The ClueFinders 5th Grade Adventures

The ClueFinders 5th Grade Adventures
Also known as: The ClueFinders 5th Grade Adventures: Secret of the Living Volcano, The ClueFinders Year 5 Adventures: Secret of the Living Volcano (UK), Le Club des Trouvetout: L’Enigme du Volcan (France), Äventyrarna Femman - Vulkanöns gåta (Sweden) Os Caça-Pistas: 5ª Série (Brazil) Developer: The Learning Company Publisher: The Learning Company Platforms: Windows, Mac OS Classic Released in US: June 29, 1999 Released in UK: 2000 Released in FR: 2000 This game has unused graphics. This game has unused sounds. This game has unused text. This game has regional differences.

In The ClueFinders 5th Grade Adventures, the titular ClueFinders find themselves stranded on a mysterious "living" island, which of course can only be escaped through solving the usual round of edutainment puzzles.

To do: Check the Swedish release for its equivalents to the unused text/voice lines (though the latter could just be left untranslated, like in the French release).

Unused Activity Parameters

Spelling Catwalks

Some of the voice lines for the Spelling Catwalks activity correspond to words that the game will never actually ask you to spell, though the lines can still be made to play in-game by editing the associated dataset file.

ID	Word		Example Sentence
9		aim		One aim of our mission was to study many periods of Earth's history.
10		mission		Our mission to Earth involves studying the species here.
11		hypothesis		The scientific method involves making a hypothesis about the way things work and then seeking answers through experimentation.
12		concentrate		It is not easy to concentrate when there is so much noise on the ship.
13		origins		Many cultures have stories that explain the origins of their customs and traditions.
40		journey		We intend to begin our journey back to our home planet tomorrow.
41		kilometer		It took the boys only five minutes to run the kilometer distance.
42		mystery		The mystery surrounding the disappearance of people in the area has drawn many curious humans.
43		sign		Give me a sign when you are ready to leave.
65		council		Many Native American tribes are governed by a council of elders.
66		choice		Freedom of choice is one of the most important elements of a democracy.
67		judicial		The judicial branch of a government decides how to interpret laws.
68		unknown		The great explorers of history adventured into unknown territories.
92		drought		Severe drought caused many farmers to leave dusty Oklahoma and head west to California.
93		thoughtful		A thoughtful person often discovers more than one way to solve a problem.
94		strife		The Civil War caused strife for many families, sending brother against brother in conflict.
152		science		One day humans may fully understand the science behind space travel.
153		strike		You can't simply strike a match to ignite a rocket engine.
155		democracy	(none)	(none)

There's also an unused duplicate of a used word, with slightly different line reads on the audio:

	ID	Word		Example Sentence
Unused	91		thorough		It took all of our crew an entire day to complete a thorough search of the area.
Used	145

Biosphere Chamber

The Biosphere Chamber activity has 40 species of animal defined in its code, but only 27 of them are used in the default datasets. Like with the unused Catwalk words, these extra animals are fully functional if made to load via file editing, though due to the way data for this activity is stored their only truly unique properties are the name strings and icons (predator/prey designation and birth rate are defined per slot rather than per species, and nonviable species interactions are only coded in for the used animals).

ID	Name (English)	Name (French)	Icon	Notes
1	Hammerhead	Requin		Uses a unique icon.
6	Fur Seal	Phoque barbu		Icon is shared with the used Sea Lion and Seal.
7	Ringed Seal	Phoque annel
11	Flounder	Sole		Icon is shared with various used fish (Salmon, Fish, Trout, Herring, Cod, and Salmon).
14	Eel	Anguille		Uses a unique icon.
18	Leopard	Léopard		Icon is shared with the used Wolf and Fox.
21	Coyote	Coyote
26	Rabbit	Lièvre		Uses a unique icon.
28	Lion	Lion		Icon is shared with the used Ocelot.
30	Hawk	Faucon		Icon is shared with the used Eagle.
33	Antelope	Antilope		Icon is shared with the used Caribou.
35	Mule Deer	Mule Cerf
36	Elk	Elan

Unseen Font Graphic

The game uses a unique symbol-based "alien font" to obfuscate text in a few specific places (as part of the gameplay in Faces Within the Face and Fish Within the Fish, and briefly in the intro cutscene of Biosphere Chamber), but the letter J isn't used in any of those activities' scripts, so its associated symbol is never seen under normal circumstances.

Unseen Text

On levels 3 and 4 of the Fish Within the Fish activity, the labels denoting each fish's effect are hidden as a way of further increasing the difficulty, but text lines that would be used for them are still defined in the activity's dataset file anyway.

Level 3 (English):

-er
-ing
un-
antonym

Level 3 (French):

re-/ré-
de-/dé-
Passé
Antonyme

Level 4 (English):

un-
-able
-ed
antonym

Level 4 (French):

Présent
re-/ré-
dé-
Antonyme

Regional Differences

To do: Images.

In Non-North American releases, the maps used in the Poison Garden activity replace much of the American centric maps with maps of Europe, Asia, and Africa. The Brazilian and French versions have their own exclusive maps of Brazil and France. Interestingly enough, there is a USA cities map that is exclusive to the French version.