The Cutting Room Floor:Project Names

This page contains notes for the game The Cutting Room Floor:Project Names.

Common sources#

To do:

See if there are common sources for specific game engines (unity, gamemaker etc)
Add potential source: GameCube/Wii (or just one of them?) "[game] disc has been removed" string. Not 100% sure if this string is even used in games, but it does appear in all/many.
See if Wii U digital manuals and SpotPass data can contain codenames in image filenames, like 3DS

System	Source
Various systems	Filenames and metadata of images, videos etc. Both of promotional/press materials and from data in-game.
Various systems	`.DS_Store` files
Various systems	Unreal Engine project name. Not sure where its stored yet, but with Unreal Engine 4 games on PC, its displayed, prefixed with "UE4-", in the error box when the game crashes.
"	Internal name in ROM header
"	Source code, leaks, rumours, developer interviews
"	Source code paths in executable
"	Symbol names in executable or symbol map
"	Symbol map filenames
"	Version control data (e.g. CVS, SVN)
"	Build date/log files
"	Save filenames/headers
"	Debug menu/printouts
"	root/main directory name
"	ROM filename for digital copies of ROMs (e.g. in emulated releases or multi-game collections, including demo collections)
"	Server URLs
Steam	Steam depot, package and branch names, initial app names,
PlayStation (post-PS2)	Content IDs
Xbox 360	default.xex (PE filename)
Xbox One/Series/Microsoft Store	Package Identity Name
Xbox One/Series/Microsoft Store	Package Family Name (Pfn)
Xbox One/Series/Microsoft Store	Package filename
Xbox One/Series/Microsoft Store	Video title/caption
PC, Wii U	Executable name
Various Nintendo systems	Product codes (e.g. GB, short for Gambit, Splatoon's codename). Unfortunately Switch and Switch 2 game codenames don't appear to be abbreviations.
"	Nintendo SDK sound and message data filenames (SDAT/BCSAR for sound BMG/MSB for text)
"	filenames inside B*CSAR
"	mstx filename in msbp footer
3DS	exheader name field
3DS	SpotPass .boss file name
"	Filenames of images in Manual.bcma
"	Filenames of images in banner.bin
"	Download Play banner (icn/smdh) filenames
Switch	.nss path in executable
PC	.pdb paths in exes and dlls