Syndicate Wars (DOS)

Syndicate Wars
Developer: Bullfrog Productions Publisher: Electronic Arts Platforms: DOS Released in US: October 31, 1996 Released in EU: October 31, 1996 This game has unused areas. This game has unused graphics. This game has unused items. This game has unused sounds. This game has unused text. This game has debugging material. This game has a hidden level select. This game has regional differences. This game has a prototype article This game has a prerelease article This game has a notes page

Syndicate Wars is the sequel to Syndicate, if you couldn't tell already.

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Prototype Info

Prerelease Info

Notes

Unused Graphics

The final game contains the following cut interface graphics in its files. These can be seen in early pre-release screenshots of the game.

Public Access Network icon

Icons for something called the "Public Access Network" that was cut from the finished game. Would go at the bottom of the screen in the menus, between the System and Map icons. Above are unselected and selected versions. As with other icons in the game, it would animate when moused over. In the PlayStation version's Symbols file there are leftovers for a command called "next_panet_item". Presumably the Public Access Network would be some kind of in-game internet/BBS system for progressing plot elements at some point. There is also a cut in-game objective to use the PAN, as outlined in the cut Objectives section below.

Map Screen Cursor

It's not 100% clear what this is, but based on a pre-release screenshot and the placement of the image in the files, it seems this was originally what the mouse cursor would turn into on the map screen.

Unknown Icon

These are seen in pre-release screenshots. They combine to form a kind of S shape, and are positioned to the middle right of the screen of all menus. It's unknown what they would do or lead to.

Objective Icons

It's not known what these were for, but they can be found with the icons used for the main menu UI. They seem to represent various mission objectives (eliminate, persuade, collect bullion, etc), so possibly they were intended for mission briefings, or even some kind of editor icons.

Unused Sounds

The following unused speech samples can be found next to the samples used for in-game interface messages (like the "selected" message for choosing a weapon). Oddly these ones seem to use a different voice actor to the rest. It's not clear what they were for:

Sample	Message
	"Got Control"
	"Converted"

Cut Weapons

The main executable contains unseen text that lists all of the weapons, including early/development names for the final game weapons, and also lists otherwise cut weapons. Their order seems to match that of how the weapons are stored in the final game. As such they can be compared to the final game weapons list as below:

Weapon Slot	Development Weapon/Name	Final Game Weapon/Name
0	Uzi	Uzi
1	Minigun	Minigun
2	Laser	Pulse Laser
3	Electric Laser	Electron Mace
4	RAP	Launcher
5	Nuclear Grenade	Nuclear Grenade
6	Persuadertron	Persuadertron
7	Flamer	Flamer
8	Hand2Hand Taser	Disrupter
9	Crazy Gas	Psycho Gas
10	Knockout Gas	Knockout Gas
11	Electric Mine	Ion Mine
12	Explosive Mine	High Explosive
13	Napalm Mine	Nothing
14	Long Range	LR Rifle
15	Air Strike	Satellite Rain
16	Beam	Plasma Lance
17	Razor Wire	Razor Wire
18	Sonic Blast	Nothing
19	Q DEVASTATOR	Graviton Gun
20	PERSUADERTRON2	Persuadertron II
21	Stasis Field	Stasis Field
22	Energy Shield	Nothing
23	Soul Gun	Chromotap
24	Time Gun	Displacertron
25	Cerebus IFF	Cerberus IFF
26	medi 1	Medikit
27	medi 2	Automedikit
28	EXPLODE Wire	Trigger Wire
29	Clone Shield	Clone Shield
30		Nothing/Uzi
31		Nothing/Minigun

• The Taser is interesting as it is mentioned in the prerelease press release so was clearly considered a significant weapon at some point. It's also said to be a "shield-piercing" weapon there, and from the list above a "hand2hand" weapon, so presumably would have short range like the Persuadertron. Going by the list above it seems the Taser became the Disruptor (which has a very taser-esque look to it), but which has a very different effect as it's not really a weapon, it only de-persuades civilians.

• It's unknown what the Sonic Blast would be. If hacked into the game via editing level file loadouts, it appears with the Launcher icon, but does not zoom the screen out like the Launcher does. It cannot be fired. Equipping it causes the game to play the menu exit sound.

• According to a pre-release article in C+VG magazine, the Graviton gun was originally called the "Quantum Devastator", hence "Q DEVASTATOR" above.

