the cutting room mirror

The Ant Bully (Game Boy Advance)

The Ant Bully is a video game based on the 2006 theatrical film, you guessed it, Cars. Yeah just kidding it's The Ant Bully.

Sound Engine Leftovers#

Some text referring to Shin'en's GAX Sound Engine can be found at 0x13F3B8.

GAX Sound Engine 3.05A (Aug 16 2004)
© Shin'en Multimedia. Code: B.Wodok


GAX2_INIT
OUT OF MEMORY
GAX2_NEW
PARAMS ARG IS NULL
GAX2_NEW_FX
FXPARAMS ARG IS NULL
WHEN USING DIFFERENT FX_MIXING_RATE, FLAG
GAX_FX_REVERB AND GAX_HALF_RATE_FX ARE NOT ALLOWED.
GAX 2_JINGLE
GAX_NO_JINGLE FLAG IS SET
GAX_IRQ 
GAX_PLAY HAS NOT FINISHED BEFORE GAX_IRQ.
USE LOWER MIXING RATE OR LESS FX CHANNELS
OR PUT GAX_PLAY IN VBLANK IRQ.
GAX_FX
YOU TRIED TO PLAY A SPEECH FX BUT HAVE NOT 
USED THE GAX_SPEECH FLAG WITH GAX2_INIT.
GAX2_FX FXPARAMS->FXID IS GAX_DEFAULT
GAX_RESTORE_FX
BUF ARG IS NULL


GAX ENGINE V3.05A Aug 16 2004
EXCEPTION. PROGRAM HALT.
FUNCTION NAME:

Development Text#

Located at 0x3E4644 is a rather peculiar string, most likely intended for a debug mode:

DebugCheats

Build Date#

At 0x65ED0F is the game's build date:

May 26 2006 22:33:20