Sitio do Picapau Amarelo -- The Yellow Woodpecker Ranch
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| 1. Introduction |
| 2. Controls |
| 3. Story |
| 4. Walkthrough |
| 4.1.1 - Outside the Ranch |
| 4.1.2 - Swimming Underground |
| 4.1.3 - The Cave |
| 4.1.4 - Blood of the Giant |
| Dragon |
| 4.2.1 - Catching a Saci |
| 4.2.2 - Lumberjack |
| 4.2.3 - Safari Hunter |
| 4.2.4 - The Colours of The |
| Rainbow |
| 4.3.1 - Caverna da Cuca |
| 4.3.2 - Mermaid |
| 4.3.3 - The Final Ingredient |
| 5. Pro Action Replay Codes |
| 6. Text translation guide |
| 7. Final thoughts |
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1. INTRODUCTION
Sitio do Picapau Amarelo (or roughly The Yellow Woodpecker Ranch) is the
setting for the children's books written by Brazilian writer Monteiro Lobato.
It is a small farm with a pretty cottage, surrounded by trees and
simultaneously close to several other subsettings: the river, the woods, and a
small village nearby. Where characters of Brazilian folklores are lived around
in the country side's home of it's small farm itself.
It's also notable for being one of the last games to be released for the Sega
Master System, it is highly collectable because it was only released in Brasil.
Finding a complete copy can be tricky, and even most people in Brasil do not
own a copy. It's not the rarest game out there, I'd like to say it's pretty
uncommon to find it. If you're not emulating this and would like to find a
copy in the wild, I suggest Mercado Livre (Brasil's answer to eBay). Some
sellers from Brasil are willing to ship to the USA. Beware, it can be costly.
Be sure your seller marks the item as a gift!
!!! CAUTION !!! If you are playing this on real hardware be warned that early
v1.3 SMS Model 1 BIOS' (i.e. the ones that just have the Snail Maze game and
no other built in games) will NOT load this game! It will just ask you to
insert a cartridge. I do not know if this phenomenon is unique to v1.3 or if
it holds true to SMS Model 1's with Alex Kidd, Hang-On, Hang-On/Safari Hunt, or
Missile Defense 3-D built in to the system. Please e-mail me if you have more
information on this! With that said, you can buy a "Master Mega Converter" or
a Power Base Converter in the US to play this game on your Sega Genesis. To
play it on a Nomad you will need to solder pin B30 of the cartridge port to Pin
45 on the ASIC. It's tricky, but can be done, and you can even build your own
"Master Mega Converter." More details on this will be at the end of this FAQ.
2. CONTROLS
The controls on this game are fairly standard. Button 1 allows Pedrinho to
fling rocks from his slingshot. Button 2 allows him to jump. The D-Pad, of
course, allows him to move around. If you tap and hold left or right he will
run in this direction. You must master this semi-awkward style of control in
order to jump some of the gaps and jump on rocks. Thankfully, the game is
fairly short and the jumps aren't IMPOSSIBLE, but they are annoying!
3. STORY
The story begins with Aunt Nastacia saying that she does not feel very well.
The children are told that Aunt Nastacia is sick and asked what can they do to
help.
Doctor Snail tells the children that the Aunt Nastacia is under
'feiticus acumulatus.' And he needs to prepare a potion for her to get well.
However, the ingredients that are needed are very difficult to achieve and
obtain, those who retrieve them are at a deadly risk. The five ingredients are:
Plants that are in a magic cave; blood of a giant dragon, the cap of a Saci,
the stick of japecanga 'sarsaparilla' and the hair of Water Nymph (Mermaid).
But a full moon is arriving tomorrow and if the children do not return with
the ingredients in time Aunt Nastacia will sleep for a hundred years.
The children say, "Let's get going!" and now it's time to choose characters.
4. WALKTHROUGH
After you are introduced to the story you will have a choice to play one or
two players. Select Pedrinho after you choose one player. Playing as Emilia
is extremely difficult and I have not been able to complete the game as Emilia.
You're welcome to try and if you can pull it off I'd very much like to hear
about it!
