Euro Demo 64 unused content notes

Euro Demo 64 [SCED-02638]
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Action Man

00000990:
action man build %s....Aug  2 2000..crash type:-...AM..TRAILS..MISSION.ENEMY...PEOPLE..TRAFFIC.TILES...SCENERY.LIGHTING....DRAWSYNC....TIMERS..TOTAL...%4d.SUB-TOTAL...%d (%d%%)

A debug/developer menu with build date and settings.
The retail game came out November 2000.


00001130:
Current velocity....Number of gears.Max autosteer...Autosteer acceleration..Autosteer threshhold....Min skid....Skid velocity theshhold.Skid rotation threshhold....Rotation velocity threshold.Rotational deceleration ratio...Max rotation....Rotational acceleration.Brake friction ratio....Lateral friction ratio..Forward efficiency ratio....Driven efficiency ratio.Maximum reverse acceleration....Reverse DA..Maximum forward acceleration....Forward DA..EDIT HANDLING

Vehicle debugging menu. A bit complex for an Action Man game...

000013E0:
Radius for explosion....Friction incured by target..Damage per shot.Angular variation...Start angle (2048 for rear-weapons).Weapon tail length..Wall avoidance..Spin (screen rotation speed)....Model to use for effect (0 = no model)..Trail texture...Effect density..Weapon texture..Gravity.Homing rotation (0..100)....Acceleration....Velocity - 0 = static weapon....1 Explode on impact / 0 disappear on impact / -1 Stay until timeout (eg. oil)...Time-out (0.1 seconds per increment)....Fire delay (0.01 seconds per increment).EDIT WEAPON.WEAPON

Weapon debugging menu.


00001600:
BLU.... GRN.... RED....Blue Component..Green Component.Red Component...EDIT LIGHTING...LIGHTING

Lighting debugging menu.


00001660:
Quit game...Set ambient lighting....Edit current weapon.Edit car handling...Show debug: %s..Infinite health: %s.Complete all missions...Fail mission....Complete mission....Test mission

The debug menu, with the options for the aforementioned car handling, weapons, and lightning menus.


00002BC0:
jees ! how many models do you expect me to load ?...

Funny error message. I think this isn't unique to this game as I've seen it in other games.


AM2.DAT

* there's a lot of ingame text listed here. Is any unused?

00004B40:
MENU_DEBUG..Debug.F.D.E.IT.NL.SW.FIN.N.DK.Debug.

The debug menu. Its listed alongside the other options on the start menu.

00005DD0:
New cheats unlocked..MENU_CHEAT1..Tiny Cars.F.D.E.IT.NL.SW.FIN.N.DK.Tiny Cars..MENU_CHEAT2..Big Cars.F.D.E.IT.NL.SW.FIN.N.DK.Big Cars..MENU_CHEAT3..Combat Camera.F.D.E.IT.NL.SW.FIN.N.DK.Combat Camera..MENU_CHEAT4..No Traffic.F.D.E.IT.NL.SW.FIN.N.DK.No Traffic..MENU_CHEAT5..Quick Reload.F.D.E.IT.NL.SW.FIN.N.DK.Quick Reload..MENU_CHEAT6..Weak Enemies.F.D.E.IT.NL.SW.FIN.N.DK.Weak Enemies..MENU_CHEAT7..Cheat 07.F.D.E.IT.NL.SW.FIN.N.DK.Cheat 07..MENU_CHEAT8..Invulnerability.F.D.E.IT.NL.SW.FIN.N.DK.Invulnerability..MENU_CHEAT9..Infinite Ammo.F.D.E.IT.NL.SW.FIN.N.DK.Infinite Ammo.

Unlockable cheats. Are all these used?

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Driver 2

* ripping the game for image files gets you some small .TIMs. Are these used?

DRIVER2.EXE

00000FF0:
Gulp!!! error

lol error message

000015F0:
Erm... too many players selected

That would be a problem.

00001760:
TRAININGCONES3..TRAININGCONES2..TRAININGCONES1..CONE_TASTIC4....CONE_TASTIC3....CONE_TASTIC2....CONE_TASTIC1....FENCE_TASTIC....PARKING_TASTIC..NEWS_TASTIC.SIGN00_TASTIC...PHONE1_TASTIC...PHONE_TASTIC....UMBRELLA1_TASTIC....UMBRELLA_TASTIC.CHAIR_TASTIC....TABLE_TASTIC....BARREL_TASTIC...BARRIER_TASTIC..BIN_TASTIC..CONE2_TASTIC....CONE1_TASTIC....BOX_TASTIC..CONE_TASTIC

Training stages?

000019A0:
Press ‚ For Pause Menu

Leftover from the PC version.


00001C00:
Next Mission....Mirrored Sky....Invinciblity....Display Position....Change Car..Time Of Day.Back On Wheels..Mission Complete....Mission Failed..Game Over...Are You Sure?...No Controller Connected.Unsupported Controller Connected....Debug Options...Select Car..Enter Score.Enter Name:.View Table..High Scores.

Debug menu.


000848B0:
SMOKE...DEBRIS..LITTER..LIGHT...SKID....FLARE...SPLASH..SWBIRD1.SWBIRD2.LENSFLR.SKYSUN..SKYMOON.DROP....DIGIT...COLLON..JEANS1..ARM1....CHEST1..LOWHEAD.ADDCAM..AUTO....CHASEC..CLOCK...DELCAM..EDITCAM.FIXEDCA.INCAR...LENSCHA.LOOKCAR.MOVECMP.MOVECAM.OK..PAUSE...PLAYCAM.PLAYPAU.SAVE2CA.RESTREP.SEA.TSHADOW.

Strings from a programmer's asset tools.


BOOT.EXE

00000800:
Start of demo...Ignoring args because you can't quit this demo

FRONTEND.BIN

00000090:
v1.6 alpha

Version build #

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X-Men: Mutant Academy

* ripping the game gets lots of files (1,000+ .TIM and .TMD files). Anything in there that is unused?

* programmer tools strings? Might be practice mode stats.

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Sno-Cross Championship

SNOW.EXE

000001F50:
System Error: %c %03i....   handle#%i  = %s..   Time since crash: ...%02ih %02imin %02isec...    gamemode  : %i..    laps      : %i..    difficulty: %i..    usememcard: %i..    track     : %i..    weather   : %i..   psGameInfo is corrupted..   Please write down.... this infomration...   in the bug description.

Crash handler text.


SNOW.IMG

005C7000:
data\charac\asterix2.sfp....data\charac\obelix.sfp..data\charac\cacofonx.sfp....data\charac\mrsger.sfp

Asterix characters, a leftover of their (at the time) development of Asterix: Mega Madness.

005C70C0:
overlay shitload

* mentions of debug stuff in here but nothing interesting