Porky Pig's Haunted Holiday (May 24, 1994 prototype) - Level 3 and "Some of Level 4"

Описание: First of all, the build can be found here: https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/2025/07/po...

Changed encode method again. Well, here's a long explanation about this level:

Level 3, another outfit in addition of a "water-proof" camera and unique animations if you wait long enough.

The raft sequence looks good, but the pirahnas moves faster and sometimes are difficult to dodge. Be careful before going to the underwater sequence.

As soon as you enter this next sequence, in this proto Porky moves slower underwater, jumping doesn't increase speed and his walking animation changes as well (if you keep him walking for some seconds, his sprite will glitch out for some reason).

The large pipe which leads to a special area can't be entered under the hidden tunnel, and that lonesome cupcake doesn't flash yet. And if the longer route can be normally ignored, Porky has no choice this time: you need to progress inside the wrecked ship whose in this build has several cupcakes as well as a slice of cake present in the way until the end. They removed them later (except a few cupcakes just to add the flashing effect) in the development likely for lag reduction.

Speaking of flashing cupcakes, in this build the trail starts at the end of the section and rewards only one 1up, but in later versions they expanded the trail starting from the aforementioned hidden tunnel, follow a few cupcakes inside the optional ship area, pick one cupcake to the left after exiting the section and the remaining ones are located at the same last route, rewarding three 1ups instead.

The next underwater room section includes more differences than the previous room:

The "reversed" first climbing section.
Less items present around the entire section and some of them were replaced/added later.
The fruit weapon is present in this build by finding in a hidden wall! Throw graphics are buggy with this outfit and one of underwater enemies can't be defeated with the weapon.
Following the route, the exit room that leads to the final underwater section... WAIT? The level 4 intro???
The outfit changes, but it's just the level 1 outfit with a palette change. Likely an oversight from the developers, and you can even bring the special items (icon graphics now is from the Mines level) + the fruit bowl.
Exit the room, just to realize the progress isn't done yet: Porky appears in a secret room still from the previous level now with problems: the game doesn't change the outfit and the special items to the current ones, and getting the third special item present in this room will trigger the Level 4 minigame instead (the level 3 one can be found on the scrapped Porkathlon menu).
Unfortunately the exit doesn't work at all! Another end of line.

How about the large pipe secret room from the first underwater sequence? The C.M.S. Editor is the answer: choose room value 22. As soon as you enter, you'll notice this room is very laggy: several cupcakes and some enemies present in the entire room that were removed and simply replaced to three 1-ups and three hearts at the exit, respectively.

For some reason, the top of the pipe actually works in this proto, but as a shortcut to the next underwater section instead.

Underwater 2 again: the location for "Porky's Revenge" minigame is obscure, and the game crashes after finishing it.

Where's the boss room: it is acessible via C.M.S editor room value 09: very glitched with a mix of boss room + the start section of the first room of level 3, and the corrupted boss is actually the level 2 one. Still invincible.

About Level 4: I wasn't able to load the rooms except the intro and the boss room (value 0A)! Now we have another boss that works in the proto. Early Tweety sprites, 2 HP again and beating him doesn't finish the level.

The boss room themes are present in this build (Music test) but both rooms plays the level theme instead, respectively.
(Fun fact: I recorded the bosses after spending some time testing the Snow level - that's why room 33 is shown - this is the second half of the Level 5 - at 20:17 of the video)

And to finish my comments: how about the hidden room present at the bottom-right path of the second underwater room? Well, two "green elephants that spawn bubbles are absent" that would be the key for it, and there's an unreachable potion behind the big wall. Time for another cheating! Getting the potion doesn't work well with the outfit and you have less flying time than the known level 1 potion, for unknown reasons.

That secret room was... the laggy secret room again? Well, that's it for now!

Meanwhile the first two levels are present here:
Level 1 complete with minigames and the boss:    • Porky Pig's Haunted Holiday (May 24, 1994 ...  
Level 2 partially complete with another minigame:    • Porky Pig's Haunted Holiday (May 24, 1994 ...  
Porky's Revenge location:    • Hidden "Porky's Revenge" Minigame - Level ...  
And a glitched room:    • Porky Pig's Haunted Holiday (May 24, 1994 ...