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London Cab Challenge

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London Cab Challenge is a Crazy Taxi clone, infamous for having slow loading times, inconsistent collision detection, and a plenty of bugs. It's a miracle that it even got past the certification process.

Unused Graphics#

Thumbs.db#

Inside of MainMenu\Textures is a thumbnail database from September 13, 2005. It contains graphics that are no longer present in the folder or changed prior to the final build.

The menu buttons were originally greyed out when not selected instead of darkened.

Thumbs.db

Final

Logo.bmp#

The game logo had a transparent background and no glow surrounding it.

Thumbs.db

Final

A screenshot of the main menu from that point in development.

Unused Text#

Keyboard Bindings#

Config.ini references keyboard bindings, suggesting that there might be an unreleased PC port.

//Keys
GM_KEY_LEFT H
GM_KEY_RIGHT K
GM_KEY_FORWARD U
GM_KEY_BACKWARD J
GM_KEY_RESTART R
GM_KEY_SIDE_LEFT Y
GM_KEY_SIDE_RIGHT I

Error Messages#

The game's executable has some leftover error messages.

Menu hasnt any font!!
Not USED ANY MORE ,USE DYNAMIC TEXTURES INSTEAD
Menu textures active and non-active sizes dont match!
Something got wrong:%.2f