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Unused Stage MessagesYou were meant to race the Curator? Unused Mission ObjectivesRadical commented out quite a lot of stuff here. Unused VehiclesThe number of vehicles was supposed to be higher. Unused ModelsLook at these 'beautiful' unused models! Unused GraphicsGraphics found in the game's files that have no purpose or use. Unused Voice ClipsAnswering Machines? Dialogue for destroying a Wasp Camera?

미사용된 레벨#

To do: List that data. Also, replace mission data from Levels 2, 3, 5, or 6 with this one to see at least what does.

PC판 내부의 "\scripts\missions" 디렉토리에는 level08 와 level09라는 2개의 폴더들이 있으며, 게임은 7개 대신 총 9개의 레벨을 넣기로 계획했지만, 8과 9번째 레벨은 알 수 없는 이유로 짤렸다. 자리표시자일 수도 있다.

m1.p3d

carstart3   X:4 Y:5 Z:28    Y ROT:0 Free:False  Parked:False
carstart0   X:-4    Y:5 Z:18    Y ROT:0 Free:False  Parked:False
carstart1   X:-4    Y:5 Z:28    Y ROT:0 Free:False  Parked:False
carstart2   X:4 Y:5 Z:18    Y ROT:0 Free:False  Parked:False
carstart4   X:12    Y:5 Z:18    Y ROT:0 Free:False  Parked:False
carstart5   X:12    Y:5 Z:28    Y ROT:0 Free:False  Parked:False
carstart6   X:0 Y:5 Z:-10   Y ROT:0 Free:False  Parked:False
carstart7   X:10    Y:5 Z:0 Y ROT:0 Free:False  Parked:False

chkpts.p3d

c3      X:-668.9247 Y:0.000001180172    Z:-717.7559 Event:2 Paramater:0
startclock  X:-1.2223   Y:0.00000001315275  Z:-15.35557 Event:2 Paramater:0
c0      X:-0.2845159    Y:-4.338178     Z:-357.6468 Event:2 Paramater:0
c1      X:27.84901  Y:0.000002095469    Z:-750.5784 Event:2 Paramater:0
c2      X:-348.2025 Y:1.838596      Z:-722.4449 Event:2 Paramater:0
c4      X:-675.4891 Y:18.23899      Z:-394.2204 Event:2 Paramater:0
c5      X:-686.7426 Y:-0.1231864        Z:20.28023  Event:2 Paramater:0
c6      X:-336.0113 Y:24.99377      Z:5.275681  Event:2 Paramater:0
finish      X:-20.91577 Y:0.3072172     Z:5.275681  Event:2 Paramater:0

Leftover Development Content#

Error logs#

The PC version has some temp.err files in many directories with content. The said files refer to using a development script to clean source assets before release.

'cleanup.bat' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

Scrooby2 Directory#

To do: Try diffing the text files to see if anything's interesting.

The entire directory in art/frontend was copied over on the disc and never gets used by the game. It contains uncompiled project, screen and page files from Scrooby early from development, a proprietary screen editor of Radical, named after Scooby Doo for some reason. It also two uncompiled localization files for the base game text (in all languages) and the credits, also localized from that said tool. The images in it suggest the content was from the PS2 release.

Download The Simpsons: Hit and Run Scrooby2 Directory File: SHAR_Scrooby2DevDirectory.zip (874 KB) (info)

