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|image = File:Titenic (Hummer Team, ABABSoft) 001.png
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|caption = Titenic's title screen
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|publisher = [[ABAB Soft]], [[Zechess]], and 鴻景 (Hong Jing)<br><small>[[Ka Sheng]] (unreleased)</small>
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|caption = Titenic's title screen (can only be accessed with cheat codes).
  
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|developer = [[Hummer Team]]
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|publisher = [[ABAB Soft]], [[Zechess]], and 鴻景 (Hong Jing)<br><small>[[Ka Sheng|NT]] (unreleased)</small>
  
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|console = Famicom
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|developer = [[Hummer Team]]
  
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|date = Late 1998 (''Super Cool Boy 3-in-1'')<br> 2005 (''Super New Year Cart 15-in-1'')
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|console = Famicom
  
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|engine = ''Titenic''
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|date = Unknown, possibly 1998-1999
  
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|engine = Titenic
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|sound = [[Hummer Sound Engine]]
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|alt = ''Hacker (15-in-1)''<br>''Heroine (15-in-1)''<br>''Harry's Legend''<br>''TITANIC'' (As referred to in<br>uncompiled code in the 15 in 1 cart)<br>''Perils of the Sea'' (''ZDog'', unused title screen)
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}}'''''Titenic''''' is a Famicom/NES beat 'em up by [[Hummer Team]] and is based on the 1997 film [[Wikipedia:Titanic (1997 film)|''Titanic'']]. The game was first known to appear on an ''Super Cool Boy 3-in-1'' [[Multicarts|multicart]] but the first documented release of it was on ''[[Super New Year Cart 15-in-1]]'', where it was separated into two different menu items, those being ''Hacker'' and ''Heroine''.
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|alt = ''Hacker (15-in-1)''<br>''Heroine (15-in-1)''<br>''Harry's Legend'' <br>''TITANIC (As referred to in uncompiled code in the 15 in 1 cart)
  
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'''''Titenic''''' is a Famicom/NES beat 'em up by [[Hummer Team]] and is based on the 1997 film [[Wikipedia:Titanic (1997 film)|''Titanic'']]. The game was first known to appear on an ''ABAB 3-in-1'' [[Multicarts|multicart]], however, the first documented release of it was on ''[[Super New Year Cart 15-in-1]]'', where it was separated into two different menu items, those being ''Hacker'' and ''Heroine''.
  
   
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== Overview ==
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==Overview==
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[[File:TitenicGameplay1.png|left|thumb|200px|Gameplay as Jack.]]
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[[File:TitenicGameplay1.png|left|thumb|Gameplay as Jack.]]
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The game is a 2D sidescrolling beat 'em up set on RMS Titanic. Both playable characters, Jack and Rose, have their own sets of levels, before and after the ship crashed into the iceberg, respectively. The gameplay doesn't differ much for either character, except for a couple of levels where Rose has to escape a flooded room before she drowns or the timer runs out.
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The game is a 2D side-scrolling beat 'em up set on the RMS Titanic. Jack and Rose have their own sets of stages; Jack's takes place before the ship crashes into the iceberg and Rose's stages take place afterwards. In Rose's final stage, there's a section where she must make it to the ship's deck before she runs out of time and drowns in the water.
   
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The A button jumps and the B button attacks. Both Jack and Rose have a three-hit combo, which knocks the enemy down. While crouching, both can punch with A and kick with B. The B button also makes them attack while they're in the air. In addition to that, both characters have two special attacks each, performed by either pressing A+B together, or by pressing Up, then Down: Jack does a charging elbow attack and a charging uppercut; Rose has a scissor kick and an axe swing (which, unlike her crouching attacks, can hit small enemies, such as rats). Special attacks drain a small portion of health, and can't be performed when there's no health to take away from.
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The A button jumps and the B button attacks. Both Jack and Rose have a two-hit combo, which knocks the enemy down. While crouching, both can punch with A and kick with B. The B button also makes them attack while they're in the air. Both characters have two special attacks each, performed by either pressing A+B together or by pressing Up and then Down. Jack has a charging elbow attack and a charging uppercut while Rose has a scissor kick and an axe swing (which, unlike her crouching attacks, can hit small enemies such as rats). Special attacks drain a small portion of health when they make contact with an enemy and can kill you if you don't have enough health left. You can collect wine bottles and lobsters to refill your health as well as extra lives. These are the only pickups in the game.
   
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The cutscenes go through the movie's plot while also displaying redrawn shots of the movie. The music features renditions of tracks from the movie, including renditions of ''My Heart Will Go On'' and ''Nearer My God To Thee''.
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Wine bottles and lobsters serve as small and large health pickups respectively, and are the only pickups in ''Titenic'', aside from extra lives.
  
