Rugrats: Royal Ransom

Rugrats Royal Ransom
Developer: Avalanche Software Publisher: THQ Platforms: PlayStation 2, GameCube Released in US: November 16, 2002 (PlayStation 2), November 27, 2002 (GameCube) Released in EU: April 11, 2003 This game has unused areas. This game has unused playable characters. This game has hidden development-related text. This game has unused music. This game has unused sounds.

Unused Audio

seam.adp

This music track is located in the game's files under music/Sea/seam.adp. Based on this context, it appears to belong to a 3rd level in the submarine/sea area (which doesn't exist in the final game). This is supported by the existence of data for a "SeaM" level in other folders; interestingly, it appears to be one of three levels scrapped from the game (others are "DinoB" and "MidevlD").

Susie Introductions

In the file directory for Susie's voice lines (the bulk of which probably being her introductory lines that play at the beginning of each level), there are .dba files for three unused levels: "SeaM," "DinoB," and "MidevlD." Each is named "sound.dba." Their contents are currently unknown.

Unused Characters

In the players folder, there is an empty folder for a character named "Buzz;" it has no other data associated with it.

Development Text

copydata.bat

Found in the root of the GameCube version is a batch file.

if not exist j:\rugrats_cdrom\data_gcn md j:\rugrats_cdrom\data_gcn

rem copy GC level files
copy /steu j:\rugrats\data_gcn\uber.dbl j:\rugrats_cdrom\data_gcn
copy /steu j:\rugrats\data_gcn\flush.dbl j:\rugrats_cdrom\data_gcn

rem copy GC character files
if not exist j:\rugrats_cdrom\data_gcn\players md j:\rugrats_cdrom\data_gcn\players
copy /steu j:\rugrats\data_gcn\players\*.dbl j:\rugrats_cdrom\data_gcn\players

rem copy GC sound files
if not exist j:\rugrats_cdrom\data_gcn\sound md j:\rugrats_cdrom\data_gcn\sound
if not exist j:\rugrats_cdrom\data_gcn\sound\actor md j:\rugrats_cdrom\data_gcn\sound\actor
if not exist j:\rugrats_cdrom\data_gcn\sound\perm md j:\rugrats_cdrom\data_gcn\sound\perm

rem ***add movies later***
rem copy /steu j:\rugrats\data_gcn\*.thp j:\rugrats_cdrom\data_gcn
copy /steu j:\rugrats\data_gcn\*.adp j:\rugrats_cdrom\data_gcn
copy /steu j:\rugrats\data_gcn\*.dsp j:\rugrats_cdrom\data_gcn
copy /steu j:\rugrats\data_gcn\sound\actor\*.dba j:\rugrats_cdrom\data_gcn\sound\actor
copy /steu j:\rugrats\data_gcn\sound\perm\*.dba j:\rugrats_cdrom\data_gcn\sound\perm