Text Differences

This is a sub-page of Proto:Saints Row (2006)/Demo Version.

Note: Most of the story-based text was removed, likely to avoid spoilers from being datamined.

Used Text#

Activities#

Demo	Final
`Do you really want to leave the activity level selection?`	`Do you really want to leave the Activity level selection?`
`You cannot place a waypoint during a mission or activity!`	`You cannot place a waypoint during a Mission or Activity!`
`Retrying an activity will cause you to lose any weapons\nor respect you earned while playing the activity.`	`Retrying an Activity will cause you to lose any weapons\nor respect you earned while playing the Activity.`
`You canceled the mission.`	`You canceled the Mission.`
`You canceled the activity.`	`You canceled the Activity.`
`Go to the pause menu to view activity locations.`	`Go to the pause menu to view Activity locations.`
`Set a waypoint for the Snatch <img map_start_pimping> activity now`	`Set a waypoint for the Snatch <img map_start_pimping> Activity now`

Activity and Mission was capitalized to make it consistent in the final.

Demo	Final
`Earn some respect now by trying the SNATCH activity.`	`Earn some respect now by trying the Snatch Activity.`

Tutorial text removed capitalization from the Activity names.

Demo	Final
`Do you really want to quit? All current game progress will be lost.`	`Do you really want to quit?`

The sentence was shortened.

Demo	Final
`Do you really want to quit? (All current game progress will be lost.)`	`Do you really want to quit? (Any unsaved progress will be lost.)`

The sentence was revised.

Missions#

Demo	Final
`Press @Y to get into a <green>car</green>`	`Press <btn action> to get into a <green>car</green>`

The button prompt had its command changed.

Demo	Final
`Head to the <teal>church</teal>.`	`Go pick up Julius and Troy at the <teal>church</teal>.`

Sentence was made clearer in the final.

Tutorials#

Demo	Final
`Press %s to accelerate, %s to brake`	`Press %s to accelerate, %s to brake/reverse`

Sentence was changed to include the ability to reverse in vehicles

Miscellenious#

Demo	Final
`Radial Menu`	`Inventory`

Was renamed so it could apply to both weapons and consumables.

Demo	Final
`Minimap View`	`Mini Map View`

Changed wording to not confuse with the bottom-left map in the HUD.

Demo	Final
`Vehicle Radio On Exit`	`Vehicle Radio On Entry`

Minor change in wording.

Demo	Final
`Stay On`	`Always On`
`Turn Off`	`Normal`

Slight change.

Unused#

Missions#

Demo	Final
`place bombs`	`place bomb`

Prompt was slightly changed so it'd apply to all types of bombs.

Items#

Demo	Final
Laser RPG	Platinum RPG
Desert Eagle Gold	Gold Plated GDHC .50
Tec 9b	Platinum T3K Urban
Spas 12b	Platinum AS12 Riot

The unlockable weapons had different, placeholder names. Interestingly, the cut Laser RPG is mentioned there before it was reworked into a Platinum RPG.

