SSX (2000)

SSX
Also known as: X-treme Racing SSX (JP) Developer: EA Canada Publisher: EA Sports Big Platform: PlayStation 2 Released in JP: October 26, 2000 Released in US: October 30, 2000, 2002 (Greatest Hits) Released in EU: November 24, 2000, August 2, 2002 (Platinum) This game has unused code. This game has unused modes / minigames. This game has unused graphics. This game has unused text. This game has debugging material.

To do: Figure out what the cheats do. There's an unused game-mode called Knockdown that seems to be at least decently feature complete. It can be accessed by setting the global variable at 0x0027BA88 to 4 zeros when loading.

Frame Rate Display

Enabling the below code will enable a frame rate display in the top left corner. This only works while in the main menus.

USA SLUS-20095 code:

Enable Frame Rate Display
101660D8 00009E66

(Source: Punk7890)

Unseen Text

Present in the texture for one of the rails is text that says "rail AD".

(Source: modeco80)

Unused Boost Ring

Present in the HUD texture pages is an unused version of the boost ring that's colored blue. This is most likely an remainder of a different color palette used during development that was never removed. (The trailer contains a short amount of footage with a green boost trail color.)

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  HUD page in question.

(Source: modeco80)

Leftover Test Texture(s)

Present in the texture bank for every level excluding Pipedream, Warmup, Untracked, Merqury City Meltdown, Mesablanca and Snowdream is an unused texture.

A variant of this texture is the skybox for the Warmup level and on the disc in FSH format at DATA\MODELS\JCHAIR.FSH.

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  The unused texture present in the texture bank.

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  The skybox for the Warmup level.

(Source: modeco80)

Debug Menu

Evidence of two large debug menus were once embedded in the pause menu. No main routine in the game enables the sub-menus to these menus anymore; however the functions (and menu strings/such) do still exist in the game's code, so it should be possible to get it to function again.

(Source: Punk7890)

Cheats

Several cheats that currently have unknown effects can be inputted while in the options menu from the main menu. While in the options menu, hold all shoulder buttons (L1 + L2 + R1 + R2) and press the following:

Inputs	Effect
Square, Triangle, Circle (x4), Square (x4)	Unknown.
Square, Circle, X, Triangle, X, Triangle, X, Triangle, X, Triangle	Unknown.
Square, Left, X (x8)	Unknown.
Square, Up, X (x7), Square	Unknown.
Square, Right, Circle, X, Cirlce, X, Circle, X, Circle, X	Display all hints.
Square, Down, Circle (x5), X, Triangle, Square	Unknown.

Additionally there is two dummy cheats in the game that contain an invalid input, rendering them disabled. To re-enable them, apply the below code for the USA SLUS-20095 version of the game.

Re-enable Dummy Cheats
202B07E8 00000000
202B0818 00000000

Inputs	Effect
Square (x2), X (x7), Triangle	Unlock everything.
Square (x2), X (x4), Triangle (x4)	Same as above?

(Source: Punk7890)