Talk:Nintendogs

Unused Music?

While creating nintendogs notes I found a track called SSEQ_0034. But I'm not sure if it is unused. GermanPokemon (talk) 12:20, 28 December 2013 (EST)

It's used for when you meet another dog whilst taking a walk, and your dog is curious. Sp0nge80b (talk) 22:52, 20 January 2017 (EST)

Face of Ted Rumsworth

Asian releases seems to use the face of Asian for Ted Rumsworth (name in Japan is Suzuki-san 鈴木さん, though). (Conversely, there seems to be no differences among every releases about the face of Archie Hubbs.) Can someone add this difference to the page? -- Odo2718 (talk) 05:25, 10 February 2017 (EST)

Pre-Final Builds

I finished adding build dates of all known dumped roms, and here's the notable stuff: The Japanese kiosk demo is not pre-final. The European kiosk demo is pre-final by only 3 days. The USA kiosk demo is pre-final by almost a month. The iQue kiosk demo is of course pre-final by a few years, someone should definitely look for translation differences between that and the final DSiWare version. --ChainSwordCS (talk) 22:50, 10 January 2021 (UTC)

The 9/9/2020 Nintendo leak included a self-extracting archive titled "EAD-00960_NintenDOG_C_NoBGM_091027.exe". This theoretically unpacks to a .tad (DSiWare Dev Installable Package) with the same name, though efforts to crack the password via brute force were unsuccessful as far as I know (multiple credible prototype scene members were involved). We can infer that the build date is close to October 27, 2009 (the "Last Modified" date backs this up, and the name of the folder "20091028" is one day later).

The parent folder of "20091028" is the "fro_Nintendo" archive, presumably meaning these were sent from Nintendo to iQue. Several files corroborate this. From N64 through DSi development, iQue was sent source code on a 'need-to-know' basis. In the "20090715" folder, and "DSiWare_Wario" subfolder, there is documentation regarding the US, EU, and JP versions of WarioWare Snapped, including Message Data (text) in spreadsheets to be translated to Chinese. It also contains a debug build of WarioWare! Touched, presumably built by Nintendo and just the rom sent over.

So I infer that this is a Chinese translation-prototype (but near-final) debug build of Nintendogs. The filename suggests there is no background music, so this may have been for filming commercials and other promotional material. October is 2 months from release, but 3 months after the supposed build date in buildtime.txt

--ChainSwordCS (talk) 01:33, 11 January 2021 (UTC)

Relating to build dates again, it looks like I or someone else needs to datamine:

• Europe - Nintendogs Jack Russell Relay Mode (Kiosk)
• Australia - Nintendogs Download/Relay Version (Kiosk)

and I should probably fix up the naming conventions for the NFR stuff in that table :l

--ChainSwordCS (talk) 03:17, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

valkyrie's violation and the helicopter

Okay, so I was looking at the notes page where SSEQ 21 is labelled as the 'unused' valkyrie song. I say it in quotes because there's a rare item in the game called the 'Combat Copter' which is a remote-controllable helicopter that plays that song (it's SSEQ 21 as well) akin to the karts that play their music. It doesn't sound like the one on the page though, sounding more 8-bit as opposed to missing instruments. The notes appear to relate to bits relating to the final game. I'm talking based on localised american and european copies. Why has this not been cleared up anywhere on the pages? I attempted to edit the notes page, but it's on the regular page as well, and they don't sound anywhere near alike. also the song is actually called 'ride of the valkyries' according to a quick search, unless you're using something internal Pinkolol16 (talk) 15:01, 29 November 2023 (UTC)