Carmageddon (PC)

Carmageddon has you behind the wheel of a variety of eccentric vehicles in a race through the bleak near-future... but who wants to race when there are pedestrians to waste, and opponents to destroy? Powerups, physics, violence... this game was revolutionary and controversial, kicking off a much-loved series.

Early Ed 101
Originally, Ed 101 was supposed to drive a hovercraft of sorts. This idea was scrapped, but the hovercraft's 3D models & textures still remain in the game. The textures for the hovercraft are located inside the Devil's Canyon Mining Town's texture files, as opposed to each car having it's own texture file. It is unknown how they ended up being located there.

Pedestrians from Hades
This powerup, which can be accessed with cheats, doesn't do a thing. But interestingly, Carmageddon II uses the same index number and position...

Timer frozen
Stops time completely. Activating it again will resume the timer's functionality.

Got 'im in the bollocks
This powerup is only present in The Splat Pack. It just shows that message, and grants 20000 credits. It also appears in Carmageddon II.

8-bit mine
This one is also only present in The Splat Pack. It acts exactly like a regular mine, albeit slightly weaker. It's presumably unused.

Unused music
The directory \DATA\SOUND contains several pieces of MIDI music in HMI format. Because the game doesn't actually use MIDI music, all of them are unused, except for CARMID03.HMI which is used by the setup program. The archive below contains the files in both HMI and MID formats.

Unused text
These are unused strings inside.
 * Let the carnage continue... (line 25)
 * This string is used when toggling Pedestrians on (doesn't work in censored versions) by pressing the minus key on the keypad area.
 * WRONG TEXT.TXT (lines 130 to 150 and 169)

Censorship
Due to the game's violent nature, some countries changed the red-blooded humans to green-blooded zombies. In Germany, they were replaced by robots with black oil. Shortly after the game's release, some "blood patches" were released on the Internet to restore the game's full violence.

Other stuff

 * There is data about the rewards obtained by activating the "rollover bonus". This bonus doesn't exist in the final game, but it required the player to spin around, land on the car's roof, and end by landing on the car's wheels.