Mambo Adventure

Mambo Adventure
Developer: CyberPlanet Interactive Publishers: CyberPlanet Interactive (AS), Phoenix Games (EU) Platform: Windows Released in EU: 2007 Released in AS: 2006 This game has unused graphics. This game has unused music. This game has unused text.

Mambo Adventure involves guiding the elephant Mambo through increasingly difficult mazes.

Like many of CyberPlanet Interactive's casual games, it was later ported to the PlayStation 2.

NOTE: All of the filepaths take in consideration the folder Data.

Unused Graphics

Buttons

Through the game's files are many button graphics which don't fit the game's jungle aesthetic, and are assumed to be leftovers from a different game.

DialogButton.gif

GM_MainMenu.jpg

NoButton.jpg

OkButton.jpg

YesButton.jpg

btn\Profiles_Accept.jpg

btn\Profiles_Cancel.jpg

btn\Profiles_Delete.jpg

btn\Profiles_New.jpg

Mockup Screenshot

state1.JPG is a graphic of a mockup gameplay screenshot. Notably, it shows some placeholder door graphics.

Thumbs.db Files

Throughout the game's directories are Thumbs.db files, which were used in older versions of Windows to store image thumbnail data. In particular, the one found in the root of the Data folder contains many leftovers from the game's development, and even from other games, some of them not even being developed by CyberPlanet Interactive.

Leftovers from Other Games - Root

Many character and map sprites taken from an unknown game.

actor.bmp

actor_act.bmp

actor_act1.bmp

actor_act2.bmp

actors.bmp

enemy_1.bmp

enemy_2.bmp

enemy_3.bmp

enemy_4.bmp

enemy_5.bmp

enemy_act0.bmp

enemy1.bmp

enemy1_act0.bmp

enemy2.bmp

enemy2_act0.bmp

enemy3.bmp

enemy3_act0.bmp

enemy4.bmp

enemy4_act0.bmp

enemy5.bmp

enemy5_act0.bmp

map.bmp

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credit1.jpg and credit2.jpg are two background graphics taken from N.I.T.E.: The War of Machine, another game by CyberPlanet Interactive.

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Curiously, some graphics from Heavy Weapon can also be found here.

mainglow.bmp

mainmenu.bmp

popup_cup.bmp

Text_Ask.bmp

Text_Cancle.bmp

Text_Cancle_On.bmp

Text_Continue.bmp

Text_ContinueOn.bmp

Text_Mission.bmp

Text_NewGame.bmp

Text_NewGame_On.bmp

Early and Miscellaneous Assets - Root

Early graphics for point displays. It seems the values displayed and obtained when obtaining collectibles would have been ten times bigger than the final game.

100.bmp

150.bmp

200.bmp

500.bmp

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There are also earlier graphics for the arrows that point the directions the player is allowed to move or shoot boomerangs, the former of which are also available separately.

arrow.bmp

arrow_down.bmp

arrow_left.bmp

arrow_right.bmp

arrow_up.bmp

arrowshoot.bmp

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Early graphics for the game's collectibles, projectiles, and tiles.

bullet.bmp

cherry.BMP

chompoo.bmp

door.bmp / doorstages.bmp

doorengine.bmp

doorstage.bmp / doorstage1.bmp

flower.bmp

fucktong.BMP

grave.bmp

gun.bmp

idle.bmp

item_1.bmp

item_2.bmp

item_3.bmp

key_door_engine.bmp

key_door_stag.bmp / key_door_stage.bmp

key_door_prison.bmp

orange.BMP

prison.bmp

rock005.jpg / rock005_a.gif

stone.bmp

tangmo.bmp

trap.bmp

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Early and unused versions of the frames that cover the gameplay screen.

frame1.jpg / frame1_a.gif

frame2.jpg / frame2_a.gif

frame3.jpg / frame3_a.gif

frame4.jpg / frame4_a.gif

frame5.jpg / frame5_a.gif

frame6.jpg / frame6_a.gif

frame7.jpg / frame7_a.gif

frame8.jpg / frame8_a.gif

frame10.jpg / frame10_a.gif

frame012.jpg / frame012_a.gif

frame013.jpg / frame013_a.gif

frame014.jpg / frame014_a.gif

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Early sprites for the flower enemy.

flower_eat.bmp

flower_shake.bmp

flower_sing.bmp

flower_wakeup.bmp

flower_win.bmp

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Several screenshots of the game. They were likely mockups created to aid development.

1.JPG

2.JPG

3.JPG

4.JPG

5.JPG

6.JPG

7.JPG

8.JPG

9.JPG

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walk01 copy.bmp is an unused sprite for the baby character.

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Other sprites that don't fit anywhere else.

b2_boom.bmp

blackhold.bmp

bombwater.bmp

bonus.bmp

boom.bmp

boomair.bmp

BtnBarListH.bmp / BtnBarListN.bmp / BtnBarListP.bmp

BtnListH.bmp / BtnListN.bmp / BtnListP.bmp

dialog.bmp

dialog_chang.bmp

EditBox.bmp / EditBox_d.bmp

whitehold.bmp

Folder: BackGround

This folder's Thumbs.db file references more graphics from Heavy Weapon, as well as now-deleted or early assets.

Below are the assets from Heavy Weapon, all of which are taken from its first level, Frigistan.

frigistan_bg.jpg / frigistan_bg_a.gif

frigistan_bg2.jpg / frigistan_bg2_A.gif

frigistan_ground.jpg / frigistan_ground_a.gif

frigistan_sky.jpg

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Below are the scrapped and/or early assets from this game's development.

account05.jpg

Bottle.jpg / Bottle_A.gif

Mainmenu02.jpg

tiger.jpg / tiger_a.gif

Folder: ListDlg

This folder's Thumbs.db file references a noise texture, labeled dlg.bmp, which has since been deleted.

Folder: text

This folder's thumbnail database contains early graphics for the game's text messages, most of which are displayed in the profile menu.

cantDelLast.bmp

continue.bmp

del.bmp

dupPlay.bmp

exit.bmp

plEnter.bmp

plSel.bmp

(Source: tikal.)

Unused Music

Found in the folder sound, where the game's sound effects are stored, is a MIDI file labeled You're_not_alone.mid. When played, it is revealed to be an arrangement of Not Alone, from Final Fantasy IX.
Trivia: This is not the first time a rendition of a Final Fantasy track is found unused in a CyberPlanet Interactive game.

(Source: tikal.)

Unused Text

Found at offset 0xB4E58 of the game's executable are leftover text strings from Deep Hunter, a previous game by CyberPlanet Interactive.

   Deep hunter is a shooting game in the deep ocean. There are three major sea creatures: octopus, green jellyfish and red jellyfish. Octopus earns 5 points and 10 Oxygen points. Green jellyfish earns 10 points. Red jellyfish earns 20 points. There is chance to earn Bonus point too. Press the UP and DOWN arrow key to control the diver's movement. When ready to shoot, press the centre button. Earn as many points as you can within the time limit.

Deep Hunter
Version 1.0


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