• The Napalm Mine is also mentioned in the press release, so again it must have been considered a significant weapon at some point. If hacked into the game via editing level file loadouts, it appears with the Ion Mine icon. No actual munitions are loaded, so it cannot be used. Equipping it causes the game to play the normal "explosive" sample.

• Satellite Rain was originally called "Air Strike", as per the weapon introduced in the original Syndicate: American Revolt expansion.

• According to the above text the Energy Shield from the original Syndicate seemingly was planned as an item. Likely scrapped in favour of the permanent shield system invoked by clicking on the weapon energy bar.

It's not possible to research the cut items if hacked into a saved game, they simply appear as empty spaces in the research screen that cannot be clicked on. If they are hacked to be have research completed they simply do not appear at all on the purchase screen. The exception to this are items 30 and 31, see below:

Unknown Weapon

There are remnants of an unknown weapon in the game's files, it's likely this was the Sonic Blast gun.

In the game's .FLI video files used for the equipment screen, there are still unused videos for this item in Eurocorp and Zealot UI styles:

WEP-30.FLI

WEP-30Z.FLI

It's also possible to hack in two cut weapons that use the above videos by editing a saved game to include weapon numbers 30 and 31. When viewed in the equip screen these appear as another entry for the Uzi and Minigun respectively (although both oddly show the item text for the Uzi only). They can be bought, but no weapon icon appears on-screen, making the slot appear still empty. However, in-game they appear with a generic cannister icon. If selected, they cannot be used, and a piece of corrupted weapon status bar appears over the weapon icon.

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  Unknown Weapon in Equip screen view

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  Agents equipped with the Napalm Mine, Sonic Blast, and Unknown Weapon respectively. Note corrupt energy bar graphic on the third agent with the Unknown Weapon selected

The various PANELX-X.DAT/TAB files contain what are clearly the cut weapon menu graphics for this gun. What is interesting as well is that in these early files they occupy the space used by the generic capsule item in the final game. This is likely why the hacked weapons appear using this graphic - at one point it would contain the icon as below. The panel files only contain high res art for the oldest UI design, the other designs exist only as low res versions:

The .FLI videos for cut weapons are just duplicates of the video for the next weapon actually included in the game. So e.g. WEP-13.FLI is just another identical copy of the LR Rifle video WEP-14.FLI.

Cut Mech Vehicle

The final Moon level for both factions features a large purple Mech vehicle. While clearly visible in the level and exhibiting the usual arrow on mouse over to show it can be boarded, it is positioned in an inaccessible area and cannot be used. However, using the game's built in cheat to teleport a single character into the area it can be boarded, and by abusing glitches with its collision detection, can be used to escape the area and play the rest of the level with. Using the vehicle demonstrates it is clearly in an unfinished state. While mostly working correctly, it has the ability to move through some walls that should block it, and more revealingly, has a red debug line drawn in front of it when moving illustrating the game's pathing choices.

The mech is unique in that it has two weapons when all other vehicles only have one. Firstly its default weapon is a surprisingly weak rocket launcher that seems to do less damage than the game's normal Launcher weapon. Pressing the right mouse button or holding it down fires rockets. There is however, a secondary much more powerful weapon. By double clicking the mouse at a certain slow tempo and holding on the second click it is possible to trigger a second attack where the mech draws its arms up shaking as it charges, and then flings its arms down to release four homing lasers from its back. These do massively more damage than the rockets and seem to be the same as the lasers released by the Graviton Gun. The mech seems to have similar health/survivability as the tank vehicle. It seems it was intended for the player to liberate the vehicle as the first point of call on the level and use it to finish the game, but it's clearly unfinished so was left deliberately inaccessible.

The video to the right demonstrates how to get the vehicle onto the playfield as well as the secondary weapon firing.

Cut Objectives

The demo executables contains debug strings that reveal the purpose of large chunks of code and also data structures. This reveals the internal names of all mission objective types, include some that are not used by any mission in the final game:

Number	Name	Function
4	GAME_OBJ_P_NEAR	Check if Person X is near Y
5	GAME_OBJ_MEM_G_NEAR	Check if member of Group X is near Y
14	GAME_OBJ_USE_ITEM	Use Item X
15	GAME_OBJ_FUNDS	Collect money suitcases?
18	GAME_OBJ_PKILL G	Person X Kill Group Y (this objective was used by a mission in the .BEN file but removed for final game files)
20	GAME_OBJ_USE_PANET	Use Public Access Network
21	[Blank]	Unknown
24	GAME_OBJ_ALL_G_USE_V	All player characters get in vehicle X

The most interesting cut objective is "GAME_OBJ_USE_PANET" - clearly at some point it was possible to access the cut Public Access Network system in-game, whether that was via the main menus, or possibly merely moving to some kind of computer terminal.

