Upa's Rayman 2 Playstation GameShark/Action Replay Codes

[upaluppa]

Hello folks, I have a little gift to share with you!
I spent a few weekends of free time on hacking various Rayman (and other Ubi Soft) games for the Playstation 1 and I am happy to finally share the results of my work with you all!

I give you my word that all of these codes are my own work.
They were not stolen from anyone else and you won't find them anywhere else on the internet! (With the exception of this thread, of course)

So here are all of my hacks for Rayman 2 and other Playstation 1 games using Rayman 2's engine:

Rayman 2 The Great Escape (US Version: SLUS-01235)


STAGE SELECT:

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Intro
30010004 0000
Prison
30010004 0001
Woods Of Light
30010004 0002
Fairy Glade
30010004 0003
Fairy Glade 2
30010004 0004
Fairy Glade 3
30010004 0005
Marches Of Awakening
30010004 0006
Marches Of Awakening 2
30010004 0007
Razorbeard's Cabin
30010004 0008
The Bayou
30010004 0009
The Bayou 2
30010004 000A
Time Race
30010004 000B
Whale Bay
30010004 000C
Whale Bay 2
30010004 000D
Water And Ice
30010004 000E
Polokus' Dream
30010004 000F
Menhir Hills
30010004 0010
Cave Of Bad Dreams
30010004 0011
Cave Of Bad Dreams 2
30010004 0012
Jano Slide
30010004 0013
Jano Battle
30010004 0014
Menhir Hills 2
30010004 0015
The Canopy
30010004 0016
The Canopy 2
30010004 0017
The Canopy 3
30010004 0018
Stone And Fire
30010004 0019
Stone And Fire 2
30010004 001A
Stone And Fire 3
30010004 001B
Stone And Fire 4
30010004 001C
Ninjaws Battle
30010004 001D
Echoing Caves
30010004 001E
Echoing Caves 2
30010004 001F
Echoing Caves 3
30010004 0020
The Precipice
30010004 0021
The Precipice (Clone)
30010004 0022
The Precipice 2
30010004 0023
The Precipice 3
30010004 0024
Rock And Lava
30010004 0025
Rock And Lava 2
30010004 0026
Time Race 2
30010004 0027
Beneath Rock And Lava
30010004 0028
Beneath Rock And Lava 2
30010004 0029
Foutch Battle
30010004 002A
Tomb Of Ancients
30010004 002B
Tomb Of Ancients 2
30010004 002C
Clark Battle
30010004 002D
Iron Mountains
30010004 002E
Balloon Flight
30010004 002F
Gloomy Island
30010004 0030
Razorbeard's Cabin 2
30010004 0031
Pirate Ship
30010004 0032
Pirate Ship 2
30010004 0033
Flying Rocket Ride
30010004 0034
Razorbeard's Cabin 3
30010004 0035
Final Battle
30010004 0036
Final Battle 2
30010004 0037
World Map
30010004 0038
Title Screen
30010004 0039
Bonus Game
30010004 003A
Bonus Game (Clone)
30010004 003B
Title Screen (Clone)
30010004 003C
Empty Screen
30010004 003D

- Probably the best code I have hacked for this game so far!
It's amazingly simple to use:

1. Activate the code for the level of your choice in the main menu or the pause menu of the game.
2. Select the Load Game option and load any of your saved games.
3. The game will load the selected stage instead of loading the Hall Of Doors!

Note that your saved game still determines your progress in the game, so if you use the stage select code and load a saved game in which all the Lums and cages have been found already this will also be the case in the level you loaded with my stage select code.

If you want to play the level as if it were your first time visiting that level you should load a save game in which nothing but the Woods Of Light have been completed! That way all the Lums, cages and boss fights are still available!
(Your magic fist is also as weak as it was at the beginning of the game, so fighting enemies in some of the later levels might be a bit tougher than usual!)

It's also possible to select the New Game option from the main menu to use my stage select code but this will cause your health bar to be glitched for some reason.

There aren't any unused stages available as far as I know.
Things of interest are a second Precipice level which seems to be identical to the normally playable one, the 2D Rayman 2 Prototype and Razorbeards Cabin which only appears in cutscenes normally:


THE WOODS OF LIGHT CODES:
One nasty thing about this game is that most codes are different for each level, so I have to create multiple versions of the same codes for all the levels.
The level names written in red capital letters show you which level the next set of codes is working with.

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Language Select Modifier (French + German)
300A90D4 0000
Language French
300A9260 0000
Language English
300A9260 0001
Language German
300A9260 0002
Language Spanish
300A9260 0003
Language Italian
300A9260 0004
Language Gibberish
300A9260 0005
Pause Menu Modifier (Save Anywhere)
300A90DC 0009
Move Camera Up
300B061D 0005
Freeze Camera In Spot
300B0630 0001
Display Empty Healthbar
300A9A31 0001
Display Full Healthbar
300A9A34 0001
Debug Menu (Map Select)
300A94F0 0001
No Clip Mode Debug
300A94A8 0001
Disable Animations Debug
300A94AC 0001
Freeze Everything Debug (Press Cross)
300A94AC 0010
Freeze Screen
300A9494 0001
Rayman Walks On Spot
300A934F 0001
Freeze Time
300A94B9 0001
Freeze Rayman
300A94BF 0001
Rayman Has No Shadow
300A9524 0000
Moleman 2 The Great Escape
300A953D 0014
Rayman Falls Appart
300A953D 002C
Weird Rayman 1
300A9540 003C
Weird Rayman 2
300A9540 0044
Weird Rayman 3
300A9540 0054
Weird Rayman 4
300A9540 0064
Lolman
300A9543 0081
Activate Pause Menu
300A94E4 0001
Move Camera
300A95D4 0011
Healthbar Expands
300A980C 0001
Try Again
300A9810 0001
Display Camera HUD Icon
300A982A 0010
PAL Mode
3009DD98 0001
Freeze Game
3009CC90 0000
No Rayman
3914BDF8 0000
Transparent Rayman
3914BDF8 0003

- "Language Select Modifier" determines which languages will be available to choose from in the options menu.
All languages of the PAL version (German, Italian etc.) are included in the NTSC version of the game and they work just fine.

