Tony Hawk's Underground 2 (PlayStation 2)/Debug Mode

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Like other games in the Tony Hawk's Series, Tony Hawk's Underground 2 has a debug mode, which allows access to a rather large debug menu. This debug mode can be activated by using the following code on the US version of the game:

D0B4ADE0 00007300
2022D0B8 24020000

(Source: punk7890)

Debug Options

The main debug options can be opened from the in-game pause menu. The options available differ slightly based on the current game mode.

Pause Menu	Debug Options

Name	Effect
Cheats: Debug	See Cheats
Goto Restart	Allows the player to teleport to any of the current level's spawn points.
Debug Menu	See Debug Menu
Test Menu	See Test Menu
Watch Cutscenes	Cannot be selected. Only appears in story mode.

Cheats

Cheats

The majority of the following options assist the player in some way. Not all options appear to work.

Name	Effect
Time of Day	See Time of Day
View Cutscenes	See View Cutscenes
Levels unlocked:	Toggles having all levels unlocked. This will also allow levels not normally available in story mode to be played in that mode. This is pretty much the same as playing them in free skate, however.
Goals to complete bracket	Lets the player toggle between having to beat 1 or 6 goals to advance in classic mode. Not available outside of classic mode.
Advance Stage	Advances the player's story mode progress.
Give 50 cheat points for this session	Doesn't appear to work.
Reset cheat points for this session	Doesn't appear to work.
100 Stat Points	Gives you 100 stat points in classic mode. Available in story as well but has no effect.
Beat current goal	Doesn't appear to work.
Unlock all chapters	Doesn't appear to work.
Unlock all stats goals	Doesn't appear to work.
Score 5 million points	Instantly scores 5 million points.
Mark all goals unbeaten	In story mode, resets goals.
Set Difficulty Level	Allows the player to change the difficulty level.

Time of Day

Time of Day

Found under both debug cheats and the debug menu, allows altering the time of day cycle in various ways.

Name	Effect
Cycle on	Toggles day / night cycle on.
Cycle off	Toggles day / night cycle off.
Quick Cycle on	Toggles a quick day / night cycle on.
Quick Cycle off	Toggles a quick day / night cycle off.
Advance TOD State	Advances the time of day to the next state.
Morning	Sets the time of day to morning.
Day	Sets the time of day to day.
Evening	Sets the time of day to evening
Night	Sets the time of day to night

Note: Pressing triangle returns to the debug menu even if launched through the cheats menu.

View Cutscenes

Cinematics

The view cutscenes menu is one continuous menu, split up into sections here for readability. The menu contains headers which, as expected, have no function when selected. The cinematics will play in the level the menu is opened in, allowing cutscenes to play out in areas they weren't intended for.

Cinematics

Name
XXXXXX CINEMATICS XXXXXX
1A - New Jersey Streets
1B - WareHouse Intro
1C - WareHouse Picking Teams
2A - Paulie Scores
2B - Bob gets BlackBalled
3 - Barcelona Bull
3B - Barcelona Hotel
4A - Berlin Hotel
4B - Berlin Scared Turtle
5 - Australia Moustrap
6 - Australia Mystery Scene
7 - New Orleans Hurricane
8 - New Orleans Tony is IN
9 - SkaTop

Level Events

Playing these cinematics will trigger their effects in their intended levels e.g., playing the bull event in Barcelona will free the bull. Some of these can cause the game to crash when played in the wrong level. Also, despite the event being activated, the goals tied to them, if any, don't get marked as complete and are not saved. Leaving the level and coming back will reset the event. For the Pro Skater level, while aesthetic changes may occur, the warps will not work unless triggered normally.

As these names aren't very descriptive, a short description is provided.

