Playable Naga has been in Bakugan Battle Brawlers Wii this entire time?! (plus other unused Bakugan)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ต.ค. 2024
- This was all done on the Toys R Us version of the game, and in the Dolphin emulator.
I'm sure every young Bakugan fan who had gotten their hands on the Bakugan Battle Brawlers game has heard the rumor that there was a secret unlockable Naga that you could get under specific circumstances.
While that may not necessarily be true, there is an unused (and awfully unfinished) version of Naga that you can use by doing some save-editing.
Using this same method, you can also find an unused Aquos and Darkus Warius (which are fully finished), and a Ventus Terrorclaw (which unfortunately uses the same model and texture as the Aquos Terrorclaw).
Bakugan Battle Brawlers Wii has been a game that I've enjoyed since childhood, even now I come back to it once a year for a playthrough. But recently I've decided to use Hex-editing for the first time to try and map out the game's save file, finding out what certain values are in charge of.
If you also fell for the Naga rumor back in the day, you might be able to imagine my surprise when I stumbled upon the right value that adds Naga to your collected Bakugan! I was so shocked that I jumped out of my seat!
Curious, I did some research to see if anyone else knew about this. Aside from some trivia in a wiki article, there seems to be no-one that has documented Naga or these other unused Bakugan, not even a screenshot.
So, I've decided to make a short (crappy) video that showcases all of these unused Bakugan in their full glory. Also Bronze Warius, since he is normally unobtainable in this version of the game.
Skip to 6:30 for Naga.
So sad that winning battles with Naga crashes the game 😮💨. But regardless, him actually being (somewhat) playable is super exciting!
P.S. Sorry for all of the stuttering. This was a problem with OBS, something I've only used for this video.
Makes me wonder if the game was incomplete. I would've thinked maybe Naga would've been a huge second main antagonist for Leonidas.
Gotta love how Naga is so cool, him winning is too much for the game to handle so the game crashes as a result ;)
Even the game says Naga has to lose😂😂
To help share some details on this: Naga was supposed to be in the game as the final boss. In fact, Ultimate Dragonoid and Alpha Hydranoid were supposed to be usable too, as shown by the models of the DSI Game Bakugan: Battle Trainer. Naga was the only one who was partially added, but the idea was scrapped for Leonidas and Vladitor before Naga reached completion. Drago and Hydranoid's final evolutions would instead be ported to the Battle Trainer game, and Textures heavily downgraded so the game could run them.
Someone should mod them to b on the ds version as fully playable
Dual Hydra and Delta Drago are unlockable though, aren't they?
@@axcelallen5785Yes, all the second stages for the original 6 are available in game.
@@axcelallen5785 yeah, but alpha Hydranoid and Ultimate Dragonoid aren't in the game
All the Bakugan from the first season were supposed to be playable
Hal G with Naga would’ve been an awesome concept almost as a final final boss or something like that.
An idea could be that Naga is base 600g and is attribute-less so he gets his g-power boosts from the highlighted one on the gate card
Or a secret boss.
OMG ITS NAGA’S SPECIAL MOVE! CRASHING THE GAME! 😂😂😂
Lmaoo got me dead 😂😂😂😅🤣🤣
This is awesome! Thanks for sharing with us bakugan community.
Thank you! And if you'd like to do it yourself I've made a Google Sheet that makes the process easy. I've also just made a tutorial on how to use it.
Here's the link to my reddit post with the link too the Google Sheet, plus some more info:
www.reddit.com/r/Bakugan/comments/14gkw0x/bakugan_battle_brawlers_save_file_editing_helper/
Even after all these years , this is the only true baukgan game in my opinion .
Well now we have Baku project, that is not official, but aiming to be true Bakugan game.
@@startea0412yep 😊
I did the math and based on Naga's stats at 00:38 you can upgrade him to a full 5 stats if you ignore the G Power upgrades, not like you'll need those since he has a base 450 (He's stronger than even Omega Leonidas and Battle Ax Vladitor) and is also a Haos Bakugan meaning he gets the best Special Shot in the game.
Based on that he was probably either a part of a scrapped story section due to not enough time during development or a special reward for 100% the game or something.
Sorry... But Naga's stats in this video were all made by me.
To put it simply, every Bakugan in the save file has a string of values that contain their stats, attribute, and what I like to call their "identifier". This "identifier" is what calls the Bakugan's name, image, and their ball form and monster form models (which can be dependent on their attribute).
By editing the identifier of the Bakugan I had in my deck, I stumbled my way onto Naga's identifier. From there, I manually added him to my inventory by copying another Bakugan's string of values.
I made him Haos since it fit his color scheme (and sense "Attribute-less" doesn't exist in the game) , his base G-Power 450 (the same as the evolved guardians), and gave the rest of his stats a base state resembling the evolved guardian Bakugan's.
