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Baby Pals

Baby Pals is like Nintendogs, except with babies. In it, you take care of your baby, after first customizing every detail of its appearance to your liking. Once you're tired of playing with the same baby, you can just delete the save file.

...Don't think too hard about it.

Unused Text#

Present at offset 0x253AFE4 in the ROM is a slightly concerning hidden message.

Welcome to Baby Pals! The world's first Nintendo DS Baby Simulation. This game is lots of fun. So much fun. So much fun. So much fun. So much fun. So much fun. So much fun. So much fun. So much fun. So much fun. So much fun. So much fun. So much fun. So much fun. So much fun. So much fun. So much fun. So much fun. So much fun. So much fun. So much fun. So much fun. So much fun. So much fun. So much fun. So much fun. So much fun. So much fun. So much fun. So much fun. So much fun. So much fun. So much fun. So much fun. So much fun. So much fun. So much fun. So much fun. So much fun. So much fun. So much fun. So much fun. So much fun. So much fun. So much fun. So much fun. So much fun. So much fun. So much fun. So much fun. So much fun. So much fun. So much fun. So much fun. So much fun. So much fun. So much fun. So much fun. So much fun. So much fun.

Take good care of your baby or else.

This message is present, untranslated, in all of the game's language scripts.

(Source: Original TCRF research)

Regional Differences#

Title Screen#

Japan

US

Germany