4.1.1 OUTSIDE THE RANCH
You start off in front of the house and my best advice to you is to hold down
run and let the two bee nests hit you (I can never time the jumps right) and
jump over the snake, keep holding right because as soon as you land you will
keep running, as soon as you hit the bridge stop. Move slowly and make your
way past the two fish that jump out of the water. Watch out for the hole in
the ground and continue running. Watch out for the bees nest and snake, grab
the bird to restore your health and jump down the hole with water in it.
4.1.2 SWIMMING UNDERGROUND
Now you are underwater, swim all the way to the bottom and hold down and
continue your way forward avoiding the fish. If you stay to the bottom
this should be pretty easy. The spikes look like they would hurt you but
surprisingly they do not. When you reach the end swim up to enter the cave.
4.1.3 THE CAVE
Immediately you will notice a blue spider. Jump up directly underneath it to
catch it. You will find out why soon. Watch out for the red spiders. It's
tricky to time it just right, but you can run underneath them without getting
hurt. The third blue spider is tough to reach, usually takes me about 10 tries
but it can be done. Just keep trying! You'll come to a stop where you can
only fall down. Do so, but hug the wall to the right, when you land start
running to avoid the red spider. Grab the other two spiders and avoid the
final red spider and fall down. This time you don't need to worry about
hugging the wall. Grab the last spider and immediately start running to avoid
the red spider. You will come to this peculiar looking creature. He will
thank you for finding his little girls (the six spiders you just found) and
will allow you to pass. If you do not find all six spiders he will ask you to
find them and the level restarts. Now you know why I told you to do retrieve
the spiders earlier!
4.1.4 BLOOD OF THE GIANT DRAGON
As soon as you enter this new cave fall down and you will land on a platform
that will again fall. Just allow it to drop, but avoid the bats. Start
running to the left, again avoiding the bats (use your slingshot to kill them
if you can). You will have to jump through a small space and once you crawl
through this space you will go down a small incline and land on the ground.
Look carefully as you will see a pair of eyes, ears, snout and mouth. This is
the dragon. Just huge the right wall and start shooting it many times with
your slingshot and you will see a drop of blood. Move forward to collect it.
Keep traversing left and eventually you will come to a hole and the level will
end.
4.2.1 CATCHING A SACI
Avoid the first whirlwind! Try to run and jump over it and keep running! It's
hard! I almost always get hit once by the whirlwind, maybe you can do better?
Anyways, keep running forward and you will run into an old man smoking a pipe.
Pedrinho will tell him that he needs help getting a cap of a Saci. Uncle
Barnabus will give you a bottle with a cork and a sieve. He tells you to get
on top of the whirlwind and bam! use the sieve to separate because inside every
whirlwind is a Saci. After hearing this the cutscene ends and you will be
standing near another whirlwind. Shoot it with your slingshot until it
disappears. Jump on the mushrooms and if you hit it dead center you will begin
to jump really high in the air, time the jumps right and make your past the
mushroom jumps. There's about 5 mushrooms, when you reach the tree stop and
stand directly underneath and shoot the whirlwind. Reach the next screen and
you will see a whirlwind that is spinning in place. Jump over the whirlwind to
grab the bird and then jump on top of the whirlwind to trigger the cutscene.
The saci tells you that there is many dangers in the forest and without his
help you will be lost, especially since you picked the worst time at night to
travel. He will help you under one condition, return his cap. You will be
presented with a choice to return it back. Select Sim (yes).
Move forward, avoid the bird. Move all the way to the edge and a large gray
bat-like creature appears, shoot it with your slingshot and jump on over it and
finally on top to ride the bat over the large gap. Be careful, if you run into
him you will loose health. Fly high up and when you reach the tree jump off
the bat. Grab the extra life and end the level.
4.2.2 LUMBERJACK
A cutscene appears with the Saci telling you that because you freed him he will
give you this cap of a Saci who lived to be seventy years old to help Aunt
Nastacia. Pedrinho asks how the Saci knows Aunt Nastacia. The Saci asks
you think I don't see everything that happens? And tells you to keep moving.
Up ahead are some rocks and this part is tricky. Basically, every other rock
you land on will immediately fall so be prepared. Watch out for the birds as
well. On the next screen a snake will be moving fast and ready to run into you
so watch out. Grab the item on the ground, but watch out for the bird and
snake waiting to attack. There's another item laying on the ground at the end
of the current screen and another bird waiting to attack you. After this
screen you will come to a mini boss battle with a lumberjack character. Hit
him with your slingshot while avoiding his axes and running into you. Not too
hard.
