Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree

Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree
Also known as: Wii de Yawaraka Atama Juku (JP), Big Brain Academy for Wii (EU) Developer: Nintendo EAD Group No. 4 Publisher: Nintendo Platform: Wii Released in JP: April 26, 2007 Released in US: June 11, 2007 Released in EU: July 20, 2007 Released in AU: November 8, 2007 Released in KR: 2008 This game has hidden development-related text. This game has unused graphics. This game has unused text.

To do: Regional differences (graphical changes; English, Spanish and French text differences between the US and EU versions). There's a mention for loading timeStampP_xx.txt? The commands in WSR and WFP's docs do not work for it, did they use a new combo/method? XLS documents? Apparently, in the NTSC version some voice sounds like the ones used in the hallways do not appear in French and Spanish. But it seems that they are present in the corresponding BRSAR file. Check if they are not leftovers from the European version of the languages and why it happens.

Train your brain! Get a degree in Wii!

Unused Graphics

The entire user folder is chock-full of tests, early versions of minigames, and of course, unused graphics, most likely from an internal developer wiki.

user\kiuchi\cuttingPuzzle\layout.arc has graphics of various pixelated things leftover from the DS game.

There's also some silhouettes of various objects.

In user\kiuchi\shooting, there's what seems to be an early version of Speed Spotting, with many pictures. A few remain in the final, but many are only found here.

In user\masuda\NandTest, there seems to be graphics left-over from a NAND memory test. The text corresponds to the filenames of the images.

Read (読み込み)

Write (書き込み)

Test Start (テスト開始)

In user\masuda\NigaoeTest, there's something involving using books from all angles, possibly a portrait test judging by the filename (Nigaoe (似顔絵)).

In user\masuda\SaveBanner, there's a early version of the save banner, along with a little drawing of Dr. Lobe.

In user\ogawa\layout_test, there's a bunch of numbers and... space.

The Japanese text translates to "Total" (合計), suggesting that this is from some sort of calculator.

In user\ogawa\ogawaTest, there are buttons and a very strange picture of an aquarium that looks like it's from the DS "prequel". user\waken\buttonTest also has these exact same files.

In user\ogawa\test\designer.arc along with some other places, there's some early graphics.

The first graphic is present in losehakari.bti and shows Dr. Lobe with a tear in his eye and a white flag in his hand.

The second graphic is present in winhakari.bti and shows Dr. Lobe with a trophy in his hand.

The third graphic is present in winlosehakari.bti and is similar to the second graphic, but the trophy Dr. Lobe is holding in this graphic is shinier.

Present in user/kando/dbController/layout.arc/layout.brlyt, a debug controller.

Unused Text

user\ogawa\sample has two TXT files. test.txt

hogehoge

The other one is in director.arc. aaa.txt

sample data

Build Date

To do: Other versions.

USA

TimeStampD_EU.txt (Debug EU)	TimeStampD_JP.txt (Debug JP)	TimeStampD_US.txt (Debug US)	TimeStampD.txt (Debug, no region)
Mar.22.2007 19:06:18	Mar.31.2007 23:19:02	Mar.22.2007 19:01:11	Feb.22.2007 10:35:34
TimeStampP_EU.txt (Product, EU)	TimeStampP_JP.txt (Product, JP)	TimeStampP_US.txt (Product, US)	TimeStampP.txt (Product, no region)
Apr.27.2007 17:17:20	Apr.04.2007 20:30:21	Apr.27.2007 17:16:05	TimeStamp
TimeStampR_EU.txt (Release, EU)	TimeStampR_JP.txt (Release, JP)	TimeStampR_US.txt (Release, US)	TimeStampR.txt (Release, no region)
Apr.27.2007 17:16:44	Apr.27.2007 12:54:45	Apr.27.2007 17:15:28	Feb.19.2007 19:10:45
TimeStampV_EU.txt (Develop, EU)	TimeStampV_JP.txt (Develop, JP)	TimeStampV_US.txt (Develop, US)	TimeStampV.txt (Develop, no region)
Mar.22.2007 19:06:42	Apr.26.2007 21:37:33	Mar.22.2007 19:02:44	Feb.24.2007 13:23:39

All of the build dates that are presented above can be found at the root of the game's files.

It's notable that

TimeStampP.txt

says

TimeStamp

on it instead of an actual build date.

Internal Project Name

The internal name of the game is Yawaraka, given by many mentions of Yawa and the full term in the game's files and executable. Yawaraka is present in the Japanese name of the game.

Symbol Maps

The folder map has symbol maps for almost all development builds of the game from all regions excluding Japan. Some symbol maps are different across regions. Over 167MB of the disc is consumed off them!

Download Big Brain Academy Wii symbol maps (Japan) File: BBAcademySymbolMaps_JP.zip (? KB) (info)

Download Big Brain Academy Wii symbol maps (Europe) File: BBAcademySymbolMaps_EU.zip (? KB) (info)

Download Big Brain Academy Wii symbol maps (North America) File: BBAcademySymbolMaps_US.zip (? KB) (info)

Download Big Brain Academy Wii symbol maps (All regions) File: BBAcademySymbolMaps_AllRegions.zip (6,826 KB) (info)