I have no idea what his real base stats look like, as they never show up in the save-file. I'm sure it exists somewhere in the rest of the game's code, but that's beyond me.
@@Deathstar21991 ohhh okay then
@@Deathstar21991I would like to mess around myself, can you make a vídeo ir explain here what exactly did you do? Also, are the Bakugan added only to your deck or are also added to the collection from your room and during deck editing?
@@Amsel_616 oooh of course! I actually just made a post on the Bakugan subreddit that actually does you one better than a simple explanation. I’ve made a google sheet that basically does 90% of the work for you.
Here’s the link, there’s a bit more info in the post: www.reddit.com/r/Bakugan/comments/14gkw0x/bakugan_battle_brawlers_save_file_editing_helper/?
If you need any help, a short tutorial, or simply more information on how this all works, feel free to ask!
@@Deathstar21991 Thanks a lot man.
I really hoped that the game had more bakugans and more cool stuff like Naga
it's so sad that naga was cut from de game , i hope he was playable
My childhood game, I still have my disc for my Wii
@@SRJplayGAMES Same! Though it’s kinda hard to go back to the Wii after getting spoiled by the emulator. I come back to this game like once a year.
11 years ago, in ni NDS I played almost daily this game, in its respective version of course, I played it nightly for 2 years (2011 - 2013) along with the Digimon Story LE game. The point is that there came a time in the game where the dialogues changed and Marduk, Shun and Dan came out much more often than other characters, the maps had more and more things, it was then that one night I got a fight between Marduk, Dan and Shun in the first stage of the game, one full of various jumps and puzzles, it was very close because their AI almost never missed the attacks, but after playing about 20 minutes I finally got the victory, It was already late at night, so I saved the game, the next day I was curious to see if I got that battle again, but I realized that when I put the selection on Marduk, it sent me to a map that I had never seen with the main image of the statue of a dragon similar to nothing with gray background and purple sky, I was excited to see it and when I gave to play the game closed, desperate I entered to see if now I could play. ... the game had just deleted my game of two years and I simply abandoned it.
I've been looking for years to see if this has happened to anyone else (and maybe a bug in pokemon Platinum), but no one has ever had this happen to them.
I’m mad cause the haos and darkus warius was finished in good detail bc and not released but the pyrus one unlockable through code is very choppy
Honestly, if it hasnt been done yet, it'd be nice for someone to edit Naga's code so they can be fully functional. ✨
If they wanted to go the extra mile they could also port the Defenders of the core bakugan
Wait, isn't that just Naga from the intro but using dragonoids ball form and idle animation in battle?
It's definitely using Drago's ball model and intro animation (which is looped throughout the battle) as placeholders. The model is probably the same from the intro too.
My guess is that they were thinking about adding Naga into the game in some capacity (opponent/unlockable), but it never went further from what you see here.
It's really a collection of placeholders, but it's still interesting.
@@Deathstar21991 I don't understand how games work but I have a general understanding of models, animations, ports. BAKUGAN is a pretty popular franchise with its battle brawler gaming community still alive til this day, what I don't see is modding in those game. Is there like a wall that's preventing moding I don't know about? Or people not engaged in modding the game significantly to make large changes
@@axelthehunter8831 Just thinking about it, I think the biggest wall to modding these games is that they never got PC versions. I don’t think any games that have been released on consoles have any mods, unless they specifically support them. Even though these games can now be emulated on PC, I believe the fact that these are still console games makes it more difficult.
I’m not sure if this is the only limitation, but another possibility is that, yeah, people probably aren’t invested enough to go make mods for the game. I think most current Bakugan fans enjoy collecting, rather than digging through these old games’ files.
This is just speculation, I don’t know anything about modding. But yeah, it’d be awesome to see a mod or two for this game.
i mean... at least he can still win on double stands
A lot of people R.I.P-ing Naga but let's not forget that a lot of generics either didn't make it or were only part of the Toys 'R Us edition.
If anything, I was confused as a child as to why the character cards for, iirc Warius, Ravenoid and I think one more (possibly Manion?) were in the game but not the Bakugan, so I only had those at the time for 100% completion.
Nowadays I'm just wondering if anyone's made a simulator for the anime version of the game.
@@VideoGameStarChannelSupreme technically, there is BakuProject. But, that game has been in an… less than ideal state for months now.
If it ever updates, than that would be my recommendation.
Also, I agree. Kinda just dumbfounded by the locking off of Bakugan between what retailer sold them.
There are plenty of unused “slots” in the save file, about as many as there are generics that didn’t appear in the game. I’m assuming that they just didn’t have the time, but it’s comforting that they were at least planned to appear at some point.
This Naga, and Darkus and Aquos Warrius are, what I feel, scrapped relics of an ideal game where all Bakugan made it in.
