SpongeBob SquarePants: Lights, Camera, Pants! (GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox)

SpongeBob SquarePants: Lights, Camera, Pants!
Developer: THQ Studio Australia Publisher: THQ Platforms: GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox Released in US: October 21, 2005 Released in EU: November 18, 2005 Released in KR: February 28, 2006 (PS2) This game has unused code. This game has uncompiled source code. This game has hidden development-related text. This game has unused graphics. This game has unused models. This game has unused text. This game has a prerelease article

SpongeBob and friends compete for the role of the supervillain in the new Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy movie by playing mini games. It's basically Mario Party in Bikini Bottom.

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Prerelease Info

Unused Graphics

Pattie Munchdown

mg_0001.pak contains graphics for an unused 2D minigame starring SpongeBob, Squidward, Sandy and Plankton (but for some reason not Patrick and Mr. Krabs) called Patty Munchdown. scr_0001_scene.gm has information about the minigame at the top.

// Script:		Pattie Munchdown scene script
// Description:	Scene script - initial split screen setup etc
// Project:		SpongeBob SquarePants '05:"Lights, Camera, PANTS!"
// Created by:  Nigel Robinson
// Changes by: 
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// Copyright (C) 2004 THQ Australia.
// All rights reserved.
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

• It has sprites which appear to have been ripped directly from episodes of the show, and are fairly blurry as a result.

• Portraits of SpongeBob, Squidward, Sandy and Plankton.

• The characters chewing on patties.

• Each character sick from eating too much.

• The characters with their mouths wide open, presumably to eat more food.

• Parts of SpongeBob, Sandy and Squidward, meant to be animated.

• Happy and sad sprites of SpongeBob and Plankton.

• SpongeBob licking his lips.

• A crowd of spectators.

The Bouncers

The minigame The Bouncers has unused graphics of customers eating.

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They were meant to appear in the background, as they are seen in the minigame's icon.

Floor It!

The minigame Floor It! has many 2D sprites that look to be ripped directly from the show. A minority of them are construction workers.

Miscellaneous

tx8_hud_fistleft and tx8_hud_fistright

• Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy's fists.

tex_missing

• An error texture.

tex_default_loading_bottom_left

• An unused loading screen.

tx8_0000_vidph_kevinccucumber

• A work-in-progress version of Kevin the Cucumber's video phone sprites.

tex_fe_location_map

• A work-in-progress version of the map screen.

tx8_hud_sponge_spatch

• SpongeBob with a spatula, ripped straight from the episode "Plankton!"

tex_cs06_chumbucket

• An image of the Chum Bucket, also from the episode "Plankton!"

Unseen Texture Details

tex_0000_bubblebass_eyes

• Bubble Bass's action figure has a full set of eye textures, despite never appearing in a minigame nor animating.

tex_0008_kite_mr_krabbs_tex_0008

Texture	UV Map

• Mr. Krabs' kite texture in Loot Scootin' has a section with his eye in it that is not addressed by the model.

tex_0008_kite_squidward_tex_0008

Texture	UV Map

• Squidward's texture in the same minigame has an unused section as well.

Unused Models

chr_bob_bindpose.rws

An earlier rendition of SpongeBob's character model.

Early	Final
chr_bob_bindpose.rws tex_0000_spongebob	chr_bob_0010_bindpose.rws tex_0000_spongebob_128

In addition to this are three extra color variants.

Model	Texture
chr_bob_bindpose2.rws	tex_0000_spongebobblue
chr_bob_bindpose3.rws	tex_0000_spongebobred
chr_bob_bindpose4.rws	tex_0000_spongebobgreen

chr_security_1_bindpose.rws

Model	Texture
chr_security_1_bindpose.rws	tex_0000_securityguard_128

A security guard character.

chr_stagehand_01.rws

Model	Texture
chr_stagehand_01_bindpose.rws	tex_0000_writer_stagehand_01

A film set stagehand character.

obj_0002_2p.rws

A second player indicator found in Flippin' Out.

Editor Models

Every level in the game has a set of unused models related to an editor.

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  editor_audio.rws

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  editor_camera.rws

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  editor_cutscene.rws

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  editor_dummy.rws

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  editor_triggersphere.rws

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  editor_pickup.rws

Package Scripts

Download XML files File: Spongebob-Lights-camera-pants-xmlfiles.rar (Compressed: 254k Uncompressed: 3MB) (info)

A number of XML files are present in the root folder from the GameCube release, which were used to specify which assets were included in each of the package files.

Configuration File

Boot.gm is the boot config file, located in the boot.pak archive.

It contains a lot of variables. There's even a debug mode, which was disabled, and a bunch of information about a debug console. Most of the options are commented, which makes it easy to understand.

Download boot.gm File: Sblcp boot.gm.7z (Compressed: 51k Uncompressed: 303k) (info)

Debug Mode

There are several instances where code for a debug mode was created, but was never used for the final build.

 global g_debugMode = false;  // debug tools can key off this. When "true" debug objects should be active. "false" for release build.

 yield();
       DebugText(DPrintData.x, DPrintData.y, DPrintData.text);