Futurama

Prerelease Info

Unused Models#

To do: All of these models have animations.

Image	Filename	Description
	sal.ucf	A model of Sal. Although he makes an appearance in the FMV cutscenes, he doesn't appear in-game, so this model goes unused.
	larry.ucf	Larry, who also appears in the FMV cutscenes but doesn't appear in-game.
	aquafish.ucf	A fish in the Reverse Scuba Suit from the episode "A Big Piece of Garbage".
	alien_pod.ucf	Probably an unused enemy.
	mosquito.ucf	A mosquito.
	flowerplant.ucf	A flower which, according to its animation headers, is able to attack.
	gunturret.ucf	A turret with a shield.
	bender_.ucf	A model of Bender which includes a bottle of Olde Fortran Malt Liquor and a cigar. The liquor does appear in-game as a pickup, but the cigar isn't used anywhere.

Unused Areas#

theroom3.nif#

theroom3.nif is only present in the Xbox version. It is a test room with the same layout as the lab in the Planet Express level except with the following differences:

• The desk isn't next to the reanimator
• There's a treadmill-like machine next to the reanimator
• A machine is hanging from the ceiling
• The reanimator has a wire attached to it
• The reanimator is glowing at the top
• There is an unknown piece of furniture at the far end of the room. Behind it is an object resembling a satellite dish

Courtyard Level#

Watch on YouTubeAn unused version of the Temple Courtyard level can be played by swapping its files (level3-5) with those of the used level (level3-6). The objective of the level is to complete one of the symbol puzzles to exit the hallway, then defeat all enemies to gain access to the next stage. The game's data indicates that there would have been two Courtyard levels, with the unused version taking place between the Left Wing and Right Wing levels and the used version taking place as it does in the final game.

There are a number of key differences to the used level: The temple door is unreachable due to the level taking place before it has been revealed, and there are two areas which are inaccessible in the used level. The first area is the hallway at the start which is directly opposite the one in the used level. The general layout is the same, except the stairs are at the side of the room instead of the end and the puzzle must be completed in a different order. The second area is the room at the end of the level which contains one of the memory puzzles and starts off the Right Wing level.

The level has a number of oddities due to being incomplete including no background music, 22 gold bars instead of the standard multiple of 25, and no Nibblers.

Unreachable Areas#

Although unreachable, the aforementioned courtyard areas exist in the used level and can be entered by memory editing the game to teleport into them. The puzzles in both areas cannot be interacted with and some parts aren't solid, which will cause Leela to fall through them. In the second area, the light rays from the windows are glitched as they cause certain textures to disappear when looked through.

First area:

Second area:

Entrance to the second area:

Unused Dialogue#

Unused Music#

Unused Graphics#

cash_icon.nif, goldbar_icon.nif, and ruby_icon.nif each contain the same placeholder image.

weapons_bg.nif appears to be an early HUD graphic for weapons.

A number of font graphics include buttons for the cancelled GameCube release.

leaveme.nif is a picture of Dr. Zoidberg.

testscreen.nif is a test screen.

Leftover screens from the game's demo releases.

Unused screens for SCi Games, Vivendi Universal Games, and NetImmerse.

Unused Animations#

The chef robot in the Uptown level has an unused death animation with the header dying1.

Easter Eggs#

To do: There is apparently an Easter egg in "Bender Breaks Out" which only appears to have a script to report a debug message that something has been triggered but has no associated action to trigger it.

Hidden Executables#

To do: Get these to work and find out what raw2bit does.

In the folder \fonts\ in futurama.img, is a program called fonttool.exe which assigns graphics to text, used by the developers to enable the creation of fonts. In the subfolder \fonts\kanji\ is a program called raw2bit.exe.

Unused Text#

Text in the file intro.ldb:

You imbecile you! Huh, what?! I said only brown M&M's but I can see a yellow one in there! Fre: Imbecile Fre: Huh, what Fre: Brown M&M's Ditt jäkla dumhuvud Uhm, va?! Vad fan, jag sa ju till om enbart bruna M&M's men jag ser en gul en där

Development Text#

build.txt#

Build 1.15

readme.txt#

Instructions for fonttool.exe.

Font tool documentation (and font stuff in general )
----

The font tool takes as input a tga file containing the images for all the characters that this font will contain ( referred to as 'glyphs' ). It also takes a file that contains the characters (and ascii literals) so it knows which glyph to connect to which character in a string. It'll be obvious in a minute. I hope.

It also takes a couple of command line parameters, some are optional. 
fonttool.exe <options> <input tga file>

 -o <filename>      (optional) Specify the output filename. Dont specify the extension
            as these will be automatically added. For example, using
            -o c:\my_font  will create c:\my_font.tga and c:\my_font.spec
            The default is "output" and in the current directory.

 -t <tolerance value>   (optional) Give it a number of pixels to add/remove from the autocropping, 
            If the result has characters spaced too far apart, try a 
            tolerance value of -2 or -3 to crop them a little tighter.

 -s <pixel value>       (required) Horizontal space value. Tells the tool the width 
            of a space in pixels. This should normally be about the width
            of a character, experiment. It is also used as the width of
            ALL characters when the font system in game is forced into
            fixed width mode. It will automatically shrink/stretch chars
            to this value.

 -h <height value>  (required) Specify the height of a character in pixels. All characters
            must be this height.

 -v <vertical space>    (required) Amount of space between top of one row and top of next
            row of printed text. If your font is spaced out too much on the 
            vertical, pass in a smaller number here. Note, setting this
            lower than the height could result in letters in one row
            intersecting letters in another row.

 -c <filename>      (required) The character list file. See below


Character List File
----
The character list file tells the font system what characters / glpyhs to connect to, or in other words, how to make sense of the input tga file.
Its easiest explained by an example, say the font tga contains only upper case letters and the numbers, in that order, the character list file should look like
A  \\ upper case letters
B
C
...
X
Y
Z   
0  \\ numbers
1
2
3
.. and so on. Anything after and including the '\\' is treated as a comment and ignored.

The program reads one of these characters, and then cuts the corresponding piece out of the input tga file. If the order in the character list is differnet than the input tga, all kinds of off behaviour will result :)

Also, the character list file can specify non-printable ascii chars, to be used as special cases. Say for example the font input tga file has a glyph representing the 4 buttons on a Playstation controller, which we want to treat like regular font characters. We simply pick some unused place in the ascii table (everything from 180-220 look pretty useless to me) and indicate it in the spec file by &<ascii num>
So, if we wanted the four Playstation button glyphs associated with the ascii chars 180-184, we just place in the character list file
&180  \\ Playstation X
&181  \\ Playstation Triangle
&182  \\ Playstation Square
&183  \\ Playstation Circle

Now, all you need to do is have those ascii values in a string somewhere, somehow, and print the string for the button glyphs to appear onscreen. If the string says "Press (X)" where (X) is the playstaion X glyph, the string in ascii should read
80 114 101 115 115 32 180
thats it! Hope you arnt too confused :)

Version differences#

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The Xbox version has higher quality audio.