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Strong Bad's Cool Game For Attractive People

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Strong Bad's Cool Game For Attractive People ("but you can play too!") is a five-part story arc in which you go around being awesome while wearing a very convincing Strong Bad costume.

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Unused Ranks#

Each episode has two ranks that are normally impossible to obtain. The first rank is for getting a score higher than the maximum score for that episode, while the second rank seems to be used for getting an impossibly high score through cheating. Some of these ranks repeat through different episodes.

The only exception to this system is in Strong Badia the Free, where it's possible to obtain the rank "Uber-Pope" through a scoring glitch in one of the mini-games. What should be that game's highest legitimate ranking goes unused instead.

Episode

Rank 1

Rank 2

Homestar Ruiner

Fhqwhgads Rules Batsman

Synchronized Wading

Strong Badia the Free

Exalted Imperious Leaderguy

Concerned Citizen

Baddest of the Bands

Fhqwhgads Bagpiper

Synchronized Wading

Dangeresque 3

Fhqwhgads Rules Batsman

Weeping Bystander #2

8-Bit is Enough

Cool Foreign Knock-Off

Synchronized Wading

(Source: Original TCRF research)

Unused Items#

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Download Ab-Abber 2000 Shirt Registry Key

File: SBCG4APAbAbber2000Key.zip (335 B) (info)

There is a shirt called "Ab-Abber 2000 Shirt" that is unobtainable during Strong Badia the Free, Baddest of the Bands, and Dangeresque 3. It can be accessed in the Windows version by adding the 32-bit value "shirtmuscles" to the game's registry. It even has its own dialogue when Strong Bad puts it on. The shirt is a reference to the Sbemail "suntan", where Strong Bad invents a device to draw abs on one's body called the Ab-Abber 2000.

"Look at all these real muscles! Thanks, Ab-Abber two-thous-and! For best results, never shower again."

(Source: Original TCRF research)

Revisional Differences#

  • The consoles have all the costume items from previous episodes unlocked. The PC, however, uses registry values written from other episodes for items with that registry name to appear.
  • The consoles have a function in the Lappy 486 where players can type an email (four-line maximum) to send to friends; they can also attach the screenshots they took and send them. The PC version does not do this because the screenshots are saved to C:\Users\(user name)\Documents\Telltale Games\(Episode # - Episode Name), so they can email them to friends normally.

wiifriends#

The PC version's data archive includes wiifriends.imap and wiifriends.lenc, probably leftovers from the Wii port's message board functionality.

Tutorial Leftovers#

The voice files from the Wii version's tutorial are also present.

(Source: Original TCRF research)

Obscene Filename#

The filename for the splat sound is named "birdshit".