Unused sprites in Sonic Advance?

Without piecing the tiles together, I would guess that the large Chao is the one that shows up on the VS waiting screen (go into VS, choose either single or multi, and you'll see a Chao looking left and right).

 

The Chao are used in one of the multi-pak multiplayer games, IIRC - I'm fairly sure, though I've only actually played it multi-pak once.

The 'unused' monitor icons, as far as I remember, are all used in multiplayer, both single and multi-pak. I assume when you say the 'explosion' one you're referring to the invincibility monitor icon, which in the picture you posted is the second-to-last on the top row.

If someone could check all this to verify it'd be greatly appreciated, since I haven't played Sonic Advance multiplayer in a while and could be remembering wrongly. =P

 

They're used in Multi-Pak Multiplayer. I just checked it out, all the monitors are random and change every second or so. I took a load of screenshots, and pieced them together (badly, too lazy to make it neat).

I can try them all out and see what they do if anyone wants.

Screenshot here

 

Cool, but what are those for?

 

The monitors?

Well I tried one of them, I know the blue one with the hand teleports your opponent to your location.

I'll try the others too, later if you want.

 

One makes the screen incredebly mosaic.

Boosh beat me to saying they're in multiplayer =(.

edit: you 100% sure all those chao sprites are unused? Pretty cool. A couple a ceratinly recognize, like playing the trumpet.

 

Chao Garden anyone?

 

So am chao.

*shot*

But seriously, who wants to go around carrying a sub-machine gun, looking for Cream the Rabbit, just to find her, not shoot her?

That would be the only reason I hate Shadow.

 

Yes pls.

 

One of the multiplayer modes (Single-Pak, I think) is a Chao hunt. I think that's where the Chao sprites come from. I'm not 100% sure, though.

 

For the monitors, I remember discovering them 3 years ago when someone finally told me that they were used during multiplayer mode. I managed to display them during a normal gameplay sequence and thus having the correct palette. Unfortunately I don't know if I still have the screenshots (anyway this pointless, I just wanted to add that precision).

 

Were you the one hacking Sonic Advance series back in 2003?

 

Eric_JS claimed he found unused monitors like these in Sonic Advance 3. I pointed out then too that they were multiplayer ones.

 

lol, it means we all fell into the same trap. :P

LOst: yes, it was me. (and no, I no longer have those screenshots...)

But I still have my handwritten notes! In Sonic Advance 1, you can play with the character's appearance by changing the value at the offset 03005A79 in internal RAM and you can only swap between character animations. In Sonic Advance 2, it's 03005A48 and 03005A49 and you can even have objects, text and even level patterns this time.
And now that I remember, it's in Sonic Advance 2 that I made those "discoveries" (some people may remember the 'TGS ver.' and 'red cross' tiles). But I forgot where the monitors were (I mean which values they were at).

 

I only investigated Sonic Advance hackingwise because I wanted to find some debug mode, ang to know the GBA tech stuff. The games themselves are not worth spending time with.

 

I think you should practice typing "IMO." Certain parts of the game seem worth looking into to me.

 

Help me then :P

 

Moniters: going in order: life, life, life, life, shield, magnetic shield, (unknown), speed shoes, rings, rings, rings, (unknown, unknown, unknown, unknown, unknown, unknown), ring sprite, ring sprite, ring sprite, ring sprite, invincibility sparkle, invincibility sparkle, invincibility sparkle.
As for the Chao sprites, they are sprites used in the Tiny Chao Garden.