SpongeBob SquarePants: Creature from the Krusty Krab (PlayStation 2, GameCube, Wii)

SpongeBob SquarePants: Creature from the Krusty Krab
Also known as: SpongeBob (JP) Developer: Blitz Games Publishers: THQ (US/EU/AU/JP), SCE Korea (KR) Platforms: GameCube, PlayStation 2, Wii Released in JP: March 6, 2007 (Wii/PS2) Released in US: October 16, 2006 (PS2/GC), November 13, 2006 (Wii) Released in EU: November 10, 2006 (PS2/GC), December 15, 2006 (Wii) Released in AU: November 2, 2006 (PS2/GC), December 12, 2006 (Wii) Released in KR: December 14, 2006 (PS2) This game has unused areas. This game has hidden development-related text. This game has unused objects. 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 regional differences. This game has revisional differences. This game has a development article This game has a prerelease article

To do: Are ther more Oddities in this game (outside of the GameCube version) including Patrick having Plankton's voice when he answers "Did I win?" during the cutscene after defeating the Giant Plankton, etc.?

SpongeBob SquarePants: Creature from the Krusty Krab is a game where SpongeBob, Patrick and Plankton have a bunch of weird dreams.

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Development Info

Prerelease Info

Unused & Hidden Objects "Oh what a dump! Someone should tidy this place up!"

Unused Audio If you thought the tutorials weren't already overbearing enough...

Unused Graphics

Frontend_DevPackage

splash 640x480 is a very early title screen, before the game even had a specific title. An alternate version of this image without the "06" is used in the Hypnotic Highway character selection loading screen in the final when playing it for the first time in Story Mode.

9_1 character selection world

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  frontend_test_menu2

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  frontend_test_menu3

9_1 character selection world has unused two menu icons of Patrick and Plankton sleeping.

Giant_Trans World 4

transition_splash_level6_04 is a level transition mockup screen.

Texture Oddities

A texture used in It Came From Bikini Bottom has an unseen portion with unpainted UV maps.

Unused Models

Gangster Plankton

Model	Texture	Icon

BonusPak_Plankton Gangster is a cut 1930's mobster costume for Plankton.

Unused Music

There are two tracks for some mini games which are never heard in game.

An earlier version of the Super-Sized Patty mini game theme.

An earlier version of the Meteor Mania mini game theme.

(Source: RingsOfGeonosis)

Unused Text

localstrings_credits has a short log of things that were added to the game.

changed title to design manager
changed the order of this
changed the order of this
changed the order of this
added coyote designers
added coyote designers
added mr scootles

localstrings_savetext has a few interesting things, including placeholder license text and a possible hint there was going to be an Xbox version.

Placeholder License Text
Xbox game save messages

Present at 458050 in the executable is instructions on adjusting the monitor.

STEP 1: Turn CHROMA (color level) all the way down
STEP 2: Adjust BRIGHTNESS until there is no difference visible between the left and middle bars, but there is between the middle and right bars.
STEP 3: Adjust CONTRAST to achieve a balanced gray scale across all the bars.
STEP 4: Looking through a blue filter, turn up CHROMA (color level) until the two bars appear to match in brightness.
STEP 5: Still looking through a blue filter, adjust COLOR PHASE (tint or hue) until the bars appear to match in brightness.
Your monitor is now correctly adjusted. Remember to take the blue filter off!

Development Text

The SLUS file in the PlayStation 2 version contains references to the directories of the original source files for the game and the BlitzTech engine, as well as this version's build date.

c:/Projects/Spongebob/Source/CameraActorResource.cpp
c:/Projects/Spongebob/Source/PropSkyDome.cpp
b:/BlitzSDK/Flare/FlareEngine/Common/Src/feCore/CFActorResource.cpp
b:/BlitzSDK/Babel/Ps2/Src/bKernel/../../../common/src/bKernel/heap.cpp

Aug 25 2006
14:13:10
- Publisher Build -

Internal Level Names

The various files used to show the subtitles refer to their respective levels by their internal names. Interestingly, It Came from Bikini Bottom is referred to as Chumps Away, which is how it was named during development, and the post-credits cutscene is referred to as its own level called Gary's Day.

