Club Penguin: Elite Penguin Force

Club Penguin: Elite Penguin Force
Also known as: Club Penguin: Force d'Elite (FR) Developer: 1st Playable Productions Publisher: Disney Interactive Studios Platform: Nintendo DS Released in US: November 25, 2008 Released in EU: March 13, 2009 Released in AU: April 16, 2009 This game has unused areas. This game has hidden development-related text. This game has unused graphics. This game has unused items. This game has unused music. This game has debugging material. This game has regional differences. This game has revisional differences.

This game's online features are no longer supported. While this game's online features were once accessible, they are (as of May 20, 2014) no longer officially supported and online-exclusive features may be documented as now-unseen content.

To do: Document the recently discovered unused sprites and the unused 3D model. Details on DGamerArchive.fun and .lzc files. There are some regional differences as well.

Club Penguin: Elite Penguin Force is Club Penguin's debut on the Nintendo DS. But, it's basically just a collection of new Agent missions, however, it has DGamer!

Yay...?

Unused Graphics

Selecting the 30th cutscene in the debug menu reveals an early version of the Protobot 3000 cutscene, which unlike the final, isn't animated. There is text at the bottom left, most likely reading 'FPO', which is an abbreviation of "for placement only".

Unused Sprites

To do: There are way more unused sprites than this, including sprites for an earlier iteration of the Snowboarding minigame.

Early Designs for Dot

Unused sprites of what are presumed to be early designs for Dot.

Unused Rooms

To do: get a screenshot of the unused map screen.

There is an unused room in the game with ID 00. It resembles the map screen, but has large orange crosses where the locations are supposed to be.

You can access this room with an Action Replay code to edit the destination room during a transition. You will need to find the address in RAM for the destination room, as this address changes location. Search for E8 addresses while standing in a room, then go to the snow forts and search for addresses with 28 before the transition circle closes all the way (pausing using an emulator is recommended.) Keep doing this with different room IDs according to the table below, and you will find the transition destination address.

During a transition, before the circle closes, set the address to the room you want to go to. Before the circle fully opens again at the destination, set the address to E8 to prevent a softlock. Finally, when you have arrived, turn off the code.

ID	Room
00	Weird map screen
01	Ski lodge attic
02	Beach
03	Beacon
04	Boiler room
05	Book room
06	Wilderness cave
07	Coffee shop
08	Command room (softlock if not unlocked)
09	Dock
0A	Dojo
0B	Ice fishing pond
0C	Forest
0D	Gadget room (softlock if not unlocked)
0E	Gadget room (Mission 13)
0F	Gary's room
10	Gift Shop
11	Gift Shop office
12	Gift Shop roof
13	HQ (softlock if not unlocked)
14	Iceberg
15	Ice rink
16	Lighthouse
17	Ski lodge
18	Dance lounge
19	Mine shack
1A	Mine cave
1B	Cave where Gary was trapped
1C	Protobot lair
1D	Softlock
1E	Tool shed
1F	Night club
20	Pet shop
21	Pizza parlor
22	Plaza
23	Cave
24	Puffle training room (softlock if not unlocked)
25	Ski hill
26	Ski village
27	Softlock
28	Snow forts
29	Sport shop
2A	Stage
2B	Stage (Mission 13)
2C	Softlock
2D	Tallest Mountain (Mission 13)
2E	Tallest Mountain (Mission 13) (Empty, unused)
2F	Town
30	Wilderness next to cliff
31	Wilderness next to fallen log
32	Wilderness river-stump-cliff room
33	Wilderness tree stump
34	Wilderness river
35	Wilderness outside cave

Unused Music

There is a seemingly unused track in the game, with ID 01. The track sounds very similar to the Command Room music, so it could be an early version.

It can be accessed in-game with the following code:

0227988C 000000??

Replace ?? with one of these IDs:

ID	Music
00	Main theme
01	Unused?
02	Command room
03	Coffee shop
04	Ski village
05	HQ
06	Town
07	Gift Shop
08	Ski lodge
09	Pizza Parlor
0A	Coffee Shop
0B	An Agent's Work is Never Done
0C	Cart Surfer
0D	Ice fishing
0E	Gadget room
0F	Night club
10	Dojo
11	Boiler room
12	Menu
13	Stage
14	Beach
15	Mine shack
16	Mine caves
17	Jet Pack Adventure
18	Snowboarding
19	Snow trekker
1A	Mission complete

Unused Cutscene

To do: There's another one of these somewhere in the files.

A test background for the snowboarding minigame.

Debug Menu

There is a debug menu still present in the game's code. It allows you to modify the player's coins, activate minigames and missions, and view cutscenes.

It can be accessed with the following Action Replay code (EU)ː

1210AD2C 00002024

Once the debug menu has been accessed, the second half of the code must be changed to 00006800, or you will not be able to do anything.

Build Dates

Each of the game's releases have a version label and build date that are loaded in memory. The numbers in the "T" segment are Unix timestamps.

