The Italian Job (2003)

The Italian Job
Also known as: The Italian Job: L.A. Heist (EU/AU) Developer: Climax Studios Publisher: Eidos Interactive Platforms: GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox Released in US: June 24, 2003 (PS2, Xbox), July 15, 2003 (GCN) Released in EU: September 12, 2003 This game has hidden development-related text. This game has unused graphics. This game has debugging material. This game has a prerelease article

Oh dear, I do believe I have the vapors. This page contains content that is not safe for work or other locations with the potential for personal embarrassment. Such as: It’s a Climax game, after all, so there is going to be profanity hidden in the executable.

To do: The European Xbox Config.xml has mAllowEuropeanAdverts enabled. See what regional differences are caused by this.

The Italian Job is a racing game based on the 2003 film of the same name with some style, but not as much substance.

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Prerelease Info

Build Date

The executables have a build number, complete with a commit number in some cases:
Note how the PS2 EUR build date is erroneously labelled as September 24, 12 days after its official release date. Its actual build date should be June 24.

GCN (EUR)	The Italian Job gc/final/msheppard/Jul 10 2003/15:08:28 8a05e4df0e11e65ab931deed4ad5944a
GCN (USA)	The Italian Job gc/final/msheppard/Jun 11 2003/17:43:21 86eef02e96a01f1ca706b312d747e4ac
PS2 (EUR)	The Italian Job ps2/final/BAY/Sep 24 2003/16:44:59 dad4a124b73ae2a826e7cecab94fb6a2
PS2 (USA)	The Italian Job ps2/final/BAY/Jun  6 2003/17:46:26 87712e7dae4c4e46f92cae8cebc0aafe
Xbox (EUR)	The Italian Job xbox/final/rchilds/Jun 23 2003/19:02:18 UNIQUE_ID
Xbox (USA)	The Italian Job xbox/final/rchilds/Jun  1 2003/01:59:58 UNIQUE_ID

Debug Options

Rendering Info

Shows information for World Geom Tri, Coll Tri, Tex Mem, Cpu, Render, Tri; Model Tri; Misc Tri; Tex Download, Duplicate.

	EUR	USA
GCN	0057D13F 00000001	0055540F 00000001
PS2	00302D9C 00000001	0030365C 00000001
Xbox	002C202C 01

Camera Boxes, Visible Meshes

	EUR	USA
GCN	0057D143 00000001	00555413 00000001
PS2	00302DA0 00000001	00303660 00000001
Xbox	002C2030 01

Framerate, Position, and more

The GameCube version displays some memory info at the top, and the Xbox version doesn't display the build tag nor the elapsed time unlike the others. All of the props also have a number displayed on them.

	EUR	USA
GCN	0057D157 00000001	00555427 00000001
PS2	00302DB4 00000001	00303674 00000001
Xbox	002C2044 01

Speed Information

	EUR	USA
GCN	0057D14B 00000001	0055541B 00000001
PS2	00302DA8 00000001	00303668 00000001
Xbox	002C2038 01

(Source: Edness)

XML Debug Options

To do: Check and confirm if this has any effect on PS2 and GCN too. As well as (if possible) document which bytes in memory are toggled by these options in the section above.

On the Xbox version, adding the options to a Config.xml file allows you to toggle various other debugging options.

None
LeftStick1
RightStick1
LeftStick2
RightStick2
Select1
Select2
Europe
USA
Mission
Circuit
Stunt
Demo
Free
Hollywood
MiniRed
mPreferArchive
mLoadXMLFromArchive
mShowProfileBars
mShowBudgetBars
mShowOcclusionInfo
mShowUnsafeRegion
mShowCarInfo
mShowHud
mShowWarnings
mShowDebugInfo
mPlayMovies
mTestMovies
mShowLegals
mIgnoreDave
mTestPlayerHumanNum
mTestPlayerAiNum
mTestLevel
mTestCar
mGameRegion
mGameType
mTrackNumber
mNumberOfLaps
mUseTraffic
mFrameUpdate
mAllowReloads
mCycleDebugTexturesButton
mReloadVehicleParamsButton
mReloadWorldConfigButton
mReloadCameraConfigButton
mReloadObjectConfigButton
mReloadMaterialsButton
mScreenshotButton
mCycleCarTypeButton
mMovieMakerCycleModeButton
mMovieMakerPlaceNodeButton
mToggleHudButton
mToggleWarningsButton
mToggleDebugInfoButton
mToggleCarDamageButton
mToggleScreenshotModeButton
mMovieMakerStartOutputButton
mTestExplosionButton
mMemoryDumpButton
mMovieMakerPlaybackSpeed
mMemCardEnabled
mShowCollision
mMeEncantaElTanque
mDemoTimeout
mUseAntialiasing
mForceMappedCameras
mCutsceneInfo
mCutSceneFilename
mSkipMissions
mUnlockMissions
mUnlockCircuits
mUnlockStunts
mUnlockCars
mUnlockExtraOptions
mMissionDebugTimer
mDEBUGAIEndSection
mDEBUGAIStartSection
mVibrationTime
mMinImpulseForVibration
mVibrationPerUnitImpulse
mCtrlVibJitterMag