Name	Description
XXXXX LEVEL EVENTS XXXXX
B0_LevelEvent	Boston cannon event
B0_SmallEvent_Billboard	Boston billboard event
BA_LevelEvent	Barcelona freeing the bull event
BA_SmallEvent_Billboard	Barcelona billboard event
BE_LevelEvent	Berlin train derailment event
BE_SmallEvent_Billboard	Berlin billboard event
AU_LevelEvent1	Australia secret area reveal event
AU_LevelEvent2	Australia cop car destruction event
AU_SmallEvent_Billboard	Australia billboard event
NO_LevelEvent1	New Orleans Voodoo Doctor summoning event
NO_LevelEvent2	New Orleans Voodoo Doctor banishing event
NO_SmallEvent_BillBoard	New Orleans billboard event
ST_LevelEvent	Skatopia Bigfoot event
ST_SmallEvent_Billboard	Skatopia billboard event
SE_LevelEvent	Pro Skater boulder roll event
SE_SmallEvent_SpaceShip	Pro Skater spaceship launch event
SE_SmallEvent_Satan	Pro Skater Satan statue event
SE2_LevelEvent	Triangle missile event

Tests

These cinematics contain various animation tests.

Name	Description
XXXXXXX TESTS XXXXXXX
TEST	Displays a box textured with "Chad Muska Skate Demo" moving and rotating on all axes.
TEST_SkinModel	Displays a very distorted looking bird cycling through animations.
TEST_MovingParticles	Displays an un-textured object emitting particles that appear to also be missing a texture.
TEST_Character	Displays the player character (with a missing head) cycling through animations next to a T-posing Chad Muska, whose legs are distorted.
TEST_Character_Face	Displays Tony Hawk from multiple angles with his lips moving.
TEST_2Characters	Displays a black screen.
XXXXXXXX END XXXXXXXX

Debug Menu

The debug menu is much more broken than the cheats menu, with many options either having no function or not working as intended.

Name	Effect
Auto Rail Level	Doesn't appear to work.
Time Of Day	See Time of Day
Lighting Tool	See Lighting Tool
Rail Display Toggle	Doesn't appear to work.
Bouncy Object Debug Display Toggle	Doesn't appear to work.
Toggle Profiler	Doesn't appear to work.
Toggle FPS Display	Brings up an FPS counter, though it doesn't appear to function as it stays at 0.000.
Toggle Anim Times	Toggles the below text overlay. Non-functional as none of the values actually populate. Animation Blending (pcnt/frame): Primary (hero+horse): Boned Frames Channels Subset Total -------------------------- Secondary (peds): Boned Frames Channels Subset Total
Toggle Particle Times	Toggles the below text overlay. Non-functional as none of the values actually populate. Flexible Particles (pcnt/frame): Process Render Total -------------------------- ParticleSys ParticleNum ParticlePrims Fast Particles (pcnt/frame): Process Render Total -------------------------- ParticleSys ParticleNum
Toggle Particle Emit Dir Display	Doesn't appear to work.
Toggle Model Scene Light Display	Displays "Model Lights" on the screen, though no additional information is displayed.
Toggle Geom Scene Light Display	Displays "Geom Lights" on the screen, though no additional information is displayed.
Toggle Active Scene Light Display	Displays "Active Lights" on the screen, though no additional information is displayed.
Toggle Geom Stats	Displays a partially working list of information. Only the items related to particles appear to work. Total Inactive Sky Transformed Instances Skeletal CameraSphere ClipCull Culled LeafCulled BoxCheck BocCheckCulled OccludeCheck OccludedObject nOccludedLeaf Colored MinLeaf WibbleUV WibbleVC EnvMapped SendContext Sorted Shadow Billboard FastParticles FastParticleSys FlexParticles FlexParticleSys FlexParticlePrims
Toggle Poly Count	Displays statistics about the current level.
Toggle Free Memory	Displays the free memory available to the game.
Defrag Animation Cache	Whether or not this works is difficult to determine. Based on the name, should tidy animation data in memory.
Wireframe Toggle	Enabling this has no effect, however disabling it renders all level geometry as invisible. This cannot be turned off and will affect menus as well.
Wireframe Skins Toggle	Doesn't appear to work. Based on the above option, this would have likely displayed models in wireframe.
Show Vert Polys	Doesn't appear to work. Would possibly highlight vert surfaces.
Show Wallride Polys	Doesn't appear to work. Would possibly highlight surfaces that allow wall riding.
Show Trigger Polys	Doesn't appear to work. Would possibly display event triggers.
Show Camera Polys	Doesn't appear to work. Would possibly display camera angle triggers.
Show Not Skateable	Doesn't appear to work. Would possibly highlight non-skateable surfaces.
Show skater shadow	Doesn't appear to work.
Show no skater shadow	Doesn't appear to work.
Show no skater shadow wall	Doesn't appear to work.
CheckForHoles (Slow)	Doesn't appear to work. Would possibly detect holes in the level collision.
Hide HUD	Hides the HUD.