Customization#

Demo	Final
Bandanas	Bandana
Baseball Caps	Baseball Cap
Baseball Jerseys	Baseball Jersey
Basic Buckles	Basic Buckle
Basketball Jersey	Basketball Jerseys
Braided Belts	Braided Belt
Buttoned Vests	Buttoned Vest
Circular Watches	Circular Watch
Clock Medallions	Clock Medallion
Collared Pullovers	Collared Pullover
Cotton Wrist Bands	Cotton Wrist Band
Cowboy Hats	Cowboy Hat
Crown Belts	Crown Belt
Denim Jackets	Denim Jacket
Dog Tag Pendants	Dog Tag Pendant
Dollar Sign Medallions	Dollar Sign Medallion
Red Square Double Breasted Coats	Red Square Double Breasted Coat
Dreadlock Hats	Dreadlock Hat
Driving Caps	Driving Cap
Fedoras	Fedora
Fishing Caps	Fishing Cap
Flag Belts	Flag Belt
Flat Chain Bracelets	Flat Chain Bracelet
Flat Top Short Sides	Flat Top, Short Sides
Fluffy Collared Jackets	Fluffy Collared Jacket
Football Jerseys	Football Jersey
Grenade Medallions	Grenade Medallion
Hemp Leaf Medallions	Hemp Leaf Medallion
Viral Hensley Shirts	Viral Hensley Shirt
XX/XY Hoodies	XX/XY Hoodie
Hoop Piercings	Hoop Piercing
Italian Horn Pendants	Italian Horn Pendant
Knit Caps	Knit Cap
Large Wheel A Medallions	Large Wheel A Medallion
Large Wheel B Medallions	Large Wheel B Medallion
Leather Belts	Leather Belt
Leather Jackets	Leather Jacket
Leather Wrist Bands	Leather Wrist Band
Letterman Jackets	Letterman Jacket
Long Sleeve Casual Shirts	Long Sleeve Casual Shirt
Long Sleeve Work Shirts	Long Sleeve Work Shirt
Male Symbol Medallions	Male Symbol Medallion
Number One Medallions	Number One Medallion
Oval Belts	Oval Belt
Peace Medallions	Peace Medallion
Pimp Hats	Pimp Hat
Pimp Medallions	Pimp Medallion
Pistol Medallions	Pistol Medallion
Poker Chip Pendants	Poker Chip Pendant
Polos	Polo
Urban Predator Puffy Coats	Urban Predator Puffy Coat
Balance Puffy Vests	Balance Puffy Vest
Racing Jerseys	Racing Jersey
Roundneck Pullovers	Roundneck Pullover
Aisha Shirts	Aisha Shirt
Azzure Shirts	Azzure Shirt
Short Sleeve Casual Shirts	Short Sleeve Casual Shirt
Short Sleeve Work Shirts	Short Sleeve Work Shirt
Skull Pendants	Skull Pendant
Sleeveless Baseball Jerseys	Sleeveless Baseball Jersey
Balance Sleeveless Hensleys	Balance Sleeveless Hensley
Slicked Back Stubble Sides	Slicked Back, Stubble Sides
Small Wheel Medallions	Small Wheel Medallion
Snap Brim Caps	Snap Brim Cap
Headstone Sport Coats	Headstone Sport Coat
Sports Watches	Sports Watch
Steer Head Belts	Steer Head Belt
Basic Belts Style B	Basic Belt Style B
T-Shirts	T-Shirt
Tank Tops	Tank Top
Thermal Undershirts	Thermal Undershirt
Balance Track Jackets	Balance Track Jacket
Turtlenecks	Turtleneck
U Piercings	U Piercing
V Neck Pullovers	V Neck Pullover
Woven Belts	Woven Belt
XX/XY Zippered Sweatshirts	XX/XY Zippered Sweatshirt
Zippered Vests	Zippered Vest
Rectangular Watches	Rectangular Watch
Octagon Watches	Octagon Watch
Round Chain Bracelets	Round Chain Bracelet
Twisted Chain Bracelets	Twisted Chain Bracelet
Figure 8 Chain Bracelets	Figure 8 Chain Bracelet
Plain Chain Bracelets	Plain Chain Bracelet

A large amount of customization items were renamed in order to avoid confusion with owning many of the same item, hence that the color can be interchanged.

Oddly, Braided Belts are repeated twice, in the "CUST_ITEM_BRAIDED_BELT" and "CUST_ITEM_BRAIDED_BELTS" text string, whileas Flag Belts are errenously duplicated in the CUST_ITEM_FLAG_BELT and CUST_ITEM_FLAG strings.

Demo	Final
Gold Red	Gold/Red
Platinum Blue	Platinum/Blue
Silver Green	Sliver/Green
Steel Gray	Steel/Gray
Teal White	Teal/White

Slashes were added to color-combined customization item names.

Demo	Final
Teal/Purple	Teal/Grey

Oddly, the Teal/Grey variant of a customization item was originally named Teal/Purple. The string (CUST_VARIANT_TEAL_PURPLE) is also named that.

Multiplayer#

Demo	Final
Taunt 1	Taunt
Taunt 2	Taunt

Numbers were removed from Taunts for some reason.

Unlockables#

Demo

Final

You can now have up to one Homie.  Press <img control_dpad_up> to recruit.

You can now have up to one Homie.  Press <btn recruit> to recruit.

You can now have up to two Homies.  Press <img control_dpad_up> to recruit.

You can now have up to two Homies.  Press <btn recruit> to recruit.

You can now have up to three Homies.  Press <img control_dpad_up> to recruit.

You can now have up to three Homies.  Press <btn recruit> to recruit.

Button prompts were internally changed.

