Viva Piñata: Pocket Paradise

Viva Piñata: Pocket Paradise
Developer: Rare Publisher: THQ Platform: Nintendo DS Released in US: September 8, 2008 Released in EU: September 5, 2008 Released in AU: September 25, 2008 This game has hidden development-related text. This game has unused sounds.

To do: Find a way into assets.bin, it's where most of the game's files are stored.

For those who couldn't be able to get an Xbox 360 or a good enough PC at the time just to play Viva Piñata, this game was probably their only option left. Luckily, it manages to hold up well even with the top-down view.

Notable for being Rare's final game on a Nintendo platform.

Possible Debug Menu and Test Maps

This needs some investigation. Discuss ideas and findings on the talk page. Specifically: See if it's still possible to access these. File replacement doesn't seem to work.

Present in the game directory are a number of files with names that suggest a debug menu along with some test maps may be present in the game. It's currently unknown if the files for any of these are still present in the ROM.

• BENTESTLEVEL.lev
• LEVEL_ARTURO_TEST.lev
• LEVEL_DEBUG_MENU.lev
• LEVEL_LOAD_TEST.lev
• LEVEL_PINATA_TEST.lev
• LEVEL_SPRITE_MOVIE_EDITOR.lev
• LEVEL_TEXT_VIEWER.lev
• LEVEL_TITLESCREEN_TEST.lev
• PinataTestLevel.lev
• SFXTESTLEVEL.lev

(Source: Ferrox)

Unused Audio

Two leftover sound effects from Diddy Kong Racing DS.

Two voice clips of Yoshi, also present in Diddy Kong Racing DS.

Build Date

Present at 0xA0B91 in arm9.bin.

Jun  5 2008 THQ_MARKETING_VERSION