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There was a cheat code. which has since come to be known as The Konami Code, where you can start off with 30 Lives instead of 3.

At the Title Screen. Push Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start.

The same cheat code was also used in Gradius before Contra was release on NES.

During the cutscene where you inquire the location of a jet fighter in Jowai Resort, one of the subtitles for the Resort owner's dialogue reads "Hold on hold on, I can see that you really want to fly our jet so I'll tell you what. Go talk to Bob at his Roboshack. He knows about these locks". The "Hold on Hold on" part of this sentence was omitted in spoken dialogue.

If the player attempts to enter The Safari Zone without sufficient money to enter enough times, the worker who lets you in will take pity and allow you to enter with one safari ball. This was not an interaction in Pokemon Red & Blue and exists as a way to prevent the player from progressing in the game as a result of being unable to acquire enough money to get the HM03, surf, which is found in the park.

The models who portrayed the babes in the game were uncredited. These are the following babes who's models have been confirmed:
*Lola, played by Peita Jade Breese
*Rebel, played by Victoria Ferrara
*Sparkles, played by Jakita Saint-Trelour

The Joy-Cons featured in the digital tutorials feature fully modeled interiors, despite these not being visible without orienting the camera to clip into the Joy-Con models.

Within the game's data is an unused conversation between Seymour Skinner and Agnes Skinner. It is about an answering machine message. This is the transcript:
Seymour: "You have reached the Skinner residence. Please leave a concise message at--"
Agnes: "Seymour! What are you doing?"
Seymour: "Recording an outgoing answering machine message."
Agnes: "Without my permission? You're grounded!"
A modified version of Agnes' last line here can be heard in Level 7's ghost playgrounds, but it is hard to hear.

In the Game Boy Color version, entering Left, Up, B, A, Right at the records screen will take the player to a hidden menu where they can use the sound test and a graphics viewer.

The frog's in-game models appear to be completely different in both single-player and multiplayer modes.

There is some rather vulgar anti-piracy text left in the game's files that states:

"Yo buddy! I don't know and I don't care how and why are you here,
I just want to give you a few advises in case if you're here to CRACK
this stuff.Well,in every 80 seconds a man is murdered,and in every 10
seconds another one of our PROTECTION-STAGES starts. In other words,
you can be sure that you will NEVER have a WORKING CRACK of PERIHELION.
(WANNA BET?) Of course you're proud and you'll try (I too would try)
but you will fail because you won't even realize where did ya fail,
what's the problem,what is PROTECTION and what is not.Phew,that's life!
Will you play it over a dozen times? IT WON'T WORK! Will you release
a fuckin' dying half-crack? WHAT A SHAME! Relax honey,you're gonna
suck up not because you're SOOO LAME,but because WE ARE SOOO GOOD!
Right? Well,that's all for today,now go back to your childish toys
and let's see how our computerized insecticide works on parasites like
you. By the way,did ya know that PIRACY IS THEFT? Oh,surely not,sorry...
Now at least you cannot say we didn't warn you... SIGNED: MORBID VISIONS"

The Hasbro logo is noticeably desynchronized in terms of both the audio, and video.

The Hasbro Interactive logo that plays in the PC version is desynchronized in both the video being slower than normal, and the audio starting later.

The opening of the game features Goku fighting Vegeta in Saiyan Saga outfit, however that outfit isn't available for Vegeta in the game.

Rather than streaming audio files, the music for Haunting Ground was generated by using the PS2's built-in sounds. This way, the composers could easily change the tempo of the music during gameplay.

In the game's files is a rather nasty message to pirates:

Well, well, well. What can I write in this sector ?
I could tell you nosy sods to bugger off.
Hmmm, OK then ... BUGGER OFF YOU NOSY SODS !!!!!!!!

Copy this disk and your knob will fall off.
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
Don't come running to me with your meat and two veg !

I was only joking - honest ....
BYE BYE. See you on the next game"

In the Amiga version of the game's files contains a message for people who attempt to pirate the game:

"Line Of Fire was written by Richard Aplin for Creative Materials &
U.S. Gold from July-November 1990.

