the cutting room mirror

Independence Day (PlayStation)

Independence Day is a combat flight simulator based on the 1996 film of the same name.

Unused Graphics#

A group photo of the development team.

tty debug console#

The tty debug console displays a lot of chatter when loading and during gameplay. This is not visible to the user.

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Both the ELF executable and PSXMAIN.BIN contain development-related text, as seen below.

Offsets: 0xE874, 0xE938 (SLUS_002.21) / 0xA23D4 (PSXMAIN.BIN)

Version 29 Final

Offset: 0xE979 (SLUS_002.21)

[RETURN] to continue, [A] to continue all or [SPACE] to quit

Offset: 0xA5D14 (PSXMAIN.BIN)

Thanks for playing (and reading the binaries), Darrin Brown.

References#


  1. MobyGames↩︎