Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker

Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker
Developer: TOSE Publisher: Square Enix Platform: Nintendo DS Released in JP: December 28, 2006 Released in US: November 6, 2007 Released in EU: March 14, 2008 Released in AU: March 13, 2008 This game has unused animations. This game has unused playable characters. This game has unused graphics. This game has unused items. This game has unused text. This game has a prerelease article This game has a Data Crystal page

Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker is the first game in the Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker series.

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Prerelease Info

Unused Graphics

Cutscene Graphics

These cutscene graphics are present and unused in all releases of the game.

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  Likely an early version of the CG for Dr Snap's speech (dm_pic_18.d16)

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  dm_pic_20.d16

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  Image of Captain Crow's pirate ship. Cutscene in game uses an animated 3D scene rather than this static image. (Pirate.d16)

Others

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  A photo of Maaya Sakamoto (DsSample.d16)

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  Likely a screenshot of an early game UI (window_b_test_2_1.bmp)

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  Likely a screenshot of an early game UI (window_tujo_0.bmp)

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  Promotional artwork for Dragon Quest Heroes: Rocket Slime (information_data.bin)

Unused Monsters

There are several monster races that are unused in the game's files. A few unused monsters have names in the North American release (ex. firebird), but most instead have dummy names (ex. DUMMY M120). All of the unused monsters have names in the Japanese version of the game.

ID	NA name	JP name	Localized name
48	DUMMY M30	ドラゴンキッズ	Small fry
50	DUMMY M32	フーセンドラゴン	Gasbagon
52	DUMMY M34	ライバーン	Wyvern
54	DUMMY M36	ドラゴンマッド	Drag-goof
57	DUMMY M39	テラノライナー	Dragstar
62	DUMMY M3E	スカイドラゴン	Ethereal serpent
67	DUMMY M43	しんりゅう	Xenlon
69	DUMMY M45	りゅうせんし	Mandrake marauder
109	DUMMY M6D	パオーム	Eyevory tusk-tusk
118	DUMMY M76	グリズリー	Ursa major
119	firebird	ひくいどり	Firebird
120	DUMMY M78	ガネーシャ	Pink elephant
126	powie yowie	イエティ	Powie yowie
149	DUMMY M95	きとうし	Shaman
158	DUMMY M9E	ごろつき	Hood
161	mandrake major	リザードマン	Mandrake major
164	stone guardian	だいまじん	Stone guardian
166	DUMMY MA6	やみのしさい	Dark minister
214	DUMMY MD6	じゃしんぞう	Sinisculpture
247	DUMMY MF7	あくまのきし	Knight aberrant
251	DUMMY MFB	ヘルビースト	Sculptrice
254	DUMMY MFE	しにがみのきし	Knight abhorrent
288	DUMMY M120	アニマルゾンビ	Putrefido
291	drooling ghoul	スモールグール	Drooling ghoul
293	DUMMY M125	バンパイア	Drac the Vlad
295	DUMMY M127	デスジャッカル	Rottenweiler

Unused Items

Skill Books

In the North American version, there are 4 unused skill book items that can be used to teach monsters specific Incarnus skill sets.

Name	Skill set
Book of Wulfspade	Wulfspade III
Book of Hawkhart	Hawkhart
Book of Diamagon	Diamagon
Book of Cluboon	Cluboon

Darkonium Pieces

In order to progress through the game, the player has to collect a total of 10 darkonium crystals. There are several things that suggest it was planned at one point for the player to be able to collect smaller pieces of darkonium crystals, and when the player obtained 5 pieces they would combine together into a full crystal.

• When obtaining a darkonium crystal, an animation plays showing 5 pieces of the darkonium crystal combining to form the full crystal.
• The game stores the number of darkonium crystals the player has obtained in an unsigned 8-bit integer, where the value is 5 times the number of darkonium crystals the player has (ex. when the player has 3 darkonium crystals the value is 15).
• Unused Japanese text in the North American release describes the player obtaining potentially more than one darkonium crystal piece at a time.

Japanese	Translation by Sparrow
[0xf5]は マデュライトのかけらを\n[0xb0]こ 手に入れた!	[Player] obtained # pieces of Magilite!

* "Magilite" (マデュライト) was localized as "darkonium" in the English translation.

Unused Animations

A few models have unused animations.

• Dr Snap has an unused walking animation, different from his walking animation used in-game.
• Warden Trump has several unused animation files. A few of them are duplicates of each other, and a few have blank data or do not work at all.
• Dr Snapped has an unused animation.

Unused Text

Bug Text

There are several messages that were added to denote possible bugs.

Most bug messages in the North American version of the game are in English, but a few are in Japanese.

Message
REPORT...THIS... [0xa7]COUGH[0xa7] AS A BUG...
[0xea]REPORT...THIS... [0xa7]COUGH[0xa7] AS A BUG...
Bug!
THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN ROBBED BY WHOEVER STOLE DR. SNAP’S DOCUMENTS. [0xf1][0xfb][0xfd] PLEASE REPORT AS A BUG.
[0xea]IF THIS MESSAGE IS SHOWN, IT MEANS A BUG HAS JUST BEEN FOUND.
[0xea][0xa7][0xb0] IF YOU ARE READING THIS MESSAGE, A BUG HAS OCCURRED.
[0xea]If you see this message, it is a BUG!
[0xea]YOU HAVE JUST FOUND A BUG!!!
[0xea]IF YOU ARE READING THIS, PLEASE REPORT AS A BUG.
THIS IS A BUG!!! REPORT ME!!!
THIS IS A BUG! REPORT ME NOW!
DUMMY DUMMYEAT PICKLESREPORT ME
このひょうじがでたということは[0xba] ばぐがはっせいしています。
このひょうじがでたということは[0xba] ばぐがはっせいしています
このひょうじがでたということは ばぐがはっせいしています
フラグせっていが できてないようです。。。

Demo Text

There is some text left over in the North American version from the demo version of the game.

Text
Thanks for trying out our game.
Watch out for the final version, coming soon!
NOT USABLE IN THE DEMO VERSION.
DEMO
Not available in this
demo version.

Regional Differences

Metal Ticket

In the North American and European versions of the game there is an item called the Metal Ticket that can be used as more convenient means to to enter the Metal Menagerie. This item is not present in the Japanese release of the game.

Cutscene Graphics

Many cutscene graphics in the Japanese release that contain Japanese text were not used or replaced with translated versions in the North American or European releases.

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  dm_pic_02.d16

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  dm_pic_03.d16

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  dm_pic_04.d16

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  dm_pic_05.d16

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  dm_pic_06.d16

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  dm_pic_08.d16

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  dm_pic_09.d16

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  dm_pic_10.d16

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  dm_pic_12.d16

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  dm_pic_13.d16

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  dm_pic_14.d16

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  dm_pic_15.d16