Unused Text

The file PEOPLE.BAK is a slightly earlier version of PEOPLE.TXT, which contains the messages shown during the credits when the game is completed. There are some minor differences in the messages shown, mainly they were expanded in the version used by the game.

Unused Levels

To do: Write-ups and screenshots for interesting levels and maybe the other 100 odd levels shipped with the game not covered below..

Unguided Campaign Remaining levels of the unfinished and cut Unguided campaign

The game has 109 missions defined in ALL000.MIS as shipped (see the Notes page for how this file works), with over half of these never actually accessible to the player, unless commandline arguments are used to load them. However, there are in fact 221 levels total shipped with the game! Many of these are extremely rough test levels, clones of existing levels and broken messes, but there are also many fully working cut levels included. The full game also includes both levels from the pre-release demo (which itself was limited to only play one of them, despite two levels being included).

The unguided campaign is partially finished, with at least 10 working levels present in the game's files. As it's incomplete, it is not accessed in-game and there are no briefing texts. These unfinished levels were removed from the PlayStation version of the game. See the sub-page above for a complete guide of the Unguided campaign.

The table below includes all 110 missions (there only seem to be 109, but the file itself logs 110) defined in ALL000.MIS. The file also has a text record for every level added near its top, and these were used by Bullfrog to store rough information on what a level was intended for (e.g. what campaign and mission number), but also some have early development names in this area. For this reason every mission is listed below, including levels actually playable normally in the game as there are so many with alternate names or are needed to make sense of duplicate cut levels. Levels with a Eurocorp or Church of the New Epoch campaign mission number are final game levels.

The ALL000.MIS file also includes the order for many Unguided levels, (which are referred to with the codes "pu" for Punk or Ung for "Unguided"). Final game missions are listed below as the number shown when received in the briefing screen in the actual game.

The levels below may be accessed through the command line, using the /m command line parameter (for example, /m40 - there must be no space between the m and the map number) and the corresponding number from the mission index.

It's also notable some levels seem to have been saved with the wrong objective type set in the .MIS file. These can be fixed using a hex editor and the information from the Notes page.

Some levels use a pre-alpha level file format. This format changed after March 1996 for the Alpha build of the game, making these levels unplayable in the final game, they either crash the game or show gibberish. A fan-made tool can convert these to the final game's level format, making them playable once more.