   
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=== Enemies ===
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=== Enemies===
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Generally, the animal enemies, such as octopi, bats, rats, snakes and chicken, all have pre-determined behavior, inflict damage on contact with them and can be defeated in one hit. The fish jumping out of the water, however, are unkillable. Similarly, there's a rescue tube bouncing around.
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The animal enemies (such as octopi, bats, rats, snakes and chickens) all have pre-determined behavior and inflict damage on contact. These all can be defeated in one hit. The fish jumping out of the water are unkillable however. Sometimes a rescue tube will be bouncing around which can also be taken out in one hit.
   
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The rest of the enemy roster is the ship's crew and, occasionally, passengers. All of them, excluding the waitress, were taken from ''The Mask'' on SNES and modified in some way.[[File:TitenicGameplay2.png|right|thumb|150px|Playing as Rose, fighting the fat man boss.]]
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The rest of the enemy roster is the ship's crew and passengers. All of them (excluding the waitress) were taken from ''The Mask'' for the SNES and were modified in some way. These enemies have their own attacks to harm you with instead. All human enemies can also be defeated by knocking them into the water if the stage allows for it.
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The bosses include a muscular sailor weilding a knife (who later appears as a regular enemy), a fat man wearing a tuxedo and sporing a pistol, and a lean rich man - supposedly Cal, the movie's original antagonist - who also appears to have a pistol, alongside the dashing attack. Cal must be fought three times throughout the game; each time he appears in a different color and with harder AI. While it's possible to defeat Cal with regular attacks, he can be forced to run off the ship - that also counts as completing the stage.
  
   
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[[File:TitenicGameplay2.png|thumb|Playing as Rose, fighting the fat man boss.]]
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== History ==
  
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The bosses include a muscular sailor wielding a knife (who later appears as a regular enemy), a fat man wearing a tuxedo and sporting a shotgun, and a lean rich man (likely Cal from the movie) who utilizes a pistol and a running attack. The latter must be fought three times throughout the game; each time he appears in a different color and with harder AI. While it's possible to defeat Cal with regular attacks, he can be knocked off the ship similar to other human enemies.
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According to an interview with Hummer Cheng, ''Titenic'' was originally developed much earlier than it was released, and was supposed to be published by NT. <ref>http://s4.zetaboards.com/PGC_Forums/single/?p=8120193&t=9613847</ref> However, at that point, the market for Famicom games in Taiwan was at a decline and NT told them they had no interest in publishing original games anymore. This prevented ''Titenic'' from having a single cart release at the time and also from being finished. After leaving NT, Hummer Team would have disbanded and either Hummer Cheng and/or Chris Ho would modify ''Titenic'' into ''Harry's Legend'' and sold it to a supplier by the name of IC通路公司 (Silicon Application Corp.) It was originally presumed that [[Trump Grand Manufacturing Co.]] had the direct rights to ''Harry's Legend'' in the past, although Hummer Cheng currently has trouble recalling any experience with the company.
  
   
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==History==
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In 2003, ABAB Soft would be established by Handel Liao, who published several multicarts with Hummer Team's games. Their site at the time had mockup screenshots of their multicarts and one of them had ''Titenic'', while the other had ''Harry's Legend''. <ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20050205212309/http://ababsoft.com/index.html</ref> Sometime around in 2005, a cart known as the [[Super New Year Cart 15-in-1|''Super New Year Cart 15-in-1'']] would be officially published and distributed by 鴻景 (Hong Jing) and was the first known cart to have''Titenic'' on it. Here, the game could be accessed from one of two menu items: ''Hacker'', which covers Jack's levels, and ''Heroine'', which covers Rose's; completing both parts one-by-one is required to see the credits. ''Titenic'' would mark its' second official release on [[ZDog]] - a plug and play console made by Zechess and Hummer Technology - where it was split into several minigames, each featuring a small chunk of levels from the original.
  
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According to an interview and correspondence with Hummer Cheng, ''Titenic'' was originally developed much earlier than it was released; it was supposed to be published by [[Ka Sheng]]. <ref>http://s4.zetaboards.com/PGC_Forums/single/?p=8120193&t=9613847</ref> However, the market for Famicom games in Taiwan was at a decline and Ka Sheng told them they had no interest in publishing original games anymore. This also prevented ''Titenic'' from having a single cart release at the time. Shortly after, Hummer Team itself disbanded and Hummer Cheng would go on to form Hummer Technology. Around 2001, Hummer Technology would modify ''Titenic'' into ''Harry's Legend'' and sold it to a supplier by the name of IC通路公司 (Silicon Application Corp.). It was originally presumed that [[Trump Grand Manufacturing Co.]] had the direct rights to ''Harry's Legend'' in the past, although Hummer Cheng had trouble recalling any experience with them.
   
