Hidemushi's Programmer Rant (Erika to Satoru no Yume Bouken)

In 1988, Erika to Satoru no Yume Bouken released for the Famicom, an adventure game where you control 2 characters while helping out the various animal citizens. In 2022, an English translation was released which is how I played through this game and while I enjoyed playing through from start to finish, the real goal was getting to witness the hidden programmer rant on real hardware.
Here's how you trigger this message.
Beat the game and wait on the end screen for about 1 hour and 30 minutes. When the music suddenly stops playing, on controller 1 hold A, B, Start, Select, Left, and on controller 2 hold A, B, and Right. The music will now change to a remix of the first stage from The Karate Kid NES game. Once the music starts playing, on controller 1 hold B, Select, Start, and on controller 2 hold B, Right, and Down. The hidden message will now begin. Once it stops on controller 1 hold A, B, and Up to get his final message.
This was done on a real Famicom console while using an Everdrive N8 Pro to play the English translation.
You can check out the English translation here: www.romhacking...
You can also check out the full uncut recording here: • Hidemushi's Programmer...

[@Inugamiz]

Makes you wonder... how many rants still undiscovered on videogames.

[@keironhiggspoet]

lol, poor Goto got owned. i love the more relaxed melody switchup when my dude has stopped burying his colleagues via this secret rant. I still wonder if he ever did send the poor debugger back to the samurai days..

[@AndrewAmbrose]

This is amazing.

[@FabioGnecco]

incredible that this got translated too xD wonder the rambler programmer still working in the industry ahhahaha

[@waymonboyer5969]

Lmbo. I did like the Karate Kid game they made

[@badumiia]

Interesting way to establish immortality.

[@banjogyro]

This is so cool