미사용된 지역#

레벨 1의 번즈의 저택 내부#

• The northern bridge platform is broken and the sand underneath the bridge is covered in water. A spawn point on the bridge as well as some collision for the ground and death/sound triggers in the water remain.
• Some collision-less map remains. This includes the houses and a road. These houses use earlier textures compared to Level 1 and 4.
• The road where the gas station should be has STOP written on it. This is missing in Level 1 and 4 and is likely an earlier texture.
• A few tree props are placed upon what's left of the map. These work as normal.
• Two Springfield Gasoline signs exist where the gas station is in Level 1 and 4. This is likely the result of an attempt to add more to the area to make it seem more complete to players from the block-off point; one sign would have been accidentally put in the wrong spot by a map editor and was quickly copy-pasted to a place of visibility.
• A road node/vehicle reset point exists on the map remains in the console versions.
• The jump camera for the roof ramp shortcut is still present (Level 7 uses Levels 1 and 4's jump camera file, hence why it is here).
• The unused stone_cutter_spoof music track was never removed from Level 7, so it can still be heard if the player goes to where the Stonecutters' building is.
• The unused organ_music can be heard if the player goes to where the Stonecutters' Hidden Tunnel is.
• Textures for a miniature Springfield Prison and odd yellow/red object are placed under the map. This is also consistent with Level 1 and 4.
• Close to the location where Burns' manor would be are triggers for audio files called piggy_02 and ghost_kids_10, the first audio file is a bunch of pigs screaming, which doesn't quite fit the theme of Burns' mansion, the latter one is a "ghost" Jimbo saying "You better run!". Due to a wrong filepath in the level7.spt script, the game fails to load the audio files and crashes (The files are located in a filepath sound/soundfx/positional, but the Burns' Mansion trigger reads the path as sound/soundfx/collect_soundfx, needless to say, there are no ghost_kids_10 or piggy_02 inside that folder).

Teleport Menu#

An unused teleport menu that was probably used to test the game can be accessed in the Windows version by changing byte [[[6C894C]+2c]+CC]+2DC4 to 1 (per level load) and pressing F2 at the Phone Booth menu. It replaces the normally used cheat code "all vehicles" Phone Booth sub-menu, so access to that is also required. The menu allows one to warp between various level locations that are preset via the level's "level.mfk" file (scripts\missions\level0X). There are some related bugs, however: loop scrolling to the left in the menu doesn't work, the camera can be buggy when teleporting and triggers to change ambient audio, ambient light and pedestrian groups are skipped if this is used.

Development Oversights#

Phone Booth Transparency Error#

For some reason, the phone booth textures in levels 3 and 6 aren't transparent.

Levels 1, 2, 4, 5, 7	Levels 3 and 6

Phone Booth Destroyed Vehicle Oddity#

The menu for the phone booth uses pre-rendered images of the vehicles within the game. Of these renders, the render of the husk, which is what remains after a vehicle is destroyed, looks quite different in the phone booth than it does in the actual game. It resembles the kiddie-ride gag in Level 2 after it blows up.

Early Husk	Final Husk

70s Sports Car Oddities#

The damage textures for the 70's Sports Car depict an earlier design of the car with different headlights, a different front grille, a brighter shade of green, and a license plate in the rear. Whenever the car becomes damaged enough, it reverts to this earlier design. The car also has the aforementioned license plate and a slightly different taillight design lacking reverse lights and turn signals in the Level 6 movie.

Scrapbook Oversights#

• Some of the scrapbook photos for the mission selection were taken from an earlier version of the game with some minor differences.
  • One of the scrapbook pictures for Level 7 shows the spinning billboard for the Kwik-E-Mart calling it the "SPOOK-E-Mart". While the SPOOK-E-Mart textures are used for the Kwik-E-Mart's signs in Level 7, it is not used on the spinning billboard. This is unusual because not a single trace of the rotating "SPOOK-E-Mart" sign remains in the game aside from this image; it's unknown why the sign was completely removed from the files.

Scrapbook	In-Game

• Level 3 Mission 3's image portrays Kamp Krusty with a blue texture (possibly water) inside the hoop of rocks.

Springfield Gasoline signs#

Levels 3 and 6 in the PlayStation 2, Windows and Xbox versions use an misspelled variation of the Springfield Gasoline signage, erroneously spelling it as Springfeild. The signage for Springfield Gasoline in Levels 1, 4 and 7 use a texture with the correct spelling, but it is significantly more compressed. A high-quality version of the logo with the correct spelling is found in the source code files, but is not found in-game. This oversight does not occur in the GameCube version, which uses the compressed texture with the proper spelling in every level, likely due to disc space limitations.

