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There is code from Battlezone II: Combat Commander, another game developed by Pandemic Studios, left in the GameCube version's files.

There are rather vulgar error messages in the game's files that state:

"FUCK TOO MANY VERTICES
Fuck me BreakDrae
Over The Fucking Top
What The Fuck Are We Doing Here
Trying To Load Dude Stuff"

In the DS version's files are unused texts regarding Wi-Fi, suggesting that such mode may've been planned at one point during development.

Rather obscene description text about Melman, Skipper, and Marty can be found in the game's data that includes:

"Melman – we're fucked"
"longer shot of marty looking at his ass"
"melman my immune system blah blah I'm a wuss"
"skipper antarctica SUCKS"

This text is used as a means of identifying camera shots during cutscenes.

In the Game Boy Advance version's files, there is an unused text file that states, "No need to translate."

Within this game is unused text that refers to Windows items. These include referring to a floppy disc, and references to Windows programming, like "Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion".

Within the GBA version of this game are placeholder texts for a title screen and a test boss. Both hold the name Martin Schioeler in them.

Within this game is leftover text from another game, "Barbie and the Magic of Pegasus".

In the game’s files are unused text regarding Easy Mode.

In the game's files is unused text regarding the player's stolen Hero Shield. It's suggested that the shield would've been stolen, resulting in the player going to the Curiosity Shop to get it back.

"You bought back the Hero's Shield
that was stolen from you.

In the future, watch out for
swooping birds on your travels."

In the game's files are two unused texts regarding the Hylian Loach. This may suggest that said fish would've been found in both a bottle and without one.

The first text states:
"It's a Hylian Loach in a bottle!
An illusory fish that
few have caught...

And it came in a bottle!
What a find!"

Another one states:

"You got the Hylian Loach!
An illusory fish that
few have caught..."

There's unused text regarding getting a seahorse in a bottle. In the final game, the player must have an empty bottle to get a seahorse.

"You traded for the Seahorse.
And it came in a bottle!
You should hurry and return it
to its home at Pinnacle Rock."

Inside the game's files, you can find unused text from The Wild Thornberrys 3-D Chopper Chase.

There is some rather vulgar anti-piracy text left in the game's files that states:

"Yo buddy! I don't know and I don't care how and why are you here,
I just want to give you a few advises in case if you're here to CRACK
this stuff.Well,in every 80 seconds a man is murdered,and in every 10
seconds another one of our PROTECTION-STAGES starts. In other words,
you can be sure that you will NEVER have a WORKING CRACK of PERIHELION.
(WANNA BET?) Of course you're proud and you'll try (I too would try)
but you will fail because you won't even realize where did ya fail,
what's the problem,what is PROTECTION and what is not.Phew,that's life!
Will you play it over a dozen times? IT WON'T WORK! Will you release
a fuckin' dying half-crack? WHAT A SHAME! Relax honey,you're gonna
suck up not because you're SOOO LAME,but because WE ARE SOOO GOOD!
Right? Well,that's all for today,now go back to your childish toys
and let's see how our computerized insecticide works on parasites like
you. By the way,did ya know that PIRACY IS THEFT? Oh,surely not,sorry...
Now at least you cannot say we didn't warn you... SIGNED: MORBID VISIONS"

Developer’s notes can be found in the game’s data titled “Readme.txt.”


==========================
WHAT WAS USED TO CREATE ULTIMATE YAHTZEE?

The programming language: MS Visual C++ 4.1 with MFC
The sound driver: The venerable Miles Design system
The title/credits animation driver: Smacker! for Windows
The pizza: Garlex or Lamorinda, depending on who you ask
The graphics software: Paint Shop Pro, Picture Publisher
The music software: Cool Edit by David Johnston

What did the artists use to create Yahtzee?
Softimage, Parallax's Matador and Advance, Amazon 2&3D paint
And many SGI computers.

Each of the above product names, food and otherwise, is a trademark
held by its respective owner.

==========================

In the game's files is a rather nasty message to pirates:

Well, well, well. What can I write in this sector ?
I could tell you nosy sods to bugger off.
Hmmm, OK then ... BUGGER OFF YOU NOSY SODS !!!!!!!!

