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Developer: Gameloft Publisher: Gameloft Platforms: J2ME Released internationally: 2005 This game has unused graphics. This game has unused sounds. This game has unused text. This game has debugging material. This game has revisional differences.

New York Nights: Success in the City (or just "New York Nights") is a J2ME game developed and released by Gameloft in 2005. Due to its success (with more than 4 millions of downloads), an iphone port of this game was made in 2009. It has very cartoonish 2D graphics and is very much like The Sims video games.

Unused graphics

Social Sims

This image seems to be related to the GET MORE GAMES! options, but it's never shown.


It is stored in a single file logo_simulations in the first versions of the game, and might be related to an early in development name of the game, or a different Gameloft cancelled game.

Virtual phone options

There are 8 different options in the virtual phone menu, however, two aditional unused icons are present in the HUD graphics at the b resources file.

The used icons	the unused icons

Unread message icon

An unread message icon exist for the messages option in the virtual phone. However, every time you get a message it automatically opens, as result, this icon can never be seen ingame.

Dizzy

Appart from hungry (apple) and tired (zZz) icons, there's an additional unused icon planned for when our character feels dizzy:

More Games menu charset

A custom charset is made for the GET MORE GAMES! menu, but only a few characters are showed:

The tick and the down arrow from the bottom icons, aren't neither used.

Unused menu sound

There's a sound for menu option switching whose MID is loaded when we move through the menu, and it's load is logged to the stdout, but this sound never plays for some reason.

Unused text

Debugging log

A big amount of debugging messages are sent to the stdout during the gameplay. They are different at the different versions of the game.

To do: examples? full documentation of all the log messages?

Other text

All the strings from the game are stored in the 0 file, some of them aren't used anywhere in the game:

The following strings at the beggining of the file were meant to select the GAME SPEED

Normal

Fast

Fastest

Slow

Slowest

In the final options menu, you select a GAME SPEED value from 1 to 6.

There are also three unused options

AMBIANCE SOUNDS:

CREDITS

ACTIVITY SPEED

.
There's a string

Select your phone type:

with the name of some phone models that depends of the version of the game. However, mobile phone is auto-detected at the final (And printed to stdout).
A

SOCIAL SIMS GAMES!

string is also preset with the GET MORE GAMES! strings.

Revisional diferences

Different revisions of the game were made for different mobile phones and different screen resolutions. Appart from obvious resolution changes, some other changes were made:

Map background

In the first versions of the game, the map background is a static image of a Metro map. In the latest versions of the game the static background was changed to an animated city image.

1.0.1	1.1.5

Bonus minigame

A degraded effect was added to the bonus machine minigame in the latest versions of the game

1.0.1	1.1.5

To do: find more differences (if any)