The Lion King: Simba's Mighty Adventure (PlayStation)

The Lion King: Simba's Mighty Adventure
Developer: Paradox Development Publisher: Activision Platform: PlayStation Released in US: December 22, 2000 Released in EU: March 9, 2001 This game has hidden development-related text. This game has unused graphics. This game has debugging material.

The Lion King: Simba's Mighty Adventure is a rather bland platformer with stiff controls. But at least it features clips from the first two movies, right?

Unused Graphics

SCARB.OLD

LEVELS/BOSS1/MOBILES/SCARB.OLD contains some early Scar textures.

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Debug Menu

Use the following code to enable a series of debugging functions during gameplay. Set this value to 0 to close the menu.

8009389C 0001

• Camera Target - Opens a menu to change the camera position.
• Camera Source - Opens a menu to change the camera angle and depth.
• Control - Opens a menu to change speed and angle.
• Object Menu - Opens a menu to view all objects in a level. Once a model has been selected, it is possible to play as that model / character. If playing as adult Simba, selecting another character will change the life icon back to cub Simba.
• Debug Text - Toggles subtitles.
• Invunrable - Toggles invincibility.
• Land On - Toggles the level itself.
• Objects On - Toggles level objects, including player.
• Player Rails On - Unknown.
• Camera Rails On - Unknown.
• Infinite Lives - Toggles infinite lives.
• Save Checkpoint - Does not work.
• Load Checkpoint - Does not work.
• R-PAD - MOVE - Move the debug screen around.

(Source: Hybrid, Hacc)

Debug Text

The tty debug console displays a lot of chatter whenever loading game objects or movies. The following is output from booting the game to the completion of level 1, and is not visible to the player.

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init memory card.
load str file name = \MOVIES\DISNEY.STR;1
MOVIE: w = 320, h = 240, sectors = 10
FrameCount 107
Movie buffer size = 49408 Bytes
ResetGraph:jtb=8007abd8,env=8007ac20
 ENTRY gpMasterMemoryBase = 800D4DBC
 _mem_base_context = 0
 CD_LoadFile : \LEVELS\FRONTEND\RAILS2.BIN;1
Best Possible Coins Tally = 0
Memory TOP 800EA4B8
Memory TOP 8018115C
 EXIT gpMasterMemoryBase = 800D4DBC
 ENTRY gpMasterMemoryBase = 800D4DBC
 _mem_base_context = 0
load str file name = \MOVIES\L1S.STR;1
MOVIE: w = 320, h = 240, sectors = 9
FrameCount 55
Movie buffer size = 48256 Bytes
 CD_LoadFile : \LEVELS\PRIDERCK\RAILS2.BIN;1
Best Possible Coins Tally = 500
Memory TOP 801B17CC
Memory TOP 801C471C
pSfxPracticeList = 800d52e0 contains = 225
 sector=513 page id=0
 sector=928 page id=1
 sector=1283 page id=2
pSfxPracticeList = 800d52e6 contains = 226
 sector=483 page id=0
 sector=963 page id=1
 sector=1473 page id=2
 Simba Died
 Simba Died
 Simba Died
pSfxPracticeList = 800d52ec contains = 227
 sector=803 page id=0
 sector=1408 page id=1
pSfxPracticeList = 800d52f1 contains = 228
 sector=448 page id=0
 sector=1088 page id=1
 sector=1603 page id=2
 Practice Climb
pSfxPracticeList = 800d52f7 contains = 229
 sector=388 page id=0
 sector=803 page id=1
Major bug. Shared 2!!!
 EXIT gpMasterMemoryBase = 800D4DBC
 Coins Collect = 380
 Total gourds = 2
load str file name = \MOVIES\L1E.STR;1
MOVIE: w = 320, h = 240, sectors = 9
FrameCount 129
Movie buffer size = 48640 Bytes
 ENTRY gpMasterMemoryBase = 800D4DBC
 _mem_base_context = 0
load str file name = \MOVIES\L2S.STR;1
MOVIE: w = 320, h = 240, sectors = 9
FrameCount 52
Movie buffer size = 51072 Bytes
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