NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams

Released 11 years after the original, NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams brings pointer controls and another story to the world of Nightopia. Notable for being the last game developed by Sega Studio USA (Formerly Sonic Team USA) before they were folded back into Sonic Team in Japan.

Sub-Pages#

E3 and TGS leftovers"Liver Rescue". Unused cutscenes

Test Levels#

This needs some investigation. Discuss ideas and findings on the talk page. Specifically: Find a code or some other more graceful way of activating this. What's different between Test03, Test04 and Test05? There are files in the "Arrangement" folder for Test levels 0 through 4, what do these do? Are there any remaining object layouts?

Test03#

Watch on YouTube

By switching the /DATA/files/stage1000 directory with that of DATA/files/Test03, the geometry for a test level can be loaded in place of Pure Valley's first mission. To avoid falling out of bounds when the level loads, change the coordinates of SetPlayerPosition inside DATA/files/lua/stage/stage1000/missionLevel00.lua to 0,0,0.

This test level has no flight path associated with it and bears a striking similarity to one found within Shadow the Hedgehog and Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games (Wii).

Unused Graphics#

Dream Forest Door#

A texture of the Japanese-looking door with kanji "Dream Forest" written on it.

Persona Masks Placeholder Textures#

A set of placeholder textures for persona masks. Each persona mask name is written in katakana.

"godhands"#

Files for Donbalon's boss fight located in the directory "\character\gadget\stg1010" contain the unused prop named "godhands". This pair of hands has the grabbing and holding animations and the burning effect made of sprites. Only one fire sprite is used for the burning effect.

Unused Models#

test.brres#

In the directory "\test" contains test.brres, which is a model of Donbalon with early textures. The textures are more transparent than the final ones.

Early textures:	Final textures:

Unused Animations#

The game contains unused animations for kids and NiGHTS dualising, Will losing the coaster and boat minigames and Will doing the winning pose at the end of the level. Watch on YouTube

Miscellaneous#

Internal Names#

All internal files refer to Will as Kevin.

Reala Race Missions#

Several unused cutscenes hint at the cut racing missions similar to 2 players VS races.