Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Game Boy Advance)

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Developer: Griptonite Games Publisher: EA Games Platform: Game Boy Advance Released in JP: June 26, 2004 Released in US: June 2, 2004 Released in EU: June 4, 2004 This game has unused areas. This game has unused playable characters. This game has unused modes / minigames. This game has unused text. This game has debugging material. This game has a hidden sound test. This game has a hidden level select. This game has a prerelease article This game has a notes page

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban seems to be based off its Game Boy Color predecessor, including some unused data from that game.

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Prerelease Info

Notes

Debug Menu

This game has a fully intact debug menu. To access it, enter the Action Replay / GameShark code A432C9F0 5D832AB8 A7E25EF2 F6A528FC. Then, during the game, press the AR (GS) Button. Alternately, enable CodeBreaker code 74000130 00FF 33003F18 0019 and press L+R at any time.

Pressing the B button on the main debug menu will return to the title screen.

• Map Select - Allows you to spawn at any map in the game, including the test ones below. This option will use the settings chosen under the Character Level and Quest Select and Party Member Select sub-menus.
• Character Level and Quest Select - Allows you to modify the levels of Harry, Ron, and Hermione, as well as the current quest. The levels for each character go from 0 to 99, while the Current Quest setting goes from 0 to 26. When exiting this menu, the A button will confirm changes, while the B button will discard them. It unclear how to play the game with the currently chosen quest.

To do: There must be a way to see these quests. There might be some unused ones

• Party Member Select - Allows you to change the Lead Hero as well as the Second Follow and Third Follow characters. Unlike the above menu, both the A and B buttons will save the settings and exit the sub-menu.
  • Possible characters are: Muggle Harry, Muggle Hermione, Muggle Ron, Muggle Harry Lumos, Muggle GBC (Harry from its Game Boy Color predecessor) Harry, Robed Harry, Robed Hermione, Robed Ron, Buckbeak, and None.

• • The game will let you select the same character in multiple slots. Battles will freeze if there are no heroes in them (i.e. your party consists of only Buckbeak(s)), and the game will graphically glitch or reset if all character slots are set to None.
• Test Sound and Music - Play any of the sound effects (numbered 0 to 178) or music tracks (numbered 0 to 51) from the game.

To do: Check for unused music and sounds. There are some tracks I never heard even after getting 100%, but they might just be hard to trigger or rare enough to sound unfamiliar.

• View Collector's Cards - Use the D-Pad to flip through all of the Collector's Cards in some sort of almost-numerical order.
• View Portraits - Use the D-Pad to flip through all the character portraits. Going past the left and right bounds causes graphical glitches, eventually looping back to the other side of the portrait list.

Developer Text

There are some error messages starting at hex address 0x60555.

Error: Send Overrun
Error: Recv Overrun
Error: Recv CRC
Error: Recv Missing Packet
Error: Invalid Mode
Error: Invalid Command
Error: Timeout
Error: Game Code Recv
Error: Game Code Send
Error: None

Build Date

There are build dates hidden in the game at 0x06BFC4 in the US version and at 0x06BF34 in the Japanese version.

Japan	USA
Apr 12 2004	Apr 5 2004

Test Rooms

Five maps make up the test room. They are titled Diagon Alley Test Map 1 through 5. These maps can be accessed through the Map Select function of the debug menu. Despite the name, there are no features of Diagon Alley in the levels. These maps are linked horizontally and in numerical order. Each room has unique sprites. Any sprites with walking animations walk in a continuous loop. The encounters vary by room, many of them being bosses. Interestingly, the HP of the bosses is displayed as its actual value, while in game boss HP is displayed as being unknown.

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  Diagon Alley Test Map 1
  This room contains unbreakable barrels (which can normally be destroyed in the game). Various sprites and some encounters are scattered throughout.

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  Diagon Alley Test Map 2
  This room features sprites that do not move and unbreakable chairs (which can normally be destroyed in the game).

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  Diagon Alley Test Map 3
  This room contains more sprites than any other. There is a slight lag when walking through. Flipendo towers cannot be pushed with the spell.

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  Diagon Alley Test Map 4
  The features of this room are a horrified Ron and a locked chest.

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  Diagon Alley Test Map 5
  This room holds Buckbeak and a single painting. The painting has no collision data.

Unused Minigame

In this minigame, Harry has to play a version of the arcade game Tapper (but he serves Pumpkin Juice instead of Budweiser). The sprites for the "customers" are randomized every time the minigame is started. The customers will move towards Harry slowly. Once a sprite reaches the end of the table, it's game over. Controls: Use Up/Down to move between the three tables. Press A to fill and slide a glass of Pumpkin Juice along the current table. There is no function for receiving Pumpkin Juice, so the glass slides past the sprites and falls to the ground. This results in a YOU LOSE notification. Pressing the L button at any time brings Harry to the center table, where he drinks a glass of Pumpkin Juice and throws the empty glass on the ground, giving Harry 400 points. This results in a LEVEL PASSED notification.

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  The unused mini-game screen.

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  The LEVEL PASSED screen. Selecting "Resume Game" results in more random sprites added to the ones currently on screen.

Unused Screens

• To access these screens, use Action Replay/GameShark code 03003F18:XX, XX being the number for the screen.

• 19: Debug Menu - main
• 1F: Debug Menu - map select
• 20: Debug Menu - character level and quest select
• 21: Debug Menu - sound test
• 22: Debug Menu - view collector cards
• 23: Debug Menu - view portraits (there are some unused ones)
• 24: Unused minigame (Seen above)
• 25: Unused Hogwarts map screen (looks similar to the one in the Game Boy Color game, but the maps are replaced with just numbers; also displays your current (?) quest)

• 27: "Cool train cut-scene here" placeholder image

• 29: Tamagochi-like owl minigame (unlocked through GameCube connectivity). If you are on the Owl Care Kit screen, then you can use 42 instead and you will be able to choose your owl.
• 2A: Debug menu - character select
• 33: Harry vs 4 Dementors (alternate version of boggart mini-game (Used in story mode ONLY))
• 3A: Unused Christmas cutscene that was supposedly meant to be played before Harry and Ron find Firebolt.

• 1D: Unused mini-game high score naming screen. For some reason, they decided to scrap this idea, so you are never given an option to give a name to any of your high scores.

For more, see the notes for this game.

Unused Dialogue Icons

The characters were intended to have multiple portraits, to explain their emotions during their dialogues like in the GBC games.

These unused portraits are in a very different style, and Ron's hair style is completely different.

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  Harry's three unused icons, with the final icon (top left).

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  Ron's three unused icons, with the final icon (top left).