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Miscellaneous Debug Features#

Sentry Duty Debugger#

PMDTimeDarkness-LeakSentryDuty1.png PMDTimeDarkness-LeakSentryDuty2.png A very small menu appears when you enter Sentry Duty.

Japanese

Translation

デバッグ

Debug

ノーマル

Normal

Selecting "Normal" will just continue the game as normal. Debug opens another menu, with a total of 8 options. Each of these options will skip the Sentry Duty game and play the cutscene that corresponds to its rating, from Sad to Perfect. The ones with "N" prefixed to their names will play the same cutscenes, but act as if you got a new High Score. This will properly give you the corresponding rewards, but no score will be added to the scoreboard.

Japanese

Translation

しょんぼり

Sad

まあまあ

Decent

いいかも

Pretty Good

かんぺき

Perfect

Nしょんぼり

NSad

Nまあまあ

NDecent

Nいいかも

NPretty Good

Nかんぺき

NPerfect

Wonder Mail#

A small change has been made to the Wonder Mail screen: if a particular reward or dungeon is kept secret on the mission's description, then the game will actually show the secret subject's name next to its listing, in yellow text.

Friend Rescues#

Any Rescue Mail on these ROMs will also be shown with several lines of debug text.

Text

Function

FRI:

This appears on the very first line of the rescue, and can either be set to TRUE or FALSE. Not sure what this does, every mail I've seen has this set to "TRUE".

C:

This has a number next to it. This number is the amount of attempts you have to complete the rescue. This defaults to 10.

TYPE:

This can either say "SOS", "RESURRECTION", or "GRATITUDE". This shows whether the mail is an SOS, A-OK, or Thank You mail respectively. The ROM has more types in the files, but it's unsure whether they can be seen: "REQUEST", "UNPROCESS", "FINISH", and "SUCCESS".

RID:

This shows a hexadecimal number with 8 digits. This is most likely related to the Rescue ID, which was a number used by the Nintendo WFC Rescue Mail system that allowed you to find a specific mail within the database more easily. Mail that was obtained through a password or local communication have this field set to entirely zeros, supporting this idea.

BID:

Like above, this shows a hexadecimal number with 8 digits. Unsure, but based on the above, it may be an internal ID used to ensure that one does not receive the same mail twice. This does not reflect the RNG seed of the dungeon.

Oddities#

Within the files of the game are these strings:

Japanese

Translation

 
デバッグ
デバッグメニューを よびだします せいひんばんでは なくなります
 
Debug
This is the Debug Mode.
It won't be in the released version.

Japanese

Translation

 
イベントはいしん
ワイヤレスつうしんを つかって イベントはいしんを おこないます
 
Event Upload
Using wireless communication, you can upload
events by Wonder Mail.

These are intended to be used as the descriptions for the Debug options in the Top Menu. However, these strings do not appear in the game; as mentioned above, when these options are highlighted, the bottom frame instead displays the build string.