- The codes below the "Language Select Modifier" allow you to directly set the language of the game to anything you want.

- "Pause Menu Modifier (Save Anywhere)" allows you to save your game from the pause menu while you are playing the Woods Of Light level!

- "Move Camera Up" and "Freeze Camera In Spot" do exactly what they say!

- "Display Empty/Full Healthbar" also does what it says.
(This might actually expand your health bar as if you broke a cage, I am not sure...)

- "Debug Menu (Map Select)" is one of the game's debug features which were almost completely removed from the final game, unfortunately.
It used to open up a special menu in which you could select any of the maps from the game, press the X button and enter that map.

In this version of the game the menu was removed, so if you activate the code no menu will show up pressing X won't do anything either...
I have just included this code for completeness sake and in the hope that there might be a way to re-enable the missing menu somehow.

- "No Clip Mode Debug" is one of the game's debug features which were almost completely removed from the final game, unfortunately.
It used to allow you to fly around the level freely, you could even fly through enemies, objects and behind the map boundaries.

The flying no longer works in this version of the game but you can still zoom the camera in and out and rotate it with the R1 and R2 buttons!

- "Disable Animations Debug" is one of the game's debug features which were almost completely removed from the final game, unfortunately.
This one still works as it used to, even in the final game!

It disables most animations of Rayman, enemies, objects and scenery but does nothing apart from that.

- "Freeze Everything Debug (Press Cross)" is one of the game's debug features which were almost completely removed from the final game, unfortunately.
This one still works as it used to, even in the final game!

Press the X button to freeze all enemies and objects in spot!

- "Moleman 2 The Great Escape" and the codes below cripple Rayman in all kinds of funny ways.
Here's an example:


The rest of the codes following the debugging stuff should be self explanatory.
If there's anything you need to know feel free to ask, ok?

THE FAIRY GLADE CODES:

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Level Event Related Stuff
300AF74C 000C
Play Part 2 Of Music
300Af8D6 0004
Pause Game
300AFF1C 0001

THE BAYOU CODES:

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Debug Menu (Map Select)
300A8B48 0001

WORLD MAP CODES:

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Level Text Modifier
300A6DAA 0018
HUD Modifier
30093C4C 0002
Weird Camera Behaviour
300939BC 0001
Language Select Modifier (French + German)
300934E8 0000
Language French
30093674 0000
Language English
30093674 0001
Language German
30093674 0002
Language Spanish
30093674 0003
Language Italian
30093674 0004
Language Gibberish
30093674 0005
Pause Menu Modifier (Load + New Game)
300934F0 0023
Debug Menu (Map Select)
300938EC 0001
No Clip Mode Debug
30093A24 0001
Freeze Time Debug
300938A8 0001
Freeze Time Debug (Cross To Activate)
300938A8 0010
Freeze Everything Debug
300938B4 0001
Freeze Animations Debug
300938B8 0001
Activate Pause Menu
300938E0 0001

CROWS NEST PART 1 CODES:

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Debug Menu (Map Select)
300A9B40 0001
No Clip Mode Debug
300A9AF8 0001
Disable Animations Debug
300A9AFC 0001
Freeze Everything Debug (Press Cross)
300A9AFC 0010
Open Pause Menu
300A9B34 0001
Pause Menu Selection
300A9748 0009
Freeze Rayman + Bombs + Grolgoth
300A9B43 0001
Grolgoth Health
300A91B4 0000
Grolgoth Disappears
300A9BB5 0011
No Grolgoth Camera Focus
300A9C20 0000
Controller Input (For Joker Codes)
300A12DA 0000
Try Again
300A9E51 0001
Rayman Infinite Health
300A9E40 0000
Freeze Grolgoth
300A9F2D 0000
Alternate HUD Graphics
300A9EF3 0000
Move Rayman HUD Icon
300A9915 0001
Screen Brightness
300A9F70 0000
Weird Sound FX
300A019D 0000
Background Clouds Stop Moving
300A98FC 0000
Grolgoth AI Modifier
300A9948 0000
300A9949 0000
Show Healthbar
300AA069 0001
Skip Grolgoth Fight Part 1
300A6170 0001
300A62CE 0001
300A62D0 0001
300A6300 0006

CROWS NEST PART 1 INTRO MOVIE CODES:

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Skip Intro
300A9A1D 0000

- Activate this code during the intro scene before the boss fight to skip it.