;Dear Cracker,
;To save you time, simply fill in the appropriate lines below..

type "Line Of Fire!
type " Cracked by the utterly amazing and fab _________ of _______!"
type "Hot greets to _____ and _____!!"
type "Lamings and slaggings to _____ of _____ and _____!!!"
type "Call our BBSs on ____-______ and ____-______ for the latest warez!"
type ""
type "I am a sad and immature spotty little twat because _______________."
type "I crack games for free as I have no friends"
type "and am physically repulsive to females because of my chronic _______."
type "I hate my parents because they _____ and make me tidy me room even"
type "when I have been at kindergarten the whole day."
type ""
type "I have played with myself ____ times in the past 24 hours"
type "and have wet dreams about ________ from Neighbours."
type ""
type "The last Kylie Minogue record I brought was ________ and I think"
type "she's lush and fab and ace and wicked because she's _________ and I fancy her."
type ""
type "Press right button for trainer, left for normal. Probably."
Crap_Demo_That_Crashes_Half_The_Time_And_Has_A_Sprite_Starfield_Oooh_How_Original
run Corrupt_loads_of_memory_all_over_the_place
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*If you are under 14 or have a Datel Action Replay, you may not read further*
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Right that's that over with.





Firstly....
For those who might possibly be interested, rather than those who just want
to hack the program to bits....

Sega wouldn't let us have ANY credits on the game, so I thought we might
as well put some here.

I (Richard Aplin) wrote the Amiga and ST versions (though at the time of writing
- 12th Nov.1990 - I haven't started the ST conversion yet!)
I much prefer the Amiga (doesn't anyone?) so I have done that version
first, using all the extra hardware, then i'm going to bang out the
ST version when necessary.


"Uncle Art" (actually a limited company!) did the (not very good) music.
- Oh yeah.. Apologies and sympathy to Uncle Tom (the person!) for the
fuck up with his amazing Double Dragon II music!


The bitmap graphics were grabbed from the arcade PCB video output by Andy Heike
and Nick Vincent with the colour frame grabber, and the sprites were read,
decoded and converted from the arcade machine's Eproms by me. (Not a bit
of bloody help from Sega either!) They were remapped from 21 million to 16
colours by Andy Heike, Nick Vincent, and some students in Manchester.

I sampled the sound effects from the PCB's sound chip (not very hard at all!)

Tiertex wrote the protection check code (which is utter shit - well on form
for Tiertex!)

Steve Fitton and Tony Porter from U.S. Gold provided all the nagging and
hassle which was most unwelcome, but kind of expected anyway.




During the writing of this, I used:

Work
====
3 Commodore A500s
21Mb A590 Hard Disk + 2.5Mb ram
Commodore A1000 + 2Mb ram
Tandon 20Mhz 80386 PC + 40Mb Hard Disk
Souped-up JCL Colourpic video frame-grabber
PerfectSound sampler
Some custom EPROM-reading hardware I built to read the arcade board's roms.
Atari 1040ST (yuk)
+Various extra drives, disks, etc,etc
Lots of coffee

Fun (Notice how the two are divided?!?)
===
Nintendo GameBoy (+Tetris & others)
Sega MegaDrive (+Ghouls'n'ghosts, etc)
Mr.Do! arcade board
Hundreds of records, tapes & CDs and a {} stereo
Sony Video Walkman (+Blackadder 1-4, Comic Strip, Young Ones, and others)
Roland D110 multi-timbral LA synth (rackmount)
Cheetah MS6 multi-timbral analogue synth (rackmount)
Yamaha TX7 FM synth (stupidly-shaped black box)
Casio FZ1 16-bit sampler + loads of disks
Alesis Quadraverb 16-bit digital fx processor (rackmount)
Fender Strat guitar (well, a cheap clone)
A couple of guitar fx pedals
DeskTech 6:2 mixer
MicroIllusions Music-X sequencer (Amazing program)
Virtually no musical talent/ability whatsoever
US Robotics Courier HST modem (for P.D. BBSs of course)
Many gallons of beer, Black Bush whisky, Potheen (when available - cheers Mark!)
Various people's floors/sofas/etc in London when at computer shows
(most time spent at the bar)"

Using the Kaio-Ken Attack during an opponent's ultimate that destroys the planet will cause Goku to be stuck with the appearance of Kaio-Ken. The glitch reverts once Goku does the Kaio-Ken attack again or does the actual Kaio-Ken itself and waits for the Kaio-Ken to wear off.