4.2.3 SAFARI HUNTER
Avoid the cheetahs and snakes. You will come to an end where you need to jump
on a crocodile. Time it right, of course, then after you reach the next ledge
watch out for the cheetah ready to come after you. On the next screen, grab
the bird and go through the door. At this new screen grab the bird and avoid
the cheetah on top of the incline and the other one at the bottom. There's a
monkey waiting to throw coconuts at you as well. Reach the end and grab a hold
of the glider on the rope and enter the door.
On the next screen you can go left and jump on the platform, avoid the snake
and perform a running jump to grab a bird power up if you're in need of energy.
This is also true for the platform on the right. Watch out for the cheetahs
at the bottom. Keep moving right to enter the next screen.
Keep moving and don't fall into the animal traps. There is a bird powerup
nearby. At the top of the platform is a safari hunter mini boss. Shoot him
with your slingshot or jump on his head a few times.
At the bridge keep moving forward and don't fall. At the dead end fall down
and keep hugging the right wall. On the second platform (I believe it's the
second if I am wrong, please e-mail me) keep moving right and avoid the two
falling floors (they're easy to spot because they're coloured slightly
different). Jump on the moving platform and end this screen. Whew!
4.2.4 THE COLOURS OF THE RAINBOW
Jump on the middle mushroom and push up to trigger a cutscene. Basically, the
trees tell you they will not let you pass unless you show them the colours of
the rainbow. To do this, press up on the Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, and
Purple mushrooms in this order. The trees will remark how beautiful the scene
is and allow you to pass.
4.3.1 CAVERNA DA CUCA
Avoid the cloud shooting lightning bolts and move forward to trigger a cutscene
with the Saci. He tells you that you are close to the cave and that the witch
has very powerful hearing. He asks you if you want to wear a disguise.
Obviously, choose Sim (Yes). Keep moving forward, avoiding the lightning bolts
and jump the gap and enter the cave. Shoot the witch with your slingshot,
avoiding her projectiles and after you defeat her run forward to avoid the
icicles and jump the gap.
4.3.2 MERMAID
Jump over the snake and get a running jump and make a large blind jump. You
will land on a platform and watch out because this is the tricky part. The
trees themselves are bottomless pits. Get a small running jump and jump onto
the bushes next to them. You must land on the top-center bush. It's hard to
do and will probably take a few tries to learn how to do it just right. Grab
the bird if you need it and make two more jumps and jump on the rocks. The
white coloured rocks will fall as soon as you land on them, so watch out. Jump
on large pair of rocks and make the jump to the rocks on top of the waterfall.
Jump down and to the right on the second rock and touch the mermaid. Jump onto
the large rock and when you land avoid the snake. Grab the extra life and onto
the next screen.
4.3.3 THE FINAL INGREDIENT
A cutscene will reveal Dr. Snail telling you that you need the tears of the
witch as the final ingredient. He apologizes for forgetting to mention this
and as you can tell the children are a little peeved by this!
Anyways, you'll come back to the cave. Avoid the projectiles the witch shoots
because this time one hit will turn you into a frog! Hit her with your
slingshot and after she has been defeated a cutscene is revealed with the Saci
will help you squeeze the tears out of her by tying her up with a vine.
Walk up to her to grab her tears and she will tell you just take them and to
leave a poor old woman alone.
A cutscene comes back to Dr. Snail administering the potion to Aunt Nastacia
and she wakes up and everyone rejoices.
The final scene is a silhouette of everyone at the campfire outside the house
and Aunt Nastacia brings out a platter of hot food.
And the credits roll!
That's it, congratulations, you have finished Sitio do Picapau Amarelo!
5. PRO ACITON REPLAY CODES
If you're one of the few people who own one of these awesome devices, or simply
using an emulator you can use these codes to make your adventure much easier.
00C1D199
Infinite Health for Both Characters
00C9B503
Infinite Lives for Pedrinho (Always shows 3 lives)
00C9B603
Infinite Lives for Emília (Always shows 3 lives)
6. TEXT TRANSLATION GUIDE
INTRO
"Ai, Sinha. Acuda. Tu passando mal..."
"Oh, Missy. Help me. I feel sick..."
"Ai, meninos. Coitada da nastacia, o que e que nos podemos fazer?"