Map File	Level File	Mission Index	City Name	EC Campaign level	Church Campaign Level	Unguided Campaign Level	Level name	Early Names	Notes
MAP030.MAD	c030l001.d1	1	London	0			1.Executive Alert	First Base
MAP025.MAD	c025l001.d1	2	Tripoli		1		2.Missionary	Unguided
MAP032.MAD	c032l001.d1	3	Beijing	2			3.Friendly Persuasion	Fragmentation (also "Fusion")
MAP021.MAD	c021l001.d2	4	Geneva	3			4.Where Is Wisdom?	Knowledge
MAP028.MAD	c028l001.d3	5	Rome	6			5.Sack of Rome
MAP028.MAD	c028l001.d2	6	Rome		7		6.Sack Of Rome
MAP079.MAD	c079l001.d2	7	Reykjavik	12			7.Dark Angels In The Architecture	Out of This World
MAP030.MAD	c030l001.d3	8	London	13			8.Duplicity
MAP022.MAD	c022l001.d1	9	Johannesburg	16			9.The Special Agent
MAP021.MAD	c021l001.d3	10	Geneva		5		10.A Meeting Of Minds	Learning
MAP022.MAD	c022l002.dat	11	Johannesburg		8		11.Serpent's Egg	Spies Like Us
MAP025.MAD	c025l001.d3	12	Tripoli		8		12.A Mote In God's Eye	Spies Like Us
MAP030.MAD	c030l002.dat	13	London		12		13.Audacity
MAP020.MAD	c020l001.d1	14	Riyadh		14		14.The Levellers	Severe Blow
MAP032.MAD	c032l002.dat	15	Beijing		16		15.Rain Of Terror	Splatterpunks
MAP027.MAD	c027l001.dat	16	New Delhi		17		16.Armour Of The Gods	Splatterpunks
MAP022.MAD	c022l003.dat	17	Johannesburg		4		17.Foundations	Donation (early file it's called "Money")
MAP079.MAD	c079l002.dat	18	Reykjavik		20		18.Deconstruction	Free Passage
MAP022.MAD	c022l004.dat	19	Johannesburg		22		19.Day Of The Damned	Vissick Hunt
MAP027.MAD	c027l002.dat	20	New Delhi	18			20.Exodus	Anarchic Subcontinent
MAP010.MAD	c010l001.dat	21	Phoenix	5			21.Phoenix In Flames
MAP001.MAD	c001l001.dat	22	Hong-Kong	2			22.Fusion
MAP003.MAD	c003l001.dat	23	Bangkok	14			23.Bring Him Back Alive
MAP005.MAD	c005l001.dat	24	Sevastopol	18			24.Edge Of Darkness
MAP006.MAD	c006l001.dat	25	Adelaide	10			25.Walkabout
MAP007.MAD	c007l001.dat	26	Santiago	10			26.Forbidden Knowledge
MAP007.MAD	c007l003.dat	27	Santiago		3		27.Test Of Faith	Catastrophic Convertor
MAP008.MAD	c008l001.dat	28	Nuuk	12			28.The Hive
MAP002.MAD	c002l001.dat	29	Matochkin Shar	3			29.Lost Minds
MAP002.MAD	C002L003.Dat	30	Matochkin Shar						Pre-alpha level, does not work in final game
MAP001.MAD	c001l003.dat	31	Hong-Kong		6		31.Heretics
MAP008.MAD	c008l003.dat	32	Nuuk						Originally Church mission 15, has a briefing set that indicates this. Clearly the Church counterpart to 28
MAP007.MAD	c007l005.dat	33	Santiago		8		33.Not One Of Us
MAP009.MAD	c009l001.dat	34	Singapore	4			34.Open Re-Bullion
MAP004.MAD	c004l001.dat	35	New York	9			35.Taken To Taks	Taken to Mars (this might just be a typo in the file, as the name makes no sense without the pun)
MAP047.MAD	c047l001.dat	36	Tokyo	14			36.Deep Mind	Bring Him Back
MAP050.MAD	c050l001.dat	37	Vancouver	3			37.Guru	Friendly Persuasion
MAP044.MAD	c044l001.dat	38	Cape Town	10			38.EuroLore	Science Major
MAP050.MAD	c050l002.d3	39	Vancouver		5		39.Soul Crusader	The Learning
MAP041.MAD	c041l001.dat	40	Bahrain					Audacity	An early/alternate version of 13, once again you are Lucy De Saxo. Apparently originally Church mission 12
MAP040.MAD	c040l001.d3	41	Honolulu					Re-Alignment	This seems to be an early/alternative version of 74. Instead of Zealots overtaking a Eurocorp base that you have to clear out, it's Unguided.
MAP046.MAD	c046l001.dat	42	Columbo					Spiders…	Looks like this was intended as early version of level 84
MAP041.MAD	c041l002.d3	43	Bahrain		10		40.Deadly Harvest		There is a mistake with the names here, the text file says 40 is Deadly Harvest, but it actually should be for mission 43, as confirmed by the Official Strategy Guide. All versions of the game have this bug.
MAP045.MAD	c045l001.dat	44	Cairo		9		44.Powermonger
MAP044.MAD	c044l002.dat	45	Cape Town		21		45.Retribution	Friendly Fire
