Proto:Planes: Fire & Rescue (Nintendo DS)

This page details one or more prototype versions of Planes: Fire & Rescue (Nintendo DS).

This page documents the prototypes of the unreleased Nintendo DS version of Planes: Fire & Rescue labeled 1724, 1726 and 1252, which were released alongside the latest known build, UNKNOWN, on December 25, 2020, as part of ObscureGamers' Terarelease 1.0 lot.

Note that these builds don't have dates; these labels are merely taken from their filenames in the release.

1724

Differences

Overall

• All levels are unlocked by default.
• Aviailable languages are English, (Quebec) French and (Latin American) Spanish. While a Portuguese option is also available, it does not work properly, displaying the Latin American Spanish logo and English text.

Menus

• The title screen has noticeable differences:
  • The sky in the background is a solid color rather than a separate image.
  • The canyons are aligned differently, and have more colors.
  • The logo is aligned differently, and it does not shrink or increase upon entering or exiting the language selection menu.
  • There is no "© 2014 DISNEY" string below the logo.
  • The Quebec French and Latin American Spanish logos are not aligned properly.
• The text in the profile selection menu is not aligned correctly, which also happens in the 1726 and 1252 prototypes.
• There is no background image seen inside the shutters in the profile selection, mission selection and credits screens, only a solid black background. This also happens in the 1726 and 1252 prototypes.
• No animation plays when selecting a profile.
• There are no button prompts in the lower half of the bottom screen. This also happens in the 1726 prototype.
• The top shutter graphic does not seem to have been created with the top screen in mind. As such, upon entering the mission selection, statistics and credits menus, the top screen fades to black (the color of the background) rather than red.
• The time record text in the mission selection screens is aligned differently.
• The text in the statistics menu is aligned differently.
• There is no shutter transition from gameplay to the results screen.
• Several differences are noted in the game's credits:
  • There is an erroneous "ï¿" string before the credits start. This was corrected in the 1726 prototype.
  • Under "Nintendo DS Adaptations", there are separate listings for Dino Hatzopoulos under "Artist" and "Audio Support". In the UNKNOWN prototype, these are combined into "Artist & Audio".
  • Under the Digital Funk Machine credits, Shirley X. Zhou, one of the artists, is credited as just Shirley Zhou. Dino Hatzopoulos is also erroneously listed here.
  • Some of the Disney Interactive Studios credits, which include the Franchise Management and Voice Actor credits, are completely missing, as listed below:

1724 - 1252	UNKNOWN
[9th picture]	FRANCHISE MANAGEMENT Sr Director, Franchise Management Katrina J. Tough Sr Manager, Franchise Management Matthew C. Bergeron Franchise Associate Stephanie A. Strobridge
SPECIAL THANKS DisneyToon Studios Stephanie Martinelli Corey Valencia Erinn Hamilton RheaLyn Sico	SPECIAL THANKS DisneyToon Studios Roberts Gannaway Ferrell Barron Toby Wilson Gregory Coleman Kristin Peters Tony DeSimone Stephanie Martinelli Corey Valencia Erinn Hamilton RheaLyn Sico
N/A	[9th picture] FEATURING THE ENGLISH VOICE TALENT OF: Bryan Callen Dane Cook Dale Dye Corri English Ed Harris Matt Jones Regina King Monica Olive Danny Pardo Wes Studi FEATURING THE FRENCH VOICE TALENT OF: Said Amadis Philippe Catoire Audrey Lamy Emmanuel Riviere Fred Testot FEATURING THE ITALIAN VOICE TALENT OF: Oreste Baldini Emanuela Damasio Stefano De Sando David Kunz Marco Marzocca Giovanna Rapattoni FEATURING THE GERMAN VOICE TALENT OF: Thomas Albus Henning Baum Kathrin Gaube Martin Halm Eva Petzenhauser FEATURING THE SPANISH VOICE TALENT OF: Jose Antonio Ceinos Eduardo Del Hoyo Isabel Fernandez Pep Anton Munoz Ana Palleja

Gameplay

• An arrow is displayed instead of an A button prompt in dialogue.
• The camera is zoomed a little closer to the player upon starting the Rookie Tryout Training Academy mission.
• It's not immediately possible to enter inputs upon starting the Race for Supremacy Training Academy mission.
• Pinecone uses a different model, which has a much less detailed rake, as well as slightly different colors in the arm and wheels. It is also used in the 1726 and 1252 prototypes.

1724 - 1252	UNKNOWN

• The icon for Success Badges originally lacked wings. This earlier icon is also used in the 1726 prototype.

1724 - 1726	1252 - UNKNOWN

• Unknown differences in the Augerin Canyon and Fusel Lodge landscape textureless models and collision data. For the models, the former has differences in all files, while the latter has differences in five: fusellodge_A4.nsmbd, fusellodge_B4.nsmbd, fusellodge_C2.nsmbd, fusellodge_C4.nsmbd and fusellodge_E6.nsmbd. Of these five, the former four would get new versions in 1726, which match later prototypes, but the latter would only get updated in the UNKNOWN prototype.
• The following textured landscape models have unknown differences compared to later prototypes and the final game: ac_C3prp.nsbmd, ac_C4prp.nsbmd, ac_D4prp.nsbmd, fusellodge_D1prp.nsbmd. While the former three would be updated in 1726, the latter stayed the same until the UNKNOWN prototype.

Unused Text

While the game's Portuguese text does not work, it can still be found within the game's ARM9 data, starting from offset 0x8AB9E.

Download Portuguese Text Strings File: disneyplanesFandRDS-portuguesetext.zip (52.5 KB) (info)

1726

Differences to 1724

Overall

• Levels are no longer unlocked by default.
• Available languages are English, French, German, Italian and Spanish, as is the case with the 1252 and UNKNOWN prototypes.

Menus

• The logo's placement was moved slightly down.
• The logo now shrinks and increases when a language is chosen, with the graphic being updated accordingly. Despite this, the English logo is still the only one that is properly aligned.
• The text in the statistics menu was updated, now closely matching the latest known build. However, the graphic in the background wasn't, resulting in text going outside of it.
• The top shutter graphic was updated to completly cover the contents of the top screen.

1252

Differences to 1726

Menus

• The title screen's background elements now match the UNKNOWN prototype.
• The logo's behavior in the languages selection screen now matches the UNKNOWN prototype; shrinking when entering and increasing when selecting. The logo is also aligned properly independent of the language chosen.
• The "© 2014 DISNEY" string was added below the logo on the title screen.
• An animation now plays when selecting a profile, as is with the UNKNOWN prototype.
• The statistics menu background graphic was updated to accommodate the new text alignment.
• Button prompts now appear in the mission selection and statistic screens, but still not in the main menu and profile selection screen like the UNKNOWN prototype.
• The shutter transition from gameplay to the results screen has been implemented.

Gameplay

• An A button graphic replaces the arrow in dialogue, as is the case with the UNKNOWN prototype.
• The camera position upon starting the Rookie Tryout Training Academy mission was zoomed out, as is with the UNKNOWN prototype.
• The icon for Success Badges now matches the UNKNOWN prototype.

Screenshot Gallery

Title Screen

1724

1726

1252 - UNKNOWN

Profile Selection

1724 - 1726

1252

UNKNOWN

Shutter Close

1724	1726 - UNKNOWN

Main Menu

1724 - 1726

1252

UNKNOWN

Statistics

1724

1726

1252

UNKNOWN

Mission Selection

1724 - 1726

1252

UNKNOWN

Dialogue

1724 - 1726

1252 - UNKNOWN