Meteos Wars

Meteos Wars was a huge departure from the DS original, adding and replacing several features, such as removing Fusion in favor of conditional unlocks, and replacing items with Planet Impacts. There's also downloadable content.

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Prototype Info Notes

Physics for the Planet Unknown#

Watch on YouTubeWhile Unknown's planet and alien models can be seen (when the opponent in Online VS plays a planet that the player does not have), its physics mimick those of the planet the opponent selected. What is interesting is that Unknown has its own physics parameters, present in meteos\meteoparam01.mtp2, implying that Unknown was planned to be a fully playable character at some point of development. They are similar to those of planet Lumious, although with Geolyte's fall rates.

Unused Code#

The parameters at 0x200, 0x204, 0x208, 0x20C and 0x210 in each of the game's .mtp2 files are never actually used, and are normally blanked out. However, data found on the Terarelease 3.0 prototype, as well as both Meteos Mobile and Disney Meteos games, reveal that these parameters are meant for Rare Meteos, as listed below:

• 0x200 - Soul Meteo rate
• 0x204 - Time Meteo rate
• 0x208 - Chi Meteo rate
• 0x20C - Interval between rare metal appearance
• 0x210 - Rare metal frequency coefficient

Also, the presence of these parameters as a whole hints that this parameter format was previously used in the now-defunct Meteos Online game.

Unused Graphics#

Furthermore, three of the characters in message\font\sign.dat are icons for those three Rare Meteos, in order.

Hidden Timestamps#

The game's .mtp2 parameter files also have timestamps, each located at offset 0xC of a decompressed file.

• Base Game
  • Unknown, Geolyte, Anasaze, Oleana, Firim, Hevendor
    October 21, 2008 - 14:19:26
  • All other planets
    October 21, 2008 - 14:19:27
• Planet Pack
  • All other planets
    December 18, 2008 - 08:43:23
  • Vubble, Darthvega, Hanihula
    December 18, 2008 - 08:43:24
• Galaxy Pack
  • All other planets
    December 18, 2008 - 08:43:23
  • Suburbion, Gelyer, Ranbarumba
    December 18, 2008 - 08:43:24

Unused Text#

The following strings can be found within the files at message\text.

Meteo Type List#

Found just before the How To Play sequence's text data is a series of strings which list each of the Meteo types present in this game. They are present in all languages, as follows:

メテオ
風
火
水
大地
鉄
電気
植物
生物
氷
毒
光
闇
魂
時
無属性
ダークマター
灰

METEO
AIR
FIRE
H2O
SOIL
IRON
ZAP
HERB
ZOO
ICE
POIS.
GLOW
DARK
SOUL
TIME
NULL
DARK MATTER
ASH

METEOS
AIR
FEU
EAU
SOL
FER
ÉLEC.
HERBE
ZOO
GLACE
POIS.
CLAIR
NOIR
ESPR.
TEMPS
VIDE
MATIÈRE NOIRE
CENDRES

METEO
LUFT
FEUER
WASS.
ERDE
EISEN
BLITZ
GRAS
TIER
EIS
GIFT
LICHT
PECH
GEIST
ZEIT
NULL
DUNKLE MATERIE
ASCHE

METEOS
ARIA
PIRO
H2O
GEO
MET.
ELE.
ERBA
ZOO
GHI.
VEL.
LUCE
BUIO
ANI.
TEM.
NULL
MATERIA OSCURA
CEN.

METEO
AR
FOGO
H2O
TERRA
FERRO
ZAP
ERVA
ZOO
GELO
VENE.
CLARO
NEGRO
ALMA
TEMPO
NADA
MATÉRIA NEGRA
CINZA

METEO
AIRE
FUE.
AGUA
TIE.
MET.
RAYO
VEG.
ANI.
HIELO
VENE.
LUZ
OSC.
ALMA
TMP.
NULO
MATERIA OSCURA
CENIZA

Notably, there are strings for the Soul and Time Rare Meteos.

Sound Test Menu#

Two references to a potentially scrapped Sound Test menu can be found between the text data for the Meteos Book. As the text is different between languages, it is likely the function was scrapped very late in development. The entry text is the same for all planets, except for Unknown, where it is ???. For the entry offsets, Geolyte's is used as an example.

Filename Oddity#

The files present in the model graphics resource for the planets Darthvega, Gelyer, and Ranbarumba, refer to the planets as Darkant, Negoro, and Vazaarle, respectively. It is entirely possible that these were early names from early in development.

Regional Differences#

Several of the planet names are different between languages. Changes are highlighted in bold. Curiously, two of the Japanese names do not resemble the ones from the original game, instead matching the names used in the localizations. Those are marked in italic.

References#