Version	Offset	String	Timestamp
US Rev0	0x1B08F4	[VERSIONBLOCK|V15146 |T1223422984|MGoliath2 |]	Oct 07 2008 23:43:04
EU	0x1ABFA0	[VERSIONBLOCK|V15270 |T1232148633|MGoliath2 |]	Jan 16 2009 23:30:33
FR	0x1B20B4	[VERSIONBLOCK|V15530 |T1237250813|MGoliath2 |]	Mar 17 2009 00:46:53
US Rev1	0x1B21F4	[VERSIONBLOCK|V15543 |T1237565400|MGoliath2 |]	Mar 20 2009 16:10:00
US Rev2	0x1ADBC4	[VERSIONBLOCK|V15650 |T1277264395|MGAMBIT |]	Jun 23 2010 03:39:55
SP	0x1ADBA4	[VERSIONBLOCK|V15669 |T1279641405|MGAMBIT |]	Jul 20 2010 15:56:45
GE	0x1A04B4	[VERSIONBLOCK|V15816 |T1320190560|MROGUE |]	Nov 01 2011 23:36:00

DGamer.xml

Inside the /dgamer/ folder is a XML file named DGamer.xml. The file itself contains general settings for DGamer on the DS, but it also has a few dev comments in it.

<dgamer gamename="Club Penguin" cmsid="136103" ggid="0x00400583" platform="DGamerDS" version="2008.09.05.11.27.16" embededSRL="true">

• The build date of the Client.

 <!-- Default items are like game unlockables, but backend only, so category DGamer.  I'm carving out
         slots for them in the DGamer_Data array to avoid confusion, but they don't actually need them.  -->
    <!-- <unlockable category="DGamer" id="161460" dgamerid="46848" /> --> <!--  Club Penguin T-shirt -->
    <!-- <unlockable category="DGamer" id="161465" dgamerid="46849" /> --> <!--  Spy Costume -->
    <!-- <unlockable category="DGamer" id="161466" dgamerid="46851" /> --> <!--  Club Penguin Puffle T-shirt -->

• This one, which is in <Unlockables>, has some outfits that were commented out.

<!-- Enter up to eight (8) Wireless (adhoc) chat stages/lobbies that will be listed to player -->
  <!-- They will be listed on the client according to the order attribute (A-Z = top-bottom) -->
  <stages>
    <stage name="Bronze Room" order="A" />
    <stage name="Gold Room" order="B" />
    <stage name="Green Room" order="C" />
    <stage name="Orange Room" order="D" />
    <stage name="Pink Room" order="E" />
    <stage name="Purple Room" order="F" />
    <stage name="Silver Room" order="G" />
    <stage name="Yellow Room" order="H" />
  </stages>

• This has something to do with the chat lobbies.

<events>
    <event id="136103" gameid="0" source="GAME" type="dgamer_ClubPenguin_ElitePenguinForceTrainee 0 0 0 dgamer" />
    <event id="136103" gameid="1" source="GAME" type="dgamer_ClubPenguin_ElitePenguinForceRank1 0 0 0 dgamer" />
    <!-- The following event was improperly created on the backend, however, it's easier to break it here as well, rather than fix the backend -->
    <event id="136103" gameid="2" source="GAME" type="dgamer_ClubPenguin_unlockElitePenguinForceRank2 0 0 0 dgamer" />
    <event id="136103" gameid="3" source="GAME" type="dgamer_ClubPenguin_ElitePenguinForceRank3 0 0 0 dgamer" />
    <event id="136103" gameid="4" source="GAME" type="dgamer_ClubPenguin_ElitePenguinForceRank4 0 0 0 dgamer" />
    <event id="136103" gameid="5" source="GAME" type="dgamer_ClubPenguin_ElitePenguinForceRank5 0 0 0 dgamer" />
    <event id="136103" gameid="6" source="GAME" type="dgamer_ClubPenguin_RegisteredDGamer 0 0 0 dgamer" autofire="true" />

