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Medal of Honor (PlayStation)

The PS1 Medal of Honor is the first entry in the critically-acclaimed series.

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Unused graphics, there's a few for the for main menu option name bar and a video options menu.

Unused Mission#

During development, a mission was scrapped that was to take place in Colditz Castle, with protagonist Jimmy Patterson infiltrating a POW camp. It is not known why the mission was removed from the final game. Instead, the level geometry was used for a bonus mission in the sequel Medal of Honor Underground.

In the US release, some assets from the mission selection menu related to these levels can be found. These include the name of the mission and its three levels. It is likely that these were just placeholders, as they don't seem to be as detailed as the rest of the level names.

Infiltrate Colditz Castle POW Camp

  1. Castle C&C
  2. The Ramparts
  3. Breakout

Unused Text#

Colditz Castle Mission Objectives#

By exploring the binary file LEVEL.BIN, the following list of objectives can be found as unused text:

00000858:  : LOCATED....ENTER COMMAN
00000870:  :D BUILDING..OBTAIN PRISO
00000888:  :NER LIST....ENTER PRISON
000008a0:  : AREA...COMMAND BUILDING
000008b8:  : ENTERED....PRISONER LIS
000008d0:  :T FOUND.PRISON AREA FOUN
000008e8:  :D...LOCATE THE CURATOR I
000017b8:  :ELEVATOR LOCATED....FIND
000017d0:  : SNIPER RIFLE...FIND THE
000017e8:  : UNDERCOVER OSS NOTEBOOK
00001800:  :....ELIMINATE COMMANDANT
00001818:  : SCHMITT....SNIPER RIFLE
00001830:  : FOUND..OSS NOTEBOOK FOU
00001848:  :ND..COMMANDANT SCHMITT E
00001860:  :LIMINATED...ESCAPE CASTL
00001878:  :E COLDITZ...ESCAPE SUCCE
00001890:  :SSFUL...FIND V1 TARGET L

Putting together the found texts as objectives and scripted events:

Level 1 Objectives:

  • ENTER COMMAND BUILDING (COMMAND BUILDING ENTERED)
  • OBTAIN PRISONER LIST (PRISONER LIST FOUND)
  • ENTER PRISON AREA (PRISON AREA FOUND)

Level 2 Objectives:

  • FIND SNIPER RIFLE (SNIPER RIFLE FOUND)
  • FIND THE UNDERCOVER OSS NOTEBOOK (OSS NOTEBOOK FOUND)
  • ELIMINATE COMMANDANT SCHMITT (COMMANDANT SCHMITT ELIMINATED)

Level 3 Objectives:

  • ESCAPE CASTLE COLDITZ (ESCAPE SUCCESSFUL)

Unused Treasure Caverns Bonus Objective#

Through the binary files a bonus objective about protecting the art found on the level "Treasure Caverns" can be found as well.

00001de8: :BONUS SAVE ART OBJECTS..
00001e18:  : DOWN...75 PERCENT OF AR
00001e30:  :TWORK LOST..50 PERCENT O
00001e48:  :F ARTWORK LOST..25 PERCE
00001e60:  :NT OF ARTWORK LOST..ALL 
00001e78:  :ARTWORK SAVED...REQUIRES