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In 2003, ABAB Soft would be established by Handel Liao, who published several multicarts with Hummer Team's games. Two of their multicarts listed on the site featured ''Titenic'' and ''Harry's Legend''. <ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20050205212309/http://ababsoft.com/index.html</ref> Sometime around in 2005, a cart known as the ''[[Super New Year Cart 15-in-1]]'' would be officially published and distributed by 鴻景 (Hong Jing) and at the time, it was the first cart discovered to have ''Titenic'' on it. The game could be accessed from one of the two menu items: ''Hacker'' (starts on stage one with Jack) and ''Heroine'' (starts on stage four with Rose). The multicart's DIP switches also contain 6-in-1 and 8-in-1 variations that contain only ''Hacker'' but it's unknown if these were ever released.
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This is the last Famicom game from Hummer Team to actually feature credits. It shows that by the time Titenic was in the work, most of the original members were already gone.
  
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''Titenic'' would have its third and likely final official release on the [[ZDog]], a plug and play console made by Zechess and Hummer Technology. This release is based on the ''Super New Year Cart 15-in-1'' version and all the stages were split into their own mini-games.
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This is the last Famicom game from Hummer Team to feature credits. It shows that by the time Titenic was in the works, most of the original members were already gone.
   
 
*Picture by: Rebecca, Carroll
  
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*Music by: Hummer Cheng
  
*Music by: Hummer Cheng
   
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==''Super New Year Cart 15-in-1'' version ==
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== Trivia ==
  
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This is the most commonly known version, as the multicart this version appeared on was first discovered and dumped back in 2011. This version attempts to remove any references of the original ''Titanic'' movie; removing the title screen and the cutscenes as well as modifying the HUD. Despite this, the characters are still referred to as Jack and Rose within the game and the credits screen still remains once you beat the game. The graphics for the title screen and cutscenes still exist within the ROM but the routines were simply disabled.
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*The ''Super New Year Cart 15-in-1'' version disables the title screen and the cutscenes, possibly to remove the Titenic references. <ref>https://tcrf.net/Titenic</ref> (as the game goes under different names on the menu)
  
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**Another game on the cart, ''[[Panda Adventure#Rings|Rings]]'', shared a similar fate. The game was supposed to have a title screen but was removed to get rid of the ''Lord of the Rings'' reference. However, unlike Titenic the graphics for it were also removed.
  
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The music is also different, using ''Harry's Legend''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s tracks instead. This is rather unusual; it may be an attempt at removing further ''Titanic'' references but Hummer Team-related games usually don't change the music to hide its origins. It's also possible this version could be based on a later revision where ''Titenic'' was being used to make ''Harry's Legend''.
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*The misspelling of the title for this game appears to be done on purpose, likely to avoid trademark infringement; uncompiled code in the ''Super New Year Cart 15-in-1 ''refers to the game as "TITANIC".
  
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*There is a debug mode in the game you can access by hitting A on the 2P controller. When using the debug, you can not scroll the screen. Up and Down (2P) raises/lowers the water levels. Pressing A again will summon Jack/Rose. Pressing Left and Right, will summon enemies and bosses. Start on the second controller brings up the ending screen.
  
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**In the ZDog version, the debug menu is inaccessible. In ''Harry's Legend'', it still exists but you can not access the ending.
  
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* The misspelling of the title for this game was deliberate, likely to avoid trademark infringement. Uncompiled code in the ''Super New Year Cart 15-in-1'' refers to the game as "TITANIC".
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*The crouch attacks seem a bit buggy; it is possible to cancel almost all of your animations when crouching. Because of this, it is possible to prevent yourself from dying by using the crouch attack to cancel the death animation. This, combined with the debug menu and various unused data, suggests that ''Titenic'' is actually unfinished.
  
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*There is a debug mode in the game you can access by hitting A on the second controller. When using the debug, the screen will be unable to scroll. Up and Down raises and lowers the water level. Pressing A again will summon Jack/Rose. Pressing Left and Right goes through an invisible selection where you can summon enemies and bosses instead. Start on the second controller brings up the ending screen.
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**In the ZDog version, this exploit appears to be fixed. It's also not present in ''Harry's Legend.''
  
