Big Money! Deluxe

Big Money! Deluxe
Developer: PopCap Games Publisher: PopCap Games Platform: Windows Released internationally: April 1, 2003 This game has hidden development-related text. This game has unused text. This game has debugging material.

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Big Money! Deluxe is a puzzle game that centers around, you guessed it, money. It was about as average as you can imagine.

Development Text

A couple of development-related strings can be found in the game's executable.

incompatible version
buffer error
insufficient memory
data error
stream error
file error
stream end

Rather vague-sounding error messages which were likely used for development purposes.

Unused Text

c:\windows\media\Windows XP Menu Command.wav

A path to a sound file from Windows XP.

Debugging Material

Pressing CTRL + ALT + D in-game will play the user's Asterisk sound to indicate that the debugging mode has been enabled. Afterwards, the game allows the player to access certain debugging features using various keybinds.

• F2: Toggle performance timing. When it is disabled, it will open a message box alerting the user of what was timed.
• F3: Toggles whether to display the game's FPS or not.
  • Shift + F3: Toggles whether to display the player's cursor's coordinates or not.
• F8: Opens a message box, telling the player various video-related statistics.
  • Shift + F8: Toggles 3D Acceleration.
• F11 Takes a screenshot and saves it to a folder named "_screenshots", which is located in the game's directory.
  • Shift + F11: Dumps all the game's images loaded in memory to a folder named "_screenshots", which is located in the game's directory. It also, for whatever reason, automatically generates an HTML file named "imagelist.html". The HTML file contains a list of the images dumped as well as their properties.