Demo	Final
`You have unlocked Don't Fuck Me Like I'm Your Wife by Aisha`	`You have unlocked Don't Fuck Me Like I'm Your Wife by Aisha\nThis song has been added to your playlist`
`You have unlocked Man Up by Ghostface Killa`	`You have unlocked Man Up by Ghostface Killa\nThis song has been added to your playlist`
`You have unlocked Git Out of My Way by Daz Dillinger`	`You have unlocked Git Out of My Way by Daz Dillinger\nThis song has been added to your playlist`
`You have unlocked Hurry, Hurry by Strong Arm Steady`	`You have unlocked Hurry, Hurry by Strong Arm Steady\nThis song has been added to your playlist`
`You have unlocked Shut You Down by Rhymefest.`	`You have unlocked Shut You Down by Rhymefest.\nThis song has been added to your playlist`
`You have unlocked Saints Row by David Banner.`	`You have unlocked Saints Row by David Banner.\nThis song has been added to your playlist`

For all text strings in the final "This song has been added to your playlist" were added to each of them to make them easier to find.

Demo	Final
`Moltovs are now available at your crib.`	`Molotovs are now available at your crib.`

A typo was fixed.

Demo	Final
`You have unlocked the Sharp Estate as a crib`	`You have unlocked the Price Mansion as a crib`

The Price Mansion was originally called the Sharp Estate.

Demo	Final
`Angelo's Car You have unlocked Angelo's car`	`Los Carnales Cars You have unlocked the Carnales' cars.`
`Price's Car You have unlocked Price's car`	`Westside Rollerz Car You have unlocked the Rollerz car.`
`Sharp's Car You have unlocked Sharp's car`	`Westside Rollerz Car You have unlocked the Rollerz car.`
`Warren's Car You have unlocked Warren's car`	`Vice King Cars You have unlocked the Vice Kings' cars`

The singular car unlockables were renamed, whilst their text strings remained in place. Oddly, the Westside Rollerz car unlock is duplicated twice as of a result.

Tutorial#

Demo	Final
`Compete in a twelve car demolition derby. Destroy your opponents cars to earn cash and respect.`	`Compete in a nine car demolition derby. Destroy your opponents' cars to earn cash and respect.`

Aside from the punctuation change, the Demolition Derby Activity originally had twelve cars instead of nine.

Demo	Final
`This is your stash. Pickup earned cash from neighborhoods gained here.`	`This is your stash. Pick up earned cash from neighborhoods gained here.`

"Pickup" was changed to "pick up".

Demo	Final
`This is your stash. Pickup earned cash from neighborhoods gained here.`	`This is your stash. Pick up earned cash from neighborhoods gained here.`

Demo	Final
`Freckle Bitch's allows you to purchase food that can be used to restore your health.`	`Freckle Bitch's sells food items that will replenish your health.`

The sentence was shortened.

Demo	Final
`Liquor stores allow you to buy booze and drugs. These items offer various effects.`	`Brown Baggers sells Liquor and Drugs.`

Some of those sentences that don't directly mention the name of the place implies that there was to be a secondary variant of an existing store.

Demo	Final
`Forgive and Forget allows you to remove all of your notoritety for a price.`	`Forgive and Forget allows you to remove all notoriety for a price.`

Sentence was changed to apply to all notoriety around rather than just Playa's. A typo was also fixed.

Demo	Final
`Movie theaters allow you to replay cutscenes and Missions that you've completed.`	`Movie theaters allow you to replay cutscenes and missions.`

The sentence was shortened to avoid repetition.

Demo	Final
`Music stores allow you to purchase songs that play on the radio and place them in your custom play lists.`	`Scratch That sells songs that can be placed in your custom playlists.`

The original sentence doesn't mention the store's name, while "play lists" was worded wrong.

Demo

Final

Plastic surgeons allow you to totally change what your character looks like, including ethnicity.  It also lowers your notoriety.

Image As Designed allows you to totally change your appearance, including ethnicity.  It also removes your notoriety.

Aside from the sentence simplification, it seemed that plastic surgeons were supposed to lower Notoriety rather than just remove it.

Demo	Final
`Gun stores allow you to purchase various weapons. The more of the city you conquer the more weapons will be available for purchase.`	`You can purchase weapons at Friendly Fire.`

Weapons were supposed to be unlocked as the story progressed.

