Meteos Wars

Meteos Wars
Developer: Q Entertainment Publisher: Q Entertainment Platform: Xbox 360 Released internationally: December 10, 2008 This game has unused playable characters. This game has unused code. This game has unused text. This game has regional differences.

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.

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 similiar to those of planet Lumious, although with Geolyte's fall rates.

(Source: Quantum)

Unused Text

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	File	Template Offset	Text	Entry Offset	Text
English	message/text/message_en.bin	0x28C8	Music:	0xC8C8	Music
French	message/text/message_fr.bin	0xD3C0	Musique:	0xD3C0	Musique
German	message/text/message_ge.bin	0x29E4	Musik:	0xD748	Musik
Italian	message/text/message_it.bin	0x2A70	Musica:	0xD1D8	Musica
Japanese	message/text/message_jp.bin	0x27EC	曲名：	0x7BD0	BGM
Korean	message/text/message_kr.bin	0x2818	음악:	0x8758	Music
Portuguese	message/text/message_po.bin	0x2C18	Música:	0xDBA4	Música
Spanish	message/text/message_sp.bin	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)/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