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*One of the enemies is reused in ''[[War]]'', another game from Hummer Team which is dated 1999.
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**In the ZDog version, the debug menu is inaccessible. In ''Harry's Legend'', it still exists but you can't access the ending.
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*The crouch attacks seem a bit buggy; it's possible to cancel almost all of your animations when performing a crouching attack. Because of this, it's possible to prevent yourself from dying by using the crouch attack to cancel the death animation.
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*Many of Jack's and Rose's sprites resemble Kyo Kusanagi's and Athena Asamiya's from ''The King of Fighters'' respectively. Also, Jack's "block" (the stance he does when a boss enters) appears to be Iori Yagami's blocking stance. Hummer Team did develop a ''[[The King of Fighters '96]]'' NES port which would explain the connection. Interesting enough, both Kyo and Athena were cut from the official release of that port.
  
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**This exploit was fixed in ''Harry's Legend''.
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*One of the enemies is reused in ''[[War]]'', another game from Hummer Team which may be dated to 1999.
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*Many of Jack's and Rose's sprites resemble Kyo Kusanagi's and Athena Asamiya's from ''The King of Fighters'' respectively. Jack's "block" (the stance he does when a boss enters) also appears to be Iori Yagami's blocking stance. Hummer Team did develop a ''[[The King of Fighters '96]]'' NES port which would explain the connection.
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** Interestingly enough, both Kyo and Athena were cut from the official release of that port even though their coding was finished.
 
*The fish enemy in this game seems to be an edited version of the fish that Chuck throws up from Hummer Team's ''[[Earthworm Jim 3]]''.
  
*The fish enemy in this game seems to be an edited version of the fish that Chuck throws up from Hummer Team's ''[[Earthworm Jim 3]]''.
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*The music heard in the "rising water" screens of stage five (also heard as the boss theme in ''Harry's Legend'') was later reused in ''[[King Fishing]]'' for whenever a fish grabs the end of your line.
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*In the ROM, there is a list of object names referring to not only the playable characters and enemies in ''Titenic'' but also what appears to be enemies and items from ''[[Wikipedia:Warriors of Fate|Tenchi o Kurau 2: Sekiheki no Tatakai]]''. (Also known as ''Warriors of Fate'' outside of Japan.) The lobster in ''Titenic'' also looks similar to the one found in ''Tenchi o Kurau 2. ''This might imply ''Titenic'' originally started out as a port of this game and then got revamped or Hummer Team might have reused assets from an unfinished port they did.
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*In the ROM, there is a list of object names referring to not only the playable characters and enemies in ''Titenic'' but also what appears to be enemies and items from [[Wikipedia:Warriors of Fate|''Tenchi o Kurau 2: Sekiheki no Tatakai'']]. <ref>https://tcrf.net/Titenic#Unused_Text</ref> (Also known as ''Warriors of Fate'' outside of Japan.) The lobster in ''Titenic'' also looks similar to the one found in ''Tenchi o Kurau 2''. This might imply ''Titenic'' could be based on an unfinished and unreleased port of ''Warriors of Fate'', or Hummer Team reused assets from an unfinished port they have worked on.
 
**Despite the lobster having a name on the object list, it does not refer to the lobster found in ''Titenic'' itself.
  
**Despite the lobster having a name on the object list, it does not refer to the lobster found in ''Titenic'' itself.
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**It's possible that the "summon" part of the debug could be a remnant of a two-player selection mechanic from this assumed port, as it's limited to only four characters. (There's five characters to play from in ''Warriors of Fate'' and a second player wouldn't normally be able to choose the same character again.'')''
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*For a short period of time,''Titenic'' gathered some attention on the Internet, after the game was featured in a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRA2OrZTiwY video] by JonTron.
  
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**This object name list remains in Harry's Legend and strangely enough, Hummer Team's ''[[Mortal Kombat 3|Mortal Kombat 4]]''.
   
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== ''Harry's Legend'' ==
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==''Harry's Legend''==
 
{{Infobox game
  
{{Infobox game
 
|name = Harry's Legend
  
|name = Harry's Legend
 
|image = File:Harry Potter (Unl) (English Title) -p2- 001.png
  
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|caption = Harry's Legend's title screen.
 
|publisher = IC通路公司 (Silicon Application Corp.) as supplier
  
|publisher = IC通路公司 (Silicon Application Corp.) as supplier
 
|developer = Hummer Technology
  
|developer = Hummer Technology
 
|console = Famicom
  
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|alt = ''Harry Potter''<br>''Hally Poter: Goblet of Fire''
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|alt = ''Harry's Story''<br>''Harry Potter''<br>''Hally Poter: Goblet of Fire''
 
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'''''Harry's Legend '''''is a modification of ''Titenic'' based on [[Wikipedia:Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone|''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'']] (most likely the novel, as the movie came out in 2001) and was made by Hummer Technology, a successor of [[Hummer Team]]. Two versions of the game were originally released, both with title screens in English and Chinese - however, both also feature cutscenes written entirely in English. ''Harry's Legend'' has become an object of multiple unofficial rereleases, appearing on both multicarts and single game cartridges.
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'''''Harry's Legend''''' is a modification of ''Titenic'' based on [[Wikipedia:Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone|''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'']] (most likely the novel, as the movie came out in 2001) made by Hummer Technology, a successor of [[Hummer Team]]. Two versions of the game were originally released with title screens in English and Chinese. ''Harry's Legend'' has become an object of multiple unofficial re-releases, appearing on both multicarts and single game cartridges.
   
