The Simpsons Game (PlayStation 3, Xbox 360)

The Simpsons Game
Also known as: Die Simpsons - Das Spiel (DE) Los Simpson: El Videoguego (ES) The Simpsons Videopeli (FI) Les Simpson, le jeu (FR) I Simpson: Il Videogioco (IT) Developer: EA Redwood Shores Publisher: Electronic Arts Platforms: PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 Released in US: October 30, 2007 Released in EU: November 9, 2007 Released in AU: November 15, 2007 This game has unused areas. This game has unused code. This game has hidden developer credits. This game has hidden development-related text. This game has unused graphics. This game has unused sounds. This game has unused text. This game has debugging material. This game has a hidden level select. This game has regional differences. This game has revisional differences. This game has a development article This game has a prototype article This game has a prerelease article

This article is a work in progress. ...Well, all the articles here are, in a way. But this one moreso, and the article may contain incomplete information and editor's notes.

The Simpsons Game is what you get when you make a Simpsons game with every game genre.

It's notable for being almost entirely conceived and written by actual members of The Simpsons team, making it as authentic of, well, a Simpsons game as possible. It also has over 40 minutes of unique animated cutscenes that almost act as an entire extra-long episode together.

Also, every version of the game has slightly different front box art.

Sub-Pages

Development Info

Prototype Info

Prerelease Info

Making-of Movie Three parts of a Making-of movie were planned, none of which made the final cut.

Unused Text "Although I wasn't able to cut everyone I wanted to, I have cut a lot of you."

Unused Voicelines

Debug Replay

To do: See if there's a way to add or bring back the Debug Replay button like in OldGen. These codes are raw memory offsets as I currently have no knowledge on any potential PS3/X360 cheat device and how it may work! --Edness

Debug Replay menu on PlayStation 3

Debug Replay menu on Xbox 360

There is a hidden menu internally called DebugReplay. It can be accessed in both the Old Generation release as well as here.

	All Regions
PS3	00AF65B3 E8
360	8239F71F A4

(Source: Edness)

One slight difference, however, is that currently there is no way to add the Debug Replay button on the main menu in this release. Instead, these codes will replace the regular Episodes & Challenges menu with Debug Replay.

Unused Graphics

Downloadable Content

This game was planned to have DLC expansions. There is a button in the menu that would be used for DLC, but it never ended up being used. Frontend.str contains textures that were meant to be used for said DLC.

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To get a better idea of where exactly these expansions were meant to take place in Springfield, this mockup image with all the textures combined to form a single image will help you out.

Mockup	Springfield Map

Shared

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Powerup Icons

Only Marge has a powerup icon in-game, but Bart and Homer have graphics for powerup icons that are unused.

Homer	Bart

Ammo Icons

There are icons for the ammo Bart collects in the levels (some are unused ammo types) that go unused. The Old-Gen version uses some of these icons for Bart's stronger ammo.

Trophies

Dino-Duff

Early	Final

Special Reserve Duff

Early	Final

Deep Fried Duff

This early trophy design can actually still be seen inside the Garage of the Simpsons' house.

Early	Final

Krusty Begins

Early	Final

Krusty's Stop & Go

Early	Final

Gangsta Clean Hairspray

Early	Final

frontend

Some textures are leftover from The Godfather, another game by EA Redwood Shores that runs on the same engine.

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  hud_target_center

There are also 10 language flags, even though there's no language selection menu even in multi-language releases. This game also doesn't have any released localization in Dutch, Polish, Portuguese nor Swedish, whose flags appear here; and the flags for Finnish and Norwegian, which did have a released localization don't appear here.

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The colloquially called Old Generation version has a few more movies available in the menu, those being In-Game Cutscenes that are pre-rendered there, but are played in real-time in the New Generation as they happen.

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  The Bullies Scheme

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  Quimby Unbribed

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  Take Zat, Frenchies!

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  The Creator

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The level Big Super Happy Fun Fun Game has an IGC placeholder of its own too.

Medal of Homer

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  moh_missionaccomplished

This graphic would have likely been seen somewhere on Mr. Burns' aircraft carrier and references George W. Bush's "Mission Accomplished" speech.