	c046l015.d3	46	Columbo					Elevator Test	Pre-alpha level, does not work in final game. Even then something is screwed up here, it's supposed to be for map 46 (Columbo), but it doesn't load that map. If loaded with the demo executable can be played as a Simulated level and reveals it is an early version of 84, but with Shady Guys used as stand-ins for the elite zealots/Nine.
MAP046.MAD	c046l014.dat	47	Columbo					Elevator Test	Pre-alpha level, does not work in final game. Converting reveals it's an early/test version of 100, only here Eurocorp control the Space Elevator, not the zealots.
MAP035.MAD	c035l002.dat	48	Detroit		0		48.Harbinger	Attack Base
MAP035.MAD	c035l001.dat	49	Detroit	1			49.Detroit Drop-Outs	The Unguided
MAP026.MAD	c026l001.dat	50	Buenos Aires	10			50.Secrets	Trail of Prophet
MAP026.MAD	c026l002.dat	51	Buenos Aires		2		51.Conversions	The Knowledge
MAP026.MAD	c026l003.dat	52	Buenos Aires		8		52.Watcher	Spies Like Us
MAP036.MAD	c036l002.dat	53	Christ Church		19		53.Establish The Link	Free Passage
MAP036.MAD	c036l003.dat	54	Christ Church					Free Passage	Early/Alternate version of 53. Instead of reaching the station, you begin there.
MAP001.MAD	c001l015.dat	55	Hong-Kong	7			55.Body Matters	Head Hunt
MAP010.MAD	c010l015.dat	56	Phoenix	7			56.Interloper	Head Hunt
MAP028.MAD	c028l015.dat	57	Rome	8			57.Head Hunt	Head Hunt
MAP032.MAD	c032l015.dat	58	Beijing	7			58.Semi-Automatic	Head Hunt
MAP036.MAD	c036l001.dat	59	Christ Church	11			59.Missing Link	Word of God
MAP020.MAD	c020l002.dat	60	Riyadh			3		Guns Guns Guns	See Unguided Campaign Page
MAP052.MAD	C052L001.DAT	61	Anchorage (Version 1)			4		Communications	See Unguided Campaign Page
MAP028.MAD	c028l002.dat	62	Rome			8		Rescue	See Unguided Campaign Page
MAP027.MAD	c027l003.dat	63	New Delhi			10			all000 Says this is unguided, but it's Eurocorp. An early version of 20 only you have to destroy buildings. Possibly this is the wrong level defined?
MAP003.MAD	c003l007.dat	64	Bangkok			3			See Unguided Campaign Page
MAP040.MAD	c040l015.dat	65	Honolulu			14		Massive Assault	"Ung14a"
MAP044.MAD	c044l015.d1	66	Cape Town			6			See Unguided Campaign Page
MAP026.MAD	c026l004.dat	67	Buenos Aires			16		Talks Ambush	Crashes
MAP035.MAD	c035l004.dat	68	Detroit			2		Zealot Attack	See Unguided Campaign Page
MAP036.MAD	c036l004.dat	69	Christ Church			19		Trash Church	See Unguided Campaign Page
MAP001.MAD	c001l007.dat	70	Hong-Kong			5			See Unguided Campaign Page
MAP006.MAD	c006l003.dat	71	Adelaide		23		71.Recapture
MAP004.MAD	c004l003.dat	72	New York		13		72.Divine Light	Atomic Wait
MAP009.MAD	c009l003.dat	73	Singapore		11		73.Donation
MAP040.MAD	c040l001.dat	74	Honolulu	15			74.Re-Alignment
MAP030.MAD	C030L008.D1	75	London			15		Ferocity	See Unguided Campaign Page
MAP047.MAD	c047l001.dat	76	Tokyo					"The Special…" says it's on Map45	This is actually 36 (loads the exact same level) but with no objective set
MAP020.MAD	c020l007.dat	77	Riyadh			3		Guns Guns Guns	See Unguided Campaign Page
MAP052.MAD	C052L007.DAT	78	Anchorage (Version 1)			4		Communications	See Unguided Campaign Page
MAP044.MAD	c044l007.dat	79	Cape Town			6			See Unguided Campaign Page
MAP035.MAD	c035l007.dat	80	Detroit			2		Clean Up	See Unguided Campaign Page
MAP009.MAD	c009l007.dat	81	Singapore			7		Godfather	See Unguided Campaign Page
MAP002.MAD	C002L007.Dat	82	Matochkin Shar			9		Dumped	See Unguided Campaign Page
MAP045.MAD	c045l002.dat	83	Cairo	17			83.Slowdive
MAP046.MAD	c046l015.dat	84	Columbo	20			84.Confrontation	Columbo Confrontation
MAP003.MAD	c003l002.dat	85	Bangkok		18		85.The Dead Zone	Splatterpunks
MAP004.MAD	c004l015.dat	86	New York					Severe Blow	An early/alternative version of 72. Says church 13
MAP044.MAD	c044l003.dat	87	Cape Town		15		87.Fallen Among Thieves
MAP011.MAD	c011l001.dat	88	Orbital Station	20			88.High Sierra	Shuttle Diplomacy
MAP012.MAD	c012l001.dat	89	Orbital Station Test					Orbital Test	An early version of the Orbital map. There is a single female Unguided, walking close to her makes a strange whoosh sound. The map also doesn't render properly, with all the domes invisible.