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  Toggle Anim Times

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  Toggle Particle Times

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  Toggle Geom Stats

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  Toggle Poly Count

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  Toggle Free Memory

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  Wireframe Toggle

Lighting Tool

Lighting Tool

The lighting tool has two sections: one for adjusting the lighting of models in the level, and the other for adjusting the level's lighting itself. Controls for the section are shown at the bottom of the screen and as are follows:

Button(s)	Usage
Up / Down	Select
Left / Right	Adjust
△	Back/Print Values
✕	toggle speed 1,10
◻	link/unlink color values

Additionally, to swap between pages, one can press R1 and L1.

Character Lights

These options allow the player to control the lighting of models in the level.

Ambient

Base light. Allows red, green, blue, mod lo, and mod hi to be adjusted.

One

Directional lighting. Allows heading, pitch, red, green, blue, mod lo, and mod hi to be adjusted. Additionally allows toggling this light on and off.

Two

Directional lighting. Allows heading, pitch, red, green, blue, mod lo, and mod hi to be adjusted. Additionally allows toggling this light on and off.

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  Ambient

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  One

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  Two

Level Lights

These options allow the player to control the lighting of the level.

Level

Base light. Allows red, green, and blue to be adjusted.

Fog

Allows red, green, blue, alpha, and distance to be adjusted. Additionally allows toggling fog on and off.

Sky

Allows red, green, and blue to be adjusted.

Time

Allows the time of day to be set to day, morning, evening, or night.

Rain

Doesn't appear to work. Would allow toggling between rain and snow, as well as the rate, frames, height, length, blendmode, and fixalpha to be adjusted.

Rain Color

As the above doesn't appear to work, this does not either. Allows adjusting red, green, blue, alpha, red2, green2, blue2, and alpha2.

Splash Color

Tied to rain and similarly non-functional. This screen seems to be mislabeled, as the name would be more fitting for the section below. Would allow rate, life, size, blendmode, and fixalpha to be adjusted.

Splash

As mentioned above, this section is likely intended to be called splash color rather than just splash. Allows red, green, blue, and alpha to be adjusted.

Snow

Doesn't appear to work. Would allow toggling between rain and snow, as well as the rate, frames, height, size, blendmode, and fixalpha to be adjusted.

Snow Color

This option actually comes up first when selecting level lights but is likely intended to be last. Allows red, green, blue, and alpha to be adjusted.

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  Level

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  Fog

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  Sky

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  Time

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  Rain

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  Rain Color

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  Splash Color

• 

  Splash

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  Snow

• 

  Snow Color

Test Menu

Test Menu

As the name suggests, the options in this menu largely relate to testing. The menu contains submenus to view various NPC/player models, as well as to test dialogue boxes.

Name	Effect
View Humans	See View Humans
View Cutscene Heads	See View Cutscene Heads
View Animals	See View Animals
View Cars	See View Cars
View Cutscenes	See View Cutscenes
Set Pro Skater	See Pro Skaters
Set Pre-Made Skater	Allows the player to switch to any of the pre-made characters found in Create-A-Skater. Besides capitalization differences, this matches the normal list.
Edit Appearance	Opens the Create-A-Skater menu.
dialog box	Opens a dialogue box called Title that has a Yes and No option. Selecting Yes does nothing, No returns to the test menu.
Scrolling Menu	Opens a selection dialogue with enough options for the UI to scroll. The options are listed below and have no function if selected. Standard Stuff Things Other Blah Wow Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 One Two Three Four Five Six Seven Eight Nine Ten
Face Texture Test	Doesn't appear to work.
View High Scores	Opens the High Score dialogue with every set of initials as XXX, and every score as 1,000.
Keyboard	Opens the keyboard

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  dialog box

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  Scrolling Menu

View Humans

View Humans

Each option in this menu will replace the player character with the selected model. There are some unused characters within this menu as well as ones you could not normally play as otherwise.

