Trivia / Digimon World

• Bad Export for You:
  • Almost every PAL version of the game has a bug that prevents you from entering a dungeon in the desert, in turn blocking you from recruiting Whamon and Shellmon. This makes the game hard to win since, without Whamon (who takes you to several new areas ripe with quests and recruitable Digimon) and Shellmon (whose Bulletin Board is needed to provide updates on some quests), you miss many Champion- and Ultimate-Level Digimon. Since the final dungeon is unlocked after you gain a certain number of "points" (earned by recruiting Digimon; the higher their level, the more points you gain), you have to scrap to unlock it.
  • Inverted by the English PAL version; because it fixed many of the bugs present in the North American version (including the infamous Giromon's jukebox bug) and doesn't have the aforementioned bug present in the other language versions, it's arguably the best of the localized versions of the game.
• Dummied Out: Thanks to cheating devices, the player can access some items that are normally inaccessible, including:
  • The AS Decoder. Its description says it allows the player to read Ancient Script, but there is nowhere in the game where it could be useful at all. It's speculated it might have been used to decipher Leomon's plate, but this is based purely on conjecture.
  • The Kaminari/Electro Ring. It's an item that claims to evolve a Digimon into Kaminarimon, a Digimon that so far has not appeared, been called by name, or even been referenced in any media, except for this game. When fed to any Digimon, the item does nothing. Who, or what, could be Kaminarimon it a minor source of Epileptic Trees. Most likely though, Kaminarimon was just the beta name for Thundermon, which would imply this potential Digimon was just a Mamemon reskin.
  • The Moon Mirror, which supposedly evolves a Champion-Level Digimon into WereGarurumon. The item does work when eaten by a Digimon, and triggers a Digivolution. However, WereGarurumon itself was never properly implemented, so the game will invariably crash either during or after the Digivolution sequence.
  • The Giga Hand, which Digivolves a Digimon into Gigadramon. Gigadramon is just a silver reskin of Megadramon in this game, so it is fully functional and just inaccessible.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: So far, this game has yet to see a rerelease on any console aside from being released on PC, but only in South Korea.
• Promotional Powerless Piece of Garbage:
  • MetalEtemon, who can only be obtained by using the Metal Banana on a Digimon. Their item was given as part of a Japan-only promotional event via memory cards. The fact that you must use an item to obtain him all but ensures they will be severely underpowered compared to a naturally-evolved Digimon, not to say they will also die sooner.
  • The only way to legitimately obtain Panjyamon is via a special demo disc distributed by the Comic BomBom magazine, which allows you to obtain its Noble Mane Digivolution item in the full Japanese version of the game. In addition to having all the same issues that MetalEtemon has due to being a Digivolution item-only Digimon, Panjyamon also has some odd Digivolution data that can cause it to Digivolve into buggy Mons once it's old enough.^note Looking in the games code reveals that MetalEtemon also has some strange Digimon it can supposedly Digivolve into, like Goblimon, but since there are no conditions to trigger Ultimate Digimon to Digivolve further, this is impossible to actually see in-game. Since Panjyamon is considered a Champion in this game, it can Digivolve once it reaches around 10-11 years of age like any other Champion.
• Urban Legend of Zelda: Due to the game's inner workings being poorly understood for many years by its Western fanbase, there were many rumors circulating about how to get certain special Digimon, getting Digimon that weren't actually in the game, how to recruit certain Digimon that can't actually be recruited, etc. Often these rumors outright contradict each other, leaving many players confused as to how the game works exactly. Of particular note is MetalEtemon, who exists fully functional in the game's code but seemingly unavailable otherwise. It turns out they were only available as part of a promotional event in Japan that distributed memory cards with their Digivolution item.

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