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[[File:Harry Potter (Unl) -p1--!- 001.png|left|thumb|150px|Gameplay of Harry's Legend. Note the Dudley-like enemy.]]
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[[File:Harry Potter (Unl) -p1--!- 001.png|left|thumb|Gameplay of ''Harry's Legend''. Note the Dudley-like enemy.]]
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In comparison to ''Titenic'', the gameplay has been somewhat dumbed down. Harry Potter, the only playable character, has got only three non-special attacks: non-comboable standing kick, crouching punch and crouching kick - which means he can't attack while in the air. The inputs for both special attacks remain the same, however, one of them, the broom projectile, isn't available until level two, while the second, the sparkling magic projectile, is only usable since level three.
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In comparison to ''Titenic'', the gameplay has been somewhat watered down. Harry Potter is the only playable character and he only has three non-special attacks: a standing kick that can't combo, a crouching punch and a crouching kick. Unlike in Titenic, he's unable to perform any attacks in the air. The inputs for both special attacks remain the same but they need to be "unlocked"; the broom becoming available in stage two (A + B) and the magic attack is acquired in stage three (Up, Down).
   
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There are five levels present in Harry's Legend, all of which can be chosen right after the title screen, although all of them have to be completed in order to see the ending. The majority of level layouts have been brought over from ''Titenic'' with a few differences in graphics and item placements.
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There are five levels present in Harry's Legend, all of which can be chosen right after the title screen, although all of them have to be completed in order to see the ending. The majority of level layouts have been brought over from ''Titenic'' with a few differences in graphics and item placements. The first segment of stage five (At School) features a volleyball minigame, in which Harry plays against an old woman and either characters takes damage if the ball gets into their goal - possibly an attempt at recreating the Qudditch matches seen in the series.
   
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In addition to that, most of the enemies make a return from ''Titenic'', albeit none of them do proper attacks, going for contact damage instead. A few of them, like the animals, don't sport any changes whatsoever, while the human enemies were edited to not handle guns. The only all-new enemies in ''Harry's Legend'' are a giant chess piece and an indestructible floating flame. Even though a book-holding ghost also appears in level five, he can't do any damage to Harry normally, and is only here to bounce off the ball.
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Most of the human enemies make a return from ''Titenic'' but without proper attacks, going for contact damage instead. Most of the animal enemies return and behave the same way they do. The only all-new enemies in ''Harry's Legend'' are a giant chess piece and an indestructible floating flame. A book-holding ghost also appears in stage five but he can't do any damage to Harry; only serving to bounce the ball away. Each stage ends with a boss - possibly based on Professor Quirrell and Voldemort - who has two faces and is constantly walking backwards. Strangely, his death animation always has him fall right down into water, even if it doesn't make sense from the stage's design.
   
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The text in the cutscenes are taken directly from excerpts of the first book, with a few typos in certain places (such as "hard" instead of "hand"). The music seems to be original aside from the boss theme, which was reused from the "rising water" screens in stage five of ''Titenic''. The cutscene and stage one tracks were rearranged for stage three and stages two and four. The cutscene music also seems to be a rearrangement of one of the stage tracks from Hummer Team's ''[[Mortal Kombat 3]]''.
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Each stage ends with a boss - possibly based on professor Quirrel and Voldemort - who has two faces and is constanly walking backwards. Strangely, his death animation always has him fall right down into water, even if it doesn't make sense from the stage's design.
  
   
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===Trivia===
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The first segment of stage five, At School, features a volleyball minigame, in which Harry plays against an old lady, and either takes damage by letting the ball into his goal, or does damage to the lady if it gets into her goal.
  
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[[File:HarryPotterTWCover.jpg|150px|thumb|Taiwanese cover of ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone''.]]
   
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[[File:HarryPotterTWCover.jpg|150px|thumb|right|Taiwanese cover of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.]]
  
 
*The title screen is directly based on the Taiwanese cover of ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone''. This was later edited slightly for the English version.
  