MAP020.MAD	c020l015.dat	90	Riyadh			14		Massive Assault	ung14c - Level file Does not exist so game crashes.
MAP035.MAD	c035l005.dat	91	Detroit			14		Massive Assault	UNG14b - However,this is a multiplayer level in actuality
MAP041.MAD	c041l003.dat	92	Bahrain	19			92.Arab Agenda
MAP040.MAD	c040l015.dat	93	Honolulu			14		Massive Assault	UNG14A - Identical to 65
MAP020.MAD	c020l015.dat	94	Riyadh			14		Massive Assault	ung14c - Level file Does not exist so game crashes. Duplicate of 90
MAP035.MAD	c035l005.dat	95	Detroit			14		Massive Assault	UNG14b - same as 91
MAP047.MAD	c047l001.d2	96	Tokyo					Turning Japanese	This is actually an early version of 36. It has a go to point mission objective and a target in a massively populated Zealot base that must be brought there
MAP047.MAD	c047l015.dat	97	Tokyo					Turning Japanese	Same as above. This version has a persuade mission, but the target marker points to a corner off screen and clearly is not tagged against an actual character
MAP050.MAD	c050l002.dat	98	Vancouver					The learning	What seems like a much harder early version of 39. Text says it's another version of 10
?		99						Friendly Fire	This is supposed to be church level 17 in Cape Town (i.e. mission 45), but this is actually a blank entry that crashes the game
MAP046.MAD	c046l002.dat	100	Columbo		24		100.Revelations	Deliver the Nine (also as "Ninth" in one file)
MAP065.MAD	c065l002.dat	101	The Moon	20			101.Church Of The Poisoned Mind
MAP065.MAD	c065l003.dat	102	The Moon		24		102.Cataclysm	The End…
MAP060.MAD	C060L015.DAT	103	Anchorage (Version 2)			?		A Tale of Two Cities	See Unguided Campaign Page
MAP070.MAD	C070L011.dat	104	Tokyo (Demo)				104.Tokyo Fuseki		Eurocorp demo mission
MAP047.MAD	c047l011.dat	105	Tokyo						Eurocorp demo mission - seems exactly the same as 104 but runs on the final game Toyko map
MAP036.MAD	c036l005.dat	106	Christ Church						"Multi16" - This is a multiplayer level
MAP005.MAD	c005l005.dat	107	Sevastopol					AD's Level	Seems to be a test level. Quite fun, between your agents you have every weapon in the game and start next to a tank and APC. You're told to "sterilise sector" and have to kill every civilian on the map.
MAP003.MAD	c003l010.dat	108	Bangkok				108.The Shining	Overrun	Church demo mission - listed as "demo 2"
MAP035.MAD	c035l015.d3	109	Detroit					Test1	Absolutely insane. A massive all against all brawl of huge numbers of Agents, Zealots and Unguided demolishing an entire city. Most of the NPCs seem to have invulnerability on so the battle just keeps on raging
MAP006.MAD	c006l005.dat		Adelaide						Multiplayer level
MAP060.MAD	C060L005.dat		Anchorage (Version 1)						Multiplayer level
MAP041.MAD	c041l005.dat		Bahrain						Multiplayer level
MAP003.MAD	c003l003.dat		Bangkok						Multiplayer level
MAP032.MAD	c032l005.dat		Beijing						Multiplayer level
MAP044.MAD	c044l005.dat		Cape Town						Multiplayer level
MAP046.MAD	c046l002.dat		Columbo						Earlier version of 100. Seems to be almost identical, restarting doesn't skip half the cut scene like the final game level.
MAP046.MAD	C046L005.DAT		Columbo						Multiplayer level
MAP046.MAD	C046L008.DAT		Columbo						Yet another early version of 84
MAP046.MAD	C046L009.DAT		Columbo						Yet another early version of 84, closer to final
MAP046.MAD	C046L010.DAT		Columbo						Early version of 84. Setup of the Zealots is very different to final mission
MAP046.MAD	C046L015.DAT		Columbo						Very close to final version of 84
MAP001.MAD	c001l005.dat		Hong-Kong						Multiplayer level
MAP001.MAD	c001l002.dat		Hong-Kong						Multiplayer level
MAP040.MAD	c040l001.d2		Honolulu						Slightly earlier version of 74, with abbreviated intro cut scene
MAP040.MAD	C040L013.DAT		Honolulu						Yet another slightly earlier version of 74, the secret epidermis in the main base is not there yet in this version
MAP040.MAD	C040L005.dat		Honolulu						Multiplayer level
