Layton Brothers: Mystery Room

This page is rather stubbly and could use some expansion. Are you a bad enough dude to rescue this article? Notes: Someone with a greater knowledge of ripping and searching through Unity assets should scour this game, because it's a bit harder to get stuff from it compared to the DS and 3DS Layton games. -BirdGuts

Despite what the title suggests, no, this isn't a game about the titular Professor's brother. It's actually about a newbie constable named Lucy Baker teaming up with his split-personality son Alfendi Layton to solve various murders.

It originally was planned to be part of Level-5's Atamania series with completely different characters, but was switched to a Layton game instead for some unknown reason.

To do: Double-check the 2D and 3D graphics/models to make sure there's nothing else lying around. Look through the text. Anything different between the iOS and Android versions?

Unused Graphics#

criminal201 is a photo of the silhouette used when a new, unknown suspect is added during a case. Likely a placeholder. The text reads "Detective screen Criminal Photo".

ef_dcut01_201 is Roscoe Strapping, but with...yellow hair?

talker04 is a police officer who never appeared in the final game, but he appears in some early trailers of the game along with other unused characters.

Among the sprites of Diane Makepeace, in the file talker21b, there is a sprite of Mariana Etista with her mouth open. She never speaks in-game and only appears smiling, so this sprite is never used.

to_be_continued_text_GBR is a graphic that is present in both the English and Japanese versions, however, it's never used as the game only says "The end" when you finish it. It seems that at some point they considered making more than one Layton Brothers game.

film_201a and film_201b are early versions of the Case Summary photos in File No. 003. These images (as well as the criminal201 and ef_dcut01_201 images) are linked to the game's File No. 000, which uses a sort of beta version of File No. 003 as a template. Aside from those images and the duplicated 3D environment, all of the content was removed.

splash is a sprite present in early builds of Mystery Room. This graphic was used as a background screen while the game downloaded additional data. As of version 1.1.0, the data was bundled directly into the APK, and the image was subsequently removed.

Oddities#

The internal graphics for each case title are out of order. Each one has a number in its filename that differs from the actual file's number, and are organized in a way that makes the titles come before and/or after the incorrect ones. In order, it goes:
title_001_GBR - The Bungled Burglary (File No. 002)
title_002_GBR - The Hand Sandwich (File No. 001)
title_003_GBR - The DJ's Swansong (File No. 005)
title_004_GBR - Freshly Baker (File No. 000)
title_009_GBR - The Walking Corpse (File No. 004)
title_010_GBR - A Murder Staged (File No. 003)
title_020_GBR - The Mystery Rooms (File No. 007)
title_021_GBR - Ham and Cheese (File No. 008)
title_023_GBR - Kiss Goodbye (File No. 006)
title_024_GBR - Good Cop, Bad Cop (File No. 009)
The only one in the correct place is File No. 009, since it's the final case of the game. The two most likely cases are that the files were originally going to happen in a different order, or it's just a simple naming mistake.

Regional Differences#

To do: There's definitely multiple differences between the Japanese and English versions outside of the character names.

Graphics#

When Gloria Blaise screams in the dark, the message in English starts with "He...", and in Japanese with "H...".

English Version	Japanese Version

For some strange reason, the hotel where Sandy Aldwich stays in the first case is completely different in the English version.

English Version	Japanese Version

The fax that Dwight Dread receives says "I'll be the Death of You" in English, but the original Japanese version reads "Killing You!".

English Version	Japanese Version

Alfendi's evaluation#

To do: This maybe needs more investigation

In the Japanese version, when you solve a case, Alfendi appears to give you feedback based on your mistakes and successes. This was disabled in the English version for some unknown reason, but among the files are still all the graphics and texts that belong to this section (most of them are in Japanese).

Character Names#

To do: Finish this up.

'...But does it make sense?' The translations on this page need to be proofread. If you are fluent enough in this language, please make any corrections necessary!