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Hoppie (Nintendo DS)

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Unused Graphics#

Early Logo File#

UI\Logo\logo.NCGR contains an early version of the logo graphics displayed before the game's title screen.

  • CyberPlanet Interactive's logo is an older version, which was used from 2008 to 2010.
  • Phoenix Games' logo is present. This hints that an European release of this version of the game was planned, but never came to fruition.

"Cancle" Button#

An unused graphic for a Cancel button can be found as part of UI\Player\vk_letters.NCBR. Noticeably, it is misspelled as "Cancle".

Demo Leftovers#

Throughout the game's files are many leftover graphics from a demo version.

Character\Hero\hero1.NCBR (part of)
hoppieDS-herodemo.png

UI\MainMenu\main_menu_bottom_demo.NCGR
HoppieDS_DemoScreen.png

UI\PlayGame\play_game_sky_demo.NCGR
hoppieDS-playgameskydemo.png

Localization Leftovers#

Many of the game's graphics contain unused varaiations in the French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish languages, which is another hint to a planned European release of the game. There are also several files, including an unused folder (UI\Language), which refer to a non-existent language select menu.

UI\HighScore\highscore.NCBR (part of)
hoppieDS-highscore.png

UI\HighScore\highscore_localized.NCBR (part of)
hoppieDS-highscore_localized.png

UI\Language\language_1.NCBR
hoppieDS-language_1.png

UI\Language\language_2.NCBR
hoppieDS-language_2.png

UI\MainMenu\main_menu_option_en.NCBR
hoppieDS-main_menu_option_en.png

UI\Player\player_dialog_fr.NCBR
hoppieDS-play_dialog_fr.png

UI\Player\player_dialog_ger.NCBR
hoppieDS-play_dialog_ger.png

UI\Player\player_dialog_it.NCBR
hoppieDS-play_dialog_it.png

UI\Player\player_dialog_por.NCBR
hoppieDS-play_dialog_por.png

UI\Player\player_dialog_spa.NCBR
hoppieDS-play_dialog_spa.png

UI\Player\vk_bottom_fr.NCBR
hoppieDS-vk_bottom_fr.png

UI\Player\vk_bottom_ger.NCBR
hoppieDS-vk_bottom_ger.png

UI\Player\vk_bottom_it.NCBR
hoppieDS-vk_bottom_it.png

UI\Player\vk_bottom_por.NCBR
hoppieDS-vk_bottom_por.png

UI\Player\vk_bottom_spa.NCBR
hoppieDS-vk_bottom_spa.png

UI\Player\vk_letters_fr.NCBR (part of)
hoppieDS-vk_letters_fr.png

UI\Player\vk_letters_ger.NCBR (part of)
hoppieDS-vk_letters_ger.png

UI\Player\vk_letters_it.NCBR (part of)
hoppieDS-vk_letters_it.png

UI\Player\vk_letters_por.NCBR (part of)
hoppieDS-vk_letters_por.png

UI\Player\vk_letters_spa.NCBR (part of)
hoppieDS-vk_letters_spa.png

UI\Player\vk_top_fr.NCBR
hoppieDS-vk_top_fr.png

UI\Player\vk_top_ger.NCBR
hoppieDS-vk_top_ger.png

UI\Player\vk_top_it.NCBR
hoppieDS-vk_top_it.png

UI\Player\vk_top_por.NCBR
hoppieDS-vk_top_por.png

UI\Player\vk_top_spa.NCBR
hoppieDS-vk_top_spa.png

UI\PlayGame\123_go.NCBR (part of)
hoppieDS-123go.png

UI\PlayGame\continue.NCBR (part of)
hoppieDS-continue.png

UI\PlayGame\gotcha.NCBR (part of)
hoppieDS-gotcha.png

UI\PlayGame\pause.NCBR (part of)
hoppieDS-pause.png

Unused Text#

At the root of the cartridge data is the game's banner file, GameBanner.bnr, which contains an icon, alongside text to be displayed in the DS's main menu. However, there are three other banner files that go unparsed, and reference two other potential publishers, as well as the game's developers, CyberPlanet Interactive. Some of them also reference an earlier title for the game; Hoppies II.

GameBanner.bnr.cyber
Hoppies II

CyberPlanet Interactive

GameBanner.bnr.phoenix
Hoppies II

Phoenix Games (Holland)BV

GameBanner.bnr.vgs
Hoppie

Virtual Play Games

References#

  1. MobyGames↩︎