Five Characters in Search of an Author

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A graphic intended for zone 02.

spr_hub

picture_bartboat, while the boat painting is used in the Simpsons' living room, has an unseen photo of blue-shirted Bart Simpson leftover from the Xbox tech demo.

Unused Level Areas

To do: Get populated/textured renders. Right now these photos are just the plain level meshes with no props, enemies or lighting.

Springfield Hub

Retirement Home Interior

Underneath the retirement home, there is an unused interior. This seems to be very basic, with little furniture.

Unused house

Located underneath the Sleep Eazy Motel there is an interior for an unused house. The house contains detailed models for furniture. After applying color, it became clear that this is meant to be Waylon Smithers' apartment. There are pieces of furniture outside the room, and floating in the middle of the room. Since the entire room and props are one single mesh, this is assumed to just be an error that the developers never fixed.

Enter the Cheatrix

Zone 3

Labeled as Zone 3 of Enter the Cheatrix. Only uses the simpsons_palette texture, and generally looks very unfinished. There is no ceiling mesh, so either there would have been a fixed camera angle or the mesh was never finished. From the fact that it uses no textures, we can assume that it was cut very early into Cheatrix's life, or was never intended for the final game at all.

Zone 4

Labeled as Zone 4 of Enter the Cheatrix. Only uses the simpsons_palette texture, bar from 3 pipes. At the top section, next to the green pipe, the wall covers a small corridor leading out, so this was presumably the exit to this zone. There is a movable bridge in the middle, leading to sign saying "POWER BOOST" and "OFF".

According to a Level Designer, These areas were cut because the level felt too long. Zone 3 didn't add anything that wasn’t in another zone and didn’t allow for any stand-out moments that couldn’t fit in elsewhere. Zone 4 was a battle arena, where enemies would spawn in infinitely and you’d need to fight them while figuring out how to turn off the spawners.

Five Characters in Search of an Author

Zone 2

Labelled as Zone 2 of Five Characters. This would have come right after the outside lawyer fight.

Zone 3

Labelled as Zone 3 of Five Characters. This would have come right after Zone 2. The design of this zone is very reminiscent of Old-Gen Five Characters. The player starts in the bottom right, somehow crosses a gap, makes their way across a bowling lane at the back (maybe there would have been bowling balls to dodge?), then back towards the camera. Then, there is a platforming section across floating notepads. The Homer and Bart statues are seemingly textureless, so either they were meant to look like that or the materials were cut.

Oddities

Hidden Geometry

The Simpsons house has a photo of Marge, which isn't visible due to an invisible barrier and the locked camera movement never panning over to where it is. It's located next to the photo of Homer that is visible on the right of the TV. It also appears to be lifted and cropped out from a Season 2 episode.

Behind the grocery store in Springfield, there is an El Barto graffiti 0.04 units inside a wall, making it invisible.

Ingame	Model Viewer (graffiti moved)

Time Challenges

Shadow of the Colossal Donut

• There's a truck near Lard Lad.

Time Challenge	Level

• There's a utility pole near KrustyLu Studios

Time Challenge	Level

Background Models

Shadow of the Colossal Donut

The background models in this level are based on a early version of Springfield seen in a E3 Build of the game.

• The Glided Truffle (which is never seen in Springfield) is next to the Aztec Theater and the Kwik-E-Mart is moved closer to the Industrial Bridge.
• Smithers' Apartment is moved behind the Kwik-E-Mart.
• The 99, 66, and 33 cent stores (which are never seen in Springfield) are next to the museum.
• There's extra road near Cletus' House and empty space where other houses would be at.
• There are two houses that don't appear in Springfield (Milhouse's house and Mrs. Glick's House).
• There's an extra road by the Retirement Castle that leads somewhere.

Invasion of the Yokel-Snatchers

• There's an sign ontop of the roof of the Turn Your Head and Coif building, and certain buildings have different colors.

Level	Springfield

• The Springfield Hospital can be seen in the background.

Bargain Bin

• There are these machines that don't appear in Enter the Cheatrix.

Bargain Bin	Enter the Cheatrix

These machines show up in the ending cutscene of the level.

Episode Replay Icons

The episode replay icons seem be taken from earlier builds of the game.

The Land of Chocolate

• The Giant Cake has a different design.

