Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (J2ME)

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney's obscure mobile debut, released in an episodic format (with only two of the episodes having been preserved, those being Case 1 and Case 2 Part 2). Naturally, some sacrifices were made to make the game work within the limitations of the platform, such as the character sprites not being animated, though they still managed to include the classic soundbites and vibrating objections.

Not all of the music was ported to this version. Notably, in the first case the classic "Objection!" theme is missing and replaced during gameplay by the "Court Begins" theme (the theme is present in the second case); only the Moderato version of Cross-Examination theme is present, replacing the Allegro version when it was used; lastly, only the variation of "Pursuit - Cornered" is present.

A different official port was released in China by MoJoy.

Unused Graphics#

The Judge's seat is never seen as he never leaves from it.

A Nintendo DS logo that is unused in certain versions of the game, meant to appear together with a bit of unused text below.

Unused Text#

A bit of unused text found at the end of a file simply named l. The tutorial text most likely goes unused since the information is simply included in the script.

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Revisional Differences#

German Music Corruptions#

For some reason, in specifically the German Nokia s60v2 (176x208) version, a few of the MIDI and WAV files have become corrupted, with 0A bytes having been replaced with 0D 0A sequences. This has a negligible effect on the WAV files, but the MIDI files in that version are unopenable by actual Nokia phones, and the game plays silence as a result. The most likely explanation is that someone downloaded the files from a UNIX or Linux server to a Windows workstation using an FTP client in ASCII mode. ASCII mode is meant to translate the line endings in text files from UNIX-style LF to Windows-style CR LF, but when used with binary files, it causes exactly this type of corruption.

Text Changes#

Still, I'm impressed!

Well, I have to say Phoenix, I'm impressed!

One of Mia Fey's dialogue from the beginning of The First Turnabout was heavily shortened.