Demo

Final

You've re-conquered Saints Row!  Remember Activites <img map_start_racing> <img map_start_pimping> <img map_start_hijacking> earn Respect.  Respect is used to unlock Missions <img map_start_mission_lc> <img map_start_mission_vk> <img map_start_mission_wr> and Strongholds <img map_start_stronghold_lc> <img map_start_stronghold_vk> <img map_start_stronghold_wr>

Remember Activites <img help_map_other_hidden_act> earn Respect.  Respect is used to unlock Missions <img map_start_mission_lc> <img map_start_mission_vk> <img map_start_mission_wr>.

In the final, Respect only unlocks missions, whereas Strongholds are unlocked with missions.

Pause and Main Menu#

Demo

Final

You are not currently signed in with a profile.\nYou will not be able to save game progress or earn achievements.

You are not currently signed in with a gamer profile.\nYou will not be able to save game progress or earn achievements.

The word "gamer" was added to the sentence in order to not confuse players with other accounts.

Demo	Final
`You are about to overwrite a saved game.`	`Are you sure you want to overwrite this save?\nAll previous save game progress will be overwritten.`

The sentence was made longer and detailed to notify the player more.

Demo	Final
`There are no saved games on this device.`	`There are no saved games\non this device.`

Small spacing.

Demo	Final
`You will lose all progress if you log in to a gamer profile.`	`You will lose all progress if you sign in with a gamer profile.`

"Log in" was changed to "sign in".

Demo	Final
`If you activate any cheats, Achievements will be disabled.`	`If you activate any cheats, Achievements will be disabled.\nOnce activated, the only way to turn off a cheat is to exit the game.`

The sentence was extended to show how Cheats are disabled in the final.

Demo	Final
`XBox Playlist`	`Xbox Playlist`

Xbox's spelling was changed in the final.

Demo	Final
`UNABLE TO COMPLY Playlist collection full`	`PLAYLIST COLLECTION FULL Old playlists must be removed before new playlists can be added.`

The sentence was completely rewritten to instruct the player on how to remove old playlists.

Demo

Final

GUIDE PLAYLIST
You must use the XBox Guide to edit this playlist
You must use the XBox Guide to delete this playlist

XBOX GUIDE PLAYLIST
You must use the Xbox Dashboard to edit this playlist
You must use the Xbox Dashboard to delete this playlist

Dashboard was renamed to "guide".

Demo	Final
`PLAYLIST ERROR Out of memory for tracks`	`PLAYLISTS FULL Old tracks must be removed from the current playlist before new tracks can be added.`

Sentence was rewritten to instruct the player to remove tracks from their playlist.

Demo	Final
`You must purchase music at the music store before adding them to your playlist.`	`You must purchase music at the music store\nbefore adding them to your playlist.`

A line break was added.

Other#

Demo	Final
`Do you wish to take %s from your crib?`	`Do you wish to take "%"s from your crib?`
`Do you wish to replace %s with %s for %s?`	`Do you wish to replace "%"s with "%"s for %s?`

Quote marks were added to distinguish the names easier.

Demo	Final
`You have collected %d of %d CD's.`	`You have collected %d of %d CDs.`

Oddly, a text string for "vk09_scene05" wasn't present in the demo.

Credits#

The entire credits is present in the files, albeit with a few changes;

Demo (Unused)	Final
`Daniel Dae Kim Johnny Gatt`	`Daniel Dae Kim Johnny Gat`

Johnny Gat's name had a typo.

Demo (Unused)	Final
`Philip Anthony-Rodriguez Victor Lopez`	`Philip Anthony-Rodriguez Victor Rodriguez`

Victor's last name was changed.

Demo (Unused)	Final
`Liquid Todd K12`	`Liquid Todd K12 FM 97.6`
`Errol 'DJ Gringo' Anglin 420`	`Errol 'DJ Gringo' Anglin FOUR-20 103.6`
`Clinton Sparks KRONIC`	`Clinton Sparks THE KRONIC 92.2`
`Eddie Francis KRYHME`	`Eddie Francis 95.4 KRYHME FM`
`Sludge THE ROCK`	`Sludge THE ROCK FM 94.8`
`Paul Driscol GENX`	`Paul Driscol 89.0 GENERATION X`
`DJ Trie SIZZURP`	`DJ Trie 101.69 SIZZURP FM`
`Bubba The Love Sponge KRUNCH`	`Bubba The Love Sponge THE KRUNCH 106.6`
`Kat Corbet THE FACTION`	`Kat Corbet THE FACTION FM99.8`
`David Lawrence CLASSIC`	`David Lawrence 102.4 KLASSIC FM`
`David Lawrence and Mike Schmidt KBOOM`	`David Lawrence and Mike Schmidt 108.0 WMD KBOOM FM`

Credit names for radio station hosts were made more obvious, while Classic was retitled as "Klassic FM".

