Unused Features

This is a sub-page of Grand Theft Auto IV.

Taking Photos#

In the audio files, tourists have lines where they ask the player to take a photo for them.

In the WeaponInfo.xml file, there is a leftover line of the camera being an object that the game would treat as a weapon that player could use.

    <weapon type="CAMERA"/>

And the final proof of this feature is an unfinished animation where a tourist would pose for a photo. Animation is called turist_pose_loop

Dating GoGetter and Lickingood#

On the LoveMeet game website, there are two girls called GoGetter and Lickingood, and according to the text leftovers in american.gxt file, the developers intended for Niko to be able to date them.

More proofs of this idea is that the e-mail addresses of GoGetter and Lickingood are listed among other important e-mail addresses for the player, while all other addresses from which the player receives nothing special are listed after them.

And finally, the american.gxt file contains the names of these two girls, who were supposed to be contacts in the player's phone, but currently it is impossible to determine which name belonged to whom.

    0x134458C6 = Beth
    0x886042E0 = Laurie

Picking-Up Hookers On-Foot#

It seems that the developers wanted to make a little variety in the action of picking up hookers from the streets, and give the player the ability to pick them up not only through vehicle, but also on foot, although vehicle would still be necessary for the further events.

Idle While Aiming#

Ambient.dat file has a commented out line related to idle animation while aiming from the pistol. It is in the Player Movement Groups section, meaning that it was made for the player only. This animation seems to be dropped pretty early in development, as it doesn't looped correctly and Niko has no facial animation while this animation playing.

GUN@AIM_IDLES Player, Combat

# MOVE_PLAYER       GUN@AIM_IDLES

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Fastfoods#

Buying Food at tw@#

It seems that the developers planned to make tw@ a place where the player could buy food, as evidenced by some unused lines from the food vendors.

It could be assumed that this could have been implemented the same way as a small Burger Shot corner in the bowling alley, since tw@ has a similar corner where nobody is standing, but it has a cash register that the player can rob, and speaking of robbing fastfood places...

Robbing Fastfoods#

In the final version of the game, the player can rob laundries, tw@ places and MODO clothing store, but according to several unused lines found in the M_Y_FASTFOODBLACK sound bank, the player could rob fastfoods as well, and thereby cause a reaction from the food vendors in there. The only strange thing is that only this sound bank has several lines of this kind, all other sound banks do not have this, probably the feature was scrapped quite early, so there was no need to record more.

Vomiting After Overeating#

A feature from Grand Theft Auto San Andreas that supposed to re-appear in IV, but was dropped for whatever reasons, despite the fact that both the animation and the food vendors' lines that would react to such an action from the player remained.

Buying Cellphones#

According to some text leftovers in american.gxt file, the player could have the opportunity to purchase phones, and apparently this was done through the in-game internet, as evidenced by the text leftovers from the addresses of Tinkle phone store.

}
EBK2
{
    0x37A19080 = We are pleased to inform you that your new Toshi C6000 phone has arrived at our store in South Bohan. At your soonest convenience please come in to pick it up from one of our friendly service staff. Thank you for doing business with us and remember that it is our pleasure to Tinkle in your ear.
    EINTN_2_0 = Hello Customer
    EINTN_2_1 = Hello Customer
    EINTN_2_2 = Hello Customer
    EINTN_2_3 = Hello Customer
    EINTN_2_4 = Hello Customer
    EINTN_2_5 = Hello Customer
    EINTN_2_6 = Hello Customer
    EINTN_2_7 = Hello Customer
    EOUTN_2_0 = Thanks For shopping with us
    EOUTN_2_1 = Thanks For shopping with us
    EOUTN_2_2 = Thanks For shopping with us
    EOUTN_2_3 = Thanks For shopping with us
    EOUTN_2_4 = Thanks For shopping with us
    EOUTN_2_5 = Thanks For shopping with us
    EOUTN_2_6 = Thanks For shopping with us
    EOUTN_2_7 = Thanks For shopping with us
}

    E_ADDRESS_2 = sales@tinkle.com
    E_NAME_2 = Tinkle
    E_SIGNOFF_2 = Tinkle

From the TLAD debug text source it was found out that in addition to Tinkle's addresses, the contact itself was named Phone Shop, the mention itself also appears in american.gxt file from the base IV, but there it was impossible to determine what exactly it belonged to.

{**************************************************}
{ Phone Shop }
{**************************************************}

0x675CAEEA = Phone Shop.

Buying Drugs#

Niko has audio files labeled DRUGS_BUY_##, meaning he was able to buy drugs while freeroaming. Only audio files and line of text remain from this feature. 0xE847D720 = ~s~Press ~PAD_LB~ to buy drugs.

Search Bodies for Items#

A strange feature that was meant for the player. It's unknown what kind of items player could search for in bodies, it only can be assumed that it could be either money or weapons.

There is one important note here, the game still uses these lines, only in the moments when the player robs the cash register, probably the developers reused it in this way, since the name of the audio refers to this very cut feature.

searchped-searchped_intro	searchped-searchped_loop

Minigames#

Golf#

Before appearing in The Ballad of Gay Tony, ability to play golf was planned to be in regular IV, from this feature there are many leftovers such as animations, props, possible locations, although there are no text and audio left from this.

