Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games (Wii)

Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games
Also known as: Mario & Sonic AT Vancouver Olympics (JP), Malio wa Sonig Baenkubeo Dong-gye-ollimpig (KR) Developers: Sega, Racjin Publishers: Nintendo (JP/KR), Sega (US/EU/AU) Platform: Wii Released in JP: November 5, 2009 Released in US: October 13, 2009 Released in EU: October 16, 2009 Released in AU: October 15, 2009 Released in KR: November 19, 2009 This game has unused areas. This game has hidden development-related text. This game has unused modes / minigames. This game has unused graphics. This game has unused sounds. This game has unused text. This game has debugging material. This game has a notes page

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Mario and Sonic's second Olympic outing, where they participate in the XXI Olympic Winter Games Vancouver 2010 with more advanced graphics, some party games and a festival mode.

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Notes

Unused Events

While there are not as many unused events this time around compared to its summer counterpart, it still hosts quite a fair bit of references to planned events that didn't make the final cut.

Dream Speed Skating (City Escape)

Dream Speed Skating is the most complete out of the unused events. Pretty much everything related to this event is left intact in the game's files, except for the environment the event takes place in.

Vehicles

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Other Unused Events

In addition to Dream Speed Skating, four other events were supposed to make the cut, but were scrapped entirely. No remnants of these events still reside in the game's filesystem.

In lua/sequence/OneMatch.lua resides a list of every event that can be selected. Among the entries are...

Internal Event Name
FigureSkatePairs
MiniSnowmobileRace
MiniRafting
MiniHangGlider

Note that Dream Gliding is referred to internally as MiniHangGliderDream, so it is unknown if MiniHangGlider is supposed to be a regular Olympic event (even though Hang Gliding is not an actual Winter Olympic Event), or if it is an unused variant of Dream Gliding.

Unused Character Viewer

A character viewer can be found in the game. It is controlled by the file CharacterViewer.rso, found in /rso.

It includes many options to view the character models and animations, along with many additional settings. For example, there is an option that renders a ball that characters can look at, another option to move the character alongside a grid (which can be manipulated in various ways), etc.
When selecting an option press B (or sometimes +) to go back to the previous menu.

To access this menu, the aforementioned .rso file must be replaced with another used one. For example, replacing said file with "Town.rso" under the same directory will make this menu appear when selecting the "Shopping" option in the main menu.

Unused Maps

Test Map

A test map can be found in /sample/level00, with many halfpipes and numbered block structures.

Unused Graphics

Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (2008) Leftover Icons

jointCharaIcon.tls contains the player icons from the first Mario & Sonic game, though there are also blank placeholders for the new playable & rival characters in the sheet too. They show up as a dark Mario silhouette with their Japanese names overlayed.

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E3 leftover texture

Can be found in E3ROM.tls at /textures

Scrapped Nintendo WFC Match Mode Graphics

The game at some point in development was planned to have online multiplayer capabilities through Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection. Unfortunately, it was never finished in time, and the game would only use Nintendo WFC for online leaderboards. It would not be until Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games where Worldwide Versus would be a playable mode, although it was limited to only four events. Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 would finally introduce online play for all events.

Remnants of this mode still exists within the game's files. The UI graphics are among these, with the text even being translated for all languages.

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Unused Audio

Announcer Voice Clips

There are a lot of unused announcer voice clips for various modes and features in the game that did not make the final cut.

Below are some various voice clips of the announcer announcing the unused Wi-Fi Connection Match Mode.
SE_VO_ANO_318_WIFI_BATTLE.adx

SE_VO_ANO_319_NINTENDO_WFC_MATCH.adx

SE_VO_ANO_320_NINTENDO_WIFI_CONECYION_MATCH.adx
(Yes, the "CONNECYION" typo is intentional, that is how it is referred to in the header file for se_voice_eng.)

