Futurama

Futurama
Developer: Unique Development Studios Publishers: Vivendi Universal Games (US), SCi Games (European PS2 release; North American Xbox release) Platforms: PlayStation 2, Xbox Released in US: August 12, 2003 Released in EU: August 1, 2003 This game has unused animations. This game has unused areas. This game has hidden developer credits. This game has hidden development-related text. This game has unused graphics. This game has unused models. This game has unused music. This game has unused sounds. This game has unused text. This game has hidden bonus content.

Futurama is a game based on the hit show of the same name, written by the show's writers and starring most of its cast (a few, such as Amy and Hermes, either aren't present or aren't voiced).

Produced during Season 4 but not released until after the show's initial cancellation, a compilation of the cutscenes and some gameplay was presented as a bonus on the Beast With A Billion Backs DVD five years later.

To do: A debugging string is present in the default.xbe file (C:\Code\Futurama\Futurama\Build\XBoxMaster\Futurama.exe).

Unused Models

To do: All of these models have animations which need documenting.

Image	Filename	Description
	sal.ucf	A model of Sal. Although he makes an appearance in the FMV cutscenes, he doesn't appear in-game, so this model goes unused.
	larry.ucf	Like Sal, Larry appears in the FMV cutscenes but he doesn't appear in-game so his model is also unused.
	aquafish.ucf	A fish in the Reverse Scuba Suit from the Futurama episode "A Big Piece of Garbage".
	alien_pod.ucf	Probably an unused enemy.
	mosquito.ucf	A mosquito.
	flowerplant.ucf	A flower which, according to its animation headers, is able to attack.
	gunturret.ucf	A turret with a shield.
	bender_.ucf	A model of Bender which includes a bottle of Olde Fortran Malt Liquor and a cigar. The liquor does appear in-game as a pickup but the cigar does not appear at any point.

Unused Areas

Courtyard Level

An unused version of the Temple Courtyard level can be played by swapping its files with those of the used level. The objective of the level is to complete one of the symbol puzzles to exit the hallway, then defeat all enemies to gain access to the next stage. The game's data reveals that there would have been two Courtyard levels with the unused version taking place between the Left Wing and Right Wing levels, and the used version taking place as it does in the final game.

There are a number of key differences to the used level. The temple door is unreachable due to the level taking place before it has been revealed, and there are two areas which are inaccessible in the used level. The first area is the hallway at the start which is directly opposite the one in the used level. The general layout is the same except the stairs are at the side of the room instead of the end and the puzzle must be completed in a different order. The second area is the room at the end of the level which contains one of the memory puzzles and starts off the Right Wing level.

The level has a number of oddities due to being incomplete including no background music, 22 gold bars instead of the standard multiple of 25 and no Nibblers.

Unreachable Areas

Although unreachable, the two aforementioned courtyard areas exist in the used level and can be entered by memory editing the game to teleport into them. The puzzles in both areas cannnot be interacted with and some parts aren't solid, which will cause Leela to fall through them. In the second area, the light rays from the windows are glitched as they cause certain textures to disappear when looked through.

First area:

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Second area:

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Entrance to the second area:

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Unused Dialogue

Sound File	Character(s)	Filename	Line	Notes
	Bender	2br25.vag	Another gun? This day just gets better and better!	Suggests that Bender was at some point going to have access to guns. This is supported by the game's cover art, which shows some of Bender's fingers converted into a gun.
	Fry	frytest0001.vag sal0001.vag	And I guess now maybe, I can get to know the real Lucy Liu.	Placeholder dialogue taken from the Futurama episode "I Dated a Robot".
	Destructor	speech-iwill.vag	I will destroy you!	Placeholder dialogue taken from the Futurama episode "Raging Bender".
	Two robots	stdial1w_temp.vag	Robot 1: So how was your power down time? Robot 2: Great. But you know, toward the end of it, I was itching to get back to work.	Audio from a cutscene in the Uptown level, but the first robot uses a placeholder voice.
	Two robots	stdial2w_temp.vag	Robot 1: Does this casing make me look fat? Robot 2: Stop asking me that.	Audio from a cutscene in the Red Light District level, but the first robot uses a placeholder voice and the second robot's line appears to use a different recording.
	Unknown	lev 5 st dial#1.vag	Character 1: I love you. Character 2: Aw come on, why do you keep doin' this to me? Character 1: I'm just telling you how I feel. What's wrong with that? Character 2: We broke up, Frank.	Dialogue between two unknown characters.

