Puyo Puyo! 15th Anniversary (Nintendo DS)

Puyo Puyo! 15th Anniversary
Developer: Sonic Team Publisher: Sega Platform: Nintendo DS Released in JP: December 14, 2006, June 19, 2008 (Special Price) This game has hidden development-related text. This game has unused modes / minigames. This game has unused graphics. This game has revisional differences.

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It's the fifteenth anniversary of a game where you line up blobs in chains of four.

Puyo Puyo Sniper

There is an unused game mode in the "Special Price" version called "Puyo Puyo Sniper". Use this Action Replay code to unlock everything and beat the game. It is the third menu in options.

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Revisional Differences

The Rev 1 version fixes a bug present in the original revision, where the game would stop saving after 255 times. The "Special Price" version adds the aforementioned unused minigame.

Leftover/Test Graphics

This game is full of unused and leftover files, many of which contain leftover and test graphics in them.

staffroll/test_bmp.a

A test graphic of some sorts.

test/TestData.narc/TestData_003

A screenshot of a battle using a placeholder background field.

test/TestData.narc/TestData_024

test/TestData.narc/TestData_021

Screenshots of a prototype character select screen. Carbuncle was selectable here, and Amitie oddly has Baldanders' dropset and power type.

mainmenu/LessonMenu/lesson_menu.narc/lesson_menu_02

A screenshot from the SEGA game Beach Spikers.

mainmenu/LessonMenu/lesson_menu.narc/lesson_menu_05

Photo of a person. Possibly someone who worked with the game?

title/TitleData.narc/TitleData_3

title/TitleData.narc/TitleData_1

Title screen of "Puyo Puyo ABC". This could've possibly been the original concept of this game.

inline\Inline.narc/Inline_001

inline\Inline.narc/Inline_013

inline\Inline.narc/Inline_016

inline\Inline.narc/Inline_019

Some character selection screens of Puyo Puyo ABC. In the textbox is the name of the character's ability. Unfortunately the latter 2 images have broken palettes.

inline\Inline.narc/Inline_004

Dongurigaeru's ability description, "Daikaiten" (translates to "great spinner"), it has the same name as the 15th's mode Spinner, and the description shows that this ability was supposed to work the same way.

thoroughly\thoroughly_test.narc/thoroughly_test_01

A placeholder background for the Endless modes selection. It says "Tokoton" (endless).

thoroughly\thoroughly_test.narc/thoroughly_test_04

thoroughly\thoroughly_test.narc/thoroughly_test_06

thoroughly\thoroughly_test.narc/thoroughly_test_08

thoroughly\thoroughly_test.narc/thoroughly_test_10

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Placeholder buttons for Endless modes, oddly in different colors. They say, respectively: Endless Battle, Endless Puyo, Endless Fever and Endless Mission.

Other Leftovers

Across the files, several .bat files that were used to build the .narc archives can be found. Some source code related files can also be found, such as strings or text files of repositories.

roulette\bg_puyo_icon.narc/bg_puyo_icon_53

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     last-author="tanaka_hitoshi"
     kind="dir"
     revision="2533"/>
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     committed-rev="1312"
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     text-time="2006-06-28T12:34:41.359375Z"
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     last-author="tanaka_hitoshi"
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     text-time="2006-06-28T12:40:02.015625Z"
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     last-author="tanaka_hitoshi"
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     name="arc3.bat"
     text-time="2006-06-28T16:09:22.187500Z"
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     last-author="tanaka_hitoshi"
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  </wc-entries>

This XML file seems to have information of a developer who uploaded some files to a repository, in this case some .bat files.