Bill Leff and Wendy Snyder
KRFS

Exclusively in the demo credits are hosts for the scrapped Radio Free Stilwater station. Those were removed in the final.

Demo (Unused)	Final
`Randall Turner Programmer`	`Randall Turner Systems Architect`

Randall Turner's occupation credit was changed from Programmer to Systems Architect. His position was moved from in between Mike Flavin and Jeff Thompson to Alan Lawrence and Bart Wyatt.

Demo (Unused)	Final
`Frank Pierce Level Artist`	`Franklin Pierce Level Artist`

Frank's name was recredited as "Franklin" in the final.

Demo (Unused)	Final
`Dan Wentz Audio Designer`	`Frank Petreikis Audio Designer`
`Frank Petreikis Audio Designer`	`Dan Wentz Audio Designer`

Dan Wentz and Frank Pereikis' names were swapped around.

Demo (Unused)	Final
`Danetrack Studios Cinematics Audio`	`Danetrack Studios Audio Services`

The credit was made more obvious so it would apply to other pieces of audio rather than just cutscenes.

Demo (Unused)	Final
`David Lejeuene Tester`	`David Lejeune Tester`

A typo was fixed.

Demo (Unused)

Final

"Mountain Song" Performed by Jane's Addiction Written by Perry Farrelll, David Michael Navarro, Stephen Andrew Perkins and Eric Adam Avery IRVING MUSIC, INC. on behalf of I'LL HIT YOU BACK MUSIC, EMBRYOTIC MUSIC, and SWIZZLESTICK MUSIC Bubbly Orange Stuff Music (BMI) c/o Blackwood Music Courtesy of Warner Bros. Records Inc. By arrangement with Warner Music Group Video Game Licensing (P) 1988 Warner Bros. Records Inc.

"Mountain Song" Performed by Jane's Addiction Written by Perry Farrell, David Michael Navarro, Stephen Andrew Perkins and Eric Adam Avery IRVING MUSIC, INC. on behalf of I'LL HIT YOU BACK MUSIC, EMBRYOTIC MUSIC, and SWIZZLESTICK MUSIC Bubbly Orange Stuff Music (BMI) c/o Blackwood Music Courtesy of Warner Bros. Records Inc. By arrangement with Warner Music Group Video Game Licensing (P) 1988 Warner Bros. Records Inc.

Perry Farrell's last name was corrected in the final.

There were several people who weren't present;
- John Slagel's Additional Programming credit wasn't present in the demo. It would appear in the final.
- Demitrius Pennebaker, Drew Holmes, Kenny Schwarz, Josh Mayer, James Selen, Jeff Johnson, Kirk Brandys, Jon Volkman, Alex Newman, Amy Gardner, Gene Finley and Andrew King weren't credited as testers in the demo build.
- Matthew Tullis, Orion Brown, Patrick Allen, Chris Mile and Scott Young were not credited as THQ Quality Assurance testers.
- Arnaud Frey was not credited as a Localization Manager.
- Neil Hazzard, Christopher Shioya, Takahiro Morita, Kumiko Mori and Manae Kobayashi weren't credited in the Special Thanks section.

Miscellaneous Changes#

The text string "open door" was originally called TEMP_LAST_MINUTE_4 as opposed to VK1_TRIGGER_OPEN_DOOR in the final.
There was originally a blanked-out ACT_CHOP_BRING_CAR string which was removed in the final.
There are TAGGING_SUCCESS and TAGGING_FAILURE strings, but no such message displays in the final for failing a graffiti tag.
Instances of "…" were changed to "...".
There exists several removed strings applying to Activates;
- ACT_VANDAL_TEAM_PENALTY_MSG was likely supposed to a penalize the player for attacking the Third Street Saints in Mayhem. A similar string, ACT_VANDAL_PENALTY_MSG would be unused in the final.
Though almost all the vehicle sounds are present in the final, sounds CAR_4DR_STANDARD03 are missing in the demo.