Unused Strings and Debugging Text

This is a sub-page of Proto:Donkey Kong 64.

To do:
Merge the two sections? There's actually quite a bit of overlap.

This page comprises all the text stored uncompressed in the ROM. For the compressed text, see the Early Script page.

Unused Strings#

Internal Object List#

Address	Name
806F9F94	Barrel generator
806FA024	Crate
806FA054	Cannon Barrel
806FA084	TNT barrel generator
806FA0B4	Bonus barrel
806FA144	Rambi crate
806FA174	Chunky size barrel
806FA1A4	Swinging light
806FA1D4	Heli Rope
806FA204	Barrel gun(barrel bonus)
806FA234	Bridge
806FA2C4	Minecart
806FA2F4	Racing Car
806FA324	Blast barrel
806FA384	Long bridge
806FA3B4	Tiny size barrel
806FA4D4	Barrel gun(snake bonus)
806FA534	Jetpack barrel
806FA6B4	Lanky speed barrel
806FA6E4	DK invincibility barrel
806FA714	Cave light
806FA774	Chunky rock
806FA7D4	Urn type 1
806FA804	Urn type 2
806FA834	Urn type 3
806FA864	Urn type 4
806FA894	Chunky cannonball
806FA8C4	Heli Vine
806FA8F4	Clobb head
806FA924	Big Plate
806FA954	DK key
806FA984	Chunky cannon
806FAAD4	Chunky Minecart
806FAB34	Rockfall
806FAB64	Spider web
806FAB94	Flour barrel generator
806FABF4	Crown
806FAC24	BONUS Minecart
806FACB4	Diddy banana balloon
806FACE4	Chunky banana balloon
806FAD14	Tiny banana balloon
806FAD44	Lanky banana balloon
806FAD74	Donkey banana balloon
806FAE04	Dragon barrel generator
806FAE64	Kong swap barrel
806FAEC4	Script barrel gen
806FAEF4	Script barrel gen 2
806FAF24	Script barrel gen 3
806FAF54	Script barrel gen 4
806FAF84	Script barrel gen 5
806FAFB4	Script barrel gen 6
806FB014	DK lever
806FB044	Donkey Minecart
806FB0D4	Hedge jump
806FB104	Start grid
806FB134	Chain Rope
806FB164	Beanstalk
806FB284	Barrel gun(barrel bonus)
806FB2B4	Barrel gun(barrel bonus)
806FB2E4	Headphones
806FB314	Enguarde crate
806FB344	Fly swatter (swat bonus)
806FB374	Spot light (bonus)
806FB3A4	Worm's apple

Early Menus and Debug Options#

Address	Name	Final Name
807061D0	JUNGLE	Jungle Japes
807061D8	TEMPLE	Angry Aztec
807061E0	TOY	Frantic Factory
807061E4	WRECK	Gloomy Galleon
807061EC	FOREST	Fungi Forest
807061F4	CRYSTAL	Crystal Caves
807061FC	SPOOKY	Creepy Castle
80706204	WORLD	DK Isles
8070620C	HIDEOUT	Hideout Helm
80706214	BONUS
8070621C	MULTI
80706224	TEST
8070622C	SHARED

The internal names for each world, and other map types.

(Source: Level names: burb)

Address	Name
80706234	RETURN
8070623C	QUIT
80706244	ARE YOU SURE?
80706254	A YES B NO
80706260	GAME STATUS
8070626C	%d
80706270	%d
80706274	%02d
8070627C	%d
80706280	%d

The early pause menu. Used in the E3 demo, but the strings there are "RETURN TO GAME" and "QUIT GAME". Inaccessible without hacking in the kiosk demo. "GAME STATUS" never appears, and is possibly an early option to go to the game totals screen.

Address	Name
80707680	ADVENTURE
8070768C	MULTIPLAYER
80707698	OPTIONS
807076A0	EMPY GAME SLOT
807076B0	BANANA ATTACK
807076C0	DEATHMATCH
807076CC	RACING
807076D4	XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
80707700	XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
8070772C	XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
80707758	XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
80707784	XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
807077B0	XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
80707700	XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

An earlier copy of the main menu options. Note the lack of the Mystery menu and the presence of the "Banana Attack" mode and "Racing" multiplayer mode. There's ample evidence for what the racing mode entailed, but "Banana Attack" remains a mystery.

Address	Name
807077DC	WIPE EEPROM
807077E8	NO
807077EC	YES
807077F0	GAME SELECT
807077FC	ADVENTURE
80707808	MULTIPLAYER
80707814	BANANA ATTACK
80707824	DEATHMATCH
80707830	OPTIONS
80707838	WIPE EEPROM
80707844	START
8070784C	NO CONT EMPTY GAME SLOT
80707864	EMPTY GAME SLOT
80707874	GAME %d
8070787C	TIMED
80707884	%d MINUTE
80707890	S
80707894	FIRST TO
807078A0	%d KILL
807078A8	S
807078AC	LAST MONKEY STANDING
807078C4	%d LI
807078CC	VES
807078D0	FE
807078D4	COIN HOARD
807078E0	%d MINUTE
807078EC	S
807078F0	COIN CAPTURE
80707900	%d MINUTE
8070790C	S
80707910	%s

A more fleshed-out version of the above main menu text, along with the file select and deathmatch submenus. Still no Mystery menu.