*The title screen is directly based on the Taiwanese cover of ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone''. This was later edited slightly for the English version.
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*The demos do not use Harry's jumping or hitting sounds, yet everything else is in place. This is due to the fact that sounds are played differently from Harry's actions. Also, the demos seem strange since Harry is seen kicking and jumping at random while also getting hit by the enemies due to the fact that the AI was not modified from ''Titenic.''
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*The demos do not use Harry's jumping or hitting sounds, yet everything else is in place. This is because sounds are played differently from Harry's actions. The demos are rather strange as Harry is kicking and jumping at random.
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*The upper right-hand corner of the HUD normally displays "Harry Potter", though some multicarts change the text to "Harry's Legend". In the ROM, there are unused tiles for the HUD that have "BO". This could have been for his name (Harry Botter), either to avoid copyright infringement, or simply a mistake, as his name is 哈利波特 (''Ha Li Bo Te'') in Chinese. The Game Genie code XIYXOX will replace Harry Potter's name with "Harry Botter".
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*The upper right-hand corner of the HUD normally displays "Harry Potter" although some multicarts change the text to "Harry's Legend". In the ROM, there are unused tiles for the HUD that have the letters "Bo". This could have been for his name (Harry Botter), either to avoid copyright infringement or simply a mistake, as his name is 哈利波特 (''Ha Li Bo Te'') in Chinese. The Game Genie code XIYXOX will replace Harry Potter's name with "Harry Botter".
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*On level two, it is possible to knock Voldemort himself into the water, just like the large man boss in ''Titenic''. However, if you jump on the ice platform and let Voldemort fall in, you will also fall into the water as well, as Harry jumps up and down (the ice platform will not be under his feet after the first jump).
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*On Stage 2, it is possible to knock Voldemort himself into the water in order to defeat him. If you jump on the ice platform and let Voldemort fall in himself, you will also fall into the water as well since Harry jumps up and down in his victory animation. (The ice platform will not be under his feet after the first jump).
 
*A title hack of this game, called "''Hally Poter: Goblet of Fire''", appears on some [[One Station]] cartridges. <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bE9sNQJ7SGA</ref>
  
*A title hack of this game, called "''Hally Poter: Goblet of Fire''", appears on some [[One Station]] cartridges. <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bE9sNQJ7SGA</ref>
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*The 4-in-1 (FK23C8079) multicart has a variant of Harry's Legend where not only does the HUD replace "Harry Potter" with "Harry's Legend", but the level select is removed, and it plays an entirely different track when Voldemort appears.
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Latest revision as of 01:00, 9 April 2024

Titenic is a Famicom/NES beat 'em up by Hummer Team and is based on the 1997 film Titanic. The game was first known to appear on an Super Cool Boy 3-in-1 multicart but the first documented release of it was on Super New Year Cart 15-in-1, where it was separated into two different menu items, those being Hacker and Heroine.

Overview

TitenicGameplay1

Gameplay as Jack.

The game is a 2D side-scrolling beat 'em up set on the RMS Titanic. Jack and Rose have their own sets of stages; Jack's takes place before the ship crashes into the iceberg and Rose's stages take place afterwards. In Rose's final stage, there's a section where she must make it to the ship's deck before she runs out of time and drowns in the water.

The A button jumps and the B button attacks. Both Jack and Rose have a two-hit combo, which knocks the enemy down. While crouching, both can punch with A and kick with B. The B button also makes them attack while they're in the air. Both characters have two special attacks each, performed by either pressing A+B together or by pressing Up and then Down. Jack has a charging elbow attack and a charging uppercut while Rose has a scissor kick and an axe swing (which, unlike her crouching attacks, can hit small enemies such as rats). Special attacks drain a small portion of health when they make contact with an enemy and can kill you if you don't have enough health left. You can collect wine bottles and lobsters to refill your health as well as extra lives. These are the only pickups in the game.

The cutscenes go through the movie's plot while also displaying redrawn shots of the movie. The music features renditions of tracks from the movie, including renditions of My Heart Will Go On and Nearer My God To Thee.

Enemies

The animal enemies (such as octopi, bats, rats, snakes and chickens) all have pre-determined behavior and inflict damage on contact. These all can be defeated in one hit. The fish jumping out of the water are unkillable however. Sometimes a rescue tube will be bouncing around which can also be taken out in one hit.

The rest of the enemy roster is the ship's crew and passengers. All of them (excluding the waitress) were taken from The Mask for the SNES and were modified in some way. These enemies have their own attacks to harm you with instead. All human enemies can also be defeated by knocking them into the water if the stage allows for it.

TitenicGameplay2

Playing as Rose, fighting the fat man boss.

