LostMagic

LostMagic
Developers: Taito, Garakuta Studio Publishers: Taito (JP), Ubisoft Platform: Nintendo DS Released in JP: January 19, 2006 Released in US: April 25, 2006 Released in EU: April 27, 2006 Released in AU: April 28, 2006 This game has hidden development-related text. This game has unused graphics. This game has debugging material.

A nice twist on the standard tactical RPG formula that makes use of the DS touch-screen to draw runes. It has a Japan-only Wii sequel, Takt of Magic.

Event Viewer

Use the following Action Replay code with the US/EUR Version and load a save while holding Select. A menu appears, with the different endings and all the events from the game. To scroll down the list, use the D-Pad.

A4000130 FFFB0000
0209487C E1A05000
D2000000 00000000
94000130 FFFB0000
0209487C E3A05017
D2000000 00000000

(Source: Codejunkies)

Unused Graphics

There is a set of three unused mugshots, which appear to be low resolution. They do not have any used better quality version. One is obviously a placeholder with Japanese writing on it (ヤミ "yami", i.e. darkness), but the girl design differs from the one used in the final game.

This is one of the used mugshots for Isaac, for comparison.

Isaac, and an early version of the girl but with her having grey hair, have also a set of leftover early battle graphics, along with some for little mook monsters. They seem to be very incomplete, lacking the motion lines, in-between frames and other details.

This page or section needs more images. There's a whole lotta words here, but not enough pictures. Please fix this. Specifically: Add them--seems like the files that match this description are in the chr directory ad all start with test.

Development Text

In the mb directory, there is a file called readme.txt that is present in the US and Europe releases. The file contents are the same between those two, but this file is absent completely in the Japanese release.

Original	Translation
2005/12/21 海外版のダウンロードデータ	...But what does it mean? This game has text or audio that needs to be translated. If you are fluent with this language, please read our translation guidelines and then submit a translation!

This needs some investigation. Discuss ideas and findings on the talk page. Specifically: Check out the file magic.bnr in the Japanese release--there are repeated patterns of TAITO CORP. and ロストマジック with nullbytes and new lines. Does the header before that mean or do anything?