DieselDreaming
StarfishMan
GiantPatty
AlaskanBelly
RocketRodeo
GiantPlankton
ChumpsAway
RoofTop
HypnoticHighway
GarysDay

Console Differences

• In the PS2/Wii versions, the title screen bubble changes shape, this is missing in the GameCube version. The SpongeBob SquarePants logo is also different in the PS2 release.

GameCube	PlayStation 2	Wii

• The GameCube version has much lower resolution textures and bland lighting, while the Wii and PlayStation 2 versions look nearly identical.
  • This causes a bug where Gary's eyes are blue instead of red.
• The attract video that plays if you wait on the main menu is shorter on GameCube; on PS2 and Wii it lasts 1 minute and 23 seconds, while on GCN it's reduced to just 27 seconds.
• The lighting in the PlayStation 2 version looks slightly brighter compared to the Wii version, this is more noticeable during StarfishMan to the Rescue.
• The lighting in the intro cutscene for Revenge of the Giant Plankton Monster looks different depending on the version: the GameCube version has poor lighting and Plankton looks oddly shinier, the PlayStation 2 version looks brighter and more natural overall, and the Wii version is about the same as the GameCube version but adds a weird blue-ish filter on the screen.
• The GameCube version removed an effect in Alaskan Belly Trouble where the level would wave around to simulate the movement of a stomach.
• The Wii version added a minigame called SpongeBand. In this game mode, you can play various instruments with SpongeBob, Patrick, and Plankton. For example, SpongeBob can play the guitar and harmonica, Patrick can play the drums and a slide whistle, and Plankton only plays the synthesizer. Luckily there are more instruments than these.
• The Wii version skips the start-up animation for the dash move, meaning the characters instantly start running when activated.
• Some of the attack animations for Plankton during Revenge of the Giant Plankton Monster are different in the Wii version.
  • Also in this level, when Plankton takes damage in the Wii version a red outline glows around him for a few seconds, while in the other versions he himself glows orange.
• The Wii version has additional info screens at the start of the second and third sections of Rocket Rodeo explaining that you now have the ability to shoot lasers and how to defeat the Patty UFO boss respectively. These don't appear in the other versions.
• SpongeBob has a more detailed character model in the Wii version with slightly more pushed-in holes. Oddly, this model is only used during the platforming sections of Diesel Dreaming and Alaskan Belly Trouble, the other levels all use the same standard model used in the PS2 and GameCube versions.
• The racing vehicles in the Wii version run slightly faster compared to the PlayStation 2 and GameCube versions, most likely in an attempt to make the races easier to compensate for the motion controls.
• The flying sections are also easier in the Wii version as the fuel meter depletes more slowly compared to PlayStation 2 and GameCube, again most likely to compensate for the controls.
• The flying sections in the Wii version also add an aim in front of the characters to make shooting easier.
• In the Wii version of Rocket Rodeo you can shake the Wii Remote really hard to make Patrick perform a series of animations on top of the rocket, and every time he does this the color of the rocket's flames change from the standard orange to blue, green, purple, green again (or turquoise?), and back to orange in this order.
  • Also in the Wii version, depending on your position on the screen the space hole Patrick rides through changes to various colors: in the middle or when you're completely still it stays in the standard purple, going to the top it gets more blue, on the left it gets green, the bottom it's yellow and right it's red, in addition to the colors mixing together depending on which extreme you're on, like going to the very top-right mixes the blue and red into violet and bottom-right mixes yellow and red into orange and so on. All of this was removed on PlayStation 2 and GameCube.
• In the PlayStation 2 and GameCube versions of It Came from Bikini Bottom, you can press certain buttons on the controller to activate the plane's front lights and a horn with a few comedic sound effects. These were removed in the Wii version.
• In the GameCube and Wii versions during the ending cutscene of It Came from Bikini Bottom, the background sprite layer showing various buildings in the distance glitches out becoming elongated and blurred. This is fixed on the PlayStation 2.
• The music in the PlayStation 2 version has a high quality sample rate of 44100 Hz, while the GameCube and Wii versions have them in a lower quality 32000 Hz. Also, certain tracks like It Came from Bikini Bottom and Hypnotic Highway that are quadraphonic (four audio channels) on the PS2 version, two for background noise and two for the music itself, were downmixed to stereo on GCN and Wii, meaning the background noise and the music are permanently mixed together on those.
• The PlayStation 2 version has a bug where for every even number you use the dash move, the characters will skip their start-up and sprinting animations and instantly start running while still in their walking animation.
• In the Wii version, the loading screen for the second time you play the Wakey Wakey Shakey Shakey minigame at the end of Revenge of the Giant Plankton Monster has its own unique title card without narration, while the PlayStation 2 and GameCube versions just reuse the same title card and narration from when you first play the minigame at the start of the level.

