The Punisher (J2ME)

The Punisher
Developer: Amplified Games Publisher: THQ Platform: J2ME Released internationally: April 12, 2004 This game has unused graphics. This game has unused text.

A mobile game released to coincide with the 2004 Punisher film.

Unused Graphics

This Piece1.png file from level 4 isn't used by the game. The picture itself still can be seen in-game, but only as a part of the level background. If the file was used, then enemies could run behind this element, but it doesn't happen, so even if this file would be loaded by the game - it'd make no sense..

Unused Wallpaper Reward

There are some leftovers suggesting, that the developers planned to reward players with some wallpapers. However, the game doesn't tell about it anywhere and looks like there's no way to get this reward. Insane score in arcade mode doesn't do anything as well. Some functionality can be seen in the code after decompilation, but since it's very obfuscated - it's really hard to understand what happens.

Using memory manipulation it's possible to get to "Wallpapers" and "Available Wallpapers" screen, but they have no information besides their titles.

The array with all strings of the game has some additional unused strings of wallpaper reward functionality:

Congratulations you've unlocked a wallpaper! Go to the Wallpapers menu in the Options menu to install it on your phone.

To download your wallpaper:||1) Go to your phone's "Applications" menu.|2) Highlight "Punisher".|3) Press the "Options" button.|4) Select "Web Page".|5) When prompted, enter the code "92024".|Alternatively, you can point your phone's browser to http://www.ingameassets.com/punisher/

To download your wallpaper:||1) Go to your phone's "Applications" menu.|2) Highlight "Punisher".|3) Press the "Options" button.|4) Select "Web Page".|5) When prompted, enter the code "90005".|Alternatively, you can point your phone's browser to http://www.ingameassets.com/punisher/

Looks like this "Wallpapers" menu would be in the options and one additional option really could be added to that screen, but changing the id of the current option with memory manipulations doesn't lead to this screen.

But anyway, the game doesn't have the wallpapers, it just rewarded player with codes to download these wallpapers on some promo site that doesn't work now.