MAIN MENU CODES:

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No Ambient Sound FX
30085698 0000
Disable Water Animations
30085A50 0000
Wireframe Mode
30085A64 0000
Weird Colors
30085A8B 0000
Debug Menu (Map Select)
30085BAC 0001
Play Demo Movie
30085EDE 0002
Demo Stage Select
3008555B 0012
Language Select Modifier (French + German)
30085890 0000
Language French
30085A1C 0000
Language English
30085A1C 0001
Language German
30085A1C 0002
Language Spanish
30085A1C 0003
Language Italian
30085A1C 0004
Language Gibberish
30085A1C 0005
Pause Menu Modifier (Load + New Game)
30085898 0023
Pause Menu Mode
30085A7C 0000
Main Menu Mode
30085A7C 0001
Selected Menu Option
30085890 0001

MAIN MENU MODIFIERS:

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Empty Screen
30085A78 0000
Title Screen
30085A78 0001
World Map Saving Info
30085A78 0002
Glitched Main Menu
30085A78 0004
Start New Game
30085A78 0005
Save Anywhere
30085A78 0009
Load Failed
30085A78 000B
Overwrite Data (Fails)
30085A78 000C
Overwrite Completed
30085A78 000D
Save To Slot 1 (Actually Works)
30085A78 000E
Save Completed
30085A78 000F
Save Failed
30085A78 0012
Memory Card 1 Is Full
30085A78 0013
Access Memory Card 1 (Works)
30085A78 0014
Access Memory Card 1 (Freezes)
30085A78 0015
Memory Card 1 Unformatted
30085A78 0016
Format Failed
30085A78 0017
Format Completed
30085A78 0018
Formatting Memory Card 1 (Fails)
30085A78 0019
Save To Slot 1 (Actually Works)
30085A78 001C
New Game + Load + Exit
30085A78 0023
Options Menu
30085A78 0025
Select Memory Card
30085A78 0029
Center Screen
30085A78 0031
Sound Settings
30085A78 0032
Language Select
30085A78 0033
Skips To 31
30085A78 0034
Screen Position Adjust
30085A78 0037
Pause Menu
30085A78 004A
Resume Game
30085A78 004B
Load Game
30085A78 004C
Glitched Load Game
30085A78 004D
Options
30085A78 004E
Quit Game
30085A78 004F
Another Load Game
30085A78 0050
Another Load Game
30085A78 0051
Save Yes/No
30085A78 0053
Save Game
30085A78 0056
Another Save Game
30085A78 0057
Another Center Screen
30085A78 0059
Another Sound Settings
30085A78 005A
Another Language Select
30085A78 005B
Skips To 59
30085A78 005C

- These codes replace the normal menu with whatever the code description says.


BONUS GAME UNLOCKED MENU CODES:

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Skip Credits
3008D624 0001
Alternate Bonus Game
3008D618 003A
Map Select
3008D618 0001
Load Selected Map
3008D620 0002
Language French
3008CFA0 0000
Language English
3008CFA0 0001
Language German
3008CFA0 0002
Language Spanish
3008CFA0 0003
Language Italian
3008CFA0 0004
Language Gibberish
3008CFA0 0005

- These codes modify the "Congratulation! The adventure goes on..." screen which is shown after watching the credits if you have collected at least 90% of the yellow Lums. This is the screen I am talking about:



2D PROTOTYPE CODES:

(Yeah, I am the first person ever to hack and release codes for the secret Rayman 2 2D Prototype which is a hidden bonus game in the PSX version of Rayman 2!)

I love Rayman 1! No other 2d platform game I have played so far has managed to get a place as close to my heart as Rayman 1 did.
I am incredibly sad that the 2D version of Rayman 2 was canceled. The short glimpse at the game I got from this playable level made me wish Ubi Soft would finish and release this game someday but we all know that this is not going to happen...

Anyways, at least I was able to take a look at the game's RAM and hack a few codes for it which reveal a couple of hidden features!
So here they are:

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Play Rayman 2 Prototype (Level 1)
30010004 003A
Play Rayman 2 Prototype (Level 2)
30010004 003B
Spawn Big Scared Platform
3005FC2C 0000
1st Enemy Invisible
3005FCF9 0000
1st Enemy Dies
3005FCF7 0000
1st Enemy Modifier
3005Fd07 009C
1st Enemy Disappears
3005FD04 0000
Modified HUD Graphics 1
30018288 001C
Modified HUD Graphics 2
30018288 00F5
1st Item Spawn Modifier Try 1
30060A60 001F
1st Item Spawn Modifier Try 2
30060A60 0033
No Controller Input
3000E331 0000
Pause Menu Control
30145A2A 0001
Language French
30145974 0000
Language English
30145974 0001
Language German
30145974 0002
Language Spanish
30145974 0003
Language Italian
30145974 0004
Language Gibberish
30145974 0005
Try Again Menu
30145AC0 0002
Try Again Menu Selection
301459C1 0003
Glitched Graphics
30145879 0003
Objects Infront Of Rayman
30145858 0001
Infinite Health
30178E47 0006
Infinite Lives
30145A90 0063
Infinite Tings
30145A95 0009
Full Healthbar
30145A94 0006
Display Collision Zones
30145A58 0001
No Clip Mode
30145B20 0000
Normal Mode
30145B20 0001
Level View Mode
30145B20 0007
Slippery Jumping
30145AC6 0001
Auto Walking
30145A4F 0001
Debug Function (Crashes Game)
30145B60 0001
Only Background Visible
30145401 0000
Glitched Level Graphics
3014587B 0000
Glitched Background Graphics
30145AB8 0001

Most of these codes should be self explanatory but here are a few details just in case you need them:

- "Play Rayman 2 Prototype (Level 1)" or "(Level 2)" are the codes you'll want to use in order to play the 2D prototype without having to beat the final boss every time you want to access it! Using this code is simple, just activate it on the title screen or in the main menu and then select the New Game option!
The game will load the 2D prototype instead of starting a new game!

