Ultra CD-i Soccer

Ultra CD-i Soccer
Also known as: CD-i Soccer (title screen) Developer: Krisalis Software Publisher: Philips Media Platform: CD-i Digital Video Cartridge Released in EU: 1997 This game has unused playable characters. This game has hidden development-related text. This game has unused text.

With 72 whole teams and a custom league maker, this CD-i soccer game is pretty freakin' ultra.

Cheat Mode

Three teams that aren't listed in-game are playable via a combination of two variables: 0xd01ee0 which stores the index of the competition type chosen at the main menu, and 0xd01ee2 which stores the index of a matched hidden password when it is introduced (confirmed with message "CHEAT MODE ON"):

File cdi_demo is loaded at address 0x248000. Function 0x2766a8 stores the competition type index. Function 0x25e5f4 checks the introduced password against the list of 7 obfuscated passwords at 0x257662, each decoded by subtracting 1 to each character's byte value. Finally, function 0x27c78e checks both variables, resulting in the following possible outcomes:

Competition	Password	Outcome
Head to Head	F0CK1N-G00D-SH1T	Player 1's team is "Ken Dodds dads dogs dead"
Head to Head	F0CK-H1M-G00D	Player 2's team is "Krisalis"
Any type besides "Head to Head"	T3*M-D0NC*ST3R	Player 1's team is "Ken Dodds dads dogs dead"
Champions Cup	R0TH*RH*M	Player 1's team is "Rotherham United"
Any type	P*N*LT1*S	No teams change, but the match skips to the penalty shoot-out
Instant Action	CH*LL*NG*	Player 1 and 2's teams are "Krisalis"
Custom League	S*P*R-CH*LL*NG*	Player 1 and 2's teams are "Krisalis", additional players are "Rotherham United"

Any of these three teams has an unique appearance, and team members have mostly maxed-out stats:

(Source: Original TCRF research)

Team data is stored at 0x274cce, starting with Rotherham United, by far the most normal of the three. Krisalis Software were based in Rotherham, so their inclusion was likely a bit of local (unused) flavor.

Team Name	Country	Short Name
Rotherham United	England	Rotherham
Players
Lee Glover	Andy Hayward	Steve Cherry
Junior McDougald	Shaun Goodwin	Scott Smith
Martin James	Darren Garner	Shaun Goater
Andy Roscoe	Ian Breckin	Trevor Berry
Scott Smith	Jonathan Howard	John McGlashan
Chris Wilder	Mark Monnington	Gary Bowyer
Paul Hurst	Neil Richardson	Bradley Sandeman
David Pierce

Speaking of Krisalis, the company is represented by the second unused team, with its employees taking the place of the players.

Team Name	Country	Short Name
Krisalis	England	Krisalis
Players
Ramo	Mark Adamson	Neil Adamson
Phil Hackney	Steve Colledge	Dave Colledge
Mark Potente	Marvyn Burton	Andy Ware
Mark Edwards	Tim James	Mark Incley
Paul Kirk	Simeon Pashley	Tracy Hudson
Pete Harrap	Siobhan Moron	DeeDee

Finally, there's this team, which has a roster of random, unrelated players and an... interesting name/origin country.

Team Name	Country	Short Name
Ken Dodds dads dogs dead	FUG land	Too Good
Players
Marcus Adamson	Stephano Bielby	Alen Boksic
Eric Cantonarse	Petre Dragon	Roberto Baggio
Romario	Andreas Whiteley	Gianluigi Lentini
Luca Marchagiani	Christo Shoreo	Franco Baresi
Craig Watkinson	Basil Boli	Mattew Le Tissier
Dennis Bergkamp	Benito Walshaw	Faustino Asprilla
Gabriel Batistuta	Ricardo Oldale	Gianfranco Zola

Unused Text

Most of the game's internal text is stored in cdi_demo at file offset 0x19B46. Among them are two unused lines meant for the developers' eyes only.

The first one's is some temporary copyright/credits text that's quite informal:

La di da ... Put some copyright 
Message crap in here or something 
Written by Krisalis etc etc etc

The second is much more vulgar, and would've showed up whenever the text failed to work properly:

Fuckin' strings fucked