Unused Music

File	Filename	Notes
	01 - front-end-shorted.vag	A different version of the title screen music. Although this version is shorter than the used theme, its opening is extended.
	endoflevel_remix.vag	Filename suggests it would have been used at the level-end screen.
	placeholder2.vag	A three second placeholder music loop.
	theme22.vag	The Futurama opening theme.

Unused Graphics

cash_icon.nif, goldbar_icon.nif and ruby_icon.nif each contain the same placeholder image.

weapons_bg.nif appears to be an early HUD graphic for weapons.

A number of font graphics include buttons for the cancelled GameCube release.

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  arialb20px32x32.tga

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  arialblack2t20px32x32.tga

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  arialblack20px32x32.tga

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  arialnarrow20px32x32.tga

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  arialnarrow32x32.tga

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  comic.tga

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  comicsansms20px32x32.tga

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  georgia32x32.tga

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  latin1.tga

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  latin1_short.tga

leaveme.nif is a picture of Dr. Zoidberg.

testscreen.nif is a test screen.

Leftover screens from the game's demo releases.

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  demo_frontend_ps2.nif
  demo_frontend_xbox.nif

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  demo_pause_ps2.nif

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  demo_pause_xbox.nif

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  demo_objectives.nif

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  demo_completed.nif

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  demo_outro.nif

Unused screens for SCi Games, Vivendi Universal Games and NetImmerse.

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  sci_legal.nif

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  vivendi.nif

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  ni_splash.nif

Unused Animations

The chef robot in the Uptown level has an unused death animation with the header dying1.

Easter Eggs

To do: There's more, including some which may have incomplete data.

Video	Level	Description	Unlock Method
	Planet Express	A giant glowing literal Easter Egg is hidden behind a wall of the corridor between the employee lounge and the conference room. The egg is surrounded by rapidly moving yellow dots, which create the illusion of the egg moving through a star field. (Source: LarryLemmy - Discovery) The wall serves as a door which opens after the player completes the correct steps. Once the wall is opened, the egg can be hit with the hammer, which will cause it to wiggle. (Source: SlippySlides & JayFoxRox - Research)	After breaking open Leela's locker to get the keycard, enter the boiler room, then leave again (as a precaution, do not open any other lockers). Destroy the fire extinguisher window in the main hallway. Do not pick up the fire extinguisher itself. Open the drawer full of wires near the reanimator. This must not be done before breaking the fire extinguisher window. Make sure you have a total of 7 cash collectibles. Break the TV screen in the employee lounge. A short sound will play. The egg will not be available if the player doesn't have exactly 7 cash collectibles. Go back to the short hallway between the lounge and the conference room. The wall will open to reveal the egg. (Source: JayFoxRox)
	Old New York	In the Scrap Bar, behind the hidden room with Nibbler inside is another hidden room containing bumper sticker messages and a picture of a car. (Source: i don't have a nose reviews)	Play the tune on the jukebox, then pull the beer taps in the correct order to match the tune. This will open the room with Nibbler inside. Pull the taps in the same order again, then return to the beginning of the level at the bottom of the subway stairs. A sound will play. When you return to the bar, the wall behind Nibbler's cage will have been opened.
	Red Light District	The hallway that the player enters in the second area of the level contains a secret room with the game's developers as Futurama-style heads in jars. When the heads are approached their names are displayed, with some also including quotes. Some of the heads can be interacted with by attacking or pressing △ (PS2) / Y (Xbox). (Source: Gejke)	Interact with the two adjacent dumpsters in the first area of the level in the following pattern: Left dumpster: 6 times Right dumpster: 2 times Left dumpster: 6 times - the text "There's light at the end of the tunnel..." will appear. Right dumpster: 6 times - the text "Almost there, stay on target..." will appear. Left dumpster: 14 times If done successfully, a sound will play and the text "Show me the magic!" will appear. Once the hallway is entered, the door labelled Mark will open to reveal the hidden room. (Source: JayFoxRox)
	Left Wing	Leela will grow larger accompanied by the mushroom pickup sound effect from Super Mario Bros. The player will also be able to spawn fireballs by punching, but they will harm Leela. (Source: JayFoxRox)	In the left building across from the gondola, the door will open to reveal an enemy. Enter the building and kick or punch the back wall ten times.
	Fry Fights Back	The room will vibrate, the computer screen textures will be replaced with an image of CATS from Zero Wing, and his famous line "All Your Base Are Belong To Us" will play. (Source: JayFoxRox)	In the first room after escaping Destructor's target practice area, the player must enter each corner of the room in a specific pattern. The order from the point of view of when the room is first entered: front-left front-right back-left back-right back-left front-right front-left
		Credits for two of the developers will appear on a computer screen. (Source: JayFoxRox)	In the room opened with keycard 5, enter the room to the right of the entrance. Stand facing the wall of the computer screen to the left of the door.

