Debug Mode

This is a sub-page of Tony Hawk's Underground 2 (PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameCube, Windows).

Oh dear, I do believe I have the vapors. This page contains content that is not safe for work or other locations with the potential for personal embarrassment. Such as: A character's exposed butt.

Like other games in the Tony Hawk's Series, Tony Hawk's Underground 2 has a debug mode, which allows access to a rather large debug menu. This debug mode can be activated by using the following code on the US PlayStation 2 version of the game:

D0B4ADE0 00007300
2022D0B8 24020000

Debug Options#

The main debug options can be opened from the in-game pause menu. The options available differ slightly based on the current game mode.

Pause Menu	Debug Options

Cheats#

Cheats

The majority of the following options assist the player in some way. Not all options appear to work.

Time of Day#

Time of Day

Found under both debug cheats and the debug menu, allows altering the time of day cycle in various ways.

Note: Pressing triangle returns to the debug menu even if launched through the cheats menu.

View Cutscenes#

Cinematics

The view cutscenes menu is one continuous menu, split up into sections here for readability. The menu contains headers which, as expected, have no function when selected. The cinematics will play in the level the menu is opened in, allowing cutscenes to play out in areas they weren't intended for.

Cinematics

Level Events

Playing these cinematics will trigger their effects in their intended levels e.g., playing the bull event in Barcelona will free the bull. Some of these can cause the game to crash when played in the wrong level. Also, despite the event being activated, the goals tied to them, if any, don't get marked as complete and are not saved. Leaving the level and coming back will reset the event. For the Pro Skater level, while aesthetic changes may occur, the warps will not work unless triggered normally.

As these names aren't very descriptive, a short description is provided.

Tests

These cinematics contain various animation tests.

Watch on YouTube

Debug Menu#

The debug menu is much more broken than the cheats menu, with many options either having no function or not working as intended.

Animation Blending (pcnt/frame):
Primary (hero+horse):
Boned Frames
Channels
Subset
Total
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Secondary (peds):
Boned Frames
Channels
Subset
Total

Flexible Particles (pcnt/frame):
Process
Render
Total
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ParticleSys
ParticleNum
ParticlePrims

Fast Particles (pcnt/frame):
Process
Render
Total
----
ParticleSys
ParticleNum

Total
Inactive
Sky
Transformed
Instances
Skeletal
CameraSphere
ClipCull
Culled
LeafCulled
BoxCheck
BocCheckCulled
OccludeCheck
OccludedObject
nOccludedLeaf
Colored
MinLeaf
WibbleUV
WibbleVC
EnvMapped
SendContext
Sorted
Shadow
Billboard
FastParticles
FastParticleSys
FlexParticles
FlexParticleSys
FlexParticlePrims

Lighting Tool#

Lighting Tool

The lighting tool has two sections: one for adjusting the lighting of models in the level, and the other for adjusting the level's lighting itself. Controls for the section are shown at the bottom of the screen and as are follows:

Button(s)	Usage
	Select
	Adjust
	Back/Print Values
	toggle speed 1,10
	link/unlink color values
	toggle previous values

Additionally, to swap between pages, one can press and .

Character Lights

These options allow the player to control the lighting of models in the level.

Ambient

Base light. Allows red, green, blue, mod lo, and mod hi to be adjusted.

One

Directional lighting. Allows heading, pitch, red, green, blue, mod lo, and mod hi to be adjusted. Additionally allows toggling this light on and off.

Two

Directional lighting. Allows heading, pitch, red, green, blue, mod lo, and mod hi to be adjusted. Additionally allows toggling this light on and off.

Level Lights

These options allow the player to control the lighting of the level.

Level

Base light. Allows red, green, and blue to be adjusted.

Fog

Allows red, green, blue, alpha, and distance to be adjusted. Additionally allows toggling fog on and off.

Sky

Allows red, green, and blue to be adjusted.

Time

Allows the time of day to be set to day, morning, evening, or night.

Rain

Doesn't appear to work. Would allow toggling between rain and snow, as well as the rate, frames, height, length, blendmode, and fixalpha to be adjusted.

Rain Color

As the above doesn't appear to work, this does not either. Allows adjusting red, green, blue, alpha, red2, green2, blue2, and alpha2.

Splash Color

Tied to rain and similarly non-functional. This screen seems to be mislabeled, as the name would be more fitting for the section below. Would allow rate, life, size, blendmode, and fixalpha to be adjusted.

Splash

As mentioned above, this section is likely intended to be called splash color rather than just splash. Allows red, green, blue, and alpha to be adjusted.

Snow

Doesn't appear to work. Would allow toggling between rain and snow, as well as the rate, frames, height, size, blendmode, and fixalpha to be adjusted.

Snow Color

This option actually comes up first when selecting level lights but is likely intended to be last. Allows red, green, blue, and alpha to be adjusted.

Test Menu#

Test Menu

As the name suggests, the options in this menu largely relate to testing. The menu contains submenus to view various NPC/player models, as well as to test dialogue boxes.

Standard
Stuff
Things
Other
Blah
Wow
Tony
Hawk's
Pro
Skater
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
One
Two
Three
Four
Five
Six
Seven
Eight
Nine
Ten

View Humans#

View Humans

Each option in this menu will replace the player character with the selected model. There are some unused characters within this menu as well as ones you could not normally play as otherwise.

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View Cutscene Heads#

View Cutscene Heads

Presumably meant to have a similar function to view humans, but selecting these doesn't seem to do anything.

CAS Head
CAS Female Head
AnchorMan_HEAD
BostonGuy_HEAD
Burnquist_Head
Hawk_Head
Koston_Head
Muska_Head
Margera_Head
Margera_HOODY
Mullen_Head
Nigel_Head
NODrunk1_Head
NODrunk2_Head
Phil_Head
Rampkid_Head
Vallely_Head
Sparrow_Head

View Animals#

View Animals

Like view humans, replaces the character with an animal, though being on the human skeleton means that they appear heavily distorted. Most options don't work, though the animals found in Skatopia do.

Bat
Bull
Cat
Dog
Dog grey
Dog black
Dog brown
Electric Eel
Fish
Parrot
White Gorilla
Pigeon

View Cars#

View Cars

Presumably meant to have a similar function to view humans, but selecting these doesn't seem to do anything.

Wheel Chair
Gurney
Skateboard
Tricycle
Custom
BA_Tram
Duck Car
HP
Mardi
Scooter
Smart Car
Van
Menu 3d Sign
Skate Letter A
Arrow
Special Arrow

Pro Skaters#

Pro Skaters

These options allow you to switch to a pro skater. While most of these are used, there's a few that aren't. Notably, C.O.D. Soldier is absent from this menu.

Park-Ed Debug Menu#

Menu Option	Show Usage Bar Metrics

This option appears on the Create-A-Park pause menu while in editor mode. None of these options appear to work. While labels are displayed on the screen, none of them display corresponding information.

Level Select#

In addition to adding debug menus, enabling debug mode also enables a level select option under story mode on the main menu.

Story Mode Level Select

On the level select screen itself, two options are added underneath Training. This can be seen on any level select screen except in classic mode. The options are Default and TestLevel, which are covered on this game's main page.

Test Levels