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 or by enabling one of the below GameShark codes for the corresponding region:

Version	ROM Address
US	xB6B17
Europe	xB6F77
France	xB5867
Germany	xAC9D7

Version	GameShark code
US	800B5F17 000B
Europe	800B6437 000B
France	800B4C67 000B
Germany	800ABE97 000B

Hidden Menu

There is a hidden menu called NAME-LIST, which has eight hidden names in it :

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

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

Based on the presence of the guest name and the fact there are eight names, it's most likely a development leftover for the name selection menu.

When see credits in the game, theses names seem 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 are 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 a duplicate image of Lt. Surge that can be found only in the German version:

Hidden Development Message

On the French and German versions, there is a hidden message that can be revealed by removing a "hidden" flag on the text.

An example for the French version can be seen below. The German version is the same but replaces "French" with "German".

For the USA and European versions, only the 2nd line (timestamp creation) is present in the game's data, but there is no known way to display it.