Don't ask me why there are two levels available. As far as I can tell both codes take you to exactly the same level.
Who knows, perhaps the developers wanted to include two levels at first but decided to scrap one of them for some reason...
(There are actually two different backgrounds for 2d Rayman levels included on the disk and the playable level is named "course2" which further suggests that two levels were planned at one point)

- "Spawn Big Scared Platform" makes a giant platform (one of those scared types which you can grab with your fist) appear in the background at the beginning of the level. You can't interact with it, it doesn't have any collision zone at all!


- "Modified HUD Graphics" glitches the graphics of your HUD.
It makes it look like this:

(I found these unused sprites by messing with the HUD graphics! Looks like the Hunter's gun and the Blue Elf from Rayman 1 were going to appear in this game)

Or like this in some cases:

(A weird screen in screen graphic glitch happened in this case...)

- "1st Item Spawn Modifier Try 1/Try 2" replaces the red P item (This thing which restores your health completely) on the background layer right at the beginning of the level with other objects. This code is somewhat glitched and does not seem to work correctly with enemies. You can hear them but they are invisible...

In my example code it spawns one of those turning blocks:

There are unused enemies and items hidden in the game's code!
Here's a rough list I have created while testing my example code:

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Red Health Item Modifier
30060A60 00??

00 = Fist
12 = Unknown Enemy
15 = Unknown Enemy
1F = Spiky Turn Block
21 = Unknown Enemy
25 = Life Power Up
2C = Unknown Enemy
33 = Moving Spiky Turn Block
3B = Weird Invisible Thing (Makes Game Speed Faster)
40 = Unknown Enemy
45 = Unknown Enemy
54 = Unknown Enemy
5E = Unknown Enemy

Let's hope that we can find a way to get all of them to spawn properly someday!

- The "Health Bar Modifier" allows you to expand your health bar to ridiculously large amounts:

(In theory it is possible to make the Ting counter go up to 99 Tings in this game but this is impossible without hacking because no more than 11 Tings exist in this level and collecting 10 Tings resets the Ting counter to 0 and gives you an extra life. Tings seem to be incredibly rare in this game, that's probably the reason why you only need 10 to get an extra life)

- "Display Collision Zones" activates a debug mode in which the collision zones for all the sprites in the level are displayed on screen as red boxes!
Not really useful to us players but it's still quite interesting to look at and gives you an idea on how some of the game mechanics work behind the scenes!

Here's a shot of how this looks in the game:


- "No Clip Mode" works just as it did in Rayman 1.
You can fly around the level with up, down, left, right and use the X button to move faster.


- "Slippery Jumping" is really weird, it makes it hard to change direction while jumping similar to how Rayman behaved when jumping on slippery ground in Rayman 1. What's even stranger is that you gain some kind of forward thrust if you shoot your fist while in the air.
You can fly over huge parts of the level by using this trick when you are standing on that huge mountain at the beginning of the level.

- "Auto Walking" makes Rayman walk by himself. This might be related to the always running spell effect from Rayman 1, I am not sure...


Rayman 2 The Great Escape Preview (US Version: SLUS-90095)

This is a beta demo of Rayman 2 The Great Escape for the Playstation 1 which contains a few really interesting differences to the final game!

STAGE SELECT:

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Razorbeard's Cabin
30018004 0008
The Bayou
30018004 0009
World Map
30018004 0038

- Activate this anytime before the "Bayou" level has finished loading and the game will load the stage of your choice instead of "The Bayou"!
Unfortunately this demo contains no more than two maps, so the selection to choose from isn't too exciting...

Setting it to "World Map" allows you to view an interesting "To be continued" screen which is obviously not used in the final game:

(I wonder what level this screen is based on. It looks like it could have been a beta version of "Menhir Hills" or "Gloomy Island", don't you think?)

INTRO MOVIE CODES:

These codes only work during the intro movie!

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Load Debug Menu (After Intro Movie)
3009C228 0001
Skip Intro Movie
3009C159 0001
Debug Menu Graphics Modifier
3009C022 0077

- "Load Debug Menu (After Intro Movie)" is one of the game's debug features which were removed from the final game.
However, all of them are working fine in this beta demo!

It places you inside Razorbeard's Cabin and loads a special menu in which you can select any of the maps from the game after the intro movie is has ended!
Use up and down to select a map and press the X button to play it!

- "Skip Intro Movie" does what it says!
It allows you to get rid of that boring intro scene in Razorbeard's Cabin which can't be skipped.

THE BAYOU PAUSE MENU MODIFIER:

