Changing the bytes at 8000 and 8001 in a headerless ROM (or 8200 and 8201 in a headered ROM) from FF to 00 enables a slew of debugging functions (alternately, enter Pro Action Replay (PAR) codes C0800000, C0800100).
Functions
Controller 1 Functions:
Start: Skip to the next floor and increase Shiren's level by 1.
B+Start: Reveal locations of all monsters on the current floor.
Y+Start: Reveal locations of all items on the current floor.
B+Y+Start: Kill all monsters on the current floor.
R+Start: Display full map of the current floor.
B+R+Start: Opens a menu allowing the selection of any item in the game.
Works with the unofficial translation, however most of the text is unreadable.
Y+R+Start: Turns off the background music. The only way to turn it back on is to reset.
B+Y+R+Start: Opens a sound test menu.
Controller 2 Functions:
Start: Allows for the entire current floor to be viewed using the D-Pad on controller 2. The coordinates of the portion currently on-screen are displayed, as well as map IDs and the type of the current tyle. The screen moves in tiles, which are 32 pixel each.
Shift (held) makes the screen black.
X: Displays Shiren's coordinates.
Y: Opens a sprite and animations test menu including monsters, characters, and items:
A plays the animation.
B closes the menu.
Up/down to move up and down the cursor of the primary menu (monster select).
Left/right or X/Y to move up and down the cursor of the secondary menu (direction the monster is facing).
Start changes whether it plays the normal animation or an alternate one.
While in debug mode, if the player heads south of Valley Inn, the debug room can be accessed.
Items Selection Menu
Pressing B+R+Start on controller 1 opens a menu to add any item to the inventory.
Items
Herbs
Weapons
Scrolls
Shields
Staves
Bracers
Pots
Arrows
Food
Others
Herbs
Medical Herb
Revival Herb
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Poison Herb
Otogiri-So
Vanishing Herb
Life Herb
Confusion Herb
Happy Herb
Wriggling Herb
Expansion Seed
Sleep Herb
Vision Herb
Unlucky Seed
Contraction Seed
Weed
Dragon Herb
Super-Unlucky Seed
Speech Seed
New Item
Invincible Herb
Kigny Tribe Seed
Power Herb
New Item
Angel Seed
Forgetful Herb
Antidote Herb
New Item
Weapons
Club
Goken-Manjikabra
One-eye Killer
Nagamaki
Exorcist Sickle
Drain Buster
Bufoo's Cleaver
Pickaxe
Kajinfumato
Katana
Accuracy Sword
Hiken Kaburasutegi
Dragon Killer
Minotaur Axe
Wood Arrow
Dotanuki
Yoto Kamaitachi
Iron Arrow
The Weapons sub-menu allows selecting the upgrade/downgrade value after the item is selected.
Scrolls
Purify Scroll
Trap Scroll
Bigroom Scroll
Earth Scroll
Identify Scroll
Crisis Scroll
Monster House Scroll
Confusion Scroll
Light Scroll
Fastfoe Scroll
Confuse Scroll
Withdraw Scroll
Bigpot Scroll
Slumber Scroll
Genocide Scroll
Slippery Scroll
Airslash Scroll
Power Scroll
Blank Scroll
-- Scroll
Lockjaw Scroll
-- Scroll
Lost Scroll
New Item
-- Scroll
Detonate Scroll
Heaven Scroll
New Item
Shields
Leather Shield
Fuma Shield
Disposable Shield
Bronze Shield
Battle Counter
Mine Nabari Shield
Antidote Shield
Heavy Shield
Todo Shield
Wooden Shield
Echo Shield
Rasen-Fuma Shield
Iron Shield
Reflex Shield
New Item
Dragon Shield
Gilded Shield
New Item
The Shields sub-menu allows selecting the upgrade/downgrade value after the item is selected.
Staves
Bracers
Pots
Arrows
Wood Arrow
Irown Arrow
Silver Arrow
The Arrows sub-menu allows selecting the amount after the item is selected. The selected amount can be negative.
Food
Rice Ball
Big Rice Ball
Rotten Rice Ball
Huge Rice Ball
Special Rice Ball
Others
Meat
Goal 1
Goal 2
Goal 3
All the options in this menu lead to a sub-menu to select monster meat and monster level, however only the first option is for monster meat. The others give goal items that end the Adventure and glitch items.
Gallery
Sound test.
Map viewer.
Item select.
Sprites and animations test.
Sprites and animations test (broken text in unofficial translation).
Item select (broken text in unofficial translation).