Name	Available to Play As
THPS6 Skater	Yes, the player character. Underground 2 is referred to as THPS6 internally, as it's the 6th game in the series.
Aborigine	Yes.
Alien	Yes.
Alien 02	No. Light-blue alien found in Pro Skater.
Alien 03	No. Yellow-green alien found in Pro Skater.
Alien Doctor	Yes.
Alien Leader	Yes.
Attendant	Yes, as Hospital Attendant.
Benjamin Franklin	Yes.
Bigfoot_graf	Yes, as Bigfoot One.
Bigfoot	Yes.
Boat Captain	Yes.
BostonGuy	No. Man from Boston cutscene.
Boxer	Yes.
Bratwurst Vendor	Yes.
Bull Fighter	Yes.
Camera Man	Yes.
Cop Aussie	Yes, as Australian Cop.
Construction Worker	Yes.
Corn Vendor	Yes.
CutChemist	Yes, as CutChemist.
Flute Guy	Yes, as Flute Player.
Dalek	Yes, as Space Monkey 1.
Dalek Pink	Yes, as Space Monkey 2.
Dalek Blue	Yes, as Space Monkey 3.
German Cop	Yes.
German Drunk 01	Yes, as German Drunk 1.
German Drunk 02	Yes, as German Drunk 2.
German Drunk 03	Yes, as German Drunk 3.
German Drunk Full	No. Identical to German Drunk 1.
Graffiti Punk 01	Yes, as Graffiti Punk.
Graffiti Punk 02	Yes, as Graffiti Tagger.
Graffiti Punk 03	No. Found in the Berlin level and is essentially a palette swap of Graffiti Tagger.
Guitarist	Yes, as Guitar Player.
Guitarist Banjo	No. Identical to Guitar Player.
Imp	Yes.
Jazzman 01	Yes, as Horn Player.
Jester	Yes.
Jesse James	Yes.
Judge	No. Does not load.
LifeGuard	Yes.
Johnny Turbo	No. Potentially a leftover from the previous game in the series, as this character goes unused in this game.
Lounge Singer	Yes.
Lost Soul 01	Yes, as Lost Soul 1.
Lost Soul 02	Yes, as Lost Soul 2.
Lost Soul 03	Yes, as Lost Soul 3.
Mayan	Yes.
Metal Detector Guy	Yes.
Mime	Yes.
Natas	Yes, as Natas Kaupas.
Nigel Beaverhausen	No. This is the version used in story mode.
Nigel Beaverhausen Ass	No. This may be used in-game for a cutscene in Australia, but his butt is never shown. Thankfully.
Nigel Costume	Yes, as Nigel Beaverhausen.
Paramedic	Yes.
Phil_FULL	Yes, as Phil Margera.
Phil_Gagged	No. Likely used during cutscenes.
Pirate	Yes.
Paulie	Yes, as Paulie Ryan.
Ramp Kid	Yes.
Revolutionary Soldier	Yes.
Rollerblader	Yes, as Inline Skater.
Security Guard	Yes.
Shrimp Vendor	Yes.
Skatopia Guy	Yes, as Skatopia Punk.
Skaboto	Yes.
Nerd Kid	Likely supposed to be the Geeky Kid skater but shows up invisible in-game.
Steveo	Yes, as Steve-O.
Tiki	Yes, as Mayan Tiki Mask.
Wiener Man	Yes, as Wiener Vendor.
Witch Doctor	Yes, as Voodoo Doctor.
Zombie Female 01	No. Appears as a pedestrian in New Orleans.
Female 01	No. Generic female NPC.
Zombie Male 01	Yes, as Zombie 1.
Male 01	No, generic male NPC.
Zombie Male 02	Yes, as Zombie 2.
Male 02	No. Generic male NPC.
Weeman	Yes, as Wee-Man
BostonChick	No. Does not load.
Nurse	No. Does not load.
Spanish Chick	No. Does not load.
Sun Bather	No. Does not load.
Shrek	Yes.
Skateboard Character	No. The player turns invisible, which based on the name, is likely intentional.
Skate Goat	No. Uses the model of the goat found in the Boston level.
Skate Head	No. Has two skulls from the New Orleans level facing the front and back of the skateboard.
Skate Hand	Yes, as The Hand.
Tony Hawk THPS	While THPS1 Tony Hawk is a secret skater, this option crashes the game.
PedPro_Hawk	No, this is the pedestrian version of Tony Hawk
PedPro_Burnquist	No, this is the pedestrian version of Bob Burnquist
PedPro_Koston	No, this is the pedestrian version of Eric Koston
PedPro_Margera	No, this is the pedestrian version of Bam Margera
PedPro_Mullen	No, this is the pedestrian version of Rodney Mullen
PedPro_Muska	No, this is the pedestrian version of Chad Muska
PedPro_Vallely	No, this is the pedestrian version of Mike Vallely
PedPro_Sheckler	No, this is the pedestrian version of Ryan Sheckler

