Pokémon Puzzle League

Pokémon Puzzle League
Developer: Nintendo Software Technology Publisher: Nintendo Platform: Nintendo 64 Released in US: September 25, 2000 Released in EU: March 16, 2001 This game has a hidden developer message. This game has hidden development-related text. This game has unused graphics. This game has unused sounds. This game has debugging material. This game has a hidden level select. This game has regional differences. This game has a prerelease article

Pokémon Puzzle League, a localization of an unreleased N64 Panel de Pon game, continues the long tradition of replacing the series' original character designs with others from pre-existing franchises. Those poor fairies couldn't catch a break for the longest time.

Notable for being one of the few Nintendo 64 titles to use FMVs, as well being one of the few Pokémon games to not be released in Japan. It is also one of the few games based entirely on the 4Kids dub of the anime, utilizing the entire voice cast and soundtrack (though it uses Lorelei's game name instead of "Prima", which she went by in the English anime due to lip sync concerns).

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Prerelease Info

Unused Graphics

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  Mimic B Botton

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A sizable number of generic UI graphics.

A duplicate image of Lt. Surge, only found in the German version.

Developer Messages

Audio

Two clips of one of the developers proclaiming their love to two other people. They're located at 0x1D38180 in the US ROM.

The first features a non-native speaker of Japanese proclaiming his everlasting love to an Emi-chan. (エミちゃん、いつも愛してる。)

The second is a monotone "I love you, Liz."

(Source: Krookodile)

Katy

There also seems to be a name listed at 0xC1980:

katy

Development Text

Debug Text

At 0xC3BC0 are some error messages.

invalid index baka! 
Buffer Index is %d 
Buffer Index is greater than MAX [%d > %d] 
NOT A TUNEBUFFER SONG! 

0xC3DC0

menuAwardPuzzle: Invalid 'mode' (%d)
menuShowDiploma: INTERNAL ERROR: 'gPlayer' not valid!

0xC46AF

UCan't load %d at %d
FindRank: Unknown rank-type: %d
menuUpdateRecord1: Invalid mode! (%d)

(Source: Original TCRF research)

Build Dates

Version	ROM Address	Build Date
U	0xCA478	Created at 12:29AM on 08/14/00
E	0xCA728	Created at 7:10PM on 10/20/00
F	0xC8D88	Created at 10:29AM on 12/12/00
G	0xBE470	Created at 6:25PM on 12/08/00

(Source: Ferrox)

Debug Menus

Round Selects

Disabled round select screens for the 1P Stadium and Spa Service modes can be re-enabled by changing the byte at the specified address for the corresponding region to 01 (1P Stadium) or 0B (Spa Service) or by enabling one of the below GameShark codes for the corresponding region:

1P Stadium

Version	ROM Address
US	x2CD5B
Europe	x2CE7B
France	x2CDFF
Germany	x2CF2F

Version	GameShark code
US	8002C15B 0001
Europe	8002C27B 0001
France	8002C1FF 0001
Germany	8002C32F 0001

Round	Opponent
01	Gary (First Match)
02	Brock
03	Misty
04	Lt. Surge
05	Erika
06	Koga
07	Sabrina
08	Blaine
09	Tracey
10	Team Rocket
11	Giovanni
12	Ritchie1
13	Lorelei1
14	Bruno1
15	Gary (Second Match)2
16	Mewtwo3

¹Cannot be selected on Easy difficulty.
²Cannot be selected on Easy or Normal difficulty.
³Cannot be selected on Easy, Normal, or Hard difficulty.

Spa Service

Version	ROM Address
US	xB6B17
Europe	xB6F77
France	xB5867
Germany	xAC9D7

Version	GameShark code
US	800B5F17 000B
Europe	800B6437 000B
France	800B4C67 000B
Germany	800ABE97 000B

Hidden Menu

Please elaborate. Having more detail is always a good thing. Specifically: How do you activate it?

There is a hidden menu called NAME-LIST which has eight hidden names in it:

• guest
• yukimi
• emo
• steve
• bill
• lamont
• rory
• yoon

This hidden menu doesn't have any textures, and the names are located at coordinates X:0 Y:0 without any inner/outer colors.

Based on the presence of the guest name and the fact there are eight names, it's most likely a development leftover for the name selection menu.

These names seem to refer to the following people from the game's credits:

• Yukimi Shimura (Creative Director/Producer)
• Emory Georges (Sound Programmer)
• Steve Petofalvi (Production Artist)
• Bill Giese (Game Designer, Puzzle Creator)
• Ronald Lamont Hall (Production Artist)
• Rory Johnston (Sound Programmer)
• Yoonjoon Lee (Programmer)

Regional Differences

Hidden Development Message

Please elaborate. Having more detail is always a good thing. Specifically: How do you set this flag?

In the French and German versions, there is a hidden message that can be revealed by removing a "hidden" flag on the text.

An example for the French version can be seen below. The German version is the same but replaces "French" with "German".

For the USA and European versions, only the 2nd line (timestamp creation) is present in the game's data, but there is no known way to display it.

Glitched Text Box

In the German version, the dialog box for erasing all data has been poorly adapted. Underneath the German text, the shadow of the English text can be seen.