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foone, 11 months ago

they didn't leave full debugging info in the .elf, but they did leave complete symbol names and a .map file, so yeah. lots of info there.

foone, 11 months ago

AMF Bowling World Lanes: No debugging info for map files, but they did ship the ELF file with full symbol names.

foone, 11 months ago

Activision Demo Action Pack is interesting. It's 5 game demos, and they shipped 7 elfs.
One for the launcher, one for each game, except Dancing With The Stars which got two, for some reason

foone, 11 months ago

oh my god they shipped the .elf file for the PS2 version

on the wii demo disk

foone, 11 months ago

they built Dancing With The Stars (wii) with Perforce.

I'm sorry for them

foone, 11 months ago

yeah I think this demo version of DWTS was created out of a very pre-release version of the game.
the filesystem is full of duplication, like you'll have a .TPL file and a .TGA with the same name.
I think they ran a resource compile but never removed out the source files.

foone, 11 months ago

Barbie Horse Adventures - Riding Camp was made with the PX Studio Engine.

just a guess from the filename "PXStudioEngineWii.elf"

foone, 11 months ago

currently on windows but replacing my rmdir /s/q with a call to cygwin's rm.exe because IT WORKS BETTER

foone, 11 months ago

windows: not even the best OS on windows

foone, 11 months ago

Barbie Jet, Set & Style!:
audio\20110425_from_doug

DAMN IT DOUG YOU DIDN'T DELETE YOUR FOLDER FROM THE RETAIL DISC! IT'S BEEN 12 YEARS DOUG! GET ON IT DOUG!

foone, 11 months ago

this is a callout for Doug Brandon. he may have done the music for Stunt Island on DOS, but his folder was never deleted from Barbie Jet Set & Style.

foone, 11 months ago

Ben 10 - Galactic Racing ships with THREE elf files on the disc?
named Game, Game-rel, and Game-dvd.

foone, 11 months ago

No debugging info in any of them (other than symbols, of course) but they are different sizes. So there's some difference!

foone, 11 months ago

Go Play Circus Star includes two elf files, named Circus.elf and CircusD.elf.

CircusD.elf is bigger.

GEE I WONDER WHAT THE DIFFERENCE COULD BE?

foone, 11 months ago

Dood's Big Adventure goes even farther:
DtoL_Debug_Wii.elf
DtoL_Optimized_Wii.elf
DtoL_Release_Wii.elf

foone, 11 months ago

Gormiti - The Lords of Nature! too.
GormitiDebug.elf
GormitiFinal.elf
GormitiRelease.elf

foone, 11 months ago

friendly reminder: the wii doesn't load elf files. there is no reason for any elf files to be on a wii disc, except for the exceptionally unlikely event that a game implements their own elf loader

foone, 11 months ago

wow. they left their test scripts in the Dancing With The Stars demo

foone, 11 months ago

project "check every single fucking wii game" has had its first success: I found a Secret Spigot game!

And it's 2008's Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?: Make the Grade.

foone, 11 months ago

"UnityWii.elf"

gee I wonder what game engine was used to make this title?

foone, 11 months ago

finished my first pass through "all" wii games (it's not all, it's just 1,265 of them that I could get on short notice).

289 ELF files found.

foone, 11 months ago

wikipedia says there's 1640 wii games, so that was a decent first attempt.

foone, 11 months ago

anyway this whole project was a success because I found ONE (1) hidden Spigot game.

foone, 11 months ago

gods this is confusing. my wii directory has a bunch of "duplicates", like "ABBA - You Can Dance.7z" and "ABBA - You Can Dance.zip"

but I checked the files inside, and they aren't actually duplicates. which is weird.

foone, 11 months ago

ABBA - You Can Dance.7z contains S2EE41 - ABBA: You Can Dance, NTSC-U vresion.
ABBA - You Can Dance.zip contains S2EP41 - ABBA: You Can Dance, PAL version.