Episode Replay	In-Game

Enter the Cheatrix

• The vats inside the Blood Room are grey instead of purple.

Episode Replay	In-Game

Shadow of the Colossal Donut

• The building left of Lard Lad is pink instead of green.
• The sign ontop of Lard Lad has an advertisement for the Powersauce Bars

Episode Replay	In-Game

Medal of Homer

• There are some posters that don't appear in the game, but do appear in the E3 build.

Cutscenes

Alien Invasion

• The sign ontop of Lard Lad has an advertisement for the Powersauce Bars which can also be seen in the Episode Replay Icon and in earlier versions of the level.

• The area near the Sit-N-Rotate is expanded.

Cutscene	In-Game

Eat Fist, Lard Crotch!

You can briefly see some stadium headlights and bleachers in the background, which is possibly a remnant of an earlier design of the level.

Cheating

When Kang and Kodos start destroying Springfield, you can briefly see the Springfield Hospital in the background (which is a remnant of an earlier Springfield Hub)

Springfield

In cutscenes that show Springfield, the town looks noticeably different from how its seen in-game, with various buildings and changes in the overall layout.

Alien Invasion	Confronting God

Typos

Around the World in 80 Bites

Sarah Wiggum is mentioned exactly once by name throughout the game and it's not even spelled correctly.

{D6644659-4659-D664-5946-64D6594664D6}.LH2

String ID	String Label	String
00B3EDAB	cwig_xxx_000028e	Mmm, so much better than Sara's cooking.

NeverQuest

Hobbit Rod Flanders' name is misspelled as Rodd for two subtitles.

{79FE5F1A-5F1A-79FE-1A5F-FE791A5FFE79}.LH2

String ID	String Label	String
DD56D7EE	rdfh_xxx_00067c2	Rodd says yes!
DD56D7F5	rdfh_xxx_00067c9	Rodd is a follower.

"Translucent" said by Ghost Otto is also misspelled.

{95D3549A-549A-95D3-9A54-D3959A54D395}.LH2

String ID	String Label	String
252D9D9B	otgh_xxx_000327c	Whoa, I'm transluscent! Trippy!

Grand Theft Scratchy

The word "everything" said by Gangster Scratchy is misspelled.

{80A7BE1D-BE1D-80A7-1DBE-A7801DBEA780}.LH2

String ID	String Label	String
651945EF	scrg_xxx_0004e6e	There's high fructose corn syrup in everthing these days.

Five Characters in Search of an Author

Matt Groening's assistant Vyolet Diaz is written as Violet. While it could've been a parody, the internal subtitle ID vdiz does imply it's meant to be the real Vyolet; not to mention she's the one who also does the voice acting.

rwc_igc01.LH2

String ID	String Label	String
5A85E2AE	gron_igc_00031b1	So they want a war? Well, then it's a war they'll get!
E56F3A5B	gron_igc_0006055	Violet, engage the super-toon defense systems!
239DC464	vdiz_igc_00031b2	Yes, Mr. Groening.
5A85E2B0	gron_igc_00031b3	It's "Gray-ning"!
239DC466	vdiz_igc_00031b4	Are you sure?
5A85E2B2	gron_igc_00031b5	No.

Game Over

The word "worship" is used twice in this one line, and one of them is misspelled.

{E8F55CDA-5CDA-E8F5-DA5C-F5E8DA5CF5E8}.LH2

String ID	String Label	String
02F65068	bart_xxx_0006366	I don't worship you -- I worhip Crom! Hail Crom!

Regional Differences

Some lines of dialogue are not dubbed in other languages, and instead just have a 0.1 second worth of silence. Some quotes, such as Mayor Quimby asking for his bribe, are meant to be reused in Springfield from an existing cutscene. Quimby's other quotes also appear to have multiple existing copies. Other quotes, like Homer saying how he feels after turning into Helium Homer, also appear to be duplicates.

