Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg (Windows)

This page details one or more prototype versions of Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg (Windows).

This prototype is documented on Hidden Palace.

A late prototype of the PC version dated January 12, 2006, just over a month before the final retail build.

To do:
Graphical differences. There's many unfinished graphics compared to the retail PC game.

GBA Leftovers#

The GBA minigames from the original GameCube version are still found in the files, though the eggs are already visually and functionally replaced with the default one like retail.

Audio Oddities#

Many sounds from the Egg02.mlt bank fail to play, notably when dashing or doing an Egg Bounce/Driver. Do note that all WAV audio are in the files.
Enemy bank related audio gets cut off too early.
Hoops audio gets cut off too early.
The glitch in retail PC where the steam loops continuously despite the event ending for the Dino Mountain skulls you destroy in Mission 2 is not here.

Development Text#

Unlike retail, there's a file called GCAX.conf, which looks to be a config file for the AX sound library for GameCube hardware. A similar file can be seen here

Japanese

Translation

;----------------------------------------------------------
; GCAX(AX SNDLIB)の設定
;----------------------------------------------------------
; 書式
;
; セミコロン以降はコメントになります
; 改行コードは、LF(Unix)、CR(Macintosh)、CR+LF(MS-DOS)いずれも可です
; コメント以外に日本語を入れることはできません
;
; 数値
;   0       ゼロ
;   0[0-7]*     8進数
;   0x[0-9A-Fa-f]*  16進数
;   $[0-9A-Fa-f]*   16進数
;   [1-9][0-9]  10進数
;
; <s>
;   ホワイトスペース (スペースまたはタブ)
;
;----------------------------------------------------------
;AramBank - ARAMバンクサイズの設定
;AramBank <s> バンク番号 <s> バンクサイズ
;----------------------------------------------------------
;ARAMのバンクの大きさは、プログラム実行中を通じて固定になっていますが、
;このファイルで設定することで、実行開始時に変更することができます
;
;なお、ARAMにロードされるのは、波形データのみです
;
;----------------------------------------------------------
;   ARAMバンクサイズの設定(ジャイアントエッグ用8M）
;----------------------------------------------------------
AramBank     0  830000
AramBank     1  800000
AramBank     2  700000
AramBank     3  0
AramBank     4  970000
AramBank     5  0
AramBank     6  1460000
AramBank     7  570000
AramBank     8  860000
AramBank     9  860000
AramBank    10  860000
AramBank    11  0
AramBank    12  0
AramBank    13  0

;7620000
;----------------------------------------------------------
;   リバーブ設定
;----------------------------------------------------------
ReverbHTime               1000  ;msec
ReverbHPreDelay           10    ;msec
ReverbHDamping            80    ;%
ReverbHColoration         50    ;%
ReverbHCrosstalk          30    ;%
ReverbHMix                100   ;%

;----------------------------------------------------------
; GCAX (AX SNDLIB) Configuration
;------------------------- ---------------------------------
; Format
;
; Anything after the semicolon will become a comment
; LF (Unix), CR (Macintosh), and CR+LF (MS-DOS) may all be used as newline characters.
; Do not write in Japanese except in comments
;
; Numeric Values
;   0               0
;       0[0-7]*         Base 8
;       0x[0-9A-Fa-f]*  Base 16
;       $[0-9A-Fa-f]*   Base 16
;       [1-9][0-9]      Base 10
;
; <s>
;       White Space (space or tab)
;
;----------------------------------------------------------
;AramBank - Setting the ARAM Bank Size
;AramBank <s> Bank Number <s> Bank Size
;----------------------------------------------------------
;The ARAM bank's size is fixed during the program's runtime,
;but you can change its size at launch by setting it in this file.
;
;Note that only waveform data will be loaded into ARAM.
;
;------------------------------------------------- ---------
;    ARAM Bank Size Settings (8M for Giant Egg)
;----------------------------------------------------------
AramBank     0  830000
AramBank     1  800000
AramBank     2  700000
AramBank     3  0
AramBank     4  970000
AramBank     5  0
AramBank     6  1460000
AramBank     7  570000
AramBank     8  860000
AramBank     9  860000
AramBank    10  860000
AramBank    11  0
AramBank    12  0
AramBank    13  0

;7620000
;------------- ---------------------------------------------
;    Reverb Settings
;---------------------------------------------- ------------
ReverbHTime               1000  ;msec
ReverbHPreDelay           10    ;msec
ReverbHDamping            80    ;%
ReverbHColoration         50    ;%
ReverbHCrosstalk          30    ;%
ReverbHMix                100   ;%

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