Cel Damage (GameCube)

A vehicular combat game with cartoony looks, cartoony weapons, and cartoony physics. It's quite fun, in most circumstances. Despite that, it wasn't that thoroughly bug-checked, seeing as you are randomly unable to progress past the celebration screen at the end of a race, you're warned about having unlocked videos that don't exist, and the description of some options are incorrectly formatted.

It was initially released for the Xbox as a launch title, but was ported to Gamecube shortly afterward. It also received a port for the PS2, with some different mechanics, such as a defined health system.

Development text
Thousands of strings can be found in the game's ISO, from to, and  to. Some of the most interesting ones are:

Violet's lines
At there are strings with Violet's taunts, screams, speeches, etc. She says these (though maybe some might be unused), but there is no such thing as subtitles in this game.

Removed items
There are references to some unused items at : l1_00_MortarPid pid for Mortar (was Anvil Catapult) l1_01_UnusedPid unused pid (was Armor) l1_04_GrenadePid   pid for Pineapple Grenade (was Bomb) l1_11_WoodchipperPid   pid for Woodchipper (was Flag Suction Cup) l1_13_UnusedPid unused pid (was Flame Thrower) l1_17_HelicopterBladesPid  pid for Helicopter Blades (was ICBM) l1_18_UnusedPid unused pid (was Jump Jet) l1_19_ButcherBladesPid pid for Butcher Blades (was Tomahawk (was Lightning Bolt)) l1_20_UnusedPid unused pid for Lightning Charge l1_21_BuzzSawPid   pid for BuzzSaw (was Mole) l1_23_PersonalWeaponPid pid for characters personal weapon (was Oil Drum) l1_28_TommyGunPid  pid for Tommy Gun (was Six shooter) l1_30_UnusedPid unused pid (was Train) l1_31_LaserPid pid for Laser (was Web Gun)

Cheat codes
When creating a new save game, give it one of the following names to unlock the corresponding thing:
 * WHACKLAND - Whack Angus
 * TWRECKSPAD - T. Wrecks
 * EARLSPLACE - Count Earl
 * BRAINSALAD - Brian the Brain
 * PITA - everything
 * SUSIE! - everything except plastic rendering mode
 * MELEEDEATH - melee weapons
 * GUNSMOKE! - ranged weapons
 * HAZARDOUS - hazard weapons
 * MOVEITNOW - movement weapons
 * UNIQUEWPNS - unique weapons
 * PENCILITIN - pencil rendering mode
 * FANPLASTIC - plastic rendering mode
 * MULTIPLEX! - movies

The thing is that codes in italics don't work, at least for the GameCube version. This might be because the pencil rendering mode doesn't work on the GameCube.

References to unused rendering modes
At there is a list of rendering modes: PLASTIC PENCIL SKETCH BLACK & WHITE TV CHALKBOARD CARTOON

Only the normal cartoon renderer and the plastic renderer are in the normal game. (The pencil sketch renderer is also in the Xbox version, right?)

Unused text
At, there's: Quick Play Maybe an option to play the game right away without choosing a character, mode, settings and level manually?

Unused images
There are a few weird images in the  folder, some of which are leftover from the Xbox version. Also before we start, some miscellaneous tidbits:
 * There're graphics for a bitmap with Arial's font that is never used. Maybe it belonged to debug menus?
 * There's an image for the GameCube controller which is a bit squashed horizontally named . The used image is named.
 * is roughly the same thing, but the edges aren't smoothed.
 * is the small Pseudo Interactive logo used in attract mode demos, but there's a copy of that image, just slightly squashed vertically, called . One of these is unused, supposedly.

CD Boxart
has a picture of the Xbox version's NTSC boxart.

Xbox controller render
gives us a whole bunch of wrong. For starters, the text on the side is incorrectly written: "Cell Damage". Cel shading is often misspelled as "cell" shading, so... Then, on the left side, we have a (poor) render of an Xbox "Duke" controller, but that design doesn't seem to fit the real "Duke" controller.

Cartoon Xbox controller
(sic) is an image of an Xbox "Duke" controller in a cartoon design, which fits the game rather well. There is no GameCube counterpart, and no apparent situation in which this image would be used (especially on the GameCube version).

Join text
is an image file with the text "Press any Button to Join". The only part in the game that has something close to this is on the play selection menu, but the text there says "Press (A) to join" and is rendered dynamically, without a texture. There's also the file  which is exactly the same file.

"Programmer art" loading screen
has a rather interesting commentary. The bottom of the image has the text "Loading...". The top of the image has, in smaller letters, "Replace loading.tga to get rid of this programmer art."

Violet
seems to be an early version of the loading screen. It features a picture of Violet on a frame with "Loading..." on the right, "Cel Damage" on the top and some copyright info on the bottom.

Pause button
is an image of the Start button on the GameCube controller, in the same style as the A and B buttons found in menus. The Start button never does anything exclusive in menus. In fact, pressing Start in menus has the same effect as pressing A.

Loading?!
looks like some sort of loading screen. It features an image of Violet equipped with an axe, and the text "LOADING?!" on the top, as well as "Cel Damage" on the bottom-left, and the company's logo on the bottom-right. The file's name is also a bit mysterious.

Save game logo
looks like the logo used for save games on the memory card, according to the name. The problem is that these use the icon the player chose, and this icon isn't a valid choice. There is also an equal file, but in .tga format. This icon is used for the system settings save file on the Xbox version, however.

Character screen instructions
is an image of text, like  that explains how to pick a character. Even though these instructions are incorrect: "Use D-Pad to Select Character" "Press Start to Play". Also, like, this one also has a duplicate file, called. Both files are also the same.

Regional differences
In the US version, the game's default difficulty is Toon Pro (medium). Toon Training (easy) won't let you unlock anything. In the PAL version, the default is Toon Training and it allows things to be unlocked on that difficulty.