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 debugging material. This game has a hidden level select. This game has a prerelease article

To do: A prototype for the unreleased N64 Panel de Pon game has been discovered. When it's dumped, make a prototype page for it.

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.

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Prerelease Info

Dev Messages

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)

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

katy

Debug Text

At 0xC3BC0 are some very annoyed 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)

Spa Service Round Select

A disabled round select screen for the Spa Service mode can be re-enabled by changing the byte at the specified address for the corresponding region from 02 to 0B:

Region	Address
US	xB6B17
Europe	xB6F77
France	xB5867
Germany	xAC9D7

Hidden Menu

There is a hidden menu called NAME-LIST who have 8 hidden names in it :

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

the hidden scene, does not have textures and the names are located at coordinate x:0 y:0 without any inner/outer colors.

The Guest name and the fact there is 8 names, it's most probably a developpement process of the final name selector Menu.

When see credits in the game, theses names seem's refer to :

• yukimi shimura (creative director producer)
• emory georges (sound programmer)
• steve petofalvi (production artist)
• bill giese (game designer,puzzle creators)
• ronald lamont hall (production artist)
• rory johnston (sound programmer)
• yoonjoon lee (programmer)

Unused graphics

On all versions of the game, there is some unused graphics :

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  yes1

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  yes2

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  yes3

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  no1

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  no1

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  no1

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  3D Big

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  2D Big

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  2D Small

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  3D Small

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  HowToPlay Controller frame

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  how-to-play 1p frame

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  frame

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  frame2

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  3DFrame HowToPlay

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  cBack

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  how to play bubble

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  eDialog

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  mDialog

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  Mimic B Botton

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  Mimic B Botton - shadow

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  Puzzle Controller - shadow

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  Cell #1

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  Cell #2

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  half circle

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  red arrow1

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  red arrow2

There is also an image of Lt Surge that can be found only in the german version:

Hidden developpment message

On the french and german version, there is a hidden message (can be show by removing "hiden flag" on text)

here is the french version (the german has just "german" insted of "french" ):

for USA and European version, it seem's just having the 2nd line (timestamp creation) but there is no possibility to display it.