Rat Attack (PlayStation)

Rat Attack
Developer: Pure Entertainment Publisher: Mindscape Platform: PlayStation Released in US: August 31, 1999 Released in EU: October 15, 1999 This game has unused playable characters. This game has hidden development-related text. This game has unused sounds. This game has unused text. This game has a hidden level select. This game has a prototype article This game has a prerelease article

In Rat Attack, players take control of a Scratch Cat in order to save the world from super-intelligent rats.

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Prototype Info

Prerelease Info

Atomicat

All the files for Atomicat (Nintendo 64 exclusive character) files have been left in the game, but there is no code to load him anywhere without switching the files around.

Text relating to him also exists, scattered in ENGLISH.PAK:

ATOMICAT WINS!!
ATOMICAT'S OUT!!
ATOMICAT

Placeholder Character Screen

If the value of the character at the selection screen is 256, this image will be displayed. Other values for unused characters will cause the game to lock up instead.

Selecting this character also plays this sound, which sounds like someone saying 'element' (or perhaps 'invalid'):

Unused Text

In addition to Atomicat's text, the following is repeated a few times:

PARKY TEST

At the end of the level text:

BAD MESSAGE

A bit further down is text to suggest that the professor and his robot were playable at some stage:

ROBINSON WINS!!
PROFESSOR JULIUS WINS!!

Curiously, just beneath that is a losing line for Julius, but none for Robinson.

JULIUS LOSES!!

And in RATATTAK.EXE, at offset 0xxBA744 and next to the other languages is a placeholder for a separate text file for the US:

YANKEE

Build Date

07/19/99

Level Select

Type in the name wholetthecatsout at the new save screen.