Star Wars: The Clone Wars (GameCube)

Star Wars: The Clone Wars
Developer: Pandemic Studios Publisher: LucasArts Platform: GameCube Released in JP: March 20, 2003 Released in US: October 28, 2002 Released in EU: November 15, 2002 This game has hidden development-related text. This game has unused cinematics. This game has unused text.

To do: UnitTest and Demomap are two unused maps present in Data\MissionData. Figure out how to make them launch and document them.

Fun trivia. Star Wars: The Clone Wars is one of those cases where they might have accidentally released a debug version of the game.

Unused Video

mov_ep2trail_160x90.bik

A heavily compressed placeholder video can be found in Data\Interface\movies. It contains footage from an old build of the game that has a different HUD.

Unused Text

game_keys.cfg

/Data/game/game_keys.cfg contains shortcuts used for Battlezone II: Combat Commander, which was also developed by Pandemic Studios. None of these functions can be activated, as the GameCube keyboard is ignored and many of the strings referenced in the configuration file are not present in the executable.

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//
// Copyright 1997-98 Activision Studios, Strategy Group
//
// Battlezone II - Setup for game mission
//
 
// Camera views
Bind("+shift F1", "view.set.cockpit");
Bind("+shift F2", "view.set.forward");
Bind("+shift F3", "view.set.chase");
Bind("+shift F4", "view.cockpit");
Bind("+shift F5", "view.interface");
Bind("+shift F9", "view.set.schematic");
Bind("+shift F10", "view.set.satellite");
Bind("+shift F12", "view.set.freeeye");

// Editor keys
Bind("+ctrl E", "mission.edit");
Bind("+ctrl M", "mission.model");

// Game keys
Bind("+alt P", "mission.pause");
Bind("Pause", "mission.pause");
Bind("Escape", "mission.exit");
Bind("+ctrl S", "game.save");
Bind("+ctrl O", "game.load");
Bind("+alt F", "game.framerate");
Bind("+alt G", "game.printscreen");

// Escape screen
//Bind("Escape", "mission.escape");

// Playback controls
Bind("+ctrl R", "playback.restart");
Bind("+ctrl P", "playback.stop");

Developer Comments

Some of the configuration files have comments left by the developers.

Data\Config\input\input_pad_ps2.cfg

// Note, NM - all these are offsets from 1, not 0 in terms of
// stickN_x, so add 1 to the translation table. Note it's the same
// with the stick numbers-- they start at 1 as well.

Data\Sounds\script.ssc

//This is the file that defines the sound categories and sets the volume of those
//categories.  It also controls sound ducking during cins, and defines all other
//sound script files which should be loaded.

//Defines doppler and rolloff for all sounds?  Ask C. Baker exactly what these do.

Data\Sounds\scripts\effects.ssc

//**INTERFACE**//

// dummy sund since it seems like the first sound in the bank is
// getting bashed somehow--put this here until we figure out why--cbb 07/25/02

//GENERIC BATTLE SOUNDS

//**PLACE HOLDER SOUNDS - TEMP TEMP TEMP TEMP TEMP**//

Data\Sounds\scripts\vo.ssc

////////////// Geo 1 //////////////////
    //all gone! - JD

//
/////////////////////////////// THE END  /////////////////////////
//

config.ini

Config.ini looks to be from a test build of the game, as most of the arguments will not do anything when assigned different values.

[default]
journalMode = 0
valueMode = 0
valueLevel = 2
handleException = 0
doMouse = 1
showMsg = 0
msgWidth = 300
showTrailers = 1

Leftover .BAT files

A few .BAT files were left in the root folder for the game.

CWGC.bat

SET PATH=%PATH%;c:\DolphinSDK1.0\X86\BIN;c:\NPDP\GDEV\BIN
SETODENV DvdRoot "%~d0%~p0"
ODEMRUN -ef "%~d0%~p0Clonewars.elf" -d=%~d0%~p0clonewars.ddf -a

Create_BIN_Files.bat

REM -------------------------
REM  moving any existing dpf files
REM -------------------------
move /Y d:\clonewars\gcbuild\clonewars.dpf d:\latest_dpf\

REM -------------------------
REM       DELETE *.BIN
REM -------------------------
erase /F /S *.bin
erase /F /S ..\GCBuild\*.bin

REM -------------------------
REM          MEMMAP
REM -------------------------
..\memmap\memmap.exe 
move /Y memmap.bin ..\GCBuild
move /Y memmapD.bin ..\GCBuild

REM -------------------------
REM         MEMDUMP
REM -------------------------
wscript CreateBins.vbs %0 "BinFiles.txt" "..\GCBuild\Clonewars.elf" "" "..\GCBuild\Clonewars.ddf"

fastload - CWGC.bat

SET PATH=%PATH%;c:\DolphinSDK1.0\X86\BIN;c:\NPDP\GDEV\BIN
SETODENV DvdRoot "%~d0%~p0"
ODEMRUN -ef "%~d0%~p0Clonewars.elf" -d=%~d0%~p0clonewars.ddf -a /fastload

GetUnitMemory.bat

wscript GetUnitMemory.vbs %0 "ODFFiles.txt" "..\GCBuild\ClonewarsD.elf" "C:\CloneWars\GCBuild\DATA\MissionData\UnitTest\unittest.odf" "..\GCBuild\Clonewars.ddf"

MakeArtistPS2Assets.bat

ps2run -r
ps2asset /artistbuild /noresize /checkdates /dest ..\FinalPS2\addon

MakePS2Assets.bat

ps2asset /noresize /checkdates /dest ..\FinalPS2
cd ..\FinalPS2
ps2run -r
attrib -r data.zwp*
attrib -r packlist.txt*
del data.zwp.old
ren data.zwp data.zwp.old
del packlist.txt.old
ren packlist.txt packlist.txt.old
del paths.txt
ls -R data |grep ":" |sed -e "s/data/\\\data/" | sed -e "s/://g" | sed -e "s/\//\\\/g" > paths.txt
zwagapacklist.exe
zwagapack c data.zwp @packlist.txt

Debug Files

There are four files related to debugging in the root directory of the game disc. Clonewars.elf and Clonewars.dsf appear to be the game's executable with debugging symbols added to it, Clonewars.dlf is a listing of all of the files on the disc, and Clonewars.ddf simply just contains some information about the game itself.

Clonewars.ddf

;
; C:\CloneWars\GCBuild\Clonewars.elf
;
[DiskID]
GameName=GSXE
Company=64
DiskInfo="Star Wars : The Clone Wars"

[Layout]
1="*.bik", 1
2="*.bin", 1