MAP022.MAD	c022l013.dat		Johannesburg						Seems to be an early version of 17
MAP030.MAD	c030l001.d2		London						Same as 001.d1
MAP030.MAD	C030L008.D2		London						Similar to 75, but you start as a single female civilian with no weapons
MAP002.MAD	C002L001.D1		Matochkin Shar						Pre-alpha level, does not work in final game.
MAP002.MAD	C002L001.D2		Matochkin Shar						Pre-alpha level, does not work in final game.
MAP002.MAD	C002L002.DAT		Matochkin Shar						Multiplayer level
MAP002.MAD	C002L005.Dat		Matochkin Shar						Multiplayer level
MAP027.MAD	C027L015.D3		New Delhi						Unfinished Eurocorp mission. A woman is stranded on the corner island with its transport tubes destroyed. A Shady Guy gets in a car and flies over to her and stays off screen. Then a civilian and his soldier bodyguard get in to a Police car and flies next to her, waits a while, then flies off map.
MAP004.MAD	c004l001.d2		New York						Early version of 35, unsure what is different
MAP004.MAD	c004l013.dat		New York						Early version of 35, unsure what is different
MAP004.MAD	c004l004.dat		New York						Multiplayer level
MAP008.MAD	c008l005.dat		Nuuk						Multiplayer level
MAP079.MAD	c079l015.d3		Reykjavik						Mostly empty map, Eurocorp vs small group of Zealots and flying APC in base. Possibly early version of 7?
MAP007.MAD	c007l007.d1		Santiago						See Unguided Campaign Page
MAP005.MAD	c005l015.dat		Sevastopol						Multiplayer level
MAP065.MAD	c065l005.dat		The Moon						Multiplayer level
MAP047.MAD	c047l002.dat		Tokyo						Multiplayer level
MAP050.MAD	c050l003.dat		Vancouver						Multiplayer level
MAP041.MAD	c041l002.dat		Bahrain						Zealot mission. An earlier and much harder version of 43. In that mission Eurocorp occupy the far side of the river only; in this one they have almost the entire city, including a nearby tank! Also misc skirmishes between Unguided and Eurocorp occur
MAP044.MAD	C044L002.D2		Cape Town						Appears to be early/alternative version of 87. You start in an alley near to where the car drops you in that mission, and as well as fighting unguided, there is a large Police presence and a huge (and hostile) Zealot base who will also attack you. Not clear what the objective would have been.
MAP044.MAD	C044L002.D1		Cape Town						Pre-alpha level, does not work in final game.
MAP044.MAD	C044L003.D1		Cape Town						An early/alternate version of 45. This version seems a little harder, and the secret epidermis is located near the entrance of the church on the map
MAP044.MAD	C044L007.D1		Cape Town						An early/alternate version of 79. This is simplified compared to that level, but with the same basic idea - Unguided have massacred the congregation of a Zealot church and it's time for retribution. This time you start next to the flying car instead of in it, need to clean up the town. As in the other level civilians randomly brandish weapons and attack both the player but also the Unguided. This seems to work better, but of course has no objectives.
MAP050.MAD	c050l002.d2		Vancouver						Another early version of 39. The Doctor drops an Electronmace when killed, however
MAP070.MAD	C070L011.d1		Tokyo (Demo)						Early version of the demo mission. Seems the same, only without the intro sequence, and with fewer Unguided.
MAP003.MAD	c003l015.dat		Bangkok						Early version of 42. Seems harder, with more Unguided and fewer civilians.
MAP003.MAD	c003l007.d1		Bangkok						An actually working version of 64. If copied to the same slot, this is an Unguided mission to assassinate a Church scientist.
MAP035.MAD	c035l001.d1		Detroit						Early/alternate version of 49. Not clear what is different aside from lone unmoving Unguided near the top
MAP036.MAD	c036l001.d3		Christ Church						Possibly very early version of 59. Same starting position, but the level is empty aside from two groups of Syndicate agents patrolling.
MAP036.MAD	c036l003.d2		Christ Church						Early version of 54, not clear what is different

