Q*bert (Windows, Mac OS Classic)

Q*bert
Developer: Artech Studios Publishers: Hasbro Interactive, MacSoft (Mac) Platforms: Windows, Mac OS Classic Released in US: November 1999 (Windows), October 2001 (Mac) This game has hidden development-related text. This game has unused graphics. This game has unused music.

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Unused Graphics

MENUS folder

In the Windows release only, the folder MENUS contains early textures from the game's PlayStation release. Curiously, the used textures are located in a subfolder within this one (MENUS\Texture).

Main Menu

CLASSIC.TIM / CLASSTXT.TIM

HD2HD.TIM / HD2HDTXT.TIM

HISCR1.TIM / Hiscr1b.TIM

MENU128.TIM / MENUOVER.TIM

MENUSPR.TIM

NUMBERS1A.TIM / NUMBERS1B.TIM / NUMBERS1C.TIM

OPTION3.TIM / OPTINTXT.TIM

QB4BEYES.TIM

RANK1.TIM / RANK2.TIM / RANK3.TIM

SCORETXT.TIM

TEXT.TIM

UPDATE.TIM / UPDATTXT.TIM

Adventure Mode Icons

(D[world]M[level][A/B/C].TIM)

World 1	World 2	World 3	World 4

Other

While this is not an early graphic per se, it is a leftover from the PlayStation version.

legal.TIM

Unknown

[number]LOVE.TIM

[number]MAGIC.TIM

[number]MECH.TIM

[number]PHYSCL.TIM

[number]W.TIM

LOVE2.TIM / MAGIC1.TIM / MECH1.TIM

Other Unused Graphics

MENUS\Texture

Coily1.png

An unused level icon, in a similar style to those found within the MENUS folder. May have been meant for a level involving Coily.

loading2.TIM

The loading screen from the PlayStation version.

MCGUI.TIM

The sprites for the save/load menu in the PlayStation version. This same file can be found in the Emulator\textures directory, which was retained in the Mac OS Classic release.

LBUTTON.TIM / DBUTTON.TIM / UBUTTON.TIM / RBUTTON.TIM

XBUTTON.TIM / OBUTTON.TIM / 3BUTTON.TIM / 4BUTTON.TIM

L2BUTTON.TIM / L1BUTTON.TIM / R1BUTTON.TIM / R2BUTTON.TIM

The PlayStation buttons, which go unused here.

Emulator\textures

This folder contains several more leftovers from the PlayStation release, all of them relating to the HUD. These can also be found in the Mac OS Classic release.

SELECT.TIM / BACK.TIM

SCROLL.TIM / SCROLL02.TIM / SCROLL03.TIM

Other

In the original Windows release, qmenu.prg, which is the program file for the game's main menu, contains a crude drawing of Q*bert which is listed as an icon. However, it is never meant to be displayed.

(Source: tikal.)

Batch Script

A batch script can be found in the Windows version in MENUS\Texture, labeled as t.bat. It seems to have been used to copy files.

copy BLUE.TIM tt
copy CEDFONT3.TIM tt
copy CLASSIC.TIM tt
copy CLASSTXT.TIM tt
copy D1M1A.TIM tt
copy D1M1B.TIM tt
copy D1M1C.TIM tt
copy D1M2A.TIM tt
copy D1M2B.TIM tt
copy D1M3A.TIM tt
copy D1M3B.TIM tt
copy D1M4A.TIM tt
copy D1M4B.TIM tt
copy D1M5A.TIM tt
copy D1M5B.TIM tt
copy D1M6A.TIM tt
copy D1M6B.TIM tt
copy D2M1A.TIM tt
copy D2M1B.TIM tt
copy D2M1C.TIM tt
copy D2M2a.TIM tt
copy D2M2B.TIM tt
copy D2M3A.TIM tt
copy D2M3B.TIM tt
copy D2M4A.TIM tt
copy D2M4B.TIM tt
copy D2M5a.TIM tt
copy D2M5b.TIM tt
copy D2M6A.TIM tt
copy D2M6B.TIM tt
copy D3M1A.TIM tt
copy D3M1B.TIM tt
copy D3M1C.TIM tt
copy D3M2A.TIM tt
copy D3M2B.TIM tt
copy D3M3A.TIM tt
copy D3M3B.TIM tt
copy D3M4A.TIM tt
copy D3M4B.TIM tt
copy D3M5A.TIM tt
copy D3M5B.TIM tt
copy D3M6A.TIM tt
copy D3M6B.TIM tt
copy D4M1A.TIM tt
copy D4M1B.TIM tt
copy D4M1C.TIM tt
copy D4M2A.TIM tt
copy D4M2B.TIM tt
copy D4M3A.TIM tt
copy D4M3B.TIM tt
copy D4M4A.TIM tt
copy D4M4B.TIM tt
copy D4M5A.TIM tt
copy D4M5B.TIM tt
copy D4M6A.TIM tt
copy D4M6B.TIM tt
copy HD2HD.TIM tt
copy HD2HDTXT.TIM tt
copy HISCR1.TIM tt
copy OPTINTXT.TIM tt
copy OPTION3.TIM tt
copy QB4B.TIM tt
copy QB4BEYES.TIM tt
copy RANK1.TIM tt
copy RANK2.TIM tt
copy RANK3.TIM tt
copy SCORETXT.TIM tt
copy TEXT.TIM tt
copy UPDATE.TIM tt
copy UPDATTXT.TIM tt
copy HTHM1.TIM tt
copy HTHM2.TIM tt
copy HTHM3.TIM tt
copy HTHM4.TIM tt
copy HTHM5.TIM tt
copy HTHM6.TIM tt
copy 3button.tim tt
copy 4button.tim tt
copy dbutton.tim tt
copy l1button.tim tt
copy l2button.tim tt
copy lbutton.tim tt
copy obutton.tim tt
copy r1button.tim tt
copy r2button.tim tt
copy rbutton.tim tt
copy ubutton.tim tt
copy xbutton.tim tt
copy numbera.tim tt
copy numberb.tim tt
copy numberc.tim tt
copy memtxt.tim tt
copy music.tim tt
copy musictxt.tim tt
copy sfx.tim tt
copy sfxtxt.tim tt
copy memory.tim tt
copy cont.tim tt
copy contxt.tim tt
copy kingcoil.tim tt
copy save.tim tt
copy savetxt.tim tt
copy load.tim tt
copy loadtxt.tim tt

(Source: tikal.)

Unused Music

test.mid, which can be found in the root of the Windows release, is an unused MIDI file, and the only MIDI file in the data. The title listed in its metadata is "Swing".

(Source: tikal.)