Level 1	Level 3

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잘못 둔 오브젝트들#

치트나 변경 프로그램을 사용하여 레벨 지도의 한계를 벗어나면, 플레이어는 잘못 배치되었거나 개발단계 초기로 보이는 일부 잔재로 보이는 몇가지 미사용된 오브젝트들을 볼 수 있다.

레벨 1에서, "아메리칸 고딕" 그림의 심슨체 판으로 보이는 초상화 2개가 있다. 아마도 스톤커터의 터널의 초기 개정판 용으로 쓰려했던 것 같다.

충돌 디버그#

게임-내 옵션 메뉴에서 치트 코드를 사용하며, 충돌에 대한 디버깅 도구의 끄고 킴을 전환할 수 있다. 플레이어의 캐릭터나 자동차 영역은 빨간 색으로 표시되고, 다른곳은 하얀 색으로 표시된다. 운전을 하면, 근접한 영역들이 계속해서 변경된다.

사전 경고: 원 하드웨어에서는, 이 기능은 느려짐을 발생하는 것으로 알려져 있다.

Unused Cheat Code Entries#

The game's cheat code index contains entries for several effects with no assigned button code, hence they go unused.

• 0: Displays all cheats on screen.
• 2: Makes all costumes free to purchase.
• 3: Unlocks all levels and missions.
• 4: Unlocks all movies.
• 10: Applies full damage to car (visual only).
• 12: Gives extra objective time.
• 13: Shows character position.
• 15: Adds extra coins.
• 17: Enables demo test mode.

Internal Project Name#

To do: Check other files as more can mention the IP name.

The game's text file name is SRR2, definitely being Simpsons Road Rage 2.

Revisional Differences#

Each platform on which the game was released received a slightly different revision, as opposed to just general platform changes. In addition to this, the Windows version got a re-release later. Some of these changes were hardware related, others not so.

General#

Progressive Scan Mode (480p)#

All console versions of the game are capable of displaying in Progressive Scan (480p). The procedure for activating this display mode varies by console. Despite the similarity that all console ports can display in Progressive Scan, the confirmation screen actually looks different between the PlayStation 2 and GameCube versions. The steps for those consoles are listed below their respective screenshots. As for the Xbox version, connect the console to the TV using a device that enables the console to output HD resolutions. Then, while on the Xbox Dashboard, verify that the 480p option in Video is enabled and insert the game to start playing.

PlayStation 2	GameCube
Press and hold ✕ and △ while on the PlayStation 2 logo screen. Keep the buttons held until this screen appears. If you are not using the official YPbPr component cable to connect your PlayStation 2 (or backward-compatible PlayStation 3) to your TV, selecting “Yes” is NOT recommended.	If you are using the official GameCube Component Cable, press and hold the B button while on the GameCube logo screen. Keep B held until this screen appears. If you are playing on a Nintendo Wii (model RVL-001) that is already outputting 480p, pressing and holding B while the game is loading is not necessary, as it should appear on its own.

Audio Differences#

There are three variations of the game's audio.

• The Xbox version has the highest quality audio, as minimal compression was needed due to disc size. It also supports Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound.
• Audio in the PlayStation 2/Windows releases is slightly lower quality than in the Xbox version. The PlayStation 2 version runs in stereo while the Windows version goes up to 7.1 surround sound.
• GameCube has the lowest quality audio, with notable compression and being mono-only with one audio channel missing. This leads to some sounds being absent.

Textures/HUD#

• Windows has the highest quality graphics, with one mission icon (Snake behind bars) notably redrawn and different to the other releases.
• PlayStation 2/Xbox use slightly lower quality versions.
• GameCube uses smaller and more compressed versions of the PlayStation 2/Xbox HUD images because of space limitations.

Console	Windows

GameCube	PlayStation 2, Xbox and Windows

Console to PC Changes#

• Being a PC game, a launcher was added, in addition to extra in-game settings (which forced some setting removals and menu tweaks).
• A lemonade stand prop was added to Level 1, in the park by the Simpsons' house. It rewards five coins when destroyed and remains in this state permanently on the save file.