(Source: Syndicate series unofficial fan site, Original TCRF research)

The above list is based on the ALLTEXT.WAD file from the second released demo, as that has a newer file with 108 levels named rather than only 104 as per the final game.

ALL000.MIS File

This file contains the definitions of all missions in the game, providing the game with the data needed to combine level files with maps and mission objectives to have a playable game mission. See the notes section for how this works.

There are also three other unused older versions of the .MIS file included with the game that have slightly different sets of missions and also show older names for levels (that have also been included in the list above). ALL000.BEN, ALL000.OLD, and ALL099.MIS. All000.BEN (seemingly named after programmer Ben Dean) appears to be the oldest both by timestamps but also as it has the fewest entries. .OLD is closer to the final game, and ALL099.MIS is very close to the final ALL000.MIS, but has many slight changes to mission objective data throughout. If these files are renamed and used to overwrite ALL000.MIS they can be used to play older sets of objectives for some missions, which in some cases cause otherwise broken cut levels to work better.

The file ALL001.MIS defines all the multiplayer levels, there is also an older unused multiplayer file called ALL098.MIS (see below). The map comments in these files show that originally map 002 was intended to be Salzburg, not Matochkin Shar as in the final game. More excitingly, it also shows the otherwise unknown map 60 is in fact the city of Anchorage.

Unused Multiplayer Levels

The game uses the file ALL001.MIS to define the 15 levels available in multiplayer mode. However, there is a second file with multiplayer levels defined in it called ALL098.MIS. If all players in a multiplayer game replace the 001 file with the 098 file (renaming it to ALL001.MIS), a different set of levels can be played. 10 of these are the same as the original file, but there are 5 new levels not previously playable.

ALL001.MIS	ALL098.MIS

Unused Maps

The game has 37 maps in total, numbered from 1 - 79. Naturally a lot of those numbers are missing, some of which may have been cut maps that were not included with the game. The following maps are included with the game, but are not used for any level accessible in normal play:

Map051.mad

A giant Bullfrog logo. This is not used by any levels, although it's actually used during the end sequence

(Source: Tomasz Lis])

Map052.mad

A finished map of the city of Anchorage. Split in half by a canal, the top of the level consists of a large road bridge that has collapsed into a river. There is a cut level that uses this map. Timestamps show this was the original version of the map.

Map060.mad

A copy of Map 52. According to ALLMISS.001 this is actually the map for Anchorage. This is almost identical to map52 but has some minor changes to the pedestrian crossing markings on the roads and a pair of billboards to the South that have been removed in this version. Strictly speaking this not actually cut as it is used by a single multiplayer level in the final game. However, all the single player missions on it were cut. Timestamps show it is a later revision of the map.

Map074.mad

An almost empty map with only a single building in the middle of it. There are no levels using this map.

Map012.mad

This is just a clone of map 11, the Orbital Station from the final game. It seems identical, but there is a cut level that uses this version of the map. File sizes show this version is smaller than the final one.

There are also cut levels for Maps 0 and 49, which are not present in the game files.

Simulated Levels

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  Final Game Simulated Level

If the game is asked to load a level that does not exist (for example, a number beyond that of the defined missions in ALL000.MIS - like 999), or a mission that does exist but on a map that does not, it creates a "Simulated Level". This is a strange level that takes place in a black void where random enemies are placed and walk about, presumably for testing purposes. In the final game these levels are always raining. The simulated levels are extremely unstable and usually cause the game to crash after a short period of time, and will always crash if the game is switched into high resolution mode (F8 key). If a level exists but the corresponding map file assigned does not, the actual level file is overlaid onto the void map, allowing it to still be played.

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  Demo Simulated Level

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  Demo Simulated Level

What is interesting is to compare the behaviour of the final game to that of the demo executables with debug code included. If the criteria for a simulated level is invoked here, then a message actually saying "CREATING SIMULATED LEVEL" appears. If this is skipped by pressing the escape key, then the level will start as in the final game. However, simulated levels in this version of the game are much more robust and will not crash. They also display the game's radar unlike the final game, and start with the agents on-screen. There is also no rain. It seems this is the intended behaviour, which has somehow degraded for the final release.

Command Line Arguments

The game's executable is loaded via batch file that always passes the arguments /w and /g to the program. It's not known exactly what these commands do, but according to the Vexillium team who reverse engineered the game to create modern OS ports of it, the /g command at least invokes some kind of bugfix that otherwise causes the game to crash on the second mission of the Church of the New Epoch campaign. Using it overrides levels loaded via /m, forcing the game to the title screen, however.

Regional Differences

The German version made several changes:

• Except for the disintegration effect used with certain weapons, death animations have been removed. Killed opponents fizzle away instead, leaving no corpses behind.
• The sounds made by killed opponents are much quieter. Civilians who are killed make no noise at all.

(Source: Schnittberitche)