Pirates of Dark Water (Europe) (Sample)
This is a PAL sample, different than the USA Prototype on SNESCentral, but another copy of the white label version. Apart from being in a case, there are only a handful of differences between all the versions I compared: USA Prototype, Europe and Europe Sample. For the most part, the USA Prototype matched the Europe final closer than the Europe Sample did.
Titles - USA Prototype / Europe / Europe Sample
The Europe Sample title has the string SAMPLE VERSION
clearly at the top. The missing PRESS START
is simply not picture as it blinks in all version.


License - USA Prototype / Europe Sample
As noted on SNESCentral the license screen has been shuffled around, moving the license string LICENSED BY NINTENDO
to the title screen.


Options - USA Prototype / Europe Sample
The Europe Sample has a LEVEL SELECT
, as seen on The Cutting Room Floor article that lets you toggle between 01
, 04
and 05
, this is missing from the USA Prototype version.


Game Select - USA Prototype / Europe Sample
The Europe Sample has the options higher up, which is harder to read.


Level 1 - Dragon's Maw - USA Prototype / Europe Sample
The USA Prototype appears to have no shadow under the player, but is otherwise the same from what I saw. The flying creatures are randomly placed in the background.


Screenshots
ROM Info
---------------------Internal ROM Info----------------------
File: Pirates of Dark Water, The (Europe) (Sample).sfc
Name: DARK WATER Company: Sunsoft
Header: None Bank: LoROM
Interleaved: None SRAM: 0 Kb
Type: Normal ROM: 8 Mb
Country: Euro/Asia/Oceania Video: PAL
ROM Speed: 120ns (FastROM) Revision: 1.0
Checksum: Bad 0xBBA9 != 0xBC87 Game Code:
---------------------------Hashes---------------------------
CRC32: E3986DBF
MD5: 4C3814F5BE295994785F749A6C5425A4
SHA-1: D14BA08717BDFF5082F3D8E7730A6E62C27B7998
--------------------------Database--------------------------
ROM wasn't found in the database (possible bad dump).
---------------------Internal ROM Info----------------------
File: Pirates of Dark Water, The (Europe).sfc
Name: DARK WATER Company: Sunsoft
Header: None Bank: LoROM
Interleaved: None SRAM: 0 Kb
Type: Normal ROM: 8 Mb
Country: Euro/Asia/Oceania Video: PAL
ROM Speed: 120ns (FastROM) Revision: 1.0
Checksum: Good 0xE82F Game Code:
---------------------------Hashes---------------------------
CRC32: 4C4782B5
MD5: CD4DF66A9798365D5A766FCFF18B4377
SHA-1: DAED2AA89DFC2FB4DE1C690C2E26ACF271C0AA31
--------------------------Database--------------------------
Name: Pirates of Dark Water, The
Country: Europe Revision: 1.0
Port 1: Gamepad Port 2: Gamepad
Genre 1: Fighting Genre 2: Brawler
---------------------Internal ROM Info----------------------
File: Pirates of Dark Water, The (USA) (Prototype).sfc
Name: DARK WATER Company: Sunsoft
Header: None Bank: LoROM
Interleaved: None SRAM: 0 Kb
Type: Normal ROM: 8 Mb
Country: USA Video: NTSC
ROM Speed: 120ns (FastROM) Revision: 1.0
Checksum: Good 0xF8AA Game Code:
---------------------------Hashes---------------------------
CRC32: 2BB26C4A
MD5: 097DA94A3066DA59D1D31F4C54BAD041
SHA-1: 524B7252FB07C7085D6539DA91BF2F9E18C92D8B
--------------------------Database--------------------------
ROM wasn't found in the database (possible bad dump).
---------------------Internal ROM Info----------------------
File: Pirates of Dark Water, The (USA).sfc
Name: DARK WATER Company: Sunsoft
Header: None Bank: LoROM
Interleaved: None SRAM: 0 Kb
Type: Normal ROM: 8 Mb
Country: USA Video: NTSC
ROM Speed: 120ns (FastROM) Revision: 1.0
Checksum: Good 0xE87B Game Code:
---------------------------Hashes---------------------------
CRC32: 7CA0CA4D
MD5: E57FF9A6F8A23935A1171F871C0CE68F
SHA-1: EE8CB83B46B0DFCE33CBBFA16BF0C713FBF288BA
--------------------------Database--------------------------
Name: Pirates of Dark Water, The
Country: USA Revision: 1.0
Port 1: Gamepad Port 2: Gamepad
Genre 1: Fighting Genre 2: Brawler