, and Europe. It'll also work on the Wii U Virtual Console version but not the Wii Virtual Console or Kirby's Dream Collection versions since the N64 L Button isn't mapped to anything.
You can see the decompiled source code for the function behind this cheat code here.
Unseen Geometry
These models/geometry are used in the game, but cannot be seen through normal means.
Extra Tiny Fence Post
In the cutscene where Kirby meets Ribbon, there is a tiny copy of a fence post present in the scene. The extra fence post, which is smaller and more tapered than the other fence posts in the scene, is floating above the ground to Kirby's left. This tiny fence post is visible in the bottom-left portion of the screen when Kirby runs into the sunrise, showing up as one or two brown pixels just beneath the fence beam.
Super Kirby 64 Rom Hack
Waddle Dee's Rope
Super Kirby 64 Rom Hack
In the rising sand room of the first Rock Star stage, Waddle Dee breaks through the ceiling to give Kirby an exit. Hidden up in the exit hole is a rope model that loads with Waddle Dee. The rope is long enough to reach the floor, but it never moves and is not low enough to be seen. With Kirby's ability to fly, it makes rope unnecessary. Lowering the rope would have given little benefit to the player and would have only slowed down the scene.
Early Dark Matter
In the cutscene after Waddle Doo is defeated, the Dark Matter ball that flies up is a different model from the typical Dark Matter used in other cutscenes. The design resembles Dark Matter's appearance in earlier games, though this exact design is new. The eye is modeled out and protrudes from the body. The whole model uses 512 polygons, which is relatively high-quality for a Nintendo 64 game. Though, some other characters use more.
Regional Differences
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Along with a necessary title change, the two copyrights were merged into a single line in the international version.
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The fourth HUD option in the Japanese version of the game has an appearance similar to Japanese calligraphy, while the international version changes it to a crayon-drawn theme.
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One of the food items is a rice ball in the Japanese version and a sandwich in the international versions, continuing a running theme ofremoving Japanese foodstuffs. Oddly, Waddle Dee still 'eats' an onigiri during the stage-ending picnic sequences in all versions.
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When losing to Boss Battles mode, the Japanese version says You're hopeless... while the international versions change the text to It's hopeless...
| The Kirby series | |
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| Game Boy (Color) | Kirby's Dream Land β’ Kirby's Pinball Land β’ Kirby's Dream Land 2 β’ Kirby's Block Ball β’ Kirby's Star Stacker β’ Kirby Tilt 'n' Tumble β’ Jaguar Mishin Sashi Senyou Soft: Kirby Family |
| NES | Kirby's Adventure |
| SNES | Kirby's Dream Land 3 β’ Kirby's Dream Course β’ Kirby's Avalanche β’ Kirby Super Star |
| Satellaview | Kirby no Omochabako Baseball β’ Kirby no Omochabako Pinball |
| Nintendo 64 | Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards |
| GameCube | Kirby Air Ride |
| Game Boy Advance | Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land β’ Kirby & the Amazing Mirror (Prototype) |
| Nintendo DS | Kirby: Canvas Curse β’ Kirby Squeak Squad β’ Kirby Super Star Ultra β’ Kirby Mass Attack |
| Wii | Kirby's Epic Yarn β’ Kirby's Return to Dream Land β’ Kirby TV Channel β’ Kirby's Dream Collection: Special Edition |
| Nintendo 3DS | Kirby: Triple Deluxe β’ Kirby: Planet Robobot β’ 3D Classics: Kirby's Adventure β’ Kirby Battle Royale |
| Wii U | Kirby and the Rainbow Curse |
| Nintendo Switch | Kirby Star Allies β’ Super Kirby Clash |