Recently I programmed a level viewer for Pocky & Rocky (SNES) and was delighted to find that the final level,
Stage 6: Battle With Black Mantle has an unused area not seen in this (presumably) screenshot-stitched map by MagnetiC.
this is my output:
![](https://i.imgur.com/fWgzNFQ.png)
the only rooms you can actually see in-game are these highlighted here:
![](https://i.imgur.com/AIvElKg.png)
So here's the unused corridor:
![](https://i.imgur.com/jeesPYf.png)
and its background:
![](https://i.imgur.com/O8d6GLK.png)
and my best-guess estimates of the three middle rooms
![](https://i.imgur.com/wGI8dlc.png)
Very interesting! There are unused enemy graphics in the bank assigned to that level, but we weren't able to spawn them anywhere sadly. I was doing analysis with Random Talking Bush and they found this interesting bit too:
There's traces of an unused stage in the first Pocky & Rocky as well by the looks of it.
Setting the selected byte to "6" on the level select and moving the selection up or down makes "Stage 7" appear.
![](https://i.imgur.com/scm9N6K.png)
Can't be selected regardless, and forcing the stage value to be anything higher makes it default to Stage 6.
...but if you change it during the map transition...
![](https://i.imgur.com/PP4BTGL.png)
Which is definitely different than the actual Stage 6's.
![](https://i.imgur.com/Nh8tp1U.png)
Apparently the Black Mantle's Revenge is making the game crash. 😛
Haven't gotten to parsing the level data for either game so I don't know if any actual unused stages exist yet
This is all pioneer work, by the way, so you won't find this info on the Cutting Room Floor wiki
![Cool 8)](https://www.vgmaps.com/forums/Smileys/default/cool.gif)
Nonetheless, how do you feel about "secret maps" in general? Super Mario Bros. 3 might be the most known about, or at least I think a lot of people know about the unused levels in the game... Do you know of any cool unused maps? What's your favorite?