GoldenEye 007 Nintendo 64 Community, GoldenEye X, Nintendo 64 Games Discussion

[Dragonsbrethren]

We know the N-Bomb was supposed to be a Maian grenade based on its unused firing range description. I just assumed from there that the MaianGrenade string found in LgunE was just a scrapped name for the weapon. The problem is that the string for the N-Bomb is found in the same block of text, and no other weapons that changed names have both of their strings still present in the text file.

For some reason, I never really took notice to the placement of that string, only its existence. The N-Bomb string is exactly where you would expect it to be, but look at where MaianGrenade is located:

Code:

Rocket Launcher* Devastator* Slayer* MaianGrenade* FarSight XR-20* Sniper Rifle*

Notice how the human rocket launcher and grenade launcher are followed by the Skedar rocket launcher and...Maian grenade launcher? It seems likely, the Slayer is called sk(dar)rocket internally, and all of the Maian weapons are prefixed with maian (maianpistol, maiansmg), with the exception of the Farsight (z2020). It's a shame we don't have a bit more evidence of its existence.