the cutting room mirror

Ecks vs. Sever

One of the worst films ever made spawned a surprisingly pretty fun first-person shooter, though the game's quality is likely due to having been based on an earlier version of the film script...

Early Splash Screens#

Use the CodeBreaker codes 0200B7C0:0039 and 0200B7C0:003A, one at a time, to see the following early splash screens.

Ecks_vs_Sever-Splash2.PNG But nothing happened!

Data Usage Information#

By forcing the game to select a fourth, out-of-bounds, option on the main menu, you can see a list of how much memory the game's resources take up.

Debug Remnants#

Starting at 7B2733 is text that might have acted as a simple debug menu:

 GAME PAUSED
 COLLISION
 TIMING
 INVULNERABLE
 GOTO LEVEL
 CYCLE CAMERA
 PRINT

It doesn't seem to be accessible, however.