Luigi's Mansion (GameCube)

Luigi's Mansion
Also known as: Luigi Mansion (JP) Developer: Nintendo EAD Publisher: Nintendo Platform: GameCube Released in JP: September 14, 2001 Released in US: November 18, 2001 Released in EU: May 3, 2002 Released in AU: May 17, 2002 This game has unused animations. This game has unused areas. This game has unused code. This game has hidden developer credits. This game has hidden development-related text. This game has unused graphics. This game has unused models. This game has unused music. This game has unused sounds. This game has unused text. This game has debugging material. This game has regional differences. This game has a prerelease article This game has a bugs page This game has a Data Crystal page

Luigi's Mansion is one of the launch titles for the GameCube. After foolishly believing that he's won a mansion from a contest he never entered, Luigi arrives to find that Mario has already been taken inside. Now it's up to Luigi to find and pull Mario out of this mess, while the ghosts who own the mansion try to scare him. Unfortunately, his only line of defense is a vacuum cleaner.

An enhanced port was released for the Nintendo 3DS in 2018.

To do: Study some code which plays a telephone ring & breaks suction on the ghost catching function Might be worth noting how the game folders are named after staff members? Compare the differences between "Yay0" szp files in dol between versions. View Beta64's "Revisited" video for comparisons in content. The US demo was built after the US retail version, but the dol is larger than US retail; it has sound leftovers from the Japanese versions, and some CVS files contain earlier dates. (source: Squid_Tailbash) The game enables a non-functional controller mode? https://twitter.com/darthcloud64/status/1551993149047951360 The Luigi's Mansion microgame in WarioWare: Get It Together uses early assets

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Prerelease Info

Bugs

Unused Graphics Unused chat heads, ending graphics, and the original Game Boy Horror timer.

Unused Models An influx of models, ranging from cosmetics all the way to Mario! ...Wait, what?

Unused and Unseen Animations The ghosts could've been terrifying.

Unused Text Everything from developer comments to straight-up unused text strings.

Unused Audio E. Gadd and Luigi just won't shut up.

Unused Areas It may be hard to get your art in a gallery. It might be hard to get your gallery in a game.

Unused Code Warning! contains poison.

Version Differences You're telling me that Europe got the most difficult mode?

Debug Modes There's a lot more than the Simple Debug mode.

Oddities and Oversights The E3 2001 coins! They're here- under the floorboards!!

Unused Textbox Color Variants

Gold Ghost	Bowser	Mario

There are unused textboxes leftover in the game which also make use of scrapped character icons. The first one is a Gold Ghost box (ID 2, color #F0C810), which has likely been updated since the E3 demo, second is Bowser's (ID 5, color #D70000), and third is Mario's (ID 7, color #FF6464). A close replica of the Mario box is used in the 3DS remake.

(Source: luigim1)

Unused Paths

To do: There's a lot more. Consider moving this section to its own page. Add images to help visualize each path/spawn.

Unused Training Room Functions

The Training Room contains two unused ghost path files named mg_path and mg_path1. Additionally, the Training Room hosts 3 unused ghost generators named mg_gene1, mg_gene2, and mg_gene3. Curiously, the unused paths feature coordinates that pertain to the outer walls of the area, making the ghost generator panels on the wall release Gold Ghosts, much like their floor panel counterparts.

(Source: LMFinish)

Unused Skeleton Ghost Paths

There are two unused paths for the main mansion, called skul_23_1 and skul_23_2. "skul" refers to the skeleton ghosts called Mr. Bones, while "23" refers to the 23rd room in the mansion's data, the Courtyard. There are similarly-named path files for the Mr. Bones ghosts that appear in the Graveyard and in the Telephone Room, but no Mr. Bones appear in the Courtyard in the final game, rendering these paths unused.

Speaking of the Graveyard, there were plans for it to contain a fourth Mr. Bones. The corresponding path file, skul_16_4 ("16" is the Graveyard's room number), is undefined as it doesn't have an entry in map2's railinfo. In the final game, only three Mr. Bones are present in the Graveyard.

Unused Kitchen Grabber Path

obake_8_1, the path used for the Kitchen's Flash ghost, has an identical duplicate under the name topoo_8_1; "topoo" is the internal name for the Grabbing Ghosts, and "8" refers to the 8th room in the mansion's room archive data, the Kitchen. A screenshot from an earlier build of the game in the instruction booklet (Page 17) suggests that this path was named as such because of a scrapped red Grabber Ghost that also used to be in the Kitchen.

Unused Roof Paths

The mansion's 60th room, the Roof, has quite a lot of unused paths associated with it. To start off, three pairs of Ghost Guys, as well as two Flashes, are found on the Roof in the final game. The three Ghost Guy duos each have their own paths: heypo_60_1, heypo_60_2, and heypo_60_3. Curiously, there are unused paths that are numbered from 4 to 12, implying more Ghost Guys were planned for the Roof. It's also possible that each individual Ghost Guy had its own path.

