Menace Beach

Menace Beach
Also known as: Sunday Funday Developer: Color Dreams Publishers: Color Dreams, Wisdom Tree Platform: Unlicensed NES Released in US: 1990 (Menace Beach), 1995 (Sunday Funday) This game has a hidden developer message. This game has unused graphics. This game has a hidden level select. This game has revisional differences. This game has a prototype article

To do: Document Hacker International's localization, Miss Peach World.

Menace Beach tells the heartwarming tale of a boy who must defeat ninjas, clowns, Elvis impersonators, and other dangerous foes to save his kidnapped girlfriend – all while riding a skateboard.

Four years later, Wisdom Tree dug up the game and reskinned it to make the Christian-themed Sunday Funday, and also adding another game and karaoke for some reason.

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Prototype Info

Unused Graphics

This needs some investigation. Discuss ideas and findings on the talk page. Specifically: Are the graphics the only thing left?

Menace Beach was supposed to have a jet ski bonus level but it got cut from the final game. However, graphics for Scooter on the jet ski as well as graphics for the background, water and points still remain within the ROM.

Level Skip

There are two different ways to trigger this cheat.

Option 1

At the title screen, press Left, Select, Left (×6), Up (×6), Right (×6). (For Sunday Funday, use 7 presses instead of 6)

White parts of the screen should flash red every time you press the correct button (except first Left). A sound will play if the code is entered correctly. Finally, press B to trigger the cheat and the message "YOU BIG CHEATERHEAD!" appears and another sound will play.

Now you can skip the level you're in by pressing B + Select during the game.

(Source: CaH4e3)

Option 2

Start a new game, then press Up + A + B on Controller 1 and Up on Controller 2 at the same time. If done correctly, you will be sent back to the title screen. Like above, press B + Select during the game to skip levels.

(Source: CaH4e3)

Hidden Message

Complete the game (or just use the level skip cheat) then, when the ending animation sequence ends and the message "PRESS A TO REPLAY SCREEN, PRESS START TO RESTART GAME" appears, press and hold Down + Left + Select.

While holding these buttons, a sound will play 10 times, then 5 times in row. Immediately, the message will appear at the bottom of the screen.

(Source: CaH4e3)

  STOP! HIDDEN MESSAGE TIME!
I'D LIKE TO THANK THE FOLLOWING
 GOOFBALLS FOR BEING MY BUDS.
KEITH THE STICK, GARY "ELVEZ"
THE MASTER WORDSMITH, RUSTY THE
 SURFING CARROT TOP, BOOBALA
THE GREAT, KAREN JO THE SPARE
DANCING POOL SHARK, AND LAST
BUT STILL LOST, JIM THE DUDE!
 NINA'S LAST NAME IS BEDNER.

Revisional Differences

Notably, the game was rereleased under the name Sunday Funday by Wisdom Tree.

To do: The rest.

Main Menu

Besides the main game, a game called Fishfall and a karaoke version of the song The Ride by 4Him were included.

Title Screen and Story

Menace Beach	Sunday Funday

An option to turn off the music was added to the title screen.

Menace Beach	Sunday Funday

Instead of rescuing your girlfriend, the Sunday Funday has you fight your way to sunday school.

Room 14

There is one unused room that can be accessed in FCEUX, by opening the HEX editor, and in NES memory, changing the first address to 17. This method of teleporting to different rooms can be used in Color Dreams' games which use the Kungfu engine (Secret Scout, Operation Secret Storm, Challenge of the Dragon), and also Free/Fish Fall.

Menace Beach	Sunday Funday

In Menace Beach, this room plays the overworld music, and has 9 lives, and a hole to the left, which will teleport you to the start of World 4. In Sunday Funday however, there will be nothing at all, and the game will freeze.