Stuff near the bottom of the .exe

[artemais]

So I got to looking at the hex of the main .exe today.  Down near the bottom (starting in line 001b2730) there is a bunch of information that sure looks like a debug mode of the game....its got some real interesting stuff.

Some of the things I saw included:
  "Simulate extra lag",
  "Ignore Edict Requirements",
  "Reserved Sectors",
  "Disable City Naming",
  "Take money from swiss Account",
  "Force Eucalyptus Only",
  "Disable Job Changing",
  "Force Selected Unit to Become Rebel"
  "Dispatch American Gunboat"
etc, etc.

Anybody know anything about this stuff?  Anybody know how to re-enable this menu ( Drool!)?

[artemais]

....And just some earlier comments on the same stuff...

lol, I have debug keys to change the date. I'll see if I can get them into the editor...

Hi Poptop Brent,

Could you re-enable the debug mode (drool-drool)?

I remember seeing all sorts of goodies to play with that debug mode would enable (in Tropico as well as RRT2 Gold).

One thing that caught my eye was (in the screenshot section):

Multi-Screen 2 wide by 2 high 24 Bit .PCX
Multi-Screen 3 wide by 3 high 24 Bit .PCX
Multi-Screen 4 wide by 4 high 24 Bit .PCX
Multi-Screen 6 wide by 6 high 24 Bit .PCX
Multi-Screen 10 wide by 10 high 24 Bit .PCX

-:)

[Coconut Kid]

Too bad no one ever replied.

I think it would be possible for someone to say whether or not this stuff is has anything to do with a "debug" mode without going into a violation of the license agreement.

"Force Eucalyptus Only" sounds particularly interesting since it is the only mention of Eucalyptus that I have seen.

Something else that this code might be is simply inoperative "junk" which was under development but did not get finished. There is something similar in the building data file.

 

[Rich ¥Weeds¥ Nagel]

Too bad no one ever replied. I think it would be possible for someone to say whether or not this stuff is has anything to do with a "debug" mode without going into a violation of the license agreement.

I seem to remember a newsgroup reply (not sure though, 'twas eons ago) from Phil saying that RT2 and Tropico did indeed have the multi-screen screenshot capability via a debug menu that was disabled for the final shipping release(s) of the game(s).

Man! I'd LOVE to have that debug menu re-enabled to play around with -:)