NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams

NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams
Developers: Sonic Team, Sega Studios USA Publisher: Sega Platform: Wii Released in JP: December 13, 2007 Released in US: December 18, 2007 Released in EU: January 24, 2008 Released in AU: January 25, 2008 This game has unused animations. This game has unused areas. This game has hidden development-related text. This game has unused graphics. This game has unused text.

Released 11 years after the original, NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams brings pointer controls and another story to the world of Nightopia.

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E3 and TGS leftovers "Liver Rescue".

Unused cutscenes

Test Levels

To do: Find a code or some other more graceful way of activating this. What's different between Test03, Test04 and Test05? There are files in the "Arrangement" folder for Test levels 0 through 4, what do these do? Are there any remaining object layouts?

Test03

By switching the /DATA/files/stage1000 directory with that of DATA/files/Test03, the geometry for a test level can be loaded in place of Pure Valley's first mission. To avoid falling out of bounds when the level loads, change the coordinates of SetPlayerPosition inside DATA/files/lua/stage/stage1000/missionLevel00.lua to 0,0,0.

This test level has no flight path associated with it and bears a striking similarity to one found within Shadow the Hedgehog and Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games (Wii).

Unused Graphics

Dream Forest Door

A texture of the Japanese-looking door with kanji "Dream Forest" written on it.

Persona Masks Placeholder Textures

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  Dolphin.

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  Dragon.

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  Rocket.

A set of placeholder textures for persona masks. Each persona mask name is written in katakana.

"godhands"

Files for Donbalon's boss fight located in the directory "\character\gadget\stg1010" contain the unused prop named "godhands". This pair of hands has the grabbing and holding animations and the burning effect made of sprites. Only one fire sprite is used for the burning effect.

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  Fire sprite used for the burning effect.

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  Unused fire sprites.

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  Texture.

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  Grabbing animation.

Unused Models

test.brres

In the directory "\test" contains test.brres, which is a model of Donbalon with early textures. The textures are more transparent than the final ones.

Early textures:	Final textures:

Unused Animations

The game contains unused animations for kids and NiGHTS dualising, Will losing the coaster and boat minigames and Will doing the winning pose at the end of the level.

(Source: KetrinDarkDragon [1])

Miscellaneous

Internal Names

All internal files refer to Will as Kevin.

Reala Race Missions

Several unused cutscenes hint at the cut racing missions similar to 2 players VS races.

(Source: Original TCRF research)