Digimon Sapphire ROM

Digimon Sapphire is a basic platforming game, similar to that of the Super Mario games. The game starts with an intro that introduces the three playable Digimon in the game: Agumon, Veemon, and Guilmon, with stills presumably from one of the Digimon anime series interspersed between each introduction. When a new game is created, you are presented with the option to select one of the three Digimon shown in the intro to play as.

The game is divided into eight stages, with each stage containing three levels. The goal in each stage is to navigate the levels with the Digimon selected at the beginning and fight each boss at the end of the stage. The levels in each stage contain a set of enemies that will deal damage to the player if they run into them. The player jumps with the A button and uses the Digimon’s secondary attack with the B button, both of which can kill enemies.

Agumon and Guilmon breathe fire as their secondary attack, while Veemon shoots projectiles out of his fist. The Digimon can also jump on or shoot at enemy projectiles with no consequences. Spikes and bottomless pits are also present in all levels, with the former dealing damage to the player and the latter instantly killing the player when they fall into them, resulting in a life being lost. Losing all health will also result in a life being lost.

Killing an enemy or enemy projectile will typically result in it dropping an item, which can include health, extra lives, or various objects that simply count as points, and also fill up a meter at the bottom left of the screen that, when filled, will add to a counter next to the meter. This counter will let the Digimon temporarily evolve for the amount specified in it if the player presses the L or R trigger. For all Digimon, they only evolve into WarGreymon, which allows them to walk past enemies and interact with other hazards (not including bottomless pits) without getting hurt. The Digimon will return to their original form once a certain amount of time has passed.