(EDIT: Getting stuck as a ship in the cantina is such a common occurence to people who played this I'm assuming I remembered the Action Replay thing wrong lmao)
i had an Action Replay as a kid and one time i decided put in a code for this game that let you switch to any character at any time. this was novel for a couple reasons, but of note was that you could switch to a vehicle (starfighters, millenium falcon and the like. you get it) during non-vehicle stages. vehicles, despite being a little proportionally incorrect, were obviously massive, hard to control, and couldn't make it through most single player levels - but it was greatly amusing nonetheless. you could even switch to them in the Cantina, which was really funny UP UNTIL i realized that, besides not being able to enter doors (and therefore levels), they also couldn't switch back to other characters nor to the partner character, for some reason. annoyed by this i exited to the title screen, although i made one mistake - i hit "save and exit". that was it: a full softlock! my legit 100% savefile had been ruined by boba fett's stupid spaceship. a hilarious and cruel twist of fate.

don't cheat, kids.

i accidentally played this one for a couple hours on my genesis flashcart instead of the genesis/MD version which made it pretty funny when i discovered that version was the original... this europe-exclusive port is mildly impressive for master system despite the unnecessarily blown out colors and generally ugly sprite conversion, but tbf the MD original was barely a step up from its SMS predecessor (The Dragon's Trap). of particular note is that, being that master system carts rarely came with battery backups, this conversion opts to use hilariously long passwords -- positively dying imagining some poor british kid writing this shit down, seething with jealousy at his classmate who owned a megadrive