Hidden Executables

To do: Get these to work and find out what raw2bit does.

In the folder \fonts\ in futurama.img, is a program called fonttool.exe which assigns graphics to text, used by the developers to enable the creation of fonts. In the subfolder \fonts\kanji\ is a program called raw2bit.exe.

Unused Text

Text in the file intro.ldb:

You imbecile you! Huh, what?! I said only brown M&M's but I can see a yellow one in there! Fre: Imbecile Fre: Huh, what Fre: Brown M&M's Ditt jäkla dumhuvud Uhm, va?! Vad fan, jag sa ju till om enbart bruna M&M's men jag ser en gul en där

Development Text

build.txt

Build 1.15

readme.txt

Instructions for fonttool.exe:

Font tool documentation (and font stuff in general )
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The font tool takes as input a tga file containing the images for all the characters that this font will contain ( referred to as 'glyphs' ). It also takes a file that contains the characters (and ascii literals) so it knows which glyph to connect to which character in a string. It'll be obvious in a minute. I hope.

It also takes a couple of command line parameters, some are optional. 
fonttool.exe <options> <input tga file>

 -o <filename>		(optional) Specify the output filename. Dont specify the extension
			as these will be automatically added. For example, using
			-o c:\my_font  will create c:\my_font.tga and c:\my_font.spec
			The default is "output" and in the current directory.

 -t <tolerance value>  	(optional) Give it a number of pixels to add/remove from the autocropping, 
			If the result has characters spaced too far apart, try a 
			tolerance value of -2 or -3 to crop them a little tighter.

 -s <pixel value>    	(required) Horizontal space value. Tells the tool the width 
			of a space in pixels. This should normally be about the width
			of a character, experiment. It is also used as the width of
			ALL characters when the font system in game is forced into
			fixed width mode. It will automatically shrink/stretch chars
			to this value.

 -h <height value> 	(required) Specify the height of a character in pixels. All characters
			must be this height.

 -v <vertical space>	(required) Amount of space between top of one row and top of next
			row of printed text. If your font is spaced out too much on the 
			vertical, pass in a smaller number here. Note, setting this
			lower than the height could result in letters in one row
			intersecting letters in another row.

 -c <filename>		(required) The character list file. See below


Character List File
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The character list file tells the font system what characters / glpyhs to connect to, or in other words, how to make sense of the input tga file.
Its easiest explained by an example, say the font tga contains only upper case letters and the numbers, in that order, the character list file should look like
A  \\ upper case letters
B
C
...
X
Y
Z	
0  \\ numbers
1
2
3
.. and so on. Anything after and including the '\\' is treated as a comment and ignored.

The program reads one of these characters, and then cuts the corresponding piece out of the input tga file. If the order in the character list is differnet than the input tga, all kinds of off behaviour will result :)

Also, the character list file can specify non-printable ascii chars, to be used as special cases. Say for example the font input tga file has a glyph representing the 4 buttons on a Playstation controller, which we want to treat like regular font characters. We simply pick some unused place in the ascii table (everything from 180-220 look pretty useless to me) and indicate it in the spec file by &<ascii num>
So, if we wanted the four Playstation button glyphs associated with the ascii chars 180-184, we just place in the character list file
&180  \\ Playstation X
&181  \\ Playstation Triangle
&182  \\ Playstation Square
&183  \\ Playstation Circle

Now, all you need to do is have those ascii values in a string somewhere, somehow, and print the string for the button glyphs to appear onscreen. If the string says "Press (X)" where (X) is the playstaion X glyph, the string in ascii should read
80 114 101 115 115 32 180
thats it! Hope you arnt too confused :)