Pac-Man World 2 - Possible "Ken" Test Level
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- Greetings! It's been a while, but I'm back today with an interesting discovery. Recently, a lot of Xbox prototypes were released by Xil_Dreadnought. One of these was a program called "testbed". This program is a debug tool used to view scenes/levels made for the Pac-Man World 2 engine. The "testbed" seems to have been primarily used to test assets for Dead to Rights, but it is compatible with Pac-Man World 2 levels and even contains some PMW2 assets that can't be found in the retail releases of the game... such as this level called "ken.rar". I cannot say with absolute certainty that this is a test level made for PMW2, but I do believe it is. In the debug menu, one of the selectable test levels is called "KEN". If you look through the strings in the game's executable, the file name for "KEN" is "ken.rar", the same as the testbed level. Its scene and collision file are both named "level", just like every level in PMW2, whereas levels compiled for Dead to Rights have more specific names. It also contains a folder called "pacreflect" which has a single file in it called "pacmanreflect.hxf".
On to the level itself, there isn't a whole lot to say. It's pretty basic with some terrain, undersized trees, leather hides, fences, and a 2D image of a woman. I'm not sure who she is or if she's an original character made just for the test level. If anyone knows, please leave a comment and I'll update the description! All of the levels that were included with the testbed program had their script files removed, so some elements may be missing from the level.
Aside from the level, the testbed program has some files that I don't believe are present in any retail version of Pac-Man World 2. I found an older melon texture that has different colors, some new files related to the unused nuke powerup, and .xsi files for an older token model and the entirety of Haunted Boardwalk.
Well, he’s back. And just look at what he’s found in the past two years!
I can't believe what I've seen, I thought by now I knew almost everything about Pac-Man World 2 and instead, anyway I'm glad you're back
This is actually insane
Holy shite you’re alive
I didn't ever expect to see something like this
this is so cool!
I doubt it was exactly a "test level". Looks like it would of been a "test render" for promotional images. The way its structured makes it look like the camera was supposed to be fixed to not show any of the empty space.
what the flip
What happened to Pac-Man's gloves?
It's a rendering bug with XEMU. It doesn't seem to be able to correctly render the models that use vertex coloring instead of textures.
@@Pac-ModderI’ve been hoping that rendering bug would be fixed by now for XEMU, but understandably it’s not a priority since PMW2 works perfectly fine on Dolphin or PCSX2, but I always loved the Xbox version most cuz I grew up with it.
Who the hell is ken
I'm begging you to link me to this stuff
Here is the link! mega.nz/file/0PZkAKhR#pD4Md2JNRmdHfmSD5UOmfW15NcUACjGfwVgrP-bm6JM
@@Pac-Modder Thank you!!!
@@Pac-Modder can i have the flie too I need it!
@@drewchaboo719 Here is a new link! mega.nz/file/0PZkAKhR#pD4Md2JNRmdHfmSD5UOmfW15NcUACjGfwVgrP-bm6JM