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Main Menu
300AA84C 0003
300AA84D 0019
Load File Yes No
300AA84C 0004
300AA84D 0005
Overwrite File Yes No
300AA84C 0007
300AA84D 004B
Save File Yes No
300AA84C 0008
300AA84D 004B
Access Memory Card (Save)
300AA84C 0009
300AA84D 0000
Select Memory Card (Save)
300AA84C 000A
300AA84D 0000
Access Memory Card (Load)
300AA84C 000C
300AA84D 0000
Select Memory Card (Load)
300AA84C 000D
300AA84D 0000
Insert Formatted Memory Card Yes No
300AA84C 000E
300AA84D 0010
Select Memory Card (Save)
300AA84C 000F
300AA84D 0000
Format Memory Card 1 Yes No
300AA84C 0012
300AA84D 0010
New Game + Load + Exit
300AA84C 0019
300AA84D 001E
Config Menu
300AA84C 001B
300AA84D 0029
Pocket Station Download
300AA84C 001C
300AA84D 0000
Select Memory Card (Load)
300AA84C 001F
300AA84D 0047
Center Screen Config
300AA84C 0027
300AA84D 002D
Sound Config
300AA84C 0028
300AA84D 002F
Language Config
300AA84C 0029
300AA84D 0014
Center Screen
300AA84C 002D
300AA84D 0000
Select Memory Card (Download)
300AA84C 0037
300AA84D 0038
12 Blocks Yes No (Download)
300AA84C 003A
300AA84D 003B
Insert Pocket Station
300AA84C 003D
300AA84D 0000
Not Enough Free Blocks (Download)
300AA84C 003E
300AA84D 0000
Download Finished
300AA84C 0040
300AA84D 0000
Pause Menu
300AA84C 0041
300AA84D 0042
Select Memory Card (Load)
300AA84C 0043
300AA84D 0047
Select Memory Card (Save)
300AA84C 0044
300AA84D 004D
Config Menu
300AA84C 0045
300AA84D 0050
Quit Game Yes No
300AA84C 0046
300AA84D 0055
Access Memory Card (Load)
300AA84C 0047
300AA84D 0000
Access Memory Card (Load)
300AA84C 0048
300AA84D 0000
Save Yes No
300AA84C 004A
300AA84D 004B
Select Memory Card (Save)
300AA84C 004D
300AA84D 0000
Select Memory Card (Save)
300AA84C 004E
300AA84D 0000
Center Screen Config
300AA84C 0050
300AA84D 002D
Sound Config
300AA84C 0051
300AA84D 002F
Language Config
300AA84C 0052
300AA84D 0014

- These replace the normal pause menu with whatever the description says.
Of special interest is the "Pocket Station Download" option which is available from the main menu:




Yes, Rayman 2 on the PSX was going to have Pocket Station support when it was first announced!
Popular game critic website Gamespot even mentioned the Pocket Station support in one of their early previews of the game:
http://www.gamespot.com/ps/action/rayma ... e=previews

Here's an extract of their preview which gives us some details about this lost feature of Rayman 2:
"Another cool addition is PocketStation support. While Sony still hasn't released the peripheral in the US, Ubi Soft is aware that some gamers have imported the device and has implemented the PocketStation support in ways that will actually benefit the player. Instead of just being a half-assed minigame collection, the PocketStation games will let you collect extra lums from the game, and you can even fight some of the game's bosses on the small handheld instead of in the actual game itself. While these options are not essential, for those who have a PocketStation, they provide a pretty cool reason to dust it off."

I do not own a Pocket Station (I didn't even know it existed until I stumbled upon this menu option in this Rayman 2 beta) so if anyone here knows more about this thing sharing your knowledge would be greatly appreciated!
According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PocketStation) the Pocket Station was never released outside of Japan which is most likely the reason why the final version of Rayman 2 no longer supports it.

This Pocket Station thing seems to be a failed piece of hardware similar to Nintendo's 64DD add-on for the N64.
Too bad we are probably never going to find out what exactly you could do in Rayman 2 with the Pocket Station.
(I doubt anybody here owns a Pocket Station but if you do, how about trying to connect it to this Rayman 2 beta to see what happens? It might be worth a try!)

Another funny thing is how badly written some of the English screen texts in this beta were!
Just take a look at this for a laugh:

YES I WANT SAVE!!!

Just kidding...
I am glad that Ubi Soft Shanghai improved on this before shipping the game!

I guess this demo is from a really early build of the game which is far from finished.

The screen texts in other languages are even worse, by the way:

You probably haven't noticed but this is supposed to be French. Yeah, sure...


I don't even know which language this is supposed to be. I guess they were serious with that "Language = OFF" option I could set in this menu!

One last thing, it is actually possible to save your game using the pause menu modifier but you won't be able to load it afterwards.
This is because the game tries to load the "Hall Of Doors" if you load your saved game even tough the "Hall Of Doors" map is not included in this demo so it just shows the "To be continued" screen instead...

THE BAYOU CODES:

These codes only work in the "Bayou" level!

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Pause Menu Selection
300AA84D 0042
Access Pocket Station Menu
300AA84C 0003
300AA84D 0019
Try Again (Restart Level)
300AADF8 0001
Screen Brightness
300AAEF0 0000
Camera Zoom In
300AAC64 0001
Invisible 3D Models
300AAC98 0001
Underwater Mode
300AAF75 0001
All Models Invisible
300AAF76 0001
Display Glitched Health Bar
300AAFC9 0001
Display Normal Health Bar
300AAFCD 0001
Change Camera Hight
300B02A1 0002
No Wind SFX
300AA68F 0001
Play Music
300AA69E 0001
Invisible Level Structure
300AA326 0002
Try Again Screen
300A80CA 0001
Disable HUD
300A803D 0001
Camera Related Debug Mode
300A480E 0001
Cause Assertion Error
300A1C1C 0001
PAL Mode
300A1C7C 0001
Improved Fist (Golden Energy Balls)
300AA6F4 0001
Fist Always Fully Charged
300AA6F9 0001
Weird Camera
300AA57E 0001
No Clip Debug Mode
300AAAB0 0001
Disable Animations Debug Mode
300AAAB4 0001
Freeze Screen (Not Gameplay)
300AAA9C 0001
Freeze Gameplay (Pause Menu Works)
300AAAC0 0001
Disable Walking
300AAA67 0001
Start Rayman Idle Animation
300AADA6 0001
Glitched HUD Graphics
300AAE77 0000
Health Bar Extends
300AADF4 0001
Lums and Cages Counter Modifier
300AADEC 0002
Object Behaviour Modifier
300AADE8 0013
Activate Debug Menu (Stage Select)
300AAAF8 0001
Debug Menu Selection
300AAB24 0021
Fast Camera Movement
300ACAF0 0001
Freeze Game
300A0B74 0000
Freeze Game 2
300A1C30 0001

- "Access Pocket Station Menu" replaces the pause menu with the main menu so you can check out the misterious Pocket Station option which was never included in the final game!