Address	Name
80707930	%2d:%.2d
8070793C	%d
80707940	TOTAL
80707948	POS
8070794C	P %d
80707954	%d
80707958	%d
8070795C	%d
80707960	%d
80707964	%d
80707968	%d

Address	Name
807079D0	ADVENTURE
807079DC	SOUND
807079E4	BATTLE
807079EC	MYSTERY
807079F4	OPTIONS
807079FC	ERASE GAME
80707A08	EMPTY
80707A10	GAME %d

This version of the main menu has the five final menu options included now.

Address	Name

80707A18	15%c
80707A20	%03d
80707A28	00:00
80707A30	GAME %d
80707A38	EMPTY
80707A40	GAME %d ERASE
80707A50	EMPTY
80707A58	GAME %d ERASE
80707A68	ARE YOU SURE?
80707A78	NO
80707A7C	YES

Address	Name
80707A80	MONKEY SMASH
80707A90	BATTLE ARENA
80707AA0	SURVIVAL
80707AAC	COIN HOARD
80707AB8	WINS
80707AC0	CAPTURE
80707AC8	GAME TYPE
80707AD4	GAME TYPE
80707AE0	%d LIVES
80707AEC	%d LIVE
80707AF4	%d MINS
80707AFC	%d MIN
80707B04	Counter icon error!!!

(Source: Gilgamesh)

Miscellaneous#

Located at offset 173150, these appear to be remnants of the E3 demo, in which an area's name would show up upon entrance much like in Banjo-Tooie. Most of the names were removed by the time this demo came out, leaving only these seven as unused text.

Location of text in RAM	Content
80702168	MINECART ONE
8070217C	BOSS ONE
80702204	INTRO SEQUENCE
807022A0	DK MUSICAL
807022B8	START GAME
807022C4	GAME OVER
807022E4	BOSS TWO

DONKEY
DIDDY
LANKY
TINY
CHUNKY
Calling Null object!
Calling End object!

The Kong names are used in dialogue; the last two strings are not.

TOP
SECRET!
BIG
WEAPON

Something to do with the Blast-O-Matic?

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRTUVWXYZ.,!?:;'S-1234567890
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ.-?{}:=0123456789<>m)!@#$%^&cab
0123456789%/

0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
(null)
(nil)

Event not setup for battle arena
Kremling Karnage
NICE ONE!

NO VARIABLE SET IN BARREL_GUN2_OBJ

Comming along side
Along side
Show off
Starting normal racing
Going to top speed
Going to normal speed

Overtake barrel

Game by Rare
A Nintendo Presentation
Donkey@Kong@64K
PRESS@START

An interesting ZX Spectrum Easter egg game that was originally planned before simply porting DK Arcade itself into the game. The formatting of the lower lines (with @s for spaces) matches Jetpac's.

Debugging Text#

A bunch of debugger messages are present starting at ROM offset 1735F0:

LEN=%d decompspace=%x
Audio heap alloc failed (fatal)
Sequence %d len:%d %p
Error - sequence %d out of heap space
%d bytes audio heap left over
Invalid marker %d
Invalid marker %d
ad_Audio.c: unable to load sequence %d on player %d actual size %d - max size %d
Interface busy!!
Audio Error! Too many SP commands!
audio: ai out of samples
Audio Error! No dma pointer!
Audio Dma not done
tune %d stopped by tune %d

Unknown EEPROM item [Character] %d
Unknown EEPROM item [Game] %d
Decode of golden bananas required
Event bits: %d
Game total bits: %d
Aligned total bits: %d
Bytes per game: %d
Bytes available: %d
Num save games available: %d

mode=%d
GO %x
current=%x start=%x end=%x dpstat=%x spstat=%x
GO %x
%x
current=%x start=%x end=%x dpstat=%x spstat=%x
%x
 *** CPU FAULT *** - UNFREEZING RDP?
Yield took %llu, max %llu

Task %d received message %d

Insufficient space reserved for animations, increase MAX_runANIMS

illegal camera type
reset camera
Can't Blend into Blend, you fool!

default tunes type not valid

Error: Don't know how to render object type %d.
Don't know how to initialise object type %d.
Texture animation '%d doesn't exist.
NO SAVE=%d
restoring %d

STATE_PLAYER_GOTOBJECT: collectobjmask removed
%d Unknown script state test %d.
Can't communicate with script object %d.
Can't communicate with script object %d.
Can't communicate with script object %d.
ACTION_PLAYER_GETOBJECT: collectobjmask removed
Unknown script command %d.
Unknown option for ACTION_RECALC_GROUND (%d).

new delay: %d

(%d,%d),
Hash table %d - %d entries

aha! caught the spawn death

%d
HIT
%d
%d
%d

%d-

jumped!

%.2d
%.2d

cool!

No player setup points; player starting at default setup point.
Player setup point %d doesn't exist, player starting at setup point 0.

%s
%d
%c

@_33@
@_33@
xi[%d] yi[%d] xf[%d] yf[%d]

Counter icon error!!!

trying to reference non-existant pole (%d,%d)
trying to reference non-existant pole (%d,%d)
Undefined cutscene EFFECT request

amAudio: WARNING no free oscstates.
amAudio: unsupported vibrato/tremolo type,%d

Bad soundState: voices =%d, states free =%d, states busy =%d, type %d data %x
playing a playing sound
Nonsense sndp event
Sound state allocate failed - sndId %d
WARNING: Attempt to stop NULL sound aborted
WARNING: Attempt to modify NULL sound aborted