The bosses include a muscular sailor wielding a knife (who later appears as a regular enemy), a fat man wearing a tuxedo and sporting a shotgun, and a lean rich man (likely Cal from the movie) who utilizes a pistol and a running attack. The latter must be fought three times throughout the game; each time he appears in a different color and with harder AI. While it's possible to defeat Cal with regular attacks, he can be knocked off the ship similar to other human enemies.

History

According to an interview and correspondence with Hummer Cheng, Titenic was originally developed much earlier than it was released; it was supposed to be published by Ka Sheng. [1] However, the market for Famicom games in Taiwan was at a decline and Ka Sheng told them they had no interest in publishing original games anymore. This also prevented Titenic from having a single cart release at the time. Shortly after, Hummer Team itself disbanded and Hummer Cheng would go on to form Hummer Technology. Around 2001, Hummer Technology would modify Titenic into Harry's Legend and sold it to a supplier by the name of IC通路公司 (Silicon Application Corp.). It was originally presumed that Trump Grand Manufacturing Co. had the direct rights to Harry's Legend in the past, although Hummer Cheng had trouble recalling any experience with them.

In 2003, ABAB Soft would be established by Handel Liao, who published several multicarts with Hummer Team's games. Two of their multicarts listed on the site featured Titenic and Harry's Legend. [2] Sometime around in 2005, a cart known as the Super New Year Cart 15-in-1 would be officially published and distributed by 鴻景 (Hong Jing) and at the time, it was the first cart discovered to have Titenic on it. The game could be accessed from one of the two menu items: Hacker (starts on stage one with Jack) and Heroine (starts on stage four with Rose). The multicart's DIP switches also contain 6-in-1 and 8-in-1 variations that contain only Hacker but it's unknown if these were ever released.

Titenic would have its third and likely final official release on the ZDog, a plug and play console made by Zechess and Hummer Technology. This release is based on the Super New Year Cart 15-in-1 version and all the stages were split into their own mini-games.

Credits

This is the last Famicom game from Hummer Team to feature credits. It shows that by the time Titenic was in the works, most of the original members were already gone.

  • Picture by: Rebecca, Carroll
  • Program by: Hummer Cheng, Chris
  • Music by: Hummer Cheng

Super New Year Cart 15-in-1 version

This is the most commonly known version, as the multicart this version appeared on was first discovered and dumped back in 2011. This version attempts to remove any references of the original Titanic movie; removing the title screen and the cutscenes as well as modifying the HUD. Despite this, the characters are still referred to as Jack and Rose within the game and the credits screen still remains once you beat the game. The graphics for the title screen and cutscenes still exist within the ROM but the routines were simply disabled.

The music is also different, using Harry's Legend's tracks instead. This is rather unusual; it may be an attempt at removing further Titanic references but Hummer Team-related games usually don't change the music to hide its origins. It's also possible this version could be based on a later revision where Titenic was being used to make Harry's Legend.

Trivia

  • The misspelling of the title for this game was deliberate, likely to avoid trademark infringement. Uncompiled code in the Super New Year Cart 15-in-1 refers to the game as "TITANIC".
  • There is a debug mode in the game you can access by hitting A on the second controller. When using the debug, the screen will be unable to scroll. Up and Down raises and lowers the water level. Pressing A again will summon Jack/Rose. Pressing Left and Right goes through an invisible selection where you can summon enemies and bosses instead. Start on the second controller brings up the ending screen.
    • In the ZDog version, the debug menu is inaccessible. In Harry's Legend, it still exists but you can't access the ending.
  • The crouch attacks seem a bit buggy; it's possible to cancel almost all of your animations when performing a crouching attack. Because of this, it's possible to prevent yourself from dying by using the crouch attack to cancel the death animation.
    • This exploit was fixed in Harry's Legend.
  • One of the enemies is reused in War, another game from Hummer Team which may be dated to 1999.
  • Many of Jack's and Rose's sprites resemble Kyo Kusanagi's and Athena Asamiya's from The King of Fighters respectively. Jack's "block" (the stance he does when a boss enters) also appears to be Iori Yagami's blocking stance. Hummer Team did develop a The King of Fighters '96 NES port which would explain the connection.
    • Interestingly enough, both Kyo and Athena were cut from the official release of that port even though their coding was finished.
  • The fish enemy in this game seems to be an edited version of the fish that Chuck throws up from Hummer Team's Earthworm Jim 3.
  • The music heard in the "rising water" screens of stage five (also heard as the boss theme in Harry's Legend) was later reused in King Fishing for whenever a fish grabs the end of your line.
  • In the ROM, there is a list of object names referring to not only the playable characters and enemies in Titenic but also what appears to be enemies and items from Tenchi o Kurau 2: Sekiheki no Tatakai. [3] (Also known as Warriors of Fate outside of Japan.) The lobster in Titenic also looks similar to the one found in Tenchi o Kurau 2. This might imply Titenic could be based on an unfinished and unreleased port of Warriors of Fate, or Hummer Team reused assets from an unfinished port they have worked on.
    • Despite the lobster having a name on the object list, it does not refer to the lobster found in Titenic itself.
    • It's possible that the "summon" part of the debug could be a remnant of a two-player selection mechanic from this assumed port, as it's limited to only four characters. (There's five characters to play from in Warriors of Fate and a second player wouldn't normally be able to choose the same character again.)
    • This object name list remains in Harry's Legend and strangely enough, Hummer Team's Mortal Kombat 4.

