Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (Nintendo DS)

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is a children's adventure game based on Rankin/Bass' famous 1964 stop-motion TV special of the same name. Unlike the Wii version, the DS version actually has favorable reviews.

Hidden Sound Credit#

At offset 0x954E7C is a hidden credit for the sound engineer, including the date and the tool used.

2010-07-26 IENG G.R. Moore ISFT#
Sony Sound Forge Audio Studio 9.0

Story Debugging Text#

The game has four different stories which are split up in four files: story1.xml, story2.xml, story3.xml and story4.xml. Each mini-game is listed as a "scenario", and every story has its own unique list of scenarios.

All story files start with the following introduction:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<!--Career
This file is simply a list of the various scenarios for the creation minigame. You can alter the flow of the game by adding or changing the scenarios listed. They are listed in order of appearance.

Most of these files are self explanatory. Some are optional and not so self explanatory. Here is what they do.

[name]
This is the name of the scene.  It is also the text displayed in the task list.  Maximum size is [32 bytes]

[scenario_script]
This is the path to the script to run.  Maximum size is [64 bytes]

This is followed by a list of minigames, and the developer text ends with the following warning message:

<!--
USE THIS AREA FOR TESTING ONLY!  DO NOT, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE, MODIFY ANYTHING AFTER CHAPTER ONE!!!!
-->

After which the unique list of minigames starts for each story segment.