Garfield: The Search for Pooky

Garfield: The Search for Pooky
Developer: InterActive Vision Publisher: The Game Factory Platform: Game Boy Advance Released in US: November 2004 Released in EU: November 14, 2005 This game has hidden development-related text. This game has unused graphics. This game has unused music. This game has a bugs page

Garfield: The Search for Pooky is a game where Garfield, well, searches for Pooky, after some deranged madman dumps copious amounts of honey, oil, and broken glass onto every square inch of Garfield's hometown. Nobody ever explains the source of the giant mutant wasps and butterflies, though. The game is notable for using digitised images taken directly from the comic strip, but everything is blurry and poorly-animated.

Sub-Pages

Bugs

Unused Graphics

A graphic probably intended for the pause menu. In-game, the screen doesn't say "PAUSE MENU" when paused, it just shows some options such as "resume" and "quit".

Unheard Music

This page or section needs more audio. There's a whole lotta words here, but not enough audio. Please fix this. Specifically: We need a clean rip of the full stage 9 music.

The music heard in the second driving stage (stage 9) is broken; at about 3:03 in the track, it starts playing stage 10's music instead. Not only is this a jarring error to experience in-game, it also renders a portion of stage 9's theme unheard, as the music change occurs before a full loop of the song can be completed. It is unknown why this error occurs; however, after the music changes, it loops as it does in stage 10, and does so until the stage is completed.

This glitch also occurs on the "New Password" screen, which re-uses the stage 9 music but starts it at a later point in the track, meaning you only have to wait a dozen or so seconds before stage 10's theme starts playing.

Development Text

At 0x2D00B is some development-related text, some of which involve the names of raw files.

 
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Alley2
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