Harry's Legend

Harry's Legend is a modification of Titenic based on Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (most likely the novel, as the movie came out in 2001) made by Hummer Technology, a successor of Hummer Team. Two versions of the game were originally released with title screens in English and Chinese. Harry's Legend has become an object of multiple unofficial re-releases, appearing on both multicarts and single game cartridges.

Overview

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Gameplay of Harry's Legend. Note the Dudley-like enemy.

In comparison to Titenic, the gameplay has been somewhat watered down. Harry Potter is the only playable character and he only has three non-special attacks: a standing kick that can't combo, a crouching punch and a crouching kick. Unlike in Titenic, he's unable to perform any attacks in the air. The inputs for both special attacks remain the same but they need to be "unlocked"; the broom becoming available in stage two (A + B) and the magic attack is acquired in stage three (Up, Down).

There are five levels present in Harry's Legend, all of which can be chosen right after the title screen, although all of them have to be completed in order to see the ending. The majority of level layouts have been brought over from Titenic with a few differences in graphics and item placements. The first segment of stage five (At School) features a volleyball minigame, in which Harry plays against an old woman and either characters takes damage if the ball gets into their goal - possibly an attempt at recreating the Qudditch matches seen in the series.

Most of the human enemies make a return from Titenic but without proper attacks, going for contact damage instead. Most of the animal enemies return and behave the same way they do. The only all-new enemies in Harry's Legend are a giant chess piece and an indestructible floating flame. A book-holding ghost also appears in stage five but he can't do any damage to Harry; only serving to bounce the ball away. Each stage ends with a boss - possibly based on Professor Quirrell and Voldemort - who has two faces and is constantly walking backwards. Strangely, his death animation always has him fall right down into water, even if it doesn't make sense from the stage's design.

The text in the cutscenes are taken directly from excerpts of the first book, with a few typos in certain places (such as "hard" instead of "hand"). The music seems to be original aside from the boss theme, which was reused from the "rising water" screens in stage five of Titenic. The cutscene and stage one tracks were rearranged for stage three and stages two and four. The cutscene music also seems to be a rearrangement of one of the stage tracks from Hummer Team's Mortal Kombat 3.

Trivia

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Taiwanese cover of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.

  • The title screen is directly based on the Taiwanese cover of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. This was later edited slightly for the English version.
  • The demos do not use Harry's jumping or hitting sounds, yet everything else is in place. This is because sounds are played differently from Harry's actions. The demos are rather strange as Harry is kicking and jumping at random.
  • The upper right-hand corner of the HUD normally displays "Harry Potter" although some multicarts change the text to "Harry's Legend". In the ROM, there are unused tiles for the HUD that have the letters "Bo". This could have been for his name (Harry Botter), either to avoid copyright infringement or simply a mistake, as his name is 哈利波特 (Ha Li Bo Te) in Chinese. The Game Genie code XIYXOX will replace Harry Potter's name with "Harry Botter".
  • On Stage 2, it is possible to knock Voldemort himself into the water in order to defeat him. If you jump on the ice platform and let Voldemort fall in himself, you will also fall into the water as well since Harry jumps up and down in his victory animation. (The ice platform will not be under his feet after the first jump).
  • A title hack of this game, called "Hally Poter: Goblet of Fire", appears on some One Station cartridges. [4]
  • The 4-in-1 (FK23C8079) multicart has a variant of Harry's Legend where not only does the HUD replace "Harry Potter" with "Harry Legend", but the level select is removed and it plays an entirely different track when Voldemort appears.
  • Harry appears on the front of the BootlegGames Wiki.

Subpages

Harry's Legend Unused Stuff

Harry's Legend contains a bunch of unused stuff, many of it being leftovers from Titenic.

References

  1. ↑ http://s4.zetaboards.com/PGC_Forums/single/?p=8120193&t=9613847
  2. ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20050205212309/http://ababsoft.com/index.html
  3. ↑ https://tcrf.net/Titenic#Unused_Text
  4. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bE9sNQJ7SGA

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