TV Show King (WiiWare)

TV Show King is a quiz game that was a launch title for the WiiWare service.

Unused Models#

wheelbase.brres#

Found in wheelbase.brres is an unused version of the wheel shell.

hand.brres#

Found in hand.brres is a model of a hand and a texture for a full character (likely carried over from a previous game, as the texture does not fit with the rest of the game's art style). The hand has a singular "grab" animation.

Model	Texture

Unused Scenes#

To do: Add rest of unused scenes, including game_settings and ranking_menu.

data/3d/scenes contains multiple "scenes" that go unused in the final game.

first_ranking_menu#

This scene contains several models and textures from an earlier version of the game's menu. This is backed up by concept art from the game's lead 2D artist. ¹
Oddly, most of these textures also show up in ranking_menu/export/ranking_menu_res.brres.

export/bg/first_ranking_menu_bg.brres#

export/buttons/first_ranking_menu_button_idle.brres#

Unused Textures#

Various TV Screen Textures#

TvSpEvent.brtex#

An unused texture. Its filename suggests it would have been used for the special events that occur during rounds.

Two textures are present in menu_tv_screen.brres that go unused.

Leftover Debug/Cheat Functions#

This needs some investigation. Discuss ideas and findings on the talk page. Specifically: Figure out if it's still possible to enable the cheats in-game..

check_cheat.graphml#

data/automat/check_cheat.graphml contains instructions related to debug functionality, such as skipping to the ending sequence, forcing a question to start, or toggling difficulty. However, it is unknown if these functions still work in the final game.

Constants#

constants.bin contains source code remnants, likely accidentally left in the build.

Internal Project Name#

The game's project name is "GS" (game show), based on leftover strings in the main executable.

References#