Another unused Roof path is poo_60_1. poo is the internal name for the Flying Fish Ghost, but no Flying Fish Ghosts appear on the Roof at all in the final game.

Finally, there's a linear path called 001. It carries an object around the edges of the Roof. It was likely used for testing.

Early Slim Bankshot Paths

There are three paths related to Slim Bankshot's "rail" movement: hustler, which is used, along with two unused paths called hustler_01 and hustler_02. hustler_02 is similar to the used path, only it has fewer key points. hustler_01, meanwhile, places Slim within the Hidden Room, suggesting this was where the Billiards Room used to be before being moved.

Unused Bones

Ghost Nose Bones

Purple Puncher	Blue Twirler

The Purple Puncher and Blue Twirler ghosts used to have noses in the E3 2001 demo, but were removed from the final game. However, these ghosts still have a nose bone leftover.

• Nose bones are red and enlarged for viewing.

(Source: TheHappyFaceKing)

Hut Bone

The hut in the intro has an unused bone on the door that could have allowed it to rotate open.

(Source: ZeusKrAZy)

Inaccessible Blackout Ghosts

Sitting Room	Guest Room

The Sitting Room and Guest Room have blackout ghosts, but these rooms are inaccessible during the blackout, effectively making them unused. The Sitting Room has four Temper Terror ghosts, while the Guest Room has two Temper Terror ghosts and two Garbage Can ghosts. This could imply these rooms were accessible during the blackout in early versions of the game.

(Source: LMFinish)

Early Ghost Shading

Please elaborate. Having more detail is always a good thing. Specifically: Technical details, which version was it used in. "Note: For this to work you need to have changed the ghost parameters to have mAmb set to 0,0,0". Where is the left-hand imagefrom?

Early	Final

The opaque version of the ghost shading used in E3 version(s) still exists in the final game, and can be forced using the codes below.

USA	Japan
04058278 38800001 0405828C 39200002 04058284 38E00040	040575F4 38E00040 04057604 39200002

Unused Door Cutscenes

In Luigi's Mansion, there are certain doors blocked by force fields that lead to the next area. These doors have cutscenes for Luigi trying to open them while locked. Although, the force fields on these doors won't disappear until Luigi has the keys for them, leaving those cutscenes unused.

Obscure Language Select Screen

In the European version of Luigi's Mansion, this screen appears in-between the Nintendo logo screen and the title screen, if the system language is set to Dutch. It works as you would expect. Most first-party GameCube games seem to just default to English if the system language is not available in-game.

(Source: CyrusTheHedgehog)

DolphinOS Build Dates

The OS build dates for all three versions of the game are present within start.dol. The Japanese build date is located at 0x20A438, the US build date is located at 0x215158, and the European build date is located at 0x20A438.

Version	Build Date
Japanese	Aug 28 2001 03:09:59
North American	Sep 24 2001 14:49:49
Interactive Multi-Game Demo Disk October 2001 (USA)	Sep 28 2001 15:48:38
European (and European 1.01)	Dec 17 2001 18:46:45
Interactive Multi-Game Demo Disc March 2002 (Europe)	Jan 21 2002 09:28:46

(Source: ItsEasyActually, Catley)

CVS Files / Internal Project Name

Most (or all) directories and sub-directories (except those contained within archives) contain the CVS files "Entries", "Repository", and "Root". According to the "Root" files, the game's internal project name is "project1", although this may just be a generic folder name. In the "Root" files, you can also see Nintendo's server for working on the game and the account of the "Main Program" staff member, Hiroki Sotoike, accessing it.

:pserver:sotoike@piren:/home/cvsproject/project1

(Source: luigim1)

Removed Files

Two leftover CVS files, both called Entries.Log which are unique to the Japanese version, list some unused folders. They are located within the main root\CVS directory and root\Ajioka\CVS.

• Koga
• Kohno
• Sato
• demo
• movie
• sotoike
• Ajioka\Data
• Ajioka\ADemo0
• Ajioka\ADemo1
• Ajioka\ADemo2
• Ajioka\ADemo3
• Ajioka\ADemo4
• Ajioka\J3D_data
• Ajioka\Test
• Ajioka\fly
• Ajioka\luigi
• Ajioka\situji (situji means butler)

(Source: Original TCRF research)

Save Data Version Info

To do: document how the save data format differs between game versions

LUIGI_MANSION_SAVEDATA_v3

The save data's internal name contains what seems to be save data version string. It doesn't differ between versions of the game. Note that the save data format itself does differ between the Japanese and USA versions of the game, at least.

(Source: Original TCRF research)