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  Johnny Turbo

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  Nigel Beaverhausen Ass

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  Skateboard Character

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  Skate Goat

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  Skate Head

View Cutscene Heads

View Cutscene Heads

Presumably meant to have a similar function to view humans, but selecting these doesn't seem to do anything.

CAS Head
CAS Female Head
AnchorMan_HEAD
BostonGuy_HEAD
Burnquist_Head
Hawk_Head
Koston_Head
Muska_Head
Margera_Head
Margera_HOODY
Mullen_Head
Nigel_Head
NODrunk1_Head
NODrunk2_Head
Phil_Head
Rampkid_Head
Vallely_Head
Sparrow_Head

View Animals

View Animals

Like view humans, replaces the character with an animal, though being on the human skeleton means that they appear heavily distorted. Most options don't work, though the animals found in Skatopia do.

Bat
Bull
Cat
Dog
Dog grey
Dog black
Dog brown
Electric Eel
Fish
Parrot
White Gorilla
Pigeon

View Cars

View Cars

Presumably meant to have a similar function to view humans, but selecting these doesn't seem to do anything.

Wheel Chair
Gurney
Skateboard
Tricycle
Custom
BA_Tram
Duck Car
HP
Mardi
Scooter
Smart Car
Van
Menu 3d Sign
Skate Letter A
Arrow
Special Arrow

Pro Skaters

Pro Skaters

These options allow you to switch to a pro skater. While most of these are used, there's a few that aren't. Notably, C.O.D. Soldier is absent from this menu.

Name	Notes
Tony Hawk
Bob Burnquist
Eric Koston
Bam Margera
Rodney Mullen
Chad Muska
Mike Vallely
Eric Sparrow	Normally not playable in this version of the game, though his inclusion in this menu suggests that it was considered. He is playable in the GBA version, however.
Mystery	It's unknown what this character was meant to be, as selecting it just loads Tony Hawk instead.
Wee man	Formatted as Wee-Man on the character select screen.
Shrek
Hand	Formatted as The Hand on the character select screen. While the rest of the skaters - bar the unused ones - have an icon on the character select screen, The Hand is a secret skater in the final game.
Doom3	Leftover from the PC version of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3. Appears completely invisible in-game, and unable to skate. Jumping results in a massive spin modifier. He can move around on foot.

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  Eric Sparrow

Park-Ed Debug Menu

Menu Option	Show Usage Bar Metrics

This option appears on the Create-A-Park pause menu while in editor mode. None of these options appear to work. While labels are displayed on the screen, none of them display corresponding information.

Name	Effect
Hide Stats	Toggles whether or not the overlays below are displayed. Slightly buggy.
Show Heap Stats	Displays a text overlay with the label oog1 on screen.
Show Load Stats	Displays a text overlay with the labels oog1, 5, and 6 on screen.
Show Usage Bar Metrics	Displays a text overlay with the labels oog1-6 on screen.
Toggle Edit Printfs	Doesn't appear to work.

Level Select

In addition to adding debug menus, enabling debug mode also enables a level select option under story mode on the main menu.

Story Mode Level Select

On the level select screen itself, two options are added underneath Training. This can be seen on any level select screen except in classic mode. The options are Default and TestLevel, which are covered on this game's main page.

Test Levels