Holding down the jump button lets them hover in the air for a short moment. Fred and Barney can jump, club their enemies and climb trees or stone pillars. Most fields require you to finish a side-scrolling platforming level. There are different fields that hold different challenges. On a world map, Fred and Barney throw dices to determine how many fields they can move. The Flintstones: The Treasure of Sierra Madrock is a side-scrolling platformer that includes several board game elements. The player takes control over Fred and Barney who also participate in the treasure hunt in order to make Fred the New Great Poobah. Since there are so many candidates, it is decided that the person who finds the Great Treasure of Sierra Madrock will become the new Great Poobah. This message was shown in the unreleased Japanese version's title screen before an alternative Taito copyright appears, as shown below.The Great Poobah has retired and is looking for a successor. The Japanese version of the game was unreleased and was rediscovered as part of the September 2020 lotcheck leak. It's also likely that it would've been used on a Japanese release, as other Flintstones games from Taito released there had that line about Nippon Columbia on their copyright notices. It may have been intended for a scrolling effect on the title screen. There is also another license message written to the window, but it never appears on the title screen. Game Genie code 28C-AD8-6EA will display an alternate Taito copyright on the title screen.
There are no references to this tileset in the ROM, even though it uses a considerable amount of space and there is virtually no free space elsewhere in the ROM.
Icons for various items such as hearts and pickups (Dino, Gazoo) exist as selected and unselected as well. This looks to be a remnant of a map viewer, if not editor. Present at 0xF8BC in the US v1.0 ROM is a peculiar tileset depicting various arrows, slopes, cursors, icons, flagpoles, etc.
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