Copy this disk and your knob will fall off.
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
Don't come running to me with your meat and two veg !

I was only joking - honest ....
BYE BYE. See you on the next game"

In the Amiga version of the game's files contains a message for people who attempt to pirate the game:

"Line Of Fire was written by Richard Aplin for Creative Materials &
U.S. Gold from July-November 1990.

;Dear Cracker,
;To save you time, simply fill in the appropriate lines below..

type "Line Of Fire!
type " Cracked by the utterly amazing and fab _________ of _______!"
type "Hot greets to _____ and _____!!"
type "Lamings and slaggings to _____ of _____ and _____!!!"
type "Call our BBSs on ____-______ and ____-______ for the latest warez!"
type ""
type "I am a sad and immature spotty little twat because _______________."
type "I crack games for free as I have no friends"
type "and am physically repulsive to females because of my chronic _______."
type "I hate my parents because they _____ and make me tidy me room even"
type "when I have been at kindergarten the whole day."
type ""
type "I have played with myself ____ times in the past 24 hours"
type "and have wet dreams about ________ from Neighbours."
type ""
type "The last Kylie Minogue record I brought was ________ and I think"
type "she's lush and fab and ace and wicked because she's _________ and I fancy her."
type ""
type "Press right button for trainer, left for normal. Probably."
Crap_Demo_That_Crashes_Half_The_Time_And_Has_A_Sprite_Starfield_Oooh_How_Original
run Corrupt_loads_of_memory_all_over_the_place
Game







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*If you are under 14 or have a Datel Action Replay, you may not read further*
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Right that's that over with.





Firstly....
For those who might possibly be interested, rather than those who just want
to hack the program to bits....

Sega wouldn't let us have ANY credits on the game, so I thought we might
as well put some here.

I (Richard Aplin) wrote the Amiga and ST versions (though at the time of writing
- 12th Nov.1990 - I haven't started the ST conversion yet!)
I much prefer the Amiga (doesn't anyone?) so I have done that version
first, using all the extra hardware, then i'm going to bang out the
ST version when necessary.


"Uncle Art" (actually a limited company!) did the (not very good) music.
- Oh yeah.. Apologies and sympathy to Uncle Tom (the person!) for the
fuck up with his amazing Double Dragon II music!


The bitmap graphics were grabbed from the arcade PCB video output by Andy Heike
and Nick Vincent with the colour frame grabber, and the sprites were read,
decoded and converted from the arcade machine's Eproms by me. (Not a bit
of bloody help from Sega either!) They were remapped from 21 million to 16
colours by Andy Heike, Nick Vincent, and some students in Manchester.

I sampled the sound effects from the PCB's sound chip (not very hard at all!)

Tiertex wrote the protection check code (which is utter shit - well on form
for Tiertex!)

Steve Fitton and Tony Porter from U.S. Gold provided all the nagging and
hassle which was most unwelcome, but kind of expected anyway.




During the writing of this, I used:

Work
====
3 Commodore A500s
21Mb A590 Hard Disk + 2.5Mb ram
Commodore A1000 + 2Mb ram
Tandon 20Mhz 80386 PC + 40Mb Hard Disk
Souped-up JCL Colourpic video frame-grabber
PerfectSound sampler
Some custom EPROM-reading hardware I built to read the arcade board's roms.
Atari 1040ST (yuk)
+Various extra drives, disks, etc,etc
Lots of coffee

Fun (Notice how the two are divided?!?)
===
Nintendo GameBoy (+Tetris & others)
Sega MegaDrive (+Ghouls'n'ghosts, etc)
Mr.Do! arcade board
Hundreds of records, tapes & CDs and a {} stereo
Sony Video Walkman (+Blackadder 1-4, Comic Strip, Young Ones, and others)
Roland D110 multi-timbral LA synth (rackmount)
Cheetah MS6 multi-timbral analogue synth (rackmount)
Yamaha TX7 FM synth (stupidly-shaped black box)
Casio FZ1 16-bit sampler + loads of disks
Alesis Quadraverb 16-bit digital fx processor (rackmount)
Fender Strat guitar (well, a cheap clone)
A couple of guitar fx pedals
DeskTech 6:2 mixer
MicroIllusions Music-X sequencer (Amazing program)
Virtually no musical talent/ability whatsoever
US Robotics Courier HST modem (for P.D. BBSs of course)
Many gallons of beer, Black Bush whisky, Potheen (when available - cheers Mark!)
Various people's floors/sofas/etc in London when at computer shows
(most time spent at the bar)"

