Megamind: The Blue Defender (Nintendo DS)

Megamind: The Blue Defender
Also known as: Megamind: Bad. Blue. Brilliant. (title screen) Developer: Tantalus Interactive Publisher: THQ Platform: Nintendo DS Released in US: November 2, 2010 Released in EU: November 26, 2010 Released in AU: November 25, 2010 This game has hidden development-related text. This game has unused graphics. This game has unused music.

Or Megamind: Bad. Blue. Brilliant going off of the title screen

Unused Graphics

Located in the Mercury folder are various miscellaneous images. Development text implies that these images were used in a debug menu of some kind. The images are also present in the PlayStation Portable version of the game and presumably served the same purpose.

memory.gif

A small and grainy image of a few types of computer RAM.

chart.gif

A graph of unknown statistics.

camera.gif

A stock photo of an antique camera. Shutterstock appears to be the origin of this image.

trans.gif

A blank image with the size of 1x1 pixel(s).

tweezers.jpg

This image depicts a pair of tweezers on a white background. The source seems to be from here.

Development Text

Present in the aptly named BuildInformation.xml is various internal information relating to the release build, including a build date of July 20th, 2010.

	<README>This file is automatically generated as part of the build process, do not edit</README>
	<CurrentUser>pseedy</CurrentUser>
	<ComputerName>PAULS</ComputerName>
	<BuildLabel>unknown</BuildLabel>
	<BranchName>branch-DS-RC</BranchName>
	<BuildDateTime>Tue 20 Jul 2010 12:49:12</BuildDateTime>

index.xml appears to be for a debug menu, referencing the unused images mentioned beforehand.

 <HOMEPAGE>
  <MENU href="/Mercury/ScreenShot/" icon="/Mercury/camera.gif">Take a snapshot of the console screen.</MENU>
  <MENU href="/Mercury/Profiler/" icon="/Mercury/chart.gif">View CPU/GPU profiler statistics.</MENU>
  <MENU href="/Mercury/Memory/" icon="/Mercury/memory.gif">View Memory Allocation statistics.</MENU>
  <MENU href="/Mercury/Tweak/" icon="/Mercury/tweezers.jpg">View tweakable variables.</MENU>
</HOMEPAGE>

Unused Music

demo_level_select_music.strm

Early music for a level select.

demo_music_loop_01.strm

An upbeat track, presumably as a placeholder for background music in levels. A duplicate file exists under the name music_level_01.strm