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Title Screen

Meteos Wars

Developer: Q Entertainment[1]
Publisher: Q Entertainment[1]
Platform: Xbox 360
Released internationally: December 10, 2008[1]


CharacterIcon.png This game has unused playable characters.
CodeIcon.png This game has unused code.
DevTextIcon.png This game has hidden development-related text.
SoundIcon.png This game has unused sounds.
TextIcon.png This game has unused text.
RegionIcon.png This game has regional differences.


ProtoIcon.png This game has a prototype article
NotesIcon.png This game has a notes page

Meteos Wars was a huge departure from the DS original, adding and replacing several features, such as removing Fusion in favor of conditional unlocks, and replacing items with Planet Impacts. There's also downloadable content.

Sub-Pages

Read about prototype versions of this game that have been released or dumped.
Prototype Info
Miscellaneous tidbits that are interesting enough to point out here.
Notes

Physics for the Planet Unknown

While Unknown's planet and alien models can be seen (when the opponent in Online VS plays a planet that the player does not have), its physics mimick those of the planet the opponent selected. What is interesting is that Unknown has its own physics parameters, present in meteos\meteoparam01.mtp2, implying that Unknown was planned to be a fully playable character in a point of development. They are similar to those of planet Lumious, although with Geolyte's fall rates.

(Source: Quantum)

Unused Code

The parameters at 0x200, 0x204, 0x208, 0x20C and 0x210 in each of the game's .mtp2 files are never actually used, and are normally blanked out. However, based on data found on the TeraRelease 3.0 prototype, these parameters might be related to Rare Metal frequencies, in the following order:

  • 0x200 - Soul Meteo rate
  • 0x204 - Time Meteo rate
  • 0x208 - Chi Meteo rate
  • 0x20C - Interval between rare metal appearance
  • 0x210 - Rare metal frequency coefficient

Also, the presence of these parameters as a whole hints that the parameter file format used in this game was previously used in the now-defunct Meteos Online game.

(Source: tikal.)

Hidden Timestamps

The game's .mtp2 parameter files also have timestamps, each located at offset 0xC of a decompressed file.

  • Base Game
    • Unknown, Geolyte, Anasaze, Oleana, Firim, Hevendor
      October 21, 2008 - 14:19:26
    • All other planets
      October 21, 2008 - 14:19:27
  • Advance Pack 1
    • All other planets
      December 18, 2008 - 08:43:23
    • Vubble, Darthvega, Hanihula
      December 18, 2008 - 08:43:24
  • Advance Pack 2
    • All other planets
      December 18, 2008 - 08:43:23
    • Suburbion, Gelyer, Ranbarumba
      December 18, 2008 - 08:43:24
(Source: tikal.)

Unused Text

The following strings can be found within the files at message\text.

Meteo Type List

Found just before the How To Play sequence's text data is a series of strings which list each of the Meteo types present in this game. They are present in all languages, as follows:

Japanese EN/CN/KR French German
Offset: 0x59AC Offsets
0x7E08 (EN)
0x5200 (CN)
0x5E60 (KR)
Offset: 0x8844 Offset: 0x8944
メテオ
風
火
水
大地
鉄
電気
植物
生物
氷
毒
光
闇
魂
時
無属性
ダークマター
灰
METEO
AIR
FIRE
H2O
SOIL
IRON
ZAP
HERB
ZOO
ICE
POIS.
GLOW
DARK
SOUL
TIME
NULL
DARK MATTER
ASH
METEOS
AIR
FEU
EAU
SOL
FER
ÉLEC.
HERBE
ZOO
GLACE
POIS.
CLAIR
NOIR
ESPR.
TEMPS
VIDE
MATIÈRE NOIRE
CENDRES
METEO
LUFT
FEUER
WASS.
ERDE
EISEN
BLITZ
GRAS
TIER
EIS
GIFT
LICHT
PECH
GEIST
ZEIT
NULL
DUNKLE MATERIE
ASCHE
Italian Portuguese Spanish
Offset: 0x8900 Offset: 0x8DB8 Offset: 0x8A20
METEOS
ARIA
PIRO
H2O
GEO
MET.
ELE.
ERBA
ZOO
GHI.
VEL.
LUCE
BUIO
ANI.
TEM.
NULL
MATERIA OSCURA
CEN.
METEO
AR
FOGO
H2O
TERRA
FERRO
ZAP
ERVA
ZOO
GELO
VENE.
CLARO
NEGRO
ALMA
TEMPO
NADA
MATÉRIA NEGRA
CINZA
METEO
AIRE
FUE.
AGUA
TIE.
MET.
RAYO
VEG.
ANI.
HIELO
VENE.
LUZ
OSC.
ALMA
TMP.
NULO
MATERIA OSCURA
CENIZA

