Mighty Milky Way

Mighty Milky Way
Developer: WayForward Technologies Publishers: WayForward Technologies (US/EU), Intergrow (JP) Platform: DSiWare Released in JP: April 30, 2014 Released in US: May 9, 2011 Released in EU: May 27, 2011 This game has hidden development-related text. This game has unused sounds. This game has unused text. This game has debugging material. This game has a development article

Mighty Milky Way is a puzzle action game about a cute green French alien girl named Luna who is on a top-secret mission, hindered by a robotic T-Rex who is also apparently her husband.

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Development Info

Debug Scripts Lots of leftover text found in all versions of the game

Unused Sounds

TEMP SLASH.sfx

As the name suggests, some kind of slashing sound. The filename suggests it was used as a placeholder.

TEMP VO SCREAM.sfx

A knockback voice clip of Zelda from Super Smash Bros. Melee with a high-pitch filter. Again, the filename suggests it was used as a placeholder.

Unused Translations

Data Corruption Error

In ErrorText.loctext, the error message for a data corruption error is located. It is the exact same message as in the PAL version of Mighty Flip Champs!, including the translations to French, Spanish, German and Italian. These translations are not used in the final game, as the rest of the game was never translated to these languages.

La sauvegarde peut avoir été corrompue.
Réinitialisation des données.
Bonne journée !

Los datos guardados están dañados.
Restableciendo datos.
¡Que tengas un buen día!

Der Spielstand ist fehlerhaft und wird gelöscht.
Einen schönen Tag noch!

I dati salvati potrebbero essere danneggiati.
Reset dati.
Buona giornata!

Save data may have been corrupted.
Resetting data.
Have a nice day!

French Tutorial Text

In TutorialText.loctext, the tutorial text that is shown in the first few levels is located. It is prefaced by the words ‘French’ and ‘English’, followed by some nonsensical French text, after which the English tutorial text used in the game starts. It is not a translation, but the placement suggests that there was an initial intent of translating the text into French.

Original French Text	Translation
vous avez une grand nez dans votre pain.	you have a big nose in your bread
quelle surprise!	what a surprise!
Ma vie sent votre visage	My life smells like your face
si tu as lavé les ananas	if you washed the pineapples
je ne peux pas finir la singe	I cannot finish the monkey
Tu es la fromage	You are the cheese

The text in French has some grammatical errors. It is unknown if the game was planned to have translations. Interestingly, Shantae: Risky's Revenge (DSiWare), another Wayforward game, also had some odd French texts randomly located within the code.

Debug Text

Like other Wayforward games of this time period, many debug messages and strings are left over in the code, which were likely intended for internal testing and troubleshooting. Full scripts can be found on the Debug Logs subpage.

Build Date

Found at offset 0x8C6A4.

USA	Europe	Japan
Version: USA Build: Release Mighty Milky Way Mode: Time Attack Thu 02/24/11 13:53:25 PST Revision: 204349	Build: Release Version: Europe Mighty Milky Way Mode: Time Attack Wed 03/09/11 10:21:00 PST Revision: 206311	Version: USA Build: Release Mighty Milky Way Mode: Time Attack Wed 04/09/14 14:20:54 PDT Revision: 400357

Interestingly, the Japanese version of the game still says it is the USA version.

Possible Translations

Located at 0x9217C is another remnant of a possible localisation of the game.

<Localization not found>
No translation.

This suggests that the game was intended to be translated, likely into French, Spanish, German and Italian, but that the idea was abandoned during development.