Streets of SimCity

Notable for its ability to generate 3D levels from SimCity 2000 city files, Streets of SimCity is a vehicular combat game featuring both free-roam gameplay and scenarios with specific objectives. The player's activities primarily consist of delivering packages and destroying (or being destroyed by) hostile computer-controlled vehicles, although a set of race missions is also included.

Although the game was poorly received at the time of its release, the novelty of viewing SimCity 2000 cities from a different perspective and the game's quirky sense of humor (it features strange radio commercials, deliberately over-the-top voice acting, and amusing descriptions of package contents) are considered sufficient compensation for its bugs and general lack of polish by fans.

The game came with a basic scenario editor that allowed players to create custom races using any SimCity 2000 city. This editor isn't capable of creating more sophisticated scenarios, but the scenario format has been reverse-engineered and documented here.

Unused Models#

The game stores its 3D models in three files within its GEO folder, each containing roughly a third of the game's models. The format of these files is documented here.

SIM3D2.MAX contains four unused railway crossing gate models. All four are identical, just rotated in increments of 90 degrees.

Also contained in SIM3D2.MAX are the ambulance dispatch pylon, Augusta A109 helicopter, and UFO models from SimCopter (which uses the same engine as Streets of SimCity and was released before it).

Unused Text#

Scenario Success/Failure Text#

Each scenario file contains blocks named WTXT and LTXT. These blocks are empty for many scenarios, but for some they contain ASCII text that never appears in-game. This text was likely intended to be displayed when a player won or lost the scenario containing it, but instead the game uses generic "YOU WON!" and "YOU LOST!" messages for all scenarios.

These tables contain the contents of the WTXT and LTXT blocks for all scenarios. Grammatical errors and typos are reproduced as-is.

Zippy Courier Service#

Galahad's Watch#

Granny's Wild Ride#

Streets of SimCity#

Oddly, scenarios in the general "Streets of SimCity" campaign use the WTXT and LTXT blocks to specify which success and failure cutscenes each scenario should use, despite the presence of WANM and LANM blocks (likely abbreviations of "win animation" and "lose animation") in each scenario file that were presumably included for this purpose but are always empty.

Race for Your Life#