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M&M's Blast!

M&M's Blast! is a party game that features the M&M's mascots playing minigames to collect the most Minis. Nothing much more to see. Cheap Mario Party, anyone?

The game was apparently cancelled in Europe.

This needs some investigation.
Discuss ideas and findings on the talk page.
Specifically:

  • Any unused graphics?
  • See if any more strings of text are in the ROM.

Unused Music#

File

Name

MandMdance

Early Jingles#

Early

Final

Notes

The final jingle is used after winning the map-integrated platformer minigame, in which you collect M&M's Minis.

The final jingle is used when you start the above mentioned minigame.

GAX Sound Engine v2.01b (Jun 22 2001) 
Shin'en Multimedia. Code: B.Wodok

Credits for the game's sound engine, known as the GAX Sound Engine, and its programmer, Bernhard Wodok.

Also, each music track in the game has its name and "© Martin Schioeler" next to it in the files, likely indicating Schioeler as their composer.

Debug Text#

This needs some investigation.
Discuss ideas and findings on the talk page.
Specifically: What are these printed to? Can we get a screenshot of an on-screen error?

The game has many strings that can be found in its files, including:

 TOO MANY DOTS IN PATH!
 TOO MANY DOTS ONSCREEN!
 TOO MANY DOT ANIMATIONS ONSCREEN!

These would only be seen when too much data is loaded in at once, not during normal gameplay. They all appear to be part of the same string, separated by only 2 NUL characters (\x00) each.

 UNASSIGNED WARP DOT 
 UNTERMINATED WARP LIST

These would only be seen when the game throws an error, and certainly not during normal gameplay. Again, they appear to be part of the same string, separated by 1 NUL character.