Additionally, there are fourteen unused announcer clips placed subsequently after another. It is unknown what these voice clips would be used for, though they all do describe a type of game to play.
SE_VO_ANO_389_MINI_GAMES.adx

SE_VO_ANO_390_GROUP_GAMES.adx

SE_VO_ANO_391_SOCIAL_GAMES.adx

SE_VO_ANO_392_GAME_EVENTS.adx

SE_VO_ANO_393_COMPETITIONS.adx

SE_VO_ANO_394_BREATHERS.adx

SE_VO_ANO_395_MICRO_GAMES.adx

SE_VO_ANO_396_AMUSEMENTS.adx

SE_VO_ANO_397_DOMESTIC_GAMES.adx

SE_VO_ANO_398_DIVERSIONS.adx

SE_VO_ANO_399_EXTRA_GAMES.adx

SE_VO_ANO_400_DOWNTIME_DIVERSIONS.adx

SE_VO_ANO_401_INTERMISSION_GAMES.adx

SE_VO_ANO_402_ADVENTURE_TOURS.adx
(Interestingly, Adventure Tours is the name of the story mode for the Nintendo DS version, so it could be possible that it was planned at some point for the Wii version too.)

There are also three voice clips of what seem to be early names for Party Mode.
SE_VO_ANO_412_GAME_PARK.adx

SE_VO_ANO_413_FUN_PARK.adx

SE_VO_ANO_414_FUN_GAMES.adx

(Source: Original TCRF research)

Unused Text

Nintendo WFC Match Mode

Unused text for the scrapped Nintendo WFC Match mode that would allow you to play with others from around the world.

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Searching for opponents.
Opponents set.
The event will start.
Preparing for competition... Please wait.
Error occurred while connecting to Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection. You have been disconnected from Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection.
Opponent is missing. The event will be cancelled.
The race has ended because time has run out.
Preparing for competition... It looks like %d people will be playing.
Compete with players around the world.
Compete with your friends.
Opponent is missing. You will be returned to the Nintendo WFC Match menu.
Waiting for other players. There will be %d participants.
Waiting for other players...
No opponents found. Please try again later.
There is no response. Either the player is not connected to Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection, or you have been removed from the player's friend roster.
The player has stopped responding.
There is no response.
Challenge friends and players from around the world via Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection.

Miscellaneous Unused Text

Download Vancouver Records

Unused text exists that implies downloading records made at the real-life Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games was once a planned feature.

Download records from the Vancouver Olympic Games.

Unused Developer Text

...But what does it mean? This game has text or audio that needs to be translated. If you are fluent with this language, please read our translation guidelines and then submit a translation! Notes: Various developer messages and comments are written in Japanese. Please translate them.

_readme.txt

Inside lua/pause_navi exists a .txt file outlining what each file in the directory should contain.

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-- readme.txt 2008/09/25 nishimori 
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-- ポーズ画面：操作説明スクリプトパラメータ
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 ファイルについて
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■ファイル名は以下のようにします。
Navi_ + diskImage\lua\sports\以下の競技スクリプトファイル名

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 セット関数 SetPauseNavi について
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■引数１：ナビタイプとは
 0 : ヌンチャク＋リモコン
 1 : リモコン
 2 : バランスボード＋ヌンチャク＋リモコン
 3 : バランスボード＋リモコン

■引数２：表示の順番とは
 0番を先頭に、ポーズ画面の操作説明ページに表示する順番です。

■引数３：メッセージ番号とは
 ポーズ画面に表示する操作説明項目です。
 resource\textMessage\ArakawaMessage.xlsに登録した番号がメッセージ番号です。

■引数４：操作ナビとは
 操作ナビID名を指定します。必ず"XX"で記述します。
 application\src\main\hud\Hud_NaviId.hのIDを指定します。

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 注意
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■指定できる操作ナビは、各競技操作ナビリソースでロードしているものしか表示されません。
\diskImage\ResourceNavi競技名.*
に含まれているものであれば指定可能です。

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