Adiboo: Magical Playland

Adiboo: Magical Playland
Also known as: Adibou 2 (FR), Adi Junior / Addy Junior (DE) Developer: Coktel Vision Publishers: Coktel Vision (EU), Sierra On-Line (US)‎, Knowledge Adventure (US) Platform: Windows Released in US: 1996 Released in EU: 1996 This game has a hidden developer message. This game has hidden bonus content.

Key Files

In the latest releases of the game, the developers included two additional files within their resource archives, which aren't used in-game but serve a different purpose.

Each file contains a secret that can be more or less easily found.

They are conveniently named BOU.KEY and BOU1.KEY to make them more suspicious (no other file has a .KEY extension) and placed at the end of their container file, INTROENV.STK.

BOU.KEY

Probably the more interesting of the two. This is actually a 256-color palette indexed BMP file, but viewing it will only give a mostly black image with seemingly random colors.

However, it actually hides Windows-1252 encoded text data, where each row of the BMP represents one line in the resulting text, and each pixel value the character code. To add more complexity, each pixel value is the flipped version of the character code.

In the end, the result is a humorous text written in French by the developers. It also serves as an hidden credit list of the dev team.

Original

Translation

Coktels Productions Présente d'après une oeuvre originale de Joe dit "Black Panthere" dit "L'homme multicolore" dit "Le grand sourd avec des vêtements noirs" dit "Men in black 5 ans avant" "LE NAIN DE JARDIN QUI PARLE!" ------------------------------ avec par ordre alphabétique Les Lettris ----------- CORINNE dit "Coco" dit "Speedy Gonzales" signe particulier: "Se prend pour Gene Kelly" MARTINE dit "Tante martine" dit "Pas de chance" signe particulier: "Attends toujours l'illumination" les Coloris ----------- FRANCOIS dit "Bisounours" dit "Le Zonard" signe particulier: "Aimerais être Vizir à la place du Grand Vizir" JOSEPH dit "Le Chef" dit "Grand Da" signe particulier: "Ne se voit pas dans le noir" PACO dit "Petit DA" dit "Dick Rivers" signe particulier: "même maladie chromatique que le Grand DA" les Binairis ------------ DANIEL dit "Danette" dit "Je suis trop petit" signe particulier: "A peine plus grand qu'Adibou" OLLIVIER dit "Mr Clain" dit "Mr l'ambassadeur" signe particulier: "Adore les chèvres" JEAN-PAUL dit "Juan Paulo" dit "Le petit Jean-Paul" signe particulier: "Grand créateur de casses-têtes" PASCAL dit "Knife" dit "Pepito" signe particulier: "Se prends pour Plop" Et voilà rien que pour vous ! un petit moment de folie Ecoute-moi bien c'est simple : Pour sortir d'un écran à l'intérieur d'une activité, ou revenir à l'extérieur de l'endroit où tu étais juste avant d'avoir cliqué, clique sur la porte de sortie qui peut te permettre de sortir de l'écran dans lequel tu te trouves et tu pourras alors revenir à l'extérieur de ta nouvelle activité ou quitter l'intérieur de l'endroit où tu étais juste avant d'avoir cliqué. Mais si tu préfères rester là où tu es, c'est-à-dire que tu ne veux plus sortir de l'écran à l'intérieur de ton activité ou revenir à l'extérieur de l'endroit où tu te trouvais juste avant ne clique pas la porte de sortie qui aurait pu te permettre de sortir de l'écran dans lequel tu te trouvais avant d'avoir cliqué. Si tu as des difficultés pour accomplir ce geste, tu peux, si tu veux, pour t'aider, appeler un adulte au 01.46.68.34.17, non excuse-moi je me suis trompé de code, c'est le 01.86.40.17.35, ah non ce code là je l'ai déjà attribué, alors c'est le 01.17.35.86.40.17, mais non ce code a plus de 10 caractères... Ecoute le mieux c'est que tu appelles Martine, elle t'expliquera!

Coktels Productions Present, based on an original work by Joe known as "Black Panthere" known as "The Multicolored Man" known as "The big deaf guy with black clothes" known as "Men in black 5 years earlier" "THE TALKING GARDEN GNOME!" ------------------------------ with in alphabetical order The Lettris ----------- CORINNE known as "Coco" known as "Speedy Gonzales" particular sign: "Thinks she’s Gene Kelly" MARTINE known as "Aunt Martine" known as "Bad luck" particular sign: "Still waits for enlightenment" the Coloris ----------- FRANCOIS known as "Care Bear" known as "The slumdweller" particular sign: "Would like to be Vizier instead of the Grand Vizier". JOSEPH known as "The Chief" known as "Grand Da" particular sign: "Can't be seen in the dark" PACO known as "Little DA" known as "Dick Rivers" particular sign: "same chromatic disease as the Big DA" the Binairis ------------ DANIEL known as "Danette" known as "I am too small" particular sign: "Barely taller than Adiboo" OLLIVIER known as "Mr Clain" known as "Mr. Ambassador" particular sign: "Loves goats". JEAN-PAUL known as "Juan Paulo" known as "Little Jean-Paul". particular sign: "Great creator of puzzles". PASCAL known as "Knife" known as "Pepito" particular sign: "Thinks he's Pup" And here is just for you! a little moment of madness Listen well to me it's simple: To exit a screen inside an activity, or return to the place where you were just before you clicked, click on the exit door that can take you out of the which can allow you to exit the screen you are in and you will be able to return to the outside of your new activity or leave the place where you were just before clicking. Just before you clicked. But if you prefer to stay where you are, that is you don't want to leave the screen inside your activity or go back outside the place where you were just before not click on the exit door that would have allowed you to that would have allowed you to exit the screen you were in before you clicked it. If you have difficulties in doing this, you can, if you want, to help you, call an adult at 01.46.68.34.17, no, I'm sorry, I have the wrong code, it's 01.86.40.17.35, oh no, that code I've already assigned, so, it's 01.17.35.86.40.17, but no, this code has more than 10 characters… Listen, the best thing is that you call Martine, she will explain you!

BOU1.KEY

This one seems more straightforward than the BOU.KEY.

It is actually a VMD file, a proprietary multimedia format used by the game to store video/animation and audio data. This one only contains an audio track that plays the intro theme of the 80s TV series Magnum, P.I.