Curious George (Game Boy Advance)

Curious George
Developer: Torus Games Publishers: Namco (US/EU), EA Games (AU) Platform: Game Boy Advance Released in US: February 1, 2006 Released in EU: December 1, 2006 Released in AU: December 14, 2006 This game has hidden development-related text. This game has unused sounds. This game has debugging material.

Curious George is the Game Boy Advance version of the console game based on the movie of a book series which all share the same name. Sheesh.

Memory Debugging Menu

This game has an almost fully functioning, normally inaccessible memory debugger. To access it, change the ROM value at location 0x6A830 to 0x08000C8F. This will show the debugger at the start of each level.

• Profiling
• Enable / Disable
This toggle is non-functional. However, profiling can be enabled/disabled by setting 1 byte at address 0x3000000 to n>0 or 0, respectively.
When enabled, there are more profiling options that show average cycles and scanlines the function took:
• PhysicsSystem::Update()
• Level::Update()
• PlacedObjectGenerator::Update()
• Slow RAM Usage
Shows current RAM usage, via amount of free and used blocks.
• Memory Allocation
Displays a list of currently allocated blocks in RAM.
A: Block location.
H: Unknown. Potentially is this block's ID.
• Back
Exits the menu.

The text for this menu is also present in another game developed by Torus Games: Fantastic 4: Flame On.

(Source: ghomaghity, Ferrox (Text))

Unused Sounds

Located in the game are six unused sound effects. Most of these appear to be leftovers from Fantastic 4: Flame On.

Sound Effect	ID	Notes
	0x03	Used in Fantastic 4's main menu
	0x04
	0x05	Used upon exiting a menu in Fantastic 4
	0x06	Very quiet buzz
	0x07
	0x08

Development Text

Located 106 times over two different areas of ROM is this string of bytes:

62 61 64 5f 61 6c 6c 6f 63 00 00 00 00 00 ff ff dd 29 00 03 00 00 ff ff ad 2b 00 03

... which can be interpreted as:

bad_alloc





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At 0x6B0AC is this strange line. What system they're referencing is unknown, as it's not in the correct format to be used in in-game textboxes. Also present in Fantastic 4: Flame On.

This is some sample text to output - yes, that's right, I am simply rambling on to test out the system

Later on at 0x6E93A is this single word. While "TORUS GAMES" is used during the credits, this specific piece of text is never shown.

Torus

Starting at 0x1030C5 is list of object names. While some names correlate to in-game objects, many seem to be leftovers from Fantasic 4: Flame On.

Accumulator
AreaFade
AutoWalker
Balloon
BasicDamagable
Boss
Boss03_Galactus_Part
CableCar
CameraRegion
Chaseable
CuriousObject
CutSceneEvent
CutsceneManager
DamagePitBox
DebugPoint
DemoMode
EndLevelPosition
FadeAction
FadeToColourAction
FadeToNormalAction
GameVariableAccessor
HUDElement
HUDNumericDisplay
Hint
LevelCompleteAction
LogicSwitch
MatAnimController
MsgDrivenGauge
NPC
NPCFriendly
POG_GenerateBox
PalCycleAction
Palette
Pickup
PlacedAmbientSound
PlacedAnimation
PlacedSong
PlacedTimer
Platform
Projectile
PushAction
RandomTargetNotifier
RespawnPosition
Rope_SS
ScreenReferenceBox
ScrollAreaClamp
ScrollLock
SideScrollingEndLevel
SideScrollingRespawn
Spawner
SpeechBubble
Sprite
StartPosition
TextBanner
Timer
Toggle
Trampoline
TransformPlayerAction
Trap
TriggerBox
TutorialStation
UI_Button
UI_HighScoreIconBar
UI_KeypadObserver
UI_LayerScroll
UI_LevelSelect
UI_MapSteppingStone
UI_MessageBox
UI_PasswordCharacter
UI_PasswordWatcher
UI_ScoreRewardIcon
UI_SliderKnob
UI_StructureEvent
UI_UpgradeLevelBar
Waypoint

Right before minigame name and instructions are two placeholder lines. Following the minigame strings are five more lines.

TODO
TODO

mini-game
TODO
TODO
TODO
TODO

Located in the credits are a few placeholder lines.

TODO
Tester 5
Tester 6
Tester 7

TODO

Special Thanks 7
Special Thanks 8