- "No Clip Mode Debug" is one of the game's debug features which were removed from the final game.
They are working just fine in this demo version!

No Clip Mode allows you to fly around the level freely!
You can even fly through enemies, objects and behind the map boundaries with this feature and nothing can hurt you!


It's also possible to zoom the camera in and out and rotate it with the R1 and R2 buttons in this mode!

- "Disable Animations Debug" is one of the game's debug features which were almost completely removed from the final game.
This one disables most animations of Rayman, enemies, objects and scenery but does nothing apart from that.

- "Object Behaviour Modifier" is really strange!
It messes up the AI of the enemies, making them unable to successfully attack you!

- "Activate Debug Menu (Stage Select)" is one of the game's debug features which were removed from the final game.
It is actually working in this beta demo!


It loads a special menu in which you can select any of the maps from the game and play them!
Use up and down to select a map and press the X button to play it!

The list of maps includes some stuff which is not included in the final game!
I am sure that those were test levels and experimental stages which did not make the final cut...

The first part of the "Tomb Of The Ancients", for example was going to be included originally!
Some very early screenshots of the game from IGN.com show this level in the Playstation version of Rayman 2:


(It looks like they originally wanted to include all levels from the N64 version but were unable to fit them all in in the end...)

They also have a few screenshots in which some debug info is displayed in the upper left corner of the screen:


By the way, the debug info shown in these screenshots is a definite proof that Rayman 2 and Donald Duck Goin' Quackers run on the same engine!
Just compare the debug info between the two games, it's identical:



Rayman Rush (US Version: SLUS-01458)


MAIN MENU MODIFIERS:

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Main Menu Selection
300974D8 0000
Main Menu Background
300975F8 0000
Reload Main Menu
30097660 0001
Reload Save File
30097668 0001

MENU SELECT:

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Empty Menu
3009764C 0000
New Game + Load Game
3009764C 0002
Name Entry
3009764C 0005
Single + Multiplayer + Config
3009764C 0006
Options
3009764C 0009
Race Mode Select
3009764C 000A
1P Character Select
3009764C 0010
2P Character Select
3009764C 0011
Zone Selection
3009764C 001A
Screen Config
3009764C 0023
Sound Config
3009764C 0024
Controller Config
3009764C 0025
Language Select
3009764C 0026
Title Screen
3009764C 002A
Race Setup
3009764C 002B
P1 Controller Setup
3009764C 002C
P2 Controller Setup
3009764C 002D

- This replaces the menu you are currently in with any other menu available in the game!
Of interest is the single player mode "Race Setup" menu, it is unused!


It allows you to choose the number of laps you want to race in any of the modes (including "Training", even tough it makes no sense)!
And it actually works, too:


STAGE SELECT:

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The Canopy
30010004 0000
Nebulous Tower
30010004 0001
First Ruins
30010004 0002
Dark Sewer
30010004 0003
Electric Final
30010004 0004
Lava Factory
30010004 0005
Pipe Maze
30010004 0006
Water Canyon
30010004 0007
Dawn Sand
30010004 0008
Thousand Waterfalls
30010004 0009
Forest Jump
30010004 000A
Zenith Harbour
30010004 000B
Intro (Black Screen)
30010004 000C
Credits
30010004 000D
Endless Loading
30010004 000E
Endless Loading 2
30010004 000F
Endless Loading 3
30010004 0010
Endless Loading 4
30010004 0011
Main Menu
30010004 0032

- The "Stage Select" code is amazingly simple to use:

1. Activate the code for the level of your choice anywhere in the main menu or the pause menu of the game.
2a. Start a race in any mode, on any race track and you will be taken to the level of your choice instead!
2b. It also works if you activate the code during a race and then select the restart option!

I couldn't find any unused courses but I have found an unused movie scene!

(Apparently Robo Pirates are "Perverse", lol...)

This is actually the ending movie of the game which is supposed to play after you beat the game to 100%!
However, due to a ridiculously stupid rounding error in the percent completed stat it is technically impossible to complete the game to more than 98.8% which means you'll never get to see this movie if you play the game normally.

I still can't believe how this bug could slip through Ubi Soft's testing department.
Did they play-test this game at all!?

What's also strange is that all levels are in a certain order except for the "Canopy" stage which is the very first in the list of available maps.
Does this have any significance? I remember that "The Canopy" is actually an unfinished beta race track from Rayman M's Bonus League, perhaps it was the very first track they ever created while working on Rayman Rush...

Near the end of the list of available maps are also four maps which I can't get to load in the game.
Perhaps another, 4rd Zone (Zone 3) was actually planned for the game but not finished due to time constraints or some other reason?
Rayman Rush has the most fitting game title ever, this really is a very rushed game. I think the developers wanted to get this thing done as fast as possible.
I still like the game tough, it's no competition to Rayman M but it still manages to be somewhat enjoyable for what it is!


