Rugrats: Royal Ransom

The Rugrats arrive on the sixth generation of consoles with their biggest outing yet.

This game is also infamous for its unreasonably high difficulty level anything past "Baby Easy" mode.

Unused Audio#

seam.adp#

This music track is located in the game's files under music/Sea/seam.adp. Based on this context, it appears to belong to a 3rd level in the submarine/sea area (which doesn't exist in the final game). This is supported by the existence of data for a "SeaM" level in other folders; interestingly, it appears to be one of three levels scrapped from the game (others are "DinoB" and "MidevlD").

Susie Introductions#

In the file directory for Susie's voice lines (the bulk of which probably being her introductory lines that play at the beginning of each level), there are .dba files for three unused levels: "SeaM," "DinoB," and "MidevlD." Each is named "sound.dba." Their contents are currently unknown.

Unused Characters#

In the players folder, there is an empty folder for a character named "Buzz;" it has no other data associated with it.

Development Text#

copydata.bat#

Found in the root of the GameCube version is a batch file.

if not exist j:\rugrats_cdrom\data_gcn md j:\rugrats_cdrom\data_gcn

rem copy GC level files
copy /steu j:\rugrats\data_gcn\uber.dbl j:\rugrats_cdrom\data_gcn
copy /steu j:\rugrats\data_gcn\flush.dbl j:\rugrats_cdrom\data_gcn

rem copy GC character files
if not exist j:\rugrats_cdrom\data_gcn\players md j:\rugrats_cdrom\data_gcn\players
copy /steu j:\rugrats\data_gcn\players\*.dbl j:\rugrats_cdrom\data_gcn\players

rem copy GC sound files
if not exist j:\rugrats_cdrom\data_gcn\sound md j:\rugrats_cdrom\data_gcn\sound
if not exist j:\rugrats_cdrom\data_gcn\sound\actor md j:\rugrats_cdrom\data_gcn\sound\actor
if not exist j:\rugrats_cdrom\data_gcn\sound\perm md j:\rugrats_cdrom\data_gcn\sound\perm

rem ***add movies later***
rem copy /steu j:\rugrats\data_gcn\*.thp j:\rugrats_cdrom\data_gcn
copy /steu j:\rugrats\data_gcn\*.adp j:\rugrats_cdrom\data_gcn
copy /steu j:\rugrats\data_gcn\*.dsp j:\rugrats_cdrom\data_gcn
copy /steu j:\rugrats\data_gcn\sound\actor\*.dba j:\rugrats_cdrom\data_gcn\sound\actor
copy /steu j:\rugrats\data_gcn\sound\perm\*.dba j:\rugrats_cdrom\data_gcn\sound\perm