What is interesting to note is the presence of strings for Soul and Time Meteos, which are completely absent from this game.

(Source: tikal.)

Sound Test Menu

Two references to a potentially scrapped Sound Test menu can be found between the text data for the Meteos Book. As the text is different between languages, it is likely the function was scrapped very late in development. The entry text is the same for all planets, except for Unknown, where it is ???. For the entry offsets, Geolyte's is used as an example.

Language Template Offset Text Entry Offset Text
Chinese 0x27FC 音樂: 0x6F08 音樂
English 0x28C8 Music: 0xC8C8 Music
French 0xD3C0 Musique: 0xD3C0 Musique
German 0x29E4 Musik: 0xD748 Musik
Italian 0x2A70 Musica: 0xD1D8 Musica
Japanese 0x27EC 曲名: 0x7BD0 BGM
Korean 0x2818 음악: 0x8758 Music
Portuguese 0x2C18 Música: 0xDBA4 Música
Spanish 0x2AAC Música: 0xD800 Música
(Source: tikal.)

Filename Oddity

The files present in the model graphics resource for the planets Darthvega, Gelyer, and Ranbarumba, refer to the planets as Darkant, Negoro, and Vazaarle, respectively. It is entirely possible that these were early names from early in development.

Regional Differences

Several of the planet names are different between languages. Changes are highlighted in bold. Curiously, two of the Japanese names do not resemble the ones from the original game, instead matching the names used in the localizations. Those are marked in italic.

Japanese JP (English)/CN/KR English FR/GE/IT/PT/SP
ジオライト Geolyte Geolyte Geolitia
オレアナ Oreana Oleana Oleana
ファイアム Firem Firim Ignius
ヘブンズドア Heavensdoor Hevendor Hevendor
メテオス Meteos Meteo Meteo
グランネスト Grannest Grannest Smogor
ケイビオス Cavious Cavious Cavernis
ラスタル Rustal Lastar Candelor
レイヤーゼロ Layerzero Layazero Holozero
ゲルゲル Gelgel Jeljel Magmor
ジャゴンボ Jagombo Boggob Perilia
グラビトール Gravitor Gravitas Gravitas
ビュウブーム Byuboom Bavoom Bavoom
ダウナス Dawnous Dawndus Insomnis
フリーザム Freezam Freaze Polaria
アーニマ Arnima Globin Globin
ワイヤロン Wirelon Wiral Neuralis
ホーテッド Hotted Hotted Pyros
スターリア Stalia Starrii Stellis
サードノヴァ Thirdnova Thirnova Trinova
ブビット Bubitt Brabbit Aetheria
ギガンティス Gigantis Yooj Gigantis
ウドー Udo Wuud Arborea
メガドーム Megadome Megadom Megadom
ギガントガッシュ Gigantgash Gigagush Vortinia
コロニオン Colonion Suburbion Suburbion
サボン Sabon Vubble Sferia

Unheard sounds

Hevendor

These two sounds never play as everytime you do a match on Hevendor, the stack gets immediately launched.

Filename Sound Notes
DOWN0A
This normally plays when a stack is floating
FANB0A
This normally plays when a stack returns to the ground

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 [1]