The Smurfs Dance Party

The Smurfs Dance Party
Developer: Land Ho! Publisher: Ubisoft Platform: Wii Released in US: July 19, 2011 Released in EU: July 29, 2011 Released in AU: September 8, 2011 This game has unused graphics. This game has unused cinematics. This game has unused music. This game has unused text. This game has anti-piracy features.

In The Smurfs Dance Party, you dance. With Smurfs.

Unused Video

In the movies folder is a strange, unused video called tutorial_movie.bik. It features a man gesturing towards an office whiteboard along with a (poorly-done) voice-over, saying "Hello, boys and girls. Let me tell you how to play the game."

Unused Text

Present in the system folder is dummy.bin, which contains the following:

karikarikarikarikarikarikarikari

"Kari" is Japanese for "temporary", which makes sense as this is a simple dummy file.

Unused Graphics

Unused Warning Screen

warning_bg.tpl in the system folder is a rather basic warning screen without any information.

Unused Loading Screen Images

2dui/common/loading_ge.arc contains 3 unused images of some guy:

man_glass.tpl:

man_grada.tpl:

man_mask.tpl:

Unused Menu Background

menu.arc in 2dui contains an unused menu background called 2dbg0.tpl:

Unused Artist Names

The file eng.brres in the music_name_text folder contains 26 images that were most likely used to display the artist name of a song. artist_name_00.tpl to artist_name_24.tpl are blank images, artist_name_25.tpl and artist_name_26.tpl both contain a text that says "Wiggles".

Unused Music Icons

Also located in eng.brres are the following 2 unused music icons:

music_base_20.tpl:

music_base_26.tpl:

Other Images

nexticon.arc in 2dui/dance has a unused image called dance00_0.tpl:

common_window.arc in the test folder contains a image of some stars called common_window_M.tpl:

parents_dancerecord.arc, which is also located in the test folder contains the following unused images:

arrow_base_bg.tpl:

arrow_top_pg.tpl:

btn_icon_exit.tpl:

btn_ss_size0.tpl:

btn_ss_size1.tpl:

ico_base.tpl:

mess_common_0012.tpl:

music_pict_01.tpl to music_pict_42.tpl are badly cutout images of another dancing game.

Here's 4 of them:

music_pict_01.tpl:

music_pict_02.tpl:

music_pict_03.tpl:

music_pict_04.tpl:

In parents_dancerecord.arc is also a file called title_dancerecord.tpl:

icon_selection.arc in test/test_mikata has data for an unused song which seems to be "Old MacDonald Had A Farm":

A_B_btn.tpl:

artist_title01.tpl:

btn_icon_exit.tpl:

btn_is_off.tpl:

btn_is_on.tpl:

btn_ss_size0.tpl:

btn_ss_size1.tpl:

D_pad.tpl:

icon_00.tpl:

mess_common_0001.tpl:

mess_common_0097.tpl:

music_title01.tpl:

tree.tpl:

wii_light.tpl:

win_player.tpl:

Unused Music

The game contains only one unused music track, which is a snippet of the theme song but with lyrics:

lala_sample.brstm in sound/stream:

Anti-Piracy

If the game is loaded on a pirated Wii console, it shows a message that says "MetaFortress RESPONSE!", after the Sony Pictures Animation screen. This detection works by checking for a USB 1.1 port, which will fail on IOSes that lock off the USB 1.1 port in favor of a USB 2 port.

The protection was created by a company called Metaforic, which made security software for games such as Kirby's Return to Dream Land and to combat and stop the R4 card piracy for the DS.