    <event id="136103" gameid="7" source="GAME" type="dgamer_ClubPenguin_unlockClubPenguinTShirt 0 0 0 dgamer" autofire="true" />
    <event id="136103" gameid="8" source="GAME" type="dgamer_ClubPenguin_unlockSpyCostume 0 0 0 dgamer" />
    <event id="136103" gameid="9" source="GAME" type="dgamer_ClubPenguin_unlockClubPenguinPuffleTShirt 0 0 0 dgamer" />
    <!-- The following event was also improperly created on the backend, now broken here to match -->
    <event id="136103" gameid="10" source="GAME" type="dgamer_ClubPenguin_unlockSpyglasses 0 0 0 dgamer"  />
    <event id="136103" gameid="11" source="GAME" type="dgamer_ClubPenguin_unlockBluePuffleTShirt 0 0 0 dgamer"  />
    <event id="136103" gameid="12" source="GAME" type="dgamer_ClubPenguin_unlockEPFBaseballCap 0 0 0 dgamer"  />
    <event id="136103" gameid="13" source="GAME" type="dgamer_ClubPenguin_unlockRedPuffleTShirt 0 0 0 dgamer"  />
    <event id="136103" gameid="14" source="GAME" type="dgamer_ClubPenguin_unlockYellowPuffleTShirt 0 0 0 dgamer"  />
    <event id="136103" gameid="15" source="GAME" type="dgamer_ClubPenguin_unlockEPFTShirt 0 0 0 dgamer"  />
    <event id="136103" gameid="16" source="GAME" type="dgamer_ClubPenguin_unlockToque 0 0 0 dgamer"  />
    <event id="136103" gameid="17" source="GAME" type="dgamer_ClubPenguin_unlockPuffleTShirt 0 0 0 dgamer"  />
    <event id="136103" gameid="18" source="GAME" type="dgamer_ClubPenguin_unlockBlackPuffleTShirt 0 0 0 dgamer"  />
    <event id="136103" gameid="19" source="GAME" type="dgamer_ClubPenguin_unlockPurplePuffleTShirt 0 0 0 dgamer"  />
    <event id="136103" gameid="20" source="GAME" type="dgamer_ClubPenguin_unlockAstroBlasterTShirt 0 0 0 dgamer"  />
    <event id="136103" gameid="21" source="GAME" type="dgamer_ClubPenguin_unlockSpyPod 0 0 0 dgamer"  />
  </events>

• Game specific events for DGamer.

<!-- DGamer DS dynamic configuration, for Club Penguin DS -->

• Seen at the beginning of the XML, this probably means that the DGamer client was made during early development.

 <!--  DGamer specific unlockables, note that these shouldn't be fired if id (e.g. 117358) already exists in the backpack -->
    <unlockable category="StarterSet" starterSetID="0" id="117358" eventid="116060" source="GAME" type="dgamer_dgamer_registerSetA0 0 0 0 dgamer"/>
    <unlockable category="StarterSet" starterSetID="0" id="117358" eventid="116060" source="GAME" type="dgamer_dgamer_registerSetA1 0 0 0 dgamer"/>
    <unlockable category="StarterSet" starterSetID="0" id="117358" eventid="116060" source="GAME" type="dgamer_dgamer_registerSetA2 0 0 0 dgamer"/>
    <unlockable category="StarterSet" starterSetID="0" id="117358" eventid="116060" source="GAME" type="dgamer_dgamer_registerSetA3 0 0 0 dgamer"/>

    <unlockable category="StarterSet" starterSetID="1" id="117358" eventid="116060" source="GAME" type="dgamer_dgamer_registerSetB0 0 0 0 dgamer"/>
    <unlockable category="StarterSet" starterSetID="1" id="117358" eventid="116060" source="GAME" type="dgamer_dgamer_registerSetB1 0 0 0 dgamer"/>
    <unlockable category="StarterSet" starterSetID="1" id="117358" eventid="116060" source="GAME" type="dgamer_dgamer_registerSetB2 0 0 0 dgamer"/>
    <unlockable category="StarterSet" starterSetID="1" id="117358" eventid="116060" source="GAME" type="dgamer_dgamer_registerSetB3 0 0 0 dgamer"/>

    <unlockable category="StarterSet" starterSetID="2" id="117358" eventid="116060" source="GAME" type="dgamer_dgamer_registerSetC0 0 0 0 dgamer"/>
    <unlockable category="StarterSet" starterSetID="2" id="117358" eventid="116060" source="GAME" type="dgamer_dgamer_registerSetC1 0 0 0 dgamer"/>
    <unlockable category="StarterSet" starterSetID="2" id="117358" eventid="116060" source="GAME" type="dgamer_dgamer_registerSetC2 0 0 0 dgamer"/>
    <unlockable category="StarterSet" starterSetID="2" id="117358" eventid="116060" source="GAME" type="dgamer_dgamer_registerSetC3 0 0 0 dgamer"/>

    <unlockable category="StarterSet" starterSetID="3" id="117358" eventid="116060" source="GAME" type="dgamer_dgamer_registerSetD0 0 0 0 dgamer"/>
    <unlockable category="StarterSet" starterSetID="3" id="117358" eventid="116060" source="GAME" type="dgamer_dgamer_registerSetD1 0 0 0 dgamer"/>
    <unlockable category="StarterSet" starterSetID="3" id="117358" eventid="116060" source="GAME" type="dgamer_dgamer_registerSetD2 0 0 0 dgamer"/>
    <unlockable category="StarterSet" starterSetID="3" id="117358" eventid="116060" source="GAME" type="dgamer_dgamer_registerSetD3 0 0 0 dgamer"/>

• DGamer Specific Unlockables.

Revisional Changes

Besides the original release, this game has 2 revisions, and was released across many different regions.

Title Screen

Probably the biggest change is the removal of DGamer in the European release and the microphone option being added from the first revision onwards.

USA v1.0	Europe	USA v1.1

"Licensed by Nintendo"

Another visual change is the "Licensed by Nintendo" screen, changing each revision.

USA v1.0	Europe	USA v1.1