Donald Duck Goin' Quackers (US Version: SLUS-01242)


MAIN MENU MODIFIERS:

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Main Menu Selection
30076B50 0000
Main Menu Selection 2
30076B30 005E

MENU SELECT:

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Empty Menu
30076B4C 0000
Load File Yes No
30076B4C 0008
Memory Card 1 Unformatted
30076B4C 0016
Load Failed
30076B4C 001E
Title Screen
30076B4C 0021
New Game + Load + Options
30076B4C 0022
Select Memory Card (Load)
30076B4C 0024
Options
30076B4C 0025
Language Select
30076B4C 0026
Load Game (Slot 1)
30076B4C 002C
Load Game (Slot 2)
30076B4C 002D
Skips To 51
30076B4C 002E
Sound Config
30076B4C 003A
Screen Config
30076B4C 003B

- This replaces the menu you are currently in with any other menu available in the game!
Nothing fancy here, this game doesn't have any unused menus as far as I can tell...

Well, the language select menu is actually unused in the US version of the game.
It looks glitched when you access it with my code but seems to work correctly:

All the languages from the PAL version should be included and working, you just can't see which language you select from the menu!

STAGE SELECT:

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Gyro's Lab
30010004 0000
Forest Edge
30010004 0001
The Gorge
30010004 0002
Dangerous Cliff
30010004 0003
Huey's Track
30010004 0004
First Avenue
30010004 0005
The Roofs
30010004 0006
Urban High-Rises
30010004 0007
Dewey's Rooftops
30010004 0008
Haunted Hall
30010004 0009
Earie Alley
30010004 000A
Ghostly Path
30010004 000B
Louie's Creepy Corridor
30010004 000C
Temple's Entrance
30010004 000D
Artifact Way
30010004 000E
Ancient Fate
30010004 000F
The Nephew's Murky Way
30010004 0010
Bernadette's Peak
30010004 0011
Beagle Boy's Tower
30010004 0012
Magica's Devilsh Dome
30010004 0013
Ceremonial Room
30010004 0014
Bears' Path
30010004 0015
Main Street
30010004 0016
Under 'Hand'ed
30010004 0017
Head Alley
30010004 0018
Haunted Hall (Demo)
30010004 0019
The Nephew's Murky Way (Demo)
30010004 001A
Main Menu
30010004 001B
Intro Movie
30010004 001C
Empty Screen
30010004 001D
Freeze
30010004 001E
Freeze 2
30010004 001F
Empty Screen 2
30010004 0020

- The "Stage Select" code is amazingly simple to use:

1. Activate the code for the level of your choice anywhere in the main menu, on the world map or in the pause menu of the game.
2. Select "New Game" or "Load Game" from the main menu, select restart in the pause menu or enter any level from the world map, and you will be taken to the level of your choice instead!

I couldn't find any unused stages in this game...
The only thing of interest is that the two levels from the demo scenes which play if you don't press any buttons on the title screen for a while are actually seperate maps! I thought the game would just load the normal levels for these demo scenes but it looks like the demo stages have their own maps.
I don't know if they have any differences compared to the normal versions of the levels but I somewhat doubt it.

WORLD MAP CODES:

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Level Name Text Modifier
3011D7F2 0055
3011D7F3 0050
3011D7F4 0041

- This modifies the level name text which is displayed while you are selecting a level on the world map.

FOREST EDGE CODES:

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Weird Camera
300999AD 0000

- This messes up the camera and makes it face the wrong direction all the time.
I guess this is used specifically for the chase levels in which you have to escape from various indestructible dangers.


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I hope you enjoy those codes and find a way to put them to good use!
I had a lot of fun creating them and I hope you'll be able to have the same amount of fun while trying them out!

I also have codes for Rayman 1 (and the Rayman Junior spin-offs) on the Playstation 1, why don't you check them out as well?

Just follow this link:
viewtopic.php?t=7063

If you have any questions regarding the codes, or just want to discuss their effects, ideas for future hacks or requests for porting codes to other regions/versions of Rayman games feel free to share them in this thread!

Does anybody here have a PSP?
I have all these codes in a single cheatpops.db file for use with CWCheat!

Just grab my cheat file here:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7J919W0M

[Cairnie]

OK I have some questions.

Any chance of those being ported to European versions? Also by "preview" you mean demo? And is there any way to use those in an emulator eg ePSXe?

[upaluppa]

OK I have some questions.

Any chance of those being ported to European versions? Also by "preview" you mean demo? And is there any way to use those in an emulator eg ePSXe?

I won't port all of them to the EU versions since there's quite a lot of useless codes among them which do nothing but glitch the game in some way but I'll see if I can get the important codes (level select, debug mode etc.) ported to the EU versions as fast as possible!

In fact I wanted to create the codes for the PAL versions in the first place. The only reason why I decided to hack the US versions instead was that my emulator refused to properly emulate PAL games (they are running too slow).

And yes, the "Rayman 2 Preview" version is a Rayman 2 demo (only the 1st part of the Bayou level is playable) which was released in the US only, as far as I know. I don't have the actual disc, I found that one (as well as a Rayman 1 Demo) via Google some time ago.

The reason why I even bothered hacking them was that I hoped they might be pre-release demos with unused content and differences to the final game available. In the case of the Rayman 1 Preview I was wrong - it turned out to be identical to the full release.
The Rayman 2 Preview however is a different story, it is based of an early beta version of the PSX Rayman 2!
It has a map select debug menu, no clip mode and Pocket Station support, just to give you an idea of how different it is!
(I'll go deeper into the differences of that demo when I write some descriptions for my cheats later, ok?)

I am not sure if it is allowed to link to these files here but if it is I'll post the download links for both Rayman Previews for you!

