Toy Story 2: Buzz Lightyear to the Rescue (Dreamcast)

To do: There may still be more regional differences. Also document audio related oddities in comparison to PS1 Debug features https://32bits.substack.com/p/under-the-microscope-toy-story-2102.

The Dreamcast Toy Story 2: Buzz Lightyear to the Rescue is a direct port of the PlayStation game. Despite the Dreamcast's superior hardware, this port unfortunately suffers from long loading times, messed up analog/camera controls, numerous graphical bugs/performance issues and numerous other oddities.

Unused Video#

Exclusively in the French version is SAMPLE.SFD, which is the intro from the Saturn version of Sonic 3D Blast.

Unused Text#

ABSTRACT.TXT#

Toy Story 2 is powered by Gemini 
The Multi Format Video Game Engine
(C) 1998-2000 Noah's Ark Developments Limited.

BIBLIOGR.TXT#

Toy Story 2 Dreamcast.
Developed by Travellers Tales Uk Ltd.
Programmed by Alan R Calder.

1ST_READ.BIN#

At 000A2FE0 is a leftover from an early build.

INTERNAL USE ONLY
TRAVELLERS TALES 24/5/2000

At AB8B0 are strings from Noah's Ark Development, who ported this game to Dreamcast.

1) PRIMITIVE DEMO               
2) POLYGON DEMO                 
3) SHAPE DEMO                   
4) 3D WORLD DEMO                
5) SOUND DEMO                   
6) MOVIE PLAYER                 
7) PLAYBOY! LEVEL EDITOR        
8) PLUGIN (GMAIN)               
OR YOU , SIMPLY VISIT OUT WEBSITE AT WWW.NOARK.FREESERVE.CO.UK  WE ARE AVAILABLE TO PRODUCE HIGH SPEED CONVERSIONS OF 
PLAYSTATION GAMES TO EITHER THE PC OR DREAMCAST , E-MAIL US FOR DETAILS                                                           

Platform Differences#

While this was converted from the PS1 version, the FMVs were converted from the PS1's native STR format to Sofdec SFD format. The only real difference of note is that the music on the Dreamcast cutscenes seems to be directly from the equivalent scene in the movie, while on PS1, they seemingly used music from random points of the movie

Regional Differences#

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• The EU version removed the ESRB rating splash screen.
• The NA version checks for a VMU and a Jump/Vibration Pack after the company logos while the EU version checks before the company logos.
• The NA version used a green background with a variety of toys surrounding the bottom of the screen when checking for a VMU and a Jump/Vibration Pack while The EU version uses the Rex save screen.
• The NA version has a blue background with Buzz and Zurg when selecting the audio configuration while the EU version uses the green background with the vast cast of toys.
• The NA version has the same title screen as the other versions while the EU version has a different title screen with Buzz and Woody on a bed.
• The French and German versions are bizarrely missing the on screen button prompts to select or go back on the level select.
• Tarmac Trouble has excessive fog in the NA version but in the EU version, the fog has been removed.
• The NA version has a blue background with Buzz and Zurg during the credits while the EU version uses various stills from the movie.