It comes as a surprise to many, then, that secrets surrounding the titles' development are surfacing over 30 years later. A recently discovered NES prototype of DuckTales revealed an unused song , called "Map," but the tune wasn't the only bit of content scrapped from the title's final version. As it turns out, there were other additional elements removed from Capcom's acclaimed platformer than initially realized. Detailed in a recent interview with Kotaku on DuckTales ' development, producer Darcene Lacey revealed further info about cut content, explaining that players could originally choose more than one ending upon completing the game.
Lacey says that there was originally an option for Scrooge McDuck to give up his fortune, but due to it seeming "out of character," the option was scrapped. Had the option been taken, Scrooge would've told his nephews Huey, Dewey, and Louie, "There really is more important treasure than this.
That is. Dream and Friends. I couldn't have done it without you, I really am the richest duck in the world. Lacey did feel the scrapped line was the "better" one, and is relishing in fans' discovery about the alternate ending. Another developer featured in the interview, David Mullich, discusses what it was like to work with Disney. At the time, Disney was just entering the video game market, but its licensing agreement with Capcom meant the developer was limited on what it could depict.
Keep me logged in on this device Forgot your username or password? Don't have an account? Sign up for free! What do you need help on? Cancel X. Would you recommend this Guide? Yes No Hide. Send Skip Hide. Message Sent. It's almost impossible to get by normal means. Maybe at some point of development, other ways for Scrooge to lose money were planned, but the bad ending was kept. It's very possible that people don't know of the existence of this ending, the means for getting it are so obscure.
Some people think that this ending is impossible to get without cheating. But it is possible, and very satisfying, to do this without using cheats, especially on the console instead of an emulator.
With practice, this can easily be done on the console, after practicing on an emulator using save states. Getting the ending To get the secret ending, you must complete the game with zero dollars. There is a trick for regaining health, you press select, exactly 3 million dollars is consumed, and your health bar is refilled.
If you have exactly 6 million dollars, you do this trick twice to end up with zero dollars. Completing the game normally, finishing all 5 levels, and collecting no other treasures or enemy drops except ice cream , leaves you with exactly 5 million.
To get the additional 1 million, you must collect one of the 2 secret treasures. This guide ignores the Moon secret treasure and collects the one in the African Mines. But there is one other trick. You need to wait until at least 9 seconds are left on the game clock before collecting the treasure at the end of each stage, otherwise money will be added to your total. This is where practice on an emulator is handy, as you can speed the game up to make the clock run faster.
It is also possible to play the game normally and collect pickups. But this makes getting a multiple of 3 million very difficult.
General tips You cannot collect any treasure at all in the levels, except the one after the boss. If you collect even one tiny jewel, then you need to reset. Avoid invincibility. You can walk through an enemy and pick up a jewel without even knowing it. Play on the easiest difficulty setting, so you can take more hits. The ending is the same regardless of what difficulty you play on.
Practice the Moon glitch before you do a run. It's easy to do after a few attempts, and it cuts out a risky, and by risky I mean collecting something accidentally, portion of the level. This guide assumes familiarity with the game. So I don't go into too much detail on the walkthrough.
Consult another guide if you aren't familiar with the levels, or play through it a couple of times to get used to it. The shortcut to the boss in the Amazon can easily mess up a run.
That is why I recommend doing this level first. Practice getting to the secret area without collecting the contents of the treasure chest you need to pogo to. And remember to hold up on the d-pad! If you don't, you'll fall onto the pillar and collect the contents of the chest.
With practice, you can even pogo to the top of the chest, stop pogoing mid air by letting go of B at the right moment and land safely on it without it opening.
Then you can jump up and climb the rope. The reason that you must wait to collect the treasure after killing the boss is because you get time added to your money when you complete a stage, in multiples of If you wait until at least 9 seconds are left, you get nothing added at all, which is what you want. Any time between 1 second and 9 seconds is sufficient.
Out of the 2 secret treasures, the African Mines one is the easiest by far, as you will pass it anyway. By doing the wall glitch in the Moon, you cut out the ufo section, and this is where the secret treasure is. So ignore it. This guide, and the moon glitch, work on all version of the NES game.
Collecting ice cream for health is ok, it adds nothing to your money total. Feel free to go your own way at some points of the level, if you want. This means you can complete the Moon level normally if you wish. This guide kind of functions as a speed run as well, because it gets to the boss quickly. This gets the level over with as soon as possible, by moving quickly, you minimise the risk of accidental pickups. But it also means the wait is longer at the end of the level.
This is a worthy trade off, though. Don't rush too much and be careless though. It's ok to die occasionally, it has no impact on the run. But a game over will force you to start again from the beginning.
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