String ID	String Label	Sound	De	Es	Fr	It	Subtitle
780FEF70	drom_xxx_000092c		Yes	No	No	Yes	For feudalism!!!!!
A6341421	jany_xxx_0000e22		No	No	No	No	We want violence! We want violence! We want violence!
A6341422	jany_xxx_0000e23		No	No	No	No	No supervision! No supervision!
A6341423	jany_xxx_0000e24		No	No	No	No	Not the boss of us! Not the boss of us!
A6341424	jany_xxx_0000e25		No	No	No	No	What do we want? Violence! When do we want it? Now! What do we want? Violence! When do we want it? Now!
A6341425	jany_xxx_0000e26		No	No	No	No	V for violence! "V" for violence! "V" for violence!
A6341426	jany_xxx_0000e27		No	No	No	No	Anarchy always! Naps never! Anarchy always! Naps never!
A6341427	jany_xxx_0000e28		No	No	No	No	All we are saying, is give vice a chance! All we are saying, is give vice a chance!
A6341428	jany_xxx_0000e29		No	No	No	No	A sick mind is a terrible thing to waste! A sick mind is a terrible thing to waste!
2524FF24	spav_xxx_000638c		No	Yes	Yes	Yes	God's Choice massage oils available for sale in gift shop.
382186C1	askn_xxx_0006635		Yes	No	Yes	Yes	'Cause you're a professional criminal!
FC77F6DE	plum_xxx_00067ed		No	No	No	No	Play-a nice, ah?
FC77F6DF	plum_xxx_00067ee		No	No	No	No	Leave an old-a man alone!
FC77F6E0	plum_xxx_00067ef		No	No	No	No	At least I feel-a something!
FC78F6E9	plum_xxx_00067f0		No	No	No	No	I wish-a I could still-a throw fireballs!
FC78F6EA	plum_xxx_00067f1		No	No	No	No	I'm a glad the Princess not here to see this-a!
A3EC5358	mayr_xxx_0006843		No	No	No	No	So I'm ready to receive my bribe now.
A3EC535C	mayr_xxx_0006847		No	No	No	No	So, I'm ready to receive my bribe now.
A3EC535D	mayr_xxx_0006848		No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Can I count on your vote?!
A3EC535E	mayr_xxx_0006849		No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Mistakes were not made.
A3EC5386	mayr_xxx_000684a		No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Did I ever tell you I was almost a contestant on Project Runway?
ECA0D928	homr_xxx_000685e		No	Yes	No	No	Wow! I feel slightly lighter than air!

Revisional Differences

Enter the Cheatrix Time Challenge

The bridge in the blood room is damaged in the Xbox 360 version, but remains fully intact in the PlayStation 3 release.

PlayStation 3	Xbox 360

Bonus Movies

The European PlayStation 3 releases have an additional Bonus Movies sub-menu, which has two somewhat generic videos available. This was originally meant to contain the cut Making-of movie for this game.

PlayStation 3 (Europe)	PlayStation 3 (Rest of the World), Xbox 360

Texture Resolution

To do: Some "generic" textures shared across many archives also have differing resolutions. Not to mention some others look quite different due to using other alpha masking types.

A couple textures have more visible compression artifacts in one version than the other, which isn't that noteworthy, however there are also several textures that are higher resolution, most of the higher resolution ones occurring in the PS3 release.

Bartman Begins

PlayStation 3	Xbox 360
brt\zone02.str\brt_entrytunnel_brck
brt\zone02.str\brt_grybrck
brt\zone01.str\brt_grybrck
brt\zone02.str\brt_templecroft
brt\zone01.str\brt_wallcrack1
brt\zone01.str\brt_wallcrack2
brt\zone01.str\stoneblock

Mob Rules

This texture exists in Bartman Begins, here, and in Springfield. Only in Bartman Begins the texture is identical on both platforms (both using the higher quality variant seen in the PS3 column.) Springfield's texture is the same as this one's.

PlayStation 3	Xbox 360
mob_rules\zone03.str\spr_museum02

Shadow of the Colossal Donut

PlayStation 3	Xbox 360
colossadonut\zone02.str\spr_museum05

Game Engine

The Five Characters in Search of an Author equivalent of this texture (rhymes\zone01.str\rwc_goldcoinramp2) is high resolution on both platforms.

PlayStation 3	Xbox 360
gamehub\zone01.str\gam_goldcoinramp2

Springfield

The cliff texture has two different (yet almost identical) variants, the first one is lower resolution on PS3, but the 2nd one is identical on both patforms

PlayStation 3	Xbox 360
spr_hub\zone*.str\cliff
spr_hub\zone21.str\pol_floor1