Dolphin Trainer

Dolphin Trainer
Developer: Sanuk Games Publisher: BigBen Interactive Platform: Nintendo DS Released in EU: March 13, 2009 This game has unused graphics. This game has unused text. This game has debugging material.

Unused Graphics

bg_logo.NCGR, one of the graphics used for the title's bottom screen, also contains texture data for an early version of the game's logo, which is properly organized with the map file logo_bg0.NSCR.

Unused Text

Prototype Leftover

intro.txt, located in the root of the cartridge filesystem, contains a leftover from a prototype build of the game:

<Dolphin Trainer version December 14th, 2008 
This is not a final version 
Confidential property of Sanuk Games. 
Do not distribute.>

Early French Assets

The root of the cartridge filesystem, strangely, also contains a zipped package labeled FRA.rar. Extracting it gives an earlier version of the game's french assets. However, the only differences are in the spacing between some of the letters in the text data.

Strange Executable

Also in the filesystem root is an executable labeled GBAmdc.exe. Opening it using the command line reveals that it is a homebrew utility for Game Boy Advance games:

GBA MultiDeCompressor 0.3beta2 Mat - USO:
GBAmdc -e rom.gba dest.dat offset(hex)  (estrae dei dati nel file dest)
GBAmdc -a rom.gba log.txt       (estrae dei dati in base al log del VBA)
GBAmdc -cL7 dati.dat rom.gba offset(hex)        (comprime i dati con LZ77)
GBAmdc -cL7m dati.dat rom.gba offset(hex)       (compressione massima-insicura)

Mat - 10/01/2004
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