"Oh, children. Nastacia is sick, what can we do?"
"A senhora nastacia esta sob 'feiticus acumulatus'. E preciso preparar uma
pocao que o anule. No entanto, sao necessarios ingredients muito dificeis de
conseguir e que, para obte-los, a pessoa correra risco mortal. Os ingerdientes
sao cinco: Plantas magicas que se encontram numa coverna; sangue de um morgeco
gigante; a carapuca de um saci, o bastao de japecanga - 'salsaparrilha' - do
curupira e um fio de cabelo da iara."
"The lady Nastacia is under 'feiticus acumulatus.' And I need to prepare a
potion for her to get better. However, the ingredients that are needed are very
difficult to achieve and obtain, those who retrieve them are at a deadly risk.
The five ingredients are: Plants that are in a magic cave; blood of a giant
dragon, the cap of a Saci, the stick of japecanga - 'sarsaparilla' - and the
hair of Water Nymph. "
"Mas atencao! Voces devem conseguir os ingredientes logo, pois amanha sera lua
cheia e isso fara com que a senhora nastacia durma por durante cem anos!"
"But attention! You must get the ingredients right, because tomorrow will be a
full moon and it will make Lady Nastacia sleep for a hundred years!"
"Deixem com a gente!"
"Let's get going!"
THE CAVE
"Por favor, encontre as minhas seis filhinhas. Faz pouco tempo que nos mudamos
para cá e elas se perderam."
"Please find my six little girls. We just move here recently
here and they are lost. "
"Que bom que voce encontrou as minhas seis filhinhas! Estava tao preocupada.
Espero que voce tenha sorte na sua busca."
"I'm glad you found my six little girls! I was so worried.
Good luck in your search. "
CATCHING A SACI
"Tio barnabe, eu estou atras do saci. Preciso da sua carapuca para fazer a
pocao da tia nastacia."
"Uncle Barnabas, I'm behind the saci. I need your hood to make
Aunt Nastacia's potion. "
"Pedrinho, leve esta peneira de cruzeta, esta garrafa e esta rolha com uma
cruzinha. Espere aparecer o rodamoinho de poeira e folhas secas."
"Pedrinho, take this sieve of crosshead, and that this bottle cork a small
cross. Expect to see the whirlwind of dust and dry leaves. "
"Vai-se com todo o cuidado para o rodamoinho e zas! - Joga-se a peneira em
cima. Em todos os rodamoinhos, ha saci dentro, porque, fazer rodamoinho e
justamente a principal ocupaco dos sacis neste mundo."
"Go very carefully to the whirlwind and wham! - Place the sieve on top.
In every whirlpool, there is a saci inside, because whirlwind sacis are
the main occupancy of this world. "
"Peguei!"
"Gotcha!"
"Que aconteceu que esta assim inquiento, meu cara saci?"
"What has happened that it is so unquestionable, my saci?"
"Aconteceu que este lugar e o mais perigoso da floresta, e que se a noite
pilhar voce aqui, era uma vez o neto de dona benta..."
"It turns out that the most dangerous place in the forest, and this is
the night you loot here, was once the grandson of Mrs. holy ... "
"Por que?-Perguntou, olhando ressabiadamente para todos os lados."
"Why, he asked, looking wary in all directions."
"Porque e justamente aqui o coracao da mata, ponto de reuniao de sacis,
lobisomens e ate da mula-sem-cabeca. Sem meu socorro voce estara perdido,
porque nao ha mais tempo de voltar para casa, nem voce sabe o caminho. Mas o
meu auxilio eu so darei sob uma condicao..."
"For it is here, in the heart of the forest, the meeting point of sacis,
werewolves and even the mule-with-no-head. Without my help you will be lost,
because there is little time to return home, you do not know the path. But
I will give you my aid under one condition..."
"Ja sei, restituir a carapuca! - Adiantou Pedrinho."
"I know, return the cap! - Pedrinho Added."
"Isso mesmo. E com ela a liberdade. Aceita?"
"Exactly. And with it her freedom. Do you accept?"
LUMBERJACK AND SAFARI HUNTER
"Oi, pedrinho! Em agradeci-mento por ter me libertado, vou lhe dar esta
carapuca de um saci que viveu por setenta e sete anos para ajudar a tia
nastacia."