GameCube Bugs/Oddities

The GameCube version is much buggier, with many graphical defects. It seems to be an unfinished build compared to the PS2 and Wii versions.

• The North American GCN version of the game uses an unfinished version of the post-credits cutscene. It's missing lipsync animations, and Spongebob has broken facial expressions. The sound file (s_i10) is also missing from the game's files. This was fixed in the European version, as well as in the Wii and PS2 versions in all regions.
• Similarly, the minigame Scrap Scramble has no music, though voices and SFX are intact, because the sound file (0_2_mu_aw_minigame) is missing. This wasn't fixed in any international version.
• A scripting failure causes a fish in It Came from Bikini Bottom to shift up while the newspaper he holds shift down.
• The audio for the intro cutscene of It Came from Bikini Bottom on GCN is slightly different compared to PS2 and Wii, most notably in the way SpongeBob laughs and the poor timing of it.

GameCube	PlayStation 2 and Wii

• Plankton doesn't have mouth animations during the first section of Rooftop Rumble.
• Plankton's animations in the intro cutscene for Hypnotic Highway are noticeably stiffer, with only his arms actually moving and his eye not even blinking properly.
• There's a blank text file in the US version called fet_gcp.txt. In the European version the file has the following text:

mini-WWSS World 6-7 InGame.fetm

Regional Differences

Creature from the Krusty Krab was the first SpongeBob game released in Japan, along with Nicktoons: Battle for Volcano Island, meaning the game was translated, along with some subtle differences. The changes here also apply to the Korean version, barring the obviously different language.

• The logo is darker in the Japanese version.

International	Japan

• Japanese subtitle translations were added to level screens.

• Some of the subtitles were altered due to differences in the Japanese dub of the show. For example, Bikini Bottom is referred to as Bikini Town.
• Most of the videos in the extras section of the menu were removed, the only one remaining being a trailer for a few SpongeBob DVDs.
• The PlayStation 2 bug with the even number dash move was fixed in the Japanese version.

Oddities

"Diesel Dreaming" Crates

• The crates in the racing segments of "Diesel Dreaming" use the particles from the following level "StarfishMan to the Rescue!" when destroyed. Oddly enough, the crates in the platforming segments use the correct ones.

SpongeBob's Grapple Ability

• For some reason, SpongeBob's Grapple ability is 'unlocked' before his other moves in "Diesel Dreaming", allowing SpongeBob to use this move earlier than intended. This has been exploited by speedrunners to get the car parts without having to move the platforms up to get to the part.

"Rooftop Rumble" level

• When the game is loading the final fight between Patrick and Plankton, he is shown flying backward for some reason.
• SpongeBob is seen flying around during the fight with Plankton, even though he was captured by Plankton.
• After the defeat of the Giant Plankton during the cutscene, when Patrick says, "Did I win?," he has Plankton's voice.

Multiple Giant Plankton clone models

In the level "It Came From Bikini Bottom", it is possible to see more than one Giant Plankton onscreen. This is because most of the levels have multiple Giant Plankton models scattered throughout the map, each with their own unique event (walking, shooting lasers, etc.) that will start upon being triggered.

Model clippings

There are a lot of objects and characters going through things they shouldn't (ex. in the "Super-Sized Patty" minigame "Pouncin' Poundin' Patty," the top of Plankton's antennae can be seen).

Plankton's Costume Oddities

• Plankton's mouth never moves while he is talking when he is wearing any of his unlockable costumes. Also, for some reason, his pupil is black when he is wearing the SquarePants costume.

SpongeBob's Pilot Costume

• SpongeBob's unlockable pilot costume for "It Came from Bikini Bottom" doesn't have any lighting, making him stick out in the level.