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Mighty Milky Way

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Mighty Milky Way is a puzzle action game about a cute green French alien girl named Luna who is on a top-secret mission, hindered by a robotic T-Rex who is also apparently her husband.

Sub-Pages#

Unused Sounds#

TEMP SLASH.sfx#

As the name suggests, some kind of slashing sound. The filename suggests it was used as a placeholder.

TEMP VO SCREAM.sfx#

A knockback voice clip of Zelda from Super Smash Bros. Melee with a high-pitch filter. Again, the filename suggests it was used as a placeholder.

Unused Translations#

Data Corruption Error#

In ErrorText.loctext, the error message for a data corruption error is located. It is the exact same message as in the European version of Mighty Flip Champs!, including the translations to French, Spanish, German and Italian. These translations are not used in the final game, as the rest of the game was never translated to these languages.

La sauvegarde peut avoir été corrompue.
Réinitialisation des données.
Bonne journée !

Los datos guardados están dañados.
Restableciendo datos.
¡Que tengas un buen día!

Der Spielstand ist fehlerhaft und wird gelöscht.
Einen schönen Tag noch!

I dati salvati potrebbero essere danneggiati.
Reset dati.
Buona giornata!

Save data may have been corrupted.
Resetting data.
Have a nice day!

French Tutorial Text#

In TutorialText.loctext, the tutorial text that is shown in the first few levels is located. It is prefaced by the words ‘French’ and ‘English’, followed by some nonsensical French text, after which the English tutorial text used in the game starts. It is not a translation, but the placement suggests that there was an initial intent of translating the text into French.

Original French Text

Translation

vous avez une grand nez dans votre pain.

you have a big nose in your bread

quelle surprise!

what a surprise!

Ma vie sent votre visage

My life smells like your face

si tu as lavé les ananas

if you washed the pineapples

je ne peux pas finir la singe

I cannot finish the monkey

Tu es la fromage

You are the cheese

The text in French has some grammatical errors. It is unknown if the game was planned to have translations. Interestingly, Shantae: Risky's Revenge, another Wayforward game, also had some odd French texts randomly located within the code.

Debug Text#

Like other Wayforward games of this time period, many debug messages and strings are left over in the code, which were likely intended for internal testing and troubleshooting. Full scripts can be found on the Debug Logs subpage.

Build Date#

Found at offset 0x8C6A4.

USA

Europe

Japan

Version: USA
Build: Release
Mighty Milky Way
Mode: Time Attack
Thu 02/24/11 13:53:25 PST
Revision: 204349
Build: Release
Version: Europe
Mighty Milky Way
Mode: Time Attack
Wed 03/09/11 10:21:00 PST
Revision: 206311
Version: USA
Build: Release
Mighty Milky Way
Mode: Time Attack
Wed 04/09/14 14:20:54 PDT
Revision: 400357

Interestingly, the Japanese version of the game still says it is the USA version.

Possible Translations#

Located at 0x9217C is another remnant of a possible localisation of the game.

<Localization not found>
No translation.

This suggests that the game was intended to be translated, likely into French, Spanish, German and Italian, but that the idea was abandoned during development.