"Hi, Pedrinho! In gratitude for freeing me, I'll give you this cap of a Saci
who lived for seventy-seven years to help Aunt Nastacia. "
"Come voce sabe da tia nastacia?"
"How do you know Aunt Nastacia?"
"Que pergunta! - Responde o saci com ironia. - E voce acha que eu nao sei tudo
o que acontece? e aqui, dentro destes gomos de taquarucus, que se geram e
crescem meus irmaos de uma perna so. Mas, depressa. Saia ja daqui."
"What a question! - Answered the saci with irony. - And you think I dont know
everything that happens? And here, within these Taquarucu buds, which are
generated and grow my brothers on one leg. But, hurry. Leave here already."
"Obgrigado, saci!"
"Thanks, saci!"
THE COLOURS OF THE RAINBOW
"Boa noite, onde pensa que vai?"
"Good night, where you going?"
"Hum, na caverna da cuca?"
"Um, the cave of the noggin?"
"Deixe-nos ver se voce pode passar..."
"Let's see if you can pass ..."
"Esta vendo esses cogumelos coloridos?"
"You see these colorful mushrooms?"
"Pulando sobre eles voce acende uma luz colorida..."
"Jumping on them you shine a colored light..."
"...monstre-nos as cores do arco-iris. Nos nunca as vimos antes!"
"... shows us the colors of the rainbow. We have never seen them before!"
"So entao deixaremos voce passar!"
"Then we will let you pass!"
"Que lindo, incrivel!"
"How beautiful, incredible!"
"Sensacional!"
"Sensational!"
"Muito obrigado por nos mos-trar as cores do acro-iris!"
"Thank you for showing us the colors of the rainbow!"
"Pode passar!"
"You may pass!"
THE FINAL INGREDIENT
"Dr. Caramujo prepara a pocao e da para tia nastacia. Ela nao acorda. Ele
lembra que precisa de uma lagrima da cuca."
"Dr. Snail prepares the potion to Aunt Nastacia. She did not wake up. He
remembers that you need a tear of the brain."
"So isso? Nao esta esquecendo mais nada?"
"That's it? You're not forgetting anything else?"
"Oi Pedrinho. Voltei para lhe ajudar. Vamos amarra-la com este cipo e
coloca-la debaixo de um fiozinho d' agua."
"Hi Peter. I came back to help you. Let's grab it with this vine and
place it under a trickle of water."
"No comeco ela nem sente, mas com a continuacao a dor vai ficando tamanha que
arrancara a sua lagrima."
"In the beginning she did not feel, but with continued pain becomes so strong
that snatched her tear. "
"Parem com este pingo que ja esta me pondo louca! Tenham do duma pobre
velha..."
"Stop this drop is making me crazy! Have of a poor old woman ..."
"Esta bem. Mas voce jura deixar-me sair daqui em paz?"
"Okay. But you swear to leave me alone out here?"
"Juro..."
"I swear..."
"Dr. Caramujo da a pocao para tia nastacia."
"Dr. Snail's administers the potion to Aunt Nastacia."
"Ela esta acordando!"
"She's waking up!"
"A tia nastacia acordou! Eeeeeh..."
"Aunt Nastacia awakes! Eeeeehh ..."
7. FINAL THOUGHTS
Sitio do Picapau Amarelo is not a bad game. It has some awkward run and jump
controls and some enemies are unfairly placed (like the bee nests). But, for
the most part I had fun with it and it can be completed in about an hour if you
know exactly what to do and how to avoid obstacles. Another real show stopper
for me was the rock jumps. It is very hard to get this right and not goof it
up and the final fight with the witch is very hard as well. I don't believe I
could finish this game without the aid of the PAR codes. But, I'm sure if I
sat down long enough I could pull it off. I'd have to rate it at about 7/10.
The game is fairly average for a third-party independent platformer. I do like
the story line and it being based off famous stories from Brasil make it
interesting.
And as promised, if you are interested in building a Master Mega converter for
yourself to play this on a Genesis/Mega Drive/Nomad the schematic is available
at
http://dk.toastednet.org/sega2sms.png. If you build one e-mail me! I'd
like to see pictures of your design.
Thanks to: SEGA, TecToy, Monteiro Lobato and his family, SEGA-Brasil forums,
SMSPower forums, Sega8Bit forums, TmEE, DevSter Specialties and You!