Additional Development Text

The executables contain a smorgasbord of error and debug messages.

ObjectID %s got focus
ObjectID %s lost focus
ObjectID %s moved
ObjectID %s sized
ObjectID %s rcvd Nav
ObjectID %s rcvd Msg
***ERROR*** - Did not load ParticleSettings, using default values
!!! UNKNOWN TOKEN !!!
!!! THIS STRING IS TOO BIG !!!
TRANSITION STILL ACTIVE!
Ballz mate!  Too many impostors pal!
Tex Downloaded
Obj Required    
Tex Required    
Obj Rendered    
Vif Finished    
Gif Finished    
    Vif1 Start      
    Vif1 Start Fail 
    Vif1 Stop       
    Gif Start       
    Gif Start Fail  
    Gif Stop        
        Vif1 Zed Stored 
        Vif1 Profile    
        Gif Profile     
Path3InterruptLog.txt
Interrupt Event Log
===================
Another light? Not without increasing CLIGHT_MAX you can't!
Pre MenuSystemOpen = %ldk
%s/%s
Post MenuSystemOpen = %ldk
Pre MenuSystemClose = %ldk
Post MenuSystemClose = %ldkFailed to setup model file for %s
ROM 1.27
Sorry mate!  That palette type ain't supported!
Palette already dead!
Attempt to load into uninitialized palette!
Attempt to allocate invalid palette size
BeginObject/EndObject pairs did not match! bad things will probably happen now :(
BACKGROUND
POSITION: %s;
HEIGHT: %ld; WIDTH: %ld; TOP: %ld; LEFT: %ld
out of range
Couldn't find attribute '%s' under path '%s'
Couldn't recognise enum '%s' in node '%s.%s'
Couldn't recognise enum bit '%s' in node '%s.%s'
Ballz mate!  Too many basic shadows!
Dodgy magic '%s' in model file '%s'!
Failed to alloc texture mem for '%s'!
Failed to alloc box mem for '%s'!
Failed to alloc point mem for '%s'!
Failed to alloc face-me mem for '%s'!
Failed to alloc mesh header mem for '%s'!
Failed to load '%s'!
Dodgy magic '%s' in skeleton file '%s'!
\Building this skeleton will cause stack overrun!
WTF? Seriously corrupt stack command when building anim skeleton!
Ballz mate!  Too many tex anims - increase TEX_ANIM_MAX pal!
Failed to load texture box file '%s'!
Dodgy Magic '%x' in ink file '%s'!
Zed Store: Height = %ld, Qwc = %ld
Using Reversed DMA list to store Z Buffer
VIF1 DMA at %x
GIF DMA at  %x
Attempt to use point light with no object position!  Can't get dir!
Attempt to use spotlight with no object position!
Eh?  What kind of light are you supposed to be?!
Failed to open '%s'!
Unsupported zed mode!
Cleared VRAM to: a%d r%d g%d b%d
Failed to Load Sif Module: %s - Error Code: %d!
System not initialized!
 __ .   , __  ___  __ _   _     __  __   __   __   __
(__` \_/ (__`  |  |__ |\ /|    |__ |__) |__) /  \ |__)
.__)  |  .__)  |  |__ | V |    |__ |  \ |  \ \__/ |  \
Dodgy bog standard (Jesus, Duncan!)
fuckhead
'%s' in '%s'!pack_header_field_flag needs to be '0' in PS
The size of work area is too small
work area size is too small
image buffer needs to be aligned to 64byte boundary(0x%08x)
pack_header_field_flag needs to be '0' in PS
The size of work area is too small
work area size is too small
image buffer needs to be aligned to 64byte boundary(0x%08x)

(Source: Descension, CounterDiving)

Unused Graphics

Only in the European Xbox version there is a System folder with two placeholder graphics:

missing.bog

white.bog

A small 16×16 graphic with nothing but the color white. This file can also be found in Hot Wheels World Race’s init folder.