Pokémon Pinball: Ruby & Sapphire
Pokémon Pinball: Ruby & Sapphire |
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Also known as: Pokémon Pinball : Rubis & Saphir (FR), Pokémon Pinball: Rubin & Saphir (DE), Pokémon Pinball: Rubí y Zafiro (ES), Pokémon Pinball: Rubino e Zaffiro (IT) This game has unused graphics. This game has a notes page |
To do: There was a demo playable / video shown at ECTS in London in August 2003 |
Pokémon Pinball: Ruby & Sapphire is the sequel to Pokémon Pinball, adding Pokémon from the Johto and Hoenn regions.
Contents
Unused Graphics
Placeholder Pokémon Icons
These icons are loaded into the graphics data for the Pokémon icons, following the question mark icon, at the very end.
Debug Mode
GameShark USA:
E8A2266F 4ABC1FE6 E10EF053 D045E4CD 6A7D8822 F44AFDAB 77BC453F 502C6734
CodeBreaker:
74000130 01FF 3200B0CF 0004 74000130 02FF 3200B0CF 0000
Either of the above codes adds the ability to enable (L) and disable (R) a debug mode. While it adds some (persistent) debugging text to the screen, the real meat is the free move ability: while enabled, the ball will stop. You can then use the D-Pad to move the ball arbitrarily (mostly limited by playfield structures).
Attempting to go back to normal while the ball is outside the table will freeze the game.
The numbers on the debug display denote (from left to right) the ball's X position, the ball's Y position, and the table's Y position. While debug mode is enabled, holding A will temporarily hide the overlay and allow for extra slow movement, while holding B makes it possible to move the asterisk cursor one line below BALL-MV with apparently no purpose.
Bonus Stage Select
While the Field Select screen is visible (after selecting "New Game" and before the main game screen), prerendered text with the names of bonus stages is also loaded.
This screen is associated with game mode 0B, sub-mode 01 (for comparison, the regular selection screen is mode 0A-01; these values are found in RAM at addresses 0200B0C2-3) and is intended to be accessed with an e-Card, released in Japan only.
Codebreaker:
Force Bonus Stage Select (L) 74000130 01FF 8200B0C2 010B 0 seconds remaining (R) 74000130 02FF 82000296 0001
Go to the Field Selection screen and tap L. Bonus Select menu will be activated (without its images loaded); end any stage to return to it with graphics corrected.
(If you are easily scared, do not attempt activating the code in the Options screen...)
Version Differences
An updated version of the game was released in Japan only (on which the export versions are presumably based). The differences are currently unknown.
Regional Differences
Japanese to Export
Name Changes
The fields MART and CATCH were originally SHOP and GET START. The MART inscription on the building is changed from SHOP (as in the mainline games).
The various items on the end-of-ball-bonus screen were also renamed to read more fluently.
e-Reader Room
The Japanese releases of the game have an e-Reader Room for scanning one of the five e-Reader Cards. The Cards either tweak difficulty or increase the odds for certain events.
Japanese | English | German |
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Although no Cards were ever distributed in North America, the Room is still there and the screen was adjusted to account for the different branding of the e-Reader overseas. These adjustments were also performed in the European localizations where the e-Reader was never made available.
The e-Reader Room can be accessed from the title screen by using the following button sequence:
- Press and hold →.
- Alternate between pressing L and R 3×.
American to European
American | European |
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The "BONUS CHALLANGE" item, which can be bought for 60 coins and allows an immediate chance of access to the Spheal bonus (ordinarily accessed, for example, by hitting bumpers 100 times in the Sapphire field) had the flagrant typo in its name corrected.
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