Inside the game's files is a vulgar message to pirates:
STOP IT =NOW=, OK! You will gain *NOTHING* from breaking this protection,
but I guess you're too fucking ignorant, narrow-minded or maybe even too
stupid to understand that. Yeah, so you and your 'leaders' and 'spreaders'
(that's what they like to call themselves, but they're nothing but LEECHES
gaining some kind of fame from the work you do) will have something to
spread around on BBS', ok... But what the hell do they, or you, REALLY get
for all that, huh? Ok credits... So they can download some shit games or
other software, but in a wider perspective? I'll tell you =NOTHING=. It's
pointless. If you don't realize that now, I assure you that in a few years
you will look back at this time and wonder why you did it. I know that
from experience. Go and do something constructive, like studying,
socializing, programming or whatever! Cracking is not constructive. To
you it might seem like a challenge or something you do to get famous, well
OK it is a challenge to crack, and you do get famous if you're good at it.
Famous for a while, a short while. But nobody will care about that five
years from now. You will benefit much more from getting a job, education
or a girlfriend, I'm telling you because I KNOW. I was a cracker once, one
of the best. In a time when you could actually send the originals by mail,
work for a day or two, and then send the cracked version back, and still
have a world-first release. Then the scene consisted by computer freaks
who made it for the fun of it. The scene today is perverted and lead by
ignorant computer-illiterate idiots, only in for the fame and money. They
think they're famous and legendary, but nobody likes or admires them for
sure. I HATE IT! Now I've realized the stupidity of my actions, and I
wish I could undo them. You'll also do just that in a few years too if you
have a conscience, and wish you had done something else. SO DON'T CRACK
IT!"

Another one is written by Stefan Boberg, the game's creator, who may have also written the message above:

================ DIVINE PROTECTION BY =THE MIGHTY GOD=
WRITE TO ME: boberg@lysator.liu.se
FINALLY YOU HAVETHE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK TO A REAL COMPUTER ===== GOD! =====
CURRENTLY STUDYING APPLIED PHYSICS AND ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AT LINKOPING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY!! =====SWEDEN=====
Don't even think about it. Cracking is both illegal and immoral and will get you NOWHERE in this world.
We have spent a lot of time doing this game, and we will not hesitate to take legal actions against
those who duplicate this game illegally.
We have complete overview over the cracking scene, and know your name and whereabouts, no doubt.
We have prepared a nice surprise for you.
You may think it is challenging, exciting or even glorious to crack, but from our point of view it is nothing but theft and sabotage.
You may have read or heard all this before, but this time it's different and REAL. We mean it.
Think about it.
If you continue doing what you're doing right now, the game programmers will have to leave the Amiga
programming in favour for Nintendo, Sega etc.
It is up to you and the rest of the Amiga users.
If you still insist on being an ignorant egocentric lowlife and go ahead cracking this, go ahead, try me.
It won't be easy.
It will be hard, damn close to impossible, destructive, and it will be SO DAMN POINTLESS.
Go and do something else instead, something positive and constructive, do that homework of yours,
read a book, learn something, call some friend, date a girl, or whatever.
Or if you can't get away from the computer, do something yourself, something useful or fun.
This protection is the toughest ever. Unbreachable.
That's what all I have to say, now it's up to you to decide whether you should crack this or not.
We hope you won't.
It'll be so much easier and less painful for all of us, especially for you.
Signed, the creator of this and plenty to come protections, Stefan Boberg"

The EU arcade port of this game, called "Dancing Stage", features a song called "Uh La La La". This song's expert chart is the only chart in the series where the player must hit 3 panels at once.

The main menu icon for Duel shows Vegeta in his Majin Buu saga outfit fighting Goku. This is odd as this game only covers the events of Dragon Ball Z from the Saiyan Saga to the end of the Cell Saga nor are these clothes an alternate costume for him.

Right before Teen Gohan goes Super Saiyan 2 in his Dragon Universe his first piece of dialog when talking to Android 16 is not voice acted and the second piece of dialog when he transforms into Super Saiyan 2 is in Japanese.