London Cab Challenge

London Cab Challenge
Developer: Mere Mortals Publisher: Phoenix Games Platform: PlayStation 2 Released in EU: July 28, 2006 This game has unused graphics. This game has unused text.

London Cab Challenge is a Crazy Taxi clone that is infamous for having slow loading times, inconsistent collision detection, and a motherlode of bugs. It's a miracle that it even got past the certification process.

Unused Graphics

Thumbs.db

Inside of MainMenu\Textures is a thumbnail database from September 13, 2005. It contains graphics that are no longer present in the folder or changed prior to the final build.

Menu Buttons

The menu buttons were originally greyed out when not selected instead of darkened.

Thumbs.db	Final

Logo.bmp

The game logo had a transparent background and no glow surrounding it.

Thumbs.db	Final

Menu.jpg

A screenshot of the main menu from that point in development.

Unused Text

Keyboard Bindings

Config.ini references keyboard bindings, suggesting that there might be an unreleased PC port.

//Keys
GM_KEY_LEFT H
GM_KEY_RIGHT K
GM_KEY_FORWARD U
GM_KEY_BACKWARD J
GM_KEY_RESTART R
GM_KEY_SIDE_LEFT Y
GM_KEY_SIDE_RIGHT I

Error Messages

The game's executable has some leftover error messages.

Menu hasnt any font!!
Not USED ANY MORE ,USE DYNAMIC TEXTURES INSTEAD
Menu textures active and non-active sizes dont match!
Something got wrong:%.2f