PlayStation 2, Xbox and GameCube	Windows

• Level 1 has a Buzz Cola vending machine, placed at a shack by the tyre fire, which was removed in the Windows version.

PlayStation 2, Xbox and GameCube	Windows

• The console versions feature a lens flare effect in Levels 1 and 3. The Windows version lacks this, assumedly due to (at the time) limitations of DirectX.

PlayStation 2, Xbox and GameCube	Windows

• On Windows, entering a cheat code in the main menu's options menu will crash the game, forcing usage of the pause menu's options menu. Because of this, two cheat-code related sound effects exclusive to the main menu go unused for this release.
• The console versions contain a road node/vehicle reset point just beyond the blocked off bridge in Level 7, allowing a correctly positioned reset to place the player slightly out of bounds.
• As a result of what appears to be an oversight or bug, vehicle steering animations do not occur on Windows.
• An incorrectly-exported data chunk removes any texture randomization for two signs in Levels 1, 4 and 7 (outside of the Springfield Elementary School and by the Community Centre) on Windows, leaving them stuck with the same texture each time the area is loaded.
• For whatever reason, the console releases have more colours that traffic vehicles can randomly use at load.
• The tutorial messages after starting the game for the first time lack the voice clips spoken by Bart.

• The fence next to the Observatory in Levels 3 and 6 has its transparency missing in the PC version.

Differences Between Console Versions#

• Early copies of the console versions contain a bug where Level 7's bonus mission (Flaming Tires) can be replayed up until the area where Smithers spawns is unloaded. Oddly, the exclamation mark doesn't appear but the blue glow beneath his feet does.
• The PlayStation 2 versions runs at a lower framerate (sometimes below 30) and this can slightly mess with the physics. Despite this, not all of the console's processing power is used, so it might be a case of inexperienced developers.
• A cheat code to blur the screen can be input and accepted as valid on all releases, but only actually has an effect on the PlayStation 2 release.
• The Xbox release contains an exclusive option for widescreen.
• A bug in the Xbox release sometimes prevents certain music events from playing (level loading screen, vehicle exit, mission completion).
• The PlayStation 2 and GameCube versions include slightly different Save Game menu logic. The GameCube version has an added screen after selecting "Yes" to overwrite existing save data, in which the player is again told that save data will be overwritten; the only selectable option is "Save". Additionally, the GameCube version will not ask the player if they would like to save if they manually save their game using the "Save Game" option before selecting "Quit Game", whilst the PlayStation 2 version does.

Hover Car#

The refraction effect used by the Hover Car is different across all versions.

• In the GameCube version, the effect seems to take the currently rendered frame and offset it, then render the offset version through the vehicle.
• The PS2/Xbox version is more complex and distorts the image in relation to each face of the model.
• The PC version does not feature the refraction effect at all, and instead just makes the Hover Car slightly translucent. It is unknown why this change was made, as the original effect can still be restored by modding. It is possible the developers just didn't have enough time/knowledge of the system to port the effect across.

Additionally, the transparency effect doesn't appear to work properly on GameCube, causing the windows on the car to not be transparent. This may be a result of a technical limitation with the refraction effect, as the windows actually do use a shader that supports transparency.

GameCube	PlayStation 2 and Xbox	Windows

'Best Sellers' Revision#

To do: Get a screenshot of the newspaper change. Find out what changes were made to the executable and srr2.p3d.

The 'Best Sellers' re-release of the PC version features some very minor differences to the regular PC version.

• The executable file was edited in some way.
  • It's possible that it was just recompiled, as opposed to any of the code being edited.
• A typo was fixed in the French version of Level 2's newspaper where an Á was used instead of an À.
• Similarly to the international version of the game, the mission objective text box is stretched slightly.
• The file srr2.p3d was edited in some way. This is the file that contains all of the game's text.

Regional Differences#

PAL Version#

The PAL version of the game features numerous changes to allow for different languages to be supported.

• The mission title on the mission briefing screen is in sentence case, instead of entirely capitalised.

NTSC	PAL

• The mission objective text box is stretched vertically slightly to account for different languages taking up more space in the text box.

NTSC	PAL