Super Ninja Kun

Super Ninja Kun
Developer: Jaleco Publisher: Jaleco Platform: SNES Released in JP: August 5, 1994 This game has anti-piracy features.

To do: It has a localization prototype called Maru's Quest, and was later re-translated as Super Ninja Kid. Also investigate the unused music. The original release uses the same song for all the levels but has several unused stage themes among others, which were seemingly used in the Super Ninja Kid rerelease.

The SNES installment in the Ninja (not Jajamaru) Kun franchise, with a lot of graphical facelifts and quality-of-life changes, although maybe at the expense of the game's difficulty.

Anti-Piracy

The game normally does not contain any SRAM, but still checks for it when starting a new game by writing two byte values to $701000. On original cartridges, the write will do nothing. If the write was successful (likely if a cartridge copier was used), the game restarts, preventing the player from actually being able to play the game.