Also it is possible to use those codes with epsxe!
You just need the PEC plugin which you can get here:
http://pec.duttke.de/download.php

I'll update all these codes with some explanatory pictures and descriptions within the next few hours, by the way!
It was quite late when I posted them yesterday, I was just too tired to write up the descriptions then, I hope you guys will forgive me!

[Cairnie]

It's not a problem if I can emulate it then, only asked for EU in case I felt like using it on my own discs and if I ever got an action replay for it. I think I have some US ISOs and if not I can just redownload them if they're still on the net somewhere.

[upaluppa]

Hey, I just wanted to say that I finished writing the descriptions for my cheats now!
I also wrote a little documentation on the unused things hidden in the beta demo of Rayman 2!

Be sure to re-check my first post in this thread, I am sure it'll be worth your time!
I am going to port my codes to PAL region now, by the way!

Another update follows when I am done with the PAl conversions!

[da1]

Hi, could you upload Rush Rush Outro? I realy want to saw it.

[upaluppa]

Hi, could you upload Rush Rush Outro? I realy want to saw it.

Saffya, a member of youtube uploaded it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaUX3gzBBfw
I can't confirm this since I do not own the EU version of the game but apparently the rounding bug does not exist in the PAL version, so you can actually watch this video in that version of the game...

@All:
By the way, I just found something amazingly cool:

Remember that handstand feature from the Atari Jaguar Prototype of Rayman 1 and the Breakout bonus game in the final Jaguar and PC versions?
The same feature is actually included in the 2D Rayman 2 Prototype!

I just managed to unlock this hidden ability with some minor memory hacking of Rayman's behaviour code!

[Cairnie]

Lol that's me XP though I should upload a higher quality copy of it and delete the old one.

[upaluppa]

Lol that's me XP though I should upload a higher quality copy of it and delete the old one.

Wow, I didn't know that it was your youtube channel that I was visiting there...
A great channel, I really enjoyed following your Rayman 1 Sega Saturn playthrough!

That's good to know, so now I can ask you my question right here!
Can you tell me whether it is possible to complete the European version of Rayman Rush to 100% just by finishing all the race tracks in every race mode?

I mean, you uploaded the ending video of the game to youtube, so I assume you could actually complete the game.

The thing is, in the American release of Rayman Rush there is a weird problem with the percentage completed counter.
Even if you complete every single challenge available in the game the counter still says 98,8%, so it is impossible to really finish the game and watch the ending movie in that version...

[Cairnie]

The outro only really plays when you beat all 12 tracks in competition mode once and yes the EU version has that percentage bug too. Nobody knows why and how to even fix it, so I guess that's a problem on Ubi Shanghai's part.

[upaluppa]

The outro only really plays when you beat all 12 tracks in competition mode once and yes the EU version has that percentage bug too. Nobody knows why and how to even fix it, so I guess that's a problem on Ubi Shanghai's part.

So that's how you get that movie to play!
I never knew, I always assumed that it would play as soon as you hit 100%, which is impossible...

Rayman Rush is actually a fitting game name, it sure feels like a rushed job, doesn't it?
I really wonder how such a bug bug managed to slip through Ubi Soft Shanghai's playtesting.

[Wiiola]

Wait, I thought that we can watch that in Rayman Arena (US version of Rayman M) for PC...
I remember downloading the already cracked version of it, searched for some cool animations and found both intro and outro, which of the latter is 100% the same (compared with Rayman Rush's outro)! Maybe that's where we should extract/record this video from..?

[da1]

By the way, I just found something amazingly cool:

Remember that handstand feature from the Atari Jaguar Prototype of Rayman 1 and the Breakout bonus game in the final Jaguar and PC versions?
The same feature is actually included in the 2D Rayman 2 Prototype!

Whats the code for that efect?

[upaluppa]

Whats the code for that efect?

Ooops, I totally forgot to post it...

Try this:

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Hidden Handstand Ability
30178E29 000A

Unfortunately I can't really get it to work the way it's supposed to at the moment.
Rayman does the handstand animation when you activate this code but you can't move him left and right yet...

I will release an alternate code which makes it work the way it is supposed to as soon as I can find a solution to this problem!

I also managed to unlock the running ability from Rayman 1, by the way:

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Always Running Spell
30178DFD 0004

This gives Rayman the forced running effect from Mr Dark's spell the first time you activate the code.
Now just let Rayman fall into a hole (make him loose a life) and after restarting the level you will be able to use the running ability with the circle button!
It replaces the (rather pointless) funny face ability!

I have hacked a whole set of new cheat codes for the 2D Rayman 2 Prototype yesterday which I did not release yet because I just don't have the time to post them right now. Here's a little preview of what you can expect:

Debug mode:

(1.01 seems to be the build number of either the playable level or the game itself, I am not sure)

Midget mode:


Another unused ability (grappling):


I also found out why the Hunter's gun from Rayman 1 is included in this game:

(For some reason those cute little transitional sequences between the levels from the PC version of Rayman 1 are all included in the Rayman 2 Prototype and can be activated with a bit of hacking)

Corrupted (new) levels:


No 2nd layer:


corruptedspritegraphicslolwtf:


I will update this thread with all the new codes I hacked sometime tomorrow!

[da1]

Amazing, cool, awesome, ect. Anyway, is it posible to ectract sprtes, objects, map and other things from R2 protype to normal R1 game or to RDesigner? ( I heard RDesigner and R2 prototype works on the same enigne).
End, could you give me Clark Batlle no clip code? I'm going to take a look a this misterious hole.

[OCG]

Thank you sooo much for these. I can now finally play R2 2D