@@Deathstar21991 Maybe someday a few people that are quite into the OG Bakugan will either bring the project back to life or make a new simulator from the ground up.
Either ways, the games, especially the PS2 version, are very good considering that they're products of their time. My only issue is that there isn't much strategy in the way of ability cards aside of raise G-Power or some kinda card gimmick that is rarely worth the slot.
I wish I could get a darkest warriors without hacking the game
Damn what a shame. Naga’s one of the coolest bakugan
Terrorclaw did not have to piece her up like that though 😂
It looks awesome. Will you make a cheat code to unlock these Bakugan without save editing?
I have no idea how that works, lol. But I have created an google sheet that’ll help you through it, along with a video tutorial.
I found some unused announcer voice clips in the game that mention each character turn,
there's one at the very bottom of that section where she says “Hal-G's Turn”.
I suspect that Hal-G was a boss with Naga as his Bakugan early in development, but got cut out due to time constraints.
(The clip is named VO_NA_CPU36.brstm in the Wii ver, if you want to check for yourself)
Wow, sounds awesome! Unfortunately, I don’t know how to go digging for the files myself. I only achieved this by editing certain values in a hex-editor.
Do you think you could send me the audio? Or upload it on TH-cam and send me the link?
You gotta upload that!
@@ReeksofChees3 youtube deleted my dropbox link in the reply, so ill just upload a yt video soon
@@FriedFrick do you *think* (not asking you to) if there were lines of Hal G saying "Bakugan Brawl/Stand" "Gate Card open!" and "Ability Card activate"
estaria bueno unos mods de ultimate dragonoid y alfa hydranoid
How do you have working motion controls for this game? My cursor only goes up and down…
Sorry for the late response. Hope you've figured it out by now. It takes a bit of editing with the controls.
Basically, I have WASD for tilting the Wii remote, a button for shaking it, and a button for swinging it downwards. It's all under "motion controls"
Here's a screeshot: imgur.com/a/RKipE8e
Abilities
Sykuria shield
Darkus Riot
Bottom zero
Bakugan drain
Silent down
Does the concsels version of the games have different bakugan?
Is that really Naga?! 😱
Too bad, looks like Naga just destroyed your Wii.
Is there any more bakugan like ravenoid or even mantis or is it only warius and naga ?
No, these are the only unused Bakugan that exist in the game. It is likely that they did plan on adding the others, though.
Huh, on ps2 theres no warius
There is, actually! Technically speaking, you can't unlock him normally. There's no code.
However! If you go into the save file, you can give yourself Warius and all his variants (Pyrus, Aquos, and Darkus). This is easily achievable thanks to my google sheet that does most of the work for you.
Here's a link to my reddit post that provides more of an explanation (specific PS2 info at the bottom) + the google sheet: www.reddit.com/r/Bakugan/comments/14gkw0x/bakugan_battle_brawlers_save_file_editing_helper/
Link to my (crap) tutorial that shows you how to use it: th-cam.com/video/DbjA7lEpSIo/w-d-xo.htmlsi=h_BQJbvxADwo99Ao
Also here's an imgur link of some screenshots I just took: imgur.com/a/VhpCOw9
Pyrus Warius doesn't have the bronze effect on him, which is interesting
Can u add any other bakugans as well?
HOW DID YOU GET AQOUS AND DARKUS WAROUS
Through the power of save editing! I created a google sheet that makes the process way easier, if you want to do it yourself.
Here's a link to my reddit post that provides more of an explanation + the google sheet: www.reddit.com/r/Bakugan/comments/14gkw0x/bakugan_battle_brawlers_save_file_editing_helper/
Link to my (crap) tutorial that shows you how to use it: th-cam.com/video/DbjA7lEpSIo/w-d-xo.htmlsi=h_BQJbvxADwo99Ao
Bro podrias subir un video de como desbloquearlos o una rom ya editada
From where did you get this mods
No mods, just the power of save editing. I’ve made a Reddit post with a link to my google sheet that simplifies the process, if you want to do it yourself.
The link: www.reddit.com/r/Bakugan/comments/14gkw0x/bakugan_battle_brawlers_save_file_editing_helper/?
I’m also in the process of making a tutorial video on how to use it, but the post and sheet might be enough to get you started.
Huh??!!! Huuhhhhh??!!! Huuuhhhh??!!!! What???!!! NANIIII????!!!!
что за версия игры у меня такого нету
Excuse me wat
Haw about alpha hydranoid
Could you add somehow Helios
Sorry, as of now I don’t think there is any way to add new Bakugan or mod the game.
El Bakugan estaba tan roto que crasheo el juego XDDDDDDDDDDD
Dummy data What’s that
@@S2GDarkFurnus8855 Seems like a placeholder image for Bakugan that don’t have an associated icon
Es raro por naga tendria que ser de atributo darkus y no haos