• Animations

The biggest part about this minigame is that in the anim.img archive in mini_golf.wad file there is a lot of unused animations related to golf, from which it can be understood that there were several variations planned of playing the golf game, such as the chip, putt and drive, the drive one made it to the TBoGT while the other two variations were scrapped.

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• Locations

Obviously the location for playing the golf was supposed to be the golf course in The Meat Quarter, which has one interesting thing about the textures - their name indicates that the golf club could have an interior at some point, either that or it's just how the developers separated these textures from the rest of the golf course.

It is possible that golf could also be played in Firefly Island, as the small golf course there has well detailed collision, but no real evidence of this has been found to date.

• Miscellaneous

In pc\data\maps\props\lev_des there are several unused, untextured golf clubs, as well as the golf ball with an incorrect texture for it.

In the game files there are various leftovers from Caddy, a golf cart that was carried over along with the golf minigame itself into TBoGT.

From american.gxt file:

CADDY = Caddy

From GOLF CART audio file:

Videogames#

The developers planned to add the ability to play videogame inside of a videogame as one of the ways to hangout with friends, as evidenced by the lines that Niko and several of his friends have, and the animations that were found in the anim.img archive.

sit-vidgame_in	sit-vidgame_playa	sit-vidgame_loop	sit-vidgame_out

Niko

Roman

Brucie

Dwayne

Z Resurrection#

A minigame or gamemode about zombies - Z Resurrection, which in the game world appears as advertisements, but does not go anywhere further. However, it was supposed to be an interesting thing, and there are quite a lot of leftovers from it in the game files.

• Textures

The biggest find about this scrapped videogame is the texture leftovers from it, which were found in pc\textures folder in zombie.wtd file.

Texture	Alpha Texture	File Name(s)
	N/A	zlogo
	N/A	zselect
	N/A	zedge
	N/A	scratch01
	N/A	scratch02
		ak47 & ak47a
		ak47bulls & ak47bullsa
		uzi & uzia
		uzibull & uzibulla
		uzibulls & uzibullsa
		grenade & grenadea
		gun & guna
		gunbull & gunbulla
		life & lifea
		target & targeta
		target2 & target2a

• Zombies

The second thing is of course the zombies themselves, from which only the names of the models are left that were found in pedVariations.dat file.

M_Y_Zombie_01,      4
#slot       geometry    BULK    JOB SUNNY   WET MAT1    RES1A   RES1B   RES2A   RES2B       AUDIO ID
feet,       0,      0,  0,  0,  0,  0,  -1, -1, -1, -1,     2
head,       0,      0,  0,  0,  0,  0,  -1, -1, -1, -1,     10
uppr,       0,      0,  0,  0,  0,  0,  -1, -1, -1, -1,     5
lowr,       0,      0,  0,  0,  0,  0,  -1, -1, -1, -1,     11
end
M_Y_Zombie_02,      4
#slot       geometry    BULK    JOB SUNNY   WET MAT1    RES1A   RES1B   RES2A   RES2B       AUDIO ID
feet,       0,      0,  0,  0,  0,  0,  -1, -1, -1, -1,     2
head,       0,      0,  0,  0,  0,  0,  -1, -1, -1, -1,     10
uppr,       0,      0,  0,  0,  0,  0,  -1, -1, -1, -1,     5
lowr,       0,      0,  0,  0,  0,  0,  -1, -1, -1, -1,     11
end

These models don't really tell much, however, there was another zombie model that was only mentioned in the leaked Grand Theft Auto V source code, and that's the zombie doctor model, which leads to the point about where this whole thing could possibly take place in.

\Ped_models\M_M_Zombiedoc\M_M_Zombiedoc.max

In the office.img, there is empty texture file named zomb_hospital.wtd, making it clear that hospital was connected with zombie feature.

• Text Leftovers

american.gxt file contains some lines from this minigame, and it gives a rather disappointing forecast of all this, since it is clear that the minigame did not go far during development, and was dropped at the stage of placeholder.

0x22666A99 = Zombie (zombie.sc - KB)

}
ZOMBIE
{
    0x75A51081 = ~s~Press ~PAD_A~ to start
    0x8782B43C = Placeholder...
}

Space Shooter#

The next minigame has much less leftovers, but there is still something to say about it.
First of all is it's name, which was found in the american.gxt file as a mention of the script that one of the developers worked on.

0x3EED1E03 = Space Shooter (space_shooter.sc - NF)

The second thing is the textures, which, as in the case of Z Resurrection, are located in pc\textures\space_hud.wtd file.

Texture	Alpha Texture	File Name(s)
		missle & misslea
		radar & radar_a
	N/A	radar_a_old
		radarblack & radarblacka
		ship100 & ship100a
		shipcount & shipcounta
		shiphealthbar & shiphealthbar_a
		shipshield & shipshield_a
		shipshieldbars & shipshieldbars_a