Inside the game's files is a vulgar message to pirates:
STOP IT =NOW=, OK! You will gain *NOTHING* from breaking this protection,
but I guess you're too fucking ignorant, narrow-minded or maybe even too
stupid to understand that. Yeah, so you and your 'leaders' and 'spreaders'
(that's what they like to call themselves, but they're nothing but LEECHES
gaining some kind of fame from the work you do) will have something to
spread around on BBS', ok... But what the hell do they, or you, REALLY get
for all that, huh? Ok credits... So they can download some shit games or
other software, but in a wider perspective? I'll tell you =NOTHING=. It's
pointless. If you don't realize that now, I assure you that in a few years
you will look back at this time and wonder why you did it. I know that
from experience. Go and do something constructive, like studying,
socializing, programming or whatever! Cracking is not constructive. To
you it might seem like a challenge or something you do to get famous, well
OK it is a challenge to crack, and you do get famous if you're good at it.
Famous for a while, a short while. But nobody will care about that five
years from now. You will benefit much more from getting a job, education
or a girlfriend, I'm telling you because I KNOW. I was a cracker once, one
of the best. In a time when you could actually send the originals by mail,
work for a day or two, and then send the cracked version back, and still
have a world-first release. Then the scene consisted by computer freaks
who made it for the fun of it. The scene today is perverted and lead by
ignorant computer-illiterate idiots, only in for the fame and money. They
think they're famous and legendary, but nobody likes or admires them for
sure. I HATE IT! Now I've realized the stupidity of my actions, and I
wish I could undo them. You'll also do just that in a few years too if you
have a conscience, and wish you had done something else. SO DON'T CRACK
IT!"

Another one is written by Stefan Boberg, the game's creator, who may have also written the message above:

================ DIVINE PROTECTION BY =THE MIGHTY GOD=
WRITE TO ME: boberg@lysator.liu.se
FINALLY YOU HAVETHE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK TO A REAL COMPUTER ===== GOD! =====
CURRENTLY STUDYING APPLIED PHYSICS AND ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AT LINKOPING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY!! =====SWEDEN=====
Don't even think about it. Cracking is both illegal and immoral and will get you NOWHERE in this world.
We have spent a lot of time doing this game, and we will not hesitate to take legal actions against
those who duplicate this game illegally.
We have complete overview over the cracking scene, and know your name and whereabouts, no doubt.
We have prepared a nice surprise for you.
You may think it is challenging, exciting or even glorious to crack, but from our point of view it is nothing but theft and sabotage.
You may have read or heard all this before, but this time it's different and REAL. We mean it.
Think about it.
If you continue doing what you're doing right now, the game programmers will have to leave the Amiga
programming in favour for Nintendo, Sega etc.
It is up to you and the rest of the Amiga users.
If you still insist on being an ignorant egocentric lowlife and go ahead cracking this, go ahead, try me.
It won't be easy.
It will be hard, damn close to impossible, destructive, and it will be SO DAMN POINTLESS.
Go and do something else instead, something positive and constructive, do that homework of yours,
read a book, learn something, call some friend, date a girl, or whatever.
Or if you can't get away from the computer, do something yourself, something useful or fun.
This protection is the toughest ever. Unbreachable.
That's what all I have to say, now it's up to you to decide whether you should crack this or not.
We hope you won't.
It'll be so much easier and less painful for all of us, especially for you.
Signed, the creator of this and plenty to come protections, Stefan Boberg"

The game's files include text that reads: "********* Message to Tim: You were wrong!" It's unknown who Tim is, but it may be Tim Mensch, who helped develop many games for Hasbro.

While Galactus is playable via Galactus Mode, there is evidence that suggests Galactus was going to be playable in Arcade Mode. Within the game’s files are win quotes and voice clips for calling in assists and tagging in other characters, including himself.